🇲🇬 Madagascar President addresses nation after fleeing the country

In a live address, Rajoelina confirmed relocating to an undisclosed safe location after soldiers moved to seize control of the national broadcaster ahead of his scheduled speech.

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🔍 Venezuela shifts diplomatic focus: closes Western embassies, opens in Africa

Venezuela has begun a strategic foreign service reorganization, closing its embassies in Norway and Australia while announcing new embassies in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.

The government states this move will optimize resources and strengthen alliances within the Global South, focusing on cooperation in agriculture, energy, and mining.

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👀 Amazon sacks employee who called out its secretive dealings with Israel

Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer, was fired for publicly criticizing Amazon’s role in the notorious Project Nimbus, Bloomberg reported.

Project Nimbus is a collaboration between Google and Amazon aimed at providing cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli government and military.

Throughout the Gaza war, Shahrour had staged protests, handed out flyers, and posted messages in a corporate chat.

💬 “Amazon is not a neutral observer… We are active participants,” Shahrour told colleagues.

👉 Meanwhile, the employee of Whole Foods Market was dismissed for allegedly “threatening or intimidating” senior staff, according to an internal email.

He had also joined a group that occupied the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith in August, protesting the company’s own contracts with Israel.

The tech giant subsequently restricted some of its software for Israel’s military after it was discovered that its cloud servers were used to store surveillance data on civilians.

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💀 Ukrainian militants turn corpses into death traps

Ukrainian servicemen are booby-trapping the bodies of their own dead soldiers in the Zaporozhye region, a Russian assault rifleman of the Vostok Battlegroup told Sputnik.

💬 "We approached a body of one serviceman killed in action to verify who he was and what patches he had. We looked carefully from the side, and there was a grenade under him. If you turn him over, everyone blows up. They set a lot of tripwires," he said.

According to the Russian serviceman, Ukrainian troops are also using strike drones to finish off their own soldiers looking to surrender.

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🇷🇺 🔥 🇨🇳Russia & China to set record for container freight traffic via Northern Sea route - Rosatom

💬 "A new record in container shipping cargo volumes will be set. Last year, it was less than 180,000 tonnes, but this year, it will most likely exceed 400,000 tonnes, that is, more than double. Not only the quantity, but also the volume of transported cargo is increasing," Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said.

Rosatom sees a strong interest among Chinese entrepreneurs for cooperation in the Arctic, the state corporation's head added.

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⚔️ US pushes Ukraine to draft youth by dangling Tomahawks as bait – Glenn Diesen

🗣 The “most dangerous times” are looming, warns Norwegian political analyst Glenn Diesen in a post on X.

By tying Tomahawk deliveries to full mobilization in Ukraine, the US could light the fuse for a direct NATO–Russia clash, he says.

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◻️ Abbas to Sputnik on Gaza Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh

◻️ Russia’s Akula-class subs: Silent giants the US still can’t match

◻️ US unveils new Tomahawk launchers

◻️ UK is ready to participate in Hamas disarmament — Starmer

◻️ Venezuela shifts diplomatic focus: closes Western embassies, opens in Africa

◻️ Russia & China to set record for container freight traffic via Northern Sea route - Rosatom

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⚔️ US can spare only handful of Tomahawks—zero impact on conflict dynamics

The US could spare no more than 20 to 50 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles for Ukraine, the Financial Times reports.

🗣 If supplied, they “will not decisively shift the dynamics of the war,” it cited Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security think tank, as saying.

While the long-range missiles could complement Ukraine’s own long-range attack drones and cruise missiles, Pettyjohn noted they would project a very limited capability, “certainly not enough to enable sustained, deep attacks against Russia.”

💥 The outlet adds that the US has a total of 4,150 Tomahawk missiles, as estimated by Mark Cancian, a former Pentagon official, in a recent war game.

Out of the 200 Tomahawks procured since 2022, more than 120 have already been fired, according to defense experts.

