📹 'Trump will take down [Iran's] ring of fire and support our friends in Israel' - Neocon Mike Pompeo

The former US Secretary of State and CIA director delivered a speech at Trump’s final rally before election day. Pompeo is considered as a potential candidate for US Secretary of Defense if Trump secures a second term.

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❗️Key statements by the Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, at the briefing:
 
▪️US representatives who talk about the alleged presence of North Korean troops in the special military operation zone admit they have no definitive confirmation
 
▪️Kremlin calls information alleging Russia's plan of fires and explosions onboard transatlantic flights 'vague propaganda'
 
▪️Kiev regime and the collective West doing everything to internationalize conflict in Ukraine
 
▪️Kiev trying to do everything to involve Seoul in the Ukrainian conflict
 
▪️Kremlin calls accusations of Russia's interference in Moldova elections unfounded and unsupported by reliable information
 
▪️Vladimir Putin's speech on foreign policy issues expected at ceremony for presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors

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❗️The Russian Armed Forces struck the infrastructure of military airfields, missile production workshops, Ukrainian energy facilities, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 560 militants and two American M113 armoured personnel carriers in Battlegroup Tsentr's area of responsibility.

▫️ Russia's Battlegroup Zapad has improved its tactical position. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces totaled up to 510 soldiers.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Vostok repelled two counterattacks, enemy lost up to 120 militants.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 580 troops in Battlegroup Yug's area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian Air defenses shot down a Hammer guided bomb and 17 Ukrainian drones.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Sever combat zone came to 70 servicemen.

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US Election Day: What to know about polling stations and first results
 
Americans are heading to the polls to vote for the next US president. Are the country’s polling stations already working, and what are the results?

🔸 The first ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, along the US-Canada border, with former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town's six votes.

🔸 The final count read out by officials in the early hours of Tuesday morning was 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris.

🔸 Polling stations open in as early as 5 a.m. ET in states like Vermont on November 5, and the last polls close at 1 a.m. ET in Alaska on November 6.

🔸 Some states are expected to start reporting results shortly after their polls close, including Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia (between 6 p. m. and 7 p.m. ET).

🔸 More than 81 million ballots have already been cast in 47 states and the District of Columbia in early voting, according to data obtained by US media.

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☢️ The main points from the briefing by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops:
 
▪️In October 2024, plans for Kiev's "short circuit" operation to seize the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant were discovered;
 
▪️The shelling of critical facilities at the Zaporozhye NPP could lead to consequences comparable to the accidents at the Chernobyl NPP and the Fukushima-1 NPP;
 
▪️The special military operation did not allow the Ukrainian side to implement its own nuclear program;
 
▪️According to the plan to seize the Kursk NPP by Ukrainian militants, in the event of an accident there, Russia would be exposed to radioactive contamination;
 
▪️The existing capabilities allow Kiev to create a so-called dirty bomb;
 
▪️The Kiev regime is capable of provoking with the use of nuclear fuel, directed against the population of the Russian Federation;
 
▪️The training manuals for the Security Service of Ukraine employees touch upon the issues of using a "dirty bomb";
 
▪️Kiev delays IAEA reports on the amount of radioactive waste in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

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📹 Trump showers Neocon Mike Pompeo with praise at final rally of 2024 presidential race

Pompeo served as CIA director and US Secretary of State during the first Trump administration. Pompeo was notorious for his aggressive foreign policy stances towards Russia, Iran, and China. In December 2023, Pompeo became a board member for Ukrainian telecommunications company KyivStar.

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🎥🎥 Putin accepts credentials from foreign ambassadors to Russia

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❗️20,000 Ukrainian military personnel, 27 tanks, 50 armored vehicles, 30 artillery pieces, and five MLRS were supposed to take part in the capture of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, according to the Russian Defense Ministry

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🗣US volunteer reveals motives behind US meddling in Ukraine conflict

“We all, Americans, would like to think that the country is always doing something to support justice, to punish some kind of criminal somewhere, to stop some kind of illegal activity; when really, they're doing the exact opposite. I believe it's really just the American elites attempting to stifle their competition from Russia,” Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily aided Russian troops in the Ukrainian conflict, shared with Sputnik.

