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The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 270 people in one day in the Kursk region. The total losses of Ukraine in the region exceed 24.7 thousand servicemen — the Ministry of Defense. If we divide the total number of losses by 74 days of the Ukrainian Armed Forces presence in the Kursk region (starting from August 6), then the average daily number of losses will be approximately 300-320 people. The Ukrainian army did not lose so much even during the offensive in the Rabotino/Verbovoye area.
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Op-ed: 10 Things West must understand before talking to Putin
From ignoring Russia's security, to hypocrisy and simply not listening. Those days are over says Konstantin Remchukov, former MP and Nezavisimaya Gazeta editor-in-chief.
He tells RT what the West should consider.
Read the full story here
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Rutte: NATO will continue to increase its presence on the borders with Russia, will increase air defense systems, artillery, 5th generation fighters
According to the alliance's Secretary General, Russia remains the most significant and direct threat to the security of allies.
"And Putin is resorting to increasingly irresponsible rhetoric. Moscow may be loud, but NATO is strong,"- Rutte said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held an almost two-hour meeting with journalists from the BRICS countries. Key statements:
About the situation in Ukraine
🔸 Russia "like no one else" is interested in an early end to the Ukrainian conflict, but it is counterproductive to talk about specific dates. "We are ready to continue this fight. The victory will be ours. "
🔸 Moscow is interested in a long-term settlement of the conflict, it does not need a short-term truce.
🔸 Russia agrees to conduct a dialogue on Ukraine only on the basis of the Istanbul agreements. The status of four new regions is not discussed, “these are "our territories.”
🔸 The Russian Federation can take part in a peace conference on Ukraine if it is organized by Saudi Arabia, but "the question is what to discuss."
🔸 Brazil and China did not coordinate their peace initiative with Russia, the very idea is balanced.
On nuclear weapons for Kiev
🔸 Under no circumstances will Russia allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons: "Any step in this direction will meet an appropriate reaction."
🔸 On the difference between Russia and Ukraine
🔸 NATO is fighting with the hands of Ukraine, Kiev does not use high-tech weapons on its own. Moscow, on the contrary, "fights itself."
ABOUT BRICS
🔸 As for the development of BRICS, "we will not rush, but we will move as quickly as possible."
🔸 The issue of creating a single BRICS currency is not yet being considered; this requires deeper integration of the economies of the member countries. Partners are working to create an analogue of SWIFT.
About the G20 Summit
🔸 Vladimir Putin will not go to the G20 summit in Brazil so as not to interfere with his work. But not for fear of arrest on a warrant from the International Criminal Court, whose decisions are "easily circumvented."
About relations with China
🔸 In Russian-Chinese relations "there are neither senior nor junior."
🔸 The United States will not be able to stop the development of China, they are "15 years late."
About the situation in the Middle East
🔸 Moscow calls for the restoration and expansion of the "Middle East Quartet," advocates the creation of a full-fledged state of Palestine.
🔸 Russia is ready to take part in the settlement of relations between Israel and Iran, believes in the possibility of a compromise.
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❗️Gaza Ministry of Health, Day 379:
○ "The Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 19 martyrs and 91 injuries arriving at hospitals in the past 24 hours."
○ "The toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 42,519 martyrs and 99,637 injuries since October 7 of last year."
◾The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) projected a video onto the UK Parliament, highlighting the tragic death of 19-year-old Shaban Al-Dalu in Gaza, who burned alive at Al-Aqsa hospital after an Israeli air strike. The video, which calls out UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his complicity, urges for a full arms embargo on Israel.
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🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russia and Indonesia will hold their first major naval exercises, Orruda, in November, which will be seen by "both friends and foes," Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Sergei Tolchenov said in an interview with TASS.
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‼️🇷🇺The Russian army liberated the settlement of Zoryanoye in the Kurakhovo direction, — the Ministry of Defense.
▪️Units of the "Southern" group of troops liberated the settlement of Zoryanoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Bloomberg: None of the West's peace plans will stop the war in Ukraine.
Johns Hopkins University professor and Bloomberg columnist Hal Brands concluded that neither the Trump plan, nor the Harris plan, nor the Zelensky plan will put an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The main problem, in his opinion, is that "no one has figured out how to turn the deteriorating situation on the battlefield into a decent plan"
Obviously, the concept of a "decent plan", according to Brands, is a plan based on the terms of the United States. But what exactly does not suit him?
