Putin’s embarrassing cancellation of Arab summit signals waning influence in Middle East

🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇦 The UK and Canada will join EU plan to tap a portion of the almost $300 billion in Russian assets to support Ukraine, - Bloomberg UK sanctions have frozen more than £25 billion ($33.3 billion) of Russian assets, while the EU holds around €200 billion ($232 billion).

Lithuanian National Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė: For Russia,strategic dilemmas are its tools,its weapons…Until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski stated that Ukraine is planning this war for three years — and that this is a sensible approach. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

"This is a serious threat to Europe" Estonia is concerned about the increase in the issuance of Schengen visas to Russians

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❗️80% of components for 🇷🇺Russian drones are manufactured in 🇨🇳China – senior NATO official

❗️The international drone coalition, led by the 🇬🇧United Kingdom together with 🇱🇻Latvia, will provide 🇺🇦Ukraine with about 35,000 interceptor drones against the 🇷🇺Russian "Shahed".

👀 Situation on Oleksiivka from Russians

🇳🇱🇺🇦 The Netherlands is providing Ukraine with another €90 million aid package, according to the Ministry of Defense. The funds will be used for the purchase and development of Ukrainian UAVs.

🤬 Over the past 7 days, Russians have attacked Ukraine's gas infrastructure three times, - Naftogaz Critically important facilities in Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions have been attacked. In addition, one of the Naftogaz Group's CHP plants was under attack this night.

🇱🇹 Russia is constantly creating strategic dilemmas for NATO. Are we finally ready to create strategic dilemmas for Russia? - Lithuanian Defense Minister. 🗣️ "So until Russia feels that it is suffering consequences for its aggressive war, until then everything else is just talk."

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👀 The photo shows a protective net on one Ukrainian energy facility after being hit by three Shaheds. The facility survived.

⚠️“Russia maintains its maximalist goals in Ukraine, including the seizure of all four so-called ‘annexed’ territories, regime change, demilitarization of the country and addressing what it calls the ‘root causes of the conflict,’” NATO official said.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Military support to Ukraine from European countries decreased by 57% compared to Jan-June 2025, even taking into account their contributions to the NATO PURL initiative, - Kiel Institute Average monthly volume of military aid during this period was 43% below the level of the first half of 2025.

Large Russian enterprises are switching to three- and four-day work weeks, Russian media outlets report. ◾️ Uralvagonzavod - one of the world’s leading manufacturers of armored vehicles (including T-72 tanks) and Russia’s largest producer of freight railcars - is now operating below full capacity.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I've always said that war is not about numbers or equipment.War is about people, their stories,their lives The faces you see here are rescuers from Odesa region.Russia attacks Odesa a lot.The rescuers have to deal with the aftermath None of us chose war.It's been brought upon us and we do our best

Report by the UN representative on today's Russian attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region.

Cadet groups have opened in kindergartens in at least 26 regions of Russia. Preschoolers are being taught hand-to-hand combat and firearms training. This is terrifying and disgusting on so many levels. And this will remain a problem for years and decades to come.

Russia's fuel panic has spread to the Irkutsk region, with truckers now allowed a maximum of 50 liters per customer.

Defying sanctions, this Italian company is now working to prop up Putin's war machine.

Yet another sign that RUS is not seeking peace! UKR has relaxed some of its mobilization rules (going abroad <22y., IINM) & is calling for ceasefire every day! If RUS gives itself more means of aggression, allies must give UKR more decisive weapons (JASSAM, ERAM, TAURUS...)! bsky.app/profile/thes...

WARNING: The Kremlin is Preparing to Mobilize Reservists on a Rolling Basis to Fight in Ukraine for the First Time: isw.pub/UKRWARNO101325 Note: This warning does not suggest that the Kremlin is likely to undertake a single large-scale mobilization at this time.

"Russia’s exit from the anti-torture convention is a stark declaration: the Russian state will act as it pleases and reject the oversight that might restrain its worst impulses," writes lawyer and serviceman Nestor Barchuk in his recent op-ed.

