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❗️ Russian troops liberated the settlements of Zolotaya Niva and Zoryanoye Pervoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Defense Ministry said.

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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Russian forces hit hit an ammunition container ship, a warehouse and a drone manufacturing facility.

◻️ Russia’s Battlegroup Yug repelled four counterattacks. The enemy lost as many as 855 soldiers.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone came to 495 troops, a tank and an armored vehicle.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 115 troops in Battlegroup Vostok’s area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy lost up to 50 military personnel and an ammunition depot in the Liptsov and Volchansk areas.

◻️ Russian air defenses hit three HIMARS rockets and shot down 49 Ukrainian drones over the day.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 55 militants in Battlegroup Dnepr's area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad combat zone came to 425 troops and two ammunition arsenals.

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🇱🇧 Key remarks by Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy to Hezbollah's late general secretary and second-in-command of the movement:

🔸 The Israeli enemy, the US and Western countries are plotting to try to instill fear in us, but their plan to intimidate us will fail.

🔸 A great and blessed confrontation is in progress, paving the way for huge changes.

🔸 The whole world has witnessed the crimes by the enemy, including the killings of journalists, medical personnel, and countless others, along with the destruction of homes. This is not merely a struggle; it is simply a wholesale slaughter of free peoples, with America sharing culpability in these crimes, as well as certain parts of Europe.

🔸 The objective of the occupation has been the complete eradication of resistance and the systematic annihilation of the Palestinian people, aimed at stripping them of their ability to resist and claim their rights.

🔸 The crimes currently being committed by Israel today are unprecedented in history. Without the backing of the United States and the West, this war would have reached its conclusion within a month.

🔸 Through its aggression against Lebanon, Israel seeks to reshape the Middle East and eliminate all populations that obstruct its plans. However, the enemy will ultimately face defeat in this conflict.

🔸 Lebanon has been targeted, and Netanyahu has repeatedly stated that he wants a new Middle East, but history has proven time and again that this entity is a danger to the entire region.

🔸 Our struggle is not a fight for Iranian influence, as Netanyahu claims; it is a fight for the liberation of Palestine. Netanyahu may wage war against us for as long as he wants, but he will not accomplish his objectives.

🔸 We express our gratitude to Iran for the support it has consistently provided to the resistance over the years, demonstrating its unwavering commitment to stand by us.

🔸 We have maintained our capabilities, and all the enemy's claims about damage to our strength are mere illusions. This war has neither diminished our will nor our determination to continue the fight.

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❗️Ukrainian forces lost more than 200 military personnel, with three armored combat vehicles, four artillery pieces, two mortars, and three cars destroyed.

🇷🇺🪖 Key statements from the Russian Ministry of Defense's daily briefing on the situation in the Kursk region:

◻️ Ukraine has lost over 21,250 soldiers since start of offensive in Russia's Kursk region.

◻️ Russian forces has repelled two enemy counterattacks in the direction of the settlements of Lyubimovka, Plekhovo and Russkoe Porechnoye.

◻️ Russian forces has struck the reserves of fourteen Ukrainian brigades in the Kursk region.

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The Romanian Supreme Court has banned Diana Iovanovici Sosoaca, Romanian parliament senator and leader of the SOS Romania party, from running in the presidential elections due to her "pro-Russian, anti-European, and anti-NATO views."

The ruling states that Sosoaca’s position disqualifies her from running for office, Reuters reports.

Earlier, Sosoaca called for peaceful negotiations regarding the Ukraine conflict and criticized Ursula von der Leyen (video), accusing her of "killing people in Ukraine with her policies."

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🇱🇧 There are currently about 1.2 million displaced persons in Lebanon due to the war, Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar stated during an interview with Sputnik.

"People fleeing the bombings are now housed in 881 shelters, where they have been provided with all essential needs. Regarding their living conditions, Lebanon is in dialogue with organizations including the UNHCR," Hector Hajjar said.

"Lebanon is a country that respects human rights, and whatever happens to these people is our responsibility. However, Lebanon also wants to call on the international community for support in this humanitarian matter," he emphasized.

