Russia attacks Ukraine with more than 300 drones overnight

"Russia attacked Ukraine with 310 drones on the night of 3-4 November. Air defense forces have downed 272 UAVs, while hits have been recorded at 19 locations." UN

Las Vegas Arts District businesses reeling after severe flooding

"Storms also left their mark on Las Vegas businesses. Owners showed 8 News Now the flooding and damage and how they are picking up the pieces.

“It was water everywhere,” Lesly Garvey, owner of Los West Coast, told 8 News Now.
She said the flooding began as she was driving into work.
“I came down Imperial, and as I was turning, it was really flooded,” she recalled." W

One of RF’s largest-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector has been ongoing since last night

"Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupiers carried out more than 20 targeted attacks, using dozens of missiles and drones. As a result of the attacks, three DTEK thermal power plants were damaged, and emergency power outages were implemented in several regions.

Thousands of power utility workers have been on the job since last night, with the restoration of critical infrastructure taking priority." UN

5.7 Earthquake - 151 km northeast of Khorugh, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

"A strong magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit 151 km (94 mi) away from Khorugh, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, in the evening at 8.33 pm local time (Asia/Dushanbe GMT +5). The depth of the quake could not be determined, but is assumed to be shallow." VD

208 clashes on front lines over past day

"A total of 208 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line.
In the North Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, Russian forces launched 12 assaults. The enemy carried out three strikes using seven guided aerial bombs and shelled Ukrainian positions 165 times.
In the South Slobozhanshchyna sector, Ukrainian units repelled five Russian attacks near Vovchansk and toward Radkivka.

In the Kupiansk sector, Russian forces made no attempts to improve their positions.
In the Lyman sector, Russian troops launched five attacks toward Lyman and near Kopanky.
In the Sloviansk sector, Russian forces carried out nine attacks near Yampil and Ozerne and toward Pyskunivka, Starodubove and Mykolaivka.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Russian troops launched two assaults toward Nykonorivka and Malynivka.
The Kostiantynivka sector saw 24 Russian attacks. The invaders launched offensive operations near Kostiantynivka, Rozkishne and Vilne and toward Raiske, Novopavlivka, Kucheriv Yar and Zolotyi Kolodiaz.
Russian forces launched 15 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector, attempting to advance near Vilne, Bilytske and Molodetske and toward Dobropillia, Huliaipole, Serhiivka and Novopavlivka.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, Russian forces conducted no assault operations.
In the Huliaipole sector, Russian troops launched six attacks, attempting to advance toward Kosivtseve and Rizdvianka and near Vozdvyzhivka, Huliaipilske and Charivne.
In the Orikhiv sector, Russian forces launched three attacks near Mala Tokmachka and Stepnohirsk and toward Novoandriivka.
In the Dnipro River sector, Russian forces conducted no assault operations." Ukrin

Nazi collaborator’s portrait paraded through Ukrainian city in torchlight march

"Hundreds of activists have marched through the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, carrying lit torches and a portrait of World War II-era nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.
The rally took place amid heightened tensions between Ukraine and Poland over Kiev’s glorification of its nationalist icons, whom Warsaw blames for the ethnic cleansing of up to 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.
An estimated 1,500 people participated in the march, which was staged after dark on Sunday.
Videos from the scene show the demonstrators holding Ukrainian national flags as well as the red and black banners of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which were active during World War II." RT

Record tides flood California coast as Huntington Beach declares emergency and warnings persist

"Exceptionally high tides have flooded coastal communities across California inundating homes, businesses and roads, forcing closures along Pacific Coast Highway and prompting a local emergency declaration in Huntington Beach. Water levels set a new record at San Diego, while the National Weather Service (NWS) extended coastal flood advisories around San Francisco, San Pablo and Monterey bays." W

Former sailor coordinated attacks on Odesa at FSB's request. He was detained by SSU

"The Security Service of Ukraine’s Military Counterintelligence Unit detained another Russian agent in Odesa. He turned out to be a former merchant marine who, after retiring, began collaborating with the FSB and directed shelling of the city. Russian intelligence service recruited the former sailor after he was discharged from the ship. To recruit the man, the FSB used an acquaintance of his—a former police officer from Odesa who had moved to Russia." UN

Earthquake swarm jolts Northern California near San Andreas Fault

"A series of small earthquakes has rattled northern California, with over two dozen minor tremors detected within 30 miles of the San Andreas Fault in the past day. The strongest and most recent was a magnitude 2.7 quake that struck at 10:14 a.m. ET Monday morning in The Geysers, a large geothermal field north of San Francisco known for frequent swarms of tiny tremors." msn

