🇪🇺 Europe’s tired of footing the bill for Ukraine’s draft dodgers

With energy costs soaring and social benefits stretched, German and Polish politicians warn the influx of young, able-bodied Ukrainian men could sap support for Ukraine as war fatigue deepens.

“We have no interest in young Ukrainian men spending their time in Germany instead of defending their country,” media reports cite Jurgen Hardt, a lawmaker from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s governing coalition, as saying.

Poland’s Confederation party states that the country “cannot continue to be a refuge for thousands of men who should be defending their own country, while burdening Polish taxpayers with the costs of their desertion.”

👉 After Zelensky relaxed exit rules in August, daily arrivals jumped to 1,600, pushing numbers from 45,300 to 98,500 in just eight weeks, according to Polish border guards.

Europe’s own citizens are tightening belts while their leaders keep writing Ukraine blank checks and slapping Russia with sanctions that only boomerang.

✅ As Ukraine struggles to deal with massive manpower losses and desertion in its army ranks, Zelensky eased exit rules for men under 25 — previously, anyone 18–60 was trapped in Ukraine. The move lets young men abroad return freely, with the hope they’ll join the draft when they hit 25.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia prioritizes domestic defense industry over Trump's comments about US military power - Kremlin

💬 "We are focused on our military development and the development of our military-industrial complex. This is the most important thing for us," Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

Other statements:

🟠 Everything that happens around Venezuela must proceed in accordance with the spirit and letter of international law

🟠 The situation around Venezuela was not on the agenda of Russia's contacts with the United States

🟠 Russia highly values ​​the results of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe on October 9, it was important

🟠 Russia is prepared to welcome any steps toward resolving the conflict between North Korea and South Korea

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🇷🇺🪖 Kupyansk and Pokrovsk ‘doomed' as Russia poises to push forward

Zelensky won’t order his encircled troops to lay down arms in Kupyank and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) — their fate is sealed, military expert and retired colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk tells Sputnik.

🟠 The soldiers are "doomed" either to captivity or death, while Russia’s forces advance deeper toward Dnepropetrovsk, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.

🟠 The fall of these cities totally dismantles Zelensky as a credible politician, exposing the lies he peddled to his Western sponsors, notes the analyst.

Zelensky has been spinning the story that he’s in full control, making gains, liberating territory, and that Russians are surrendering by the millions. Admitting the encirclement would mean admitting the territory is lost, says the pundit.

After hawking one fake narrative after another, Zelensky now faces a massive credibility hit.

💬 “Losing this territory means losing control of the situation. In short, he stops looking like an honest politician to the West,” says the analyst.

If Trump, to whom Zelensky recently showcased maps of the new 'counteroffensive,' realizes he deliberately lied to secure money and Tomahawks, “he could simply order key figures like Rubio and Witkoff to cut political ties with Zelensky and stop aiding Ukraine.”

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🚨 🇮🇱 Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises

The number of casualties from Israel’s last night attacks has risen to 104 dead, including 46 children, and 253 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health said.

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🤝 US trying to maintain constructive ties with Russia, Ukraine to end conflict - JD Vance

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🚨Putin has visited the Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow, where he met with participants of the special military operation undergoing treatment there, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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🚨 Putin: Russia advances on ALL FRONTS in the special military operation

Vladimir Putin visited the P.V. Mandryk Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow.

