🇷🇺 Sergey Lavrov:

"As soon as the West gives Ukraine the go-ahead to use long-range missiles, Russia's response will already be in effect"

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🇭🇺🖕 🇺🇦Ukraine can't defeat Russia on the battlefield; Hungary blocks €35 billion loan to Kiev using frozen Russian assets before US elections.

▪️Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Ukraine could not defeat Russia on the battlefield and called for a ceasefire to save lives, Reuters reports.

▪️Budapest also believes that Trump, if he wins, will oppose the EU's idea of extending the freeze on Russian assets not for 6, but for 36 months, in order to provide a long-term guarantee to the United States, Euronews reports.

▪️"We believe that this issue - the extension of Russian sanctions - should be resolved after the US elections. We must see in what direction the future US administration will go on this issue. You can see the presidential elections and the election campaign: there are two completely different ways to solve this problem. One is towards peace. And the other is to continue the war," said Hungarian Finance Minister Mihaly Varga after a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg.

▪️All other EU countries supported extending the freeze and providing Ukraine with a loan. European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni called this “quasi-unanimous” support.

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❗️ Do Rzeczy: The West failed to realize its plan to bleed Russia dry in Ukraine.

Western politicians who called on Kyiv to wage an uncompromising fight against Russia sold illusions to Ukrainians and made impossible promises, writes Do Rzeczy.

The aim of the military conflict for the West was to bleed Russia dry, but today it is far from achieving this goal. After several months of fighting, Ugledar, a city in the southwest of Donetsk region that Ukrainians considered an impregnable fortress, fell.
Along with reports from other frontline areas, this indicates a rapid deterioration in the situation in Kyiv.

The main points from the article:

🟥 The West's dreams of bleeding Russia to death have led Ukraine to collapse;

🟥 Ukraine is weakening and ready to make territorial concessions to reach a peace deal with Russia, according to the Financial Times;

🟥 Kyiv is ready for negotiations with the Kremlin and territorial concessions, which could be one of Vladimir Putin’s conditions;

🟥 Ukraine's new Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga has taken a more pragmatic stance on territorial security negotiations;

🟥 Timing is of the essence in politics, and missing the moment can result in losing everything.
The main responsibility for the deterioration of Kyiv's situation lies with the Ukrainian leadership, but also with those politicians who called for an uncompromising struggle.

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🇺🇦Yermak's advisor Daria Zarivna said that the second "peace summit" will not take place in November

"The second 'peace summit' will not take place in November. But everything for its preparation should already be ready. For now, thematic conferences are being held on each point of the formula, which end with the adoption of a communiqué. The main provisions of these communiqués will form the basis for the upcoming 'peace plan' of the second summit," Yermak's adviser said in a commentary to the Telegraph publication.

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Steam was included in the register of prohibited sites of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media.

Three platform pages were added to the registry within a week

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Now deleted.

Channel One explained the blocking of Discord by saying that the service had become an “anonymous community for criminals,” and showed some messages as arguments

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🇭🇺 Orban was attacked during a press conference by some "oppositionist" who yelled that the prime minister had sold Hungary to Putin and Xi Jinping

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❗️ Türkiye has decided to block access to the Discord messenger in the country, said Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc.

"A decision has been made to block access to the social media platform Discord in Turkey," state television channel TRT haber quotes the minister directly.

Editors note: (Anecdote, from my experience in the gaming industry, it's been known since around 2019 that Discord has what are called 'backdoors' built in. Basically, everything the US government told you that it fears Tik Tok and the Chinese government might do, Discord and the US government likely already does and has been doing for years)

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As suspected, the source cited for this story is yet another fake AI website - 'The Seattle Tribune'.

Once more a basic wordpress theme website with a URL similar to that of a regional US news outlet.

The fact this person WITHIN RUSSIA, who has already been outted in the Western press, continues to be supported in peddling these utterly nonsensical and credibility damaging fakes is a source of anger and embarrassment for me.

I have done all within my power to report and combat this, seemingly to no avail. To have such agents operating, apparently above repercussion and consequence, is a big blow to morale in the ongoing information war.

Edit: For clarity, some mistakenly believe Ukraine Watch to be the authors of this fake story, which isn't the case, they may have written the post, but they merely fell for it. Therein lies the problem. Good decent channels trying to wake people up to the truth are damaged by this person and their backers. Which, as we know, is a classic counter intelligence tactic.

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🇭🇺 Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Russia's war with Ukraine:

"China has a peace plan. The United States runs a war policy. Europe, instead of having an autonomous strategic approach, is simply copying the American position."

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NewsGuard already claiming a swift victory "pre-bunking" these ridiculous AI website stories.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary-reality-check-readers

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The Israeli Air Force has carried out more than 230 strikes on targets in Lebanon over the past 24 hours.

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Hinkle's new project repeating Western lies:

https://xn--r1a.website/legitimatetargets/22?single

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukraine to start selling weapons to fill budget, — FT
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces "are experiencing a colossal shortage of drones," said Dmitry Khasapov, head of Ukrspetssystems, one of the largest drone manufacturers. According to experts, the Russian Federation has a 5-10-fold advantage.
▪️Local manufacturers hope to earn up to $20 billion from UAV sales.
▪️ Also, lifting export restrictions will help attract more contracts and support from Western partners. They are currently facing a shortage of government orders.
▪️“Ukraine’s budget for arms purchases this year is only $6 billion, with about a third of that amount allocated for drones – this is not enough.”
▪️Khasapov says they don't get enough government contracts for their production facilities because "the state doesn't have the funds to buy it"

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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted a bill banning the mobilization of citizens aged 18 to 25 .

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‼️🇺🇦🔥 Ukraine faces coup d'état if peace deal is concluded under "NATO in exchange for territories" formula, — Forbes
▪️Zelensky is being forced to cede territory in exchange for promises of joining NATO.
▪️When the process begins, ultra-nationalist elements will rise up and stage a coup against Zelensky for “surrendering” Donbass and Crimea, the publication believes.
▪️Russian narratives fill Ukrainian media about the betrayal of the West:
➖the topic of insufficient and slow support for Ukraine is being actively discussed
➖The West is using Ukraine as a puppet, and Ukrainian media criticize Zelensky for centralizing power.

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❗️ Hungarian PM Orban: Trump Will Bring Peace to Ukraine Before Inauguration

If Trump wins the election, he will not wait for the inauguration, but will immediately begin to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Politico writes. Therefore, European leaders need to "strategically comprehend" the situation in the near future. The Hungarian Prime Minister proposes to do this at an informal summit of EU leaders in Budapest on November 7 - two days after the American elections. The Prime Minister also emphasized the "significant difference" between Trump's foreign policy approach and the current Democratic administration.

"Trump will act immediately, and we, European leaders, must not waste time, because between the elections and the inauguration of the new president there will not be two or three months, as usual. First we must think about it philosophically, then we must understand it strategically, and then we must react at the level of action as soon as possible," Orban said.

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❗️Russian army units liberated the settlements of Novaya Sorochina and Pokrovsky in the Kursk region from Ukrainian militants.

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