🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Military has been at the front for eight (8) months now without rotation and rest, the shelling of Russian artillery and the news of new mobilization reserves of Russia are causing a drop in discipline among the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .. against the backdrop of a lack of people and resources.

The Washington Post reports on the state of the Ukrainian army

The article says that many units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were overwhelmed by a wave of demoralization, as there were "too many losses."

🇳🇬🇳🇬 Why I Called #LekkiShooting Photoshopped ~ Ex-General Enenche

A former Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche (retd.), who described the #EndSARS shooting incident as “photoshopped” and “cropped” has given the reasons behind his claim in 2020.. On Friday night, however, Enenche released a press statement on his official Twitter page, @EnenchejohnEne1, addressing the issue raised. He said he only declared that the shooting was photoshopped because of an oath of allegiance he swore on commission into the military service.

🇩🇪🇪🇺 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for the reform and expansion of the EU, calling for the gradual abolition of the principle of unanimity in decision-making in foreign policy, as well as in other areas,such as tax policy. swissinfo.ch/eng/germany-s-… German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during the congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), strongly supported the reform of the European Union in order to facilitate the process of admission of new members to the EU.

🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina acknowledged that the North Atlantic Alliance is involved in the Ukrainian conflict, saying that the Russian special operation gives the Russian Federation .. newsweek.com/ukraine-no-fly… the experience of fighting "actually with the NATO army."

"The more indecision the democratic world demonstrates... the stronger the Russian Federation becomes," she said in an interview with Newsweek. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the special operation in Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇲 Russia Reacts to Azov Neo-Nazi’s Platform at Prestigious US University

On October 1 members of the notorious far-right Ukrainian Azov movement, including two former POWs recently released by Russia, held an event addressing students at Stanford University. Russia’s ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has rebuked the event saying that: “It would appear that in its maniacal drive to tarnish and cancel Russia, the US is prepared to glorify Nazism.”

🇧🇾🇷🇺 Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus Viktor Tumar:

“In order to ensure parity in the field of military security and maintain peace in the Republic of Belarus, a decision was made to create a Regional Group of Forces on our territory. It will be based on the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in peacetime, as well as individual military formations of the Russian Federation.

The regional grouping of troops (forces) of the Union State is an exclusively defensive project.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia Displaces Ukraine From The World Food Market

Following the meeting between Putin and Erdogan, it became obvious that the "grain deal" would not be extended. The president is personally dissatisfied, his assistant Ushakov and Foreign Minister Lavrov criticize it .. Arguments against:

1. The West has not fulfilled its obligations to lift restrictions on Russian grain exports.

2. Kiev and the West have not kept their promises to export ammonia.
3. Grain is transported not to poor countries, but to the EU.

🇮🇳🇬🇲 Violations Found at Exported Cough Syrup Firm Linked to Child Deaths in Africa

Indian authorities have conceded the main factory of the New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals had been manufacturing and testing drugs in violation of rules.. "In view of the seriousness of the contraventions observed during the investigation and its potential risk to the quality, safety and efficacy of the drug being produced, all the manufacturing activities of the firm is being stopped with immediate effect,"

🇳🇬🇳🇬 Obi under fire over Enenche’s appointment into presidential campaign council

Outrage has trailed the appointment of former Director of Information at the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, as a member of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi.

Enenche was accused of allegedly claiming photos and videos of unarmed #EndSARS demonstrators at Lekki Tollgate shooting on October 20, 2020 were photoshopped.

Obi released a list of his campaign team, which had 1,234 names,

🇪🇪🇧🇾 Baltic State Subjected Refugees to ‘Torture’ ~ Amnesty International

Latvia used masked ‘commandos’ to abuse numerous asylum seekers during the refugee crisis on its border with Belarus last year, international human rights watchdog Amnesty International has claimed. According to the report, the victims were held at secret locations and subjected to coercion, abuse and even torture as part of intimidation tactics meant to pressure refugees into returning to Belarus “voluntarily”.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia threatens to withdraw from UN-backed grain export agreement ~ Reuters

Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, told Reuters that Moscow could withhold support for the UN-backed grain deal’s renewal next month if the UN doesn’t address its concerns. Russia demands that the UN helps with "allowing the exports of Russian grains and fertilizers."

