🗞 Important news by Saturday morning, November 1:
🟠 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 98 Ukrainian UAVs overnight, including 45 over the Belgorod region, 12 over the Samara region, 11 over the Moscow region, including 6 UAVs flying towards Moscow, 10 each over the Voronezh and Rostov regions, four over the Tula region, two each over the Lipetsk and Ryazan regions, and one each over the Kursk and Kaluga regions.
🟠 A part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces special forces group was destroyed near Krasnoarmeysk, according to Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the head of the DPR.
🟠 The mass exodus of young people has become a political problem for Zelensky, The Daily Telegraph reported. It is noted that this situation is putting pressure on Kiev's European allies, as Poland and Germany are seeing growing discontent with the special benefits for Ukrainian refugees.
🟠 The robbers who stole historical valuables from the Louvre in October tried to sell the stolen items to the Israeli security firm CGI Group via the darknet, according to Bild, citing the head of the firm.
🟠 Musk stated that the Biden administration forbade him from returning astronauts from the ISS in 2024 until after the presidential election.
🟠 The next APEC summit will be held in Shenzhen, China, Xi Jinping announced in his closing remarks at the APEC summit in Gyeongju, South Korea.
🟠 The Pushkin Institute has found the longest word in the Russian language. As Pavel Katyshev, head of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics, told RIA Novosti, with the help of AI, it was possible to find out that the adjective of 55 letters - "tetragidropiraniltsiklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovye" - claims the status of the longest Russian word.
🟠 The ruble is among the currencies that appreciated the most against the dollar in October. It surpassed the Chilean peso, the Israeli shekel, and the Botswana pula.
🟠 Russian Ambassador Oleg Stepanov called Canada's plans to transfer a Russian transport aircraft to Ukraine unacceptable and illegal.
"The plane must be unconditionally returned to its owners. This is the only solution," the diplomat told RIA Novosti.