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🚨💸 Ukraine corruption scandal: the latest

Probes into Zelensky's inner circle over embezzlement and bribes totaling over $100 million continue.

🟠 Zelensky will meet a faction of his Servant of the People party on Thursday evening, said Zelensky's communications advisor Dmytro Lytvyn, to discuss their demand that Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak resign

🟠 National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov has returned to Ukraine after extending a business trip after claims he is implicated in the Mindich corruption scheme

🟠 European Solidarity MP Iryna Gerashchenko said her party had tabled a motion in the Rada parliament demanding Zelensky sack Yermak and Umerov

🟠 Opposition Voice party MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak claims Zelensky has decided not to fire Yermak

🟠 MP Dmytro Razumkov argued that Zelensky's backing of Yermak could provoke a new ‘Euromaidan’-style coup in Ukraine

🟠 The Assocciated Press reported that Yermak sought a meeting with ambassador to the UK Valeri Zaluzhny — a former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces — but was snubbed

🟠 Against the backdrop of the scandal, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned Zelensky that his Western handlers might "remove" him

🟠 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Zelensky may soon "overtake" Western leaders in public disapproval, and fewer Ukrainians believe in "fairy tales" as they witness corruption

🟠 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused the European Union of "madness" after some member states argued the corruption scandal was a reason to fast-track EU membership for Ukraine

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🚨🇮🇷 Iran ends Cairo Agreement with UN nuclear power watchdog

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Islamic Republic had cancelled the agreement reached with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in September in response to the agency’s latest resolution.

The IAEA board urged Iran to give the agency’s inspectors “precise information” about its enriched uranium stockpile and grant access to its nuclear sites.

Araghchi slammed the resolution as harmful to the IAEA's cooperation with Tehran and undermining the agency's authority and independence.

Iranian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Reza Najafi had called the IAEA resolution non-constructive and politicized.

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🔥 🇦🇪 First-ever air taxi flight stuns Dubai Airshow

An electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi successfully conducted its first manned flight at the Dubai Airshow 2025.

The flight from the Margham gas field to Al Maktoum International Airport took just 17 minutes—a clear signal of the readiness to bring this kind of innovation into the smart-city mobility system.

🟠 Vehicle is fully electric with zero operational emissions

🟠 Has six electric motors and can carry one pilot and up to four passengers

🟠 Max speed of 320 km/h

🟠 Its noise level is low, making it suitable for use in urban environments

The eVTOL has undergone almost 50,000 kilometers of flight testing and is currently participating in an aircraft certification program to ensure the highest safety standards.

🟠 Construction of the first air taxi station near Dubai International Airport is 60% complete, and the first test flights are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2026.

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin visits one of the command posts of the Zapad battlegroup on Thursday - Kremlin

Other statements by Peskov:

🟠 Putin noted that all the tasks set at the previous meeting with the servicemen have been completed

🟠 Putin held a meeting with the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the head of the Main Operational Directorate, and the commanders of the Zapad and Yug battle groups

🟠Putin listened to detailed reports on the situation in Konstantinovka and the Kramatorsk direction, as well as around Kupyansk

🟠 Putin asked Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Gerasimov to report on the situation in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr battlegroup

🟠 The president stated that the commander of the Tsentr battlegroup was not invited to the meeting, as he must focus on solving the tasks at hand

🟠 Putin: Ukrainian soldiers should have the opportunity to lay down their arms and surrender

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🚨🇷🇺 Kupyansk has been liberated - Gerasimov told Putin

The city of Kupyansk is the logistical linchpin of northeastern Ukraine. Its capture secures Russia's northern flank and enables rapid deployment of troops and supplies.

