[AP] ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stood out.
Soldiers providing security peered from behind fences, their guns bristling in every direction. Two Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters circled overhead, providing additional cover for Col. Gen. Alexander Chaiko as he escorted an aid convoy in March from the schoolhouse on Tsentralna street that Russian officers commandeered as a headquarters.
Fifteen minutes away, in the village of Ozera, the lives of three men were about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. While Chaiko was directing Russia’s attack on Kyiv from Zdvyzhivka, the men were brought to the village by Russian troops, who interrogated and tortured them and then shot them in the garden of a large house about a kilometer (less than a mile) from where the general now stood.
The deaths of these men were part of a pattern of violence that left hundreds of civilians beaten, tortured and executed in territory under Chaiko’s command.
This wasn’t the work of rogue soldiers, an investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series "Frontline" shows. It was strategic and organized brutality, perpetrated in areas that were under tight Russian control where military officers — including Chaiko himself — were present.
War crimes prosecutors in Ukraine are trying to gather evidence against Chaiko, who earned a global reputation for brutality as leader of Russia’s forces in Syria. And international human rights lawyers said evidence gathered by AP and "Frontline" was enough to merit an investigation of Chaiko at the International Criminal Court.
This story is part of an AP/FRONTLINE investigation that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and the documentary "Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes," on PBS.
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Watch Russian soldiers cook and eat school children! Watch those Kamov copters duck shoot an entire pensioner home! Cringe as those communists play bicycle buzkashi with Ukranian genitalia! From the same intrepid journalists who shared a Hamas base to bring you the truth from the frontlines.
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Or, you have an eyewitness account of atrocities by Russian soldiers which have been repeated so often it doesn't take 30 seconds to peruse many organizations and regions where mass rape and murder was perped by Russians on Ukraine for the simple reason Ukraine is not and will not be Russia anymore, those days are finished as much as it bothers Russians and their American ass suckers.
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This article is in regards Bucha. Which I see as a false flag. Azov was in Bucha, and my open sources lead me to believe Azov were the perps.
I'll name drop Adrien Bocquet. He is a European citizen who served with a humanitarian mission in UKR alongside Ukrainian Army in Bucha.
He is not pro-Russian and was not a Putin stooge. Just a peacenik volunteering. I dont see any reason for him to spread propaganda, he's not involved with any pro-russia ngos or orgs, dont see him lies in favor of Moscow. Adrien was there in Bucha and denies the Russians committed the atrocities. He counters to say, no surprise, Azov was the party responsible.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched a missile attack and launched 11 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
by Iryna Gamalii
The enemy is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions. At the same time, he does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions.
This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of the 245th day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion.
During the day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ivangrad, Andriivka, Soledar, Kurdyumivka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, and Kamianka of the Donetsk region.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, carrying out fortification equipment of positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
During the day, the enemy launched a rocket attack and launched 11 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
The situation in the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed significantly.
The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Slobozhansk direction - with the use of mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bochkove, Vilkhuvatka, Budarki, Chugunivka, Shevchenkove, Strelecha and Dvorichna;
in the Kupyan direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Berestovka, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Pishchane, Pershotravneve, Figolivka and Krokhmalne settlements;
in the Lyman direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Vyshneve, Grekivka, Hryhorivka, Nevske, Serhiivka and Zarichne settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Soledar, Ivangrad, Toretsk, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk and Ozaryanivka;
in the Avdiivsk direction, enemy shelling was recorded in the areas of Maryinka, Vodyane, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske, Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske and Novokalynovka settlements.
On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions , the enemy carried out artillery fire in the areas of the settlements of Orihiv, Vremivka, Vugledar, Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Novopil, Neskuchne, and Poltavka.
Areas of settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire in the South Buzka direction . The city of Nikopol was directly affected by the fire of enemy jet artillery.
The enemy continues to equip defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
The Russian invaders are restricting the right of free movement of civilians in the temporarily occupied territories. So, local residents of Pershotravneve settlement of Kharkiv region are prohibited from leaving the village. In the Russian Federation , work on replenishment of combat losses continues.
The recruitment of prisoners in prisons in the city of Bryansk and Bryansk region by representatives of private military campaigns was noted.
According to the updated information, the results of fire damage to the enemy during the last days have been confirmed. Thus, in the districts of Korzhov and Mykolaivka settlements of the Luhansk region, the occupiers lost up to 60 people, including at least 10 officers.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck the area where the enemy's manpower, weapons and military equipment were concentrated.
During the day, units of missile troops and artillery hit 3 control points, 6 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 warehouses with ammunition and 5 other important military objects of the enemy.
We will remind, today at around 17:00 the military of the Air Command "South" shot down a Russian Ka-52 helicopter in the Kherson region.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] October 26 is the 245th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
7:00 am . The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
Over the past day, the Russian troops launched five missile and up to 30 air strikes, carried out more than 100 attacks from the MLRS. More than 40 settlements were affected.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of the settlements of Ivangrad, Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Soledar, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka, Novomikhailovka, Nevelskoye and Ternovaya.
Aviation of the Defense Forces has dealt 21 strikes over the past day. The defeat was confirmed: 17 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, two strong points, two positions of enemy air defense systems. Air defense units shot down five UAVs.
8:00. Nikolaevkskaya area. At about 03:30 and 05:40, the Shirokovskaya community was shelled, the hit was recorded outside the settlement. There were no casualties or damage.
8:10. Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of the night strike of the Russians on the Dnieper, four were wounded (two women and two men). The injured are in the hospital, three are in serious condition. Two people died, including a pregnant woman.
At night, the Russians fired at the Nikopol region from "Gradov". People were not hurt. There is destruction, a mutilated power line. More than 600 families were left without electricity. Emergency teams are working on recovery.
9:15 . Total combat losses of the Russian army from February 24 to October 26:
10:00. Zaporozhye region. Russian troops fired on Orekhov and the village of Preobrazhenka from MLRS with incendiary ammunition. As a result, fires broke out in a multi-storey building in the city center and private houses around. The total area of the fire was more than 400 square meters. m. Two people were killed and one injured.
16:00. Ukraine and Russia held another exchange of prisoners: they returned 10 Ukrainian soldiers , as well as the body of American volunteer Joshua Alan Jones, said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak.
17:30. Ukraine received Smart Shooter systems from Israel to intercept UAVs. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already installed Smart Shooter on light aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, preparing to repel new air attacks from the Russian Federation. This is a fire control system, in fact, a "smart" sight that detects targets using radar.
18:05. In the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region, soldiers of the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Odessa air command brigade "South" shot down a Russian attack helicopter Ka-52.
18:28 Australia will provide Ukraine with another 30 Bushmaster armored vehicles, and will also send its military to the UK to train Ukrainian defenders.
18:45 End of alarm for Ukraine. There was no information about "arrivals" and explosions.
19:08 In Tromso, on suspicion of spying for Russia, on the way to work at the university, a citizen of Brazil was detained. Norwegian law enforcers have a suspicion that he is in fact a Russian citizen and is in Norway on false documents with an assumed name.
19:25 Ukraine has received another $500 million from the World Bank. The money will go to the social sector.
19:44 Russian President Vladimir Putin, through the President of Guinea-Bissau, conveyed to Zelensky a proposal for negotiations.
20:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are so actively destroying Russian equipment that individual units of the Russian troops have turned into "forest battalions." And from the motorized rifle brigades of the Russians there is not a single hint left - only tanks not driving and not shooting. It is reported by the GUR.
20:24 PMC Wagner is recruiting Afghan special forces trained by instructors from the United States. After the Taliban came to power, these fighters are forced to hide, fearing reprisals.
20:49 The heating season will start in Zaporozhye on November 2. This was announced by the Secretary of the City Council Anatoly Kurtev. At the same time, the regional administration warned that in the near future rolling blackouts in residential buildings will begin in the region.
21:11 In case of undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Crimea will be left without water supply for 10-15 years, and maybe forever, - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov.
21:38 Zelensky signed a law on the nationalization of systemic banks in the conditions of war. It spelled out a simplified procedure for withdrawing financial institutions from the market.
