❗️🇰🇵 North Korea launches an alleged ICBM towards Japan

According to Japan's defense minister, the missile launched by the DPRK was an intercontinental missile, its range was 1,000 km and its altitude was 7,000 km, the largest ever launched.

“The flight time was 86 minutes, the longest flight time ever,” he added.

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🪖💀 Ukrainian army's 58th brigade emptied by losses & corruption - Ukrainian POW

The 58th brigade of the Ukrainian army has dead soul companies due to losses and corruption, Robert Pogorelov, a prisoner of war and former Ukrainian police officer who was mobilized, told Sputnik.

"Weapons were written off, money was being earned. A lot of missing people, there are also manipulations with documentation. Few people talk about it, but this is the case," he said.

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Trump's reduced aid to Kiev will cause a “domino effect” in Europe - expert

Hungarian political expert Georg Szpetle recalled that Trump had promised to significantly reduce military aid to Ukraine if he won the election in November.

“I think that within a couple of months [after the decision to reduce aid] there will be a ‘domino effect’ - the US will stop, then Germany will stop, then, for example, France, Denmark, and others will say that they can not do it anymore and that it is necessary to start negotiations. Thus, the conclusion will be to force Zelensky to conduct meaningful negotiations with Russia,” he told Sputnik.

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Zelensky started to suspect you can't trust the West?

Several Western media previously claimed that Zelensky had asked for Tomahawk missiles from the US as part of his 'victory plan', and the US had rejected it. Now the Kiev regime head is complaining that his allies leaked his confidential requests.

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⚡🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un confirms the ICBM launch by the North Korea

In his message the leader said the launch demonstrates DPRK's "counteraction will" against its rivals. He added that “nothing will change” the country's policy to enhance its nuclear potential.

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📉 250,000 subs loss - The Washington Post under fire

Since The Washington Post announced on Friday that it would not endorse a presidential candidate, the newspaper has lost at least 250,000 subscribers, about 10% of its digital audience, according to a recent report from the newspaper.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said that presidential endorsements in the newspaper can give the impression of bias, but they have little effect on how readers vote. He regretted making this decision known so close to the election, when emotions were running high.

According to reports, the editorial team of the newspaper had prepared an endorsement for Kamala Harris.

Despite its denials, however, the paper's impartiality is questionable. The lack of a formal endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate does not prevent compelling headlines from continuing to promote Kamala.

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🤝 Russia has signed a digital cooperation agreement with North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

The document outlines plans for collaboration between the two countries in various areas of communication, information technology and digital development.

This could include sharing knowledge and experience in cybersecurity, software development and artificial intelligence, among other advanced technologies.

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🗣OSCE recognizes unprecedented level of election violations in Moldova - Russian foreign intelligence

"The OSCE informally recognizes an unprecedented level of violations by the authorities during the first round of the presidential elections in Moldova and the referendum," the Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) press office said.

Moldova will hold a runoff presidential election on November 3 after none of the candidates won more than required 50 percent of the vote in the first round, with nearly all ballots counted, the head of the country's Central Election Commission said.

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🔸 North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile

🔸 WP loses a quarter million of subs after election non-endorsement

🔸 Watch Trump arriving for Wisconsin rally in a garbage truck

🔸 More than 75% of youth in the US unfit for military service - Pentagon

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💰Slovakia becomes the largest buyer of Russian goods in the EU

🥇🇸🇰 Slovakia has hit a record, becoming the main buyer of Russian goods in the European Union in August, Sputnik calculated based on Eurostat data. The EU country increased its purchases of products from Russia by 2.1 times to 320.9 million euros at the end of the summer.

🥈🇮🇹 Second place in purchasing Russian goods is taken by Italy, with 319.2 million euros.

🥉🇭🇺 The top three is rounded out by Hungary, with 300.3 million euros.

Earlier this month, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico told the national parliament that he supported restoring relations with Russia. Fico said his goal was to build a balanced relationship with Moscow.

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🚘 Pummeled by shrinking sales, Volkswagen mulls pay cuts as threat of union strikes looms

Battered by shrinking sales, Volkswagen is asking its workers to agree to a 10% pay cut and revised bonus system.