🟠 The political leadership of Ukraine does not give orders to its troops to surrender, Gerasimov said

🟠 The political leadership of Ukraine is not such, Putin noted

🟠 The president called the Kiev authorities an organized criminal group that has usurped power

🟠 Russian forces took control over 80% of Volchansk, Gerasimov said

🟠 70% of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) has been liberated, Gerasimov said

🟠13 settlements in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions have come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces - Gerasimov

🟠 The Russian army continues to carry out their tasks as part of the special military operation, advancing in almost all directions - Gerasimov

🟠 Ukraine's 'political leadership' is clinging to power for its own enrichment - Putin

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🚨🇺🇸 Zelensky agrees to talk to Trump about US’s proposed peace plan - report

The embattled Ukrainian ‘leader’ informed US Army chief Dan Driscoll of readiness to speak to the US president about the draft proposal, anonymous US and Ukrainian officials told Axios.

Driscoll was said to have given Zelensky a physical copy of the 28-point plan during Driscoll’s visit to Ukraine, and the two “agreed on an aggressive timeline for signature.”

🗣 In a social media post, Zelensky's office said he and Driscoll had “agreed to work on the points of the plan in such a way that it leads to a dignified end” to the conflict.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly plans to talk to top European national security officials about the plan on Friday, sources told WSJ.

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🟠 Putin visits one of the command posts of the Zapad battlegroup

🟠 Kupyansk in Kharkov region LIBERATED

🟠 Zelensky agrees to talk to Trump about US’s proposed peace plan – report

🟠 Ukraine corruption scandal: the latest

🟠 Nuremberg Trials: Bringing Nazis to justice for crimes that shook world

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🔊 Ukraine's leadership is a 'criminal gang' — Putin

"They have retained power under the pretext of the need to continue the war with Russia for the purpose of personal enrichment," Putin said during his visit to one of the Zapad battlegroup's command posts.

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⚔️🇮🇷 US imposes sanctions on Iranian oil network

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned several companies that allegedly facilitate Iranian crude oil sales.

"Disrupting the Iranian regime’s revenue is critical to helping curb its nuclear ambitions," said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

The OFAC also targeted 6 vessels and the Iranian airline Mahan Air.

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🚨 US expects Zelensky to sign peace deal by November 27 — Report

Zelensky is expected to sign the deal by Thanksgiving, after which it will be presented to Russia.

The entire process is expected to be finalized by early December, according to the Financial Times.

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📹 Ukraine's usurpers do not care about ordinary people — Putin

Anti-corruption findings in Ukraine show that its leadership, who are "sitting on golden thrones," have "other things in mind," the Russian president declared.

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📹 Ukraine lost over 1.7M troops since 2022 — Nebenzia

Russia’s UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, exposed Zelensky's sacrifice of Ukrainian soldiers in order to cling to power.

While his regime is violently mobilizing men — even grabbing them off the streets — Zelensky is forbidding retreat and hiding the real losses.

"Zelensky wants to show his Western sponsors that the front is holding… to stay in power," Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting.

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🎤 Russia provided 'great support' during 12-day war — Iranian FM

Russia gave significant assistance to Tehran during the 12-day war with Israel in June, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed in an interview with The Economist.

Araghchi added that Iran is further developing its strategic partnership with Russia.

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🤝🇷🇺🇿🇦🇨🇳 Russia, South Africa, and China will hold joint naval drills in January 2026

The Mosi III naval exercises have been rescheduled to early January 2026, Russian Ambassador to South Africa Roman Ambarov told Sputnik.

The trilateral drills were postponed from November to avoid overlapping with the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

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🚨 Trump opens 5.3M km² to oil drilling

The administration plans to open vast coastal waters — an area larger than India — to new oil and gas exploration, including the first-ever Arctic drilling sites.

The 28 lease sales scheduled through 2031 will cover the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and parts of California.

Earlier, the US decided to skip the UN climate change conference taking place in Brazil from November 10 to 21.

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BIDEN DOJ secretly seized Jim Jordan's phone records in 2022 — Reports

The Justice Department obtained over two years of House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan’s personal phone data via a secret subpoena tied to the Arctic Frost probe — the same investigation underpinning Trump’s election charges, Fox News reports.

The subpoena marks the broadest known data grab in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation.

Timing suggests prosecutors tracked Jordan during key oversight hearings.

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