[UA Wire] For the first time since the capture of the Kherson region, the Russians have taken all the equipment out of Chornobaivka and are leaving Kherson, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Serhiy Khlan on the air of the FREEDOM telethon.
According to Khlan, there are fewer Russians in the regional center, but they continue to loot the city and intimidate the local population. Chornobaivka was empty for the first time in many months.
"There are no visible preparations for street battles in Kherson. There are no visible fortifications, no new structures and new sandbags and roadblocks — all this is not observed. They said that the evacuation was completed, but nevertheless they continue to loot. Yesterday, it was noted that the occupiers continued to pack the equipment from medical institutions, including ambulances. We saw satellite images of Chornobaivka, which looks completely empty. We all remember, of course, the TV series, when our artillery destroyed the equipment of the occupiers. But despite this, the occupiers have always used Chornobaivka as a logistics center, because it is conveniently located for the redistribution of equipment and weapons. From these pictures, Chornobaivka was completely empty of equipment and ammunition. And this is the first time since the occupation of Kherson and the region," Khlan said.
The official also noted that the Russians are moving the equipment to the left bank of the Dnieper. According to him, the withdrawal of equipment from the left bank is visible in the area of the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, at the crossings in the villages of Lvove and Kozatske, in the direction of Nova Kakhovka. Khlan also added that Russians are moving equipment near the Antonovsky Bridge using pontoons, together with civilian cars. Report of Ukrainian forces 3km from Chornobaivka. Didn't specify airbase or city.
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[LB] The occupiers took prisoners from the Kherson colony and set up a base there.
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, does not stop 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 morning of the 249th 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 settlements : Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Oleksandropil, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region.
The enemy continues shelling units of the Defense Forces along the contact line, carries out fortification equipment of the lines in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes critical infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
During the past day, the enemy launched five missile and 23 air strikes, carried out more than 100 attacks from rocket salvo systems . The districts of more than 45 settlements were affected by this criminal activity. Among them are Sloviansk and Siversk in the Donetsk region , Zaporizhzhia and Novooleksandrivka in the Kherson region.
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 Ukrainians. Russia continues to transfer individual units to the territory of this country.
Thus, on October 26, the arrival of an echelon of military equipment from the Russian Federation at the Brest railway station was marked. Together with the servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation , the so-called "kadyrovtsi" arrive. In addition, Russian soldiers were spotted in settlements between the cities of Brest and Malorita. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the Republic of Belarus continues.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Siverskyi direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of settlements of Rozhkovichi, Budky, Mezenivka, Fotovizh, and Myropyllya of the Sumy region;
in the Slobozhansk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Ternova, Vovchansk, Veterinarne, Vilkhuvatka, Gatyshche, Hryhorivka, Kamianka, Figolivka, Dvorichna, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Strelecha and Chugunivka settlements;
on the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Krokhmalne, Grekivka, Zarichne, Novoehorivka, Berestov, Nevske, Olhivka, Terny, Torske, and Yampolivka;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Belogorivka, Vesele, Zvanivka, Siversk, Zelenopillia, Soledar, Odradivka, Opytne, New York, Vasyukivka, Serebryanka and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Avdiivka, Nevelske, Vesele, Vodyane, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske and Opytne settlements;
in the Novopavlovsk direction - from tanks and rocket artillery in the areas of Vremivka, Vugledar, Yehorivka, Mykilske, Novoukrainka, Pavlivka and Prechistivka settlements.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy inflicted fire in the areas of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Nove, Dorozhnyanka, Zaliznychne, Zeleny Hay, Temyrivka, Olhivske, and Chervone.
About 20 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buz direction . The settlements of Nikopol and Vyshchetarasivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Havrylivka in the Kherson region were hit by enemy shelling from rocket and barrel artillery.
According to the available information, during the so-called "evacuation" from the correctional colony No. 90 in the city of Kherson, the occupiers took out the prisoners. The enemy is using the territory of the mentioned correctional institution for the placement of personnel and military equipment.
In settlements near the city of Kherson, the enemy is taking measures to prepare for defense. The arrival of about a hundred "Rosguards" from the city of Grozny to the settlement of Kalanchak was noted.
On the territory of the city of Nova Kakhovka, Russian special services are actively listening to the telephone conversations of the civilian population.
In the settlement of Velika Znamyanka, Zaporizhzhia region, the enemy continues to place personnel in the homes of local residents.
Aviation of the Defense Forces during the day struck the enemy 32 times. Of them, 23 – in areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, three – in platoon strongholds, and six – in enemy air defense positions. Soldiers of Ukrainian air defense shot down an Iskander-K missile and two enemy Orlan-10 UAVs.
During the current day, units of missile troops and artillery hit six areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, three ammunition depots, two anti-aircraft defense facilities and nine other important military objects of the enemy.
We will remind you that during the past week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down more than 40 Iranian drones, six helicopters and several airplanes of the occupiers.
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[Korrespondent] 23:18 Poland, together with the EU, is ready to help Ukraine with the export of grain, the country's Foreign Ministry said: "Russia's decision to stop the Black Sea Grain Initiative is another proof that Moscow does not want to comply with any international agreements. Poland, together with its partners from the EU, is ready to continue to work to help Ukraine and those who need to transport the necessary goods."
23:09 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Russia is the only culprit that food will now rise in price from West Africa to East Asia: "Russia is the reason why people, in particular in Ethiopia, Yemen or Somalia, are left with a catastrophic food shortages... Vessels with agricultural products have to wait because Russia is blackmailing the world with hunger... What did the world hear? insects", now - "war grain" ... Killer wheat, from which Russian admirals are drowning. Well, what can I say? Really - sick people. But these sick people again put the world on the brink of a severe food crisis. "
Zelensky stressed that the Russian leadership is more interested in aggravating the food crisis than in fulfilling the signed documents, and the grain corridor is a very specific example: “There are now 218 evidence that Russia does not want any real agreements. 218 ships waiting to be able to transport food along export contracts or enter Ukrainian ports. Week after week, Russia slowed down the grain corridor, despite its own promises to partners, and now blocked it completely. Ukraine, for its part, will do everything to make the grain export initiative work further."
22:00 The Joint Coordination Center reported that Kyiv, Ankara and the UN agreed on the movement of 14 ships in the Black Sea on Monday, October 31, as part of the grain initiative. The center reported that Russia had been notified.
The SKC also said that on Sunday 6 ships left Ukrainian ports as part of a grain deal, but they have not yet entered the humanitarian corridor.
