🇮🇳🇷🇺⚡- India's petrochemical giant Reliance has become the first to openly announce it has stopped importing Russian crude, abiding with Western sanctions.

Reliance states its massive refinery complex in western Gujarat, India, will no longer be refining Russian oil.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "London is preparing a plan to send troops to Ukraine after a ceasefire. Britain is considering deploying forces for peacekeeping, training Ukrainian troops, and participating in air policing.

It is also discussing expanding the Black Sea group with Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria to conduct demining and open sea routes," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇰🇪⚡- The US and Kenya have begun large-scale work to upgrade their joint Camp Simba military base in the Lamu province, near the border with Somalia, Africa Intelligence reports.

The base would assist Kenyan troops deployed in Somalia with logistical support, which currently rely on distant airports. More importantly, Nairobi has asked Washington to help establish a joint US-Kenya naval base, adjacent to Camp Simba.

🇯🇵⚡️- Sanae Takaichi's cabinet approved a 21.3T¥ (135.4B$) stimulus package, the largest since Covid.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- A Russian shadow tanker bound for Venezuela made a U-turn after a US warship intercepted its route, forcing it to divert. The incident occurred in international waters, but near the Venezuelan coast.

🇦🇪🇮🇳⚡- An Indian Tejas Fighter jet has crashed at the Dubai air show, It appears the pilot did not eject.

🇵🇱⚡- Blank rifle cartridges were found tied to train lines near Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.

This section of train line was closed for renovations, and police believe this to be a provocation to test security services.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told his cabinet yesterday that ever since the Trump - al-Sharaa meeting at the White House, the Syrian President has "started doing all kings of things." Netanyahu says al-Sharaa has "become inflated," Amichai Stein of Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- Germany's Merz, France's Macron and UK's Starmer held a joint phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Trump's 28-point peace plan.

The European Troika have expressed dissatisfaction with some of the points in the agreement, rejecting the call for Ukraine to withdraw from Donetsk and the unfreezing of Russian assets.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The US has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine if Kiev does not sign Trump's 28-point peace plan by November 27, Reuters reports.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky to hold a phone-call with Vice President JD Vance today to discuss Trump's 28-point peace plan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Russian President Putin has urgently convened a meeting of the Security Council. The Kremlin is expected to make an "important announcement" soon. The topic of discussion is Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "An important statement by Vladimir Putin on the situation around Ukraine is expected soon," - Kremlin Pool.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. Now Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner. Or difficult 28 points, or an extremely difficult winter, the most difficult, and further risks.

Life without freedom, dignity and justice and for us to believe the one who has attacked twice already. They will expect an answer from us," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "They're waiting for an answer from us, but I gave it on May 20, 2019 [Zelensky's Presidential inauguration], when I said I pledged to defend Ukraine's sovereignty and independence.

The pressure on Ukraine is one of the heaviest right now. We are made of steel, but even the strongest metal can fail. We will and must act in such a way that the result is the end of the war, not the end of Ukraine," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We did not betray Ukraine then [February 24th 2022], and we will not betray it now. The people are with me," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Zelensky held a phone call with JD Vance, with both discussing Trump's 28-point peace plan.

🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡- "When it comes to peace, all the negotiations should include Ukraine. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine," - Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland.

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine can count on us. Together with Macron and Starmer, I reaffirmed our full support to Zelensky. We will coordinate closely with Europe and the US, whose commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty we welcome," - Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor.

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: "The contact [front-line] line must remain the basis for any talks," - Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor.

The European Troika reject point 21 of Trump's 28-point peace plan, requiring Ukraine to withdraw from Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk and Lugansk.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein too, sharing an article by Jacobin.

"Newly released files show Jeffrey Epstein claiming to have been involved in Ehud Barak’s 2019 election campaign against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Epstein appeared to be taking credit for former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak’s reentry into Israeli politics in 2019, which aimed to topple current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the second of what would be three Israeli elections in a year.

In June 2019, after spending years attacking Netanyahu’s increasingly extreme and corruption-embroiled rule, Ehud Barak, a former Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, officially came out of retirement and formed a new party to challenge him. In a chat with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon that month, Epstein implied the move was his doing," - Jacobin.