"Lebanon is officially appealing to the Syrian authorities to facilitate the return of the displaced persons. This is a historic opportunity to show solidarity between our countries in light of the current circumstances," Hajjar added.

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Humanitarian crisis in Gaza only getting worse as Israel's war goes on

October 7, 2024 marked a year since Hamas’ attack that claimed the lives of over 1,200 people in Israel and left nearly 5,500 injured. The subsequent Gaza war unleashed by Israel on the strip has seen over 41,600 Palestinians killed, including elderly, women, and children, and more than 96,600 wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

How is the war in Gaza affecting civilians?

◻️ As of October 7, 2024, over 50,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, have been displaced within northern Gaza following the intensification of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strikes in the region, including in Beit Lahia and Jabalia, where a refugee camp is located. Earlier, on October 6, Israel announced re-positioning troops from Rafah to North Gaza.

"Southern Gaza is completely overwhelmed and cannot accommodate more people," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said. "Many others in the north, especially in the Jabalia camp, are trapped in their homes, unable to leave safely."

◻️ Over 70,000 housing units in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli strikes, according to Palestine’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing.

◻️ 1.9 million Gazans – nearly the entire population of the region – have been displaced with no safe place to go, according to UN.

◻️ The population of the strip has limited or no access to health care, food, electricity, or humanitarian aid, local authorities stated, while noting that Palestinian children in Gaza have been deprived of education for a year.

◻️ Gaza schools, hospitals, and other residential facilities have been systematically attacked, while aid convoys have repeatedly been blocked and sometimes even attacked.

◻️ Over 300 aid workers, mostly from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), have been killed in Gaza, which is more than in any other single crisis, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Key statements from Putin's speech to leaders in attendance at the CIS summit:

🔸 Close foreign policy coordination among CIS countries is important.

🔸 Humanitarian relations in the CIS continue to develop dynamically, and scientific partnership is deepening.

🔸 Total GDP of the CIS countries increased by 4.7%, fixed capital formation - by 11.2% in the first half of 2024.

🔸 The Commonwealth's position in world affairs will be strengthened by CIS cooperation with BRICS.

🔸 The fight against terrorism, extremism and crime is a key area of joint work for the CIS countries.

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Twenty-four years after its withdrawal from Lebanon, IDF soldiers raised the Israeli flag in Maroun al-Ras, a Lebanese village from which numerous rockets had been launched at northern Israeli settlements, according to a report by Israel Hayom.

However, Sputnik was unable to independently verify the authenticity of the video.

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Ex-NATO chief Stoltenberg could have prevented Ukraine hostilities, but fueled conflict instead

Jens Stoltenberg had the power to prevent the Ukraine conflict, but, on the contrary, he fostered it, Patrick Pasin, French publisher who has filed a lawsuit against the former NATO secretary general, told Sputnik.

The researcher of the Ukraine's conflict explained that he was motivated to take the unusual step due to understanding that the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine must be stopped and the “next [war], which will come,” averted.

“Because it's clear, we see what's happening in the Middle East and we know that the next step is against China. So we can't accept that these people can trigger wars, unlawful wars, unjust wars. And that we, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean Russians, Ukrainians, I mean all the people of the world, pay the price,” Pasin underscored.

Jens Stoltenberg blatantly lied when he claimed NATO had never promised Russia that the alliance would not expand eastwards, Pasin said, and for that he deserves to be sued. The publisher recalled that during his trip to Germany, Stoltenberg was asked by a journalist “Didn't we [NATO] promise to the Russians that we will not go further eastwards?” Stoltenberg answered in German, saying “No… even behind the scenes, never was such an agreement made between the West and the Russians.”

“This was a lie,” Pasin said, pointing to the German outlet the following month publishing an article with a document confirming that there had not only been a promise, but a “commitment from the West and NATO not to go eastwards.”

Confirmation of such a commitment can be found in the NATO website archives, the author said. There is a text of a speech by Manfred Wörner, who was the secretary general of the alliance in the 1990s, in which he underscored that “the commitment of NATO not to expand eastwards was a serious guarantee of security for Russia,” Pasin noted.

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