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MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/: Russian forces have destroyed over 8,000 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia and the United Arab Emirates called Tuesday for an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting following the deadly strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that left at least 200 dead.
 
“Russia and the United Arab Emirates have called for an urgent public meeting of the United Nations Security Council in the morning of October 18 over the strike on a Gaza hospital,” the Russian ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanski, said on Telegram.
 

MOSCOW, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Rare footage was shown on Wednesday of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing accompanied by officers carrying the so-called nuclear briefcase which can be used to order a nuclear strike.

Putin, after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, was filmed walking to another meeting surrounded by security and followed by two Russian naval officers in uniform each carrying a briefcase. The camera zooms in on one of the briefcases.

MOSCOW, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday denounced the strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip a "monstrous" war crime, for which the United States bears responsibility.

"The monstrous strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is undoubtedly a war crime," Medvedev wrote on his social media channel.

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/: The resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urging the international community to recognize Vladimir Putin's presidency as illegitimate after his current term ends in 2024 is part of the West’s information war against Russia and has no legal standing, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/: Russian forces have destroyed over 250 Ukrainian combat helicopters since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Russia's parliament took the first step on Tuesday towards revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and its top lawmaker warned the United States that Moscow might even abandon the pact altogether.

Russia says the aim is to restore parity with the United States, which has signed but never ratified the 1996 treaty, and that it will not resume testing unless Washington does.

16 October 2023; MEMO: Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has planned to hold separate phone conversations with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, the President’s Advisor on Foreign Policy issues, Yury Ushakov, said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports.

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/: Israel will seek to minimize civilian casualties during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi has told TASS.

"Of course, there is a wish to reduce civilian casualties as much as possible, as much as possible," Ben Zvi said in response to a related question.

He added that the safety of civilians was a factor taken into consideration in planning a ground operation.

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/: Russian air defense forces shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters and a Su-25 attack aircraft over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"Air defense capabilities shot down two Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighters and a Su-25 attack plane in areas near Arkhangelskoye in the Kherson Region, Dmitrovka and Zvonetskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk Region," the ministry said in a statement.