21:21 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov called "nonsense" Russia's statement that drones in Sevastopol were launched from a civilian vessel that was used as part of the grain agreement: "Nonsense, some kind of paranoid thing. Aggravation, probably, in the autumn among representatives of the Russian Federation. It's simply impossible. Those ships that go out with grain have nothing to do with the processes taking place in our country in the occupied part of it called Crimea. The fact that they constantly invent something is paranoid things, the farther, the more " .
Danilov also said that the suspension of Russia's participation in the grain agreement is blackmail on the eve of the G20 meeting: "You need to understand that this is the usual blackmail of the Russian Federation. The G20 meeting is to be held on November 15. Whether Russia as a country and the President of the Russian Federation will be present there is a big question ... In order to blackmail not only our country, but also the world, they imagined that they were leaving the so-called humanitarian corridor."
19:07 The Russians are preparing for the withdrawal of artillery units from the right-bank part of the Kherson region, with their subsequent possible transfer to other directions , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening report.
Meanwhile, the "authorities" of the Kherson region are trying to create conditions in the controlled territory unsuitable for the local population. So, in Nova Kakhovka, since October 29, access to the Internet has been disabled, residents are informed through loudspeakers about the need to leave the region within 48 hours due to the alleged threat of missile strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Medical staff of local hospitals and operational services of the city are subject to priority evacuation. In addition, the "authorities" issued a decree obliging entrepreneurs to sell all food products and close shops and markets from November 1.
19:02 The movement of 218 ships participating in the grain initiative is actually blocked due to the fact that the Ukrainian side, as of October 30, does not have permission from the Joint Coordination Center to pass through the safe corridor and conduct inspections, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported. Of these, 95 loaded vessels have already left Ukrainian ports and are awaiting inspection; 101 ships are awaiting inspection to enter Ukrainian ports; 22 loaded ships are waiting to leave Ukrainian ports.
18:55 The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that it is negotiating with the Russian side on a grain agreement: "During these meetings, the parties are reminded of the importance of avoiding all sorts of provocations that will negatively affect the continuation of the mechanism."
18:53 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said that Moscow will make a decision on the grain deal after all the circumstances of the attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the waters of Sevastopol are known. He recalled that Russia had convened a meeting of the UN Security Council, where this issue would be discussed.
18:44 Baykar announced that it plans to equip the Bayraktar TB2 and Akınc drones with air-to-air missiles to combat kamikaze drones and aircraft.
18:17 Zelensky said that he had held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: "We discussed the operational situation at the front. We heard information about the possible future actions of the aggressor. We dwelled in detail on the issue of providing our army with ammunition and repairing military equipment. In conclusion, we analyzed in detail what has already been done to protect infrastructure and energy facilities steps".
18:12 Canada has prepared a new support package for Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. According to him, in particular, it is planned to issue Ukraine's Sovereignty Bonds; a new package of sanctions against individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation, including the energy complex; delivery of 39 ACSV armored combat support vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine; providing $55 million to the Red Cross to help Ukrainians; allocation of 15 million dollars for the organization of demining in Ukraine.
18:05 Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko commented on Lavrov's statement about Russia's alleged readiness to discuss realistic proposals on Ukraine with the West: "The only realistic proposal should be Russia's immediate cessation of the war against Ukraine and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory beyond the borders as of 1991. Anyone who really wants to negotiate does not destroy the country's energy system so that its population freezes over in winter, does not engage in mass executions of civilians, does not shell residential areas, does not announce the mobilization of an additional 300,000 military personnel, does not block the supply of grain, does not put forward ultimatums.
According to Nikolenko, Lavrov's statement is nothing more than another smoke screen to buy time against the background of the defeats of the Russian army: "As long as Russia continues to commit crimes in Ukraine, the answer should be one - on the battlefield."
17:23 The courage of the Ukrainian people in the fight against the Russian aggressor was awarded the Oxi Courage Award, which Zelensky received. The award ceremony was held at the Institute for Peace (USIP). The award was presented by National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Jacob Sullivan, and was received by Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova.
16:11 There are about 4,300 Russian servicemen on the territory of Belarus, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said in an interview with The War Zone: “Cutting off supply lines from the west is a strategic goal of the enemy. military activity in Belarus, now the presence of the Russian military there is not so large, there are only about 4300 troops there.This grouping is very limited in heavy weapons systems, and the majority - about 80% - are mobilized personnel.So I can say that at the current stage there is no threat of invasion from Belarus."
At the same time, Budanov stressed that the situation could change very quickly when Russia loses Kherson: "After leaving Kherson, this combat-ready group will be partially redeployed to the Zaporozhye direction, but some of them may move to Belarus and create a threat there."
15:56 The free world must unite to protect shipping with a military escort, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. According to him, negotiations with Russia do not work, Putin violates agreements and blackmails everyone. Therefore, if the Kremlin continues to jeopardize grain exports from Ukraine, civilized countries should give a decent response, Landsbergis is convinced.
15:40 Prigozhin appealed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation with a request to check the activities of YouTube. According to him, after the start of the "special operation" on the video hosting, an "information war against Russia" began.
15:28 Weapons from Ukraine could illegally get into criminal groups in Finland, Christer Ahlgren, senior commissioner of the country's National Bureau of Investigation, said in an interview with Yle. According to him, isolated cases were also recorded when weapons provided to Ukraine were found in Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
The data obtained relates to small arms. Algren did not disclose more detailed information, as the data is still being supplemented and refined. "Ukraine is given a lot of weapons, and that's good. But we will have to deal with these weapons for decades and pay the price for it," he summed up and recalled that many previous wars in Europe were accompanied by the problem of weapons getting into criminal organizations.
15:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the naval drones that attacked Sevastopol were moving along the security zone of the grain corridor, then changed the route in the direction of the Russian ship base in Sevastopol. The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones allegedly indicate the starting point in the sea area of the security zone of the grain corridor in the Black Sea. "This may indicate a preliminary launch of this device from aboard one of the civilian ships chartered by Kyiv or its Western patrons for the export of agricultural products," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
14:17 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Russia to resume participation in the grain initiative and comply with the agreements. According to him, the failure to implement the agreement will directly affect low- and middle-income countries and world food prices, as well as exacerbate humanitarian crises and the situation in the field of food security.
13:41 Ukraine was forced to suspend the export of grain from seaports, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said: "The IKARIA ANGEL ship with 40,000 tons of wheat was supposed to leave the Ukrainian port today. This product was intended for Ethiopians who are on the verge of starvation. But from - due to the blocking of the grain corridor by Russia, export is impossible.