21:55 Footage of a strong fire in Shakhtersk (the so-called DPR) is published on the Web. According to the mayor's office, the oil depot caught fire.
22:18 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Korzhevo and Nikolaevka of the Lugansk region, the losses of Russians amounted to 60 people killed. At least 10 of them are officers.
22:40 The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Sissoku Embalo, arrived in Ukraine. This is the first leader of an African state who has visited our country since the beginning of the war.
22:58 Since the beginning of the day, the Russians have launched a missile attack and carried out 11 attacks from the MLRS. Evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
23:23 The Kremlin said that assets in four regions of Ukraine, which Russia annexed last month, could be transferred to Russian companies in the future.
23:44 Two NASAMS air defense systems are ready for transfer to Ukraine. This was stated by the CEO of Raytheon Technologies systems manufacturer Greg Hayes, who was quoted by Defense News.
00:00 In the Izyumsky district, a car of pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service ran over a mine (preliminarily - anti-tank). One person died, three are in serious condition, two more rescuers received moderate injuries. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
00:24 India calls on the parties to the conflict in Ukraine not to "recourse to the nuclear option", as this is contrary to the basic principles of humanity. This was stated by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh during a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.
00:30 During the day, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Ivangrad, Andreevka, Soledar, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka, Novomikhailovka, Nevelskoye, Maryinka and Kamenka of the Donetsk region. Evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
00:48 The President held a large meeting on the situation in the energy sector. Again he urged everyone to save electricity. He commented on the situation at the front: the most serious battles in the Donetsk region are the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. He praised the work of the air defense forces. The main thing from the evening address of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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[Korrespondent] 23:58 The United States does not see any preparation of the Russian Federation for the use of a "dirty bomb" or tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She also noted that neither Russia nor Ukraine is now demonstrating the mood for negotiations.
23:07 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation on the front line has not changed significantly: "The toughest battles are in the Donetsk region: the Bakhmut direction, Avdiivka. The madness of the Russian command is now most visible there: day after day for months they drive there people to die, they concentrate the maximum power of artillery strikes there. All our soldiers who hold positions in these directions in the Donetsk region are simply heroes."
In general, according to the president, the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front are strengthening their positions everywhere, reducing the capabilities of the occupiers, destroying their logistics and "preparing good news for Ukraine."
22:52 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her speech in the Senate stressed that she supports the continuation of military assistance to Ukraine as the only condition for the possible achievement of peace between Kiev and Moscow. But her government has enough odious friends of Putin. For more details, see Weapons to Ukraine, Friendship to Putin .
21:49 The United States personally informed Putin about the consequences of Russia's use of nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in an interview with Bloomberg. Commenting on the allegations of the Russian side about the alleged preparation of a "dirty bomb" by Ukraine, Blinken called it "another fiction", recalling that the Russian Federation has repeatedly attributed to others the actions that it is preparing to take itself.
The head of American diplomacy also assured of further US support for Ukraine, noting that it is important and necessary for Washington and its allies to "stay with Ukraine."
20:53 Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, during her speech in the Senate, stressed that she supports the continuation of military assistance to Ukraine as the only condition for the possible achievement of peace between Kiev and Moscow.
19:44 Germany handed over two more MARS II multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine - thus, the Ukrainian army already has five such MLRS in service, according to the website of the German government. Ukraine also received four more Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts. The Germans are implementing this project together with the Netherlands: in total, they have already transferred 14 of these self-propelled guns. In addition, the deliveries indicate the transfer of two surface drones, what exactly is involved and whose production is unknown.
The German government has also updated the list of announced military aid. In particular, Ukraine was promised to transfer another 6,100 artillery shells of 155 mm caliber and 186,000 shells of 40 mm caliber for grenade launchers.
19:23 The Russian Foreign Ministry used photographs of Slovenian government presentations, declaring Ukraine's intention to create a "dirty bomb", European Pravda reports. In particular, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Twitter said that two Ukrainian organizations received a direct order to create a "dirty bomb". The message was brought to the attention of the Slovenian government, which replied that one of the photographs belonged to the Slovenian Agency for Radioactive Waste and was taken in 2010. The image was used in specialist lectures and information materials and was made available to the general public.
The photo shows objects wrapped in plastic bags with the symbol of radioactivity and the inscription "radioaktivno", which means "radioactive" in Slovenian. According to Ljubljana, we are talking about smoke detectors, which are in common use. Ionization smoke sensors contain weakly radioactive substances, therefore they must be disposed of as nuclear waste.
19:11 President of Guinea-Bissau Umaru Shisoku Embalo became the first leader of an African state to visit Ukraine after February 24. Zelensky said that during the first talks in the history of relations between the two countries, they discussed Ukraine's efforts to overcome the global food crisis, as well as ways to simplify the entry of Ukrainian business into the markets of African countries.
Zelensky also said that the Russian side had conveyed through the President of Guinea-Bissau a request to "build bridges" and "unblock relations." "I said that in order to have bridges between certain states, it is necessary that the infrastructure is not blown up in one of the states. Then, it seems to me, we can talk about something in the future. The second question is who to talk to," the head said. states.
Commenting on the proposal of the Russian Federation to "unblock relations", Zelensky stressed that the Black Sea should be unblocked first. According to the Ukrainian president, Putin's desire to talk is a planned rhetoric aimed at his domestic audience and those countries that have not yet isolated political relations with Russia. Zelensky stressed that for a dialogue with any country, one state must respect the other, its sovereignty, territorial integrity and borders. So far, Russia is not doing all this.
18:48 More than 700 Azov residents and more than 2,000 defenders of Mariupol remain in Russian captivity, said in an interview with Dmitry Gordon the chief of staff of the Azov regiment, who returned from Russian captivity, Major Bogdan Krotevich (Taurus).
18:14 The United States expanded sanctions against the Russian Federation, adding eight individuals and 12 organizations to the sanctions list. Among the people who fell under the sanctions is the singer Jasmine, the country's Ministry of Finance said. In addition, the United States imposed sanctions against the Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc.
17:29 The Russians are increasing pressure on the ZNPP personnel and are campaigning for cooperation with Rosatom, Energoatom reports. Andrey Petrov, the first deputy general director for operational management of Rosatom, and Alexander Shutikov, the first deputy head of Rosenergoatom, have already been involved in the campaign. Today they gathered the employees of Zaporozhye NPP and made an appeal, the main idea of which was the necessity and expediency of joining Rosatom.
According to Energoatom, this attempt failed just like all the previous ones: nuclear workers were skeptical about the propaganda of the occupiers and once again demonstrated that they would not work for the invaders.
17:18 Australia will send 30 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, and will also deploy up to 70 instructors in Britain to train the Ukrainian military, the ABC broadcasting corporation reported.
17:14 Russians in the Kherson region are reformatting, Natalia Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said: "We understand that even their maneuvers of moving from the right bank to the left are not a full-fledged evacuation that they arrange for civilians, this is a reformatting. Elite units retreat deeper, and those who are not sorry, who will hold back the first pressure, remain at the forefront.
17:11 Indian Defense Minister Rajnat Singh, in a telephone conversation with Shoigu, said that "it is unacceptable to resort to the nuclear option." The Indian side said that the conversation took place at the initiative of Shoigu, who reported on the allegedly possible use of a "dirty bomb" by Ukraine. Singh reaffirmed India's position on the need for dialogue and diplomacy "to resolve the conflict as soon as possible."
He stressed that "neither side should resort to the nuclear option, since the prospect of using nuclear or radiological weapons is contrary to the basic principles of humanity."
17:07 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that tomorrow he intends to discuss in the UN Security Council the creation of a safe zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
16:55 The Polish Senate adopted a resolution recognizing the Russian government as a terrorist regime . The decision was taken unanimously. The senators also noted that the Russian Federation should answer for the crimes committed in Ukraine. "These crimes require an international response not only in terms of humanitarian and military assistance, but also legal assistance," said Senator Alexander Potsei.
