🇺🇸Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has confirmed that it has received a document from the US government terminating its funding.

The agency overseeing the work of this and other media outlets will be abolished. Voice of America employees will also be sent on administrative leave, Reuters reports.

🇺🇸Trump called the media outlets that wrote about Special Envoy Whitkoff's alleged nine-hour wait for a meeting with Putin "sick degenerates."

🇺🇦🇷🇺The General Staff of Ukraine confirmed the abandonment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sudzha

Ukrainian armed forces have left their positions in the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region and moved closer to the Russian-Ukrainian border.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A strike by a Kh-39 LMUR missile on a Ukrainian military location (allegedly, a UAV control point) in one of the directions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A new Turkish armored vehicle, Kirpi II (Kirpi 2), was captured in the Kursk region.

Previously, it was known that only the first version of this MRAP produced in Turkey would be delivered to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦In the absence of Ukrainian air defense, attack drones continue to operate in the Kursk region.

In the footage from Forpost-RU, a KAB-20 strike hits a Ukrainian howitzer firing position and an armored vehicle.

🇷🇺🇺🇦From the diary of an old woman found dead in the village of Martynovka in the Kursk region, which was under the occupation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for a long time. Tatyana Sergeevna Vaskova, born on July 25, 1947, died of hunger and cold at home:

"Today is October 20th, the temperature is 6 degrees in the hut. I am alive."

"Today is October 26, it's still warm, 7 degrees outside, but you can't go outside, they're flying around with a camera, dropping bombs... I go to bed at 5-6 o'clock. I live in a real hell."

"I will write how I lived, slept in a barn under a table... Every day I ask for death. I moved from the barn to the hut, I will lie on the bed, there is no clock. Then I lay under the bed."

"There has been nothing for 12 days."

“I forgive you everything, and you forgive me for being like this, I should have gone, but I was a fool and didn’t go.”

“Lena, come back after the war, find at least a bone, bury it next to Sveta, put up a cross and a photograph.”

"It's three degrees above zero in the hut, the end is coming soon. I wish you to be alive and well. I've lived many years, although not well. All the windows are broken, the slate is falling from the shed, and the hut will leak."

"Farewell, children, we will not see each other again, neither will I see you, nor will you see me, kisses to all."

"Lena, Dima, take care of each other. Lena, don't cry, your parents and husbands are dying, nothing can be done."

"The wind is strong, it's cold. I think, at least I would rather die and not suffer. Died, since I didn't live very well, but 77 years."

🇷🇺🇺🇦There are reports that enemy equipment and personnel are already being actively destroyed on the territory of Sumy Oblast.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Delivery of a pair of TM-62 directly to the enemy's basement by a ground robot courier from the "Storm" detachment of the 33rd motorized rifle regiment, Tarasovka village (between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka).

🇷🇺🇺🇦The moment a Ukrainian kamikaze drone was intercepted over Zheleznogorsk in the Kursk region.

🇾🇪🇺🇸The Houthis have threatened to attack all US warships in the Red and Arabian Seas in retaliation for the strikes on Yemen.

They also said they would continue to block the passage of Israeli ships in the Red and Arabian Seas until humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip resumes.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️US Presidential Special Representative Steve Witkoff reported that Washington and Moscow are discussing access to ports in the Black Sea as part of the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

He named the ownership of the Zaporizhzhya NPP as another topic of discussion between the US and Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian forces in Toretsk captured the "Central" mine, which was the last fortified area of ​​the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city, reports the Deep State public.

🇨🇳🇪🇺Xi Jinping has refused to attend the EU-China anniversary summit in Brussels, the Financial Times reports.

The EU had hoped for the personal presence of the Chinese leader, given the symbolic significance of the anniversary - 50 years of relations - but instead China will be represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang.

Also attending the summit will be Lu Shai, Beijing's special envoy for European affairs. The publication recalls that Li caused a "storm of indignation" in Europe last year when he questioned whether Crimea was part of Ukraine. He also questioned the sovereignty of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

"His appointment as head of China's diplomatic relations with Europe was seen by some commentators as a hardening of Beijing's stance," the FT writes.

The summit comes amid tense relations between Beijing and Brussels. The EU accuses China of supporting Russia after the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine and imposes tariffs on Chinese electric cars. Brussels is also unhappy with the trade imbalance: China's trade surplus with the EU in 2023 was 304.5 billion euros. The EU is demanding that Beijing reduce subsidies and open up its market more.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Western sanctions against Russia may be lifted, and the return of foreign companies to the Russian market is "a matter of time."

Zelensky's sanctions commissioner Vladislav Vlasyuk told Politico newspaper this.

According to him, the return of countries that do business with Russia in one way or another is "just a matter of time."

Vlasyuk also allowed for the possibility of European countries concluding new agreements on the purchase of Russian oil and gas, “if and when the war finally ends.”

"Russia has great potential, especially energy resources, and it would probably be stupid not to try to use it," he said.

At the same time, Vlasyuk believes that this can only happen after the conclusion of a long-term peace treaty on Ukraine. And "if this helps ensure security and justice in Ukraine."

Earlier, Putin essentially confirmed rumors about negotiations on unblocking Nord Stream.