Sergei Lavrov calls for greater urgency of Russia-Africa cooperation and extolled Africa's resistance to Western sanctions

A pitch for the 2023 Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg

Russian Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy on Russia's dirty bomb warnings:

“I don’t mind people saying that Russia is crying wolf if this doesn’t happen because this is a terrible, terrible disaster that threatens potentially the whole of the Earth'

Georgy Makariev from the Russia-aligned People's Army of Donbas says that Russia could strike Kyiv via Belarus or launch a major offensive from Bryansk

Russian media is warning of a surprise offensive where Ukraine has minimal troop concentrations

Filtration is escalating in Kherson as Russia tries to forcibly evacuate and deport civilians

Searches of cars and homes are common place, as the tactics that Russia used to brutal effect against civilians in Mariupol resurface again

Zelensky advisor Oleksiy Arestovych says that Russia is replenishing its forces in Kherson and the heaviest battles await

Arestovych's comments build on the view that Russia's evacuations from Kherson were a feint

Sergei Lavrov's case against Western values promotion:

'The peoples around the world want to live according to the cultural and civilisational foundations bequeathed by their ancestors'

Great to speak at the European Parliament on Russia's weaponization of food exports and the future of the Black Sea grain export deal

Russian media has been building up to the dirty bomb threat by reviving immediate pre-war rhetoric about Ukraine's nuclear ambitions

Example: On October 12, RIA Novosti spotlit a petition on a Zelensky-linked website calling for Ukraine to get nukes

Russians in Tbilisi say No to War

Ukraine's April 14 Rada bill on Russian genocide highlighted the targeting of civilian infrastructure as a key component

Russia's attacks on electricity, heating and grain supplies will likely feature in a future genocide case

At least half of Ukraine’s thermal capacity has been destroyed by Russian strikes. Along with 30-40% of its electricity capacity.

Yevgeny Prigozhin's engineering team is creating a fortified line of defence in Luhansk

British intelligence believes that these efforts could prevent Ukraine from achieving a rapid counter-offensive in Luhansk

Zelensky contends that the Khakovka dam explosion would have the same impact as Russia using WMDs in Ukraine

Unless it causes a meltdown of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Western response is unlikely to match what Zelensky is calling for