16:53 In the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region, a car of pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service ran into an enemy mine, previously an anti-tank one. One person died, five were injured, the condition of three wounded is serious, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, yesterday in the Kharkiv region near the village of Kazachya Lopan a woman was blown up by a mine, she was grazing goats, she was hospitalized.
16:46 The "dirty bomb" fake is an absolutely disastrous information and psychological operation of the Kremlin, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said: "The Kremlin's statements about Ukraine's intention to allegedly use a "dirty bomb" are not only a psychological, but also a geopolitical to the outside world in order to force Ukrainians to accept the fact of occupation and negotiate with the aggressor."
However, the whole world did not believe in this outright fake, Yusov emphasized. According to intelligence information, on October 24, a closed meeting was held in Moscow with representatives of diplomatic and other missions in Russia, where the special services tried to scare the international representatives with a terrible threat from Ukraine. "Of course, no one believed. Because it was all done somehow, there is no evidence. In addition, the whole world sees in reality who the aggressor is and who attacked whom, who is engaged in terror against the civilian population," Yusov added.
16:37 Stoltenberg called the Kremlin's statements about Ukraine's preparations for the use of a "dirty bomb" absurd: "We see that Russia accuses Ukraine of preparing to use radiological" dirty weapons ". This is absurd. The allies reject these false accusations. Russia should not use false accusations. reasons for further escalation of the war.
The NATO Secretary General stressed that Russia's threats will not force the allies to reduce support for Ukraine, it will continue for as long as necessary. Stoltenberg also called for the continuation of the grain agreement.
16:34 The office of the president announced that, together with regional energy companies, mayors of cities, representatives of regional military administrations, Ukrenergo and the Ministry of Energy, they are working to improve the power outage schedule to make it more convenient and fair for consumers.
16:18 At present, there is no reason to believe that the Russians will undermine the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: “Potentially, since we are dealing with an inadequate state, an inadequate government, there are any threats ... As for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station , today ... the necessary work has not been carried out, the hydroelectric power station and the dam have not been mined to the extent that it could be blown up."
Speaking about the possibility of Russia's use of nuclear weapons, Yusov noted that "Putin will rattle them as loudly as possible so that they hear him, pay attention to him." In his opinion, the use of nuclear weapons is an unlikely scenario, and if implemented, it will bring the end of Russia closer.
16:01 Saldo said that the remains of Prince Potemkin, as well as monuments to Potemkin, Ushakov, Suvorov and Margelov, were taken from Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper.
15:42 As a result of another exchange of prisoners, ten Ukrainian servicemen were returned , including one officer and nine privates and sergeants, Yermak said. The body of an American volunteer, US Army veteran Joshua Alan Jones, who fought for Ukraine and died in battle with the invaders, was also handed over.
15:26 "Head" of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo said that more than 70 thousand people left the right bank of the Dnieper for the left.
15:11 Kuleba said that Ukraine fully complies with the terms of the grain agreement, and Russia is lying, stating that most of Ukrainian grain exports go to Europe. According to the head of the Foreign Ministry, since the beginning of the deal, as of October 23, more than 8.5 million tons of grain have already left Ukrainian ports, of which two-thirds went to African and Asian markets, and a third to Europe.
14:47 Putin said that Ukraine has become an instrument of US foreign policy and has practically lost its sovereignty, "Ukrainian territory has been turned into a testing ground for biological experiments, and now they are being pumped with weapons." Putin also added that he knew everything about Ukraine's plans to use a "dirty bomb".
14:33 The Kremlin said that under the leadership of Putin, a training of ground, sea and air strategic deterrence forces was held, during which practical launches of ballistic and cruise missiles took place. Shoigu added that training had been held to deliver a massive nuclear strike in response to an enemy nuclear strike.
14:29 After the announcement of mobilization in the Russian Federation, about 3,000 Crimean Tatars left Crimea, the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, said. At the same time, he added that "there are those who foresaw this and left earlier."
14:21 Commander of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Valdemaras Rupshis said that at the next meeting of the State Defense Council of the country, he would propose not to transfer the PzH 2000 self-propelled guns and NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine: "The capabilities that we have are on the border when we no longer We can give back. We must understand that we also have obligations to NATO."
14:15 Yesterday's explosion in the center of Melitopol is the result of a war between two clans of the occupying authorities, said the current mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, since the beginning of the occupation of the territories of the Zaporozhye region, the invaders have identified Melitopol as an administrative center and are fighting among themselves for influence. On the one hand - the General Staff of the RF Ministry of Defense, which is represented by Gauleiter Evgeny Balitsky, on the other - the FSB, whose local protege is Vladimir Rogov.
Yesterday in Melitopol near the building belonging to the Balitsky family, a car exploded. But the building itself is symbolic for the Russians: from the first days of the occupation, it was seized by the FSB units to accommodate personnel. Even Balitsky was not allowed into the premises. A few months later, the building housed propaganda media that relayed their programs to the entire occupied part of the Zaporozhye region. Not far from the building there is a TV tower, over which it is important for the invaders to establish control.
14:08 After a visit to Ukraine, Steinmeier said in an interview with Tagesschau that "everything is much scarier" there than they think in Germany: "Everything is much scarier than we imagine in Germany. I was shocked by the stories we were told." According to the president, "everyone who can think and sympathize wants the fighting in Ukraine to stop."
Steinmeier also said that "the world must be fair": "This means that the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine must be preserved. Now we are not at that stage."
13:59 Instead of proper training, the mobilized Russians are thrown straight to the front line, said Colonel Sergei Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces. According to him, Russian soldiers who arrived here no more than 10-12 days ago were seen in the areas of hostilities. The occupiers do not have proper military training, they fight clumsily, without motivation, because they see their losses.
13:54 The war in Ukraine will last until mid-2023, says the head of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Department Mikk Marran. According to him, Putin in Ukraine "is still carrying out a kind of religious mission" and is preparing his country and its army for a long struggle. But, according to Estonian intelligence, the Kremlin will not be able to seize the initiative on the battlefield even by mobilizing 300 thousand people, although this will allow it to prolong the hostilities.
According to Marran, the Kremlin is approaching mobilization from a "Darwinian" position, believing that most of those mobilized will be killed and those who remain will become battle-hardened warriors. Marran also believes that Putin is using the nuclear threat to stop new arms supplies to Ukraine, while Russia may turn to nuclear weapons if military defeats at the front continue.
13:43 With the help of the EPPO mobile application, a Russian cruise missile was shot down in Ukraine for the first time. According to one of the developers, Gennady Suldin, on October 22, Ukrainians noticed a flying rocket in the south of the country and reported it through the application. Due to the low altitude and terrain, the enemy target was not observed by location, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine received an alert in the EPPO and destroyed the Caliber from the Igla MANPADS.
An Android version of the EPPO app has now been released, and an iOS version will be available soon. Testing and integration with the Diya application has also been completed.
Ukrainians are asked to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and report data on enemy missiles and drones. This is especially true for rural areas, since most often rockets and drones go through lowlands in sparsely populated areas.
13:25 Shoigu spoke with the defense ministers of India and China, brought to them his "concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine using a" dirty bomb ".
13:18 Yermak said that weapons for Ukraine are the West's investment in its own future: "Modern air defense systems for Ukraine are a shield of Europe. Weapons for us are the West's investment in our own future. Putinism is like a virus. And viruses need to be destroyed. We we can do it - we need more tools."
13:14 About a thousand bodies of the dead were exhumed in the newly liberated territories, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. In particular, about 450 bodies were exhumed in Izyum - on the site of one of the largest mass graves. In the process, shocking facts of the atrocities of the invaders are revealed: among the dead are not only military personnel, but also civilians - adults and children.
12:47 Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog, speaking in Washington, said that Russia is using Iranian drones against Ukraine. He showed photos of drones shot down in Ukraine and stressed that pictures of the hull and motors prove that Iran is selling its drones to Russia. According to him, the Israeli authorities have a large amount of evidence and are ready to provide it in order to "expose the lies" of Iran.
"The world needs to reveal this truth and ask Iran these questions. Can the international community negotiate with Iran when they are accelerating towards building a nuclear bomb and doing other horrific things at the same time?" Duke emphasized.
