Russian snipers in combat

📹 After receiving intelligence data, the target of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been destroyed from cover by the Russian snipers

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📹 Russian peacekeepers continue to ensure the safety of the movement of cars with civilians leaving the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh independently through the Lachin corridor

Military personnel of the Russian peacekeeping contingent accompany food convoys around the clock, including civilian evacuation flights carried out to transport civilians who do not have personal vehicles.

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Sputnik Radio has taken over the frequency previously used by BBC Arabic, with users able to tune in on the same dial from today

Sputnik International News Agency and Radio go on air with a 24-hour broadcast in Arabic from Beirut. The BBC completely ceased all of its Lebanon-based broadcasting due to lack of funding in January.

Sputnik Radio will also extend the range of the dial to the territory of neighboring Syria. Shows will include talk shows hosted by renowned Arab journalists and programs covering a wide range of topics from Cairo and Moscow.

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🧐 Russia's state-owned defense corporation Rostec has conducted a comparative strength test of the Russian Obereg bulletproof vest and the captured US Armed Forces bulletproof vest

❌ The American model showed the least resistance - it was easily penetrated by a standard bullet from the so-called intermediate cartridge 7.62 for 39 Kalashnikov assault rifle.

✅ The Russian vest stopped all bullets fired at it by the testers.

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🇰🇵 North Korea has criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for ''cooking up'' a resolution regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program

North Korea's Ministry of Nuclear Power Industry referrs to the document released last Friday by the UN atomic watchdog, in which it emphasizes the need for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to suspend its nuclear weapons program and urges Pyongyang to take into account the nine resolutions passed by the UN Security Council that strongly condemn their nuclear and ballistic missile actions.

North Korea’s parliament last week unanimously voted to enshrine the policy of “accelerated development” of nuclear weapons in the country’s constitution.

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📹 American M113 armored personnel carrier destroyed in the special military op zone

Russian Special Forces soldiers hit the vehicle with an anti-tank missile system.

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Sputnik team counted at least 35 cased Harris repeats it…

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🔥 Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system destroys enemy manpower and equipment in the special military op zone

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🗣 US Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday he would resign if US President Joe Biden interferes with investigations into former US President Donald Trump

He also said he does not discuss the investigation into the former president with Biden or his administration, adding that the incumbent US president "never tried to put hands on these investigations."

The attorney general added that all US Justice Department prosecutors are impartial and do not allow party considerations to affect their decisions.

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Migrant surge gains momentum

😳 About 210,000 migrants were apprehended in the US in September for crossing the country's southern border illegally, a record for 2023, according to preliminary government data

📌 The absolute record was set in May 2022, when 224,000 migrants were apprehended.

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🇹🇷 Turkiye has called the Northern Iraq air operations against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) successful

On Sunday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that two terrorists had carried out an explosion near a ministry building in Ankara. Two police officers were wounded. Turkish newspaper media reported later, citing the interior ministry, that one of the attackers had been identified as a PKK member. Later on Sunday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said that the country's military conducted air strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq and destroyed 20 targets.

Military operations of the Turkish armed forces in northern Iraq and Syria against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is banned in the country, will take on a more active and tough character after the attempted terrorist attack in Ankara, a source in the Turkish presidential administration told Sputnik.

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Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled three enemy attacks in the DPR. The enemy losses were up to 180 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, as well as two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.

▪️ The Russian Army repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the LPR. The enemy losses amounted to over 60 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded and two pickup trucks. In the course of the counter-battery warfare, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one D-20 howitzer, and one D-30 howitzer were hit.

▪️ In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces hit enemy manpower and hardware. Up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, including a Bradley IFV, and three motor vehicles were eliminated. In the course of the counter-battery warfare, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one M-46 gun, one D-30 howitzer, as well as one AN/TPQ-48 counterbattery warfare radar were eliminated.

▪️ The Russian Army repelled one enemy attack in southern Donetsk. Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, one US-made M777 artillery system, as well as one D-20 howitzer were eliminated.

▪️ In the Kherson direction during the day, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen and two motor vehicles were destroyed as a result of fire defeat.

▪️ Fuel depots and hangars of aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were destroyed in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ Air defence forces, electronic warfare systems, and small-arms fire shot down two HIMARS MLRS missiles and two operational-tactical missiles.

▪️ Some 483 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,359 unmanned aerial vehicles, 439 air defence missile systems, 12,266 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,159 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,623 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,700 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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💬 ‘Either we [Russia] will join the EU, or she forgot to add about the need to make a 360-degree turn’

🥴 These words are Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comment on German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's statement that the European Union would soon expand "from Lisbon to Lugansk".

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📹 A Russian soldier rescued a Ukrainian military man in the midst of an artillery attack on the area by Kiev forces

🗣 "I was in a such hurry to get him because these guys have no mercy, not for us and not for themselves," a Russian soldier said

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Borrell said he expects to agree on up to €5 billion in military funding to Ukraine in 2024 by the end of the year

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🇬🇪 Georgia awaits USAID's explanations on funds for training in organizing unrest, Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said

Earlier in the day, the State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) said on social media that three Serbian citizens from the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), allegedly funded by USAID, arrived at the end of September in Georgia to teach tactics for overthrowing the government to young people and members of influential non-governmental organizations.

According to the SSSG, the coup was planned for October-December, just when the European Commission is set to publish its decision on Georgia’s EU membership application.

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📹🇺🇸 An anti-war rally was held on the streets of New York to express opposition to NATO and America's military support for Ukraine

Demonstrators held anti-war placards that read "Endless war will end our world," "Funding for schools, jobs not war," and "Defeat US/NATO war drive."

🗣 "If we can force the US government to stop sending money and weapons to Ukraine, the war will end the very next day," one of the protesters said.

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🇸🇰 Slovakia's president formally gave Robert Fico's winning party the right to form the cabinet

To form a government, 76 seats in parliament are needed, Fico's party received 42. The Social Democrats of Hlas (27 seats) and the conservative SNS (10 seats) are mentioned as possible coalition allies.

Hlas is headed by former Prime Minister Pellegrini, and many experts believe that it depends on him whether it will be possible to form a coalition. He has 14 days to form a cabinet.

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The US Supreme Court has not banned Trump from running for president

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🥴 "Based on what the MEGA Republicans are for, yes. Based on what my administration's doing, no"

😉 If you ever wondered whether Joe Biden is concerned about America's reputation on the world stage here is his answer

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