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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke with U.S. Defense Secretary Llyod Austin and three other counterparts from leading NATO members on October 23 amid growing concern that the Kremlin could escalate its war in Ukraine as it suffers defeats.

A lawmaker from Vladivostok who fled Russia after it invaded Ukraine has received asylum in the United States.

A presenter on Russian state-controlled RT media said Ukrainian children who saw Russians as occupiers during Soviet rule should have been drowned.

Kyrgyz police have searched the homes of more than a dozen Kyrgyz civil activists and oppositionists over their objecting to a draft border agreement with Uzbekistan.

Like cities across Ukraine, Chernihiv’s civilian infrastructure has been devastated by two weeks of Russian air attacks targeting the electrical grid and other facilities. Authorities have told locals to make preparations for a particularly difficult winter.

A "humiliating defeat" in Ukraine poses no "existential threat" to Russia, but to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the unprovoked invasion, argues Graham Allison, a Harvard professor and former U.S. defense official.

Ukrainian forces shelled Russian positions in the occupied and illegally seized southern Kherson region, targeting Moscow's resupply routes across the Dnieper River in apparent preparation for a full assault on Kherson city.

Iran has criticized a call by France, Germany, and Britain for the United Nations to investigate accusations that Russia has used Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine.

Iranian factory workers and shopkeepers went on strike on October 22 as nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for "improperly" wearing a head scarf entered a sixth week, activists said. 

The prospect of Russian forces replenishing their depleted aerial arsenal with powerful Iranian ballistic missiles has officials in Kyiv scrambling for more air cover.