12:18 According to the channel's calculations, we can explain that in the month since the announcement of "partial mobilization" in Russia, 42 mobilized people have died in hostilities in Ukraine - we are talking only about those whose death was confirmed either by local authorities or their relatives and the media. At the same time, 20 victims among the mobilized are from the Urals.
The publication concludes that in the regions of the Urals, mobilized people are more often sent to the front than in other regions. Judging by media reports, the share of those mobilized there does not exceed 2%, while, for example, in the Amur Region and Karachay-Cherkessia, the share of those mobilized exceeded 7%, while there is no information about a single death in open data.
11:59 Iran imposed retaliatory sanctions against the European Union, which had previously included drone manufacturer Shahed-136 on the sanctions list. Tehran's retaliatory sanctions have been imposed against individuals and non-profit organizations of the EU, among which, in particular, the state media Deutsche Welle and Radio France Internationale.
11:37 Russia's statements about Ukraine's intentions to use a "dirty bomb" are part of a new phase of the disinformation campaign, Reznikov said in an interview with Fox News: "They are trying to block the provision of packages of any assistance to Ukraine in this way. They also seek to create another their use of any nuclear threat."
11:32 Reznikov said in an interview with Fox News that he does not believe that the Russians will conduct street battles in Kherson: "I do not quite believe that the Russians will be able to conduct street battles. Because this is not the best option for them. We control all bridges on the Dnieper River using HIMARS and other artillery, and it is risky for them to stay in Kherson because they cannot escape, as they did in Izyum."
11:29 The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned the media that coverage of the combat work of the air defense is not expected. The same applies to the process of receipt of IRIS-T and NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems in Ukraine and their combat work.
11:11 UAF liquidated the command post of the Kadyrovites in the Luhansk region last night, said the head of the UVA Serhiy Gaidai. As a result of targeted artillery strikes of the Defense Forces in Novoivanovka, Luhansk region, an ammunition depot and more than ten Kadyrovites were destroyed. The same number of invaders were destroyed in Svatovo.
10:40 In the Kiev region, the sounds of explosions are possible today - in the Buchansky and Vyshgorodsky districts, sappers will destroy explosive objects. In addition, activities are planned in the Brovarsky district to survey water areas, the OVA reported.
10:19 At night, the invaders fired from the MLRS on the city of Orekhov and the village of Preobrazhenka, Zaporozhye region. As a result of the attack, fires broke out in a high-rise building in the city center and private houses around. Information about the victims is being specified, but it is already known that two people died and one was injured in the village of Preobrazhenka, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
09:38 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of October 26.
personnel - about 68,900 (+480) people liquidated,
tanks - 2628 (+17),
armored combat vehicles - 5351 (+30),
artillery systems - 1686 (+12),
MLRS - 379 (+2),
air defense systems - 192 (+2),
aircraft - 271 (+0),
helicopters - 248 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1379 (+7),
cruise missiles - 350 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4076 (+22),
special equipment - 149 (+0).
09:32 British intelligence writes that on October 24, the governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation reported an explosion on the railway near the village of Novozybkovo, about 15 km from the Russian-Belarusian border. The line is the main rail link between Russia and southern Belarus. The Russian anti-war group Stop the Wagons (STW) claimed responsibility for the incident. This is at least the sixth incident of sabotage against Russian railway infrastructure since June that STW claims.
Analysts note that this is part of a wider trend of dissident attacks on railways in both Russia and Belarus. Russian authorities have previously suppressed STW's online activity. The Russian military mainly relies on rail transport to transport troops to Ukraine, but with a network of more than 33,000 km, mostly crossing isolated areas, the system is extremely difficult to defend against physical threats.
09:11 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russian authorities are using the declaration of martial law to facilitate mobilization. Analysts also note that Russian officials are increasingly trying to rhetorically reconcile Russia's war in Ukraine with religious concepts ostensibly available to both Christians and Muslims, likely to cater to religious minority groups within the Russian military. In particular, there were calls to fight "Satanism" in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Russian security officials continue to express dissatisfaction with Russia's military actions in Ukraine, which likely indicates that Putin will try to calm the military representation, ISW notes.
09:04 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one civilian died - in Bakhmut. In addition, law enforcement officers found the bodies of four civilians who died during the occupation in Drobyshevo. Also yesterday, four people were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
09:02 Biden and new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a telephone conversation agreed to work together to support Ukraine and confront China, the White House said.
08:59 The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson has slowed down somewhat due to adverse weather conditions, Reznikov said in an interview with Fox News. According to him, the war in Ukraine is now in its third stage - the gradual liberation of the occupied territories. At the first stage, it was necessary to stop the Russian army, at the second - to stabilize the situation along the entire front line. Also, Ukraine has established full control over the bridges across the Dnieper, which affects, in particular, the logistics of the invaders - they will not be able to leave Kherson.
08:50 The number of victims of yesterday's strike on the Dnieper has increased to four, three of them are in serious condition, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. The death toll remained unchanged - two people.
08:17 Russia is trying to recruit Afghan specialists for the war in Ukraine, writes Foreign Policy. We are talking about former soldiers of the Commando Corps - the most combat-ready unit of the Afghan army, trained by American and British instructors. Behind the recruitment may be PMC Wagner.
07:42 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Ivangrad, Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Soledar, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka, Novomikhailovka, Nevelskoye and Ternovaya, the General Staff said in the morning report .
02:58 Ukraine "very soon" will receive the first two NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems from the United States, Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon Technologies, said: "We have just delivered two NASAMS systems. We handed over two systems to the US government a couple of weeks ago. They will be deployed in Ukraine very soon."
01:19 Two high-ranking Iranian military men were shot dead in a car in broad daylight. One of them, an officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Colonel Molashakhi, was responsible for the supply of Iranian kamikaze drones to Russia, Tasnim news agency writes. Second military man Javad Kikha was one of the commanders of the Basij organization, which is accused of brutally suppressing protests in Iran over the past 15 years.
00:04 Rishi Sunak, after talking with Zelensky, confirmed his intention to meet with the Ukrainian president in the near future. The Prime Minister also assured that the support of Ukraine from the UK will remain unchanged.
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[RIA Novosti] Journalist Ksenia Sobchak became a suspect in the extortion case, RT reported on its Telegram channel , citing a source.
"Sobchak is being held as a suspect in the extortion case," RT said in a statement.
RIA Novosti does not yet have official confirmation of this information.
Earlier, an interlocutor of the agency, who was familiar with the situation, said that the journalist had left for Lithuania through Belarus, and until the last moment everyone thought that she was flying to Turkey - it was there that she bought a ticket for today.
On the eve it became known about the detention of the commercial director of Sobchak Kirill Sukhanov - according to the source of RIA Novosti, he is a defendant in a criminal case of extortion from officials and businessmen through Telegram channels. In what status - no data.
The next day, the former editor-in-chief of the secular magazine Tatler, Arian Romanovsky, was also detained, who had already been charged with extortion on an especially large scale (the plot was not disclosed in detail). Today, the court must choose a measure of restraint for him.
Whether Sobchak, Sukhanov and Romanovsky are involved in the same case is not yet known. In general, according to the Criminal Code, Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Extortion" provides for imprisonment for a term of seven to fifteen years, as well as a fine of up to one million rubles.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:13 Deputy commander of the calculation of the MLRS "Hurricane" Ravil Askarovdestroyedover 100 targets in the NWO zone
During the special military operation, Ravil Askarov, deputy commander of the Uragan MLRS crew, as part of the crew, destroyed over a hundred targets, including fortified areas, ammunition depots, armored vehicles, fire weapons and enemy manpower.
Risking his life, Ravil repeatedly performed combat missions, under return fire from enemy artillery.
20:06 An explosion thundered on Wednesday in a suburb of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro,reportedInternet publication "Strana".
“They report an explosion in the suburbs of the Dnieper,” reads a message on the publication’s Telegram channel.
19:07 For the third time in a day, an air raid alert has been announced throughout Ukraine
18:09 Air raid throughout Ukraine
18:00 Air raid alert again announced in Kyiv
17:28 A destroyed Ukrainian T-64BV tank is somewhere in the south of the Kharkiv region.
