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

⚡️ NOVOALEKSANDROVKA IN THE DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

📍 From the Novoaleksandrovka bridgehead, an attack can be made either south toward Gulaipole or north toward the town of Pokrovskoe. This settlement is located at a key intersection of the T0401 and H15 highways. Its capture would seriously impact the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️ Territorial gains: 7 settlements were liberated over the past week

▫️ Tsentr Battlegroup assault units have expanded control zone near Dimitrov in the DPR

▫️ Strategic Strikes: Russian Forces unleashed a massive assault against Flamingo cruise missile assembly plants in Ukraine

▫️ Air defense superiority: Russian air defense systems shot down 17 guided aerial bombs, 2 long-range Neptune missiles, and 1,701 drones

▫️ Ukrainian losses: 10,095 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🪖🔙 US to partly withdraw troops from Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary — media

💬 "Behind closed doors," officials from the Trump administration have signaled to allies that the Romanian cuts are merely phase one, with further reductions in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia expected to follow as soon as mid-December– a timeline that's "raising eyebrows among NATO diplomats," the report says.

On October 29 the US Army announced withdrawing the 2nd Infantry Brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division from Romania to "ensure a balanced US military force posture," the Guardian earlier stated.

Overall, Europe hosts around 84,000 US troops, with most of them (about 39,000) placed in Germany, the Council on Foreign Relations data shows.

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🛢 Trump not discussing Russia oil sanctions with Xi signals priorities shift — Media

The fact that Donald Trump didn’t pressure China to stop buying Russian oil as part of new US sanctions during talks with Xi Jinping in Busan gives "an early glimpse of just how loosely he was planning to enforce" the restrictions, Bloomberg says.

💬 "It undermines the entire sanctions narrative — you can’t claim to be tough on Moscow while ignoring one of the largest buyers keeping their economy afloat," said sanctions expert Brett Erickson, as quoted by Bloomberg.

The lack of such pressure on the leader of China - despite Trump’s own intent to apply it when rolling out new sanctions against Russian oil companies - "suggests Trump prioritized stabilizing US-China ties," the article concludes.

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🚨🇷🇺🇧🇾‘DON'T PUSH IT’: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has confirmed that the Oreshnik missile system will go on combat duty in December, with any decision on its use to be made jointly with Vladimir Putin.

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🚨 Moment of truth: Russia checkmates Ukraine’s false conflict narrative

🗣 Kiev is blocking journalists from visiting surrounded Ukrainian military positions in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), since it would quickly reveal that the country is losing across the entire front line, experts tell Sputnik.

💬 "Zelensky’s team claims there are no encirclements, that they’re advancing successfully. All this propaganda about their 'success' is designed to keep massive financial flows coming in, which can then be quietly pocketed," says Andrey Koshkin, retired colonel and expert at the Association of Military Political Analysts, in an interview with Sputnik.

🔶 In the West, no one hides the fact that Ukraine is the most corrupt country. Western politicians are lining their own pockets with billions in aid sent to Ukraine. It is believed that Zelensky himself has long since become a billionaire, according to the pundit.

💬 "If foreign journalists are able to interview representatives of the forces encircled by the Russian Army, the Western public could hear things that, according to Ukrainian leadership, are better left unsaid — including questions about how effectively war funds are being spent," Nikolai Kostikin, expert at the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, tells Sputnik.

🔶 Russia’s offer to give Western journalists access to the encirclements, and the Ukrainian leadership’s resistance, show that Russia has already taken over the narrative from Western media, according to Kostikin.

📍 The unfolding situation is yet another way Russia is pressuring Zelensky toward peace, Kostikin stresses.

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🇵🇱​​ Is Poland heading for EU exit door? Foreign Minister raises alarm

The scenario in which Poland leaves the European Union is realistic, as a lot of right-wing Polish politicians reject any European initiative as something bad, the nation’s foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorsky, said in an interview with Onet.

🗣 This is the same pattern out of which Brexit emerged, he adds.

Earlier, former Speaker of the Sejm Marek Jurek said that Poland should leave the EU to restore its sovereignty. Additionally, Polish PM Donald Tusk warned the country’s president, Karol Nawrocki, pushed the nation to leave the Union.

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🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪Trump DENIES authorizing strikes on Venezuela after a Miami Herald report claimed attacks on military sites were imminent.

The White House dismissed the story, saying “unnamed sources don’t know what they’re talking about.”

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💀🗣 US nuclear strike survivors blast US for decision to resume nuke tests

Members of the Nihon Hidankyo organization in Japan that unites people who survived the nuclear strikes of 1945 described the US administration decision to resume nuclear weapons tests as "absolutely unacceptable," Le Figaro reports, citing a letter sent to the US embassy in Japan.

👉 The decision of the US president undermines the efforts of world nations to create a peaceful and nuclear weapon-free world, the organization notes.

Earlier Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki also condemned the decision, the Japan Times shared.

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🪖💥💣 Russian strike severs key Ukrainian supply route

Russian forces have destroyed a critical bridge over the Volchya River in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

The bridge was a vital artery for the Ukrainian military, used to transport ammunition and equipment to the Pokrovsk direction.

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🚨🇺🇸The Pentagon APPROVED sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, saying US stockpiles wouldn’t be affected - CNN

But, according to the CNN, the final word rests with President Trump, who backed off after a call with Putin, saying the US “needs” the missiles for itself — leaving Zelensky waiting, and Europe watching.

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🥇 Everyone thinks gold is eternal — But what if it’s running out?

🔥 Gold's on fire in 2025: spot prices hit $4,035 an ounce on October 31, up 60% this year and smashing records at $4,371 just weeks ago.

📈 Analysts at Bank of America see price averages even topping $5,000 in 2026.

🔸 What’s driving the rally?

🔶 Central banks hoarding it — buying up to 900 tons of gold in 2025 - de-dollarization, and ETF inflows.

🔶 But the rally isn’t just about demand: It’s about scarcity.

🔶 Peak gold is in the rearview — annual mining output has flatlined since 2018 at about 3,000 tons.

🔶 Today, 190,000 tons circulate in jewelry, bars, and vaults worldwide, says the US Geological Survey.

🔶 Only 50,000 to 60,000 tons of gold remain in the ground — enough for just 20 years of mining at current rates, according to American Standard Gold.

🔸 New discoveries? Only five majors since 2020, totaling 17 million ounces, with none in 2023 or 2024, says S&P Global Market Intelligence.

👉 And the gold we do find is getting poorer — ore grades have dropped from 10 grams per ton in the 1960s to less than one gram today.

🔸 The world’s main remaining gold hotspots (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025) are:

🇦🇺 Australia - 12,000 tons (Yilgarn Craton)

🇷🇺 Russia - 12,000 tons (Siberian deposits and the Far East)

🇿🇦 South Africa - 5,000 tons (Witwatersrand Basin)

🇺🇸 US - 3,000 tons (Nevada)

🇨🇳 China - 3,100 tons

🇷🇺🇦🇺 Together, Russia & Australia hold around 38% of global unmined gold, valued at over $7 trillion at current prices.

🌏 The Earth's core might hoard more gold — but it's locked away, inaccessible.

🔶 Gold can be recycled — about 25 to 30% of annual supply comes from old jewelry and e-waste.

🔶 But recycling alone can’t replace mining.

🤔 So, are we witnessing the final gold rush — or just the beginning of a new golden era?

📍 Tomorrow’s markets will tell us whether scarcity becomes the ultimate driver…

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