🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia has special relationship with India — Putin

Modi is a reasonable and wise leader, who defends India’s national interests, he added.

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russians love Bollywood - Putin

Russia is the only country other than India to have a channel dedicated to Indian films.

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🚨 Putin makes fun of conspiracy theories about Russian drones supposedly flying over Europe

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia supports AI partnership with India — Putin

Russia also wants to buy more Indian agricultural and pharmaceutical products.

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🚨Russia may develop new hypersonic weapons systems, with work already underway - Putin

Russia is confident in its nuclear shield, he added.

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🔊🇷🇺 Putin’s Valdai speech: ‘clear and logical’ push for a new polycentric world order

“He reflected the changing international system as polycentric/multipolar, where the interests of all countries need to be reflected, and that this is possible if the security of countries is considered,” retired Jawaharlal Nehru University professor and Russia specialist Dr. Anuradha Chenoy told Sputnik.

“Putin’s speech…focused

on the need for peace, plurality, co-existence of all cultures and races. He had hope that peace will come for this multipolar world. He also said hegemony and bloc politics are not possible in the current structure of polycentric world,” Chenoy recounted.

🔶 Decolonization of the mind

The new wave of decolonization of the Global South which Putin mentioned is about the “decolonization of the mind and narrative,” Chenoy explained, emphasizing that developing nations have become a majority that won’t tolerate domination, and that the West “can no longer contain neo-colonial mindsets.”

India is a prime example, the observer said, pointing to New Delhi’s efforts to protect its economic and political sovereignty, and role in building a new multipolar world.

🔶 Compelling arguments for a fair world order

“Putin’s Valdai address was a brilliant defense of Russia’s strength and vision for a multipolar world,” Hong Kong-based geopolitical analyst

Angelo Giuliano

said.

“He exposed Western sanctions as futile, championed BRICS, and critiqued Western hegemony, urging a fair global order.”

🔶 Europe is responsible for Ukraine bloodbath

“Europe’s push for Ukraine’s Western alignment and failure to enforce the Minsk agreements provoked Russia’s response. Arming Ukraine and following US strategies, like Hegseth’s ‘division of labor’ (Europe takes over Ukraine conflict’s burden while the US can switch focus on China), Europe drives the conflict, prioritizing fighting Russia over seeking peace and stability,” Giuliano summed up.

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🇪🇺🇷🇺💸 Stealing Russian assets will create BIG problems for Euroclear, euro and EU

The European Union (EU) wants to grab frozen Russian assets, but that would be theft and lead to legal proceedings, Russia has warned.

💬 "Essentially, the proposal is to progressively confiscate assets — about $300 billion," Georgy Ostapkovich, academic supervisor at the Center for Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics, tells Sputnik.

But that spells trouble for all involved, the pundit warns.

"Belgium will suffer first of all, because these assets are held in Euroclear there," Ostapkovich warns.

"In the future, investors are unlikely to place their assets in Euroclear, knowing they could be so easily liquidated without trial or due process, just as Russian assets are being liquidated."

🟠 The seizure of another state’s central bank funds is an unjust and unprecedented step

🟠 Lawsuits will follow, since Russia will not accept that

🟠 The authority of Western countries and Western finance houses will be undermined

🟠 The future of Belgian international trade payment service Euroclear would be uncertain

"The likely consequence of such action by EU member states will be Russian confiscation of all assets of these countries, their companies and their citizens in the Russian Federation," international relations and Russian affairs analyst

Gilbert Doctorow

tells Sputnik.

"That may create a political storm when the companies seek legal redress against their governments."

Euroclear has expressed concerns over its future and the future of the euro currency if the Russian sovereign assets are seized by the EU. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has asked other EU leaders for guarantees they will share the risks.

The European Central Bank has also voiced concerns over any asset seizure. At a virtual meeting of deputy finance ministers on September 30, it urged the European Commission to prove the move would not undermine the euro’s credibility.

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📹 Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Milorad Dodik, President of the Republic of Srpska

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🟠 Highlights of Putin’s Valdai Club speech

🟠 Ukraine cannot fire Tomahawk missiles at Russia without DIRECT US INVOLVEMENT— Putin

🟠 Stealing Russian assets will create BIG problems for euro and EU

🟠 Russia, Ukraine exchange prisoners of war in a 185-for-185 swap

🟠 Support for political violence jumps among Americans – poll

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🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 Europe responsible for Ukraine conflict and crimes – Scott Ritter

The Russian president’s speech "proves the point that Vladimir Putin continues to be the adult in the room," military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter tells Sputnik.

"The expansion of NATO, the expansion of the European Union to the detriment of Russia has been Europe's policy posture for decades now," Ritter points out.

🔹 Europe worked with the US to overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian government in 2014

🔹 Europe did not negotiate the Minsk agreement to stop the Ukrainian war on Donbass in good faith

🔹 The EU derailed the Istanbul peace negotiations in March and April 2022

🔹 Europe continues to provide Ukraine with weapons and cash

🔹 Europe used Ukraine as its proxy to fight and weaken Russia

"So Europe is responsible. The Russian president is 100% correct," Ritter says.

"Much of what defines Europe today, both the NATO military alliance and the European Union is predicated on the necessity of having Russia as an enemy, as Russia as an opponent that justifies expenses and policies."

