The UN Security Council did not issue a joint statement following an emergency meeting on the attack on Israel.

CNN writes about this with reference to several members of the Security Council. Deputy Ambassador of the United States to the UN Robert Wood said that a large number of countries condemned the Hamas attacks, but there were also those who refused to do so.

"I don't want to go into what was actually discussed at the briefing, but there are a large number of countries that condemned the Hamas attacks. Obviously, not all of them (condemned the attacks) and I don't want to go into detail. I think you, You can probably figure out one of them without my words,” he told reporters.

Wood said the situation remains fluid and very dangerous, and officials are working hard to prevent the conflict from spreading throughout the region.

"The Ukrainian people, both military and civilian, are steadily returning what belongs to them. They have our full and unwavering support. Ukraine will win and we will help them at every step." - Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer took part in the 10th meeting of the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland.

On October 3, 2023, while at the Warsaw Security Forum, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, received the "Knight of Freedom" award on behalf of NATO - one of the most important Polish awards in the field of foreign policy and human rights. NATO has been recognized for its role in promoting peace and security in Europe, for its strong collective defense, and for its efforts in the area of common security, especially with regard to its continued support for Ukraine.
On October 3, 2023, Admiral Bauer spoke at the first event of the day, Europe at War: Strengthening NATO's Collective Defence. The moderator was Lieutenant General (retired) Ben Hodges, former Commander of the US Army in Europe, the discussion was also attended by the Minister of Defense of North Macedonia, Mrs. Slavyanka Petrovska, the Minister of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, James Hippie, and the Minister of Defense of Slovenia, Mr. Mar Yan Sharets.
The panelists discussed the consequences of Russia's war against Ukraine for Europe, as well as for the largest reconstruction of NATO's defense shield since the Cold War. Admiral Bauer stated, “The next steps in collective defense will require close and proactive cooperation between the public and private sectors. We can achieve much more together. NATO is stronger and more ready than ever."
On the sidelines of the event, Admiral Bauer also had the opportunity to talk with the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Mrs. Olga Stefanishyna, to exchange views on current events in Russia's war against Ukraine. The head repeated that the Ukrainian people, both military and civilian, "steadily return what belongs to them," adding that "they have our full and unwavering support." Ukraine will win, and we will help them at every step."

In the early months of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ties between Moscow and the Hamas movement intensified. In May 2022, a representative delegation from the Gaza Strip visited Russia, where they met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The leaders of Hamas, which is recognized as a terrorist group by the US, EU and Israel, have met with Russian diplomats many times before. But until recently, Israeli authorities assumed that Moscow's real influence was extremely limited.

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) was only formed in 1987 as a branch of the international Muslim Brotherhood movement (with which it formally severed ties in 2017). But previously, the Soviet Union actually supported militants who used similar methods and set the same goal - the destruction of the state of Israel.

Before perestroika (1986-1991), the USSR's attitude to the Middle East conflict was simple: Israel occupied all of Palestine, and the Soviet Union supported its opponents in exile, most notably Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was important for Moscow that the PLO was dominated by left-wing politicians.

The USSR has not had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1967. The countries maintained only informal contacts: in particular, through the former Pravda correspondent in the Middle East, orientalist Yevgeny Primakov. At the same time, Primakov was friends with Arafat, and the future president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was his graduate student in his youth. In the 1980s, Primakov’s role in politics grew: he became an adviser to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, and partly determined the country’s foreign policy. Primakov, before his death in 2015, argued that Palestinian militants should be condemned for terrorism, but cannot be considered terrorists, because they act in response to “Israel’s armed actions against the civilian population of Palestine.”

In 1991, Primakov headed the allied foreign intelligence, then the Russian one. But it was precisely at this time that events occurred in the Middle East that virtually nullified all the efforts of the USSR to support the PLO: after many years of secret negotiations in 1993, Israel and the PLO concluded a peace treaty, recognizing each other’s existence and renouncing, at least in words, violence . Russia, represented by Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, also participated in the signing of the agreements, but in reality its role in the settlement process was symbolic.

After the PLO, under the 1993 agreements, abandoned its program goal - the destruction of Israel - the Palestinian movement split into a moderate wing (led by the PLO division - the Fatah party) and many radical (including Islamist) organizations, the strongest of which became Hamas.

Fatah (“Palestine National Liberation Movement”) is the heirs of Yasser Arafat, the largest and most influential faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. She officially abandoned the terrorist struggle in 1993, after reconciliation with Israel. No country, not even Israel, considers Fatah a terrorist organization anymore. The movement has the greatest legitimacy for the rest of the world - but not for all Palestinians.

