🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- A 26-year-old Russian lieutenant helped Ukrainian intelligence kill more than 300 Russian soldiers, including senior officers, during a covert sabotage campaign inside his own army, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Lev Stupnikov, a communications officer in Russia's 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade, became disillusioned with the military's corruption, brutality and invasion of Ukraine. His mother helped connect him with Ukrainian intelligence in February 2024. He agreed to cooperate on one condition: no money.

That month, he supplied the coordinates of 120-150 Russian troops and officers gathered near Vuhledar, then moved out of the strike zone. Ukrainian missiles reportedly killed 68 and wounded 60. Among the dead were 10 officers, including brigade commander Colonel Gusein Musayev.

Stupnikov continued leaking troop positions, battle plans, radio frequencies and surveillance feeds while sabotaging cameras and drone equipment. His intelligence enabled further strikes before he escaped across the front lines in July 2024, guided by a Ukrainian drone. He subsequently joined the Russian Volunteer Corps to fight against Moscow.

🇺🇸⚡️- Anthropic quietly pitched an AI safety bill to lawmakers, according to POLITICO.

“The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risk must stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its developer’s controls or a cyberattack. The language mirrors that found in California’s AI laws including SB 53, which was signed into law last year.”

🇫🇷⚡️- The Parisian police told the press they are arresting the last remaining protesters as most of the crowd dispersed and went home. Situations remain tense in several points across France but it would appear the riots are over for the most part for today.

🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇷 - Pakistan is one of 25-30 countries (of which 21, including Islamabad, have ratified) that maintain foreign militaries must obtain consent before conducting military activities within their Exclusive Economic Zone. Islamabad's position is that foreign naval forces cannot legally carry out military operations or weapons exercises in Pakistan's EEZ without Pakistani approval.

The US canNOT be present in Pakistan's EEZ without Islamabad's consent, lest it cause friction between the two. If the US does however enter Pakistan's EEZ without consent, Islamabad, as per its own ruling, will see that a violation of its sovereignty.

Other countries that interpret UNCLOS in such a way are India, Brazil, Iran, and others. The only UN Security Council Permanent Member to share those maritime views is China.

The US, France, UK, and the majority of the civilized works argue UNCLOS Articles 58 and 87 grant countries economic and research rights in the EEZ only.

Russia generally agrees with the Western powers, and opposes restrictions on military activities in the EEZ, except for the Arctic. Russia has historically rejected the flawed China+Pakistan interpretation of UNCLOS.

🇫🇷 Limoges City Hall. Built in 1883, designated a historic monument in 1975, destroyed by diversity in 2026.

📎 Keith Woods

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Mass casualty incident in Wichita, Kansas.

A driver ran over several victims with their truck.

🇺🇸⚡️- At least two people have been killed, with multiple other casualties transported to nearby hospitals.

🛰⚡️- MiniMap version 1.1.1 is live! Please visit @minimapupdates for the full changelog.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi airstrikes on the position marked in Rerum Novarum's map above, well inside the al-Matar al-Qadim District of Ta'izz. The attacks indicate the Ansarullah are making swift progress in the northwest of the city.

Rerum Novarum’s proprietary maps are now available at MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

🇫🇷⚡️- A young Frenchman climbed the Joan of Arc statue in Toulouse and removed the Palestinian flag and the makeshift yellow vest hijab.

🇨🇦⚡️- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a "serious incident" caused a major fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta.

🇨🇦⚡️- Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty confirmed that the fire resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries.

The cause of the fire has not yet been disclosed.

🇨🇦⚡️- FIRMS data shows a large fire spreading northwest from its point of origin at CFB Wainwright.

🇨🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The fire was caused by a large explosion, according to CBC.

Several local reports indicate a mass-casualty event, with over 100 casualties.

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Republican Congressman Tom Barrett (MI-7) is campaigning on standing up to Trump and the GOP for voting against the Iran War.

Barrett’s district includes Michigan State University, and he is facing off against DSA-aligned Will Lawrence, who is best known for calls to abolish borders, the police, prisons, and more.

🇫🇷⚡️- Le Monde, a major left-wing journal in France, indicates the political scene in France is likely to shift further right after last evening's riots. Most left-wing politicians outside LFI are shocked and voiceless at what happened.

🇫🇷⚡️- A few key numbers of the 17th October French riots from the first official reports : 1200 arrests, 150 wounded policemen and dozens of millions of euros in damage. Most of the damage was done to public building and hundreds of shops across France were pillaged.

🇫🇷⚡️- Police forces seem to refuse any blame on poor performances or outbursts from their ranks. Every statement of the police from unionized members or media source shifts the blame to Macron, a lack of governmental directives and a lack of funds.