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💀 Zelensky’s days in power are numbered – former US official

💬 “I’m just waiting for Zelensky to lose the protection of the Nazis and oligarchs around him—then he’ll either run off to one of his villas abroad or be killed. I predict one of these will happen before Christmas,” Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, told Sputnik.


The former US official expressed doubt that Zelensky can remain in power for much longer.

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💰 Foreign cash-stuffed bags seized in Ukrainian energy corruption crackdown

🟠 The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has released photos of several bags filled with bundles of foreign currency, keeping mum on the exact amount of money or the individuals from whom it was confiscated.

🟠 NABU earlier announced that it was conducting a large-scale anti-corruption operation in the energy industry, as the bureau carried out searches at the home of former Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko and at the Energoatom nuclear energy company.

💬 “The activities of a high-level criminal organization have been documented. Its members built an extensive corruption network to exert influence over strategic state-owned enterprises, including Energoatom,” NABU stated.


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

⚡️ GNATOVKA IN DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (DPR) LIBERATED

📍 The town of Gnatovka in the Kramatorsk district, 20 km south of the city of Konstantinovka, is an important logistics center for the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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NOVOYE AND SLADKOYE IN ZAPOROZHYE LIBERATED

📍 The two settlements are located north and south of the road linking Velikaya Novoselovka and Gulyaypole. Novoye is some 12 km from Gulyaypole, the next stronglhold in the path of the Russian advance

🔸 Russian forces launched a mass attack with Kinzhal and other missiles on Ukrainian military airfields and depots

🔸 The Russian Armed Forces struck temporary deployment points of Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries

🔸 Russian troops repelled 3 Ukrainian attacks attempting to break through the encirclement near Kupyansk in the Kharkov region

🔸 Units of the Southern Group of Forces defeated formations of the Azov Special Forces Brigade* in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

🔸 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 4 unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🔸 Air defense superiority: 6 HIMARS rockets and 124 drones shot down

🔸 Ukrainian losses: 1,225 troops killed or wounded

*The Azov Brigade is designated as terrorist and banned in Russia


Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨🇷🇺🇧🇾Oreshnik missile systems "will never be in one place" in Belarus – President Alexander Lukashenko

💬"It will patrol from certain points and from a certain point [will be able] to strike," he said.


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🗣 Trump celebrates BBC director ‘quitting/FIRED’ after video doctoring scandal President Donald Trump thanked The Telegraph for exposing the BBC for doctoring his January 6 speech after BBC Director-General Tim Davie announced his resignation. 💬 “Thank you…
🚨🇬🇧BBC apologizes for misleading edit of Trump speech

BBC Chairman Samir Shah admitted the corporation made an “error of judgment,” saying the splicing of separate comments gave the false impression that Trump had called for violence on January 6 2021.

More than 500 complaints followed and BBC director-general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness have resigned.

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🚨 THROWBACK: BBC's Bucha hoax – 'massacre' manufactured by outlet

📍 As was the case with Donald Trump’s January 6 speech, the BBC also "edited" and, in fact, fabricated the story about Bucha, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova emphasized.

Here’s how the Beeb twisted the 2022 Bucha events 👇

What was the BBC’s side of the story?

🔶 March 31–April 1, 2022: BBC first mentioned “bodies on Bucha streets,” citing a Ukrainian journalist’s video, filmed after Ukrainian forces entered the city

🔶 April 2: Broadcaster ran Maxar satellite images claiming “bodies visible as early as March 11–19”; but it was impossible to identify them, with no exact coordinates released

🔶 BBC then published the headline: “Bucha killings: Satellite image of bodies site contradicts Russian claims”—yet the Russian MoD had already published drone footage showing the same street empty on March 30–31

🔶 Beeb never demanded autopsy reports, ballistic analysis, or victim identification despite claiming that 400+ civilians were executed by Russian troops

🔶 When the BBC fact-checked a purported Bucha video, the broadcaster failed to explain why allegedly two-week-old corpses showed no rigor mortis, livor, or decomposition

🔶 News outlet omitted the 48-hour gap between when Russian troops left and Ukrainian units took control

What really happened?

