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Note the Brady tweet was from 3 weeks ago: Sounds like we finally gave them ATACMS?!

Hamas received millions of dollars through cryptocurrency exchange with office in Moscow City - The Wall Street Journal The Palestinian Jihad group allegedly received more than $93 million dollars through digital wallets on the eve of its attack on Israel. Hamas also used a similar funding scheme. WSJ, citing data from the analytical company Elliptic, states that the attack on Israel was partially financed through the popular crypto exchange Garantex, registered in Moscow.

Ukrainian military report “heated” fighting and non-stop Russian assaults, as their attack on Avdiivka continues into its fifth day. Russia's trying to push out from the occupied city of Donetsk & outflank and surround the eastern town of Avdiivka - located on its outskirts. “There is certainly no silence there at all. Shooting battles continue, both from the north and from the south of the city.” Numerous videos have shown Russian armoured columns being decimated by accurate Ukrainian fire & Russian bloggers have also said the attacks are not going well. However, constant attacks and daily Russian shelling will be taking its toll - not least on Ukrainian supplies and ammo.

Worth tracking: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a small group of lawmakers last week that his department is tracking the possibility that Azerbaijan could soon invade Armenia, Politico reports citing to two people familiar with the conversation. Azerbaijiani President Ilham Aliyev has previously called on Armenia to open a "corridor" along its southern border, linking mainland Azerbaijan to an exclave that borders Turkey and Iran. Aliyev has threatened to solve the issue "by force."

It continues. A medium-length thread.

She needed some friends to help her.

Good thread providing some clarity about what move happened at the music festival. Nothing particularly graphic. ... The thread continues to describe the map and timeline, including groups of looters who arrive.

Full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/07/joe-biden-huge-final-ukraine-aid-package/

Wow. I've seen it. It's bad. It looked like the methodical killing of civilians in their cars

"Fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of those killed in the crash. There was no external impact on the plane... Yes, unfortunately, the presence of alcohol or drugs in the blood of the victims was not examined, although we know that after the known events in the company in St. Petersburg, the FSB [Federal Security Service] found not only 10 billion in cash, but also 5 kilograms of cocaine" - Putin gave heavy hints about causes of deaths of Wagner PMC leaders, Prigozhin and Utkin.

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov showed footage of a newly designed 'invisibility cloak' that Ukrainian snipers/SSO units can use to hide from thermal imagers and drones with thermal camera's. It only weighs 2.5kg and is protected against rain and high temperatures.

Spoiler: That's Russian tech support. And they helped him.

Oops. Send in the drones. Moscow authorities published the addresses of secret facilities of Russian security agencies Investigators from the "Dossier" center found on the website of the Moscow City Hall a document with the title "List of consumers of electric power (capacity), the restriction of the regime of electric power consumption of which may lead to economic, environmental and social consequences". It is there that the addresses of restricted facilities are listed. The list of special Moscow electricity consumers approved by Sergei Sobyanin includes addresses where employees of secret agencies are registered. Among them is building 91 on Profsoyuznaya Street. The document also lists specific apartments, presumably belonging to intelligence officers. The largest concentration of secret facilities is located in the Serebryany Bor, a specially protected natural area in the area of Moscow. There are military unit facilities belonging to the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as plots intended for "defense and security" and "operation of a service dacha." The building in Stoleshnikov Pereulok, where the famous Jean-Jacques café is located, turned out to be somehow connected with the Federal Protective Service. In the border region of Bryansk, officials even noted a temporary mobile FSB station. And in St. Petersburg, the law enforcement agencies have several dachas in the most elite neighborhoods of the city. Such information is a state secret, and for the disclosure of addresses under Article 283 of the Criminal Code threatens up to seven years in prison. The file was placed in the section "Special Group" on the site of the mayor's office, now it is no longer available. The investigators also found similar files on the websites of the administrations of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region, the frontline Belgorod and Bryansk regions, the Primorsky Krai, Kamchatka, Chechnya and North Ossetia. Also, the lists include addresses belonging to the Ministry of Defense and captions to them: "ammunition depot", "refueling point" and "storage facility". According to the investigators, the addresses of these facilities may already be known to the Ukrainian security services and could be used as potential targets for strikes. Therefore, the journalists created a map in which they indicated all possible potential targets for strikes, so that ordinary residents could understand the risks of living near such places.

British Intelligence reports that Russia is heading for a defence spending of 30% of the total public expenditure in 2024, proposing a 10.8 trillion Rubles ($112 billion) defence budget which equals to 6% of the GDP and is a 68% increase over 2023. Russia is preparing for multiple years of fighting.

For those who won't go there, I'll keep it above CR territory. In case you were wondering, the few on the far right who were holding everything up over Ukraine aren't happy about this. HOUSE DEM LEADERSHIP STATEMENT: "When the House returns, we expect Speaker McCarthy to advance a bill to the House Floor for an up-or-down vote that supports Ukraine, consistent with his commitment to making sure that Vladimir Putin, Russia and authoritarianism are defeated. We must stand with the Ukrainian people until victory is won."

To train Ukrainians