🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian officials in St. Petersburg on October 21 to discuss U.S. and European proposals for peace in Ukraine.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Satellite images showing the aftermath of the attack on the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant in the Rostov region.

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🇬🇧🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Britain will send additional forces to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks, as British fighter jets will be deployed to defend Saudi cities and infrastructure against Yemeni attacks.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham asked the Royal Air Force to fly missions to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks. RAF fighter jets will be deployed to defend Saudi cities and infrastructure against aerial attacks from the Iran-backed Yemeni militant group.

— Bloomberg

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🇺🇦⚡️ — If you haven't woken up yet, here's a video from Oddesa, where Roma people are storming a military recruitment center because they claim one of them was falsely accused.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️ — In Kiev, American-backed officials from NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAP (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office) are conducting searches at the residence of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyi.

Searches are also being conducted at all addresses associated with the head of the Ukrainian central bank.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of peace negotiations, in order to further pressure Zelenskyy.

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🇫🇷⚡️ — A French Air and Space Force Mirage 2000D fighter crashed near Rogéville in Meurthe-et-Moselle at around 22:40 local time on October 20 while returning from a mission.

One pilot was killed, while the other remains missing.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — On Fox News, Zelenskyy for the first time conceded. If you understand what I mean.

Host: Would you agree to a peace agreement that freezes the current situation, where you retain 75 percent or more of your country? Regardless of how it all started, would you agree to what currently exists?

Zelenskyy: Yes.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Don't be misled, because just a minute earlier, he stated the following:

They are not achieving success on the battlefield. That's why they want to use any kind of pressure on us to force us off our land.

This is unfair. We cannot simply abandon our country, our homes. These are our children. That's why we are saying that we will stay where we are.

Let's move towards diplomacy. It's a great idea – the proposal for a ceasefire put forward by the President of the United States.

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🇹🇷🇸🇦⚡️ — Turkish authorities are preparing to ask parliament for permission to deploy military personnel in Saudi Arabia under a trilateral defense agreement with Riyadh and Pakistan, a lawmaker from the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Reuters.

The proposal will be submitted after parliament ratifies the Joint Defense Agreement in Mecca, signed by the three countries in August and officially presented to Turkish lawmakers on Tuesday.

This step will bring NATO’s second-largest army closer to direct involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

The lawmaker from the ruling party, who wished to remain anonymous, said that Turkish personnel deployed under the agreement would not take part in offensive operations.

Instead, Ankara will initially send military specialists and technicians to assist Saudi Arabia with air defense systems, electronic warfare capabilities, and other forms of defensive support.

Two officials previously told Reuters that Turkey’s contribution is expected to focus on military equipment, intelligence sharing, and weapons systems, and that no deployments under this agreement have taken place so far.

Turkey has also agreed to join the coalition led by Saudi Arabia that is said to aim at “ensuring the security of shipping” in the Red Sea, further expanding Ankara’s military cooperation with Riyadh against the backdrop of ongoing Yemeni armed forces operations against Saudi-backed forces.

Ankara has condemned the attacks carried out by the Ansar Allah group, while the proposed deployment will deepen Turkey’s involvement in the Saudi-led regional security architecture, despite officials insisting that Turkey’s military role will remain strictly defensive.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — According to the Financial Times, Israel planned to carry out a strike on Iran at the beginning of this month, but Trump stopped this operation and declared that there would be no new attacks on Iran until the U.S. midterm elections.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡️ — A report in the Wall Street Journal says that U.S. intelligence services believe Russia’s failed attempt to attack cargo planes with drones at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany in August marked the start of a large-scale campaign of sabotage and covert operations against NATO countries, which was allegedly personally authorized by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After the failed attack, a source in the Kremlin, who had been used as a secret communication channel with the German government, contacted his counterpart in Berlin. The warning that was delivered was clear and harsh: Leipzig would not be the last attack.

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🇮🇹⚡️ — Milan Cathedral (Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary) has been placed under heavy police security.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — Unfortunately, Russia has lost a second Su-30SM fighter jet today. This time, both crew members were killed.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Elon Musk:

“Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …”

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