💔 Shelling of Kherson – Death toll rises to three, four injured On October 14, Russians shelled the city with artillery. A man and two women were killed in the attacks.

🇺🇦‼️ The kill zone on the front has deepened by kilometers: now the realities of the battlefield are determined by strike drones, and the lethal zone already reaches 10 km, — Syrskyi 🙏 The capabilities of logistics and military medicine acquire enormous importance.

❗️Ukrainian assault units advanced up to 1.6 km in some directions, — General Staff of Ukraine Over the past day, the Ukrainian military has conducted a search and destruction of the enemy in the territory of 3.4 sq km of Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region

"Kaliningrad would be eliminated within the first hours, and Russia’s military facilities in Sevastopol as well." - said former U.S. Army Europe commander Ben Hodges about what would happen in the event of a direct NATO–Russia confrontation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBVO...

❗️🇨🇳China significantly helped the 🇷🇺Russian Federation gain an advantage in fiber-optic drones in the war against 🇺🇦Ukraine — WP

Footage shows the aftermath of the Russian attack on a district of Kharkiv, where the strike also hit a hospital.

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🤬 The Russians hit Kharkiv with three KABs. The building of a medical institution where people with endocrine diseases are treated and power lines were damaged. Several districts of the city were left without electricity. Kirovohrad region: damage to buildings, 5 settlements without electricity.

At night, the Russians shelled Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. The mayor of Kharkiv reported a fire at a hospital following the attacks. It is also known that four people were injured.

Russians living in the safety and comfort of civilized Estonia band together in a Facebook group aimed at a Russian takeover of Europe. Around 63,000 of them.

‼️Russia attacked a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region. This morning, in the vicinity of Kherson, Russian forces deliberately targeted a convoy of trucks belonging to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) using drones and artillery.

⚡️ Hospital damaged in Russian strike on Kharkiv, 6 people injured. At the time of the attack, more than 100 patients were in the hospital.

❗️Russia targeted a hospital in Kharkiv – a major fire broke out after the strike.

Storm Shadows threat in Crimea! 🚀

I recommend reading Oleksii Anulia's book "Jingle BellZ." It is a testimony of a former Ukrainian prisoner of war about the modern Russian Gulag. You have probably read about Stalin's terror, but you cannot even imagine how much the system has changed and become even more terrifying since 1930.

2/No Russian missile will fly without parts from other countries. It's not just China and Taiwan. Some components also come from Europe and other countries cooperating with Russia. Our team can provide all the facts and share the necessary information. Please discuss this in your governments."

🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU is increasingly convinced that tapping frozen Russian central bank assets is the only viable way to put funding for Ukraine on a sustainable footing, - Bloomberg The EU aims to reach a political agreement in Brussels next week, and then start work on a legal proposal for a mechanism.

🤬 For the second time in six months, a lyceum in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, has been destroyed, and again immediately after renovation. The building had not even had time to be put into operation when the Russians bombed it. The institution is located 64km from the front line.

‼️ Putin can be forced to make peace, just like any other terrorist. Even Hamas has already released hostages. Russia must lose, — Zelensky at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. “Now we see that the war in the Middle East is finally ending—after so many victims, there is a real chance for peace.

"For a certain period, time was on Russia’s side, but now it’s on Ukraine’s." - Kallas. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, stated during a joint briefing with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha that "Russia’s war economy is already weak and will become weaker."

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social : "The European Union has already mobilized €800 million to support Ukraine this winter. We are working on an extra €100 million for generators, shelters, and cold-weather gear

❗️Russian miners and industry are plunged into their worst crisis in 30 years due to sanctions, rising costs, and low prices, according to the Financial Times. The publication reports that the sector suffered losses of $2.8 billion in the first seven months of the year.

🤬 Russians used a drone to strike a store in Chernihiv region, killing one person, — State Emergency Service. Another person was injured. A fire broke out at the scene.