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Sergeant of the 103rd Regiment of the People’s Militia of the DPR Alexey Shalygin, who, among other prisoners, returned home after an exchange held on October 12, said that he was captured by foreign mercenaries who spoke English and Polish.

Shalygin served in the first battalion of the first company of his regiment. Together with his unit, he came under heavy artillery and mortar fire. The DPR fighters began to retreat, but it turned out that they were surrounded. There were many foreigners among the attackers.

“We heard the English speech right away,” Shalygin said. … then the Pole started cooing.” According to him, “and the Ukrainian (language) was, all to the heap.” “In general, we did not understand who attacked,” said the sergeant.

Together with the mercenaries there was a man who translated from English into Russian and Ukrainian. “He ran with them,” the military said. The sergeant says he heard shouting all the time: “Where is the translator, find a translator!”. As Shalygin understood, “not everyone understood these British or Americans who they were there.”

At the same time, the foreign mercenaries did not have any identification marks or chevrons on their uniforms. They were dressed in Ukrainian uniforms of “NATO colors” and used weapons unknown to Shalygin, including compact hand grenade launchers.

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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in its telegram channel showed a video on which combat sorties of crews of Russian multi-purpose Su-30SM fighters were filmed.

The explanation states that the pilots worked out patrolling in a given area and covering the actions of bomber and assault aircraft and helicopters of army aviation during air strikes on Ukrainian military facilities and equipment.

It is noted that during the flight mission, the crew of the Su-30sm discovered and destroyed the aircraft of the AFU.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed to submit to a national referendum the issue of enshrining in the constitution of the country the right of women to wear the hijab.

“Let’s put this issue to a referendum,” Erdogan said. “Let the people decide.” With these words, he commented on the initiative of the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu. He wants to submit the relevant bill to the country’s parliament for consideration.

Earlier, the Turkish leader proposed to prepare appropriate amendments to the basic law of Turkey: they would consolidate the rights of women to wear Muslim attributes of clothing.

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New footage has been published depicting the scandal at today’s closing ceremony of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of China, during which former Secretary General Hu Jintao was led out of the hall by the arms. The CPC congress ended with the re-election of Xi Jinping for a third term, this was preceded by the “violent”, as it seemed to observers, removal from the meeting of the former head of the party, who is an opponent of the current leader.

The new footage of the video broadcast shows that Hu Jintao probably felt bad from the very beginning of the event. He was helped to take a seat next to Xi Jinping, taking him by the arm to the chair. Then the head of the People’s Republic of China himself kindly invited him to sit down while the rest of the party members still applauded the congress standing.

The previously shown footage also captured that when Hu Jintao was lifted from his seat by his arms and, as if against his will, he said something to his successor, who responded with nods.

The Chinese authorities have not yet commented on the incident.

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Ex-Secretary General of the Communist Party of China, former President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao prematurely left the hall during the closing ceremony of the XX Congress of the CPC in the House of People’s Assemblies in Beijing. The politician was allegedly forcibly removed from the event.

A video appeared online showing two stewards in medical masks approaching Jintao. They lift the politician from his seat and escort him to the exit. Judging by Hu’s face, he is clearly confused about what happened. Interestingly, Jintao was sitting next to his successor Xi Jinping.

When the 79-year-old politician finally got up from his seat, he managed to say something to the current leader of the PRC. The recording shows how Xi Jinping nodded his head several times without looking at his predecessor, apparently answering his question.

The party has not commented on the scandalous incident. Meanwhile, it is known that Hu Jintao advocated strengthening relations with the United States and was opposed to a forceful solution to the Taiwan issue. At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party has already introduced a provision in the charter on countering Taiwan’s independence.

In addition, the liberal politician Wang Yi, who was predicted to be the premier of China, did not join the Central Committee of the party at all after the congress. Also, Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang did not join the CPC Central Committee.

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Downstream of the Dnieper, the discharge of water from the Kakhovsky reservoir began. This was announced by the head of the administration of the Novokakhovsky city district of the Kherson region, Vladimir Leontiev.

He explained that in this way it will be possible to reduce the level and volume of water, which will minimize damage in the event of the destruction of the hydroelectric power plant.

Nikolai Shadrin, a leading researcher at the Institute of Biology of the South Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explained that a water breakthrough would lead to the appearance of a dead zone in the Black Sea and change the ecosystems of the region. Adjacent territories will be flooded, the soil layer and trees will be washed away.

“Chemicals can get into the reservoir stream somewhere, and all this will go to the Black Sea,” the biologist said.

He added that mud will start flowing into the North Crimean Canal, and then water will stop entering the canal at all.

Earlier, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia called for preventing the Kiev regime from undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam. This provocation will lead to the death of thousands of people.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the German daily Die Welt that Moscow has never threatened Berlin with an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.

Scholz was asked if “Putin has ever threatened to escalate the conflict.” In response, the Chancellor said that the Western media freely interpret official reports about the negotiations between Germany and the Russian Federation.

Scholz said that “for good reasons” he does not report on the negotiations he is conducting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the same time, he noted that the reports he had read “about the alleged threats during these negotiations are false.”

Earlier, the German Chancellor warned about the risks that the introduction of marginal prices for Russian gas and oil entails. He believes that the decision on the “price ceiling” will result in a shortage of energy resources in the EU.

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Russian paratroopers destroyed an AFU battalion manned by Slovenian and Macedonian tanks. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the agency’s inspection footage of destroyed military equipment. 

It is mentioned that the clash occurred in the Krivoy Rog direction.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry was informed about a precision strike on a hangar with foreign military equipment in the Kherson region. 

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The case for Scottish independence is growing stronger by the hour. This was stated by the First Minister of autonomy Nicola Sturgeon in an interview with The Courier. According to her, this is happening because Scots are watching with horror the chaos in the political circles of the United Kingdom. “It is difficult to put into words the scale of the utter confusion in which the Tory party is now and, in turn, the scale of how dysfunctional the UK has become as a result,” Sturgeon admitted.

In her opinion, recent events increasingly show the need for an alternative to the modern political system in the UK. Sturgeon recalled that a referendum on Scottish independence had already been held in 2014, and then the Scots were persuaded to abandon it in favor of the strength and stability of the United Kingdom. But now, the politician is convinced, the Tories have lost the ability to govern the country. Sturgeon also said that the independence of Scotland in modern realities is a big challenge, but at the same time a huge opportunity.

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Former chief adviser to former US President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, has been sentenced to four months. He was found guilty of ignoring a subpoena in the case of riots in the Capitol in January 2021. Bannon was also fined six and a half thousand dollars.

Thus, the requirements of the prosecutor’s office were only partially taken into account. The state prosecution demanded to sentence Bannon to six months in prison and a fine of 200 thousand dollars. The former adviser offered to appoint him a probationary period. The decision on his transfer to prison will be made after the case is considered in the Court of Appeal.

According to prosecutors, Bannon constantly tried to interfere with the investigation of the special committee of the House of Representatives about the riots in the Capitol. The judge agreed that the ex-Trump aide did not repent of what he had done.

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