13:06 The Financial Times published an investigation in which, using the example of one ship, it showed how the Russians trade in stolen Ukrainian grain from the Zaporozhye region. First, they load grain in Berdyansk, then ship it to the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait. They forge documents there, changing the origin of the grain, in order to later sell it to other countries. The Kremlin carries out its deals with buyers in Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
12:39 The Russians blew up a bridge across the Red River near Krasnorechensky, Lugansk region, because they are afraid of a Ukrainian offensive, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, the Russian command set the task of its troops to stop the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the invaders systematically attack Belogorovka. After heavy shelling, they send fighters to the platoon for reconnaissance. "Traditionally, no one returns. The orcs constantly lose cannon fodder, which they throw into settlements to determine the direction of fire and the presence of Ukrainian defenders," Gaidai said.
He also said that fierce fighting continues in the Svatovsky direction, and yesterday the Russians blew up another bridge near Kremennaya. "The weather is getting better, which means that our defenders' business will go faster," Gaidai predicts.
11:38 Lavrov said that Moscow is ready to talk with the West to reduce tensions, but only if there are "realistic proposals based on equal approaches."
11:03 Peskov said that the desire of the United States to listen to the concerns of the Russian Federation, including those related to security, could become a platform for a conversation between Putin and Biden.
11:00 Italy delivered modern self-propelled guns and howitzers to Ukraine, writes La Repubblica. According to the publication, we are talking about the M109L self-propelled artillery mount, as well as the PzH 2000 howitzer, which Kyiv received as part of the fifth military aid package from Rome. Among the heavy weapons included in the previous support packages are M113 armored personnel carriers, six PzH 2000 heavy howitzers, and two MLRS multiple rocket launchers. PzH howitzers, according to media reports, will be sent to the Bakhmut area. The specific contents of the packages remain classified.
10:57 Rescuers are clearing the rubble of a partially destroyed building on the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, the State Emergency Service reported. During the analysis of the blockage, the body of one deceased was found. In total, since the beginning of work, the bodies of two dead have been found here.
10:46 Borrell urged Russia to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the grain initiative: "Russia's decision to suspend participation in the grain deal threatens the main export route of much-needed grain and fertilizer to overcome the global food crisis caused by its war against Ukraine."
09:52 In Energodar, as a result of morning Russian shelling of the industrial zone, most of the city was left without electricity. Previously, they hit one of the substations, Mayor Dmitry Orlov said.
09:15 At least three ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation were hit by drones on October 29, including the flagship Admiral Makarov, according to a group of volunteers GeoConfirmed. The investigators came to this conclusion based on the analysis of photos and videos, in particular, footage from unmanned surface vehicles that were in the harbor and the sea near Sevastopol.
09:09 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of October 30. During the day, Ukrainian forces eliminated almost a thousand invaders. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk and Liman directions.
personnel - about 71,200 (+950) people liquidated,
tanks - 2672 (+13),
armored combat vehicles - 5453 (+52),
artillery systems - 1724 (+16),
MLRS - 383 (+3),
air defense systems - 197 (+2),
aircraft - 274 (+1),
helicopters - 252 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1412 (+6),
cruise missiles - 352 (+1),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4120 (+13),
special equipment - 154 (+2).
09:02 Russia can receive microchips for military purposes from washing machines and refrigerators purchased through third countries, writes Bloomberg. According to the agency, neighboring countries of the Russian Federation suddenly began to supply large volumes of household appliances from Europe: washing machines, refrigerators and even electric breast pumps. European officials are concerned about this phenomenon, because they believe that Russia can obtain microchips from this technology, which it needs for military purposes.
08:46 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, five civilians were killed - in Antonovka, Pervomaisky, Druzhba, Kleschievka and Elizavetovka. In addition, law enforcement officers found the bodies of five civilians who died during the occupation - two in Korovy Yar, two in Svyatogorsk and one in Liman. Eight more people were injured yesterday, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:03 During the day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Yakovlevka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Aleksandropol, Kamenka, Avdeevka, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report .
According to the General Staff, in Kherson, in the process of "evacuation", prisoners were taken out of correctional colony No. 90. The territory of the correctional facility is used by the enemy to accommodate personnel and military equipment. In settlements near Kherson, the enemy is preparing for defense. About a hundred Russian guards arrived from Grozny to the village of Kalanchak.
07:10 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Russia is intensifying efforts to forcibly evict the inhabitants of the Kherson region and settle them with their soldiers. Some of the soldiers, according to analysts, are dressed in civilian clothes, which violates the laws of war. Such tactics, in their opinion, can be used by the Russian Federation to depopulate the regions of the Kherson region, populate them with civilian soldiers and create conditions for accusing Ukraine of striking civilian targets.
04:24 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Ukraine probably attacked the Grigorovich-class frigate of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation near Sevastopol. At the same time, the Russians did not admit any damage to the Grigorovich-class frigate, just as the Russian Ministry of Defense denied any damage to the cruiser Moskva.
Ukraine did not claim responsibility for this attack. According to ISW analysts, if Kyiv ordered this attack, it would be a proportionate, even restrained, response to Russia's massive campaign of strategic bombing of civilian targets across Ukraine over the past few weeks.
02:22 The first step towards negotiations with the Russian Federation should be the withdrawal of the occupying troops from the territory of Ukraine, Zelensky said during a conversation with representatives of the faculty of Yale University. According to him, further conversation will also depend on how the Russians leave the country: “If the invaders leave after they are pushed back by our defenders, this is one format of dialogue. And if the invaders themselves leave our lands, there will be a smoother transition from war to diplomacy".
00:51 Thanks to Western supplies and its own drones, Ukraine now has an artillery advantage over Russian forces in the south, writes The New York Times, citing Ukrainian commanders and military analysts. According to the publication, Ukraine now has an advantage in both firing range and precision-guided missiles and artillery shells, which Russia largely lacks.
The growing advantage of Ukraine in artillery made possible slow progress in the south towards Kherson. So, if in the summer in the Donetsk region, Russia fired about ten artillery shells for every Ukrainian shell, now in the Kherson region, Ukrainian commanders say that the sides fire about the same number of shells, but Ukrainian strikes not only have a greater range, but are also more accurate thanks to satellite guidance of rockets and artillery shells
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[KavkazUzel] About a dozen people came today in Nalchik to a rally on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions. The participants of the action spoke about their relatives who were repressed in Stalin's time and about their life in exile after the deportation of the Balkars.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that October 30 has been celebrated in Russia since 1991 as the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions. In 2021, in particular, residents and guests of Sochi laid flowers on this day at the monument to victims of repression. The Soviet era of the 1930s can be compared with the present, when people are imprisoned for their political views, Sochi residents pointed out at the time.
