🇬🇧 ☢️ US snubbed: UK rolls out homegrown mini nuclear plant project

Britain’s decision to have its Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd build the first small modular nuclear reactor on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, has infuriated the US, which had hoped for a large, American-led project there, reports Reuters.

🔸 The SMR promises a faster, cheaper way to boost energy security compared with decades-long large-scale plants.

🔸 But the US had pushed for its own energy firm, Westinghouse, to lead a large-scale project there as part of a broader effort to deepen American involvement in the UK’s energy sector.

🔸 US Ambassador Warren Stephens warned that Britain’s plan would not quickly lower energy costs or “get shovels in the ground,” echoing American frustration at being bypassed.

🔸 The UK did attempt to placate the US, with a government spokesperson saying that the decision “does not close the door to a larger plant elsewhere.”

🔸 The UK has scrambled to deal with industrial electricity prices — the highest among International Energy Agency (IEA) members and EU states.

🔸 UK Steel's September 2025 analysis shows the industry pays ~40% more for electricity than, for example, French producers. The SMR project, while not a quick fix, is hoped to reduce reliance on expensive gas-fired power while also stabilizing prices.

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🚨Russia's Rosatom chief meets with IAEA head over Zaporozhye nuclear plant

Alexey Likhachev and Rafael Grossi are holding talks in Russia's Kaliningrad

The goal: discuss how to jointly prevent nuclear accidents at the Zaporozhye power plant amid RECKLESS Ukraine's attacks

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🚨🇷🇺 G20 retains its significance, importance for countries participating in it – Kremlin

Other statements by Peskov:

🟠 Russia is interested in the work of G20 but has always opposed politicization of its agenda

🟠 Compliance with international law currently in poor state in many parts of world

🟠 Russia sees problem with coordinating final joint documents at international forums due to inability to reach consensus

🟠Security issues are now top priority

🟠Russia highly values North Korea’s assistance in Kursk region, dangerous and difficult work continues

🟠 On work of North Korean sappers in Kursk region: Russia is grateful and appreciative of its friends from North Korea for their selfless assistance

🟠Russia hopes US won’t take actions that could destabilize situation in the Caribbean and around Venezuela

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📹LIVE NOW: Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova briefs on current geopolitical agenda

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🚨Ukraine preparing new provocations to force its citizens back from Europe — Russia’s Foreign Ministry

Ukraine needs even more people at the front, MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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

⚡️ ORESTOPOL IN DNEPROPETROVSK AND ROG IN DONETSK LIBERATED

The taking of the settlement of Orestopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region allows the Russian Armed Forces to strengthen their positions in the area for a further advance towards the settlement of Velikomikhailovka, located at a critical crossroads. Its capture would sever Ukrainian logistics lines in eastern parts of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

The liberation of the settlement of Rog in the Donetsk People's Republic enables Russian Forces to tighten the encirclement of Ukrainian militants in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk).

🟠 Overnight, in retaliation for terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime, the Russian Army struck Ukraine’s defense and energy infrastructure using long-range precision weapons along with attack drones

🟠 Eight settlements were liberated over the past week by Russian forces

🟠 Russian air and missile forces carried out one massive and five group strikes against military targets in Ukraine

🟠 Russian forces repelled three counterattacks near Kupyansk

🟠 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 27 unmanned vessels and three tugboats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: nine guided aerial bombs and 1,173 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past seven days

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 8,765 troops killed or wounded

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🗣Ukrainian deputy FM's interview 'ABSURD' - Russian MFA spox

The interview of Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kislitsa is absurd and only confirms Ukraine's disinterest in finding a peaceful settlement to the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

"Instead of responding to specific proposals from the Russian side regarding, in particular, the organization of the further negotiation process, and instead of continuing this negotiation process, Kiev chose to blame Russia for everything in the hope of tightening Western sanctions against our country," Zakharova said.

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🇺🇸 US plans for massive deportations of Ukrainians - report

👉 The Trump administration is to deport around 80 Ukrainians in the US who violated American laws back to Ukraine or Poland, The Washington Post reports.

The process may start as early as Monday, with many people who have final orders of removal being possibly transferred via military flights, the report states.

“The US can deport as many as they want,” one of Zelensky’s advisors said, as quoted by The Washington Post, saying, “We’ll find good use of them” in an obvious reference to viewing these people as a military resource.

