🇧🇾 Belarus is already taking practical steps to build a second nuclear power plant, Belarusian President Lukashenko said.

There are two options: adding two more units to the already operating nuclear power plant in Ostrovets or building a separate station in the Mogilev region.

“Already, 25% of our electricity is generated by peaceful nuclear energy. This is more than in the United States and even more than in Russia. By creating another station, we will receive more than half of the energy from this very profitable source.”

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🇰🇵 North Korea reserves the right to launch a preemptive attack on strategic forces of the US being transferred to South Korea, North Korean state-run news agency reported 

Any US strategic assets deployed in South Korea would become "the first target to be destroyed," the report said, adding that Washington "would be well aware that the Korean peninsula is technically at war." North Korea also believes that "the days had gone when the right to preemptive strike was 'monopoly' of the US," the state media reported.

Pyongyang also believes that the joint drills planned for October 22 are "the intentional nuclear war provocative moves of the US"

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🇮🇱💥 The Israeli army released a video of its overnight strikes on the Gaza Strip, saying it hit more than 100 targets.

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🇸🇪 Swedish authorities could potentially deport Hamas sympathizers from the country in the future, Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergaard said.

“If a person chooses to honor the death spread by terror, then one can really question whether he has lost the right to be here,” Stenergaard stated.

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🛡 A former Ukrainian border guard who worked for the Russian special services, Ruslan Syrovoy, told Sputnik that smuggling of people across the border is in great demand in Ukraine. The price tag for this service is $5,000 per person.

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🇷🇺 Russian air defense forces shot down seven Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters in the military operation zone over the past 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated on its telegram channel.

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🇵🇸💥🇮🇱 Hamas published a video showing an Israeli Merkava IV tank being shot down by dropping a grenade from a drone.

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Biden: Netanyahu and I discussed again yesterday the critical need for Israel to operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military operation in Ukraine over past week

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 61 counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️UAF losses amounted to over 475 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 25 attacks; the UAF lost more than 2,000 servicemen in the Donetsk direction.

▪️ UAF losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to over 995 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 12 Ukrainian aircraft.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 345 UAF servicemen in the Kherson direction.

▪️Russian aviation and missile forces destroyed five warehouses with ammunition and military equipment in the Donetsk direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 18 attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasny Liman direction; Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 940 soldiers.

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 1,010 military personnel in the South Donetsk direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled ten attacks by the UAF in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 314 Ukrainian drones.

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