⚜️ Gold hits an all-time high of ≈$4195 per ounce, according to live data from CNBC, Commodities Exchange Centre (COMEX).

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Syrian Transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa is having a meeting with Russian President Vladimer Putin in the Kremlin, Moscow, along with his Defense Minister and Foreign Minister.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 According to the New York Post, citing Hamas spokesperson Qassem Hazzem, the group “has no need to abide by every word of [US President] Trump’s 20-point peace plan, including calls to lay down arms.”

The spokesperson also noted that Hamas will not cede governance over the Gaza Strip, another key demand in the Ceasfire Deal.

🇺🇸🇩🇪 9x US Air Force (USAF) C-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft (AE4E0D, AE4AF1, AE5C97, AE1BF6, AE4AF8, AE2208, AE5C9D, AE293B, & one left its transponder off) are returning to Ramstein Air Force Base following a training exercise.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Interesting flight of 2x US Air Force (USAF) B-52H “Stratofortress” Strategic bombers assigned to the USAF 2nd Bomb Wing in Barksdale Air Force Base (BAD), with callsigns BUNNY01 & BUNNY02, flying near the coast of Venezuela, close to El Gran Roque Island.

The bombers circled near the Island and now are returning to BAD in Louisiana, US.

🇺🇸 Another circle north of the Caribbean Sea, while they’re returning to BAD. Seems to be a training exercise.

❗️🇺🇸 A US Air Force (USAF) C-32A aircraft (callsign: SAM153) is squawking 7700 emergency and has turned back towards the UK after departing Brussels, at 10K ft, probably due to an issue with the aircraft pressurization.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Welp… US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was boarding the plane, returning from NATO’s Defense Ministers Meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

The plane diverted back to Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall in the UK, due to a crack in the aircraft windshield. Assistant of Hegseth says everyone onboard, including Hegseth, is safe.

🇺🇦🇩🇪 Under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) arrangement, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced at the beginning of the Defense Ministers Meeting in Brussels at NATO HQs that Berlin would would buy $500 million worth of US weapons for Ukraine.

The weapons would include two German IRIS-T SL/SLM air defense systems, including a large number of guided missiles, shoulder-fired air defense missiles, PAC-3 interceptor missiles for the MIM-104 “Patriot” air defense systems, radar systems, precision guided artillery, rockets, ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and modern communication devices.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 During a press conference with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, Kash Patel, US President Donald Trump said that Hamas “used to have the support of Iran,” but “today, Iran is trying to survive.”

He also said that Iran has many more important things to do than resuming work on building nuclear weapons, but added that if they would resume work, their nuclear sites would be attacked [again] and wiped out.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 While demonstrating the power of tarrifs and its importance for the National Security of America in the Oval Office, Trump claimed that he stopped a war between Iran and Pakistan that would have killed millions of lifes, as both countries are nuclear-capable.

Trump seems to have confused Iran with India, which had a short border-conflict on May with Pakistan.

🇷🇺 Refined fuel exports from Russia have tumbled to war-time lows, due to refinery outages and tightening Western sanctions, according to data analyzed by Bloomberg.

Overall seaborne oil product shipments averaged 1.89 million barrels a day in the first 26 days of this month, the lowest since at least the start of 2022.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 US Army troops stationed in Romania with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, are redeploying to their Kentucky home base without replacement, reducing Army troops in the country to 1000.

🇮🇶🇺🇸 Recently, US President Donald Trump appointed Mark Savaya, a close friend to POTUS and of Iraqi origins, as a Special Envoy to Baghdad, without appointing an Ambassador.

Savaya, just like Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Tom Barrack, who are both working on dismantling Hamas and Hezbollah, would likely work on dismantling Popular Mobilization Forces’ (PMF) factions in Iraq.

In a tweet he posted a short while ago, Savaya said: “The United States Government has made it clear that there is no place for armed groups operating outside the authority of the state. (…) free from malign external interference, including from Iran and its proxies,”

🇺🇦🇷🇺 CCTV footage captures the moment two Ukrainian drones struck the Oryol Thermal Power Plant (Orel TPP) in Russia’s Oryol Oblast overnight. The strikes reportedly caused damage to the plant’s fuel oil storage facility and the 110 kV switchyard, the main high-voltage power distribution area of the facility.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Image appears on Reddit showing a US Navy F-18E “Super Hornet” scoring a gun kill in an engagement with a Royal Air Force F-35B “Lightning” II operating from the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, which was deployed as part of Operation Highmast in the Pacific, during a Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT).

🇺🇦🇷🇺 During a joint briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Security Service (SBU) Chief Vasyl Malyuk said that nearly half of all Pantsir-S1 air defense systems (≈%48) of Russia have been destroyed since the beginning of 2025. Malyuk added that Russia produces 30 Pantsirs a year, but the number destroyed is far higher than the number being manufactured.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces have reportedly started withdrawing north of Pokrovsk under Russian drone attacks led by the “Rubicon” drone unit, hunting down escaped troops.

According to multiple milbloggers, the situation is very difficult, with Russians capturing several villages today. Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky also noted that the situation remains difficult.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to Reuters, citing Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and other officials, Russia has begun using its long-range SSC-8/9M729 ground-launched cruise missile in strikes against Ukraine. Russia has fired the 9M729 23 times since August 21, with Ukraine also recording two launches of this type in 2022. The secret development of the 9M729 missile led US President Donald Trump in his first term to quit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019 with Moscow.

🇺🇸🇵🇸 US Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) says it observed suspected Hamas members looting an aid truck that was part of a humanitarian convoy to the people of Gaza in northern Khan Younis, sharing a footage taken by an American MQ-9 drone that was flying over the area “to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.”

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US Pentagon has given the White House the green light to provide Ukraine with long-range BGM-109 Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAMs) after assessing that it would not negatively impact US stockpiles, leaving the final political decision in President Donald Trump’s hands, according to three US and European officials familiar with the matter who spoke to CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/politics/pentagon-tomahawks-trump-ukraine?cid=ios_app