17:25 Ministry of Defenseshowedfootage of the launch of the Yars ICBM during the training of Russian strategic forces
16:23 Explosions are heard in the Sumy region of Ukraine, the Ukrainian TV channel "Direct" reported.
“Explosions are being reported in the Sumy region,” says a message on the Direct Telegram channel.
16:20 Ministry of Defensepublishesanother video of the launch of the Sineva ballistic missile from the Tula nuclear submarine during the training of Russian strategic forces
15:33 Air raid alertsoundsin all regions of Ukraine
15:33 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federationpublishedfootage of the flight of the Tu-95MS strategic missile carrier during the training of the strategic deterrence forces.
15:33 Russian Defense Ministryshowedfootage of the launch of the Sineva ICBM from the Tula nuclear submarine during the exercises of the strategic deterrence forces.
14:26 At the training grounds of the Leningrad and Murmansk regions pass mobilized military training
Motorized riflemen, together with tank units, practice combat tactics as part of separate assault groups.
Not only military personnel of combined arms units are preparing to perform tasks.
Scouts focus on tactical and fire training with elements of tactical shooting.
Military engineers devote more time to mine-blasting classes.
Logistics specialists provide servicemen with hot meals in the field.
14:25 AFU said they would not report on the results of the air defense work
This also applies to the process of receipt of IRIS-T and Nasams anti-aircraft missile systems and their combat work, the statement said.
It seems that the much-vaunted NATO systems, developed in the 1990s, did not justify Ukrainian hopes.
13:44 Polish mercenaries fighting for Kyiv destroyed several fighters of the Right Sector organization banned in Russia, who tried to force them to attack in the Kremensk direction in the Donbass
12:22 Military of Belarus gave a hard answer Armed Forces of Ukraine
“If you don't want war, it won't happen! Do not provoke us, do not try to intimidate us, do not escalate and it will be as you want.
We don't want war and we don't threaten anyone. But we will respond to challenges and provocations without delay!” - stated in the appeal
12:22 In the Vladimir regiontook placeceremony of sending mobilized to military units for combat coordination
Before being sent, intensive combat training sessions were held with mobilized and volunteers. The servicemen underwent practical training not only in previously mastered military registration specialties, but also acquired new skills, including reconnaissance and artillery fire correction using UAVs.
11:34 Russian paratroopers destroyed operators of Ukrainian UAVs
Artillerymen of the 11th air assault brigade destroyed a group of Ukrainian drone operators in the Kherson region. When advancing to the launch site of the vehicles, the enemy was detected by a Russian UAV and destroyed by artillery fire.
Note that this method of combating drones is very effective. UAVs are only consumables, but replacing destroyed operators takes time and effort.
11:34 This morning, the enemy, using units of the 14th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, again took offensive actions in the Svatov direction, but our fighters again managed to repulse the attack and inflict damage on the enemy. The Armed Forces retreated to their previously occupied positions with losses.
10:25 A source in the OP said that after the attacks on the infrastructure, deep problems with logistics were revealed. The delivery of ammunition and new weapons, on which Ukraine is critically dependent, is slowing down. On Bankova Street, they are increasingly forced to use trucks to transport military equipment and ammunition.
10:23 In the Odessa and Nikolaev regions, stabilization blackouts began at 8 am. In the Nikolaev region, this applies to all consumer groups.
09:11 Combat work calculations of the MLRS "Hurricane".
"Hurricanes" are deploying and launching rocket attacks on positions, command posts and retreating columns of Ukrainian nationalists.
Deputy crew commander Ravil shared that his crew destroyed more than 100 targets /iz.ru/Ministry of Defense/.
08:43 An air raid alert has been announced in Kyiv, Odessa and the Nikolaev region.
08:21 An air alert has been announced in the Poltava region of Ukraine, the regional military administration has reported.
08:11 Russian servicemen in the NVO zone wereinterceptedUkrainian UAV-kamikaze "Warmate" of Polish production.
08:05 Ukrainian security forces mock prisoners of war in a camp in Dnepropetrovsk, said a serviceman from the DPR, Vladislav Egilnitsky, who returned from Ukrainian captivity.
The Zapad-1 prisoner of war camp, where Yegilnitsky was held, is the first camp where only prisoners of war are kept. In other regions of Ukraine, Russian military prisoners are kept in ordinary pre-trial detention centers and prisons.VideoRIA Novosti.
07:25 Personnel yesterday's work of our aviation in the Svatov direction, where an attempt by the Ukrainian offensive was suppressed.
07:05 Russian Buk air defense systems intercept HIMARS MLRS missiles in the NVO zone.
The complex is completely autonomous. It takes only 8 seconds to identify, track and launch on the target. The main feature of this air defense system is a powerful radar capable of detecting an enemy in the sky several tens of kilometers around.VideoTK Zvezda.
03:30 Prisoners in Ukraine were constantly processed, and they were punished for complaints during UN and Red Cross checks, said Vladislav Egilnitsky, a serviceman from the DPR who returned from Ukrainian captivity.VideoRIA Novosti.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:32 The situation in the Kherson direction is changing in an unpleasant direction for Kyiv - Oleksii Arestovich
21:37 Reports from the Zaporozhye Front
💥The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command post of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Konstantinovka, Zaporozhye region, as well as 59 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 177 districts.
💥Near the settlement of Prikolotnoye, Kharkiv region, the communication center of the Ukrainian group of troops was destroyed. An oil storage facility was destroyed near the city of Dnepropetrovsk, from which a group of Ukrainian troops was supplied with diesel fuel.
💥Air defense systems destroyed 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Oborotnovka, Kalinovka, Vladimirovka, Luhansk People's Republic, Kolodeznoye, Kharkiv region, Sadok, Oleksandrivka, Krinichanka, Kucherskoye, Kherson region, and Energodar, Zaporozhye region.
20:31 Servicemen of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navyapplyreactive systems BM-21 "Grad" and self-propelled guns 2S3 "Acacia".
20:31 Few shotsfree hunting for Ukrainian servicemen from the fighters of one of the Russian GRU special forces brigades operating in the Zaporozhye direction
19:20 In the LPR, special services detained a suspect in the transfer of information to Kyiv about the deployment of the military.VideoRIA Novosti.
18:15 An attempt to break through the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Davydov Brod was thwarted.
Project Sourceswargonzoin the Kherson direction, they report that during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine made desperate attempts to expand the bridgehead from Davydov Brod towards Ishchenka with up to 4 battalion tactical groups.
Parts of the Airborne Forces, with the support of artillery of the 42nd motorized rifle division, managed to repel all attacks, thereby holding their positions. The enemy rolled back to the previous lines, having suffered heavy losses in personnel and armored vehicles, including two tanks.
18:01 VFU shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Kaliningrad wounded a man.
17:56 EveningsummaryHeadquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on October 26, 2022.
17:44 Cache with explosivesdiscoverednear the site of the attack.
In Melitopol, a cache with weapons was discovered and liquidated in a garage near the regional television and radio company ZaTV.
17:05 Briefly about the situation in the Kreminnaya area. At the moment, operational pause caused by the weather. Very heavy rain has been falling since night, does not stop. The ground was saturated by 40 cm, which stopped active hostilities both from our side and from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian militants are trying to expand the captured foothold, but to no avail. At night they tried to sneak up on us, a shooting battle began, without the use of artillery, the opposing sides were too close to each other.
Our artillery hits suitable enemy reserves, for example, yesterday they destroyed 2 Polish armored personnel carriers. Chernopopovka is firmly held by us, Nevskoe is in the gray zone. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are very significant, according to Elder Edda.
16:55 Attack on Kurdyumovka. The settlement is an important element of the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Artemivsk.Video"News".
16:40 Representatives of the Popular Front delivered a large humanitarian cargo for the servicemen of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR.VideoNM LPR
16:17 Fixationconsequences of the use of the AGM-88 HARM missile in the Budenovsky district of Donetsk on 10/25/2022
Military experts of the JCCC DPR confirmed the use of the American high-speed anti-radar missile AGM-88 HARM in the Budenovsky district of Donetsk.