Today in Nalchik, about 10 people came to honor the memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions, in the Atazhukinsky garden they laid flowers at the monument to the repressed, and then read a memorial prayer (dua), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who attended the event, reported.
The chairman of the Association of Victims of Political Repressions in Kabardino-Balkaria , Marx Shakhmurzov , said that due to the situation in the country and the world, he "almost single-handedly decided" to hold a limited commemorative event - without a rally and without reading out the names.
Marx Shakhmurzov said that his grandfather was repressed "for being prosperous."
"Collective farms were created. Property was confiscated from the wealthy. My grandfather's house was confiscated. He and his family were deported, and the house was given under the control of a collective farm," the organizer of the action told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The operation to evict the Balkars took place on March 8, 1944 and lasted only two hours. Disabled war veterans, families of front-line soldiers, leaders of party bodies were resettled from Kabardino-Balkaria to Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
A total of 37,713 Balkars were sent to the places of settlement, of which 52% were children, 30 percent were women, and 18 percent were men. During the 18 days of the road, 562 people died. Only in 1957, the Balkars were allowed to return to their homeland, according to the "Caucasian Knot" certificate on the deportation of the Balkars .
Boris Khuranov, a Nalchan resident who came to the event , said that his close relatives were repressed. In particular, in 1928, Baty Lukmanovich Khuranov, a Kabardian educator, author of the first Russian-Kabardian dictionary, compiler of the grammar of the Kabardian language, was shot. Baty Khuranov translated the Kabardian script from the Arabic script into the Latin alphabet, Boris Khuranov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to him, Baty Khuranov was born in 1890 into a wealthy family, worked as a teacher, and then was a participant in the First World War, where he received the rank of non-commissioned officer and, as part of the Kabardian cavalry regiment of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, participated in campaigns against the Austro-German troops. In 1918, on his initiative, pedagogical courses were opened in Nalchik. After the civil war, Baty Khuranov worked in the public education system.
In early January 1928, a relative of Boris Khuranov was arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary activities, and on August 12, 1928 he was shot. Batu Khuranov was rehabilitated only in 1962, a street in Nalchik was named after him.
According to the Yandex.Maps service, Khuranova Street is located in the center of Nalchik, not far from the Government House of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Another participant in the action, Ismail Khadzhiev , said that he was repressed on a national basis at the age of 13. "Soldiers came in the morning and said, get out. We were put in a truck and brought to the railway station. In Central Asia, I had to suspend my studies and go to work on a collective farm. And in 1947, at the age of 17, I went to study again," shared memoirs of a resident.
The head of the Council of Elders of the Balkar people, Ismail Sabanchiev , said that his family was repressed when he was two years old.
"In the city of Kyzyl-Kiya [in Kyrgyzstan], where we ended up as special settlers, people were dying of hunger. I remember how a woman died, and her son came and, stepping over the corpse of his mother, began to look for bread cards, because the loss of bread cards meant the death of all other members of the family," Sabanchiev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Recall that the deportations of Balkars, Chechens, Ingush and other Caucasian peoples in Soviet times were justified by myths about mass betrayal and desertion of their representatives. Under Stalin, mass arrests and executions were carried out on ethnic grounds, entire peoples were declared "hostile," says the "Caucasian Knot" report "10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:21 The signalman of the Russian Navy, who was the first to notice a naval drone during yesterday's attack on Sevastopol, has been presented with a state award. 22:41 In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries launched seven unsuccessful attacks, the enemy's losses amounted to 250 people, the Ministry of Defense reported.
22:09 The Ministry of Defense stated that one of the sea drones used to attack Sevastopol was launched from the security zone of the grain corridor.
21:56 Russian artillery works at a strong point with an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.
21:56 Enemy hit with American HIMARS missiles on the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson: According to preliminary data, the Russian army shot down all six missiles
20:42 As a result of shelling in the village of Nikolskoye, Belgorod region, a power line was damaged, Governor Gladkov said.
According to him, power supply will be restored within two hours.
20:42 In Odessa, vandals again defiled monument to the founder of the city Catherine II.
Today there was an inscription: "We will demolish, Gena will not help!"
Thus, the nationalists reacted to the position of the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, who opposes the dismantling of the monument.
19:24 Sniper work: OBTF “Kaskad” tanks beat on the enemy near Ugledar, supporting the assault groups The
quadrocopter turns the tank's gun into a sniper rifle of great power, correcting the fire and allowing you to achieve very high accuracy.
19:23 Chinese reportage from the first line of defense of the Russian army on the southern front near the Dnieper
The military told CGTN about the battles and showed how they guard, conduct reconnaissance and surveillance on the left bank of the Dnieper, which became the border between the troops of Russia and Ukraine.
18:21 Artillery works on a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
17:34 Mobilized fighters of the allied forces successfully oppose adversary
It turns out that the fighters of the 4th battalion of the 1st Slavic Brigade, consisting of mobilized residents of the DPR, went on the attack on Ukrainian positions.
Since August, the unit’s personnel have been preparing to storm the enemy’s fortified areas and are now defeating the personnel units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The video shows the well-coordinated and professional work of the mobilized fighters.
Its result is the taken fortifications and at least one prisoner.
16:36 Situation in the Starobelsky direction as of October 30, 2022:
🔻On the Kupyansky sector, units of the 14th Mechanized Brigade, with the support of artillery and aviation, made another attempt to storm the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Orlyanka, Pershotravnevo, Tabaevka, Berestovo.
During the attack, strike detachments of the 14th Brigade partially entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the line, however, Russian troops with artillery fire and MLRS knocked out the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to their original lines.
▪️The Ukrainian formation was given the task of reaching Lower Duvanka at any cost. The commander of the 14th Brigade ordered to bring reserves into battle and continue the offensive. In Sinkovka, there is a man group of the RER of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the same time, part of the personnel of the 2nd battalion of the 14th Brigade refuses to advance on Russian lines from the position area in Novoosinovo due to heavy losses in manpower.
🔻In the Svatovsky sector, Ukrainian formations unsuccessfully tried to dislodge Russian troops in the Stelmakhivka and Makeevka sectors. The attacks were repulsed.
▪️The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine intends to resume the offensive in the direction of Raygorodok. Additional units have been deployed to the Borovoy area.
🔻In the Limansky sector, assault detachments of the 3rd battalion of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Chervonopopovka.
