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1- October 27, 2022 at 2:20 AM EDTUpdated onOctober 27, 2022 at 4:11 AM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to make a major appearance at the annual Valdai discussion club Thursday, a day after overseeing scheduled nuclear exercises that tested a “massive” retaliatory strike.

Ksenia Sobchak, the celebrity-journalist daughter of Putin’s political mentor fled Russia for Europe as police detained a close associate and raided her home as part of a criminal case for alleged extortion.

Russia has lost close to 250 helicopters in Ukraine since its invasion, and will not be able to replace the equipment it has lost, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his regular nightly address.

US officials have been forced to scale back a plan to impose a cap on Russian oil prices, following skepticism by investors and growing risk in financial markets brought on by crude volatility and central bank efforts to tame inflation, according to people familiar with the matter.

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2- What we covered here:

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-26-22/index.html

-Russian-installed authorities are stepping up pressure on residents to leave the southern Kherson region, as an adviser to the Ukrainian president warned of the “heaviest of battles.”

-President Vladimir Putin called on his government to “speed up” decision-making and manufacturing of military equipment as the Kremlin admitted that the army is experiencing equipment issues.

-NATO’s chief said Russia’s claim that Ukraine plans to use a so-called dirty bomb — without evidence — on its own territory was “transparently false.”

-CIA director Bill Burns traveled to Ukraine earlier this month to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials, according to sources.

3- “The sooner Ukraine achieves victory, the less evil Russia will bring to other regions.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his nightly video address, Ukrinform reports.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3601122-the-sooner-ukraine-achieves-victory-the-less-evil-russia-will-bring-to-other-regions-zelensky.html

4- “Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a campaign of horror against the civilian population of Ukraine to escalate a war that he started and is losing, but the United States will support Ukraine on a bipartisan basis until victory is won.”

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, said this in her remarks at the First Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimea Platform, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

Pelosi noted that eight months into Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, the deaths, displacements and destruction continue.

“In the last two weeks alone, Putin has launched a further campaign of horror – […] with drones against cities visible from the streets, designed to terrify and to kill. The Congress condemns the actions of Iran in supplying these kamikaze drones. Putin is also targeting and destroying Ukraine’s power stations, seeking to deprive the Ukrainians of heat and power as winter approaches. Using rape, kidnapping and other atrocities, kidnapping of children as a weapon of war is outside the circle of civilized human behavior. Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Putin’s latest attack has escalated a war that he began and that he is losing,” she said.

In this context, Pelosi noted that the countries of the civilized world had promised to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.

“All of us here pledged to stand with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, recognizing their courage in Crimea and other territories that he [Putin] has attempted to illegally annex, until victory is won. And that is what we will do – until victory is won,” she said.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3600757-pelosi-us-will-support-ukraine-on-bipartisan-basis-until-victory-is-won.html

5- The end is near for Putin’s war against Ukraine
Putin’s problem is that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine: Gen. Jack Keane: ‘There’s opposition in the streets’ of Russia

Fox News senior strategic analyst retired General Jack Keane discusses Putin’s most recent threats and the challenges he will face both domestically and abroad given his most recent actions to mobilize 300,000 reserve troops
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/end-near-putin-war-against-ukraine

6- AP Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/live-updates-russia-ukraine-war/ar-AA13aOvV