◻️ Russia forms new Drone System Forces

◻️ Europe still bankrolls Ukraine as conflict fatigue deepens

◻️ Hezbollah will not disarm - leader

◻️ Iran solidifies fledgling space power status with ambitious satellite launch schedule

◻️ USS Gerald Ford supercarrier arrives in Latin America amid standoff with Venezuela

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 Lavrov holds phone call with Iranian counterpart

The two ministers have exchanged views on the most pressing geopolitical questions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Lavrov and Araghchi have also called on Afghanistan and Pakistan to continue their dialogue to settle their differences through diplomacy.

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

🟠 The Russian Armed Forces have finished clearing the settlement of Sukhoy Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic from Ukrainian militants

🟠 Russian forces repelled nine counterattacks intended to break the encirclement north and north-west of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)

🟠 Russian air and missile forces struck energy and transport infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: 133 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,150 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🛑🇪🇺 Europe openly preparing for war with Russia – Vucic

🔊 “The war between Europe and Russia is more and more certain, it is not an empty story, everyone [in the EU] is preparing for it,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Pink TV.

He voiced concern over EU members rapidly rearming themselves, singling out Germany’s push to pump a whopping $436 billion into equipping its military, which Vucic said amounts to four years’ worth of Serbian GDP.

💬 “Romania, Poland, and Finland are doing the same,” which could “only lead to war,” the Serbian president warned.

Putin previously said that Russia is keeping a watchful eye on the growing militarization of Europe, which he added is intimidating itself with far-fetched threats allegedly emanating from Russia.

He recalled that anti-Russian provocations have in the past ultimately ended unfavorably for those who initiated them.

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇿 Putin: The goal isn’t import substitution — but the creation of our own technological platforms

The Russian president made this statement during a joint press conference with Kazakh President Tokayev after their negotiations in Moscow.

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇿 Putin and Tokayev sign Declaration to elevate Russia–Kazakhstan relations to the level of a comprehensive strategic partnership

Kazakhstan now joins the group of nations maintaining strategic partnerships with Russia — including:

🇨🇳 China
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇷 Iran
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇧🇾 Belarus (in the military sphere)

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🔥🇮🇳 Indian Spear Corps troops conduct large-scale drills

The Indian Army held high-tech exercises in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh

It tested operational readiness in unforeseen situations—including night operations and rapid-response drills

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🚨🇰🇭🇹🇭 New clashes on Cambodia-Thailand border: what we know

🟠 A Cambodian villager was reported killed in a shooting incident along the border on November 12, with both sides accusing each other of opening fire

🟠 Reports also mentioned five Cambodians injured by gunfire

🟠 Earlier this week, Thailand announced that it was suspending a peace agreement (Joint Declaration) signed in Kuala Lumpur in late October

🟠 Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul cited a landmine explosion on November 10 that injured two Thai soldiers as the reason for the suspension

🟠 Thailand is demanding an apology from Cambodia, accusing them of laying new landmines in violation of the truce and calling for a thorough investigation

🟠 Cambodia's defense ministry has denied laying new landmines, stating that many existing mines are remnants from decades of civil war and that they remain committed to the peace accord

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💸 Google drops $6b cloud bomb on Germany

Google will inject a whopping $6.4 billion into Germany’s internet ‘cloud’ infrastructure.

What’s it all about?

🟠 The investment covers the 2026-2029 period

🟠 New data center in the city of Dietzenbach, near Frankfurt, and expansion of the site in Hanau in Hessen state are planned

🟠 About 100 employees will work at each site, with a potential 9,000 indirect jobs created across the region

🟠 No state subsidies are involved — the German government stresses that it is a private sector venture

🟠 The plan driven by strategy, not incentives—giving Google full control over where and how it builds

Why it matters

🟠 For Google it means boosting its cloud infrastructure and data center footprint in a key market

🟠 Owning data infrastructure inside the European Union helps Google stay compliant while keeping performance high for regional clients

🟠 The largest economy in Europe, Germany is desperately trying to woo investors and boost its struggling economy now facing high costs thanks to sanctions on Russia

🟠 Whether Google’s $6.4-billion investment will help is a big question

The image is AI-generated

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia hopes Trump still willing to contribute to political settlement of the Ukrainian problem - Kremlin spox Peskov to CNN

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🚨🇷🇺 Ukraine has made clear that it’s not interested in a peace deal - Russian MFA

💬 “The position on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine voiced by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kislitsa confirms that the Ukrainian side is not interested in a peaceful settlement,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on Kislitsa’s interview with The Times.