▪️Support for the advancing formations of the 65th brigade was carried out by strike groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade from the Kolodezi area, which were transferred to the settlement the day before. The RF Armed Forces successfully repulsed the attack.
🔻During the fighting in the entire direction, Russian troops eliminated at least 52 Ukrainian servicemen, more than 100 were injured of varying severity. Two tanks, eight infantry fighting vehicles, five armored personnel carriers and nine armored combat vehicles were destroyed.
15:43 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed video of the destruction of Ukrainian saboteurs who tried to land in Energodar from the water area of the Kakhovka reservoir
14:45 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
▪️The RF Armed Forces pushed back the Armed Forces of Ukraine and mercenaries in the Kupyansk direction to their original positions, up to 250 Ukrainian military and militants were destroyed;
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck at the training center for special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ochakov area of the Nikolaev region;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 50 servicemen and one tank in the course of attempts to advance in the Krasnolimansky direction;
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation captured a number of strongholds and dominant heights in the South-Donetsk direction, over 100 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 180 people and were thrown back to their starting lines during attempts to attack in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to land a sabotage and reconnaissance group to penetrate Energodar, Russian troops destroyed one speedboat;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Energodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP three times in a day, in total, 10 shells were fired by Ukrainians;
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down two Mi-8 helicopters and a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR;
▪️Russian units destroyed an artillery battery of American M777 howitzers in the Kherson region;
▪️Russian troops in the Zaporozhye region destroyed 2 HIMARS MLRS, as well as a German MARS-2 MLRS and a missile and artillery depot.
13:35 Captured militants of the 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told about the battles near Kremennaya
They were in reserve and did not participate in the battle. According to the stories of the militants, after the start of the battle, they heard reports on the radio about huge losses, after which reinforcements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine approached and opened fire on them.
"This war is not needed, it would be better to sit down at the negotiating table and negotiate. Everyone is in a depressed state, no one wants to fight," the militants say.
12:35 In the Leningrad region took place sending mobilized citizens to the areas of combat coordination
Before departure, a combat review was held, at which the commanders checked the availability of the required property and weapons. At practical classes, the servicemen were engaged in fire and tactical training, restored their skills in the operation and maintenance of military equipment, and also fulfilled the standards for engineering and military medical training.
11:36 Trans-Baikal mobilized servicemen are training in UAV control
11:34 On the Kinburn Spit lining up defense to prevent the landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
This site on the Nikolaevsko-Krivoy Rog direction is one of the most important strategic nodes.
"There is a fairly dense counter-battery fight, including at night. Enemy activity is being suppressed by our artillery and mortar units as it grows," - commander of the Cossack brigade Alexei Kondratiev.
10:39 Front-line summary for the morning of 10/30/22
On the Kharkiv direction, which the Russian troops have activated from their territory, the Ukrainian army has problems. Attacks in the area of Cossack Lopan. (Fig.1)
In the Lugansk sector, the Russian army is attacking Dvurechnoye. The situation in the Sandy area is difficult. (Fig.2)
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops storm Vodiane. The goal is to cut a section of the M-04 highway. The Ukrainian garrison is holding the line. But there are movements in the direction of Nevelskoy. There is no entry to Avdiivka yet.
09:01 The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass and striking almost the entire front line - the main thing from the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Russian troops are advancing in the areas of the settlement. Yakovlevka, Artemovsk, Bakhmutskoye, Alexandropol, Kamenka, Avdeevka, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are concentrating their efforts on reaching the administrative borders of the Donetsk region and holding the occupied territory.
The Russian army fires at the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire front line, provides engineering equipment for positions in certain areas and conducts aerial reconnaissance.
The Russian army launched five missile and 23 air strikes, and also carried out more than 100 attacks from the MLRS, including on critical infrastructure.
08:02 "At the limit of their strength and capabilities": specialists of the signal troops of the Western Military District demonstrate their high professional training
From the very beginning of a special military operation, military signalmen ensure the exchange of information between command posts, military units and subunits around the clock and in any weather.
The task of signal troops specialists is to organize communication channels for command and control of the ground force grouping as soon as possible.
The servicemen of the Signal Corps carry out their tasks, despite artillery and mortar shelling, gaining the upper hand in electronic warfare.
Uninterrupted communication is achieved thanks to the personal courage, dedication and professionalism of each serviceman.VideoMinistry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
07:01 Artillerymen of the "Brave" group destroyed Enemy DRG.
During reconnaissance with the help of UAVs, enemy saboteurs were discovered in the forest belt. A group of militants was destroyed by a well-aimed artillery strike.
0:51 An air raid alert is being sounded in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the authorities report.
Shortly before this, the alarm sounded in the Poltava region, but it has already been cancelled.
0:06 They report on the work of air defense in Sevastopol.
#1
Looks like Russian murderers are supposed to kill Russian soldiers who don't want to die for nothing, this is Russian state TV:
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1587077257809494016
More Russki state TV, they're now admitting this war was always about the Russian psyche cannot tolerate Ukraine NOT wanting to be slaves like Russians are now, they want to be free:
If Russian nationalists are accurate about the west, how come they try to move here and send their kids here? Cause they want to have it both ways, live in as slaves in Russia and breathe free outside like Badanov is doing?
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:34 An attempt to land a Ukrainian landing was repulsed in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. 22:05 The Ministry of Defense announced an offensive in the South-Donetsk direction: Russian troops advanced more than three kilometers deep into the enemy defenses and reached the outskirts of Pavlovka.
21:17 Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk, Gorlovka and Yelenovka, firing 19 rounds with a caliber of 152mm,reported representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
"The shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine) at 17.35 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - in the direction: the settlement of Druzhba - the settlement of Horlivka (Nikitovsky district): eight rounds with a caliber of 152 millimeters were fired ... 18.50 - the settlement of Dyleevka - the settlement Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired ... 20.40 - the settlement of Krasnogorovka - the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired," the agency said in its Telegram channel.
21:08 the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to land a sabotage and reconnaissance group to penetrate Energodar.
One APU speedboat was destroyed. In addition, three attacks by artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Energodar and the territory adjacent to the station were recorded during the day. A total of 10 rounds were fired.
Shelling by Ukrainian artillery was carried out from the area of the settlement of Novokievka, Dnepropetrovsk region. During the counter-battery fight, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed by the return fire of Russian artillery. The radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP remains normal.
21:07 OBTF DNR "Kaskad" and Russian marines destroyed a large number of enemy and equipment in the Ugledar direction, stormed Pavlovka and continue to clean up!