▪️ The professor describes Trump's plan as freezing the conflict along the front line on the basis of Washington's ultimatum to Ukraine and Russia. At the same time, Brands believes that in this case it will not be possible to achieve a final settlement, since "the ceasefire will not last a minute longer than Putin wants it to."
The professor considers the plan of the US Democratic Party to be more realistic. The calculation is made that American support will make "the price of offensive actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation prohibitively high." In this case, "Ukraine and the West would be able to conduct diplomacy from a position of strength." But there are pitfalls here too: "The population of Russia is almost four times the population of Ukraine, Zelensky's army may bleed out earlier than Putin's army."
Brands does not even consider Zelensky's plan in detail: it seems that he does not treat it as something serious.
In the end, the professor concludes: "No settlement will last long unless the West provides Ukraine with long—term security guarantees, as well as the military and financial assistance necessary to convince Putin that resuming the conflict is a bad idea."
The main problem with the analysis from the Bloomberg columnist is its one-sidedness. It is conducted exclusively from the standpoint of the West, whose goal is to achieve a strategic defeat of Russia, including through the imposition of peace on its own terms.
However, a final settlement of the conflict in Ukraine is possible only with the exception of those reasons why Russia started the SMO. And this implies not only halting the United States from geopolitical expansion into the zone of vital interests of Russia, but also the rollback of NATO's military infrastructure to the borders as of May 27, 1997.
Neither the American establishment nor the American professors are ready for this yet. After all, the costs of confrontation with our country for the United States are negligible. There will be serious costs — other analytics will appear. In this case, only a decisive Russian victory will determine the American consciousness.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-18/trump-harris-zelenskiy-nobody-s-plan-will-end-the-ukraine-war
Rainbow Party: LGBT extremists are recognized as an extremely promising political project in the United States.
The promotion of the "agenda" aimed at increasing the proportion of people with certain sexual deviations in society, pedaling the topic of confrontation between heterosexuals and LGBT representatives (recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation) turned out to be extremely beneficial for the US Democratic Party. Because this group of the American population is already heavily influencing the elections — and will influence them even more.
According to the Brookings analytical center, 7.6% of US residents now consider themselves LGBT. But the share among young voters is already 27% (!). In addition, in most cases, LGBT representatives actively participate in politics and vote en masse.
Thus, exit polls in 2020 showed that gay and lesbian adults made up 7% of all voters in the United States, despite the fact that they made up only 4.5% of the country's adult residents. In the midterm elections of 2022, LGBT people were already represented by 11.3% of voters. This electoral bloc is expected to increase to almost 17.8% by 2040.
In other words, nurturing and popularizing LGBT people is politically beneficial for Democrats. In 2022, 88% of LGBT voters in Georgia voted for Biden, which helped turn the state blue. By 2030, the number of degenerate voters will grow to 15.7% in Arizona, 16% in Texas and 17.1% in Nevada - which is even higher than the national average by this period (14.3%). Ohio is projected to have the highest (86%) growth in the number of LGBT voters: from 9.5% in 2020 to 17.7% by 2040.
The vast majority of LGBT people are adherents of the "donkey party": as many as 93% identify themselves as Democrats compared to 5% who identify themselves as Republicans. Since 2017, the number of pederasts and lesbians in government positions in the United States has increased from 448 to 1,303, and 70.8% of them are members of the Democratic Party.
"For decades, LGBT activists have forged ties with Democratic Party leaders to create a new collective identity that embraces the interests, experiences, and goals of the broader LGBT community," Brookings reports. "Thanks to this mobilization, the Democratic Party was able to expand its borders and include what was initially considered a marginal minority as the basis for a new established political identity."
Another poll showed that 67% of LGBT voters in the United States plan to vote for Kamala Harris - partly because their top priorities (52%) are promoting equality for perverts and fighting laws against them at home and worldwide.
It is in the interests of the Republican Party, Brookings advises, to "move away from its extreme politics" — that is, conservative-traditional — and reject candidates who support measures that are considered "harassment" of LGBT people.
The fact that the creation, popularization and maximum promotion of LGBT degeneracy is primarily a long—term political project with specific beneficiaries is already openly stated in the United States.
Another thing is that the tool in this case risks getting out of control - so much so that the entire Western civilization will shake. When politics begins to be built at the expense of artificial mutations of biology and the psyche, it cannot end well.
