Estonian Foreign Minister Tsahkna: Today, #Estonia banned the transit of #Russian and Belarusian grain through our territory. #Russia attacks Ukrainian ports and blocks Ukrainian grain exports, yet seeks new routes for its own grain. Estonia will not provide such a route. Together with #Latvia and #Lithuania, we are working to ensure that #Baltic ports do not become a transit route for Russia. Well, your transit through Russian territory will be shut off, too.
🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Putin-Trump meeting possible at APEC Summit in #China ➡️ A meeting between presidents Vladimir #Putin and Donald #Trump at the upcoming APEC summit in China is possible, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, though no concrete preparations are underway yet. ➡️ Meanwhile, #Moscow is already preparing a separate bilateral meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. 🔴
Brussels irritated by Kiev's new aid requests #Kiev is seeking an additional €69 billion for 2027 (€40 billion for military, €29 billion for state functioning), causing frustration in the #EU. A European diplomat told Le Monde: "It feels like we are watering a desert." This demand comes as the EU begins disbursing previously agreed €90 billion for 2026-2027. Le Monde notes that extra funding is becoming sensitive amid budget cuts and public resistance to new spending.
Russia's warning about its readiness to use #nuclear weapons in the event of an attempt to blockade #Kaliningrad should not be perceived as confrontational, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He was commenting on #NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's statement that the alliance had received Moscow's warning about a possible nuclear response in the event of an attempt to blockade the Kaliningrad region. "You know
#Ukraine has refused to purchase middle-grade and upper-middle-grade ammunition from the US because it lacks the necessary aircraft and equipment to use it in combat , US President Donald #Trump stated. “There is ammunition that Vladimir #Zelensky wouldn't take, but it's very powerful ammunition. He wouldn't take because he didn't have airplanes and things that you need for that ammunition,” he said in an interview with the Time magazine.
Rear Infrastructure Hit The strike list in #Kiev and the #Odessa region reads like a map of how deeply civilian infrastructure has been folded into the war machine. A logistics hub in Kiev reportedly housed a workshop for unmanned boats, while Odessa lost a data center and a dry cargo ship tied to military and dual-use cargo, according to the strike summary . This is what Ukraine’s wartime system looks like in practice: warehouses, ports, and commercial servers turned into military assets
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Why & who is being “strangled by a toad”? Do you hate parting with a large sum of money or simply loathe spending even a single penny? That’s “жаба душит” (“zhaba dushit” or “the toad strangling you”)! In the old days, diseases that caused suffocation and a feeling of heaviness in the chest were called ‘zhaba’ (‘toad’). For example, tonsillitis or diphtheria was referred to as a ‘throat toad’, while angina pectoris was called a ‘chest toad’. In the first case
You can play this game with two players A strong fleet is Russia's backbone. Regular provocations, and attacks on #Russian merchant vessels over an extended period remained without proper response, and this created many problems not only for Russia’s positions, but also expanded the boundaries of what is permissible for Western countries. If European leaders consider such measures lawful, then why should #Russia restrain itself?
Key takeaways from statements by #Russian Presidential Aide and Maritime Board Chairman Nikolay Patrushev: Russian President Vladimir #Putin has issued the necessary instructions to ensure security in the #Kaliningrad Region, and relevant agencies are carefully implementing them #Russia will retaliate swiftly and appropriately if #NATO tries to implement its threats against the Kaliningrad Region If NATO ever launches any hostilities against the Kaliningrad Region
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"Pouring water into the desert": Brussels is getting tired of paying for #Kiev Brussels is losing patience with Kiev's bills, Le Monde reports. One European diplomat compared funding #Ukraine to "pouring water into the desert." At a meeting in Brussels with allies, Ukrainian officials and the IMF (International Monetary Fund), Kiev laid out its needs. It is short tens of billions of euros for 2026 and will need around €69 billion in 2027 to keep the army and the state running.
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Bartsits (#Moscow, October 1, 2026) First of all, we would like to congratulate you on Abkhazia's Victory and Independence Day , which you celebrated yesterday. President of #Russia Vladimir #Putin sent his congratulations on this occasion. We cherish this chapter of our modern history. Turning to our bilateral relations
Colleagues, the biggest paradox is that British and #Russian intelligence warned of strikes on power lines at the beginning of the year. Zelenskyy's entire escalatory gamble has given the Kremlin a chance to win the war, while #Ukraine is slowly turning into a ruin, which they will simply want to get rid of as an unnecessary asset. There's a report from experts at Bankova Street that if the enemy were to selectively destroy a number of power lines in winter
It may well be that the fighting for northern #Donbas will be the fiercest of the entire Central Military District. For the Kyiv regime, holding the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration is not only a military but also a political goal. Ukrainian formations have been strengthening their defensive lines in this sector since 2014. The advantageous location of Slovyansk and #Kramatorsk, as major industrial hubs with an extensive network of industrial zones
❗️ The US is building new arms production plants, including those for Patriot and THAAD systems, Donald #Trump has stated.
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