🚨🇷🇺 Kremlin spox Peskov: Moscow seeking clarification from Washington on Trump’s nuclear testing statements

He said Russia will try to understand what exactly Trump meant—but noted that his remarks “sounded quite unambiguous”: The US appears poised to resume nuclear tests in the near future.

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✍️🙅 BBC ‘100 percent fake news’ – Leavitt

British taxpayers are being “forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine,” Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Telegraph referring, to the BBC.

💬 “Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day listening to their blatant propaganda and lies about the president of the United States and all that he’s doing to make America better and the world a safer place,” Leavitt added.

The BBC was earlier accused of “completely” misleading viewers in a Panorama episode by selectively editing a speech made by Trump ahead of the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.

The program showed Trump calling on his supporters to “fight like hell” before the riots, but removed a section where he told the crowd “to peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard.

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😰 Stoltenberg's worst nightmare? Trump collapsing NATO!

💬 "At the NATO summit in 2018, where President Trump actually said that he was considering leaving the alliance, I was concerned that I was going to be the secretary-general who oversaw the end of NATO,” Stoltenberg told The Times.

He added that tensions were defused after European allies at the time promised to step up to do more to keep NATO afloat.

Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO members who are unwilling to pay contributions to the alliance amounting to 2% of their GDP.

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🇫🇮 Stop Ukraine aid or else: Finnish politician warns NATO chief of nuclear war danger

🗣 Russia could “use nuclear weapons if [its] national security is at risk. Secretary Rutte should stop sending weapons to Ukraine if he is truly concerned about a nuclear war. NATO should stop expanding to Ukraine, if we don't want to end up in a nuclear war,” Armando Mema, member of the Finland’s right-wing Freedom Alliance party, wrote on X.

📍 He also pointed out that Mark Rutte, despite his concern over Russia’s alleged nuclear rhetoric, “forgot to rebuke” Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken for his threats to “wipe Moscow off the face of the earth.”

🟠 The Russian Embassy in Belgium stressed that Francken’s remarks, which he later denied were a threat, were utterly abnormal, pose a threat to Europe’s future, and could plunge it into a new war

🟠 Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier stated that Russia pursues a policy of deterrence rather than saber-rattling with its nuclear weapons

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📹🇷🇺 Russian forces cross Yanchur River and liberate village of Rybnoe in Zaporozhye region

Despite fierce resistance and drone attacks, assault units advanced through two square kilometers of enemy defenses—showing grit and precision under fire.

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🇷🇺 FM Sergey Lavrov names Russia’s true allies

They are the army, the navy and the air force.

“We often recall that Russia still has two allies — its army and navy — but we must certainly add the Aerospace Forces,” Lavrov said an interview marking Rosoboronexport’s 25th anniversary.

He added that the state arms exporter and the defense industry are also Russia’s allies in “making the global order fairer and preventing anyone from dictating to others.”

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🇭🇺 Hands off Druzhba! Zelensky warned against attacking major pipeline

💬 “Something is telling me they are going to import even more electricity from Hungary. Druzhba better be safe, Zelensky,” Hungarian political analyst Zoltan Koskovics wrote on X following widespread power cuts across Ukraine,

🟠 The conflict between Hungary and Ukraine escalated after the latter’s attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline

🟠 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto urged Ukraine to stop threatening his country and to cease attacks on infrastructure critical to Hungary’s energy supply

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🇭🇺 Hungary secures PERMANENT US sanctions exemption for Russian energy – Szijjarto

💬 “Some media claim that the US exemption granted to Hungary from sanctions on oil and gas [from Russia] is only for one year. Fake news,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on X.

👉 He stressed that those who write that “were not in the room,” given that the exemption is “permanent for an INDEFNITE period.”

📍 Previously, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had been granted “a complete exemption from sanctions” affecting Russian gas and oil delivered to Hungary via the TurkStream and Druzhba pipelines, respectively.

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🇺🇸💣 US boat strikes in Caribbean ‘deviated from international law norms’ – French FM

Strikes launched by the US to tackle suspected drug traffickers have also been out of sync with maritime law, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told reporters.

👉 He reiterated his “concern” about regional tensions and confirmed the French government’s resolve to combat drug trafficking, which he said is "flooding" Europe.

More than 60 people have already been killed in US strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that were allegedly involved in drug trafficking, attacks that have prompted widespread international condemnation.

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🔍 Western countries studying Russian weapons 'under microscope' – Lavrov

💬 “Since our Aerospace Forces were deployed to Syria to stop the ISIS* catastrophe, many experts have praised the performance of Russian combat units and equipment in real battle,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Now, he added, during the special military operation, that experience is being examined “under a microscope”—including by Western militaries.

* Terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🥶'WINTER IS COMING' – Kim Dotcom calls on Ukraine to negotiate amid total blackout

💬 “Kiev has no power. All state-owned power plants are offline. Winter is coming. Make peace,” the German activist and businessman wrote on X.