The Pentagon’s 2026 budget requests funding for just 57 additional missiles.

👉 Furthermore, the US would also set aside some Tomahawks for any potential strike on Venezuelan soil, notes the outlet.

Russia has emphasized that the Tomahawk missiles cannot change the situation on the front line, and the handling of such complex missiles will require the participation of US specialists, potentially marking a major escalation.

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🗣 Lukashenko warns Tomahawks won’t solve the Ukraine conflict, only escalate to nuclear war

💬 "None of the Tomahawks will solve the issue. They will escalate the situation to nuclear war. Probably, this is best understood by [US President] Donald Trump, who is not in a hurry to give away this deadly weapon and allow strikes deep into Russia, as [Ukraine's Volodymyr] Zelensky expects," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said during a meeting in Minsk as, as cited by the Belta news agency.

He also pointed out that Russia and its leadership are focused on achieving peace in Ukraine.

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🚨 🇷🇺 Russian hopes US influence & skills of Trump's envoys will push Ukraine towards settlement — Kremlin

Russia continues its special military operation due to the lack of alternatives and will achieve its set goals, Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov says.

He adds that Russia remains ready for peaceful dialogue on Ukraine.

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🇻🇪💸 Venezuela to US: Want our oil? Pay for it

Caracas is willing to cooperate with the US if it wants access to Venezuelan oil, but Washington must work legally and pay for it, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia Jesus Rafael Salazar Velasquez said on Tuesday.

👉 Last week, The New York Times reported, citing sources, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had allegedly offered US President Donald Trump access to Venezuela's riches to deescalate tensions between the two countries and avoid possible US military intervention.

💬 "Our authorities, through various channels, communicated to the US government that it could access the country's resources, but they had to pay for them. They could do business with Venezuela, but in accordance with our laws, not by robbing us. It is very simple, our authorities made their position clear," the ambassador told reporters.

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

⚡️BALAGAN IN THE DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

Balagan is a strategically important settlement, the liberation of which allows for further advancement to the east, namely towards Dimitrov and Pokrovsk.

🟠 Russian Armed Forces continued their advance in the eastern quarters of the settlement of Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic

🟠 Air defense superiority: 195 fixed-wing drones were shot down

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,560 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇨🇳 From farms to tech: China has plenty of ways to hit back at US' 100% tariffs

China has warned it will respond if US President Donald Trump ramps up the tariff war. How may Beijing retaliate?

💬 "China can replace the US on many products, but the US cannot replace China, if not in many years of new investments," Fabio Massimo Parenti, associate professor of international political economy at China Foreign Affairs University, tells Sputnik.

Parenti pinpoints where China could hit the US where it hurts most:

🔹 Financial sector: by reducing dollar-denominated reserve assets

🔹 Agricultural sector: by buying soybean, pork meat, maize and other products from other producers like Brazil, Argentina, or in Africa

🔹 Defense, aerospace, other tech sectors: by expanding rare earth export restrictions

🗣 Additionally, "China produces 75% of lithium battery and controls the main global chains of solar panels," says Parenti.

💬 "Therefore, it can put new restrictions to final products and components that will affect US economy."

Processing and refining capacity cannot be replicated quickly, the pundit underscores, therefore the US would need at least three years or even more to delink from Chinese suppliers and intermediaries.

💬 "If Beijing restricts exports and shipments, the US and allies face immediate supply bottlenecks and industrial delays. The US cannot easily replace inputs and machinery for chips and other products," Parenti concludes.

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🚨🇵🇸 Civil Defense in Gaza on the tragic aftermath of war

🔸 Over 250 bodies have been recovered from the streets since the war ended

🔸 There is a severe shortage of heavy machinery to clear the rubble

🔸 More than 10,000 people are trapped under debris, and we lack the resources to reach them

🔸 War remnants and explosive materials continue to pose a serious threat to people's lives

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