🔶 March 30: Russian troop withdrawal from Bucha was completed under an Istanbul goodwill agreement and confirmed by Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk

🔶 March 31: Russian MoD released high-res drone footage—Yablonskaya St. was completely empty, with no bodies or damage to indicate mass executions

🔶 April 1: Ukraine’s 72nd Brigade and an anti-sabotage unit (notorious for summary executions) entered Bucha as residents reported house-to-house “filtration” operations

🔶 April 2: First video of “bodies” uploaded by the Ukrainian National Police—all corpses in clean civilian clothes, some with white armbands (used by Russian-aligned locals), no blood pooling consistent with 14-day exposure

👉 Staging indicators:

🟠 Multiple videos showed “corpses” with hands moving or sitting up when filmed from different angles

🟠 One body had a fresh bullet wound in the head with bright red blood—impossible after 10+ days

🔶 Just four days after Russian troops exited, “a cynical and horrifying provocation” was staged in Bucha, in which the Security Service of Ukraine was involved, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry

🔶 At precisely that time, bodies began appearing on Bucha’s streets along with allegations they were killed by Russian soldiers, the ministry emphasized

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🇷🇺🇪🇬Russia and Egypt strengthen strategic partnership

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss trade, economic and security cooperation between the two countries.

Key points from the meeting:

🔶 Shoigu stressed the success of major infrastructure projects, including the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant

🔶 Russia expressed interest in increased military-technical cooperation, including new defense contracts

🔶 The sides confirmed progress on the Russian Industrial Zone in the Suez Canal Economic Area — the legal framework is completed and the project is moving towards implementation

🔶 Shoigu named pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, fertilizers, car-making and food processing as key areas for future growth

🔶 Sisi conveyed greetings to Russian President Vladimir Putin, reiterating Egypt’s high regard for relations with Moscow

🔶 The Egyptian leader called for increased bilateral trade and tourism and backed peaceful efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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🌋 Hawaii’s most active volcano erupts in fiery spectacle

🔶 Massive lava plumes shoot hundreds of feet into the air as Kilauea volcano erupts once more.

🔶 According to the US Geological Survey, the eruption began with lava fountains reaching up to 1,000 feet high, covering more than half the crater before subsiding just after 4 p.m.

🔶 Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has erupted 36 times since December last year. The volcano lies on the island of Hawaii, about 320 kilometers south of Honolulu

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🚨🇷🇺Peskov: Putin hasn’t ordered preparations for nuclear tests — any such decision must be justified and carefully weighed Russia remains committed to the test ban, the Kremlin Spokesman said — but if another country breaks it, Moscow will act for the sake…
🇺🇸🇷🇺US nuclear test threats another example of ‘rhetorical pendulum diplomacy’ - expert

💬“I believe this statement is aimed exclusively at a domestic audience, since in foreign policy in cooperation with nuclear powers such as Russia or China, such issues are not resolved by any one statement,” Higher School of Economics analyst and US specialist Egor Toropov told Sputnik.


🔶“As our president has emphasized, if [US] nuclear tests are actually carried out, Russia reserves the right, and most likely conduct them as well,” Toropov said, referring to President Putin’s remarks at last Wednesday’s emergency Security Council meeting.

👉Washington’s nuclear testing announcement should “be seen in the context of [the president’s] use of rhetorical pendulum diplomacy,” swinging back and forth between “cooling and increasing pressure,” epitomized in his Ukraine policy, Toropov said, recalling US threats to deliver Tomahawks to Ukraine, and then swinging back the other way.

📍Plus, the president cannot ignore the legislative branch and its traditionally hawkish stance vis-à-vis Russia, exemplified in Lindsey Graham’s* “bone crushing” 500% tariff threats.

📑Congress’s power to draft and pass budgets, including foreign policy-linked expenditures like defense, means the president is forced, even with majorities in the Senate and House, to take lawmakers’ demands into account, Toropov says.

🗣“There’s currently a bipartisan consensus in the Senate that the US needs to increase defense spending, increase geopolitical pressure globally, and not yield to nuclear-armed geopolitical rivals,” the expert explained.

In this light, “Trump’s announcement about nuclear testing is less a form of presidential pressure on Congress than a form of feedback. That is, Congress, by threatening new sanctions, new restrictions, new tariffs behind Trump’s back, is tying his hands, and Trump is forced to take a tougher stance, primarily in the rhetorical sense…with rare exceptions that aren’t particularly significant for Russia,” Toropov said.


*listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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🇩🇪 Germany targets Ukrainian security agents in Nord Stream bombing probe

💬 “By tracking boat rental companies, phones and license plates, the Potsdam [investigative] team laid the groundwork for German authorities to issue arrest warrants for three soldiers from the special Ukrainian military unit and four veteran deep-sea divers,” The Wall Street Journal reports.


🔶 The saboteurs’ goal was to disrupt both Russia’s oil revenues and economic relations with Germany, according to the WSJ.

