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[Baltic Takes @Baltic_Takes]

37 years ago today, East German spokesperson Günter Schabowski did one of the funniest things in history.

At the end of an otherwise dull press conference, he was caught off-guard by a question about when travel restrictions would be lifted for East Germans.

He fumbled through his notes and mistakenly announced that it took immediate effect, scuppering actual plans to slowly ease restrictions through a carefully controlled travel application process.

Crowds quickly descended on confused border guards and forced the implementation of his accidental announcement of free travel immediately for all East Germans.

Coming mere months after the Baltic Way protest, the Berlin Wall had now fallen and people power was overwhelming the collapsing Soviet empire.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Good news for Ukraine is that most of the loud anti-Ukraine voices in Congress have lost their seats.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

France’s intelligence agencies have discovered that Iran was behind the cyberattacks against French grocery stores during which freezers and fridges had their temperatures increased up to 50C.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says Iran will face consequences for it

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump told 60 Minutes that Israel and other Middle Eastern countries the U.S. “protected” during the Iran war will have to reimburse America for the cost of the war.

“Those countries that we’ve protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we’ve had for the war. We’re gonna get all that money back.”

He added: “Without us, Israel wouldn’t exist.”

Obviously, that’s never going to happen. But the reality is that the Iran war was a total disaster. It didn’t protect anyone. The Gulf countries are still reeling from the war, with tourism and investment taking a hit. Iran is now led by an even more extreme leadership, is rebuilding its missile and drone industries, and still has its nuclear material. It’s also more likely to pursue a nuclear bomb now. And thanks to Trump and Netanyahu, Israel is more isolated than ever.

Instead of admitting the war was a disaster, Trump is doubling down. Wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to start it all over again in the coming days, before the new Congress is sworn in.

[Вал Мишель @VALMICHEL7]

Русские хакнули телефон Кушнера в 2017. Видели всё на его экране.

Идеальный представитель США — не проходил проверку ЦРУ, не подчинен Госдепу и со взломанным ФСБ телефоном.

Ещё зятек получил $2 млрд от ОАЭ. За тяжкие труды на благо американского народа.

[Ukrinform @UKRINFORM]

Перед матчем "Шахтар" — "Динамо" ветерани російсько-української війни виконали Гімн України

Честь заспівати гімн перед початком гри отримали Олександр Роменський та Юрій Маленок. Обидва захисники після поранення на фронті знайшли нове покликання в музиці.

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[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Over a million spare and replacement parts for the F-35 Lightning ll have gone missing in the last eight years, estimated to be worth a total of roughly $85 million, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dating back to March 2026.

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨 NEW: HACKERS BREACH RUSSIA'S STATE STATISTICS SYSTEM, EXPOSING A STAGGERING 393,881 REPORTED RUSSIAN WAR DEATHS IN UKRAINE.

⚡️The leaked data reportedly counts deaths alone — excluding wounded, disabled and missing troops. Russia's true battlefield losses could be substantially higher.

⚡️The findings are attributed to Belarusian Cyber Partisans (@cpartisans) and the pro-Ukrainian hacking group Silent Crow.

#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Trump: Operation Iron Gate just started: nothing gets into Iran by land. The naval blockade covers the water. They're not paying their soldiers. They have 301% inflation.

I could blow them up now. Their bridges and power plants would take 10 to 15 years to rebuild. 1/

[Олег Володарський @volodarskijo]

Їй було лише 28. Сьогодні попрощалися з молодою мамою, яка загинула на війні.

Сьогодні, 9 листопада, на Львівщині провели в останню дорогу 28-річну військовослужбовицю Катерину Божейко.

Катерина була родом із міста Новий Розділ. У грудні 2024 року вона стала до лав Збройних сил України.

Служила навідницею у складі 156-ї окремої механізованої бригади.

24 травня 2025 року під час виконання бойового завдання поблизу Юнаківки на Сумщині Катерина загинула.

Але рідні ще довгий час не мали остаточної відповіді про її долю. Вона вважалася зниклою безвісти.

Сьогодні ця болюча історія завершилася прощанням.

Жителі Новороздільської громади зустріли загиблу захисницю на Алеї Героїв.

У храмі Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці відслужили чин похорону. Катерину поховали на Малехівському кладовищі.

Їй назавжди залишиться 28.

Найболючіше усвідомлювати, що вдома залишилися її сини.

Катерина Божейко віддала своє життя за Україну. А її діти заплатили за цю війну страшну ціну - втратили маму.

Світла пам'ять Катерині. Щирі співчуття її синам, батькам та всім рідним.

[Roxy in Space @RoxyInSpace]

Urgent need: helmet for SOF

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump lashes out: I'll stand by Pete Hegseth even if he's impeached. Massie is a loser. Just like you're a loser, CNN. Stone cold loser.

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🔥 russia in emergency mode over kerosene.

The Kremlin is urgently changing the rules for kerosene sales.

Why? Because russia is running short of the fractions needed to make winter diesel.

After the latest wave of strikes on refineries, they just slashed the mandatory exchange sales of aviation kerosene from 11% to 5%.

Ukraine's drones are doing what sanctions alone couldn’t do:
turning the fuel superpower into a country that fears the first frost.

[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

Russia is pushing its offensive in the east at full throttle, suffering record-high casualties, a fact confirmed by all/my sources.

Today, the Ukrainian "drone army" (USF) reported striking 809 Russian soldiers, 272 of whom were killed. This force is responsible for approximately one-third of Russia’s monthly losses. It is worth noting that there is a rigorous verification process in place: when a target is struck, command requires a follow-up drone overflight to confirm the outcome, which in turn earns points within the army's reward system.

For several weeks now, total Russian casualties have consistently hovered between 1,500 and 2,000 per day, with roughly one-third to one-half of these being fatalities (KIA). As it does every autumn, Russia is attempting to leverage the weather conditions to advance rapidly. However, this year there is less fog and a significantly higher number of drones. Furthermore, the loss of foliage makes it easier for the Ukrainians to spot Russian soldiers attempting to infiltrate. Only urban combat remains particularly challenging.

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️🇲🇩Moldova has completely stopped purchasing 🇷🇺Russian gas, – President Maia Sandu.

“We launched the Vulcanesti–Chisinau power transmission line, which connects Moldova with Romania and the European energy system. For decades, Moscow used energy as a tool of blackmail. Now this is over: Moldova does not purchase a single cubic meter of gas from the RF, and ahead is the construction of two more power transmission lines to Romania.”

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta is closing its Moscow office after nearly 30 years

Staff removed portraits of journalists killed by the Kremlin.

On the final day, black-and-white portraits of dead colleagues were taken down from the walls.

Among them:

- Yuri Shchekochikhin (2003), poisoned by Russian special services with an unknown chemical. He exposed FSB corruption and linked the security services to the apartment bombings used to justify the Chechen war.

- Anna Politkovskaya (2006), shot in her building’s elevator on Putin’s birthday. She was a leading critic of the Kremlin, Kadyrov, and the Chechen war. The gunmen were convicted; the person who ordered the killing was not named.

- Natalia Estemirova (2009), abducted in Grozny and found shot. She investigated extrajudicial killings and torture by Chechen forces. Officially unsolved, but journalists linked Kadyrov to the murder. Federal authorities blocked the probe.

- Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova (2009), shot on the street by neo-Nazis from the BORN group. The presidential administration at the time supported radical nationalists to fight the opposition.

- Igor Domnikov (2000), beaten to death with a hammer on the orders of Lipetsk officials, in a case that showed the fusion of regional power, crime, and security services under Putin.

Since the war in Ukraine began, pressure on the paper has intensified. In 2022, by the Kremlin's order, its print registration was cancelled. Crowdfunding and reader donations were blocked.

Longtime editor Dmitry Muratov, the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founded the paper in 1993. He sold his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million and gave the money to UNICEF for Ukrainian child refugees. He stayed in Russia despite a train attack and being labeled a foreign agent in 2023.

In November 2026, the landlord ended the lease after 29 years. The website and servers were shut down.

Part of the team continues as Novaya Gazeta Europe from abroad, but the Moscow legal entity and Muratov’s original project have closed.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

This is about a lot more than an affair involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

U.S. intelligence reportedly warned Trump nearly a year ago about a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence and her connection to Huang, raising serious national security concerns. Trump did nothing.

Now he calls Huang “an honorable guy” and says he’d still take him on his trip to China later this month. Under any other president, this would be a major news story dominating the headlines for weeks.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Poland is on heightened alert after NATO and allied intelligence warned of possible armed incursions from Russia’s Kaliningrad region. Polish police, border guards and special forces have deployed to the north-east amid sabotage concerns. https://t.co/FO8BWEWe7P

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:

Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.

Witkoff called putin a humanitarian. I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were beaten, raped, locked in wooden boxes, had their fingers cut off, their fingernails ripped out, and were tortured with electric shocks to their genitals. One woman described how her eye was gouged out with a spoon.

What is happening now is an imitation of a peace process.

I met a five-year-old girl in Kyiv. The russians abducted her mother because of her pro-Ukrainian views, tortured her, and repeatedly gang-raped her. They then took her to russia and fabricated a criminal case against her.

The girl hugged me, burst into tears, and began begging: “Please, bring my mommy back.” I am a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force russia to return her. I hugged the girl and promised that we would fight for her mother.

Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was my friend and colleague. She traveled to the occupied territories to tell the truth about russian crimes. She was abducted, tortured, and secretly transferred to russia. She was held without formal charges and without contact with the outside world.

She was denied medical care. She weighed just 30 kilograms. The russians refused to return her body to her parents for six months. When they finally did, several internal organs, her eyes, her brain, and part of her trachea were missing. We still do not know how she died.

Viktoriia believed that the truth could save thousands of lives. That people in other countries, once they learned the truth, would make the right decisions.

My friend and teacher, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in russian captivity. For months, he was held alone in a small, dark basement cell without windows or fresh air. Rats crawled out of the sewer.

He gave philosophy lectures to the rats just to hear a human voice. He was tortured so severely that after his release, he had to learn to walk again.

Kozlovskyi told me: “Everything I have experienced does not make me see myself as a victim. The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Putin has repeatedly ignored your demands, yet you--

TRUMP: Well, has he been fighting us in the war?

Q: At what point does appeasement--

TRUMP: Who are you with?

Q: MS NOW

TRUMP: MS NOW is a fake deal. You're a fake network. What a joke you are.