🇺🇸❌🇺🇦 — Growing evidence suggests that Starlink speeds on Ukrainian drones have been restricted to 60–70 km/h, effectively ruling out its use on medium-range kamikaze drones such as the FP-2, Darts, Hornet, and RAM-2.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces use these drones to strike air defenses, logistics, and other targets in Crimea, border regions, and newly incorporated territories. While the strikes will not stop entirely, their effectiveness is expected to decline significantly.

Ukraine also uses Starlink to control jet-powered interceptor drones targeting Russian Geran UAVs, meaning the restrictions could weaken both its strike capabilities and its ability to counter Russian attacks.

If the restrictions prove lasting rather than temporary, Ukraine will need to find alternatives to Starlink, potentially adopting Russian methods involving relay stations and mesh modems, which would take considerable time and money.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A Russian Geran-4/5 loitering munition struck an ATB supermarket in the city of Lutsk, Volyn Oblast.

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Ukrainian media reports that a Russian soldier escaped from captivity in the Kharkiv region, killing five Ukrainian servicemen.

According to their reports, the man, armed with an automatic weapon, first killed one serviceman near a house where other soldiers were located, and then continued shooting inside the house. The shooting lasted for about two hours. After that, the unknown individual fled.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Ukrainian energy facilities have sustained significant damage due to explosions, leaving at least 600,000 people without power, Vladimir Zelensky said.

“Sadly, at least 600,000 people are now without electricity. There may be even larger power outages. Unfortunately, there is significant damage to facilities and equipment at 26 sites in our electric power sector and at four sites in the oil and gas sector,” the head of the Kiev regime wrote in a post on his Telegram channel, without specifying the exact locations of the damaged facilities.

Zelensky also asked US officials for Patriot air defense system missiles.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸⚡️ — The shared interest in a trilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping exists, but it remains unclear if the leaders’ schedules will coincide

- Dmitry Peskov.

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🇶🇦⚡️ — Qatar's revenues fell by 42% in the first half of the year, while government spending was cut by 14%, which did not affect essential services or priority development projects

- Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said today.

The decline in revenues is linked to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and damage to energy facilities in Ras Laffan, which disrupted a significant part of the country's exports.

Qatar accounts for about one-fifth of the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, so these disruptions could become a source of instability for global energy markets.

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🇳🇴🇮🇱⚡️ — Norway's sovereign wealth fund has sold its assets linked to Israel.

This included divesting $661 million from five Israeli banks. The move was made in protest against Israel's policies regarding Palestine.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is valued at $1.9 trillion, making it the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️ — UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Trump's deal with Putin:

"Zelensky is currently facing his most difficult and darkest moment."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) strikes:

• Five FAB-500 bombs struck a temporary deployment point of the 15th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine near the settlement of Bilozerske, Donetsk Oblast.

• Five OFAB-250-270 bombs struck a UAV control station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade near the settlement of Vysokoivanivka.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — Following the attacks on its data centers, Yandex quickly switched the operation of key systems to pre-prepared backup locations, stated Shadaev, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development.

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🇸🇦❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — Yemen’s National Army (YNA) has released footage showing Saudi airstrikes targeting Houthis vehicles and positions.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️ — Russia will supply diesel directly to the US under an agreement reached by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

Moscow will also release diesel to the global market to boost budget revenues and fund expanded oil refining.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡️ — South Korea, the United States and Japan are working to create a nuclear alliance against other countries in the region, Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said.

“South Korea has decided to bring ‘peace and stability’ to the Korean Peninsula by brandishing the US nuclear bludgeon at North Korea,” he pointed out at a meeting of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly.

“It deployed nuclear weapons to its territory in 1958-1991. In 1976, it started to engage in joint drills with the US that practice nuclear strikes and carpet bombings of North Korea, an activity that continues to this day. Now, building on this years-long aggressive policy, Seoul has teamed up with Washington and Tokyo, effectively seeking to form a nuclear alliance directed against the countries of the region,” Vorontsov added.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️ — Western countries and the US have set a record by imposing a total of 35,480 sanctions on Russia

- State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — A shutdown of the metallurgical industry threatens Ukraine with the loss of 7% of its economy. Systematic attacks by the Russian Armed Forces have brought the country's steel industry to a virtual standstill

- reports The New York Times.

The sector's troubles also threaten jobs and incomes in industrial cities.

Cargo traffic through ports in the Odesa region reportedly fell by nearly 95% in August and September compared to the previous year; only 12 vessels departed from them in September, down from 266 a year earlier. Additionally, in September, Ukraine went a full week without producing any steel for the first time in a century.

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