Pavlovka cleaned at 50 percent.
20:10 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia will record and investigate the facts of the next criminal actions of the AFU against civilians:
-- As a result of the shelling of Pervomaisk, the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the Kirovsky district of Makeevka, Yasinovataya, the settlement of Stepnoe in the Maryinsky district, civilians were killed and there are wounded. Residential buildings, a kindergarten, a school, a Muslim mosque and a temple in Donetsk were damaged.
-- In the village of Novolugansky, Artemovsky district, a man was blown up on a prohibited anti-personnel mine PFM-1 "Petal". In addition, a man died, a woman was injured as a result of an explosion on an unknown explosive device in the Krasnodonsky district of Lugansk.
-- The outskirts of the city of Svatovo were mined by shelling from German MARS-II multiple launch rocket systems. With the help of cluster rockets, the Ukrainian military mined the roads along which civilians move.
-- In Kherson, pro-Ukrainian activists stabbed a teenager who turned to the Russian military for help, who shared food with him.
-- According to the released serviceman of the LPR, in the military commandant's office of the city of Bakhmut, the detainees were subjected to torture and abuse by Ukrainian nationalists. In addition, special services detained in the LPR an accomplice of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who collected and transmitted to the Ukrainian side information about the deployment of Russian military personnel.
The Investigative Committee of Russia, as part of the investigation of criminal cases on the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists, will establish the circumstances of the incident, and the actions of all those involved will be given a legal assessment.
19:24 OBTF "Cascade" beats on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Vuhledar.
19:18 Hit on the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the battles for the village of Opytnoye.
18:52 VFU wounded a civilian in Kirillovka. Ukrainian militants attacked Kirillovka, Volnovakha district, Donetsk. A man born in 1974 was wounded.
18:06 Artillery works on a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
18:00 As a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine, the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova is de-energized, said the mayor of Gorlovka, Ivan Prikhodko.
17:47 By all indications, enemy resistance in Pavlovka is weakening. Our units, which entered the village from different directions, are gradually approaching, overcoming the inevitable confusion and groping for each other, so as not to defeat themselves "on a collision course," reports Alexander Khodakovsky.
17:22 Pavlovka has been cleared by 50 percent by the forces of the DPR OBTF and the MGB SSO and is under the control of the RF Armed Forces. With the support of artillery and aviation, the rear positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and equipment were destroyed.
17:11 City battles are going on in Pavlovka. We went there with the forces of the OBTF Cascade (VV, a combined special forces detachment), together with the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade.
The men are heavy street fighting squeezing the enemy. We cover the artillery of the allied forces with fire, plus the aviation breaks up the reserves that go to the aid of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:15 Ukrainian militants are shelling the Gorlovsky village of the mine. N. A. Izotova. - Ivan Prikhodko.
16:55Excellent work by paratroopers of the 56th Guards Airborne Assault (Order of the Patriotic War) of the Don Cossack Regiment to destroy a Ukrainian BMP-1 from a quadrocopter in the Kherson direction.
16:00 Personnel destruction of Ukrainian saboteurs who tried to land in Energodar from the water area of ??the Kakhovka reservoir.
15:21 Attack helicopter Ka-52destroys2 infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive of Russian troops in the area of Ugledar.
15:01 The situation at the Ugledarsky site as of 15.00 October 30, 2022
During the attack on Ukrainian positions in the village of Pavlovka, the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, together with the OBTF of the DPR and the MGB MGB, were able to penetrate 3.5 km deep into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and break through it, reaching the southern outskirts of Pavlovka.
As a result, Russian fighters destroyed 28 strongholds and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and over 70 enemy people, excluding the wounded. Now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are cleaning up the settlement.
In parallel with this, the Pacific Fleet soldiers entrenched themselves on the commanding heights in the area south of the village of Novomikhailovka, destroying 20 people of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Army aviation helicopters and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces are conducting massive fire on Ukrainian strongholds, supporting the advancing Russian units. More than 400 objects were hit during the day.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is taking measures to curb the advance of Russian troops, using tactical and army aviation. In the area of Konstantinovka, the calculation of the Buk air defense system of the RF Armed Forces hit the Mi-8 helicopter, and the operator of the Igla MANPADS of the Pacific Fleet Marines shot down the SU-25 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over Nikolsky.
In the vicinity of Bogoyavlenka and Prechistovka, additional units of the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deployed. DRG 68 Independent Brigade sent to the Yegorovka area to attempt sabotage in the rear of the Russian army.
14:32 Russian air defense systems shot down two Mi-8 helicopters and a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
14:19 In the Ugledarsky direction, Pavlovka is being cleared by the forces of the DPR OBTF, which also includes the MGB MTR. The Russian army has entrenched itself in the southern and southeastern territories and has been squeezing out the enemy since morning.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are abandoning their reserves, but they are covered by Russian artillery and aviation on their way. The soldiers report that the enemy has heavy losses. The work of domestic drones "Lancet" and "Cube" is noted, which hit enemy artillery and armored vehicles in the rear of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:01 Investigators of the RF IC inspected shelling sites Yasinovataya DNR on the street. Nekrasova, d. 7, where the shell hit the building of the MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 12 in the city of Yasninovata", which damaged the roof and floor slabs.
Also on st. School, d. 7 "a" and st. Ordzhonikidze, d. 132, where rounds hit the administrative building and an apartment building, in which a fire was recorded. The shelling was carried out with the use of Western-style MLRS.
From 13:00 n.p. Yasinovataya is again under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:35 PMC "Wagner" attack on Artemovsk.
Video FAN.
13:00 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR as of October 30, 2022.
12:29 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 30, additional information was received about the damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
De-energized20 transformer substations, without power supply to 2,400 subscribers of Trudovskaya mine village.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
12:14 During the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at 12:00 in the Petrovsky district, 20 transformer substations were de-energized. Without power supply to 2,400 subscribers of the village of Trudovskie - the mayor of Donetsk Kulemzin.
12:12 Results of shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Energodar and Ivanovka.
12:00 Servicemen of the NM DNR hold the line in the Zaporozhye region.
One of the front lines of defense in the Zaporozhye region, which is held by mobilized military personnel from the DPR, runs along the shore of the Kakhovka reservoir. Ukrainian militants regularly make attempts to cross to our shore, but the river remains an insurmountable obstacle for them. Our servicemen timely detect and stop all enemy actions.VideoNM DNR.
11:50 It is reported that the approaches to the Northern Donets River were heavily mined, often undermined, light antipersonnel mines are scattered in the forests near Severodonetsk.
