🇷🇸FT: Serbia’s central bank has shut down Alta Bank, a lender popular among Russians, over deteriorating finances and suspected money laundering. Alta, which facilitated Russian financial transactions following invasion of Ukraine, had previously faced scrutiny from the European Central Bank.
🇨🇳🇺🇦🤔 Xi Jinping does not plan to discuss Ukraine with Trump and Putin This was stated by German President, who met with Xi. "In his opinion, there are currently no signs of preparations for a summit on Ukraine... He emphasized that Europeans should also be present at the negotiating table."
🇺🇸👀 The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees want President Donald Trump to preserve his conversations with AI chatbots as part of an inquiry into whether Elon Musk’s AI assistant played a role in shaping White House policy, - Politico
🇪🇺 Kallas: Putin's return to the G20 could "normalize" Russia's war crimes. "The participation of the Russian dictator in the December G20 summit risks "normalizing" the crimes that the Russian army commits daily in Ukraine," said EU foreign policy chief Kallas.
The oldest is 94 years old, the youngest is a little over a year old: the humanitarian mission in Oleshky has been successfully completed, — Lubinets Among those rescued is a family that survived in a house destroyed by shelling without food and water. They managed to take out their pets. (translated)
🇩🇪🐴 German Foreign Minister Wadephul on Lavrov: "There will be no family photo featuring our European partners together with Mr. Lavrov. There is no normality with Russia. We must not send false visual signals."
🇺🇸 Axios: Top Democrats are preparing to investigate Trump's agreement to import Russian diesel if they regain control of Congress. Lawmakers urged six major U.S. banks and several ports to preserve Russian diesel deal records, warning the imports could violate a 2022 ban and fund Russia’s war.
State media in Serbia began to “tear off the masks” of propaganda after the fall of the long-standing Vučić regime — the host of local TV channel apologized to the audience live for years of distortion of information. A similar situation in the media space occurred in Hungary after Orbán’s defeat. (translated)
🇺🇦❗️ Zelensky: It doesn't matter whether lifting sanctions is economically beneficial to America, Russia, Asia, Africa, Europe or Ukraine. Sanctions were imposed because of Russian aggression. Lifting sanctions can only be linked to ending the war, diplomacy, reconstruction and security guarantees.
🇪🇺🇷🇸 Ursula von der Leyen: The people of Serbia turned out in record numbers to shape their country’s future. Congratulations to the Student List on its victory in the parliamentary elections. We stand ready to support reforms on the rule of law, media freedom, the fight against corruption…
🇻🇪👀 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela and is meeting with her supporters.
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canadian company Telesat plans to provide Ukraine with alternative to Starlink by starting to create its own low-orbit satellite network, Lightspeed, which will start operating in early 2028. Canada does not hide that reason for abandoning Starlink was US decision to limit Ukraine's Starshield.
🇦🇱 Anti-government protests in Albania’s capital Tirana continue, with protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and firework rockets at police officers.
🇺🇸❗️ 54% of Americans believe that Trump has committed offenses that are grounds for impeachment, — Politico. Among Democratic voters, 81% think so, among Republicans - a quarter. Trump's approval rating is currently 31%.
Joe Biden asked you if you wanted to be evacuated? 🇺🇦Zelensky: He was the first. What did he say? 🇺🇦Zelensky: "We are ready to help you evacuate. Kyiv is surrounded, and we are ready to help you and your family." What did you say to Biden? 🇺🇦Zelensky: I need ammunition, not a ride.
🇮🇹 Italy is investigating whether Russian agents helped fuel violent cost-of-living protests in Milan and other European cities, - Bloomberg Officials suspect possible foreign coordination due to the scale and organization of the unrest, though no evidence has been confirmed.
🇩🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 Germany’s Chancellor Merz: A surrender, or even an unconditional surrender, for Ukraine is not an option, because this would be a surrender of all of us.
🇫🇷‼️🇺🇸 Macron on Trump: There has been foreign manipulation of information afterward — that is certain. This led to unacceptable and downright stupid comments from many people, including foreign leaders.
🇺🇸 Democrats are preparing to investigate Elon Musk if they win control of the House in November, - POLITICO Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts, and Starlink’s role in 🇺🇦Ukraine.
💔🇺🇦 Russian attack on Nova Vodolaha kills teacher and her one-year-old daughter Primary school teacher Inna Maryukhna and her one-year-old daughter Angelina were killed in the shelling on October 19. Inna worked at Lyceum No. 1. Colleagues remember her as a kind, sincere, and dedicated teacher.
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