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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit begins Sunday and will be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meetings are unlikely to produce groundbreaking declarations or alliances.
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit begins Sunday and will be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meetings are unlikely to produce groundbreaking declarations or alliances.
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Every mapped development in this theater. Marker precision is disclosed on selection; country and regional centroids show scope, not an exact incident site.
Eurasia theater
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Tatarstan
Aftermath videos indicated that Ukraine’s deep strike may have involved one or two modified Aeroprakt A-22 single-engine sport aircraft valued at about $90,000 each.
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Chronology
The two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit starts Sunday. China's Pres. Xi, Russia's Pres. Putin, and India's Prime Minister Modi will all attend, but the meetings aren't expected to lead to groundbreaking new declarations or alliances.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit begins Sunday and will be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meetings are unlikely to produce groundbreaking declarations or alliances.
Open source reportXi gushed that China and Russia are "true friends who have been through thick and thin together," which led analysts to suggest that the point of the call was to disprove speculation that Putin's rapprochement with Trump comes at the cost of weakening Russia's bond with China.
Xi Jinping described China and Russia as enduring friends during a video call with Vladimir Putin. Analysts who interpreted the call as an effort to counter speculation that Russia's engagement with Trump could weaken its relationship with China.
Open source reportsome analysts have speculated they're being retrained in modern battle tactics before they return to the front lines.
Analyst speculation that North Korean units could be receiving training in modern battlefield tactics before returning to combat.
Open source reportRussia has since withdrawn the (decimated) North Korean units from the front lines
Russia withdrew decimated North Korean units from front-line operations.
Open source reportthe North Korean soldiers his company fought against in Russia were treated like "cannon fodder" and "would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie."
A Ukrainian commander’s account that North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia were treated as expendable and charged forward from tree lines in unconventional assaults.
Open source reportAzerbaijan's Pres. Aliyev escalated a row with Russia's Pres. Putin over the downing of a passenger jet last week. Aliyev claims (and U.S. investigators concur) that Russia accidentally shot the jet down, and Putin already extended an apology for the incident; however, he refused to explicitly accept responsibility for it.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed Russia accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft and that U.S. investigators agreed. Putin apologized for the incident without explicitly accepting responsibility.
Open source reportMaduro said they discussed energy and defense cooperation and proposed a "new international financial system" to circumvent sanctions.
Nicolás Maduro said he and Vladimir Putin discussed energy and defense cooperation and a proposed international financial system intended to circumvent sanctions.
Open source reportBrazil effectively vetoed Venezuela's admission to the BRICS group of emerging economies by leaving Venezuela off of the list of new members it approved.
Brazil effectively vetoed Venezuela’s admission to BRICS by excluding it from an approved list. Brazilian and Venezuelan officials offering conflicting characterizations of the decision.
Open source reportThis week's BRICS summit in Kazan was widely seen as a victory for Pres. Putin: despite Western sanctions and opprobrium, he attracted 36 world leaders
BRICS summit is a victory for President Putin, arguing that attendance by numerous foreign leaders allowed him to challenge Western pressure and portray Russia as a counterweight to the West.
Open source reportUkraine sent hundreds of drones into several regions of Russia overnight. Russia intercepted most of them, but one penetrated Russian air defenses and struck a military explosives manufacturer
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones toward several Russian regions, most of which Russia intercepted, while one struck a military explosives manufacturer deep inside Russia.
Open source reportI will do everything to make his regime fall as soon as possible.
According to Yulia Navalnaya, a pledge to continue Alexey Navalny’s opposition to President Vladimir Putin and an intention to run for president after Putin leaves power. Russian authorities have accused her of extremism.
Open source reportRussia will host BRICS leaders for the bloc's 16th annual summit in Kazan tomorrow through Thursday.
Russia will host the 16th BRICS summit from 22–24 October. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE is new members; possible accession by as many as 15 countries will be discussed; Saudi Arabia is described as invited but not yet an official member.
Open source reportHungary's Viktor Orban retroactively announced that he had met with Russia's Pres. Putin in Moscow and China's Pres. Xi in Beijing following his surprise talks with Ukraine's Pres. Zelensky in Kyiv.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg characterized Orbán’s Moscow visit as unrepresentative of NATO’s position.
Open source reportIndia's PM Modi will meet Pres. Putin in Moscow today. It will be Modi's first visit to Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine - and his first trip abroad since he was reelected.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi planned to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first visit to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine and his first foreign trip since reelection. Modi hoped to secure the release of Indian nationals whom India says were duped into serving in Russia’s military.
Open source reportDelisting could be the first step towards recognizing the Taliban government.
That delisting could precede Russian recognition of the Taliban government and interprets the move is part of Moscow's effort to cultivate international partners following its invasion of Ukraine.
Open source reportRussia's foreign ministry said it's considering removing the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations in order to facilitate dialogue on "issues such as drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime."
Russia's foreign ministry was considering delisting the Taliban to facilitate dialogue concerning drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime.
Open source reporthis government is considering removing the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, and could then consider formally recognizing the Taliban government.
A senior Russian diplomat indicated that Russia is considering removing the Taliban from its terrorist list and could subsequently consider recognizing its government. Taliban delegates were invited to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Open source reportShoigu's demotion... will enjoy a cushy new gig on the National Security Council, but Kremlin insiders leaked that Putin privately upbraided him for the military's failures in Ukraine under his command.
Sergei Shoigu’s move to the National Security Council is a demotion and attributes to unnamed Kremlin insiders a claim that Putin privately criticized him over Russian military failures in Ukraine.
Open source reportRussia arrested a second senior defense official on bribery charges: Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov... is accused of accepting an "exceptionally large bribe"
Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Defense Ministry’s main personnel directorate, was arrested and accused of accepting an exceptionally large bribe while overseeing a General Staff directorate responsible for state secrets.
Open source reportUnder their "no limits" friendship, Russia provides cheap energy to China, and China supports (or at least doesn't oppose) Russia's war in Ukraine.
The relationship is one in which Russia supplies inexpensive energy while China supports, or at least does not oppose, Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Open source reportSome Russians affected by the floods blamed Pres. Putin for ignoring their crisis and staged a rare protest to demand more government help.
Ural River floods are the worst in decades and not yet at their peak. Affected residents staged a rare protest demanding greater government assistance and blamed President Vladimir Putin for neglecting the crisis.
Open source reportAnalysts noted that the high-bank-for-buck converted drone is extremely scalable, so we could see Ukraine use more of them in the near future.
Analysts considered the converted-aircraft concept cost-effective and scalable, creating the possibility that Ukraine could use more such systems.
Open source reportVideos of the aftermath of Ukraine's drone strike deep inside Russia's Tatarstan showed that the weapon was possibly delivered by a converted $90,000 Aeroprakt A-22 single-propeller sport plane (or perhaps two of them) modified for the task.
Aftermath videos indicated that Ukraine’s deep strike may have involved one or two modified Aeroprakt A-22 single-engine sport aircraft valued at about $90,000 each.
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