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🔍 Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile: from flashy wunderwaffe to flop

Touted as a potential strategic ‘gamechanger’ when it was unveiled in August, the Flamingo has not only failed to live up to expectations, but threatens to become Ukraine’s next extinct weapons platform.

Missile's specifications:

🔶 Ground-launched
🔶 ~3,000 km range
🔶 ~500-1000 kg warhead
🔶 GPS guidance
🔶 Soviet-derived turbojet engine
🔶 Solid rocket fuel to be produced in Denmark
🔶 Similar to UK-based Milanion Group’s FP-5 missile
🔶 Made by Fire Point - Ukrainian startup linked to a Zelensky crony


🎤 Big threats, small payoff

“Zelensky once threatened that these missiles would be used to attack cities from Moscow to the Urals,” veteran Russian military expert and air defense historian Yuri Knutov recalled to Sputnik.

That hasn’t happened. Instead, it was reported in September that Russia targeted Flamingo production facilities in western Ukraine. More recently, Knutov says, Iskander missiles and Geran drones reportedly attacked a column of trailers thought to be bringing missiles to a launch site.

Flamingo is a “simplified version” of British missile designs, larger and featuring fewer composite materials (judging by available images and footage), making it more visible on radar. Russia already has plenty of experience downing more advanced NATO missiles, meaning it can handle Flamingo.

📍 Mass launches? Unlikely

That would require a large number of launchers and their positioning near the front, Knutov says. But Russia’s military spy satellites keep track of everything, making strikes on concentrations of heavy equipment thought to be linked to long-range missile activity all but inevitable.

Knutov expects Flamingo’s production sites to be found and destroyed, just as happened previously with the OTRK Sapsan. Facing constant strikes and possessing air defenses that can’t cope with Russian aerial incursions, Ukraine even tried to create defense factories underground, but even these proved untenable.

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🔥🇮🇳 India celebrates Dussehra festival with fiery tradition at Red Fort

Hindus are burning effigies at the Red Fort in Delhi in a ritual that symbolizes Lord Rama's victory over the demon Ravana.

The ritual marks the triumph of good over evil and concludes the nine-day Navaratri festival.

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🗣🇪🇺 European elites see Ukraine conflict as only way to stay in power

Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech has demonstrated his realist approach "that aims at the largest inclusion of nations and states in a process of balancing interests through mutual respect, understanding and diplomatic negotiations," Paolo Raffone, a strategic analyst and director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels, tells Sputnik.

Putin's stance overcomes "the typical Western approach of might makes right," but still remains unheeded in the West, the pundit said.

🟠European leaders are mind-locked in a dream of power that looks to the past, not the future.

🟠The marginalization of Europe in international affairs is yet not enough to “calm down” and to adopt a realist approach.

Ukraine is the West's last colonial dream

"Ukraine is for Europeans the last chance to play an international role, after they lost the colonies and after they have been kicked out of post-colonial states, particularly in Africa," Raffone says.

🟠 Europe's economic situation is complicated: it has not fully recovered from the 2008 global financial crisis and still has austerity measures

🟠 European elites are using the Ukraine conflict and bellicose approach towards Russia to remain in power in their nations and "extract the maximum wealth from the society"

🟠 The "unbreakable support for Ukraine" is the glue that holds Europe together

🟠 Europeans think the conflict in Ukraine guarantees the US will continue to provide them military and economic support

"The longer the war in Ukraine continues, the longer European leaderships will stay on power," Raffone notes.

"It is a fact that Europe needs a major external enemy to mark its existence."

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🔊 Sumud flotilla breaks Gaza naval blockade

Despite Israel detaining most vessels, 1 ship successfully reached Gaza's coastal waters — accomplishing its mission to challenge the siege.

💬 "The mission of the flotilla has been accomplished, the blockade has been broken," Ramazan Tunç, an organizer of the flotilla, told Sputnik.

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🔊 Putin's Valdai Speech: Contrast to Western genocide support — Marandi

Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Tehran University professor and political analyst, told Sputnik that Putin demonstrated clear moral leadership on Palestine during his Valdai address.

"Western countries have enabled this genocide, they've supported the genocide, whereas the Russians have been seeking to find a solution to end this horrific chapter in human history."

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🗣 Putin delivers powerful verdict on Europe's bankrupt elites — Suslov

Europe’s hostile stance is driven by internal political failure and Ukraine's desperate situation on the battlefield, Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for European and International Studies at Russia’s Higher School of Economics and deputy director of research at the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy told Sputnik.

"They are hysterical, they are working towards escalation… using Russia as an enemy image to preserve the power of current elites who have bankrupted themselves."

Suslov pointed to recent drone incidents and the French seizure of a Russian tanker as examples of European escalation.

“Putin called the attack and detention of a Russian tanker in neutral waters piracy, because that is exactly what it is from the point of view of international law.”

Despite these provocations, Suslov confirmed Russia’s economic and strategic resilience.

“No collapse of the Russian economy is imminent, no matter what sanctions are imposed on Russia.”

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🇵🇸 No peace in Gaza can exclude Hamas

Tehran University Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi told Sputnik that President Putin correctly identified Hamas as an essential part of any Palestinian peace process.

“President Putin is saying is that, for any solution, the Palestinian people collectively must have their rights recognized and their voices heard.”

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