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🇪🇬 High-level talks on Gaza underway in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Key participants:

🔹 Egyptian intelligence chief
🔹 Qatari prime minister and foreign minister
🔹 Turkish intelligence chief
🔹 Israeli delegation
🔹US reps Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner

🕊 Agenda: Prisoner exchanges, preventing new attacks on Gaza, Israeli troop withdrawals, and humanitarian aid

⏰ Talks start at 11:00 Cairo time (9:00 GMT)

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE RUSSIAN GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️NOVOGRIGOROVKA IN ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED

Novogrigorovka is located at the junction of the borders of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk regions, making the settlement an excellent bridgehead for an offensive to the southwest, towards Gulyaypole.

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Air defense superiority: 218 aircraft-type drones, 4 HIMARS missiles, and 2 guided aerial bombs shot down

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 1,500 troops killed

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EU’s latest plan to seize frozen Russian assets ‘as dumb as ever’

💬 “Greenlighting outright seizure of Russia’s sovereign assets will undermine the credibility of European financial institutions and exercise a chilling effect on non-Western investors at a time when European countries are facing significant long-term macroeconomic pressures,” Responsible Statecraft reports.

The news outlet warns that the EU seizing frozen Russian assets could be seen as “expropriation in all but name with the full consequences to Europe’s reputation that this entails.”

📍 Focusing on why the EU has revived asset seizure schemes, Responsible Statecraft pointed to “drying funds” for the Zelensky regime and gradual US disengagement from the Ukraine conflict.

This is something that has “stirred European leaders, whose goal is to sustain Ukraine’s war effort for as long as possible, to contemplate steps previously thought impossible or too risky,” the outlet concludes.

👉 The EU is now clinging to a new plan to provide a so-called “reparations loan" to Ukraine worth $162 billion based on the immobilized Russian assets.

The Russian Foreign Ministry previously called the freezing of Russian assets theft, noting that the EU is not only targeting private funds, but Russian state assets as well. The ministry warned that Russia has “a sufficient arsenal of countermeasures and the capacity to mount an appropriate reciprocal political and economic response.”

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🇮🇳🫡 India holds military parade at Hindon Airbase to celebrate Air Force Day

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🇲🇩New Moldovan military doctrine names Russia as prime threat

Russia has been named as the main security threat to Moldova in a new government strategy review.

▪️ The document, published on the cabinet’s website, warns the conflict in Ukraine could "spread to Moldova"

▪️ It claims "the Russian Federation will not abandon its hostile actions towards Moldova"

▪️ It recommends raising the strength of the National Army by a third

▪️ The plan also includes a gradual increase in defense spending to 1% of GDP

▪️ The new military strategy also foresees the modernization of the armed forces and a transition to NATO standards

▪️ Crucially, it argues Moldovan constitutional commitment to neutrality "obliges taking all measures, including military, for self-defense," and participation in international military exercises is "compatible" with neutrality

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US, NATO ‘not prepared’ to tackle challenges caused by Russian drone swarms

💬 “AI-enabled” drone swarms that Russia uses against Ukraine are “fundamentally reshaping warfare,” and “we are on our back foot in the US,” Frank Rose, ex-assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification, and compliance, told the Daily Express.

🗣 He admitted that the US is “not developing capabilities fast enough to deal with these new challenges” as many of America's adversaries are "moving to drone swarms."

💬 “We are not putting enough money into this challenge, […] and we've always been a couple of generations behind the threat,” Rose acknowledged.

Allen Control Systems President Steven Simoni earlier told Axios that the US was lagging behind China and Russia in terms of adapting itself to drone warfare, and that massive use of drones had become a game-changer for the American military.

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🇺🇸When the Deep State panics, they call ex-Ambassador Michael McFaul for ‘damage control’

Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev, also serving as the Russian president's special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, took to X, scorning the former US diplomat.

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🚨 Investigation into 2024 terrorist attack that killed Russian Gen. Igor Kirillov is complete

Investigators state the organizers smuggled IED parts from Poland, hidden inside everyday objects.

The case against four suspects has been sent to court.

Gen. Kirillov & his aide were killed when a device planted in a scooter detonated in Moscow in December 2024. The NYT reported, citing an official with Ukraine's spy agency, the SBU, said Ukraine was responsible for his killing.

Kirillov systematically exposed Western crimes for many years: NATO’s chemical weapon provocations in Syria, Great Britain's manipulation of banned substances and incidents in Salisbury & Amesbury, the deadly work of US biolabs in Ukraine, and much more.