16:01 100 brigade of the NM DPR covers the enemy with "Grad".
Artillerymen of the 100th brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR continue to support the offensive of the assault groups. The work of the calculations of the MLRS "Grad" is carried out at any time of the day, under any weather conditions. The main goal is to suppress and destroy the enemy.VideoNM DNR.
15:36 Personnelanother unsuccessful counterattack of the Ukrainian army in the Kherson region. Artillery fire destroyed one BTR-70M with makeshift anti-cumulative gratings, another similar BTR-70M was hit.
14:29 The NM of the DPR is holding back the enemy in the Belogorovsk direction.
Soldiers of the NM DPR in the Belogorovsk direction continuously monitor the enemy using UAVs and thermal imagers and, at every opportunity, inflict fire damage on him.VideoNM DNR.
14:11 Firstframesfrom the scene of the attack on the ROVD in Kherson.
14:05 Ukrainian militants are shelling the village of Golmovsky. Shell explosions are reported in the area of Vvedensky Street.
13:35 In Kherson, attackers attempted to attack the city's Dnipro police department - emergency services.
“They managed to fire one shot from an RPG. Measures are being taken to block and detain criminals,” the source added.
13:24 The explosion that thundered in Kherson was the disposal of unexploded shells. There was no attack on the city.
13:18 Artemovsk. Arrivals from both sides continue in the city. On the eastern outskirts there are battles in the industrial zone.
In the region of the southeastern outskirts of the city, battles are underway for the fortified areas in Opytny, where the Wagner PMC is leading the offensive.
The enemy strengthens the grouping in the Chasov Yar area and replenishes the battered units defending the eastern and southern outskirts of Artemovsk.
12:57 A powerful explosion is reported in Kherson. This is the first explosion in several days of calm.
12:56 In Kherson, the "sleeping" cells of the SBU continue to sow panic, in some places the appearance of leaflets with threats of physical destruction of the citizens of the city was found. Earlier, on the official pages of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, statements by the Nazis were published about their readiness to exterminate all civilians who participated in the last referendum and received passports of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
12:50 The number of victims of the explosion near the television center in Melitopol has increased to 12 Rogov.
12:22 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 26, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
De-energized12 transformer substations, 1500 subscribers without power supply.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
12:01 Mobilized servicemen from the DPR are defending the Zaporozhye region.
From the first days of the special military operation, military personnel from the DPR mobilization reserve have been participating in combat missions, in particular, protecting civilians in the Zaporozhye region.VideoNM DNR.
12:00 As a result of the shelling of the village. Biryuzov, Kirovsky district, a man born in 1972 suffered.
At the scene, investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation fix the consequences of the criminal actions of the Ukrainian military. Damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded, and elements from NATO-style MLRS were found.Videoreporter Rudenko.
11:59 The strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Donetsk do not have any effect on the situation on the line of contact, it's just a genocide of the population - the mayor of the city.
11:46 It is reported from Kherson that local territorial defense units are carrying out activities to strengthen positions in the city, where additional strongholds and potential resistance centers are being created in case of an enemy breakthrough. As in the Zaporozhye region, in the Kherson region for several months now there has been a recruitment of volunteers for local territorial defense formations.
11:45 Last night, AGM88 HARM aircraft missiles hit the Budyonnovsky district of Donetsk.
Two American missiles exploded in a residential area - residential buildings, a pharmacy, a kindergarten and a church were damaged. Four people were injured, one in serious condition.Videoreporter Rudenko.
11:40 AfternoonsummaryHeadquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on October 26, 2022.
11:16 An incident occurred in the Limansky direction. After several unsuccessful attempts to go on the attack, the Poles mercenaries refused to tempt fate and go forward, according to reporter Rudenko.
“Representatives of the National Battalions came to them for analysis - the conversation did not work out and the Poles disposed of Bandera lovers. Now there is planned a massacre between foreigners and Nazis, ”writes a war correspondent.
11:02 This morning, the enemy, using units of the 14th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, again took offensive actions in the Svatov direction, but our fighters again managed to repulse the attack and inflict damage on the enemy. The Armed Forces retreated to their previously occupied positions with losses.
10:47 There are no threats to the stability of the line of contact in the Zaporozhye region - the acting governor of the Balitsky region.
10:32 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 10.30 10.26.2022
The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.
Over the past day, according to the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired three hundred and sixty-seven ammunition from the Uragan and Grad MLRS, 155, 152, 122 and 120 mm cannon artillery, and also used American AGM missiles to strike residential areas -88 HARM.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed and fourteen were injured. Thirty-five housing constructions and fifteen civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: 155-mm M109A3 self-propelled howitzer, two tanks (T-80BV and T-64BV), nine armored and automotive vehicles, one UAV was shot down in the air enemy. Losses in enemy manpower amounted to 60 people.
Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of October 26, 2022
Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-up to 50 personnel;
-6 armored personnel carriers;
-3 unmanned aerial vehicles;
-11 units of special vehicles.
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements. Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Svatovo and Rubezhnoye using the American M142 HIMARS MLRS and 155-mm artillery pieces, firing 2 rockets and 8 shells.
As a result of the shelling in N. p. Svatovo destroyed a residential building. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During October 25, they cleared more than 5 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Razdolnoye and Vyshneve.
09:29 Ukrainian troops fired at night on the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, air defense shot down four HIMARS missiles, a representative of the region's emergency services said on Wednesday morning.
“The Kyiv regime continues to shell the infrastructure of Nova Kakhovka, at 23:26 fired 4 HIMARS missiles. Thanks to the air defense units, all the missiles were shot down,” he said.
09:27 Destruction of an enemy tank in the Kherson direction.
Artillerymen used the Krasnopol projectile, guidance was carried out from the UAV.Videoreporter Rudenko.
09:01 Unique footage from the first person: tankers of the 1st Slavic brigade hit the enemy.
Tanks are a formidable weapon that allows you to effectively destroy the enemy in any tactical and weather conditions. Using vast combat experience, the tankers of the 1st "Slavic" brigade of the People's Militia inflict accurate and crushing blows on the enemy, hitting the enemy's fortifications in the Avdeevsky direction.VideoNM DNR.
08:51 Additional information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic on October 25 was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
On st. University wound received:
- man born in 1986
Poupdatedinformation, as a resultshellingKievsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1946 was wounded. Unfortunately, he died from his injuries.
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on October 25, 2022 is 15 people (1 dead, 14 injured). The information continues to flow.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
08:49 Informationon the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on October 26, 2022
08:00 During the day, 1 person died on the territory of the DPR, 14 more were injured.
Over the past day, from 08:00 on October 25 to 08:00 on October 26, 1 person was killed and 14 more civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
07:40 Kalinichenko, the first deputy head of the administration of Gorlovka in the DPR, said that Ukrainian militants deliberately hit civilians: the blows take place in the morning and in the evening, precisely at rush hour, when everyone goes to work or home.VideoRIA Novosti.
07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, October 25.
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shellings were recorded on the settlement. Svatovo and Rubezhnoye using the American M142 HIMARS MLRS (2 missiles) and 155 mm artillery guns (8 shells).
As a result of shelling in N. p. Svatovo destroyed a residential building.
Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
05:30 Artillerymen of the 100th brigade of the NM DPRdestroyenemy positions.
The infantry of the 11th regiment of the People's Militia of the DPR and the "Somalia" battalion is attacking the settlement of Pervomaiskoye.
Fire support for the advancing troops is provided by 152-mm D-20 guns of the 100th brigade.
“A good tool, it works with a bang - no errors. Our guys are great, morale is on top, ”says a fighter with the call sign“ Gray ”.
After completing a combat mission, the artillerymen change positions so as not to fall under enemy return fire.
0:57 The Northern Fleet in the battles in the Donbass: Navy artillerymen, with the support of aviation, are destroying the positions and forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Svatov direction.
The combat work of the crews of the Acacia self-propelled guns and army aviation helicopters.VideoRIA Novosti.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand, Mercedes-Benz disclosed on Wednesday its plan to leave the Russian market and sell shares in its industrial and financial services subsidiaries to a local investor.
