🇮🇷🇵🇸 Iranian Deputy FM meets with Abu Marzook, Politburo member of Palestine's Hamas movement, in Moscow

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🇷🇺🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel’s ground operation will have “grave and bloody consequences,” Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned

💬 “Maybe it is better to resume the process of Middle East settlement and try, at last, to fulfill the UN Security Council Resolution No. 242 of 22.11.67? Or even the original Plan for the Partition of Palestine, adopted on November 29, 1947 by UNGA Resolution No. 181?

The questions are obviously rhetorical. After all, it is much more interesting to graft on the money for someone else's war far away from the US,” Medvedev said.

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🇭🇺🇪🇺 EU politicians do not dare to admit Ukraine's defeat on battlefield, Orban says

Ukraine will not be able to win, all military experts are already talking about this, but only politicians do not dare to admit it, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban told Hungarian media.

At the beginning of the conflict, the victory for Kiev seemed like a realistic scenario, but now it is absolutely obvious that this will not work out and the Ukrainians will not win at the front, Orban said.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel commits war crimes in Gaza Strip, UN human rights commission says

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🇷🇺 Former Ukrainian lawmaker Tsaryov gravely injured

Former member of the Ukrainian parliament Oleg Tsaryov, who earlier defected to Russia and has been repeatedly threatened by the Kiev regime, has been shot and is now in intensive care in a very serious condition. Relatives of Tsaryov have confirmed he was unconscious, with heavy blood loss at the time of arrival of an ambulance.

This is not the first time Kiev uses terrorist methods to achieve its goals. In April 2023, Russian war correspondent Maxim Fomin, known under the name of Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in the blast of an improvised explosive device that had been brought to a cafe in St. Petersburg.

On August 20, 2022, Russian journalist Daria Dugina, daughter of political philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car explosion on a highway in the Moscow region.

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🇷🇺 Key statements made by Kremlin spokesman Peskov at daily press briefing:

▪️On the visit to Moscow by Hamas representatives: Kremlin has no plans on meeting with the Hamas delegation, all contacts with the group are being handled by the Foreign Ministry.

▪️The Kremlin believes it is necessary to maintain contacts with all parties of the conflict in the Middle East, including Israel.

▪️About US strikes on facilities in Syria: There is no concerns of Russia being drawn into hostilities, but the conflict between Palestine and Israel provokes tension

▪️Putin will hold a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council on Friday.

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🏦🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia unexpectedly raised the key rate to 15% from 13% per year and upgraded its inflation forecast for 2023 to 7–7.5% from 6-7%.

Current inflation pressure in Russia has increased significantly and is higher than the Central Bank’s expectations, the regulator stated.

However, the Russian Central Bank raised its forecast for GDP growth in 2023 to 2.2-2.7% from 1.5%-2.5%.

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🇮🇱 The Druze community in Israel present themselves as Israeli citizens loyal to their duties and protecting their state, Israeli Druze politician and Knesset Member Akram Hasson told Sputnik.

💬 "The radical Muslims are trying to create apartheid for the Israelis and not the other way around, but Israel protects the security of its citizens every day."

Akram Hasson also mentioned that the Druze had lost three soldiers and one officer since the current conflict started.

The Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethnic and religious minority group living in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Israel, they live mostly in the northern areas, near the borders with Lebanon and Syria.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russia’s Air Force and air defenses have destroyed 31 Ukrainian planes and three helicopters since October 1, MoD says

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🇷🇺🇵🇸 Hamas discusses future of region different from one 'depicted by US' in Moscow

💬 "We came to Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We held meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discussed everything related to the Palestinian problem, how together we will determine a future for the entire region and humanity, different from the future that the United States depicts," Abu Marzook, Politburo member of Palestine's Hamas movement, said.

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🇧🇾🇵🇸🇮🇱 "If the Americans deploy air strike groups up into the Middle East and start bombing some countries and especially Iran, Iran will respond," Belarusian President Lukashenko says

💬 "This is a catastrophe. There are a lot of things showing that a serious conflict may break out, and there may be a war with the use of the most serious weapons. Nobody knows how events will develop," Lukashenko said, adding that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East could trigger WW3.

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🇷🇺🚀 Vladimir Putin shares story behind creation of Russia’s newest spaceport – Vostochny Cosmodrome

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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 45 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Krasny Liman direction; the enemy lost more than 1,020 servicemen.

▪️ The Russian Air Force and air defense systems have destroyed 31 Ukrainian planes and three helicopters since October 1, the MoD says.

▪️54 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily surrendered.

▪️Nine attacks were repelled in the Donetsk direction; the losses of the UAF exceeded 2,055 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 47 UAF counterattacks in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 208 Ukrainian drones.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 19 UAF attacks in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces eliminated up to 485 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kherson direction.

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to more than 705 servicemen.

▪️The UAF lost more than 435 servicemen and 15 tanks in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️The UAF lost more than 885 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction.

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted one S-200, 19 HIMARS, four Uragan, two ATACMS, and two Neptune missiles, as well as eight JDAM munitions.

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🗣️ Israel and Ukraine threaten to overwhelm US military

“They can pretend whatever they want. But the United States cannot do this, especially because industrially the United States lost a huge share of its industrial capacity, which before have been able to produce at least some kind of the war materiel, so to speak. Just to give you example, the United States cannot produce Abrams tanks anymore... The only tanks the United States can give Ukraine are those from the US army's stocks. And this actually repeats itself across the whole spectrum of American military industrial complex and production,” Andrei Martyanov, military analyst, told the New Rules podcast.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Palestinian movement Hamas is ready to release all captured civilians, but Israeli strikes prevent this from happening, Abu Marzook, Politburo member of Palestine's Hamas movement, told Sputnik

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🇷🇺🪖 Once Avdeevka falls, the Donbass front will “shatter like glass”

💬 “Avdeevka is one of the strongest positions that’s been built into this conflict. Once Avdeevka is taken, the Ukrainians aren’t going to have any defensive positions that can anywhere match what they built up there over almost nine years,” Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR) explains.

He also noted that a Russian victory in Avdeevka would help push Ukrainian forces out of artillery range of Donetsk and Makeevka. “They’re not going to be able to hit the cities, the civilian parts of Donetsk and Makeevka anymore. And that’s a beautiful thing, but it’s not there yet.”

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🇨🇳🦠 China’s chief epidemiologist Wu Zunyou has died at the age of 60, a Chinese digital media outlet reported, without specifying the circumstances of his death

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🇷🇺🚀 Russia launches Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with satellites for Defense Ministry

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🇷🇺 Russian 'Siberia' special forces detachment which destroyed Ukrainian dugout near Kleshcheyevka interviewed by Sputnik correspondent

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