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MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has praised the set of measures his ministry developed to respond to sanctions pressure on Russia. According to him, the country has "found an antidote" to sanctions. He said this in a documentary on the formation of the domestic financial system "History of Russian Finance", posted on the site of the Start online cinema.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: The Russian armed forces wiped out over 2,500 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries during its special military operation in Ukraine over the last week, according to TASS calculations based on daily briefings by Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov. This is more than one and a half times as many as a week earlier.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: The grain deal can hardly be implemented without Russia and it is becoming more risky by nature, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.

"In conditions when Russia speaks about impossibility of guaranteeing safe shipping in indicated areas, such deal certainly can hardly be implemented. It acquires a different nature, much more risky, dangerous and non-guaranteed," Peskov said.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: All partial military mobilization activities and the handing out of military summonses have been halted, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

"All activities related to conscription of reservists for military service by military enlistment offices and regional governments have been halted. The preparation and handing out of military summonses are now stopped," the ministry said.

SOCHI, October 31. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin is hopeful that his trilateral meeting with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will make it possible to outline steps to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, as he himself said at a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday.

"I know that you have the political will to do it and we support this. We need to outline the key aspects that will allow us to move forward during our meeting and at a trilateral meeting later," Putin said, addressing Pashinyan.

MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/: Fragments of drones used by the Kiev regime to stage a terror attack in Sevastopol have been spotted and raised to the surface, the Russian defense ministry said on Sunday.

"Following the October 29 terror attack on Russian Black Sea Fleet and civil ships used to ensure security of the ‘grain corridor,’ fragments of naval unmanned aerial vehicle used by the Kiev regime under the supervision of representatives of the United Kingdom have been spotted and raised to the surface," it said.

MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/: The Russian government has added 11 British Overseas Territories to its unfriendly countries list, the Russian Cabinet's website said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/: The current situation around Ukraine is similar to the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as we are talking about direct threats to Russia's security right on the country’s borders, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview for the film 'A World on the Verge. Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis', which was published on Sunday on the ministry’s website.

When asked how similar the situation of the times of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the current situation around Ukraine were, the minister stressed that "there are similarities."

TASS. October 30: Talks on Ukraine should first of all be held with Washington, since Kiev is acting at its dictation, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

"Obviously, Washington has a deciding vote. It is impossible to discuss anything, say. With Kiev," he said in an interview with the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/: On Saturday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to land troops in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, chairman of the ‘We Are Together with Russia’ movement Vladimir Rogov said on Saturday.

"Early in the morning, according to eyewitnesses, militants of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky attempted to land troops in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar," he wrote in his Telegram channel.