🗣 Ex-CIA analyst: Tomahawks for Ukraine a 'red herring'

“Tomahawks will never arrive in Ukraine — the Russians have that covered like a blanket," Ray McGovern, a former CIA intelligence analyst, says.

He notes that there are none to spare, and even if they do appear, Ukraine has no people left to man them.

"It's kind of a red herring. There are no troops that man them. The United States is not going to do them."

McGovern believes talk of deliveries is a political gesture to please Europe, not a genuine military plan.

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🚨 Ukraine’s SBU abducted Kharkov residents who criticized regime online

People who voiced their dissatisfaction with the Zelensky regime began disappearing without warning, Anastasia Bykova, the administrator of a closed chat for the city’s residents, told Sputnik.

👉 These people had posted photos in the chat that could reveal their location, she added.

🔊 Bykova also described an incident in which the SBU contacted her and asked her to pass along a "hello" to one of the chat members, who was being held in a pretrial detention facility.

🗣 Bykova also revealed that the SBU spent about an hour and a half exhibiting her father's beating on a video call and demanded that she hand over her Telegram account, which had admin access to the Kharkov chat, and collect information on the movement of Russian military equipment.

Bykova, who lives in Russia’s Shebekino, claims her Telegram account was repeatedly accessed from devices in Kiev and Odessa.

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🔸 Israel agrees to the initial withdrawal line — Trump

🔸 Thousands protest in Madrid for peace in Gaza

🔸 Czech election winner delivers blow to Ukraine's EU hopes

🔸 Georgia launches probe after protesters attack TV crews

🔸 Macron orders new government by Sunday amid French political crisis

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🗣 Ex-president Saakashvili tried to stage 'Maidan' in Georgia - country's PM

🔊Opposition members from the United National Movement party of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attempted to stage a "Maidan" in Georgia for the fifth time, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said.

💬 "Yesterday there was an attempted government coup, which failed. We saw an attempt to stage a ‘National Maidan’... The ‘National Movement’ tried to stage a ‘Maidan’ for the fifth time," Kobakhidze stressed.

Earlier, Kobakhidze held the EU ambassador responsible for the unrest in Tbilisi, accusing him of supporting an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order.

👉 The participants of the rally in Tbilisi are members of an agent network controlled from abroad, stated the secretary general of the ruling party, Georgian Dream, and the mayor of the capital, Kakha Kaladze.

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🫨 ‘Who are we kidding?’ NATO can’t confront Russia—ex-CIA analyst

NATO acts like it can defeat Russia, yet its forces are a messy patchwork, with pieces that only fit together on paper, says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

👉 The alliance wouldn’t have half the manpower of Russia’s active army even with all of NATO's troops combined, he notes.

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🚨🇬🇪What to know about the attempted coup d’état in Georgia

Ever since the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in last year's election, paused talks on joining the EU, and resisted Western agendas to drag it into conflict, efforts to meddle in the country’s internal affairs have intensified.

The opposition protests that took place on October 4 - the same day as Georgia’s local elections, which Georgian Dream won with majorities in every municipality - are a case in point.

Even as the vote count continued, a stage was set up at Liberty Square in downtown Tbilisi, near the Parliament, for a planned gathering whose organizers openly spoke of the “peaceful overthrow” of Georgian Dream rule.

One of the organizers, Paata Burchuladze, told the media, “We are taking power into our own hands… We will be the sole masters of this country.”

Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze warned of “the harshest response” to any unlawful act.

👉Despite the warnings, protesters completely blocked traffic on Tbilisi's central Rustaveli Avenue and Freedom Square and proceeded to storm the presidential residence, breaking through iron barriers.

👉Special forces used pepper spray and water cannons to disperse protesters from the square near the presidential palace

👉Mobs pepper-sprayed public broadcaster Imedi camera crews

👉Clashes in Tbilisi left six protesters and 21 police injured

👉Five opposition figures have been arrested in Tbilisi for calling to "overthrow state power" after protesters broke through barriers at the presidential residence during post-election rallies.

Detainees include:

🔶Murtaz Zodelava – former prosecutor general
🔶Lasha Beridze – former deputy chief of the general staff
🔶Paata Manjgaladze – leader of the Agmashenebeli Strategy party

It is hardly a surprise that pro-Western President Maia Sandu of Moldova (whose September 28 parliamentary elections were a noscripted EU takeover with the opposition silenced and ballots stuffed) rushed to applaud the opposition’s antics, posting on X that “Moldova is by your side.”

What do Georgian authorities say?

Opposition members from the United National Movement party of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attempted to stage a "Maidan" in Georgia for the fifth time, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said.

Kobakhidze held the EU ambassador responsible for the unrest in Tbilisi, accusing him of supporting an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order.

"You know that some people from abroad have expressed direct support for the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order, including the EU representative ... Given this fact, the EU ambassador to Georgia bears a special responsibility," Kobakhidze told reporters.

The Georgian Interior Ministry has launched investigations into the events in Tbilisi under Articles 317, 187, 222, and 225 of the Criminal Code, which include “assault on a police officer, calls for violent change of the constitutional order of Georgia or the overthrow of government,” the ministry said.

