Cover image: President Joe Biden speaks on the war in Ukraine and Israel from his office at the White House, October 19, 2023. Andrew Harnik/AP
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian Hamas “both want to destroy a neighboring democracy”declared Thursday evening Joe Biden from the White House. The American president assured that the United States would be more secure “for generations” if they helped Ukraine and Israel, adding that he would ask Congress to fund ” emergency “ this help.
- The mayor of Avdiïvka expects a ” escalation “ in the Russian offensive against his city. Vitalii Barabash said the situation was ” calmer “ in recent days because the Russian forces, after being stopped by the Ukrainians, were preparing a new attack.
- According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russia is concerned “by ongoing Ukrainian activities on the eastern bank of Kherson Oblast”, which are described “as part of a possible larger operation”. Vladimir Putin also estimated that these movements foreshadowed a “next counter-offensive”.
- NATO steps up patrols in the Baltic Sea. These surveillance missions come after the sabotage of Nord Stream in September 2022, and after damage to a gas pipeline linking Finland to Estonia and to a telecommunications cable linking Sweden to Estonia in the Baltic Sea at the beginning of the month. ‘october.
- Russian planes equipped with Kinjal missiles will patrol over the Black Sea. These patrols respond to the deployment by the United States of two aircraft carriers in the eastern Mediterranean after the Hamas attack and the delivery of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine.
- Sergei Lavrov is in North Korea, a month after Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia. The Russian foreign minister thanked Pyongyang for the support provided in its offensive against Ukraine. Mr. Lavrov, who is on a two-day visit, must prepare for a trip by Vladimir Putin to North Korea, a Kremlin spokesperson told the Russian agency TASS.
- The Ukrainian Parliament votes to ban the Orthodox Church linked to Moscow. The Ukrainian Parliament adopted on Thursday, in first reading, a bill banning the Orthodox Church dependent on the Moscow Patriarchate, the latter supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Paris 2024: Putin accuses the IOC of “ethnic discrimination” towards Russian athletes. During a speech on sport in Perm, in the Urals, Vladimir Putin accused the International Olympic Committee of “ethnic discrimination”because Russian athletes should only participate in limited numbers at the 2024 Paris Olympics and under a neutral banner in retaliation for the Russian assault on Ukraine.
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