💬 “This is an admission that the Zelensky regime has no intention of demonstrating any sincere desire for peace,” Zakharova said.

Commenting on Kislitsa’s complaint that Ukraine was unable to have “creative discussions” with the Russian leadership, Zakharova said she could “confirm” that “no one intended to engage in ‘creative discussions’ with them,” and that instead, “specific proposals were made, particularly regarding prisoner exchanges,” which “the Kiev regime” broke, with “less than 30% of the 1,200 agreed on exchanged.”

In the interview, Kislitsa reiterated claims blaming Russia for the lull in negotiations, accused Trump's Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff of “really buying at face value what the Russians were telling him,” and said he wasn’t surprised that talks have stalled.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia’s Armed Forces now have a dedicated Unmanned Systems branch—air, ground, sea

Unified command, Rubicon-trained operators, mass-produced UAV beasts.

📹 See the full structure & arsenal in action.

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🟠 Ukraine has made clear that it’s not interested in a peace deal - Russian MFA

🟠 RUSSIA'S LATEST WEAPONS THAT PUT WORLD ON EDGE

🟠 Putin and Tokayev sign Declaration of comprehensive strategic partnership

🟠 Europe openly preparing for war with Russia – Vucic

🟠 New clashes on Cambodia-Thailand border: what we know

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🚨 BBC crisis deepens as Starmer fails to reject Trump lawsuit

The BBC and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are under fire as the scandal over doctoring a speech by US President Donald Trump deepens.

🟠 The broadcaster is weighting its response to Trump’s $1 billion libel suit threat, which demands the retraction of its documentary featuring the edited speech by November 14

🟠 Trump told Fox News on Monday that he had an "obligation" to sue the BBC for "defrauding the public" just a week before the 2024 presidential election

🟠 BBC director general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness have already resigned

Starmer's attempt to shield the BBC

🟠 Starmer said on Wednesday that the UK needs "strong and independent" BBC to fight "disinformation" but warned it needs to get its "house in order" after Trump’s legal threat

🟠 Asked by MPs whether he would to persuade Trump to drop his lawsuit, Starmer dodged the question. The BBC is funded by the compulsory TV license fee.

🟠 Starmer is already under pressure from his cabinet, with some ministers accused of plotting to oust him

BBC exec who called Trump speech edits “normal” now leads news

🔶 Turness; deputy Jonathan Munro has been put in charge of the broadcaster's news division

🔶 The Telegraph, which first reported the misleading edits, questioned Munro’s appointment as he has described doctoring Trump’s speech as "normal practice"

🔶 Munro was repeatedly mentioned in the memo by Michael Prescott, former adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board, on alleged bias in the broadcaster’s news coverage, leaked to the newspaper

🔶 Munro is also sent a helicopter news crew to film a 2014 police raid on veteran pop singer Sir Cliff Richard’s home. Sir Cliff successfully sued the corporation and won damages and legal fees of £2 million.

🔶 He also backed hiring Martin Bashir as religious affairs correspondent in 2016, despite Bashir’s use of fake documents to persuade the late Princess Diana to give an interview

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🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russia's elite naval trio docks in Myanmar for joint drills

The most advanced warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet — frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, corvette Gremyashy and tanker Boris Butoma — have arrived at Thilawa Port ahead of the MARUMEX 2025 naval exercises.

Scheduled for November 13 and 14, the Russia-Myanmar exercises will focus on boosting naval interoperability and ensuring security of civilian sea traffic in key Southeast Asian waters.

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🔥🇨🇳China unveils firetruck with 91-meter ladder

A Chinese company has developed a firetruck whose aerial ladder platform reaches 91 meters—about the height of a 30-story building.

The five-axle vehicle allows firefighters to carry out precise, high-altitude rescues with improved efficiency and control.

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