11:49 It is reported that the north and north-east of Gorlovka are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:20 Information arrives about the advance of Russian troops north of Pesok. After massive artillery preparation, the enemy's defense line was broken through in the area of Opytnoye and Vodyany. These settlements are part of the so-called Avdievka fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which has been built by Ukrainian troops for eight years and is one of the largest in the Donbass.
10:31 Statement by the NM of the DPR on the situation as of 10.30 30.10.2022
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 information of the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 224 ammunition from the 122mm BM-21 rocket artillery launcher, tanks, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm, 122mm and 120mm.
The artillery was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was injured. One housing construction and four 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: 155mm howitzer "M777", 152mm self-propelled gun "Hyacinth-S", one tank (T-72B3), seven units of armored and vehicles, three enemy UAVs were shot down in the air. Losses in enemy manpower amounted to 40 people.
10:15 Footage from Yasinovataya (DPR), where a kindergarten, a hospital and apartment buildings were damaged during yesterday's shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military targeted social facilities, the head of the city said. There were no casualties.Video Ruptly @ruptlynews.
10:06 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 30, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
De-energized seven transformer substations, without power supply to 500 subscribers of the Zhilploshchadka microdistrict.
n.p. Panteleimonovka:
- as a result of shelling on the street. Ostrovsky scattered PFM "Petal".
10:03 VFU continue to purposefully destroy the infrastructure of the LPR.
As a result of an artillery strike, the bridge over the Krasnaya River in the village of Krasnorechenskoye, located north of Kremennaya, was seriously damaged.
This bridge was used exclusively by the civilian population, since even before the shelling it was in disrepair, and it was possible to drive through it only by car.
10:01 According to unofficial information, the enemy retreated from the village of Experienced. Our divisions continue fighting in this hardest direction .
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of October 30, 2022
Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
- up to 65 personnel;
- two artillery installations;
- nine armored personnel carriers;
- eight units of special vehicles.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During October 29, they cleared more than eight hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Kopani and Novoaleksandrovka.
09:00 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 October 29 to 06:00 October 30
Over the past day, the Representation reported 49 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - 122m BM-21 MLRS "Grad", artillery 155, 152 and 122mm.
-- On Yasinovatsky - 122m BM-21 MLRS "Grad"", artillery 155 and 152mm.
-- On Gorlovsky - artillery 155mm and 152mm, tanks.
Having fired 224 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of twelve settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kirov, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts), Zaitsevo, Gorlovka, Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya, Mineralnoe, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district), Staromikhaylovka, Aleksandrovka, Dokuchaevsk, Yelenovka, Stepnoe.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man, in the previously liberated Stepnoy.
One housing construction in Yasinovataya was damaged, as well as 4 civil infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 91 attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:07 In the village of Panteleymonovka at the address: st. Ostrovsky, 117 anti-personnel mines of pressure action PFM "Petal" were found.
08:48 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on October 30, 2022
08:01 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
03:03 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to ensure the defense of firing positions, therefore they are forced to maximally withdraw multiple launch rocket systems from the line of contact, Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia, deputy of the DPR Parliament Andrey Baevsky told us.
01:07 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing nine rounds of the "NATO" caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
"Artillery was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions:
-- 00.30 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Kurdyumovka - the settlement of Horlivka (Nikitovsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
-- 00.35 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Netaylovo - the city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky districts): four rounds with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired."
The message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says.
0:45 Channel One report from the southeast of the Bakhmut direction, where the Wagner Group continues to fight hard, moving step by step into the city.
0:20 Enemy telegram channels report that our troops have entrenched themselves in the southeastern part of the village of Vodyany, the same one north of Donetsk airport.
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[REGNUM] Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving a plan to prepare for the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the birth of the poet Alexander Pushkin. The order is published on the website of the government.
The plan provides for holding more than 80 festive events. Most of them will take place in the anniversary year 2024. The most large-scale part of the preparation will be the all-Russian program of restoration and renovation of Pushkin memorial museums.
In particular, before the anniversary, the exposition at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum will be updated. The Boldino Museum-Reserve, museums in the estates of Zakharovo and Vyazema near Moscow and other objects related to the poet's biography will also be restored.
The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) will prepare an Internet project for the anniversary. Tens of thousands of articles and monographs dedicated to the project, as well as handwritten sources stored in the Pushkin House, will be made available to the public.
Preparations for the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the birth of Pushkin are being carried out on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The corresponding decree was signed in the summer of 2021.
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[REGNUM] The message that the Russian Federation and Turkey are allegedly negotiating the status of a "grain deal" did not comment on the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov .
According to him, one should apply for information to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country.
"This is in the Foreign Ministry," Peskov said, answering a related question from TASS.
As reported by news agency REGNUM, on October 29, the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Moscow was suspending the implementation of the "grain deal" for an indefinite period.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] The events of yesterday and tonight involuntarily bring to mind the events of more than a century ago in another base of the Russian fleet - Port Arthur. For those who are not fond of history, there was a powerful squadron of the Russian fleet in 1904.
Able to actively resist the Japanese. And they did not break into the forehead, but simply attacked her with torpedoes at night, damaging two battleships and one cruiser, after which, without fear of opposition, they equipped a maneuverable base on the nearby Elliot Islands, after which the only combat mission of the Pacific Oceanists was to dump them in Vladivostok, breaking through blockade.
But this is the past, and yesterday:
"At 4:20 am, the Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships that were on the outer and inner roads of the Sevastopol base. Nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous marine unmanned vehicles were involved in the attack"
The minesweeper was damaged, according to rumors in our TG channels, the frigate "Admiral Makarov" (not officially confirmed, in any case, if it was minimally decorative). The fleet repelled the attack. But this night in Sevastopol, according to rumors, there were explosions again in the TG. Moreover, there will be more explosions. Having created a base in Ochakovo even before the NVO (when I wrote that the 73rd Special Maritime Operations Center was being revived, and Britain was building a naval base there, they laughed at me in the year 2018 and called me an alarmist), they have their Elliots, from where they can influence the Main Fleet Base an unlimited number of times . And the fleet gets a fork of decisions - either spend all its forces on the defense of the base, as in Port Arthur, but lose the sea and the ability to influence the enemy, or make a gesture of goodwill, coupled with a successful regrouping in Novorossiysk, and lose the sea.
The fleet cannot do otherwise, the army can. Ochakov is still not an island, it is a city on the mainland, close to which comes the Kinburn Spit, controlled by the Russian Federation. It can be smashed into the trash, you can advance from Kherson to Nikolaev, you can mine the water area or land troops ...
