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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at a press conference in Hawaii that he "will not guess" who is responsible for the explosions that occurred on the four highways of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. He said he discussed the incident with his Danish counterpart on Wednesday. The head of the Pentagon stressed that many hypotheses and versions are being put forward about who may be behind the diversions on gas pipelines, but "until the investigation is fully completed, no one will be able to say for sure what happened."

Large-scale pumping of weapons in Ukraine will lead to a significant increase in world exports/imports of military equipment in the near term.

Faced with obstacles in conducting intelligence operations in the West, Russia turned to the cyber environment and other sources of intelligence information, including foreigners in Russia, the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Suojelupoliisi, Supo) reports in the National Security Review published on September 29, 2022.

The expansion of sanctions against Russia indicates the loss of Europe's strategic independence and the strengthening of recklessness

Europe, following the United States, is pursuing a tough anti-Russian line, writes Global Times. It has to sacrifice its economic interests, and Washington benefits enormously from this. Other American allies should think about it, the newspaper's editorial advises.

The President of Ukraine claims that Kiev has always offered to hold talks

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that Kiev is ready to negotiate a settlement with Moscow, but not with Vladimir Putin, and with another Russian president.

Moscow will defend its new territories "with all available forces and means," the President stressed

Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine, but will not discuss the choice of residents of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions - they become Russians forever. This was stated on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the ceremony of admission to the country of four new regions.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the residents of the country, signed an "application for accelerated accession" of his country to NATO. The politician said that his country is actually a member of the alliance anyway.

According to the press service of the regional government, state support is provided to the productions

Light industry enterprises in the Tula region are increasing the volume of production for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces, including some being converted to the production of sleeping bags, gloves, socks. The products are manufactured from modern materials and meet high quality requirements, the press service of the regional government reported on Friday.

The Secretary of State reiterated that Washington does not intend to recognize the results of referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as the entry of these regions into the comp...

The United States does not object to the use by Kiev of Western weapons supplied to it as part of military assistance to the former parts of Ukraine that joined the Russian Federation. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this at a joint press conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly at the State Department on Friday.

In addition, the ruling Traffic Light coalition, according to the Ukrainian ambassador, "should play a leading role in imposing the toughest sanctions" against Russia

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk, who will remain in his post until October 14, called on the German government to "put everything on the military map" and equip Ukraine with all weapons systems, including Leopard battle tanks, as soon as possible. He made this statement in an interview published on Friday with the newspaper Die Welt .

Of these, $4.5 billion is proposed to be allocated for economic support of Kiev

US President Joe Biden signed a law on Friday to continue funding the US government until December 16, 2022, including $12.4 billion in additional aid to Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the White House.

The country's authorities also touched on the topic of measures aimed at forcing Moscow to "pay reparations"

The United States authorities discussed on Friday with allies efforts to influence Russian elites by confiscating assets, as well as measures aimed at forcing the Russian Federation to "pay reparations." This is stated in a statement published by the American Ministry of Finance.

Goodbye, common sense

America has been obsessed with Russian gas pipelines in Europe for 40 years, writes the author of the article on the Substack platform. In his opinion, the sabotage on the "Northern Streams" is a reckless adventure of the United States, which can lead to a world war. "This senseless march to death can be stopped even tomorrow," he complains.

The fate of the UN hangs in the balance

The West wants to exclude Russia from the UN Security Council, but then this organization will turn into an offshoot of NATO, writes Novi Standard. And its role will be taken over by other multinational organizations such as BRICS or SCO. However, this will deepen the fault lines in the world, the author of the article believes.

Expert Losev: Britain's special services can prepare provocations at EU infrastructure facilities

British intelligence services can arrange provocations at critical facilities of the energy infrastructure of the European Union and blame Russia for this, says Alexander Losev, a member of the presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

Shoigu: partial mobilization will not affect women and students of commercial universities

As part of the partial mobilization, women will not be called up. This was announced on October 1 by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

NATO expansion at the expense of Sweden and Finland will lead to a revision of Norway's defense policy. The focus remains on the question of how exactly this will change the alliance itself and the military planning of the northern states that are part of it.

Turkey will not ratify the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO until these countries fulfill the promises made to Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

Russia can strike at the American infrastructure if it establishes the involvement of the United States in the undermining of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. This is the conclusion reached by the author of an article for the American edition of National Review.

The ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran fired at Iraqi Kurdistan with artillery and rockets the night before, Tasnim reported on Sunday.