📹 Ukrainian military is increasingly relying on foreign mercenaries to hold its positions in the Donbass, according to Tsigan, a Russian artillery commander.

🗣 “There are Poles and Americans. We’ve heard different languages [over intercepted radio communications]. Likely from all over the world,” he told Sputnik’s Russell Bentley (@TXDPR).

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict:

▪️The IDF and the Shin Bet eliminated one of Hamas' senior members who served as the commander of the central camp brigade of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Air Force claimed;

▪️Later in the day, the Palestinian militant movement Hamas said that two of its senior members had been killed as a result of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Those dead include Tayseer Ibrahim, the head of the Hamas judiciary, and preacher Wael Al-Zard, the movement said in a statement;

▪️German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Israel. US President Joe Biden is expected to arrive on Wednesday;

▪️Israel has asked the US for $10 billion in emergency military aid;

▪️At least 24 UN sites in the Gaza Strip have damaged by Israeli strikes and bombing, according to the UN;

▪️More than 500 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

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📹 Russian Lancet incinerates US-made M777 howitzer

Watch as loitering munition plunges into a towed howitzer, causing it to ignite and turn into a fireball.

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❗️ The US calls on Israel to comply with the “laws of war,” the Pentagon said, commenting on reports of a strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip

❗️ Hamas' military wing said it is shelling Tel Aviv in response to mass killings of civilians

❗️ Ankara condemns the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza; this barbaric act will inevitably result in liability under international law - Turkish Foreign Ministry

❗️ Israeli National Security Council calls on citizens to 'urgently' leave Turkiye over terrorist threats

❗️ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not attend the quadrilateral summit in Jordan after the strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, a source in the president's office told Sputnik on Tuesday

❗️ Mahmoud Abbas returns to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Sputnik correspondent reports

Protesters in Amman set the Israeli embassy on fire to condemn the airstrike on a hospital in Gaza

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❗️ Russia and the UAE have requested a UN Security Council meeting for October 18 over the strike on a hospital in Gaza

❗️ The IDF says the Islamic Jihad movement is responsible for the attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip