#BREAKING The terrorist organization PKK claims responsibility for the attempted terrorist attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ankara today.

Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Republican):

The priority for me is America and our borders.

Now, I support being able to make sure Ukraine has the weapons that they need, but I firmly support the border first.

They have more than $3 billion dollars right now to help them (Ukraine) to get through it. If they have some challenge, we can sit down and we can talk about that.

But the American border matters and more Americans are dying on our border than Americans are dying in Ukraine.

Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki called on Ukraine to be grateful for the fact that Poland gave asylum to millions of Ukrainians, and not to trust Germany.

"I understand that Zelensky now thinks that he will have a close alliance with Germany. I warn you, the Germans will always want to reach an understanding with the Russians with the help of the Central European states.

But it was Poland that took several million Ukrainians under its roof at the moment when the Germans wanted to send 5,000 helmets to the besieged Kyiv.”

Josep Borrell, the European Union's outspoken foreign policy chief:

The EU will continue to provide and increase financial assistance to Ukraine regardless of what happens in the United States, since EU considers the conflict in Ukraine an existential threat to itself.

Since last year, the European Union has allocated 85 billion euros to support Ukraine.

Reuters:

Slovakia's pro-Russian and anti-liberal election winner Robert Fico was poised on Sunday to begin coalition talks to form a government likely to join Hungary in opposing the European Union's military aid for Ukraine.

The 59-year-old former prime minister's SMER-SSD party scored nearly 23% of Saturday's parliamentary poll, earning the president's nod to start talks to replace a technocrat government that has been backing Kyiv against Russia's invasion.

"We are not changing that we are prepared to help Ukraine in a humanitarian way," said Fico, whom analysts consider to be inspired by Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban who has frequently clashed with the EU.

"We are prepared to help with the reconstruction of the state but you know our opinion on arming Ukraine," he added at a news conference.

Fico's campaign call of "Not a single round" for neighbouring Ukraine resonated in the nation of 5.5 million.

Fico said Slovakia has bigger problems than the Ukraine issue, including energy prices and living costs, but his party would do everything possible to start peace talks.

Elon Musk in an apparent mock post on Ukrainian President Zelensky:

“When it's been 5 minutes and you haven't asked for a billion dollars in aid”

Former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace:

The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40. I understand President Zelensky’s desire to preserve the young for the future, but the fact is that Russia is mobilising the whole country by stealth.

Putin knows a pause will hand him time to build a new army. So just as Britain did in 1939 and 1941, perhaps it is time to reassess the scale of Ukraine’s mobilisation.

Donald Trump has promised to withdraw US troops from several countries if re-elected:

We spend billions of dollars on military defense and other things without getting any favorable treatment for our farmers... Our troops protect their [countries] and we get paid next to nothing.

It's not good to do this, many of them, they hate us, and we protect them.

All these troops will come home immediately, and we will not spend money on these countries.

#BREAKING Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (GUR):

Kamikaze UAV strikes targeted a Russian aircraft factory where Kh-59 missiles were produced.

On October 1, 2023, as a result of an attack on the Smolensk Aviation Plant, the production process of Kh-59 missiles of various modifications was disrupted.

According to confirmed data, three out of four UAVs hit the target, causing significant damage to the production facilities of the military enterprise of the aggressor state.

The Kh-59 missile (in the Kh-59MK2 modification) of the "air-to-surface" class with a range of up to 280 km is one of those with which the Russian Aerospace Forces most often fire at military and civilian objects in Ukraine.

Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions suffer the most from the use of such weapons.

EU to hold informal meeting of the Council of the Foreign Ministries of the European Union today in Kyiv.

“This will be the the first ever meeting of the 27 members of the union outside its borders. The future of Ukraine is in the EU,” EU’s top diplomat Borrell said.

Russian MoD reveals Iranian 122mm Arash rockets for the Grad MLRS in an official video.

Speaker of the Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, responds to Elon Musk over mock post on Zelensky:

The case when a dude tried to conquer space, but something went wrong and in 5 minutes he was up to his eyeballs in sh*t.

Reuters:

Taiwan prosecutors are investigating accusations that people tried to interfere in the island's submarine program and that details about it were leaked, in what would be a serious breach of security.

Huang Shu-kuang, who is leading the program, told local media last week that lawmakers, whom he did not name, had made it difficult for the program to purchase critical equipment, and that a contractor who had failed to obtain a bid forwarded information to China.

Taiwan's Supreme Prosecutors Office, in a short statement, said Huang's accusations had attracted "great attention" given the national security and defence implications.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham:

If we pull the plug on Ukraine, it will be 10 times worse than in Afghanistan.

This would be a death sentence for Taiwan.

You missed the whole of World War II if you don't know how this movie ends.

If Ukraine can beat Russia, China is less likely to invade Taiwan.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Warsaw, Vasyl Zvarych:

The Polish authorities received an invitation from Ukrainian representatives to come to Ukraine for the military industry forum, but did not accept it.

Poland was one of the first countries invited, but did not accept the invitation.

Gucci’s Armenian model Armine Harutyunyan joined to the ranks of Armenian terrorist organization VOMA.

Armine Harutyunyan says they’ll “launch unconventional attacks against Azerbaijan”.

VOMA offers monetary incentives and covers all logistical costs, attracting individuals aged 18 to 55 from global corners.

These recruits are then assembled in Armenia, where they undergo rigorous military training.

VOMA is suspected to be receiving support from factions linked to other terror groups, like the PKK.

German FM Baerbock:

The future of Ukraine is in the EU, in our community of freedom, and soon it will expand from Lisbon to Luhansk.

With every village, with every meter that Ukraine liberates, it expands its path to the EU.

Footage of tests of new Russian high-precision long-range surface-to-surface missile from 51P6 missile launcher of the S-400 air defense system at the Kapustin Yar test site.

A new missile is being developed for the S-400 air defense system, specially “tailored” to strike ground targets.

Potentially each S-400 air defense division will be capable of effectively hitting not only air targets, but also ground targets, thereby being armed with dual-use launchers.