Indian companies began to reconsider contracts for the supply of oil from Russia to exclude purchases from Rosneft and Lukoil after the introduction of US sanctions against them. Reuters writes about this with reference to a source. According to the agency, state-owned Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals are now engaged in revising agreements with Russia.

US President Donald Trump said Israel would lose all support from Washington if it annexed the West Bank. The American president said this in an interview with Time magazine. Vice President J.D. Vance, during a visit to Israel this week, called the Knesset vote in favor of annexing occupied West Bank territory a "personal affront" to the Trump administration.

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced new sanctions against Russian companies Rosneft and Lukoil. Information about this appeared on the department’s website late in the evening of October 22. “Now is the time to stop the killing and immediately declare a ceasefire.

During a Bundeswehr Marshal Power exercise in the city of Erding in Bavaria, local residents who were unaware of the exercise called the police. As a result of a misunderstanding between the two departments, the police opened fire on the soldiers and wounded one of them. This was reported by the dpa agency with reference to a representative of the Bundeswehr operational command.

Large oil pollution has again been recorded in the Black Sea. A new large spill of fuel oil was discovered in the water area, said Veniamin Kondratyev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. According to him, pollution is moving towards the coast of the Temryuk region and Anapa. “900 tons are already heading to the shores of Temryuk. That's it. This is the time we have. You can look for the extreme, the guilty, you can, but you don’t need to. You just need to clean it up.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and decided to transfer 81.8% of the shares of the Ivanovo Heavy Machine Tool Plant to state ownership. In its lawsuit, the department pointed out violations during the privatization of the plant - in particular, illegal ownership of shares and the lack of government permission to transfer them.

Diana Chistyakova, a clinical psychologist, blogger and author of articles from the Anton Is Near Foundation, was detained in St. Petersburg. The Investigative Committee, without indicating a name, claims that the girl tried to set fire to the police building in Kupchin by throwing a Molotov cocktail onto its territory. A criminal case has been opened for attempting to commit a terrorist act.

The Volga City Court of the Ivanovo Region converted the property of Alexei Shevtsov, the former head of the Plyos administration, who was previously recognized as a “foreign agent,” into state income. Kommersant writes about this. 149 real estate items and about 304 million rubles were confiscated from Shevtsov, the publication notes.

The Universe Browser, which is advertised as "the fastest" and promises protection against data leaks, actually routes all Internet traffic through servers in China and secretly installs programs that run in the background. This was reported by network security company Infoblox, which discovered malware-like features in the browser, including keystroke interception and hidden connections to third-party servers.

Since 2022, nearly 2,500 Russian citizens have received humanitarian visas allowing them to live and work in Germany. However, after the program facilitating their migration was significantly scaled back this summer, an untold number of applicants now find themselves in limbo.

An explosion at a plant in Kopeysk killed 12 people. This was announced by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region Alexey Teksler. “The location of 10 more employees of the enterprise is being clarified,” the governor wrote on Telegram. The explosion at the plant in Kopeisk became known on the night of October 22, local time, and later there was a second explosion. Izvestia writes that this is the Plastmass plant.

For years, Russia, bypassing sanctions, bought technology from American and European companies to protect nuclear submarines. Russia is protecting its fleet of nuclear submarines in the Arctic with an underwater surveillance system, according to a Washington Post investigation based on financial records, court documents and intelligence from Western officials.

Chinese and Russian agents are using “sex warfare” to spy on Silicon Valley experts, The Times reports , citing sources in the American IT industry. James Mulvenon, chief investigator at Pamir Consulting, a consulting firm that provides risk assessments for U.S. companies investing in China, said he had recently become a target of foreign agents. He stated: “I get a lot of very sophisticated requests on LinkedIn from the same type of attractive young Chinese women.

OPEC is ready to compensate for the deficit in the oil market after the US imposed sanctions against Russia if there is demand for it, said Kuwaiti Oil Minister Tarek al-Rumi. He also noted that we should expect an increase in oil prices. He is quoted by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Anbaa. The minister noted that countries affected by sanctions are likely to redirect their oil demand towards the Gulf states and the Middle East.

The office of Russia’s Prosecutor General has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court demanding that the foreign legal entity of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), the organization founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, be designated as a “terrorist organization.” The lawsuit concerns The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF Inc.), which is registered in the United States.