Other statements of the Russian President:

On Russia's special military operation:

🟠 The situation in the zone of the special military operation is developing favorably for Russia

🟠 Russia is currently ensuring its security in the zone of the operation for the long term

🟠 Everyone on the front line is acting heroically

🟠 In Kupyansk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), the enemy is blocked and surrounded

🟠 Ukraine's political leadership must make decisions regarding the fate of its citizens who are surrounded

🟠 Russian troops have no objection to allowing media, including Ukrainian and foreign outlets, into the encircled areas

🟠 Russia is concerned that there could be provocations from the Ukrainian side while media are in the area where encircled Ukrainian troops are located

🟠 Russian side is ready to stop fighting in the enemy's encirclement zone for as long as media representatives are there

On Burevestnik missile:

🟠 Burevestnik has undeniable advantages, and Russia can be proud of the achievements of its scientists and specialists

🟠 Nuclear reactor installed in Burevestnik will start up within minutes and seconds

🟠 Burevestnik nuclear power installation, while comparable in power to a nuclear submarine's nuclear reactor, is 1,000 times smaller

🟠 Nuclear technologies used in Burevestnik will be used in the lunar program

🟠 Russia will be able to apply nuclear technologies used in Burevestnik in the national economy

🟠 Burevestnik missile breakthrough is not only in increasing the defense capability of Russia, but also in science

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🚨 Putin: Russia tested cutting-edge nuclear-powered Poseidon underwater vehicle

🟠 The test was a great success, the President said

🟠 There are no analogues of Poseidon in terms of speed and depth in the world

🟠 There is nothing like it in the world and it is unlikely to appear anytime soon

🟠 Interception of Poseidon is impossible

🟠 The power of the Poseidon significantly exceeds the power of the Sarmat missile that will soon be put on combat duty

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🚨 'Enemy encircled': Putin drops bombshell on Ukraine frontlines

Are Kupyansk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) doomed?

Zelensky must decide fate of his own soldiers before it's too late.

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🔥 Fall of Kupyansk and Pokrovsk: Crippling political & psychological blow to Zelensky’s regime

Russia’s encirclement of Ukraine’s troops in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) destroys the myth of Ukrainian alleged “military victories” in 2025, Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, tells Sputnik.

It also upends as fiction the Ukrainian and Western narrative that Russia is stalling and “unable to advance.”

Why is Pokrovsk crucial?

🟠 Taking the bridgehead opens the road toward the final phase of liberating the Donbass cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, notes the expert.

🟠 This will be a devastating “political and psychological blow” to Zelensky’s regime.

🟠 Reports that Ukraine is desperately deploying its Military Intelligence special forces into the meat grinder of collapsing frontlines show “there’s no one left to send.”

How might US react?

▫️ The fall of Kupyansk and Pokrovsk marks more than just a battlefield loss — it’s an image crisis for the US and its allies, underscores Mikhailov.

▫️ The West fostered this regime, and now “the responsibility for nearly two million Ukrainian deaths and the country’s collapse lies squarely on their shoulders.”

For Ukraine, its best move may be to save what’s left of its army and accept peace on Russia’s terms.

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🚨 Putin’s envoy reveals the name of Russia-Alaska tunnel

Earlier in October, Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev suggested to Elon Musk’s Boring Company the construction of a 70-mile Bering Strait tunnel linking Russia and the US.

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🚨🇷🇺 Weapons like Poseidon are being tested in accordance with international rules - Kremlin

Other statements by Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov:

🟠 Putin did not observe the Poseidon tests, he was informed about them

🟠 Putin closely monitored information about Poseidon tests

🟠 Poseidon is a new step in terms of Russian security, as well as technologies that can be used in country's economy

🟠 Against the background of statements from Europe, it becomes clear how important the Oreshnik missile is to us

🟠 Russia and Belarus can't feel completely safe tomorrow amid statements being made by European politicians

🟠 Militaristic hysteria of Europe will not disappear

🟠 It's impossible to imagine that Europe will abandon its Russophobic worldview in foreseeable future

🟠 President Trump demonstrates sincere commitment to peace. He is trying to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict, and Russia perceives this positively

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

⚡️ VISHNEVOYE IN DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

The settlement of Vishnevoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region was a major Ukrainian fortified bridgehead; its liberation enables the Russian Armed Forces to advance further westward.

