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08 Oct 2024 13:07

🇱🇧🇮🇱More than 100 rockets were launched from Lebanese territory in the direction of Haifa.

Multiple Iron Dome interceptions are visible over the city.

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08 Oct 2024 11:04

🇮🇷🇮🇱New satellite images of Israeli air bases show the aftermath of Iranian missile strikes.

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08 Oct 2024 10:47

🇷🇺🇺🇦Lucky rescue of a VAZ-2121 Niva from an enemy FPV kamikaze.

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08 Oct 2024 09:32

🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️The Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns said that there is no evidence that Iran has decided to create nuclear weapons.

If Tehran had made such a move, the United States and its allies would likely have been able to detect it soon after, he said at the Cipher Brief Threat conference in Sea Island, Georgia.

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08 Oct 2024 09:19

🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️France to supply Kyiv with Mirage 2000 fighters equipped with new air-to-ground weapons in January-March 2025 — French Defense Minister

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08 Oct 2024 08:17

🇰🇷🇰🇵❗️The South Korean military has recorded signs indicating that the DPRK may have begun construction of what is believed to be a nuclear-powered submarine.

This was reported by the Yonhap news agency, citing sources in the armed forces and a member of the National Assembly.

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08 Oct 2024 07:55

🇮🇱🇱🇧The Israeli army has killed Hezbollah commander in Beirut Suheil Hussein Husseini, who was responsible for arms supplies from Iran.

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08 Oct 2024 06:52

🇨🇺🇷🇺Cuba has sent an official request to Russia to join BRICS as a partner country.

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08 Oct 2024 05:39

🇺🇸MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, has been ordered to evacuate due to the impending Category 5 Hurricane Milton.

MacDill AFB is home to the 6th Air Refueling Wing and the 927th Air Refueling Wing (both with KC-135R Stratotanker tankers). It is unclear where exactly the aircraft will be relocated, but it is believed they will be temporarily relocated to neighboring states to ensure they are safe.

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08 Oct 2024 05:29

🇷🇺🇺🇦The 56th Airborne Regiment covered the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry in the direction of Glushkovo in the Kursk region

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08 Oct 2024 05:24

🇺🇸📉 Hurricane Helene is America’s Chernobyl moment

▪️The death toll of Helene is currently inching closer to 200, already making it the second-deadliest storm after Katrina. But this number will rise and then rise again in the coming days. In truth, with the reality of unnavigable mountain terrain, an obliterated road network, and massive power, cell phone and water failures, nobody knows how many are dead. Without sufficient rescue efforts, more Americans might end up succumbing to the lack of water in the wake of the flood. But despite all of this, and despite the fact that the clock is ticking for many Americans trapped without food, water, or means of communication, coverage of Helene has been strangely muted. This silence has, in turn, masked a far darker problem: the lack of resources and manpower going into the rescue effort.

▪️At the time of writing, fewer than 7,000 guardsmen are helping with Helene disaster relief, and there was no equivalent preparation before the storm actually hit. US Northern Command, which can only assume responsibility if it is asked to do so by other government authorities, is not coordinating the overall effort. During Katrina, more than 350 military helicopters were involved with the rescue efforts. This time, in a mountain disaster zone where many more helicopters are needed than in a coastal area, well below 100 helicopters have currently been committed.

▪️This means that even though the victims of hurricane Helene have found themselves stranded within a stone’s throw of some of the US military’s more significant military bases — Camp Lejeune and Fort Liberty are both located in North Carolina — very little help has been forthcoming. There remains a belief in the West that, despite various recent reversals and losses, the US military is a machine with near-godlike powers: if it really wanted to, it could fill the sky and blot out the sun with an uncountable number of helicopters and planes, whenever and wherever it wants.

▪️Almost a week into the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, those endless helicopters have failed to appear. And as America readies to surge more troops to the Middle East to potentially fight Iran, it’s clear that they can’t appear, at least not without seriously breaking something somewhere else. Troops and aircraft busy in Tennessee or North Carolina can’t be deployed to Jordan, Iraq or Syria. In theory, the US military exists to protect the lives of Americans — that’s why it falls under the Department of Defence. In practice, Americans have largely been left to fend for themselves, 50 miles away from their own military bases, just in case those soldiers and helicopters are needed on the other side of the world.

▪️Contrary to popular belief, Hurricane Helene is not “just a storm”, in the same sense that Chernobyl was not “just an accident”. Beyond all the destroyed roads, the flooded towns, the ruined electrical networks and the stranded American families, Helene is also an indication that the US political system, followed by its military, is very close to the point of moral and physical exhaustion.

🔗 UnHerd

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08 Oct 2024 02:32

🇮🇱🇮🇷It is likely that Israel’s first retaliation against Iran will focus on military bases, and perhaps some intelligence or leadership sites, officials say - NYT

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07 Oct 2024 19:52

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the French 155-mm wheeled self-propelled gun CAESAR on the Tatra T815-7 chassis (or the Ukrainian 2S22 "Bogdan" on the same base) near the village of Sukhie Yaly in the South Donetsk direction.