Why it has come to this is understandable - a grain deal. Blackmail by the vulnerability of Kaliningrad and attempts to enter the negotiation track predictably lifted the blockade of the Ukrainian coast, and untied the hands of the Ukrainian Navy (more precisely, the British). The rest is a matter of technique.
The deal was suspended yesterday. But for the most part, it doesn't change anything. For underwater UAVs were brought in (and he also wrote - they will be used against the fleet), the personnel were delivered, the control center was prepared for them. And just the UAV will be brought in and so on.
Plus, the quite expected step of Moscow, Kyiv quite expectedly and parried - demanded to exclude the Russian Federation with Jay 20 ... for disrupting the grain deal. Whether it will come out or not is not clear, I think not, but there will be no consequences for this Kyiv.
And for the Russian Federation there will be, dear people who have lost the well-established gesheft with such difficulty, will lobby with all their foolishness for its return and the withdrawal of the fleet to Novorossiysk. Plus the pressure of the West, plus the desire to freeze the conflict...
If you look at the picture as a whole - while we are again banging our heads against the wall , we are advancing on Avdievka and Ugledar, where the best army in the world with old weapons, the NM DPR, has nevertheless achieved local successes, there where this is impossible in principle, as the PMC Wagner achieves them near Bakhmut, the enemy is strangling our right-bank foothold. Slowly and methodically.
The strike on the Crimean bridge weakened the logistics, strikes on the fleet will make the group defenseless from the sea. All the same, 30 Calibers in a salvo is a terrible force. And the marines at the BDK are power. And if this power is removed from the Crimea ...
The goal of the enemy is to push us back beyond the Dnieper. We will not go back, this is clear to everyone, except for the trade union patriots. And bare defense will not prevent this. And you can’t prevent a local offensive in the Donbass to divert reserves. Take the maximum. And the strikes on energy have been stopped. Fully. For there is nothing to spoil the life of partners. This is not our method, you need to wait until Western air defense enters there, until they restore part of the capacity, and then ... create a comfortable negotiating atmosphere.
I will not continue further, the enemy will continue the attack on Sevastopol, and how will it end, if the evil is not resisted by violence, in the hope of an ordinary miracle of a negotiating track, the victory of the Republicans, the depletion of the enemy's resources - I think it's clear.
And not a claim to the army, by no means, Comrade Surovikin skillfully crippled the enemy's electric power industry, strengthened the front, is trying to advance in different directions of the front to smear the enemy's reserves, as the Charter says. But no general makes political decisions. It's not theirs. And if politicians say to the morgue, in the sense of peaceful initiatives and gestures of goodwill, then it will be to the morgue, in the sense of negotiations, or rather their attempts.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Defense Ministry reports that maritime kamikaze drones were launched off the coast of Odessa in the "grain corridor" from one of the chartered civilian ships.
1. It was established that the launch of marine unmanned vehicles was carried out from the coast near Odessa.
2. Subsequently, the naval drones moved along the security zone of the "grain corridor", then changed the route in the direction of the Russian ship base in Sevastopol.
3. The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones indicate the starting point in the sea area of the security zone of the "grain corridor" in the Black Sea.
4. According to experts, this may indicate a preliminary launch of this device from aboard one of the civilian ships chartered by Kyiv or its Western patrons for the export of agricultural products.
Here I can only remind you that back in the summer I wrote about the fact that a civilian vessel used within the framework of the "grain corridor" could be used to attack Russian infrastructure (for example, the Crimean bridge).
The idea of a possible operation is expressed in the following. A Ukrainian ship (possibly under the flag of a 3rd country) leaving Odessa passes through the Bosphorus, unloads as part of a grain deal, and then in one of the European ports (for example, in Cyprus in Limassol from the British Air Force base in Akrotiri, where there is a large airfield for delivery of such cargo) loads a container or missile launcher (boats with explosives or UAVs can be considered as an alternative) and a team of performers, most likely NATO officers. Further, the vessel returns to the Black Sea with a conditional cargo to Trabzon or Batumi, without being subjected to a check on the grain deal.
During the voyage, having predicted a period of bad weather and operating at night, the ship makes a detour towards the Crimean bridge and launches missiles at target designation of NATO reconnaissance aircraft regularly operating in the Black Sea + using possible options for "illuminating" an object on the ground from the GUR agents MOU. After launches, the calculation is removed on a motor boat and leaves the launch site, and the vessel returns to its destination, where the installation is removed from the vessel and transported to one of the NATO bases in Georgia. The possibility of loading the unit/container in Turkey cannot be ruled out.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7787523.html- zinc (text dated August 8)
In general, they replaced missiles with sea drones and launched from the Odessa region, and not from the Turkish region.
[Unkrinform] Andrii Bychenko, director of the sociological service of the Razumkov Center, announced the results of the survey at a press conference at Ukrinform.
"In the conditions of war, more than half of the population - 51% - believe that the events in Ukraine are now developing in the right direction. The paradox of this result lies not only in the optimism that the respondents show during the war, but also in the fact that in peacetime society very rarely shows such optimism," Bychenko said.
Also, 40.5% of respondents believe that Ukraine is able to overcome problems within a few years, and 42.5% believe that problems can be overcome in the more distant future. More than 80% of people believe that Ukraine will overcome difficulties.
The survey showed that more than 90% of citizens trust the Armed Forces of Ukraine to a certain or complete extent. In addition, more than 80% of Ukrainians trust the president and have a low level of trust in political parties and courts.
The nationwide survey was conducted by the Razumkov Center as part of a project supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation office in Ukraine from September 22 to October 1, 2022.
[NYT via Yahoo] On the screen of a thermal imaging camera, the Russian armored personnel carrier disappeared in a silent puff of smoke.
"What a beautiful explosion," said 1st Lt. Serhiy, a Ukrainian drone pilot who watched as his weapon buzzed into a Russian-controlled village and picked off the armored vehicle, a blast that was audible seconds later at his position about 4 miles away.
"We used to cheer, we used to shout, ’Hurray!’ but we’re used to it now," he said.
The war in Ukraine has been fought primarily through the air, with artillery, rockets, missiles and drones. And for months, Russia had the upper hand, able to lob munitions at Ukrainian cities, towns and military targets from positions well beyond the reach of Ukrainian weapons.
But in recent months, the tide has turned along the front lines in southern Ukraine. With powerful Western weapons and deadly homemade drones, Ukraine now has artillery superiority in the area, commanders and military analysts say.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