206 clashes on front line over past day

"A total of 206 combat engagements took place along the front line over the past day. Russian forces were most active in the Kostiantynivka sector.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, Russian forces carried out eight assault actions over the past day, launched two airstrikes using five guided aerial bombs, and shelled Ukrainian positions and settlements 58 times, including four attacks using multiple launch rocket systems.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, Ukrainian troops repelled ten Russian attacks near the settlements of Izbytske, Hrafske, Vovchanski Khutory, Okhrimivka, Shabelne, Chuhunivka, and Ambarne.
In the Kupiansk sector, Russian forces launched three assaults toward Radkivka.
Attempts to break through Ukrainian defenses were repelled in the Lyman sector, where Russian troops carried out nine attacks toward the settlements of Nove, Kolodiazi, Lyman, Zarichne, and Dibrova.
In the Sloviansk sector, Ukraine’s Defense Forces stopped an attempt by Russian troops to advance near the settlement of Yampil.
No Russian assault operations were recorded in the Kramatorsk sector.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, 21 attacks were recorded. Russian forces launched offensive operations near the town of Kostiantynivka and toward Druzhkivka, Novoselivka, Raiske, Sofiivka, Kucheriv Yar, and Vilne.
In the Huliaipole sector, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions seven times, attempting to advance toward the settlements of Uspishne, Ternuvate, Hirke, and Charivne.
In the Orikhiv sector, Russian forces launched one assault toward Chervona Krynytsia." Ukrin-

Russia reportedly agrees to stop recruiting residents of Ghana to fight in war against Ukraine

"Russia has agreed to stop recruiting Ghanaian citizens to send them to fight in the war against Ukraine. Ghanaian Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stated this.

According to him Putin allegedly promised Ghanaian President John Mahama that Russia would no longer allow Ghanaian citizens to participate in the war against Ukraine.
“Ghanaians will no longer be allowed to participate in the war, whether through irregular recruitment or as volunteers,” Ablakwa said." UN

Ukrainian Navy destroys six Russian aircraft

"The Ukrainian Navy destroyed six Russian aircraft and ten multiple launch rocket systems." Ukrin

Russians attack power grid in Zhytomyr Region: more than 650 communities left without power

"Russian missiles struck 650 settlements in the Zhytomyr Region, leaving them without power.

Vitalii Bunechko, head of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration, stated that efforts to restore power are ongoing and that the number of people affected has not yet been determined.
In Vinnytsia, damage was also reported to a cell tower and several residential buildings; no casualties have been reported." UN

Zelensky comments on possibility of meeting Putin in Turkey

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey if Ankara can organize such a meeting, the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with CNN Turk on Nov. 1.

"This war must end. We must unite, we must at least move the hot phase of this war into a diplomatic phase," said Zelensky." UN

Tusk's Attempted Judicial Coup Is Similar To Zelensky's Earlier Successful One

"Comparing Tusk to Zelensky since the former's attempted judicial coup, which aims to shape the post-war European order by preventing a future conservative-led coalition from stopping the EU's transforming into a German-dominated federation, is similar to Zelensky's from 2020. As a reminder, Zelensky suspended the Constitutional Court's chair during that year's political crisis sparked by their ruling on anti-corruption reforms, which readers can learn more about here.
The aforesaid crisis stretched into the large-scale phase of the Ukrainian Conflict that broke out in 2022, thus resulting in legally contentious laws that were promulgated on the pretext of wartime needs, which prolonged some justices' terms after they expire. After the expiry of Zelensky's own term in May 2024, Medvedev declared that "He spat on the Constitution of his 'country,' ignored the Constitutional Court, and did not even extend, but usurped the

supreme power."
The similarity between Zelensky's earlier successful judicial coup and Tusk's attempted one is that both leaders suspended the heads of their respective constitutional courts (technically the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland's case) amidst a highly sensitive dispute in order to centralize their own power. In Poland's case, the aforesaid dispute is over the prior conservative government allegedly stacking the Tribunal, which the ruling liberals blame for them tending to prioritize Polish law over EU law.
Unlike Zelensky, Tusk probably won't manipulate political-legal processes in a bid to remain in power indefinitely regardless of however fall 2027's next Sejm elections turn out, but what he's attempting is much more insidious since it's about subordinating Poland to the German-led EU. It's for this reason why many patriotic Poles are accusing him of treason and demand that he be brought to justice for his attempted coup or at least resign in disgrace and then go into exile to his beloved Germany.
The only realistic way out of Poland's worst crisis since communism is to hold the early elections that reputable polling before Tusk's attempted coup suggested would return the conservatives to power in a coalition with their newly breakaway faction and the two libertarian-nationalist parties. After what just happened, which united the aforesaid fractured right-wing forces and led to most Poles rallying around Nawrocki as led the resistance to the coup from the front, they'd probably achieve a landslide victory.
The geopolitical fate of the post-war European order will be decided by the resolution of this crisis. Either Tusk wins, he subjugates Poland to Germany, and then the EU completes its transformation into a German-dominated federation, or the rule of law wins, Poland leads the EU's reform into a union of nation-states like Nawrocki declared late last year that he's dedicated to doing, and Poland resumes its historical role as a regional power. The stakes couldn't be higher for both Poland and Europe as a whole." ZH