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07 Oct 2024 19:35

🇾🇪🇮🇱A ballistic missile was launched from Yemen into Israel, the Times of Israel reports, citing the IDF.

The Israeli army said the rocket was successfully intercepted by Israeli air defenses.

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07 Oct 2024 18:41

🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈"We have something to protect."

In Sumy, they advertise the fight for the LGBT flag, which is raised higher than the Ukrainian flag. So to speak, they set priorities.

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08 Oct 2024 11:06

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the settlement of Zoryanoye Pervoye (DPR), the Ministry of Defense reported.

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08 Oct 2024 10:51

🇬🇪🇷🇺Georgian Prime Minister Kobakhidze said that after the elections, which the Georgian Dream expects to win, one of the main foreign policy directions of Georgia will be improving relations with Russia, which were spoiled during the Saakashvili era.

The current regime in Georgia has already officially acknowledged the responsibility of the Saakashvili regime for the war unleashed against South Ossetia, something Russia has been talking about since 2008. It took the Georgians 16 years to acknowledge that Russia was right in this matter. This, of course, increases the chances for a gradual normalization of relations.

But all this will be relevant only if the "Georgian Dream" wins the elections and does not allow a Maidan in Tbilisi, which is being prepared precisely at the instigation of the United States. The pro-Western opposition understands perfectly well that this may be its last chance for power in the coming years. Therefore, the announcement of the election results as "incorrect" and attempts to seize power in Georgia from the streets are practically inevitable.

The upcoming elections for Georgia and the region in this regard are a de facto watershed and they will determine the future of Georgia for many years.

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08 Oct 2024 09:33

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.

Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and he fought alongside them until being captured two months later.

He was sentenced to six years and 10 months in a general-security prison. Prosecutors had called for a sentence of seven years in a maximum-security prison.

Hubbard, from the state of Michigan, is the first American known to have been convicted on charges of fighting as a mercenary in the Ukrainian conflict.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that it had limited information about the case as Russia has refused to grant consular access.

@Slavyangrad

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08 Oct 2024 09:20

🇷🇺🇺🇦Detection and destruction of an American-made M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in the Grodovka area in the Pokrovsk direction.

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08 Oct 2024 08:57

🇷🇺🇺🇦After the destruction of the crossings over the Oskol, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to establish new ones, but they are immediately attacked by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

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08 Oct 2024 08:06

🤡Lithuanian border guards confiscated five camouflage pants from a mail car on the Kaliningrad-Moscow train, RBK reports.

The confiscated cargo will be handed over to Ukraine as aid, the press service of Lithuanian customs reported. The trousers were seized in accordance with the EU Council regulation on sanctions against Russia as an item of possible military use.

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08 Oct 2024 07:45

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Kiev and its Western allies are gradually coming to the understanding that Ukraine will have to start negotiations with Russia and give up the territories it has lost, the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) writes in an editorial.

As the article points out, "in Washington and some Western capitals," as well as in Kiev, "the mood is changing." "From a determination to end the war only after Russia's army is driven out of Ukraine, to a reluctant recognition that the best option one can hope for is a negotiated settlement that would leave most of the country intact. However, Kiev is not getting enough support to achieve even this much more modest goal," the publication's staff points out.

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08 Oct 2024 06:02

🇷🇺🇺🇦In the center of Toretsk we have reached the administrative quarter. The school and police buildings of the city, as well as the indoor market. There is a battle going on. We are pushing.

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08 Oct 2024 05:35

🇺🇸📉 Watchdog found $7B in untapped FEMA funds — even though DHS Secretary Mayorkas said none available for future disasters

A Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s report from August reveals more than $7 billion remain in emergency funding that could be used for natural disasters — even though DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week none was available after Hurricane Helene.

Mayorkas, 64, told reporters following the devastation of Helene in North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to endure more hurricanes this fall.

“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” the DHS chief said Oct. 2, days before Hurricane Milton began picking up speed in the Gulf of Mexico. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what is imminent.”

🔗 New York Post

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08 Oct 2024 05:25

🇵🇰🇨🇳Three Chinese citizens were killed and 17 were injured in an explosion near an airport in Pakistan.

The incident took place near the Karachi airport. A suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives detonated himself near a convoy. The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan said the attack targeted a convoy carrying Chinese employees of the Port Qasim energy company. Pakistani security forces guarding the foreigners were also among the casualties.

The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

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08 Oct 2024 05:21

🇺🇸🇮🇱Trump prayed and remembered those killed on October 7 last year in Israel...

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07 Oct 2024 20:37

🇾🇪🇮🇱The Houthis said they attacked Tel Aviv with two ballistic missiles and also attacked the port city of Eilat with drones. Israel said it shot down the missiles.

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07 Oct 2024 19:50

🇮🇱🇱🇧The IDF is currently carrying out powerful strikes on targets in southern Lebanon.

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07 Oct 2024 19:28

🇷🇺🇺🇦This is exactly what Volchansk looks like now.

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07 Oct 2024 17:02

🇮🇱🇮🇷Information has been received indicating that the Israeli response against Iran will occur "soon", a US security official tells Israel's Channel 13