Unlike the secular Fatah, Hamas is a radical Islamist organization that consistently advocates armed struggle against Israel. It basically denies Israel the right to exist.

This position continues to enjoy the support of a significant portion of Palestinians. In 2005, Hamas created a political party called “Change and Reform”, and already in 2006 it won elections to the Palestinian National Assembly, beating the previously ruling Fatah by 4% of the votes.

After losing the elections, Fatah representatives refused to enter into a coalition with the winners, and one of the Hamas leaders, Ismail Haniyeh, became the new head of government - which immediately led to an international embargo and sanctions against the new Palestinian government. Bloody clashes began between members of Hamas and Fatah, who did not want to give up power. An attempt to negotiate the formation of a government of national unity ended in a short but intense civil war in June 2007. Fatah established itself in one part of Palestine - on the west bank of the Jordan River, but lost in Gaza and was finally expelled from the sector, over which Hamas gained full control.

Since then, various parties, including Russia, the United States and Egypt, have attempted to act as arbitrators between the warring Palestinian factions.

Relations between Russia and Hamas warmed sharply after the movement's victory in the elections to the Palestinian Authority parliament in January 2006. Already on January 31, at his annual press conference, President Vladimir Putin, answering a question from an Al-Jazeera TV channel correspondent, recalled that Russia has never recognized Hamas as a terrorist organization. However, he made a reservation that this does not mean that “we approve and support everything that Hamas does.” And since, after winning the elections, this movement moved from the radical opposition to the category of legitimately elected government, they must be taken into account as a real political force, Putin explained.

This was quite consistent with what Yevgeny Primakov repeated for a long time. Speaking in August 2006 at a meeting of the Strategic Vision Group “Russia - Islamic World” in Kazan, Primakov said that he considers Hamas not a terrorist, but a charitable organization (although he mentioned that it has a military wing involved in terrorist attacks) that came to power as a result of the will of the people.

A number of Russian citizens—or rather, female citizens—live in Gaza,” Marianna Belenkaya, an Arabist, columnist for the newspaper Kommersant, and editor of the telegram channel about Middle Eastern politics “Falafel”, explains to Meduza, “so Russian diplomats go to provide them with consular and other assistance from Ramallah to Gaza. And such visits, says Belenkaya, are impossible without communication with Hamas. In addition, the Russian cultural center “Kalinka” operates in Gaza, which is patronized by the Rossotrudnichestvo subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the leadership of Yevgeny Primakov-grandson.

At the same time, Russia has established official relations with the Palestinian National Authority, that is, with the Fatah organization, the worst enemies of Hamas. Hamas, unlike its opponents, does not have its own representative office in Moscow. The Russian diplomatic mission in Palestine is only in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Since 2006, regular meetings have been held with members of the senior leadership (politburo) of Hamas at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The first time the head of the Hamas Politburo Khaled Mashaal came to Moscow on an official visit was almost immediately after the movement’s victory in the Palestinian elections - in March 2006. In an interview with the government’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta, he did not hide his joy that the movement had finally managed to achieve international legitimacy: “We were always convinced that the day would come when we could calmly come to the capitals of the world. And they were sure that this would happen after the victory of Hamas. But when exactly this would happen, of course, none of us knew. And especially since it will happen so quickly.”

In 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Khaled Mashal.

With its return to the number of key mediators in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, nothing has worked out for Russia so far either. In 2020, US President Donald Trump proposed his plan for a Middle East settlement and became a mediator between Israel and several Arab states. Both Hamas and the official authorities of the Palestinian Authority (that is, Fatah) were extremely angry with the American plan - in their opinion, unacceptably pro-Israeli. Hamas never agreed to the deal, which offered it virtually tacit recognition of Israel and an end to the war in exchange for easing the blockade of Gaza.

In such conditions, Palestinian politicians considered Moscow as a counterweight to the United States, hoping that it would be able to change the agenda of the negotiations, writes Al-Monitor, an English-language publication on Middle East politics. But the Israeli authorities are secretly very unhappy with Russia’s contacts with Hamas, journalist and political analyst Nadav Eyal explains to Meduza. It is only because Israel and Russia have many common interests that Israeli officials do not publicly criticize these visits. At the same time, according to Eyal, Israel also understands that Russia does not have any real influence on the leadership of Hamas, but is only trying to integrate into Middle East politics in all areas of the conflict.

Since the Israeli authorities still need some kind of intermediary for communications with the movement, this role is usually played not by Russia, but by Egypt. When Khaled Meshal (head of the Hamas politburo) goes to negotiate with Russian diplomat Mikhail Bogdanov in Qatar, another country with real influence over Hamas, he crosses the only border crossing from Gaza to Egypt. All cargo destined for Gaza, including smuggled weapons, passes through the same border. The already mentioned 2017 agreement between Fatah and Hamas was signed in Cairo. It is Egypt, not Russia, that has real influence in the Gaza Strip.

Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Lubinets said that Russia is behind the attacks of Hamas terrorists on Israel.

According to Dmitry Lubinets, Russians have long supported Hamas, and the Kremlin received delegations of the leaders of this terrorist group after the start of the big war.

Dmitry Lubinets noted that the Russian Federation hopes that escalation in the Middle East could divert the attention of the world community from Ukraine for some time.

“Due to the outbreak of war in the Middle East, the Russian Federation also hopes for a weakening of assistance to Ukraine by our international partners, in particular the United States, which has direct allied obligations to Israel,” said Dmitry Lubinets.

Dmitry Lubinets said that Ukraine and its partners must interfere with the Kremlin.

“Today there are no “foreign wars”. Today terrorism has names - these are Russia and Hamas. Ukraine, Israel and the world have the same enemies,” Dmitry Lubinets emphasized.

     On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in years, with militants crossing the border at the same time as a heavy rocket attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
     The Israel Defense Forces said it launched Operation Iron Swords in response.
     Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Israel is in a state of war, and a cleanup of terrorists has begun. In the evening, a state of emergency was declared throughout Israel. Israel also deprived the Gaza Strip of electricity.
     Hamas said it had killed and captured "scores" of Israeli soldiers. Palestinian media write that Israeli forces allegedly bombed the building of the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip.

What is happening now in Israel is very reminiscent of what happened in Ukraine in the first days of the war...

The behavior of the terrorists coincides with what happened near Kiev... robberies, rapes, hostage holding...

A careful, years-long campaign of deception allowed the Islamist group Hamas to take Israel by surprise with its attack. A source close to Hamas told Reuters the terrorist organization had led Israel to believe it did not want armed conflict and could be placated with economic incentives to maintain relative calm.

“Hamas has given Israel the impression that it is not ready to fight,” the source told the agency. "Hamas has used unprecedented intelligence tactics to mislead Israel in recent months, giving the public the impression that it is unwilling to engage in combat or confrontation with Israel in preparation for this massive operation."

As part of its preparation, Hamas built a mock-up of an Israeli settlement for training, he said. “Israel, of course, saw them, but they were convinced that Hamas was not interested in confrontation,” he says.

Hamas has sought to convince Israel that it is more concerned with ensuring that workers in Gaza have access to jobs abroad and are not interested in starting another war.

An Israeli security source admitted that Israeli security services were deceived by Hamas. "They made us think they needed money," the source said. "And all the time they participated in exercises/trainings until they started a riot."

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 09.10.23 were approximately:

To Elon Musk: Saving the world is not a business

Let's imagine, Ilona, that your estate was seized by the Russians.

Several of your children were killed simply because they were in this estate, and others were taken to Russia. The wife was raped. The dog was shot. Your kitchen is now a toilet for Russian prisoners. And your favorite fleet is now a fleet of people who have not received an education before the age of forty. Because all these years they were drinking and breaking the law.

Let's imagine, Ilona, that your mother was captured by the Russians at this very time. And these Russian soldiers, who aren't even nearly as civilized as your mother, tell her that she has to give up everything she thought was hers, and then maybe her corpse won't be found in the river with a weight tied to it to the leg

Only when she refuses to be herself, she will be able to continue to exist (I emphasize - to exist is to live) further.

Let's imagine, Ilona, that everything, absolutely everything that you have created all your life until this very day comes and takes away forever. They come because there are more of them. More than your bodyguards. Without any legal or other grounds. Simply because you, Ilona, are smarter, have worked much harder, and have many times more potential in the future.

You call the police, but there is no connection. You go to court, but there is no court. There is nothing that you used to call your life.

Let's imagine, Ilona, that you have only one option, how to save your children (those who are left alive), wife, mother, return your lovingly arranged estate and the company created at the cost of your life, save your life. You need the Internet, connection, communication. Just a connection.

And let's imagine, Ilona, how one man on the other side of the planet decides to turn off the Internet just for you. And at this very moment.

Is it necessary to imagine, Ilona, what a man looks like who could save people's lives, but continues to fear for his billions? Do you even know him?

Saving the world is not a business. You can't buy courage. Even if you are one of the richest businessmen in the world.