The beleaguered German automotive giant contends that such drastic cost-cutting measures are the only way to avoid shutting down factories and retain competitive status.

💬 The carmaker’s proposals were hailed as a “small signal” of progress in negotiations by Daniela Cavallo, the automaker’s top labor leader. However, she added that shuttering plants isn’t completely off the table. Overall, VW is considering more than 10 billion euros ($10.8 billion) in cost cuts, according to its finance chief Arno Antlitz.

Volkswagen’s next round of talks with labor unions is set for November 21. Failing further breakthroughs, strikes are likely from December 1. Ahead of the negotiations, Volkswagen reported a 42% drop in third-quarter profit – its lowest level in three years.

High energy prices spurred by Western-backed sanctions against Russia, and the escalating trade spat between the EU and China over Chinese EVs imports have wreaked havoc on the car making industry and the economy of what was once Europe’s powerhouse.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Yasnaya Polyana in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.

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

◻️ Russian Air defenses shot down 11 HIMARS missiles and 95 Ukrainian drones over the day.

◻️ Ukranian forces lost up to 565 troops and five armored vehicles in the Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr area of responsibility over the day.

◻️ Ukranian losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Yug combat zone amounted up to 810 militants.

◻️ Ukranian forces lost up to 610 troops in the Russia's Battlegroup Zapad area of responsibility over the day.

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🔇 Democratically ‘speaking’, your voices must be heard, so shut up!

While delivering a campaign speech and paying lip service to democracy, Kamala Harris proclaimed “everybody has a right to be heard,” but then she snidely insisted, “but right now I’m speaking.”

Such democracy in action, a presidential contender who democratically drowns out her voters’ voices that she claims to ‘champion’.

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⚔️Russian TV channels suing Google for $20 decillion dollars: what’s the beef about?

17 Russian television channels’ compensatory demands toward Google have reached 2 undecillian rubles (2 followed by 36 zeros), or 20 decillion dollars ($20,560,840,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to be exact).

How did it come to such a sum?

🔸 The channels’ beef with the tech giant relates to the blocking of their YouTube accounts, with the case affecting major federal channels and smaller media alike.

A court previously ordered Google to restore channels, ruling that if this is not done in a nine-month period, a fine of 100,000 rubles would be slapped on the company daily, and double every week until Google complied, with no limit on the total fine.

Russian media vs. Google

🔸 Russian media first started a series of legal battles with Google in 2020, after YouTube blocked the accounts of Tsargrad TV over alleged “sanctions legislation and trade rules”-related violations. Tsargrad took Google to court, with a judge ordering the company to unblock the account or face escalating fines.

In 2022 and the start of the conflict in Ukraine, YouTube blocked Sputnik, RT, NTV and Rossiya 24’s accounts, followed by others, prompting Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service to slap Google with 4 billion ruble in fines.

🔸 In June of 2022, Google’s Russia-based entity filed for bankruptcy, citing debts in excess of 19 billion rubles and assets of only 3.5 billion rubles.

The affected Russian media channels have also taken Google to court in other countries to enforce Russian court decisions. In June 2024, the High Court of South Africa granted a Russian request to seize Google’s assets in that country. Google shot back in August with lawsuits in US and British courts against Russian media to try to block them from initiating further legal proceedings outside Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the issue on Thursday, suggesting that the 2 undecillian sum is “filled with symbolism,” and “demonstrate[s] the essence of the claim of our channels to Google.”

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

◻️ Russia’s Battlegroup Sever hammered ten Ukrainian formations and repelled four counterattacks in its combat zone. The enemy lost as many as 30 soldiers and two armored vehicles.

◻️ Russian forces thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to breach the state border near Novy Put settlement. Ukrainian forces lost up to 10 militants.

◻️ Russian aviation and artillery strikes hit concentrations of personnel and equipment of eight Ukrainian brigades in the Sumy region.

◻️ In total, Ukrainian losses over the day amounted to more than 300 militants, with four armored vehicles destroyed and nine cars.

◻️ Since the beginning of combat operations in the Kursk region, Ukraine has lost more than 28,600 troops.

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