🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "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.

🇨🇭⚡️- International Red Cross and Red Crescent announces they will delete 2900 jobs worldwide, 200 of which are located in their HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian President Putin's important announcement, following the emergency Security Council, is that he has received President Trump's 28-point peace plan.

🇺🇸⚡️- Consumer price index inflation data for October has been cancelled. - Bureau of Labor Statistics.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's popularity with GOP voters shows signs of cracking in a serious way for the first time in a decade. Fox polling shows 43% of Trump 2024 voters blame him for the poor state of the economy.

🇺🇸⚡️- House Speaker Johnson will be cracking down on the use of Discharge Petitions in the House after the method was used successfully multiple times this year to push through legislation without the consent of the Speaker, including the Epstein Files bill passed this week.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡️- The US Marine Corps temporarily sent MQ-9A Reaper drones to the Philippines for surveillance and to generally support maritime security in the South China Sea. The Philippines is increasingly becoming a focus for Washington as the First Island Chain, especially the Luzon Strait, needs hardening.

🇻🇪⚡- Venezuelan opposition figure Roberto Vernet has been detained by the Venezuelan authorities. Vernet was out exercising in Caracas when he was detained.

🇺🇸⚡- "We've [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani] just had a great meeting. We have one thing in common, we want New York City that we love to do very well.

I want to congratulate the Mayor, he really ran an incredible race against a lot of smart people. He beat them, and beat them easily.

I think you're going to have a really great Mayor. The better he does, the happier I am. There's no difference in our parties," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- "He's [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani] got political views out there. Who knows, we'll see what works.

He's going to change, we all change. I changed a lot from when I first came to office.

I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. He's going to surprise some conservative people," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- Journalist: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mayor-elect Mamdani: "I've spoken about..."

President Trump: "That's ok, you can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind."

Mayor-elect Mamdani: "Yes."

🇺🇸⚡- "The press have eaten this [meeting with NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani] thing up. You know I've had a lot of meetings with the heads of major countries, nobody cared. But this meeting, you people have gone crazy. Outside you have hundreds of people [journalists] waiting.

For some reason the press has found this to be a very interesting meeting. The biggest people in the world, they come over from countries, nobody cared. But they did care about this meeting. It was a great meeting," - President Trump.