🇺🇸🇾🇪🇮🇷⚡️ Trump on attacking the Houthis:

"They're behaving badly. I won't say whether I've made any decision."

"We'll soon make a decision on the Iran issue."

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🇺🇦⚡️ Kiev is the worst performer of the resilience plan — even worse than the border and frontline regions

— Zelensky.

He has begun consultations on urgent security and governance measures to fix the situation in the city.

"Protecting energy facilities and critical infrastructure in the capital, carrying out tasks together with the government and the military, understanding people's needs, and rationally changing the governance algorithms of Kiev — we are preparing decisions."

Zelensky, in particular, met with former SBU head Vasyl Maliuk to discuss preparing the capital for winter.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ In Lutsk in western Ukraine, the Adrenalin City shopping and entertainment center is on fire: debris from a jet-powered Geran "fell" on the building.

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🇺🇦⚡ Ukraine's international reserves as of October 1 decreased by 17.8% ($10.19 billion) since the beginning of the year — to $47.1 billion, compared to $57.3 billion in January.

The decline in liquid reserves is occurring against the backdrop of growing total public debt, which by the end of August reached $215.55 billion.

According to forecasts, by the end of the year the figure will increase to $226 billion, or about 122.6% of GDP.

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🇺🇦🇪🇺🇭🇺⚡ Ukraine today achieved another step forward on its path to joining the European Union, after Hungary withdrew its objection to starting the next stage of negotiations between the parties.

The new stage will focus on aligning Ukraine's economy with European Union rules on the single market and competition.

Hungary agreed to this step after the Ukrainian parliament yesterday passed a law expanding the rights of Hungarians and other minorities in the country to education in their native language.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️ There are delays in the delivery of military aid to Ukraine, but no one has stopped these deliveries, said US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker in a comment to AFP.

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🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡️ Russian Federal Security Service officers have detained a correspondent for the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on suspicion of espionage on Sakhalin.

The FSB said he was collecting and storing information on Russia's defense capabilities for transfer to Japan's intelligence service.

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🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡️ A correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia’s Far East has been detained on suspicion of espionage, transported to Moscow and placed in custody, the FSB said.

“On the eve of his departure from our country, the foreign national was detained in the Sakhalin Region and then taken to Moscow. The Investigative Directorate of the FSB of Russia has initiated a criminal case against the Japanese citizen under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (espionage),” it said.

“By a decision of the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow, he has been placed under arrest. Further investigative and operational activities are being carried out."

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