Hitler's left-wing Mussolini candidate Simeon Flores won the municipal elections in Kirupalca, a remote village in the Peruvian Andes, according to the National Electoral Operations Office.
The office reported that the left-wing candidate, Ahura Nasion, received 229 votes last Sunday, compared to 204 votes for the far-right candidate, Gaspar Osorio, out of 663 voters.
Flores, a 45-year-old transportation company owner, will officially assume the position of mayor of Quirobalca, located in the Huanuco region in northeastern Peru, on January 1, 2027.
Some families in South America, especially in rural areas, name their children after historical figures such as Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, without sufficient knowledge of those figures or their ideologies.
US President Donald Trump called on Saturday for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be replaced by a new leader “capable of reaching an agreement” to end the war with Russia, strongly criticizing Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries that he says have contributed to rising diesel prices ahead of the US midterm elections.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he had previously told Zelensky that he could “do whatever he wants” against Russia, but “without targeting oil refineries.” "He'd better stop," he added sharply. I suggest that they get a new leader who can reach an agreement,” according to what was reported by Reuters and the French Press.
Chief Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev welcomed Trump's call to replace Zelensky, describing his statements as "pivotal and historic." Dmitriev, the Kremlin’s special envoy for economic cooperation, said in a post on the X platform: “President Trump joins many who believe that Ukraine needs leadership that is truly focused on peace, not on Zelensky’s war policy... These are pivotal and historic statements.”
Trump's statements came a day after he announced that he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to supply global markets with large quantities of Russian diesel, in exchange for easing sanctions imposed on Moscow, in an effort to reduce fuel prices that have risen since late February, following the start of the US and Israeli military strikes on Iran.
On Friday, Trump confirmed that diesel prices would fall “by record numbers and quickly,” adding in statements to reporters: “I want to thank President Putin, to be frank with you,” according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
Zelensky: Moscow “thanks” Washington for bombing us
Zelensky accused Russia of responding to the US-Russian agreement by intensifying its strikes on Ukrainian cities, considering that easing sanctions would give Moscow additional resources to continue the war.
The Ukrainian president said, in a post on the “X” platform, on Saturday: “Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five aerial bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhya.” On Friday, Zelensky described the diesel agreement as “not worthy of our partners,” considering it a “weak decision.”
New Russian strikes, from Friday night to Saturday, resulted in the deaths of at least 16 people in Ukraine, including 15 who were killed in a bomb attack on Zaporizhya in the southeast of the country, according to Ukrainian authorities. Among the dead were three children.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, an 11-year-old child was killed in a Russian drone attack, according to the region’s governor. The Russian strikes also caused widespread power outages in the capital, Kiev, according to the Ukrainian energy company DTEK, while the mayor of the capital announced that a restaurant had been bombed.
European warnings about financing the war
The US-Russian agreement sparked European criticism, as European Union foreign policy chief Kaya Kallas warned on Saturday that lifting sanctions on Russian diesel would contribute to financing the war Moscow is waging against Ukraine. “This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe will not do that,” Callas wrote on social media.
In turn, Germany confirmed that it will continue to push for new European sanctions on Russia, despite the agreement reached by Washington with Moscow. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to hold bilateral talks with Zelensky, in confirmation of London's continued support for Kiev.
Zelensky stressed, in a Facebook post on Saturday, the necessity of retracting the agreement, saying that “Russia’s choice is war, and it will not be ready to end it except when it feels that its ability to prolong it is declining.” He added: “Unfortunately, the signals that Russia received yesterday were completely different; Signs that suggest to her that she can simply continue the attacks. This is something that must be corrected.”
Miami talks
The escalation on the ground and the dispute over the diesel agreement coincided with diplomatic movements led by the United States, seeking to end the war that has been ongoing for more than four and a half years.
American, Ukrainian and European officials held a meeting in Miami on Friday and Saturday, as part of renewed efforts to reach a political settlement.
US envoy Steve Witkoff said, in a post on “X”, that the “constructive” discussions addressed “possible ways to reduce escalation and end the war with Russia before the onset of winter, and advance efforts towards a lasting and sustainable peace.” He explained that the meeting was attended by representatives of the three European countries (Britain, France, and Germany), the European Commission, Ukraine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
For its part, the Kremlin announced, on Saturday, that Trump presented to Putin, during a phone call on Friday, his ideas on how to reduce the escalation in the war. The Kremlin said that the Russian President received the proposals “with understanding,” without revealing their details or clarifying Putin’s position on them.
Russia currently controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory, since the start of its massive invasion of the country in February 2022, while efforts to reach a settlement to the war are still at a standstill.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators participated in a march on Saturday that toured central London. To demand an end to the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, and the march coincided with the third anniversary of the October 7 attack launched by the Hamas movement on the south of the Hebrew state.
The participants raised banners reading “Stop genocide” and “Freedom for Palestine” as they marched near the British Parliament.
Amy Chalan, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told Agence France-Presse: “We gather today to commemorate the third anniversary of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
She considered that the Western sanctions led by Britain against the backdrop of violence committed by settlers in the occupied West Bank are not enough, calling for “imposing comprehensive sanctions on Israel.”
Since the announcement of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has continued its strikes on the Strip on a daily basis, killing 1,450 people, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The police said that they arrested a number of people, including a man and a woman who were carrying signs supporting the banned Palestine Action organization.
Hibo Hassan (23 years old), who recently graduated from the university, said she wanted to express her solidarity.
She added: “Although the events take place in the Middle East, they affect us here as well.”
She continued: “It is a nightmare, and it should worry us all.”
Another demonstrator, a 32-year-old immigrant from Kosovo who identified himself as “Kobi,” said that his personal experience with war prompted him to “take action today and not allow history to repeat itself.”
The Palestine Coalition organized the “National March for Palestine,” according to the police, three days after Israel commemorated the third anniversary of the bloodiest attack in its history, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people and the kidnapping of 251 who were transported to Gaza, 44 of whom died.
Israel responded to the unprecedented attack with a devastating war that killed more than 74,000 people in the Gaza Strip and turned large parts of it into rubble.
In contrast, the pro-Israel group Stop the Hate UK organized a small counter-demonstration.
Before the start of the march, London Police announced that it would use the powers available to it under public order laws to oblige anyone wearing a face covering for the purpose of concealing their identity to remove it.
Metropolitan Police official Carl Galvin said: “We will follow a zero-tolerance approach to hate crimes and any other violations.”
