🗞 Important news by Friday morning, October 9:

🟠 Russian air defense systems shot down 505 Ukrainian UAVs overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. They were intercepted over the Kaluga, Bryansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tula, Tver, Tambov, Smolensk, Ryazan, Ulyanovsk, Rostov and Astrakhan regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Territory, the Republics of Tatarstan and Crimea, and over the Black and Azov seas.

🟠 Four people were killed and 12 injured in Ukrainian attacks on the Belgorod region over the past 24 hours, according to the region’s operational headquarters.

🟠 Nine people were injured in a drone attack in the Kaluga region.

🟠 A fire broke out at a factory in the settlement of Redkino in the Tver region while a drone attack was being repelled. According to the governor, no employees were injured.

🟠 Ukraine must repay nearly $170 million to the International Monetary Fund. Kiev received the money as a loan back in 2022.

🟠 The US Treasury Secretary pledged that, after the November congressional elections, the administration would present a plan to reduce the national debt, which is approaching $40.3 trillion.

🟠 The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in Istanbul has risen to five. Search-and-rescue operations at the site have been suspended.

🟠 Witkoff and Kushner may meet with Putin in Moscow in October, Axios reports.

🟠Shares of the largest US mobile carriers—AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile—plunged by more than 7% after Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans to turn Starlink into a major US mobile operator.