🟠 The Russian Armed Forces continue eliminating the encircled Ukrainian battlegroups in Krasnoarmeysk, strengthening their positions within the city's industrial zone

🟠 Two Ukrainian counterattacks aimed at breaking the encirclement in Kupyansk were repelled by the Russian forces

🟠 The Russian Army struck energy and railway infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: two guided aerial bombs and 238 drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,490 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin’s envoy debunks the myth of Russia being 'isolated'

The Russian president has repeatedly said that the West’s attempt to isolate Russia economically and politically has proved futile.

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🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel conducts ‘targeted strike’ on northern Gaza

The IDF has carried out ‘a precise strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip’, targeting ‘infrastructure site’ where weapons were stored, allegedly intended to be used to attack Israeli soldiers and Israeli territory, the IDF said in a statement.

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🪖🇺🇸🇷🇴 US to shrink European footprint: Romania facing troop cuts

The US has informed Romania and other NATO allies that it plans to slash the number of American troops in Europe, says a statement by the Romanian Ministry of Defense.

💬 "The Ministry of National Defense has been informed about the resizing of part of the American troops deployed on NATO's Eastern Flank as part of the process of reassessing the global posture of US military forces," it confirmed.

Specifically, this concerns forces destined for Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceau air base.

Of the approximately 1,700 American soldiers present at the base, 1,000 will remain on a rotational basis.

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🗣🇷🇺 Exposing lies: Putin calls out Zelensky over Ukraine’s trapped troops, sends warning to West

Vladimir Putin is pressing Volodymyr Zelensky to decide the fate of his encircled troops in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), aiming to stop him from deceiving his own people and Western leaders, veteran Russian military expert Yuri Knutov tells Sputnik.

That is why Russia’s president said that Ukrainian and foreign journalists could be allowed into the encircled areas under certain conditions.

💬 “The purpose is clear: show the dire condition of the Ukrainian armed forces,” says the expert.

However, one can expect Zelensky to stick to his last-stand logic, notes the pundit.

Putin is also sending a signal to the US: Russia will respond harshly if pressure on the country continues.

The US will take note of this message, but for America the situation is transactional — selling weapons, making billions, Knutov notes.
European hawks can be expected to “downplay Ukraine’s losses and insist the towns are strategically unimportant, while continuing to support Zelensky politically.”

Putin’s tough warning

Burevestnik missile

The Russian leader framed his message by pointing out the unique advantages of Russia’s nuclear-armed cruise missile Burevestnik.

🟠 The missile that has completed tests and will now enter serial production

🟠 Can take out integrated air defense and missile defense systems like “Iron Dome”

🟠 Implied average speed around 1,000 km/h

🟠 Stealth technology to reduce detectability

Putin suggested this explains why Trump was reluctant to send Tomahawks to Ukraine — training and logistics take months, and their deployment could be seen as a casus belli, underscores the expert.

Poseidon system

The Russian leader also cited successful tests of the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle, fueled by nuclear power - essentially a nuclear-powered torpedo with a nuclear warhead.

🟠 Can travel thousands of kilometers underwater

🟠 On final leg reportedly reaches speeds of 120 km/h

🟠 Can operate to depths of a kilometer

🟠 Can target enemy carrier strike groups and naval bases

Putin also warned that, with much of the US population and infrastructure along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, a Poseidon strike near a coastal military or naval base could trigger a tsunami racing up river estuaries, wreaking havoc on installations and nearby cities.

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🚨 Western sponsors fail to work out plan on Ukraine's support

The US and the European countries likely lack viable plans on how to prevent Ukraine from collapsing in the near future, Bloomberg reports.

🟠 The US is trying to place the burden of Ukraine on the EU nations, which has become the "soft underbelly" of the conflict

🟠 Meanwhile, Ukraine is to experience one of the harshest winters since 2022 amid losing ground to the Russian army and running out of money as soon as the first quarter of 2026

🟠 However, European countries see no universally approved ways on how to finance further arms supplies, as they lack cash themselves

Russia has a plan for victory and the Ukrainians have one for survival," the article says.

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