This was announced by the company’s spokesperson who stated that the company's stake in Russian truck maker, Kamaz, would not be affected by the intended transaction and should be transferred to Daimler Truck this year as planned.
This announcement may not be unconnected to the ongoing diplomatic crisis between Russia and Ukraine.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has likely resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II with an estimated 8 million people being displaced within the country by late May as well as 7.7 million Ukrainians fleeing the country as of 18 October 2022.
Within five weeks of the invasion, Russia experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. The invasion has also caused global food shortages.
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Former security officer in Vietnam war posted today, "The military industrial complex made about 250 billion off Ukraine. That's a profit of about $1250.00 per person slaughtered. Not a 20 yr Afghanistan but respectful." Currently living in Vietnam and married to a Vietnamese woman and very happy. Locals question him as to why Americans voted for Biden. They actually like Americans and despise Chinese. Politicians as here go the way the wind blows.
#5
$250 billion over the last 9-10 years is about right.
Do the math. We’re already up to $66 billion for 2022 alone, and Team Brandon Lame-dick Duck are promising another $50 billion before the new GOP majority can get seated.
Nuland’s State Department threw away $5 billion in just their 2014 coup operation.
So that leaves about $20 billion a year for hardware, Klingons, congressional junkets, various and sundry operations, and of course the Great Ukraine Grift that pays millions each year to Crackpipe, Sally Painter, and the hundreds if DC “consultants” slurping at the Ukraine trough.
Yeah, $250 billion is about right. One hell of a scam. New world record for the MIC.
#6
Don’t forget the billions this country has coughed up to Ukrainian thieves like the bandit “oligarchs” propping up the little man in Kiev.
Take Igor Kolomoisky (please). This is the Ukrainian puppet master behind the T-shirted one. Kolomoisky has looted over a dozen U.S. steel manufacturing companies across Appalachia and the Midwest.
Here’s the power behind the Ukrainian president, the criminal who funded the Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ eight-year reign of terror in the east:
Records reveal Ukraine power-broker oligarch's banking transactions in US
Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, under FBI probe, stripped of Ukraine citizenship
MICHAEL SALLAH
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
FEB 19, 2022
Months after Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners abandoned an Ohio steel plant and left scores of workers without jobs, financial crime experts at Deutsche Bank shot up a troubling alert. Millions of dollars were flowing into its U.S. headquarters for a business owned by the oligarch, but something wasn’t right.
Detecting signs of suspicious money — large round numbers from high-risk jurisdictions — the bank could have refused the transfers or even dropped the client.
But it didn’t do either. Despite warnings from its own employees, Deutsche allowed the money to keep pouring into its coffers six years ago while the oligarch and his partners — the power behind Ukraine’s government— secretly amassed a steel fortune in the United States.
The Justice Department has been investigating Mr. Kolomoisky and others in what prosecutors allege was a vast scheme to steal millions of dollars from Ukraine’s largest bank and move the money into the U.S. to buy steel mills and skyscrapers.
But recently unsealed federal court records show U.S. banks moved far more money than what was reported by the U.S. government — billions of dollars — for companies under the control of the power broker in patterns that went unchecked for nearly a decade.
Between 2006 and 2015, more than $4.45 billion was transferred without any apparent effort by the banks or the government to stem the movement of dollars as the Ukrainian oligarch behind Zelensky and his partners acquired an enormous real estate portfolio.
“These are cascading failures,” said Tom Cardamone, president and CEO of Global Financial Integrity, a Washington, D.C., research group that tracks money laundering.
“It’s an astonishing amount of money. You would think that anyone just doing a spot check, someone would have picked up on the tempo of the transactions, the big round numbers.”
The Block News Alliance has spent more than a year examining thousands of records — including internal bank documents and previously sealed court records — and conducted dozens of interviews that culminated in several stories about federal prosecutors’ first-ever laundering investigation of the U.S. steel industry.
But the new records released last month from federal court in New York provide an unprecedented look into the amount of money tied to the oligarch that was moving through the country — including thousands of transactions carried out by Deutsche, Germany’s largest bank with a sizable U.S. arm.
In the government’s battle against money laundering, banks are supposed to be the front line of defense by alerting the government when they spot suspicious patterns and, in some cases, refusing the transactions, says the U.S. Justice Department.
But records show that year after year, the transfers continued while prosecutors say Mr. Kolomoisky orchestrated a scheme that nearly bankrupted Ukraine’s largest financial institution and sent the nation’s economy into a recession.
Left trail of disaster
One of the richest men in Ukraine, the 59-year-old oligarch is accused of setting up shell companies, cleaning the money through U.S. properties and ultimately leaving a trail of boarded-up buildings, failed steel facilities, and millions in unpaid property taxes, court records show.
While money was transferred into the country for one of the oligarch’s companies, his operators shut down Warren Steel in Ohio in 2016, owing millions in property taxes, utility bills and supplies.
For weeks, workers were left without medical coverage because the insurance premium wasn’t paid, records and interviews show. “A lot of people left here very angry,” said Nancy Waselich, a former IT manager for the factory. “People bled for this place.”
Though no one so far has been criminally charged, prosecutors have filed legal actions to seize properties that they allege were bought with money stolen from the Ukraine bank, where Mr. Kolomoisky was a major shareholder.
The oligarch lost control of the institution in late 2016, when it was nationalized by the government, which suspected massive fraud.
Mr. Kolomoisky, who was banned last year from entering the United States by the State Department over corrupt practices, has not responded to repeated interview requests. His lawyer, Michael J. Sullivan, did not return phone messages.
Several Ukraine legal experts interviewed by the Block News Alliance say, however, that those court decisions were reached during a campaign by the oligarch to file hundreds of cases in search of favorable courts and to withdraw from other courts to avoid losing.
Last year, the Ukrainian government took action when the parliament — at the prodding of the International Monetary Fund — enacted what’s known as the “anti-Kolomoisky law” that bans him from ever gaining control over his former bank again.
‘You pull the plug’
It’s unclear from the new records the total amount of money that moved through the United States, because Mr. Kolomoisky and others shifted funds back and forth between their companies in a dizzying series of transactions.
But the sheer number of transfers — 5,222 in eight years — between companies tied to the oligarch should have prompted Deutsche and other banks to end the transactions, said Paul Pelletier, a former senior federal prosecutor who led the Justice Department’s fraud unit.
“You pull the plug,” said Mr. Pelletier, who once prosecuted money laundering cases in Miami. “The purpose of due diligence is to do red light, green light — but there was no red light. There were apparently no cops on the beat.”
The court records, which were released after the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press pushed for them, show the money coursing through the banks as the oligarch and his associates were secretly taking ownership of steel mills and office towers, 22 properties in all.
It’s also unclear from the records the purpose of the transactions and whether some of the money was generated from the steel mills when they were operating or from the oligarch’s global metals operations.
But prosecutors have identified at least nine of the companies that they claim were used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars, court records show.
Deutsche Bank, which has long maintained a U.S. headquarters in New York, declined to answer questions from the Block News Alliance, saying in an email the bank is not legally allowed to talk about its customers and internal security decisions.
In 2020, the bank acknowledged “past weaknesses” and that it “learnt from its mistakes” and has invested millions to strengthen its internal systems to detect laundering and other crimes. “We are a different bank now,” it said.
It was during an explosive court battle six years ago between the oligarch and a former business partner that the layers of Mr. Kolomoisky’s operation were stripped back and showed the massive amounts of money pouring into the U.S.
Open critical records
Through an investigation, the ex-partner’s lawyers discovered money transfers for hundreds of millions of dollars cascading into the country for companies related to Mr. Kolomoisky — 3,103 transactions by Deutsche alone, court records show.
Deutsche and other banks, along with lawyers for Mr. Kolomoisky, pushed to seal the information, saying it exposed confidential information about the banks’ customers.
Not until an effort by the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press and BuzzFeed News to press for data in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2020 did the judge agree last month to unseal records of the transfer summaries.