US elites see incredible potential in Russia's forests, grain crops, and petroleum products. Washington doesn’t want Russia as a competition, he added.

“They're using Ukraine to stifle Russia, just as they tried to do with Georgia before this, as they tried to do with the Caucasus. It's really just them trying to protect their own wallet. And they don't care if it costs human lives and tragedies,” Martindale concluded.

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💬 Donald Trump ‘more popular’ than the ‘least qualified presidential candidate’ Kamala Harris

Though the presidential race in the US appears to be pretty close, Republican candidate Donald Trump is a “more popular candidate,” says retired US Air Force Lt.Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who is also a former analyst for the US Department of Defense.

“He's certainly the more energetic candidate. He's the more dynamic candidate. And he gets a lot of news coverage, both good and bad,” Kwiatkowski remarks.

Comparing Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, Kwiatkowski observes that the former appears more media-savvy. “He's very out there in the media... You know, he makes news. So people are aware of him,” she explains. “And we have a lot of social media craziness around. And I see it more around the Trump side where they're either promoting Trump, laughing with Trump, laughing at Trump.”

Meanwhile, Harris is “the least qualified presidential candidate that has ever made it this far in the race,” says Kwiatkowski, who also branded the Democrat as “the least qualified vice president” of the United States.

“So having a very qualified guy running against a very unqualified person, that's unusual,” she muses. The fact that Harris made it this far is “very concerning,” Kwiatkowski warns, arguing that “something has changed” in the United States.

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❗️Key statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the presentation ceremony of diplomatic credentials by foreign ambassadors:
 
▪️Russia is pursuing a constructive foreign policy
 
▪️Russia is open to mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries on the principles of equality
 
▪️Russia is interested in the success of foreign ambassadors
 
▪️Newly arrived ambassadors to Russia will be able to count on the support of the authorities, a favorable outlook, and a constructive attitude
 
▪️Russia was tasked with ensuring the smooth integration of new BRICS participants; they joined the organization swiftly and organically
 
▪️Russia is in favor of forming a fair world order without illegitimate sanctions and restrictions
 
▪️The role and authority of BRICS in the world continue to strengthen

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❗️Vladimir Putin on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine:

▪️Russia is not only ready for negotiations with Ukraine but in fact, conducted these negotiations

▪️The course to escalate the conflict in Ukraine is connected with the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia
 
▪️Russia certainly appreciates the desire of BRICS partners to help resolve the conflict in Ukraine

▪️Putin called attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia illusory

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⚔️Power imbalance on the Korean peninsula means war – Kim Jong-un’s sister

Kim Yo-jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and sister of the DPRK's head of state Kim Jong-un, has warned of far-reaching consequences from what she described as “ever-escalating military threats of hostile forces.”

She referred to recent joint drills of the US, Japan and South Korea, which she said was held “under the signboard of ‘counteraction’ and ‘warning’ to North Korea’s latest strategic weapon test.”

“This is another absolute proof of the validity and urgency of the line of building up the nuclear forces we have opted for and put into practice. Today’s upset of the balance of power between rivals on the Korean peninsula and in the region precisely means a war. And this is an undeniable objective reality,” Kim’s sister underscored.

The North Korean official mentioned other massive drills involving US, Japanese and South Korean forces, which “posed a serious threat to not only our state [the DPRK] but also regional peace and security.”

She also recalled about the record number of recent deployments of US strategic assets in the region, including the visit of a nuclear aircraft carrier, the first-ever deployment of the Vermont strategic nuclear submarine to the waters around the Korean Peninsula, and an array of flights of strategic nuclear bombers over the peninsula, including the B-52H.

The statement comes after North Korea launched its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-19, which the country’s state news agency KCNA lauded it as “the world's strongest strategic missile.”

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❗️Main statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the outcome of the US elections:
 
▪️Moscow wants the American people to overcome the split in society
 
▪️It would be more logical for the winner of the US elections to focus on the problems of his country rather than looking for adventures a thousand miles away
 
▪️If something changes in US politics after the elections, Moscow will be ready to study potential proposals from Washington to Russia
 
▪️Russia will defend its national interests in any case
 
▪️Moscow is indifferent to the outcome of the US elections, given the consensus of the two parties on the confrontation with Russia

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