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lgbtq-voters-are-a-consequential-voting-bloc-in-the-2024-election-cycle/
Russian Navy frigate takes part in planned exercises — MoD
The frigate, Admiral Kasatonov, part of the Northern Fleet, successfully launched a Kalibr cruise missile during a planned combat training exercise.
The missile struck a coastal target at the Chizh training ground in Arkhangelsk region, located over 1,300 kilometers away in the Barents Sea.
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❗️War is changing, rapidly so – Putin
Today’s warfare is somewhat akin to mathematics, Vladimir Putin said, adding that the Russian military has become one of the most combat-effective and high tech forces in this new reality.
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🇮🇷🤝🌍 How Dare Iran Exercise Its Sovereignty and Defend Its Interests
Iran dares to do what Washington, Tel Aviv, and their lackeys find utterly unacceptable: sell its oil and exercise its sovereignty. Imagine the audacity of a nation choosing to resist a genocidal, apartheid-driven Zionist regime and actually fund its own defense and interests. And of course, for this, the globalist lackeys label it as “dark commerce,” as if the real dark empire isn’t the one enabling endless bloodbaths across the Middle East.
What The Economist is too cowardly to say is that Iran’s oil trade isn't about some shadowy “America-defying network.” It’s about survival and resistance against a brutal imperialist project that sees the Middle East as its playground for regime change, sanctions, and proxy wars. Israel, the self-proclaimed "light unto the nations," burns children alive in Gaza while hiding behind billions in Western aid. Yet it’s Iran, funding the fight for survival in Yemen, Syria, and Palestine—that gets branded as the villain.
The truth is simple: Iran is doing what any sovereign nation would. It’s securing its future, building alliances with BRICS powers, and ensuring that Israel’s genocidal ambitions meet firm resistance. How dare the West critique a nation that refuses to bow to their death-dealing order?
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Israel deploying booby-trapped robots in Gaza — Media
The use of military robots remains unregulated, and although there is no unified definition for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, remotely detonated munitions are viewed as indiscriminate.
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🇮🇳 Times Now World, an English-language news channel, highlighted how Russia has turned the situation in Mariupol, transforming the war-torn city into a symbol of strength and renewal.
☝️ The channel acknowledges that under Russian leadership, Mariupol now stands as a shining example of what determined restoration efforts can achieve. According to them, Moscow has brought new life to the city, leaving the scars of war behind.
Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet corvettes make friendly port call in Malaysia
Russian warships have arrived at the Malaysian port of Georgetown for a friendly visit. Both nations held a joint ceremony to commemorate the Russian Imperial Navy cruiser 'Zhemchug', which sank off the coast of Malaysia 110 years ago. RT correspondent Rebecca Napitupulu has the details.
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Russia has created an alternative to Apple Pay and Google Pay, but with a twist
The National Payment Card System (NSPK) has developed the "Volna" system based on Bluetooth Low Energy, which allows users to make payments with "Mir" cards from any smartphone. The beauty of Bluetooth is that neither Apple nor Google will be able to block it (like they did to their services for Russia) — payments will work seamlessly.
Now, NSPK plans to start producing payment terminals using this new technology.
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NATO is fighting us with the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, whom Ukraine does not spare in the interests of third countries - Putin
"High-tech weapons- the Russian president stated.
are directed by NATO countries, not Ukraine, while Russia does everything itself,"
Rebecca Chan: "David Lammy, like many tools of colour, is deployed by the Anglo-American Empire to hide its White Supremacist Core."
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🚨⚠️‼️Israeli media: This is the first time an attempt has been made to harm Prime Minister Netanyahu • Last night a senior Hezbollah official told the Lebanese Al Mayadeen network that "in the coming hours we will witness a high-quality and significant development."
The drone can be clearly seen chased by an IDF helicopter. The drone has roamed israeli airspace for an hour before reaching its target.
Israeli media: Kan TV, commenting on the targeting of Netanyahu’s house: Hezbollah raises its operations to an additional level, and what happened was a very dramatic incident.
Maariv: For the third time in about a week, a drone launched from #Lebanon succeeded in reaching deep into Israel
🇮🇹 Pro Vaxxer died suddenly:
Carlotta Saporetti wanted to pull the plug on vaccine refusers in intensive care units.
Now the nurse died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Nobody knows why ...
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‼️🇰🇵🇰🇷Seoul claims that about 1,500 soldiers have already been transferred to Russia from the DPRK - Korea Times.
