🇪🇨 Ecuador rejects return of foreign military bases — referendum results

Ecuadorians have voted against allowing foreign military bases in the country, according to preliminary results reported by Reuters, with nearly two-thirds opposing the measure as almost 90% of ballots were counted.

The proposal — backed by President Daniel Noboa as part of his security strategy — would have opened the door to shared or foreign military facilities inside Ecuador, which has prohibited foreign bases since 2009.

🛡 Some voters voiced concerns over sovereignty, Reuters noted.

President Noboa said he “respected voters’ will” and would continue working to improve the country. Former President Rafael Correa welcomed the result, saying Ecuadorians had effectively reaffirmed the current constitution.

❌🇺🇸 A ‘no’ vote, Ecuadorean authorities previously told Reuters, would not change existing security cooperation agreements — but it does mean no return of foreign bases such as the former US presence in Manta.

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🗣 Trump says he may meet with New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

President Donald Trump told reporters that “the mayor of New York… would like to meet with us,” adding that “we’ll work something out” and that the administration wants “to see everything work out well for New York.”

Mamdani — a self-identified democratic socialist who won the mayoral election earlier this month — has previously clashed with Trump during his campaign but has also said he is willing to work with the White House “if it can help New Yorkers.”

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👀🇺🇸 US potential invasion of Venezuela could become ‘NEW VIETNAM’

Although a scenario of the US invading Venezuela is possible, it’s “highly doubtful” that America would be able to gain a foothold there, Brazilian analyst and retired Navy officer Robinson Farinazzo told Sputnik.

👉 Farinazzo suggested that the scenario could turn into a “new Vietnam” for the US, referring to the 1955–1975 Vietnam War.

Explaining his position, the analyst noted that Venezuela is a large country with a population of many millions, a sizable militia and a well-armed regular army.

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group earlier arrived in the Caribbean Sea amid the US’ rising tensions with Venezuela.

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🔸 Trump supports new sanctions proposal against Russia

🔸 Ecuador rejects return of foreign military bases — referendum results

🔸 Trump says possible talks with Maduro under consideration

🔸 Trump urges Congress to release Epstein-related documents

🔸 US strikes another vessel in Eastern Pacific, kills three – statement

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🔨🇮🇱 EU snubs economic hammer on Israel – Palestinian envoy

The bloc failed to suspend even the smallest part of the 1995 EU–Israel Association Agreement, which regulates the two’s political and economic relations, Salah Abdel Shafi, Palestinian ambassador to Austria and permanent UN observer in Vienna, told Sputnik.

🗣 He added that many EU countries, such as Germany, Italy, and France, continue to supply weapons to Israel amid the current Gaza ceasefire, which Shafi described as “very fragile.”

Since its conclusion on October 10, Israel has killed about 260 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian diplomat.

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🇷🇺 Ukrainian rescue force annihilated near Pokrovsk

Russia’s MoD has released footage of a destroyed Ukrainian landing force attempting to break the encirclement of Ukrainian units in the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) area.

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🚨 Ukrainian troops surrounded in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk): official

Heavy urban combat continues as Russian forces clear the city.

According to Donetsk People’s Republic Head Denis Pushilin, the enemy is practically encircled.

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💵❌📈 No pay, no papers: Turmoil grows among Ukrainian forces in Sumy

💬 "There are confirmed cases of non-payment of monetary allowances to servicemen of the Ukrainian Army’s 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade stationed in the Sumy region. Some have not received their pay for two months," a source in Russian security agencies told Sputnik.

The source added that Ukrainian mobilized personnel are arriving in the Sumy region from training centers without any documents, military IDs, or anything else of the sort.

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🚨🇧🇩 Bangladesh’s tribunal sentences former PM Sheikh Hasina to death for ‘crimes against humanity’

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

⚡️DVURECHANCKOYE IN KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED

⚡️PLATONOVKA IN DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC FREED

⚡️GAI IN DNEPROPETROVSK REGION CAPTURED

The liberation of Dvurechanskoye helps secure the border with the Belgorod region.

Platonovka is located on the southern bank of the Severny Donets River, the crossing of which allows for advances closer to the city of Seversk.

The capture of Gai opens the way for an advance towards Pokrovskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

🔸 Russian Battlegroup Tsentr forces continue clearing the settlement of Rovnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) of Ukrainian troops

🔸 Russian forces thwarted two attempts by Ukrainian units to break through to their encircled soldiers near Kupyansk

🔸 Air defense superiority: 104 drones shot down

🔸 Ukrainian losses: 1,375 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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⚔️ 'Now no doubt who aggressor is' – Russian MFA on Pistorius’ NATO–Russia war remark

In a recent interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that war between NATO and Russia could begin before 2029.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Kremlin: Everyone interested' in early Putin–Trump meeting

👉 Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov commented on key geopolitical issues, emphasizing a shared interest in expediting a meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

Key statements:

🟠 On NATO's rhetoric: Peskov labeled statements by Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius about a potential NATO–Russia war as "militaristic and pro-war rhetoric," which is increasingly emanating from European capitals

🟠 On US–Russia summit: Both Washington and Moscow have stated that any summit must be substantive, requiring thorough preparation

🟠 On Ukraine: Expert-level contacts between Russia and Ukraine on prisoner exchanges are ongoing

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🔥 Zelensky’s EU allies must be held accountable for Ukraine corruption cover-up – media

💬 “It's hard to believe that the West's powerful intelligence apparatus—capable of monitoring every transfer, every conversation, and every meeting—didn't notice a gigantic corruption edifice maturing within Ukrainian structures,” Poland’s Mysl Polska weekly reports.

The news outlet notes that Ukraine’s “theft of enormous sums” is related to Western public funds, including Polish, which “makes the oft-repeated mantra that ‘Poland supports Ukraine unconditionally’ all the more outrageous.”

💬 “If this scandal is to be truly exonerate, the consequences must reach far beyond Ukraine. To all those who knew but remained silent, to those who were obligated to monitor but failed to do so, to those who transferred public funds but failed to account for them,” the weekly concludes.

Ukraine’s NABU anti-corruption agency earlier launched a major operation in the country’s energy sector, publishing photos of bags filled with foreign currency. Investigators searched the home of former Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko and the offices of Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear company.

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🔥 ‘We’re standing against Nazi regime of Zelensky’ – Greek protesters

💬 “We will never forget the massacres of Odessa, Selidovo and people of Donbass by the Nazis in Kiev,” activists, who organized a rally in Athens to oppose Zelensky’s visit to Greece, emphasized.

They stressed that they would like to salute the people of Donbass and all those who are “fighting for the right to exist against imperialism and fascism.”

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🇷🇺 Global buyers flock to Russia's Su-57 stealth jet at Dubai Airshow

Multiple nations have taken a huge interest in acquiring the fifth-generation fighter and are lining up for discussions with Moscow, Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation chief Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik.

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