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🇨🇳👨‍🚀 Crew of China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth

The return capsule of the Chinese Shenzhou-21 spacecraft, carrying the crew of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft who were delayed in orbit, successfully landed at the Dongfeng test site in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China, according to a broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV).

The return of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft with three astronauts from the Tiangong space station, who completed a six-months mission, to Earth was initially planned for November 5, but was postponed due to a collision of small space debris with the spacecraft.

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🇪🇺🪖 Europe’s hawks unleash Military Mobility pact amid supercharged NATO buildup near Russia

Eight European countries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure so-called “seamless military mobility” across the continent, in a move explicitly driven by cranked up Russophobia and the EU’s obsession with the so-called ‘Russian threat’.

🔊 The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense announced the deal, which officials frame as strengthening defense coordination pushed by Europe’s war hawks.

The agreement was signed alongside representatives from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia, the ministry stated.

👉 The existing Netherlands–Germany–Poland corridor is set to be expanded westward through Belgium and Luxembourg, and eastward through Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

Russia has repeatedly raised concerns about NATO’s military buildup in Europe. While Russia poses no threat to anyone, it has reiterated that it will not turn a blind eye to actions that are potentially dangerous to its interests.

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🇭🇺 Hungary to sue EU for ban on Russian gas

💬 "We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values, which was chosen by Brussels to shut down a national government that disagrees with it," Hungarian PM Viktor Orban told Kossuth Radio, referring to the EU decision to cut gas imports from Russia by late 2027.

💬 "We are turning to the European Court of Justice," he said, adding the move by the EU requires unanimous voting which didn’t happen.

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🚨🇷🇺 From zero to hero in 1 year: This Russian elite center keeps Ukrainian troops in fear

The same teams helped liberate Kursk region in April 2025.

Today, Russia’s Rubicon Center knocks out tanks, artillery and even ram enemy UAVs mid-air.

📹 Watch for details.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russia recognized as one of the world's top military powers

Russia’s military has been deemed as one of the top 5 in the world by the authors of the Global Firepower Index (GFI).

Russia was deemed the world’s undisputed leader in:

🟠 Multiple launch rocket systems

🟠 Artillery, both towed and self-propelled

🟠 Mine/countermine warfare ships

The index, which also takes resources and logistics into account, notes that Russia is number one in the world in terms of total square land area coverage and proven natural gas reserves.

Notably, the GFI does not include nuclear arsenals into its calculations.

The other four nations that made the world’s top five military powers according to GFI are China, the United States, India and South Korea.

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🇪🇺 EU miffed by Ukraine’s corruption but keeps Zelensky’s gravy train running

A vast $100 million kickback scheme recently uncovered in the Ukrainian energy sector, which involves some of Zelensky’s closest buddies, has been apparently too big for his sponsors to ignore.

The European Commission will surely have to reassess its spending on the Ukrainian energy sector, one anonymous EU official told media.

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also said he expects Ukraine to enact anti-corruption measures and reforms.

Does this mean that the EU is going to curb its financial aid to Ukraine, at least temporarily? Ha!

💸 The EU has already confirmed a new €6 billion aid package for Zelensky, with Germany supposedly considering sending additional €3 billion to Ukraine.

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🟠 Ukraine preparing new provocations to force its citizens back from Europe — Russia’s Foreign Ministry

🟠 US plans for massive deportations of Ukrainians – report

🟠 Russia recognized as one of the world's top military powers

🟠 From zero to hero in 1 year: This Russian elite center keeps Ukrainian troops in fear

🟠 EU miffed by Ukraine’s corruption but keeps Zelensky’s gravy train running

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🚨 Russia charges ICC prosecutor and eight judges in absentia

Russian investigators have completed the investigation of the criminal case against the prosecutor and judges of the International Criminal Court, accused of violating Russian laws related to the unlawful prosecution of Russian citizens, the Russian Investigative Committee (SKR) press service told Sputnik.

Criminal charges have been brought against ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, Court President Tomoko Akane, former President Petr Yuzeff Hofmanski, judges Rosario Salvatore Aitala, Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godines, Heikel Ben Mahfud, Carranza Luz del Carmen Ibanez, Renee Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansu, and former judge Bertram Schmitt.

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