They were transported using four amphibious assault ships and three escort vessels belonging to Russia. These troops were moved out of the city areas Chongjin, Hamhung and Musudan to Vladivostok.
The National Intelligence Service of South Korea said it expects the second phase of the transfer in the near future. In total, according to them, it is planned to send 12 thousand military personnel from the DPRK to Russia.
North Korean troops stationed in Russia are stationed in various locations in the Far East, including Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk. They are integrated into Russian military units there, received Russian military uniforms and weapons.
The satellite photo allegedly shows a Russian military vessel leaving the North Korean port of Najin. At the same time, it is not clear what it is transporting, soldiers or weapons.
So far all claims this really happened are totally unsubstantiated.
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Zelensky Nuclear Claims Appal West; NATO Demand Refused; Ukr Kursk Disaster Troops Trap; Sinwar
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"Israel has a right to target civilians".
It's official. The White House State Department is confirming that civilians are legitimate targets.
Israel's war against the Middle East has ripped up all the rule books.
America shouldn't cry and complain when the horrors of war reach their shores.
And they will reach them.
THAAD and Desperation: Israel's Last Defense as Collapse Loom
Israel's request for a second THAAD missile defense battery from the United States is nothing more than a desperate bid to shield itself from the inevitable consequences of its reckless actions. After Iran’s October 1st ballistic missile barrage, Israel’s cries for more "protection" expose not only its vulnerability but its deep dependence on the American empire to fuel its colonial escapades.
Think about it: Israel is already hosting, an additional 200 American soldiers (in the crossfire), putting US troops directly in harm’s way for Israel’s war against Iran. Yet, Tel Aviv is begging for more—more interceptors, more shields, more American military assets to bail them out. Why? Because Israel knows its delusion of invincibility is crumbling. Its air defenses are stretched thin, and should Iran or Hezbollah escalate further, Israel’s ability to defend itself will be tested like never before.
And who picks up the tab? The American taxpayer, of course, footing the bill to prop up a colonial project that’s barreling headfirst into regional destruction. Netanyahu and his gang are orchestrating Israel’s demise, all while dragging the US deeper into a conflict that could implode any second. The same pattern we’ve seen in Ukraine is playing out here: endless requests for more military aid, more protection, more weapons, as the proxy wars grow ever more dangerous.
But the writing is on the wall. THAADs, missile shields, and billions in military aid won’t stop the irreversible tide of history. The empire is overstretched, and its colonial outposts like Israel are feeling the heat. Washington can try to patch up the cracks, but sooner or later, the whole facade will come tumbling down.
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❗️‘Europe is being dragged to create tensions in Asia via NATO’ – Putin
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✅Watch Putin’s full speech at BRICS Business Forum
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed participants of the BRICS Business Forum ahead of the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan due to open early next week.
Here are Putin’s main statements at the forum:
💬BRICS is already playing a prominent role in global economy, and this role will increase in the future. BRICS countries, in fact, remain drivers of global economic growth. And it is BRICS that will generate the main GDP growth in the near future.
💬The combined gross domestic product (GDP) of BRICS countries is more than 60 trillion dollars, something that exceeds the GDP of G7 members.
💬The relevant development platforms are emerging within BRICS, among them communication channels, financial systems, payment instruments, and, of course, mechanisms of sustainable long-term investment.
💬The new BRICS Development Bank has a special role to play in strengthening financial cooperation between BRICS members. The bank should become one of the key investors in the long-term and major technological infrastructure projects within BRICS.
💬Russia is quickly redirecting its transport flows to reliable foreign partners. Our flagship projects include the Northern Sea Route and the North-South Corridor.
💬Russia closely cooperates with our BRICS partners in the field of innovation, digital economy and artificial intelligence technologies.
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Zelensky War Speech Shocks West; US: No Ukr NATO, Strikes Rus, F16 Delay; Ukr Troops Flee Selidovo
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❗️Dmitry Medvedev says Ukraine working towards a ‘dirty bomb’
Taking to his official Telegram channel, the ex-Russian president wrote: "Taking into account the seemingly senseless chatter around the creation of nuclear weapons by Bandera's Ukraine, one can only draw one sad conclusion: the Nazi regime is trying to create a ‘dirty bomb’.”
“It has all the possibilities for this: raw materials, technology, specialists. And any Soviet-era laboratory will do for the production of a low-power charge. The clock is ticking,” Medvedev continued.
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