Year after year, the money was coming into the country through Deutsche and other banks, with the oligarch the largest recipient of the transactions, totaling $1.25 billion, followed by his fellow Ukrainian billionaire, Gennadiy Bogolyubov — about $900 million — a partner in the U.S. real estate deals.
The records also show $174.5 million moved through Optima Ventures, a company that prosecutors say was used to launder money and buy properties, including an office park in Dallas that was once the headquarters of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Another $96.3 million moved through Optima Acquisitions, a company that prosecutors say was used to clean money and buy steel mills.
Former employees who worked at the Ohio steel factory say they’re surprised at the amount of money flowing into the U.S. because of the difficulties they faced in getting basic parts and bills paid on time.
Just after the shutdown of the factory in 2016, money was owed to the gas and electric companies and the federal government for a fine that had been imposed for workplace safety violations.
Red flags
After years of transferring money into the country for the oligarch, Deutsche Bank filed at least three suspicious activity reports in 2016, finding patterns that raised alerts about incoming funds for one of his aviation companies.
The bank noted in one of the reports that Mr. Kolomoisky was a former Ukraine provincial governor who was suspected of widespread fraud in his country — charges he has denied. The bank’s fraud experts also questioned the legitimacy of millions in payments between companies with no known purpose for the transactions.
The reports, shared with the Block News Alliance by BuzzFeed News, show the bank started to cut its ties with the company, but not before it moved about $215 million that year. Mr. Cardamone of Global Financial Integrity said the move came too late. “That’s bolting the door behind the horse,” he said.
While the U.S. government’s case against the oligarch and his partners has gained wide publicity, the role of Deutsche in moving the money remains one of the least known elements of the entire operation, said experts interviewed by the Block News Alliance.
As a correspondent bank taking in money from overseas, Deutsche was a gateway.
“They could not have used the U.S. banking system [without Deutsche],” said Thomas Nollner, a former regulator for the Comptroller of the Currency. “The bank should have done its due diligence.”
Mr. Kolomoisky was a lightning rod of controversy in Ukraine at the time, especially after he dispatched his own armed militia into a government oil company in 2015 during a dispute.
“He’s high risk. He’s a politically exposed person. This should not have gotten by someone’s scrutiny,” Mr. Nollner said.
Mr. Pelletier, the former Justice Department fraud unit chief, said the movement of money in such large amounts raises questions about why warnings were not issued sooner.
“It’s low-hanging fruit. It’s a lot of money,” he said. “Shouldn’t we have a system that reacts quicker to that kind of money?”
He said because Mr. Kolomoisky is considered a politically exposed person and the money was arriving from offshore, it required the bank to perform an even higher level of due diligence.
“The burden is to show that the money is [suspicious],” he said. “What did it show? It doesn’t look like anyone was doing heightened due diligence.”
He said what also distinguishes the case from other laundering investigations is that the money didn’t go to the familiar havens of Miami and New York. It went to steel factories in small towns.
“It harmed real hard-working Americans in Middle America,” he said.
Post-Gazette Washington D.C. Bureau Chief Ashley Murray contributed to this report. Ukraine investigative reporter Tanya Kozyreva reported from Kiev.
Contact Michael Sallah at: msallah@post-gazette.com; Twitter: @mikesallah7.
U.S. prosecutors say Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, a powerful figure in his country who was banned last month by the State Department from entering the United States, secretly purchased a dozen other steel mills in small towns from Ohio to Texas.
In all, he and his associates acquired nearly two dozen properties, including four office towers in downtown Cleveland and a 484-room hotel with waterfront views in what became the foundation of his real estate empire.
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“The military industrial complex made about 250 billion off Ukraine. That's a profit of about $1250.00 per person slaughtered”
Biden is explicit about using our tax dollars to fund all the costs of the Ukrainian shit-government. All of it, 100%, all the graft and waste, funded by you and me.
Which is to say, Zelensky’s outfit rakes in $5 billion each month from Uncle Sam.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s army is losing about 10,000 killed each month. i.e., an income of about $500,000 per Ukrainian soldier slaughtered, every month, as far as the eye can see.
Which surely is an even better ROI than our military industrial complex makes. Z-man learned his lessons well from his master.
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Where's the class action suit from all the other countries that aren't getting as much from Uncle Sugar the American taxpayer?
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#9 Where's the class action suit from all the other countries that aren't getting as much from Uncle Sugar the American taxpayer?
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“the class action suit from all the other countries that aren't getting as much from Uncle Sugar the American taxpayer”
Biden is going to blow $116 billion on his Ukraine rodeo — in all of 9 months.
That’s an order of magnitude more than W threw away on Iraq in 2003-04. And we thought that was an unbeatable world record for graft and squandered blood and treasure.
If you thought Iraq was a total shitshow, you’ll love Ukraine. Ain’t seen nothin’ yet
The military industrial complex made about 250 billion off Ukraine. That's a profit of about $1250.00 per person slaughtered”
His math is wrong (as is Snakes Uneater’s math). Ukrainians have suffered about 90,000 KIA plus a few thousand civilians killed; Russians about 2/3 as many soldiers killed.
Plus an equivalent number of Russian-speaking civilians killed by Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk and elsewhere since Feb 17 2022 when the Ukrainians escalated their war on Donbas, and about 14,000 civilians killed from 2014 through Feb 16 2022.
Total is therefore about 90k + 5k + 30k + 5k +14k = 144,000.
$250 billion / 0.144 million = $35,000 for each dead person. Still a good day’s work (“Our business is killing. And business is good.”)
...second gen. strongman of Chechnya, he’s been involved in the current Ukraine invasion from the beginning...
has called for Russian Muslims to wage 'Big Jihad' in Ukraine Why? It isn’t going to become part of the caliphate if it’s reconquered, so what benefit to Muslims get for participating in the Russian crusade?
He said troops are fighting demons and Satanists that have overrun country
Russian Security Council also called for the 'de-Satanization' of Ukraine, saying hundreds of sects are now springing up across the country Goodness. Nazis and Satanists? Where do they find the time?
Comes weeks after Putin accused the West of practicing 'outright Satanism'
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Yea, Russian pr has pivoted from "Nazis" to "NATO" and now "de-satanize". Look at this bunch of poor Russian families and imagine the US actually forced guys into service and provided this level of logistics?
Hard to argue that Russians feel comfortable de humanizing Ukrainians like Ottoman's did their victims. Russia is as bad as ISIS culturally, listen to them:
On Tuesday, Northern York County School District approved a Satanic Temple event aimed at kids and allowed the group to rent a high-school auditorium for a back-to-school fundraiser night.
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[PJMedia] Russia, angry about Ukraine’s sophisticated ability to communicate in real time on the battlefield, appears willing to risk a ruinous war in outer space to stop it.
Elon Musk donated 20,000 Starlink satellites to Ukraine at an estimated cost of $100 million. The Starlink system, which offers high-speed broadband internet service anywhere in the world, has proven to be a valuable tool for the Ukraine army in the war. Easy to use, secure, and portable, Starlink has leveled the playing field with Russia in many respects.
Now, Moscow is warning the U.S. and Western nations that they may attack those satellites as legitimate targets of war.
"We would like to specifically stress an extremely dangerous trend that goes beyond the harmless use of outer space technologies and has become apparent during the latest developments in Ukraine," said Russian foreign ministry spokesman Konstantin Vorontsovat at a UN meeting.
"Namely, the use by the United States and its allies of civilian, including commercial, infrastructure elements in outer space for military purposes," he added, noting that the use of satellites "constitute[s] indirect participation" in the war. "Quasi-civilian infrastructure may become a legitimate target for retaliation."
That fact hit home for Elon Musk last week when he indicated he was through paying the bill for Starlink on his own dime. He threatened to end Starlink service for Ukraine unless the U.S. government helped pick up the tab.
The Pentagon wisely declined. The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space forbids the U.S. from using its own space assets to assist a belligerent in a war.
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...The reality here is that Elon can send 'em up faster than they can bring 'em down. And anyways, after the 3rd or fourth kill, you'll be be bumping up the possibility of a Kessler event exponentially.
You think the world is pissed at you now, Vlad? Wait till they find out you killed all the satellites that make life so easy.
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