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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Hours after U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called Vladimir Putin a "humanitarian" during talks in St. Petersburg, a barrage of Russian missiles struck central Kyiv, killing at least one person and injuring over 20.

⚡️️️️️️️Helsinki announces over $336 million for Ukraine to boost energy system, satellite intelligence as Finnish PM visits Kyiv. Kyiv has made a deal with Finnish companies Nokia and ICEYE to allow Ukraine greater access to Finland's satellite services, President Zelensky said.

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine. "Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

⚡️️️️️️️Rosneft admits losses from Ukraine's refinery strikes becoming unsustainable, Bloomberg reports. Officials at Rosneft have privately voiced concerns that even a few more months of Ukraine's continued attacks could lead to lasting damage for the company.

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"

Trump: "Our country is making more money than it has ever made because of the fact that oil is so high"

⚡️ Breaking: Starlink service in Ukraine 'restored,' Defense Ministry source says. SpaceX, the owner of Starlink, implemented speed restrictions on Oct. 14 without warning.

❗️🔥BREAKING: Ukraine’s Navy says it destroyed six Russian Su-34M fighter-bombers at the Borisoglebsk military airfield in Voronezh Oblast overnight. The strike was carried out with Ukraine’s Neptune coastal missile system. #Ukraine

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV drone shoots down 🇷🇺Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-28 attack helicopter in Voronezh region.

🇺🇸🤔 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson: Everybody's frustrated about fuel prices, obviously, but that's not related to policies. It's not related to the Republicans in office. This is related to the Strait of Hormuz. It is not yet resolved there. P.S. But… But… Ukraine?

😮🇺🇦 Nothing unusual, just a man surfing on "Shahed" in Odesa

Today, the main trigger topic for Russians has become the actual impossibility of using Yandex Bank application and Yandex Pay service. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost access to their accounts and lost the ability to use their money. Transfers, replenishment, settlements - nothing works.

😄 As of October 12, the situation with Yandex's infrastructure and the consequences of the damage to three of the company's five data centers on October 8 and 11 is not getting better

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Everybody understands that the prices of diesel don't depend on our attacks on diesel in Russia. Everybody understands that it depends on the blocking of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz.

🔥 On October 8, the crew of "Spalakh" of the 1020th brigade in Chernihiv region destroyed a Russian drone-missile "Geran-5" for the second time Before the shooting down, the enemy target was moving at a speed of about 430 km/h at an altitude of 780 meters.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: If Trump wants to change the leader in Ukraine, he has to know that only our people can change the leader. And I am ready for elections, really. We need a minimum of 60 days for the security of infrastructure to prepare elections.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Kaja Kallas: Enlargement has been the EU's most successful foreign policy tool for decades. It's not just about making the EU bigger. It's about making Europe safer and also stronger geopolitically. Ukraine, of course, is Europe's first line of defense against Russian aggression.

❗️A drone hit the residential complex "Seven" in Kyiv. Cars are burning.

❗️UAV hit a playground in the territory of the residential complex "Seven" in Kyiv

“Three Yandex data centers were reportedly struck by drones — took more than 80 services offline and sent HTTP-request traffic from Yandex networks to 0.4% of recent peak levels…” No wonder Elon’s so mad 😕 www.gadgetreview.com/ukraine-stri...

🇺🇦 Zelensky: We don’t see any signals from Russia now that they want the war to end. We don’t see any elementary steps towards de-escalation. Everyone is talking about diesel and forgetting about grain. In a month or two, everyone will start talking about the agricultural crisis.

