🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡ US special presidential envoy Jared Kushner views the former Russia-NATO Council as a potential model for negotiations between Moscow and European countries, wrote Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, citing sources.

The White House administration considers dialogue between Russia and European countries to be important for establishing a solid foundation for global stability, he said.

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🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡ EU member states have exhausted levers of pressure on Moscow

- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said.

It is becoming “increasingly difficult” for EU countries “to reach agreements on sectoral restrictions,” he said. “The fact that the measures adopted against our country on October 12 were not officially designated as yet another, 22nd, sanctions package confirms this very trend,” the official added.

“Under the current circumstances, the Council of the EU has managed only to expand its the blacklists of individuals and entities. This once again highlights the structural weakness of the European bureaucracy, which has exhausted its leverage over Moscow but in order to save face can no longer halt its anti-Russian fervor or begin to reverse course,” Pankin noted.

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🇷🇺🇨🇭🇪🇺⚡ The policy pursued by Bern's has buried Switzerland’s reputation as a universal mediator and a neutral venue

- the press service of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland.

“Swiss neutrality has actually ceased to exist" after the freezing of Russian assets, the indiscriminate copying of EU and US sanctions packages, and progressive alignment with NATO," the diplomatic mission said.

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🇵🇱 Polish authorities have provided more information about the victims of yesterday's terrorist attack in Kraków.

There are sixteen injured, including the attacker — 11 Poles and five foreigners.
Fourteen people are in stable condition, one is in serious condition, and the attacker is in critical condition.

The perpetrator underwent several surgeries during the night.

The injured foreigners are citizens of the United Kingdom, Portugal, Russia, Germany, and Austria.

One of the injured police officers is in serious condition and is in a medically induced coma.

In addition, the authorities report that among the six fatalities there were four Poles, one Briton, and one woman without Polish citizenship, whose nationality the authorities are not disclosing, but the TASS agency, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs, claims that she is a Russian citizen.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡ NATO is facing a €7 billion shortfall in meeting its military aid commitments to Ukraine for 2026, Politico reports. The alliance had pledged to provide Kyiv with €70 billion, but European nations are struggling with funding, compounded by a decline in new aid from the United States.

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🇮🇷⚡ Three tankers exploded early this morning and are now engulfed in a major fire in the Strait of Hormuz along a route not authorized by Iran, the public relations department of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported.

The incidents occurred as the tankers had disabled their navigation and identification systems, as well as due to the actions of the US military, according to the report. Iranian regulations for passage through the Strait of Hormuz had been repeatedly communicated to all vessels, the Navy said.

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