Today's 🇺🇦 updates:

⚡4 Ukrainian police officers wounded in 🇷🇺 shelling, Kyiv says

⚡🇩🇪 has supplied third advanced air-defense system to Ukraine

⚡Pro-Russian Ukrainian politician reported in intensive care after being shot https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html

More than 20 people were injured -- two critically -- when a mob of hundreds of people shouting anti-Jewish epithets stormed and shut down the airport in the Russian city of Makhachkala in the predominantly Muslim region of Daghestan after a flight arrived from Israel on October 29.

Late on October 29, videos and photos from the scene published by RFE/RL’s @kavkazrealii indicated that protesters had stormed onto the Makhachkala runway, attempting to gain entry to the incoming plane.

Today's 🇺🇦 updates:

⚡🇷🇺 troops launched another air strike overnight against 🇺🇦 with 12 Shahed attack drones, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on October 30.
⚡🇷🇺 missile attack on Odesa shipyard injured 2. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html

“The situation in Daghestan did not appear overnight,” one Russian analyst told RFE/RL. “The steam should have been allowed to get out.”

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-daghestan-anti-semitic-tensions/32660373.html

Now that UN sanctions related to Iran's ballistic-missile program have expired, would Tehran export advanced weaponry to Moscow?

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-russia-missile-technology-trade/32667412.html

An analysis of satellite images by @cxemu, @svoboda_radio's Ukrainian investigative unit, indicates that Russia is actively building up its production capacity for military equipment and developing new factories as it continues to reorient its economy toward its war against Ukraine.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ramping-up-war-production/32658857.html

Investigators don’t yet know whether the pipeline damage was sabotage or an accident, but Finnish intelligence said the involvement of a state actor “cannot be ruled out.”

https://www.rferl.org/a/china-baltic-pipeline-damaged-russia-newnew-polar-bear/32667867.html

In Photos: Soviet flags as well as imagery of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin now appear to be a rallying point for Russian troops in Ukraine.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-invasion-russia-soviet-symbols/32667534.html

A native of China’s Hebei Province, a 26-year-old man completed the so-called Balkan Route for migrants, joining tens of thousands of asylum seekers from around the world who are fleeing war, poverty, and repression.

https://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-route-chinese-asylum-seeker/32673586.html

"There is nothing we want to happen more than to get Alsu back. My children need her, I need my wife back."

Pavel Butorin, the husband of detained RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, says his wife is a "political prisoner" as she remains behind bars in Russia.

Serbian companies are exporting dual-use goods to Russia that have been targeted by Western sanctions due to their use in Russian armaments deployed in Ukraine -- despite a pledge by President Aleksandar Vucic that his country would not serve as a conduit for circumventing U.S. and EU sanctions.

https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-russia-sanctions-dual-use-technology/32676159.html?fbclid=IwAR1d8ceNW14-7QnNugpt0oGtDr0baWPvrl2i_F7I9yYRC08hLrVka0PBXYY

When they refused to renew their contracts, at least two volunteer soldiers ended up in a “pit” -- a detention cellar or hole in the ground where food, water, and medicine are denied.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-systema-investigation-contract-soldiers-pay-pardons-promises-broken/32676712.html?fbclid=IwAR3F9UUdq02Hk8ZzGC0dUQRltPB94PtxEHid9jxeorz4sRcBF7TejDKuwck

An Iranian woman tells her story of defiance and coping. She joined the protest after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died just days after her detention by the morality police for allegedly wearing her head scarf incorrectly.
In another incident more than a year later, 17-year-old Armita Garavand died after she was allegedly attacked on the Tehran subway for not wearing a hijab.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan last week, he was greeted by his counterpart, Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, and accorded the full pomp befitting a strategic ally. But there was a change in emphasis that was difficult to ignore. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-central-asia-diplomatic-activitiy-surge-ukraine-war/32683831.html

After more than five months, Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be faltering. An audacious effort to set up bridgeheads across the Dnieper River could change that narrative.

https://www.rferl.org/a/bridgehead-dnieper-russia-ukraine-counteroffensive/32684589.html