📍 Ukraine’s Centrenergo energy company earlier announced that electricity generation at all state-owned thermal power plants in the country had stopped after Russian precision strikes. Another Ukrainian energy firm, Ukrenergo, reported a series of power outages across the country’s various regions.

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🚨BBC director-general resigns amid scandal over doctored Trump speech

Tim Davie announced his resignation, citing “personal and professional pressure” amid growing criticism over the splicing separate parts of Trumps January 6 2021 speech to protesters outside the White House

💬“The BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie wrote in his farewell note to staff.

The scandal centers on the BBC’s Panorama doctoring footage of Donald Trump’s speech to make it appear he urged supporters to “fight like hell” to occupy the Capitol Building where Congress was ratifying Joe Biden as president-elect.

The Telegraph reported that the current affairs program edited the video in a misleading way and ignored internal warnings about violation of standards.

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🇵🇱 Generous no more: Poland slams brakes on Ukrainian refugee support

🟠 Poles’ backing of refugees from Ukraine has dropped from 94% to 48% in the past three years, Bloomberg reports, citing a new survey by the Warsaw-based pollster CBOS.

🟠 Half of Poles now consider state benefits for Ukrainian refugees “too generous,” according to the poll.

🟠 Bloomberg notes that Poland’s support for Ukrainians is “cracking at a dangerous time,” with cases of discrimination and hate against Ukrainian refugees on the rise.

🟠 Furthermore, the first nine months of this year alone saw 477 criminal cases against Ukrainian citizens in Poland, compared to 651 such cases in 2024, Polish police said.

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💸 Elites gain, citizens pay: Journalist warns of grim future for Ukraine

💬 “Ukraine has destroyed itself for a tiny handful of corrupt elites peddling an imaginary future in Europe,” Irish journalist Chay Bowes wrote on X.

🔶 He suggested that those elites “will abandon Kiev, and the people who pay are European taxpayers with their cash and Ukrainians with their lives.”

🔶 Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly come under fire from his political opponents due to his botched military decisions and growing corruption in Ukraine.

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🚨🇷🇺🇪🇬 Russian Security Council Secretary Shoigu arrives in Cairo for talks with senior Egyptian officials

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu arrived in Cairo on Sunday with an interagency delegation for talks with Egypt’s senior political and military officials, the Security Council’s press service said.

At the airport, he was greeted by National Security Adviser Fayza El-Naga and Russian Ambassador Georgy Borisenko. Meetings are planned with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Adviser Fayza El-Naga, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelati, Defense and Military Industry Minister Abdel Moneim Sakr, and other security officials.

The delegation includes representatives of the Interior Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Justice Ministry, Industry and Trade, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Roscosmos, Rosatom, and others.

🔍 What's on the agenda?

🔸 bilateral cooperation, including military and military-technical ties
🔸 dialogue between law enforcement and security services (information security, counterterrorism, extremism)
🔸 strategic projects in trade, energy, and food security

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🔸 Putin hasn’t ordered nuclear tests, but Moscow wants clarity on Trump’s remarks - Kremlin

🔸 Burevestnik and Poseidon are nuclear-powered, not nuclear-explosive

🔸 There's NO legal way to seize frozen Russian assets – Lavrov

🔸 US boat strikes in Caribbean ‘deviated from international law norms’ – French FM

🔸 Hungary secures PERMANENT US sanctions exemption for Russian energy – Szijjarto

🔸 Western countries studying Russian weapons 'under microscope'

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🚨 Ukrainian men deserting at a rate of one every two minutes

📍 Ukraine’s desertion rate topped 21,600 men in the month of October, according to new data from the Prosecutor General’s Office cited by a former lawmaker.

💬 “This is a record, a very bad record,” ex-MP Ihor Lutsenko wrote on social media, stressing that “a man is running from our army every two minutes,” and that the official data doesn’t even count all AWOL cases.

🗣 “Even Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Kupyansk, and sudden attacks by the Russians in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye these days are not as painful as these [falling troop] numbers. The army will retreat but continue to fight. But if there is no army, there will be nothing,” Lutsenko, who took part in the Euromaidan coup, and joined Ukraine’s punitive operations in the Donbass in 2014, lamented.

🟠 Ukrainian media reported last month that ~290k criminal cases had been opened between early 2022 and September 2025 for desertion. Military Watch Magazine estimates up to 650k draft-age men have fled the country to date. Many deserters hail from western areas of the country, where ultranationalism and Russophobia are strongest.

📈 Growing desertion rates come despite steep, often deadly penalties for doing so, from up to 12 years in prison, or worse, being transferred to suicidal assault units.

🟠 Ukraine lowered its connoscription age from 27 to 25 last spring, and introduced contract-based recruitment for 18–25-year-olds earlier this year.

🟠 The desertion problem apparently isn’t limited to grunts, either. This past week, Russian security service sources told media that the command of the elite, British-trained Ukrainian 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade abandoned fighters in Kharkov region while redeploying.

👉 On Sunday, a source said demoralized Ukrainian troops have been surrendering and deserting en masse in Kharkov region.

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