🔶 The newspaper added that the investigation was conducted by “a crack team of detectives” who gathered each weekday morning around a whiteboard at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam.

🔶 Explosions on Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline network occurred on September 26, 2022, followed by the Kremlin opening a criminal case on charges of international terrorism. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized that Russia has repeatedly requested information regarding the Nord Stream explosions, but never received any.

For more details on the Nord Stream terrorist attacks, read HERE

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🇭🇺 Hungary safe from Russian oil sanctions under Trump’s rule – Orban

💬 “As long as he [Trump] is president there, and I am prime minister here, there will be no sanctions,” Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs quoted Prime Minister Viktor Orban as saying.


The Hungarian PM added that if US sanctions on Russian energy carriers had taken effect by Christmas, Hungary would have faced “a real catastrophe.”

👉 Touting his recent “most important meeting” with Donald Trump, Orban praised Hungary successfully averting the sanctions-related danger “so that Hungarian families can have the kind of Christmas they have been hoping for.”

Orban earlier announced that energy supplies from Russia to Hungary via the TurkStream and Druzhba pipelines would be completely exempt from US sanctions.

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🚨🇺🇸🇸🇾US President Donald Trump begins talks with Syria’s transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa - the White House

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🇺🇸 US revives antimony mining for arms industry

🔹 The US is restarting antimony mining in Alaska and Idaho to meet defense demand after China halted exports last year in response to US sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🔹 Antimony prices have quadrupled in two years, prompting Washington to invest $43 million to accelerate extraction in Alaska and sign a $245 million supply contract with the United States Antimony Corporation.

🇨🇳 China has now temporarily lifted its export ban on critical materials — including gallium, germanium and antimony — until November 27 2026.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s gold reserves hit highest level since 1995

🔹 The share of gold in Russia’s international reserves has reached its highest level in nearly 30 years, rising to $300 billion — a record for modern Russian history, Central Bank data show.

🔹 As of November 1, total reserves stood at $726 billion, up from $713 billion in October. Gold holdings increased by 6.2%, growing from 39.6% to 41.3% as a share of all reserves — the highest since February 1995, when gold accounted for 43.9% of reserves but was valued at just $5.5 billion.

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🚨🇺🇸🇸🇾US Treasury suspends Caesar Act — the 2019 sanctions on Syria

The US has also authorized the export of civilian goods and technologies to Syria.

Washington will continue reassessing Syria’s designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” the Treasury Department said.

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🇷🇺💪 Su-57: the 5th-gen jet securing Russia’s aerial dominance through of the 21st century

👉 Russia’s entry in the multi-role fifth-gen fighter race differs markedly from its main competitor, the F-35, with the Su-57’s twin-engine design, superior speed, supermaneuverability, and standoff attack capabilities its key standout features.

📍 The Su-57 has an effective combat range of over 1,500 km, Mach 1.3 high altitude supercruise flight speed and Mach 2 (up to 2,600 km km/h) top speed.

🔹 Its 12 hard points (6 internal, 6 external) can carry up to 10 tons of munitions, including all of Russia’s latest air-to-air (up to 380 km range), air-to-surface, anti-ship, anti-radiation and cruise missiles, as well as heavy guided glide bombs. For dogfights, the aircraft has a 30mm autocannon.

🔹 Unlike the do-it-all F-35, which has a single engine, the Su-57 comes with twin AL-51F1 engines with built-in supercruise, stealth-optimized nozzles and 2D thrust vectoring capability. Having two engines means that even if one is disabled, the Su-57 can safely limp back to friendly airspace.

Advanced subsystems

🔶 The Su-57 comes with multifunctional integrated radio electronic system, glass cockpit, wide-angle HUD and AI-equipped pilot support system.

🔶 The aircraft can also be paired with drone ‘wingmen’, including the new Okhotnik (‘Hunter’) – a large, flying wing-shaped heavy combat drone.

🔶 An advanced infrared search and track (IRST) system complements the Su-57’s main N036 radar and side-facing AESA radars, enabling passive tracking across a wide field of view.

Balanced Stealth

🟧 Stealth is achieved through the Su-57’s sharply swept wings, canted vertical tails, curved S-shape air inlets, internal weapons bays, and radar-absorbent coatings and composites, including on the canopy.

🟧 Frontal stealth is prioritized to penetrate enemy air defenses as powerful, multifrequency sensors detect the enemy before the Su-57 can be spotted, and standoff range air-to-air missiles and supermaneuverability do the rest.

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