🇷🇺 Yandex Unable to Restore Its Data Centers Until at Least 2028 Due to Chip Shortages Follow us for the latest updates : @osintradar.bsky.social

Just a lucky coincidence the sanctioned diesel travelled for 3 weeks to the sanctioning country to become unsanctioned the day before arrival. What were the chances? #UkrainianView

The ceasefire is working like most of trump promises #UkrainianView

Tramp said that his ceasefire includes only oil refineries, hahaha. In Ukraine we have only one and it's already been destroyed. Fuck you 🤝🏻 #Ukrainianview

Kharkiv has been under russian drone attacks since early this morning. Strike after strike. Local authorities say at least two of them hit apartment buildings. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

📉Russian diesel. #OkayThen #Russia

❗️Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the area around Russian-occupied Khrustalnyi in Luhansk Oblast. Three fire sites and a large blaze were reported. Local residents say a Russian military position was hit. FIRMS data also shows one large and another sizable fire in the area. #Ukraine

Zelensky questioned Trump’s diesel deal with Russia: “Why didn’t America make a diesel supply deal with Ukraine? We decide whether fuel tankers move. We decide whether Russian oil refineries will operate.” He argued Russia’s proposed volumes are too small to move global prices. #Ukraine

⚡️⚡️Reports indicate that Ukrainian kamikaze drones have launched another attack on Russia’s largest oil depot in Samara Oblast, which was bombed three days ago and is still engulfed in flames. ✅️Follow us for the latest updates

❗️Operations at 🇷🇺Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, were fully halted after a UAV attack on the night of October 8, 2026. The company confirmed that the strike caused a fire that affected part of the infrastructure; there were no casualties,

"Workdays" of Ukrainian pilots. Beautiful view.

Ukraine is now using Bars jet-powered missile-drones as interceptors against Russian jet-powered drones. According to Zelenskyy, Bars currently shows the highest effectiveness among Ukraine’s jet-drone interceptors, with a kill rate of around 30%.

A Ukrainian drone strikes Russian personnel preparing a jet-powered Shahed for launch from a pickup-mounted launcher.

A span of the Chonhar Bridge linking occupied Crimea with mainland Ukraine has now completely collapsed. The bridge had already been critically damaged for around a month and was no longer being used by vehicle traffic, but the damaged span has now finally given way and fallen completely.

🐝 2 of 3 stations are now funded, and the Wild Hornets team has already started the process of getting them to the SOF. We still need $5,720 to fund the third and complete the campaign, and we need to do it by October 18 before the next fundraiser begins. ⬇️⬇️⬇️If you can help support the campaign⬇️⬇️⬇️

🔥🚢A massive fire is burning near the Russian Black Sea port of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai after an oil tanker was hit.

Russian logistics vehicles and fuel tankers destroyed by Ukrainian drone strikes in occupied Crimea. Russian sources and local channels say Ukrainian medium-range drones have intensified operations in recent weeks again, targeting supply traffic and disrupting logistics to the front.

Volodarskaya Linear Prod. & Dispatch St. is on fire in Moscow region after a massive 🇺🇦 drone attack This is the largest oil depot & a major pipeline transport hub in the #Moscow region It is connected by product pipelines to the Ryazan & Moscow oil refineries, as well as to the major airports

😅 Russians fail to transport Mi-2 helicopter on pickup truck roof in Krasnodar Krai

Trump “feels badly” for the Cornell alleged gang rapists

🇺🇦😌 Kyiv is an interesting city, I was greeted with explosions overhead, I saw off with explosions overhead, in between there was an attack on the bridge, but the atmosphere was great :)

💥 Zelensky: A target in the Black Sea was hit, as well as a launch and storage site for strike drones in the Oryol region. Sanctions were also applied to an oil facility in the Samara region, and to a warehouse for the occupiers' supplies in the Bryansk region.

🇺🇦✌️ I am in Kyiv today

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump: Biden gave away massive amounts of munitions to Ukraine. Much more so than what we spent, and—but we're in great shape. And we're in great shape, but we're also now stocking up big and making—and we're keeping it. You know, we'll get it out to others, you know, our allies.

❗️🇺🇸 The Atlantic: Trump supports plan to exchange political prisoners for easing sanctions against Russia. Trump's special envoy John Cole proposed a scheme: the Kremlin releases political prisoners, and the US eases sanctions in return. Trump agreed.

🇺🇦❗️ The head of the Donetsk occupation administration, Alexei Kulemzin, and his subordinate were charged with deporting 31 Ukrainian children to Russia by SBU and Prosecutor General's Office. The occupiers deported 22 minor Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied Mariupol district.