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 04.10.23 were approximately:

Over the past month, demining units of the State Special Service of Transport discovered, removed and neutralized 12,582 explosive objects.
The territory with an area of 7,982.21 hectares has been demined (verified).
In total, since the beginning of the large-scale aggression of the Russian Federation, units of the State Special Transport Service have discovered, seized and neutralized 63,868 explosive objects.
The territory with an area of 24,993.47 hectares has been demined (verified).
Water area - 21.02 ha
Motor roads – 661.82 km
Railway tracks - 2194.40 km
Power grid lines – 310.74 km
 

On the night of October 3, 2023, the Russian invaders attacked with 31 Shahed attack UAVs and an Iskander-K cruise missile.
The launches were carried out from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea: "Shahediv" - from Cape Chauda, KR "Iskander-K" - from the Dzhankoya district.
In the southern and eastern regions, anti-aircraft defense was conducting combat work: anti-aircraft missile troops, fighter aircraft, units of mobile fire groups.
The targets were destroyed in the areas of responsibility of the "Southern" and "Eastern" air commands within Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In total, the forces and means of the Air Force, in cooperation with the anti-aircraft defense of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, destroyed thirty air targets:

The latest "modifications" of Shahed may indicate attempts by the Russian Federation to establish their mass production - military analysts
Structural modifications of the Shahed 136/Geran-2 barrage munition, which have been recorded in UAV wreckage since the summer of this year, may indicate that Russia is trying to establish their mass production.
Captain Andriy Rudyk, a representative of the Center for the Research of Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced this at a briefing at the Military Media Center.
"We do not rule out the fact that the Russian Federation, looking for simple technical solutions, making materials cheaper and arranging the supply of substitute components, is trying to organize the production of this barrage ammunition and make it mass-produced," the officer noted.
Among the changes in the design of the drone, the Center's analysts note:
▪a fundamentally different combat unit, which now has a device with damage elements in the form of tungsten balls;
▪ replacement of the country of the power plant manufacturer (MicroPilot UAV Flight Control Systems MD550 engine instead of Mado MD550);
▪modification of the body (composite fuselage with foam-type filler is used to replace the one-piece fuselage);
▪ use of the new KST X30-12-165 servo drive;
▪use of the Russian-made "Comet" block in the navigation system.
However, Andriy Rudyk noted, the new Shahed 136/Geranium-2 does not fundamentally differ from earlier models, and the identified differences are cosmetic in nature and due to the desire to make production cheaper. In addition, attempts at such "import substitution" testify to the effectiveness of international sanctions.
Military Media Center

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 29.09.23 were approximately:

4 years of Donald Trump's presidency in the United States are called a nightmare for Europe, which, for the most part, has become the main object of his antagonism. He could be in office again in November 2024 if elected in the upcoming election, and this time Trump's version could be "much more outrageous and deranged."

Politico writes about this. In addition to Europe, the fact that Trump has repeatedly made statements regarding the war in Ukraine is also mentioned. In particular, he promised to conclude an “agreement” with Putin behind the backs of Kyiv and Brussels.

And although Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, known for his pro-Russian views, believes that “Trump can save the Western world,” and the Polish Law and Justice party would welcome his return, dismissing his statements about Ukraine as election theatrics, Old Light is more skeptical.

     "Trump is a nightmare. It's not something you can really prepare for," an unnamed European diplomat told Politico.

https://www.politico.eu/article/can-europe-survive-trump-ii/

Biden previews 2024 message by warning that Trump’s movement is a threat to American democracy

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/28/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech-arizona/index.html

US President Joe Biden harshly commented on the attacks of his rival Donald Trump. He said that the politician's movement threatens US democracy.

     "Something dangerous is happening in America right now. There is an extremist movement that does not share the core beliefs of our democracy: the MAGA movement (Make America Great Again - Trump's campaign slogan in the last election - ed.). There is no doubt that today's Republican Party "is driven and intimidated by Republican MAGA extremists. Their extremist agenda, if implemented, will fundamentally change the institutions of American democracy as we know them," Biden said, as quoted by CNN.

House narrowly clears hard-right Pentagon funding bill after Ukraine aid carve-out

The House also approved the separate $300 million tranche of Ukraine funding after Republicans removed it from the defense bill.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/28/kevin-mccarthy-ukraine-aid-pentagon-bill-00118723

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 27.09.23 were approximately:

Tonight, a large hotel complex was destroyed by a missile strike at the marine terminal in Odessa, its co-owner told what he was going to do with it.
We are talking about the Odessa Hotel (formerly the Kempinski Hotel), built more than 20 years ago on the territory of the marine terminal of the Odessa commercial port.

Exclusive: Russian oil producers send CPC Blend to UAE, open new export route

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russian-oil-producers-send-cpc-blend-uae-open-new-export-route-2023-09-20/

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 23.09.23 were approximately:

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