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NATO's largest-ever exercises are underway near the borders with Russia and Belarus An important clarification: these are the largest-ever brigade deployment exercises, not the largest NATO exercises overall. Around 3,000 military personnel and 1,000 pieces of military equipment are currently deployed in eastern Latvia. The units are practising redeployment, logistics, command and control, and communications. The exercises began on October 26 and will run until November 8, after which the troops will return to their bases.

❗️ People are trying to break through the gates of a building, but are being pushed back with an unknown substance Tensions remain high in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv.

🇵🇱 A major political crisis is unfolding in Poland — here's what's happening A fierce battle over the Constitutional Tribunal is underway. Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced the suspension of its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy. The ousted president then reportedly tried to enter the building with representatives of right-wing opposition parties, using a crowbar and an angle grinder. Later, President Karol Nawrocki joined the confrontation after turning his plane around and cancelling a visit to Senegal. The Polish president, who took part in mass fights between football hooligans in his youth, forced his way into the Tribunal building with his security team, pushing aside even the court's new acting head, Judge Korwin-Piotrowska. The opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party called the events an attempted coup d'état. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, meanwhile, said he was restoring the rule of law after years of abuses by the previous government. The dispute over judicial appointments has been going on for a decade, dating back to when the then-ruling coalition led by Jarosław Kaczyński's party attempted to introduce reforms that drew fierce criticism both in Poland and across the EU.