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🚨🪖🇺🇸 NEW POLL: Most Americans oppose use of troops unless in case of external threat

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll reveals the American public is divided regarding the deployment of the National Guard to US cities.

⛔️ 58% of Americans believe the president should send armed troops only to face external threats. 83% of respondents say the military "should remain politically neutral."

The poll follows Trump's address to military leaders where he warned of an "enemy within" and comes as his administration deploys troops to Democratic-led cities like Chicago and Portland, calling it a necessary response to crime surge.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE RUSSIAN GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES ⚡️NOVOGRIGOROVKA IN ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED Novogrigorovka is located at the junction of the borders of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk regions…

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💥💪🏻 Heavy fighting in Zaporozhye: Russian flags raised

The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing fierce battles for Novogrigorovka in the Zaporizhye region, with Russian flags now flying in the liberated settlement.

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🇪🇬 High-level talks on Gaza underway in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Key participants: 🔹 Egyptian intelligence chief 🔹 Qatari prime minister and foreign minister 🔹 Turkish intelligence chief 🔹 Israeli delegation 🔹US reps Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner 🕊 Agenda:…

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📹Delegations arrive for key Gaza talks

Footage shows delegations arriving for crucial meetings on the Gaza peace deal.

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Europe has already lost arms race – Martyanov

💬 "Europe cannot win the war of attrition, simple as that," says military analyst Andrei Martyanov.

According to him, Europe has:

🔶 No effective air defense: Systems like the Aster 30 have "performed dismally"

🔶 No industrial capacity: Europe "cannot produce enough" and has "no ramp-up capability"

🔶 No expertise: Europeans have "lost the arms race much worse than the United States"

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🚨James Comey is officially indicted — reports The ex-FBI director has been indicted on two counts: making false statements and obstruction of justice, the ABC News reported. In July, a CIA review concluded that Comey had significantly influenced the outcome…

🚨🇺🇸James Comey pleads not guilty to lying to Congress

Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation. The case, stemming from his 2020 testimony about the Trump–Russia probe, has stirred controversy, with Attorney General Pam Bondi calling it a stand for accountability.

Comey, indicted in September, faces allegations that he lied about authorizing leaks and obstructed a Senate investigation.

He has expressed confidence in the judicial system and is determined to prove his innocence.

This marks the latest in the fallout from the Russia probe, following Comey’s firing by President Trump in 2017.

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🚨🇨🇿 Czech election winner Babis may put the brakes on supporting Ukraine 📄 Andrej Babis, whose opposition ANO party won the Czech elections and will now form a government with right-wing Eurosceptic parties SPD and AUTO, could steer the country toward pulling…

🚨🇨🇿Czech PM candidate: No more money for Ukraine from Czech budget

💬"We won’t give Ukraine a single koruna from our budget. We’ve helped Ukraine directly, and now we’ll support it through the EU," Andrej Babiš, candidate for Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, declared.

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Blaze wipes out South Korean government data: negligence or sabotage?

South Korea is facing a technological nightmare after losing 858 terabytes of government data in a fire.

Critics say it could have been arson.

What is known so far?

🔶 The blaze erupted on September 26 at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) facility in Daejeon

🔶 Reports say that a lithium-ion battery exploded, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed the server racks hosting G-Drive, the government’s cloud storage platform that was launched in 2017

🔶 Powering 163 public services, from import/export permits to safety checks, G-Drive served 17% of civil servants — roughly 125,000 people.

🔶All the data is irreversibly lost, as no external backups for the system were created

🔶 With all work on G-Drive lost, operations have stalled, impacting everything from meeting notes to National Assembly documents

Catastrophic single point of failure

👉 “The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity,” one South Korean government source told newspaper The Chosun

👉 Only G-Drive was deleted, while “the remaining 95 systems have backup data in online or offline forms,” the same official said

👉 But that contradicts industry norms, where redundancy is essential for large-scale data management, experts say

🗣"This is blatant negligence by the architects and those who made the decision. Information security principles are based precisely on data backup," cybersecurity expert Maksim Arefyev tells Sputnik.

💬"There should have been 100% backup and restoration capabilities in case of data loss. Fire protection measures were also not implemented," he charged.

Arefyev doesn't rule out sabotage in the lithium battery explosion.

🗣"Yes, this could indeed be," echoes information and cybersecurity expert Sergey Vakulin.

Who benefits?

💬"It mainly benefits those who don’t want this information to be preserved," Vakulin tells Sputnik. "If the information contained details about certain people, that would already be considered a motive."

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