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🚨 'Britain now openly attacking 'Russia'—Glenn Diesen

By helping Ukraine to strike deep into Russia, Britain is openly attacking Russia, the Norwegian political analyst says.

🔊 When Russia responds, "London will scream 'unprovoked aggression,'" he adds.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ KUZMINOVKA IN THE DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC LIBERATED

The liberation of the settlement of Kuzminovka in the Donetsk People's Republic allows the Russian Armed Forces to strengthen their positions in the area for a subsequent advance on the city of Seversk from the south, supporting the offensive from the north.

🟠 Overnight, the Russian Army carried out a massive strike on Ukraine’s defense industry and gas-energy infrastructure using long-range land, air, sea-based precision weapons and attack drones

🟠 The Russian Army struck Ukraine's HIMARS rocket system and drone storage sites. as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops across 137 locations

🟠 Air defense superiority: four guided aerial bombs and 145 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,300 troops killed or wounded

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🚨🇬🇪 Participants in Tbilisi unrest were controlled by foreign intel – President of Georgia

The change of power in Georgia will never happen by force, only through elections, President Mikheil Kavelashvili said during a briefing with the media on Sunday.

💬 “The participants in the unrest in Tbilisi, who attempted to break into the courtyard of the Georgian president's residence, were controlled by foreign intelligence services”, he emphasized.

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🇨🇿🔥EU's new 'bete noire': Andrej Babis’ comeback catches West off guard

The return of former Czech PM Andrej Babis after the parliamentary elections won by the opposition ANO party with 35% of the votes may lead to "a new headache for the EU," Western media write.

The politician is known for opposing military aid to Ukraine, Brussels’ green agenda, and increasing NATO defense spending.

🎤 Now the Czech Republic could become a new "bete noire" of Europe along with Orban’s Hungary and Fico’s Slovakia, the media claim.

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🚨 Hamas has agreed 'in principle' to what happens after the war – Rubio

Meetings are taking place on Israel-Hamas deal ‘right now’, US Secretary of State also said in an interview with ABC News.

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🇬🇪🗳 Georgian Dream Party wins elections in all 64 municipalities - CEC

The ruling party received 81.6% of the vote nationwide, and mayoral candidates from the party have also won in all self-governing cities.

Kakha Kaladze has won the Tbilisi mayoral election with 71.58% of the vote, receiving 214,872 votes. The candidate from the Strong Georgia and Gakharia for Georgia opposition parties, Irakli Kupradze, came in second with 12.27% of the vote.

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🔍🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel-Hamas talks on Gaza: who, where, when

📍Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas mediated by Egypt to end the Gaza war are set to begin on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, the media say, quoting sources.

The Israeli delegation will reportedly include Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, while Hamas will be represented by its senior member Ghazi Hamad, media representative and negotiator Osama Hamdan, and Shura Council chairman Muhamed Darwish.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also join the negotiations.

👉 The talks are to focus on finalizing the timing of the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.

Despite the positive dynamics, the IDF continues to carry out airstrikes in Gaza amid Donald Trump’s clear call for ceasing the hostilities and Israeli officers reportedly ordering to "minimize military activity."

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🧐🇺🇸 Could the US get the taste of its own ‘color revolution’ medicine?

As the CNN boasts about Gen Z protestors running amok “from Morocco to Madagascar,” Russian special presidential envoy for economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev wonders if something similar could happen in the US as well?

💬 “What if — just by coincidence — the same Obama’s team PLAYBOOK to spark 'grassroots movements' abroad is now used to incite unrest in the US & overseas?” Dmitriev inquires.

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🚨🇬🇪 Georgia's Security Service seizes weapons for election sabotage linked to Ukrainian military

🗣The State Security Service of Georgia seized a large quantity of weapons, ammunition, and explosives intended for a sabotage operation on election day, Saturday, said Lasha Magradze, the first deputy head of the SSS, during a briefing.

The seized weapons intended for the sabotage operation were purchased on the instructions of the Georgian representative of one of the Ukrainian military units, according to the State Security Service of Georgia.

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🚨🇷🇺🇻🇪 Lavrov, Venezuelan FM hold phone call

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statements:

🟠 The two foreign ministers have expressed serious concern about US actions in the Caribbean Sea

🟠 Russia strongly condemns US strike on vessel in international waters near Venezuela on October, 3

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Putin’s proposal on New START Treaty 'sounds like a good idea' – Trump

The US President said this during a briefing with the media on Sunday, according to the White House.

Last month, President Putin suggested a one-year extension of the agreement that limits number of nuclear warheads and launchers that US and Russia can have.

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🇫🇷🇬🇪🇪🇺 Eurofanatics ready to do anything as their world collapsing - French politician

The triumphant Georgian Dream party's victory in the parliamentary election became "another catastrophic piece of news for the eurofanatics," French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot writes.

💬 "So much so that the eurofanatics are attempting to organize a coup, a second Euromaidan, desperately sending their agents—armed with brand new blue EU-starred rags—for an unsuccessful assault on the presidential palace."

They’re ready to do anything because their world is collapsing, he adds.

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