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Nothing to see here… other than the man negotiating between Russia and Ukraine and America and Iran reportedly having his phone hacked by Russian intelligence… and enjoying access to bank accounts funded by Gulf rulers containing roughly $2 billion vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Lviv’s region declares 2027 the Year of the UPA and Roman Shukhevych (look him
up to understand the Polish reaction), Poland moves to declare the councillor behind the initiative PNG.
Before one Ukraine-Poland crisis over UPA can die down, here’s another. Worst possible time.
Poland has condemned a decision by the Lviv region in Ukraine to declare 2027 a year honouring the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which led the massacre of Poles in WWII, and one of its leaders, Roman Shukhevych notesfrompoland.com/2026/10/…
Few news teams have covered a story as relentlessly and as thoroughly as Bloomberg’s Turkey crew, headed by @uguruzyilmaz, who helped blow the lid off Turkey’s investment fund scandal.
Months of top-notch reporting, capped by this must-read.
Inside the billion-dollar fund scandal rocking Erdogan's Turkey bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
At this point the question is no longer who lied about ordering the Starlink slowdown - Trump or Musk - but who lied more wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
Lavrov, speaking just minutes after a Russian drone killed 6 people, including 3 children, at a park near Kharkiv.
Putin’s strategy is to grind Ukraine down by making its cities uninhabitable in winter. How scandalous that Mr Trump has become his best weapon.
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Musk: Starshield is owned and controlled by USG, any limits are decided by the US military and ultimately Trump.
Trump: I didn’t order the slowdown, and don’t know who did.
Telegraph: Musk suggested Trump order the slowdown.
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Reporter: Was it you or Musk who decided to temporarily pause Starlink?
Trump: I don't know if it was anybody, because it wasn't me, and I don't think it was Elon.
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Exclusive: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House reut.rs/4i3T4iz
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President Zelenskyy told @FT he said to his military after Trump's declaration of an energy ceasefire not to strike Russian energy facilities. But Russia continued striking Ukraine's energy infrastructure. On the third day, after attacking with 39 ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy said he'd had enough: "That's it. The block [on targeting energy] is out." He told his military to resume attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, particularly because of the deaths and destruction Russia caused, but also after "such a massive attack, I didn't hear messages from President of the United States."
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U.S. intelligence officials warned the Ukrainian Embassy in DC that if there are more strikes on Russian energy sites, the U.S. would halt intelligence sharing. “The warnings were so widespread that anyone with a Ukrainian-sounding last name got a call” ...
Meanwhile, Turkey has seized control of Halk TV, a major opposition channel, by appointing a trustee. Police have raided channel’s Istanbul headquarters and blocked nearby streets. At least 11 people have been detained.
Yet another ballistic missile attack on Kyiv tonight, and yet again no warning from Ukraine’s partners, says Zelensky (and warns of more attacks)
“Trump is scapegoating us” ahead of the midterms, a Ukrainian MP tells me after Trump’s latest salvoes against Zelensky. “We need to survive until November 3rd.”
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Air sirens, power cuts, electric trolleybuses out of service. Precious few signs of an “energy ceasefire” in Kyiv this evening.
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Two weeks ago senior officials warned me about Putin’s crazy turn on civilian life, precisely predicting the attacks on data centres and supermarkets. The terror campaign-kinetic, assassinations, disinformation-will peak in late autumn, they claimed.
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