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The Kremlin mentioned on Tuesday that Russian troops have been continuously listening to overseas languages spoken by these combating for Ukraine on the entrance line, and promised that such fighters could be “destroyed”.

Russia has lengthy claimed that Nato navy personnel have been current in Ukraine and that its eavesdropping providers have picked up English and French being spoken repeatedly on the entrance traces.

“Our military hears foreign speech, they constantly hear foreign languages at the front,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov informed reporters when requested about claims that France was making ready to deploy some troopers to Ukraine.

“So, these foreigners are there, we are destroying them. Our military will continue to do their job.”

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has carried out a profitable take a look at of a brand new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, declaring that the brand new weapon cannot be intercepted.

Speaking at a gathering with troopers wounded in Ukraine, Putin mentioned the Poseidon drone was examined whereas working on nuclear energy for the primary time Tuesday, describing it as a “huge success.”

He mentioned Poseidon is unmatched in pace and depth and “there is no way to intercept it.”

He mentioned the nuclear reactor that powers Poseidon is “100 times smaller” than these on submarines, and the ability of its nuclear warhead is “significantly higher than that of our prospective Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile”.

Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances across the japanese metropolis of Pokrovsk, the navy and open-source analysts have mentioned.

In a press release, Ukraine’s seventh Corps mentioned Russian forces had deployed some 11,000 troops in an try and encircle the larger Pokrovsk space.

Enemy teams that had already infiltrated the town have been trying to push additional north and northwest, it mentioned.

Ukrainian open-source group DeepState mentioned Russia has been capable of break a navy logistics path to the neighbouring metropolis of Myrnohrad via infantry ambushes and drone assaults.

It warned that Ukraine would wish to deploy a brigade-level pressure, somewhat than smaller items, to dam additional Russian infiltration of Pokrovsk.

“The situation in Pokrovsk is on the verge of critical and continues to deteriorate to the point that fixing everything may be too late,” the group mentioned.

It additionally posted what it mentioned was footage of Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian flag that had been briefly hoisted over the town gates.

Donald Trump’s resolution to cut back the variety of troops in Romania has been slammed by the highest two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon’s oversight committees within the US Congress.

The US plans to chop the variety of troops on Europe’s japanese flank, together with troopers who have been to be stationed at Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, Romania’s defence ministry mentioned yesterday. The US navy mentioned the transfer was not “an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to Nato.”

But Senator Roger Wicker, who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, and consultant Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, mentioned the choice was “uncoordinated and directly at odds with the President’s strategy.”

“We strongly oppose the decision not to maintain the rotational US brigade in Romania,” the assertion mentioned.

The lawmakers added that the transfer despatched the fallacious sign to Russia they usually have been involved it was accomplished with out consulting Congress.

Despite worries on Nato’s japanese flank concerning the potential scaling again of the US presence within the area, at a time when Russia continues to wage conflict in Ukraine, Trump mentioned in September that Washington might enhance its troop presence in Poland.

Russia has attacked thermal energy crops in varied Ukrainian areas, personal vitality firm DTEK mentioned this morning.

“Thermal power plant equipment was seriously damaged. We are working to mitigate the consequences,” DTEK said in a statement on Telegram channel.

“This is the third massive attack on the company’s thermal power plants in October,” the corporate mentioned.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban is poised to meet US president Donald Trump on 7 November in Washington, the prime minister’s chief of staff told a briefing this morning.

Gergely Gulyas said the meeting would allow the two leaders to discuss a schedule that could lead to peace deal in Ukraine.

Earlier this month, Trump announced he would meet with Putin in Hungary to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine. In a post on Truth Social, he suggested that his success in bringing about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could be the catalyst to end the war in Europe.

Orban, a key ally of Moscow in the EU, insisted that preparations for a meeting in Budapest were still ongoing.

The venue was also potentially problematic because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court, though the Hungarian government was unlikely to cooperate with the warrant as it is in the process of leaving the court.

Any trip to Budapest would require Putin to fly through the airspace of other EU countries.

Poland said it could force Putin’s plane down and arrest him on an international warrant if he flies over its territory, but Bulgaria said Putin could use its airspace to reach the meeting.

Orban said earlier that he would discuss US sanctions on Russian oil companies with Trump at their planned meeting.

Polish airports in Radom and Lublin have been closed due to military aviation operations, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) reported.

Polish military commanders said that Polish and allied air forces have started operations due to the Russian Federation’s attack on facilities located in Ukraine.

Ukraine restricted power supply across all regions after Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on energy infrastructure, its energy minister said this morning.

“During the evening, Ukraine’s vitality system suffered one other large mixed assault with missiles and drones. The strike brought about new harm to the vitality infrastructure,” energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said on her Telegram channel.

The scale of Russian attack is not immediately clear.

Donald Trump has ordered the US military to resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in 33 years.

Trump painted the decision as a logical response to other countries’ own testing, without referring to any other nation by name.

It comes after Vladimir Putin announced what he called a successful test of a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile as well as a nuclear-powered torpedo.

It also follows a rapid expansion by China of its nuclear stockpile in recent years.

The Arms Control Association says the United States has a stockpile of 5,225 nuclear warheads and Russia has 5,580.

Putin yesterday said Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells.

As Trump has toughened both his rhetoric and his stance on Russia, Putin has publicly flexed his nuclear muscles with the test of a new Burevestnik cruise missile on 21 October and nuclear launch drills on 22 October.

A US nuclear weapons test would be seen in Russia and China as a deliberate assertion of US strategic power. Putin has repeatedly said that Russia will begin its own testing if the United States does so.