However, the U.S. and Europe say they did not target Russian grain and fertilizer exports by sanctions imposed due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Helping Ukrainians in the EU with their job search

The European Commission has launched a new pilot project EU Talent Pool, which should make it easier for people with temporary protection to find a job in the EU through the EURES portal.. The European Employment Service (EURES) is a European cooperation network between the European Commission, the European Labour Administration (ELA), national employment services and other members and partners in Europe.

🇺🇲🇷🇺 Biden team fears Russian oil price cap may backfire

Some Biden administration officials are wary their plan to cap the price of Russian oil risks backfiring after the OPEC+ unexpected production cut, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. The plan to limit oil prices was aimed at keeping enough Russian supplies on the world market to prevent a spike in global oil prices, but the proposal was complicated from the start and has been the subject of intense diplomacy with European allies, the sources said.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky Official:

This year we saw that Russia deliberately rejects any real dialogue with us. Russia wants to speak the language of terror only.

This fact must be recognized at all levels: politically, legally and on the battlefield in Ukraine - by supporting our defense capabilities. And I am grateful for the fact that the PACE can become the first international organization that designates Russia exactly this way - as a terrorist state.

Ukraine offered its way to peace. This is the European way.

🇮🇱🇺🇦 As missiles strike Ukraine, Israel won’t sell its vaunted air defense

Moscow’s deadly air assault on Ukrainian cities has ramped up pressure on Western nations to rush air defense systems to the embattled country, but it is still unlikely to receive one of the world’s .. most effective tools against incoming projectiles.

Israel’s Iron Dome air defense, which boasts a 90 percent success rate against rockets fired against it, will stay out of Ukraine’s reach, experts said, as Jerusalem seeks to maintain strategic relations with Russia in Syria

🇳🇬🇳🇬 Labour Party’s allies reject PCC list, threaten to pull out of alliance, The Nation Reports

Leaders and Allies of the National Consultative Front, NCFront, the umbrella platform of the 3rd Force Movement in Nigeria, including key Support Groups and the 40Million Ballots.. Movement, have rejected the Presidential Campaign Council list released on Wednesday in Abuja by the Labour Party (LP) and close associates of the presidential candidate Peter Obi.

The stakeholders and allies of the NCFront-3rd Force Movement, who adopted the Labour Party

🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇲 Russia's Economy Withstands Sanctions While Europe Falls Into Recession, The Economist Reports

The economic war between Russia and the West is at a delicate moment, while Europe teeters on the brink of a deep recession, the economic situation in Russia is improving. Goldman Sachs, with its "Сurrent-activity indicator," which gives a month-to-month view of how countries' economies are faring, shows that Russia is more economically active than the major European economies.

🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin meets with Erdogan in Astana.

• If Turkey is interested, we could consider the possibility of another gas pipeline system and the creation of a gas hub in Turkey

• Gas supplies to Turkey are going in full, country has turned out to be the most reliable partner .. in negotiations with Erdogan

• Joint steps by Turkey and Russia will worry some countries, but we are determined - Erdogan at a meeting with Putin

• Gas supplies to Turkey are going in full, the country has turned out to be the most reliable partner.

🇫🇷🇺🇲 The French intelligence community names the USA as France's main enemy! ~ EGE

In a report entitled "Who is the enemy?" published this week, the US / UK are described as having set up a  "war machine" aimed at undermining the French interests for the benefit of the USA.. Examples are given as the attacks against Alstom, Naval Group or against french cinema.

The file also mentions China/Russia but as a secondary problem compared to the US threat.

Moreover, the video published with the report is also evocative: