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[RIA Novosti] New foreign films, which have recently been released infrequently in Russian distribution, were presented at the KARO.Art film festival. The program includes the non-canonical historical drama, Cannes winner Corsage, the Oscar-nominated Italian parable Nostalgia, the unusual biopic Emily about one of the Brontë sisters, the crime story of the Dardenne brothers Tory and Loquita. What you need to have time to see in Moscow - in the material of RIA Novosti.
REBEL QUEEN
Marie Kreuzer's festival hit "Corsage" is a new look at the life of Elisabeth of Bavaria. Better known as Princess Sissi, she often became a movie character. This time she was played by Vicki Crips, who was awarded for the female role at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The new age of women super heroes. Feminazis have changed their names. I wonder if this becomes accepted in Bollywood. Being western theater I see revulsion in most cultures. Putin certainly deplores its impact on society. The family unit is no longer valued. Promotion of transgender peoples a priority as well.
#2
We'll wuss out mightily,
as always, no frills.
C'est la vie and everything,
these gas bills!
We'll even gift the Russians
these nifty nuclear drills!
#10
Another safe word is “Ihor” — the given name of Zekensjy’s sugar daddy / patron / puppet-master Ihor Kolomoisky.
Kolomoisky is an international criminal, embezzler, money launderer, robber baron, and cockroach-capitalist scumbag who looted Ukraine and then bought and destroyed a dozen US steel mills in Appalachia — on the way to getting his ill-gotten gains out of the most corrupt country north of Nigeria.
This is the power behind the throne of the goofball comedian-clown president of Ukraine:
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[LB] Enemy units receive instructions to temporarily stop offensive actions in certain directions, in particular in Donetsk region, due to low morale and psychological state.
by Iryna Gamalii
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on attempts to disrupt the counteroffensive actions of the Armed Forces in separate directions, and at the same time is trying to conduct 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 232nd day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of positions and defense lines in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance.
Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it strikes critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers have launched 3 rocket and 21 air strikes, and fired 104 rockets from multiple rocket launchers.
Objects and civilians in more than 40 settlements were hit by the enemy . The enemy attacked, in particular, the districts of Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkassy, Chernyakhov, Bilogorivka, Spirnyi, Pavlivka, Myrnyi and Davydovo Brod. For this, he used winged, aviation, anti-aircraft guided missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles of Iranian production.
In the Volyn and Poliske directions , the situation has not changed significantly.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siverskyi direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Myropillya, Seredyna-Buda, Stukalyvka and Pavlivka settlements;
in the Slobozhansk direction - from artillery of various types, in the areas of Bugruvatka, Hryanikyvka, Dvorichna, Nova Vovcha, Strilecha, Udy, and Chervona Zorya settlements;
in the Kramatorsk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the vicinity of Bilogorivka, Zarychny, Novoehorivka, Serebryanka, Spirny, Terni, Torsky and Yampolivka;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Zelenopilya, Soledar, Mayorsk, New York and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelsky and Pervomaisky areas.
On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy shelled more than 15 settlements. Among them are Bogoyavlenka, Vremivka, Zaliznychne, Mykilske, Novopil, Novosilka and Poltavka.
Areas of more than 20 settlements along the contact line were damaged by fire in the South Buzka direction.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Ozaryanivka, Ivangrad, Bakhmut and Maryinka.
In some areas of hostilities, in particular in the Donetsk region , enemy units began to receive orders from the top management to temporarily stop offensive actions. The main reason is the extremely low morale and psychological condition of the recruits, numerous facts of desertion from among the mobilized and non-fulfilment of combat orders.
According to available information, in the area of the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhia region, our units hit three S-300 anti-aircraft missile complexes of the enemy along with personnel. The injured occupiers were transported to a local hospital. In the Kherson region, as a result of point fire damage in the Tokarivka area, the losses of the enemy amounted to 150 people killed.
It is also known that the repair base of the occupiers in the area of the settlement of Kalanchak accepts for repair up to thirty units of damaged armored vehicles that are suitable for repair every day.
Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 32 strikes during the past 24 hours. More than 25 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as seven anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy, have been damaged. In addition, our air defense units shot down four enemy helicopters and 26 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit 6 control points, seven areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, and 4 ammunition depots. Enemy artillery positions, EW and other military targets also fell into the fire damage zone.
It will be recalled that Ukraine will receive from the Netherlands missiles for air defense and anti-missile systems in the amount of 15 million euros.
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[Vesti] October 13 is the 232nd 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 .
6:00 a.m. The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
During the day, the Russian Federation launched three missile and 21 air strikes, made 104 shelling from the MLRS. More than 40 settlements of Ukraine were affected.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the Russian army in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutskoye, Ozaryanovka, Ivangrad, Bakhmut and Marinka.
Aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 32 strikes over the past day. The defeat of more than 25 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as seven air defense systems of Russians was confirmed.
During the day, missile forces and artillery hit: six command posts, seven areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, four ammunition. The positions of artillery, electronic warfare and other military targets of the Russians also fell into the zone of fire damage.
7:00 am . Kiev region. At night they hit one of the communities. Previously, kamikaze drones.
Nikolaev region. Mykolaiv was hit by S-300 missiles. There is a hit in the five-story building: the two upper floors are completely destroyed. An 11-year-old boy was pulled out from under the rubble, who spent six hours there. The building of the shuttle station was also damaged as a result of the missile attack. The body of a man was recovered from under the rubble.
8:00 a.m. Dnipropetrovsk region . Nikopol suffered the most from "Grads" and heavy artillery . A 59-year-old man was wounded and is in a serious condition in the hospital. More than 30 multi-storey and private houses, gas pipelines and power lines were destroyed. Russian shells landed in a hospital, a kindergarten, a museum of local lore, a cathedral, shops, a market, a factory, and a post office.
9:30 a.m. France will supply Ukraine with six additional Caesar howitzers and anti-aircraft missiles. Help will follow in the coming weeks. France may also transfer Crotale short-range anti-aircraft missiles, which are used to intercept missiles and aircraft at low altitude, to Ukraine.
10:30 am . $1.3 billion of additional IMF emergency financing has been received by Ukraine. The funds will be used to strengthen the country's defense capability, pay pensions, social programs and support the economy.
11:00 am . Zaporozhye region . As a result of the shelling of Preobrazhenka, Stepnogorsk and Orekhov, a woman was killed and 13 more people were injured.
12:00 . Rolling blackouts have been canceled in Kyiv and the region. Specialists of Ukrenergo and oblenergo have stabilized energy supply in all regions of Ukraine.
14:00 . Poltava region. Two Ukrainian planes crashed on the territory of the Shishatsky community on October 11 and 12, said the head of the UVA Dmitry Lunin. There were no civilian dead or injured.
PACE adopted a resolution in which it called the regime of the Russian Federation a terrorist one. A total of 99 delegates voted in favor. The resolution also notes that Russia's presence in the UN Security Council is illegal. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe became the first international organization to recognize Russia as a terrorist state.
15:00 . Nikolaev region. The body of another person was taken out from under the rubble of a house in Nikolaev . Thus, the number of deaths as a result of night shelling increased to four.
16:00 . Ivano-Frankivsk region. The head of the OVA, Svetlana Onishchuk, announced the threat of missile strikes.
Chernivtsi region. A rocket flight was recorded over Bukovina, said the head of the Regional State Administration Ruslan Zaparanyuk. Air defense worked.
16:15 . Ternopil region. Explosions are reported.
Lviv and Volyn regions. Explosions are reported. Air defense works.
16:30 . A total of 20 Ukrainian defenders were returned from Russian captivity . Among those who returned were 14 military servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four troopers, one National Guard and one Navy serviceman. There are those whom the Russians kept in Yelenovka and in the occupied territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
16:50 . Lviv region. Two missiles hit one of the military facilities in the Zolochiv region. This is a re-hit in this object. There are no victims. One missile was shot down by air defense.
17:17 The head of the Ternopil OVA Volodymyr Trush confirmed the explosions in the region. According to him, air defense was working in the area of the city of Chortkiv, specialists left for the place.
17:50 The Russian army continues to focus its efforts on trying to implement its plans to reach the administrative border of the Donetsk region, as well as to hold the captured areas of Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions.
18:10 Aviation of the Defense Forces delivered 19 strikes during the day. The defeat of more than 13 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as six enemy anti-aircraft missile systems was confirmed. In addition, our air defense units shot down eight UAVs, six of them Iranian Shahed-136. Rocket troops and artillery hit two command posts, three areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, and two ammunition depots.
18:28 NATO countries are strengthening support for Ukraine, it must win the conflict with Russia. This was announced on Wednesday evening by Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in Brussels.
18:50 US plans to provide Ukraine with air defense systems as quickly as it is physically possible - Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. According to him, the States are trying to ensure that Western countries jointly create an integrated air defense system for Ukraine and transfer missile systems of various ranges to it.
19:10 Sending representatives of Western countries to the Ukrainian-Belarusian border will mean the involvement of third countries in the conflict. This was stated by Belarusian Foreign Minister Makei. Recall that earlier, Secretary of State of the Security Council Alexander Volfovich spoke about Zelensky’s proposal, saying that “this contingent does not interfere with us at all, but we don’t need it.”
19:33 Governor of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov confirmed the explosions in Kharkiv. He urges residents to stay in hiding.
19:59 In Izyum, Kharkiv region, power supply has been restored for 10,000 consumers, including a local bakery. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
20:20 At the Tetkino substation in the Kursk region of Russia, about 15 "arrivals" were recorded, the Russian media report.
20:44 NATO will give Ukraine one hundred stations for jamming drones. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
"NATO will soon transfer anti-drone equipment to Ukraine. In particular, a hundred drone jamming stations that will help render Russian and Iranian-made drones ineffective and protect Ukrainian citizens and infrastructure," he promised.
21:03 The head of the OP, Andriy Yermak, in an ultimatum, gave the Red Cross three days to visit the colony in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held.
21:22 In total, over the current day, the Russian Federation has launched one missile and 15 air strikes, carried out 22 shelling with MLRS. Objects and civilians of the settlements of Nalivaykovka of the Kyiv region, Nikolaev and Nikopol suffered.
21:44 Deputy Mayor of Izyum Vladimir Matsokin told how the city is being restored after the Russian occupation. He also named the number of citizens who returned to Izyum after the de-occupation.
"Doctors, teachers, coaches of sports schools and cultural workers are returning to the city. Now there are already 20 thousand people in Izyum, and at the time of liberation there were 13 thousand. Not everyone returns forever: someone is not ready yet, but people still come," Matsokin said.
22:03 France does not want a third world war, but will help Ukraine to fight on its own soil, but not to attack the Russian Federation. This was stated by Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.
"We are helping Ukraine to stand on its own land, never attack Russia. Vladimir Putin must stop this war and respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine," he wrote.
22:30 Since the beginning of October, according to available information, the Russian Federation has taken about 170 children from Kherson.
Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Thursday, October 13.
22:49 In the Vinnitsa region, fragments of a Ukrainian MiG-29 were found, which was trying to shoot down a Russian drone. This was reported in the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.
23:05 Circumstances under which NATO could use nuclear weapons are "extremely remote." This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
23:23 France will continue to provide Ukraine with Caesar howitzers for the counteroffensive, air defense and armored vehicles.
23:44 The Polish government handed over 150 Starlink terminals to Ukraine, which help restore communications in the liberated territories. This was stated by the Minister of Digital Transformation.
23:59 6 missiles were fired in the Lviv region today, four of which were shot down. This was stated by the head of the Lviv OVA Kozitsky.
00:24 Developed to help the Ukrainian air defense forces in identifying and neutralizing hostile targets in the sky, the eAir defense application is already available on the Google Play Market, the Office of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
00:30 The boy who was rescued today in Nikolaev from the rubble of a five-story building died. This was announced by the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
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[Korrespondent] 23:47 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukrainian defenders are now under additional pressure: “Now Russia is dropping thousands of these mobilized people. They don’t have significant military training, but their command doesn’t need it at all. They expect the mobilized Russians to be able to survive in the war for at least a few weeks, then they die, then they bring new ones to the front. But during this time, such use by Russian generals of their people as "cannon fodder" allows you to create additional pressure on our defenders. This is tangible pressure."
23:41 Zelensky said in an evening video message that, following the model of the IAEA mission, the mission of the Red Cross can also be launched, but this requires leadership, good faith, an understanding of who and why created such an institution as the Red Cross: "I believe that the International Committee "The Red Cross is not a privileged club where people get paid and enjoy life. The Red Cross has obligations, above all moral ones. The mandate of the Red Cross must be carried out. What is absolutely logical for the Red Cross must be done immediately."
The President stressed that Yelenovka is actually a concentration camp where Ukrainian prisoners are kept: "We need access to them, as it was stipulated. The Red Cross can do it. But we need to try to do it. Ukraine is ready to contribute to this."
22:36 Zelensky, in an evening video message, noted a powerful response from PACE, the first international organization that defined the current regime in Russia as a terrorist one. The President also stressed that 143 UN member states supported the resolution condemning Russia for the criminal attempt to annex Ukrainian territory, and this is today a record number of states supporting Ukraine. "But I believe that there will be more," the head of state added.
At the same time, Zelensky called on Ukrainians to be especially careful on Friday, October 14: "We are not relaxing. We are hitting the enemy. We are observing security rules. We are listening to the air raid signal - especially tomorrow. And we are doing everything to strengthen Ukraine."
22:25 The invaders launched rocket attacks on Kharkiv and the region, there are hits in the Kholodnogorsk region - no casualties, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. There is damage to critical infrastructure in the region, and temporary problems with power supply are possible.
21:54 Zaluzhny said that he had a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the situation at the front is difficult, but manageable: "The enemy has an advantage in artillery, so the issue of increasing the firepower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains relevant. The issue of creating an integrated air defense and missile defense system is also important."
21:47 The Kremlin is aware of the serious consequences for them of using even low-yield nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he did not disclose exactly how the NATO countries would react in the event of a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine, but noted that the use of these measures by the United States "will fundamentally change the nature of the conflict."
21:43 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov announced at least two missile attacks on the city, in some areas there are problems with power supply.
21:41 In Nikolaev, an 11-year-old boy died in the hospital, who was taken out from under the rubble by rescuers, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.
21:39 Portugal will give Ukraine six Ka-32A11BC transport helicopters, which were developed by the Soviet company Kamov. One of them is out of service after the accident, but Kyiv agreed to accept the helicopters "in the condition they are in," Portuguese Defense Minister Elena Carreiras said.
21:28 Russian invaders continue to take Ukrainian children out of the occupied territories.
Evil. The Nazis used to do that, too — taking babies and small children who looked like the Aryan ideal to raise as their own, even if they were born to Jewish or Slavic parents. So much for Nazi racial purity, right?
So, since the beginning of October, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about 170 children have been taken out of Kherson. Meanwhile, representatives of private military companies of the enemy continue to recruit prisoners for the war on the territory of our country. According to the General Staff, on October 11-12, 385 prisoners were recruited in correctional colony No. 16 in the city of Salavat of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
20:46 The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the village of the Belgorod region, as a result of the alleged shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an ammunition depot was blown up, their detonation occurred. According to preliminary data, there are no victims and injured, residents are taken to a safe distance.
20:12 Yermak demands from the ICRC to send a mission to the colony in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, within three days. He stated this during a meeting via video link with representatives of the ICRC and other international organizations. At the same time, he assured that Ukraine, for its part, would assist this mission in every possible way.
Yermak said that otherwise Ukraine would use all possible informational and diplomatic means to move this issue forward. According to him, Kyiv, together with partners, will be able to find an option on how to form an expert group and people who will be ready to fulfill the mission that the Red Cross must fulfill: “But we will not wait any longer. Every hour, every day is the life of our people. And war is today an exam for every person, including an exam for international organizations. If there is a desire, then there is always a way to realize it."
20:06 In the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya in the Kharkiv region, the bodies of three more dead at the hands of Russian invaders were found, the regional prosecutor's office reported. One of the dead was shot because he helped the Ukrainian army, two more came under mortar fire.
19:58 Borrell said that the Russian army will be destroyed if the Russian Federation decides to strike with nuclear weapons on Ukraine: "There is a nuclear threat, and Putin says that he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford to bluff. We must clearly understand: people, who support Ukraine, the European Union and the member states, and the US and NATO are also not bluffing, and any nuclear attack on Ukraine will be answered, not a nuclear response, but a powerful military response that will destroy the Russian army, and Putin will no longer have to bluff ".
19:54 Russia has sent a list of demands to the UN, in case of non-fulfillment of which it threatens to withdraw from the grain deal, Gennady Gatilov, Russia's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, said in an interview with Reuters. According to him, these claims will be discussed during a meeting of UN representatives with the Russian side in Moscow on Sunday, October 16. "If we see that nothing is happening on the Russian side - the export of Russian grain and fertilizers - then, excuse me, we will have to look at it differently," Gatilov said.
19:51 Spain plans to provide Ukraine with four Hawk air defense system launchers, Stoltenberg said: "NATO allies are providing Ukraine with advanced systems, including artillery, air defense, armored vehicles. And I welcome Spain's announcement today to provide four launchers for strengthening Ukraine's air defenses - on top of what the Allies have provided over the past few days. Thank you Allies for their significant contributions, and I urge you to further increase support."
19:45 Stoltenberg announced that Ukraine, as part of NATO's comprehensive assistance package, will receive, in particular, funds to combat drones: "As part of this package, NATO will also promptly provide Ukraine with anti-drone weapons with hundreds of devices for jamming drones, which can help reduce nullify the effectiveness of Russian and Iranian drones and protect the Ukrainian population and infrastructure." The Secretary General added that Ukraine would also receive fuel, winter clothes and medicines, and in the long term, the alliance would help Ukraine switch from Soviet to modern NATO weapons.
19:19 Is a riot or a palace coup coming in Russia? How many similar messages have already been in the media. Now, citing sources, The Washington Post writes about such trends. At the same time, the publication immediately clarifies that no one can say how and when this can happen. For more details, see Moods in the Russian Elites .
18:42 Today, the enemy fired six missiles across the territory of the Lviv region - two of them hit the target, four were shot down by the soldiers of the Zakhid air command, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
18:27 Ukraine cannot negotiate with the current leadership of Russia, since it is impossible to do this with inadequate people, Zelensky said in an interview with ZDF. He recalled that even before the invasion, he tried several times to talk to Putin, but he refused: “He is inadequate, he does not understand that, on the contrary, he unites us. Moreover, he either does not want any dialogues between our countries, or does not understand that with each of their missile strikes, the chances for negotiations disappear, evaporate. For our country today, he is a collective image of a terrorist with whom no one wants to talk. What to talk about? As a country that stands for peace, we say: yes, we we will talk with Russia, of course, but with a different face… Someone will appear.”
18:13 In southern Ukraine, the enemy is looking for an opportunity to surrender, head of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine Natalya Gumenyuk said: "The intensity of our offensive is generally very scary for the Russians. They did not expect such a development of events and are in a depressed state. According to our data , small meetings are held in their units, during which the issues of the possibility of surrender with the further prospect of being included in the lists of the exchange fund of prisoners are discussed.
18:08 Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin said that the Russian government has decided to organize "assistance" in the departure of residents of the Kherson region "to other regions of the country." According to him, all residents of the region who leave for other regions will be provided with free accommodation.
17:59 Borrell said that the EU plans to increase military assistance to Ukraine to more than 3 billion euros.
17:56 In Kherson, the Russians shot the conductor of the Kherson Philharmonic Yuriy Kerpatenko in his own house, journalist Elena Vanina said: “Today it became known that the conductor of the Kherson Philharmonic was shot by the occupiers. He refused to work with them, they said that we would come to you again. to his house and shot right there. It is difficult to find out more details, because in Kherson everyone is afraid, but the information is 100%".
17:51 The IMF estimates Ukraine's need for external financial assistance in 2023 at 3-4 billion dollars a month, said the head of the Fund, Kristalina Georgieva.
17:46 On Thursday, October 13, Russian troops attacked critical infrastructure facilities in the western region from the Black Sea with cruise missiles of the Caliber type. Four cruise missiles were destroyed by the air defense forces of the Zahid air command, the command said.
17:19 Residents of the Ternopil region could hear sounds similar to explosions - it was the air defense forces in the Chertkiv region that were working, specialists left for the place, said the head of the OVA Volodymyr Trush.
16:54 In the Lviv region, Russian missiles hit a military facility in the Zolochiv district. This is a repeated hit in this object, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. Military property was destroyed, there were no casualties. In total, three missiles were fired, two of them hit the target, another was shot down by air defense forces.
16:37 Peskov said that when trying to blow up the Turkish Stream on Russian territory, saboteurs were allegedly detained.
16:15 A rocket flight was recorded over Bukovina, the head of the Chernivtsi OVA Ruslan Zaparanyuk said.
16:13 As a result of another exchange of prisoners, Ukraine released 20 people from captivity , Yermak said. Among them are 14 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four troopers, one National Guard and one Navy soldier. There are people whom the Russians kept in Yelenovka, in the occupied territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
16:09 Putin suggested Erdogan create a gas hub in Turkey that can supply gas to other countries: "If there is interest from Turkey and our potential buyers from other countries, we could consider building another gas pipeline system and creating a gas hub in Turkey for sale to other countries - first of all, to third countries, of course, European ones, if they are interested."
16:05 In the Sumy region, rolling blackouts will continue, as the Russians have completely or partially destroyed about ten energy infrastructure facilities, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, now the power that is supplied and reaches the Sumy region is only about a third of what is needed, so power engineers are forced to periodically turn off various facilities and even entire settlements. Street lighting was also turned off throughout the region.
15:59 Ukraine during the voting for the resolution of the UN General Assembly for the first time was supported by several African countries, Kuleba said: "Now the main focus is on the four countries that voted yesterday in the UN General Assembly with Russia, but let's take a closer look at those 143 countries that voted for Ukraine. In an important turn of the tide in our favor, several countries in Africa that previously abstained or did not vote have now voted in favour."
15:43 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that as a result of the negotiation process on the exchange, 20 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory of Ukraine today. On October 11, the Ukrainian authorities reported that as a result of another exchange of prisoners, 32 Ukrainian soldiers were released and the body of an Israeli was returned.
15:31 99 delegates voted for today's PACE resolution on the recognition of the Russian regime as terrorist, one abstained. For the first time in history, the Council of Europe has said that it is necessary to provide weapons - we are talking about air defense systems to protect the civilian population of Ukraine. The document also says that Russia's presence in the UN Security Council is illegal and has no legal basis. In addition, there is a call for the early establishment of an international tribunal.
15:19 Macron said that he does not want a Third World War, and assistance to Ukraine is aimed at protecting its territory and in no case attacking Russia. "Putin must stop his war and respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine," the French president wrote.
14:55 Saldo appealed to the Russian authorities with a request to help evacuate the residents of the Kherson region: "We offer all residents of the Kherson region to protect themselves from the consequences that may be inflicted by missile strikes and travel to the territory of other regions of the Russian Federation."
14:36 Peskov said that Putin and Erdogan did not discuss the topic of the Russian-Ukrainian settlement at today's meeting.
14:34 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution calling the Russian Federation a terrorist regime. Thus, PACE became the first international organization to recognize Russia as a terrorist state.
14:31 Reznikov and French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu signed an agreement on granting grants to Ukraine in the field of security and defense.
14:28 Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Naev said that Ukraine is constantly monitoring what is happening in Belarus and is currently ready for a possible new offensive from this territory. According to him, up to a thousand military personnel from the Russian Federation, six aircraft, four Iskanders and 12 S-400 air defense systems are permanently in Belarus.
14:12 Zelensky said in an interview with ZDF that Putin will use nuclear weapons only when he knows well that there will be no consequences for him. And now the task of Europe is to show him that he is isolated: "You cannot show weakness towards the Russian leadership ... Putin will use nuclear weapons only if he knows very well that after the use there will be no consequences for him" .
13:56 Since mid-summer, at least 15,130 Russian prisoners have been sent to the war with Ukraine, Avtozak LIVE reports. The publication made such conclusions on the basis of an analysis of data from human rights organizations Rus sitting , Gulag.net and the Fund In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners .
13:37 Zelensky said in an interview with ZDFheute Nachrichten that Russia plans to strike at its gas transportation infrastructure in order to blame Ukraine for this and then strike at the Ukrainian GTS , cutting off gas supplies to Europe: "They blew up Nord Stream-1. And then they "They will blow something up at their place. And they will accuse us - in order to hit our gas transportation system. They will say: we just reacted. And then they will tell Europe: look, there is no other way to supply gas, except to urgently launch Nord Stream-2. Which you Germans are not launching. You should lobby for sanctions to be lifted because Europe will be left without gas - because of Ukraine, he will say. That would be a step."
13:10 In Belgorod, allegedly part of a missile shot down by air defense fell on a multi-storey building, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Russian media write that about eight explosions were heard in the city.
12:58 The situation with energy supply was stabilized thanks to power engineers and consumers who saved electricity, Ukrenergo reported. In particular, last night in Kyiv, the region and the entire central region, dispatching restrictions were not applied, from 19:55 restrictions were lifted in the north-eastern regions of the country. During today, neither in the morning nor in the evening, the introduction of emergency shutdown schedules is not yet planned.
At the same time, Ukrenergo reminds that the country should prepare for new attacks by the enemy and asks to further reduce consumption during periods of peak load in the energy system: in the morning from 8:00 to 11:00 and in the evening from 17:00 to 23:00.
12:49 NYT writes that Israel is transmitting data to Kiev about Iranian drones used by Russia. In addition, according to the publication, a private Israeli company provided satellite images of the positions of Russian troops.
12:38 Estonia has approved a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, which will include winter clothing, equipment and ammunition, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said and promised to deliver them quickly. "Let's all speed up our assistance so that the Ukrainians can liberate their territories. This is the path to peace," she wrote.
12:22 Today, at about 5:00 am, the Russians attacked the Kiev region. In one of the communities of the region, three strikes of enemy kamikaze drones were carried out on an infrastructure facility, which started a fire. There are no victims or injured, the fire is localized, said OVA head Aleksey Kuleba.
12:16 Borrell said that a nuclear attack against Ukraine will cause not a nuclear, but "a powerful military response."
12:07 The Russians again fired at the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region - this time residential buildings along the main street and in a residential area were damaged. In the village of Preobrazhenka, as a result of shelling, one person was killed, one was wounded, nine were wounded in Orekhovo itself, and three more people were wounded in Stepnogorsk. The next objects of civil infrastructure and utility networks were destroyed, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
11:44 15 European NATO member countries have launched a project to create a better European air defense system - an initiative called the Sky Shield, writes Spiegel. The project should close the gaps in the current shield - in particular in the field of ballistic missiles that reach high altitudes on their trajectory, as well as in protection against drones and cruise missiles.
11:21 Residents of the districts of the Kharkiv region, located near the war zones, will receive firewood for free in order to be able to heat their homes in winter, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:09 In the Kiev region, work is planned to eliminate explosive objects: from 13:00 to 15:00 in the Ivankovsky community of the Vyshgorod district, the sounds of explosions are likely to be heard, the OVA warned.
11:00 France will not use nuclear weapons against Russia if it launches a nuclear strike on Ukraine, Macron said in an interview with France 2: “Our doctrine is based on the fundamental interests of the nation, and they are defined very clearly. nuclear missile strike, these interests would not be called into question."
10:58 Ukraine has received $1.3 billion in additional emergency IMF funding, Shmyhal said. The funds will be used to finance priority needs: strengthening defense capabilities, paying pensions, social programs and supporting the economy.
In total, the IMF has provided Ukraine with $2.7 billion since the start of the full-scale war. Also, in the near future, preparations for a new special program will begin, which will start working next year, the prime minister added.
10:43 Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories Alexei Chernyshev assured that the heating season will start on time, without postponements or changes: "It will start as planned: as soon as the average daily temperature is below +8 ° C for three days. Even the weather on our side."
10:12 In Nikolaev, during the night shelling, the rocket hit the shuttle station, the body of one person was removed from the rubble, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.
09:53 British intelligence reports that Russian troops, having retreated about 20 km north of the Kherson sector in early October, are trying to strengthen a new front line west of the village of Mylovoe. Heavy fighting continues along this line, especially at the western end, where Ukrainian advances mean Russia's flank is no longer protected by the Ingulets River. Most of the Russian troops on this front line remain an understaffed part of the Airborne Forces.
Analysts also note that in recent days, the Russian occupation authorities have probably given an order to prepare for the evacuation of some civilians from Kherson. It is likely that they expect the fighting to spread to the city of Kherson itself.
09:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of October 13. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Krivoy Rog directions.
personnel - about 63,800 (+420) people liquidated,
tanks - 2511 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 5167 (+11),
artillery systems - 1556 (+17),
MLRS - 357 (+2),
air defense systems - 183 (+0),
aircraft - 268 (+0),
helicopters - 240 (+6),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1182 (+33),
cruise missiles - 316 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3935 (+9),
special equipment - 140 (+0).
09:27 At the summit in Astana, Erdogan said that Turkey's goal is "to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible" in Ukraine.
09:24 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, the enemy fired on the city of Volchansk, as well as settlements of Chuguevsky, Kharkov, Kupyansky and Bogodukhovsky districts. Two people were hospitalized with injuries - in Izyum and Kupyansk districts. In addition, while performing road works in the Izyumsky district, two workers were killed by blowing themselves up on a mine. Two more people in the Izyumsky district were injured after stepping on a mine, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
09:17 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, seven civilians were killed - in Avdeevka. In addition, four more civilians were found in Liman, who were killed by the Russians during the occupation. Another 13 people were injured yesterday, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:15 Residents of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region have a new evacuation route, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said: “A new evacuation route has appeared. For the second day, our residents have been traveling along this route. This is through Melitopol, Berdyansk, Novoazovsk, then to the Russian Federation, and then, as always, to Georgia or the European Union."
09:13 Zelensky showed the consequences of today's strike on a residential building in Nikolaev:
09:10 During the day on October 12, anti-aircraft missile units and fighter aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed five Ka-52 attack helicopters, 17 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and two Zala Lancets. And on the night of October 13, four Shahed-136 enemy kamikaze drones were shot down over the Odessa region, and two over the Nikolaevskaya region, the Air Force reported.
08:58 Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy urged city residents to organize heating points with wood-burning stoves in their homes, as well as keep a constant supply of water. Some homes are already buying up small generators. The mayor stressed that massive shelling could be repeated "many more times."
08:51 The Russians shelled the Nikopol region with Grads and heavy artillery all night. Nikopol suffered the most, one person was seriously injured there, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
08:45 At night, Nikolaev was subjected to massive shelling with S-300 missiles. There is a hit in a five-story building, an 11-year-old child was taken out from under the rubble. The search for seven more people continues, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim. In total, eight S-300 missiles were fired at the city. The search is on for another person.
08:38 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russia is intensifying its efforts to create information conditions for the false image of Ukraine as a terrorist state in order to divert attention from its own crimes. So, yesterday the FSB announced that it had detained Ukrainian citizens on suspicion of planning "terrorist acts" in the Sverdlovsk, Moscow and Bryansk regions. In this regard, Russian military bloggers have intensified the rhetoric of accusations against Ukraine and calls to officially declare it a terrorist country.
Analysts believe that the Russian information space can also create conditions to justify subsequent massive strikes on the Ukrainian rear and fake attacks on the Russian Federation, which are presented as terrorist acts committed by Ukraine.
ISW also writes that the Russians probably deployed Iranian servicemen associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the occupied territories of Ukraine to teach the Russian military how to use the Shahed-136 drones. The IRGC is likely the main Iranian drone operator, so these Iranian instructors may be IRGC employees or associates.
08:16 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutskoye, Ozaryanovka, Ivangrad, Bakhmut and Maryinka, the General Staff said in the morning report . On certain areas of hostilities, in particular in the Donetsk region, enemy units began to receive orders to temporarily stop the offensive. The main reason is the extremely low moral and psychological state, numerous facts of desertion of the mobilized and non-compliance with combat orders.
06:19 Britain announced the transfer of AMRAAM missiles to Ukraine for NASAMS air defense systems, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said. The advanced AMRAAM missiles, which will be delivered in the coming weeks, can be used in conjunction with the NASAMS air defense system promised by the US, he said. London will also provide hundreds of additional anti-aircraft missiles of other types, drones and 18 more howitzers.
06:07 Biden said that the resolution of the UN General Assembly condemning Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories more than ever demonstrates the unity of the world in rejecting the actions of the Russian Federation: "The stakes of this conflict are obvious to everyone - and the world sent a clear signal in response: Russia cannot erase a sovereign state from the map ... The world has shown that it is more than ever united and determined to hold Russia accountable for its violations."
05:41 The head of the Kiev OVA, Oleksiy Kuleba, announced a strike by kamikaze drones on one of the communities in the region, rescuers are already working.
00:13 The American company Extreme Networks, despite the sanctions, supplied equipment to the Avangard enterprise, which manufactures missiles for one of the most modern Russian air defense systems, the S-400, Reuters writes.
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reports are in that explain the recent Russian missile and UAV attacks on civilian target clusters
the reason is that these Russian weapons have proved ineffective in battlefield use so they might just as well be used to target civilian infrastructure
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Russian invaders continue to take Ukrainian children out of the occupied territories.
That certainly sounds like a dick move. But a sentence later, we learn the territory in question is Kherson, starting around October. Lots of fighting in the area back then, with the Ukrainians actively shelling the city and surrounding infrastructure. (Or the Russians shelling their own stuff to make it look like the Ukrainians are doing it, however you come down on that)
Said another way, the Russians are moving kids out of an active war zone. Probably a good idea. But if you say it with just the right words it sounds terrible.
In other news, the Russians just announced they are evacuating civilians from Kherson due to a build-up of Ukrainian forces that make an attack seem imminent.
Watching this war play out in the media space as well as on the battlefield is fascinating. Also fascinating is how much better the Ukrainians are at media war.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:15 Kharkiv residents and residents of the region report power outages after arrival. 20:57 The Russian army attacks and strikes at critical infrastructure facilities - the main thing from the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
▪️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 positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire front line, provides engineering equipment for positions in certain areas and conducts aerial reconnaissance.
▪️Russian cruise missiles attacked infrastructure facilities in the settlement. Nalivaykovka, Kyiv region, Nikolaev and Nikopol.
▪️Russian troops continue to actively attack the Geran-2 UAV with kamikaze drones.
▪️The RF Armed Forces delivered one missile and 15 air strikes, and also carried out 22 attacks from the MLRS.
20:55 Ukrainian media report a series of explosions in Kharkiv
19:58 Air raid alert announced in Kyiv and region - administration
19:58 APU hit in the village of Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region. According to preliminary information, the projectile hit in the area of the sugar factory, almost in the center of the settlement.
18:17 Broken Column transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
18:17 Armed forces of Ukraine shelled the village of Guevo in the Kursk region - five arrivals were recorded
In addition to the shelling of the settlements of Tetkino and Popovo-Lezhachi in the Glushkovsky district, arrivals were also recorded in the village of Guevo in the Sudzhansky district. Five arrivals were recorded there.
According to local channels, there were no casualties, only the local House of Culture was damaged. The glass in the building was shattered, the facade was cut with fragments.
17:16 At least 15 arrivals were recorded as a result of another shelling from the side of Ukraine of the village of Tyotkino and the village of Popovo-Lezhachi adjoining it. The substation in Popovo-Lezhachi was seriously damaged, one of the transformers caught fire as a result of a shell hit. Both settlements are completely de-energized
17:16 In the Lviv region, "arrival" at a military facility, - the governor.
Military property was destroyed, there were no casualties. Two missiles hit the target, one was shot down by air defense.
The governor noted that this was a repeated hit in this object.
16:13 Over Kyiv too noticed rockets
At the moment, they have already been seen in the Odessa, Nikolaev and Vinnitsa regions.
16:12 In Vinnitsa region are flying drones
Over the Vinnitsa region, presumably, "Iranian Express" was seen. Previously, they saw rockets there.
16:12 In Ternopil happened three explosions
The vengeance continues. Three arrivals of missiles were recorded in Ternopil.
16:12 An air alert was announced throughout Ukraine, writes local portal "Country".
"The air raid is already all over the country," said the entry in the Telegram channel of the publication.
15:13 Russian Defense Ministry for the first time published video with the use of the modernized loitering ammunition "Lancet" on Ukrainian militants
15:13 Personnel from the crash site of one of the Ukrainian combat aircraft in the Poltava region appeared on the Web
14:18 Russian forces develop attack on Nevelskoye
14:18 Two Ukrainian planes crashed in the Poltava region, there are no victims and injured among civilians - local publications
13:30 APU fired upon the village of Krasnoye, Shebekinsky urban district, reports the governor of the Belgorod region, Gladkov.
“According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injured. There is destruction on the school grounds. The school is on distance learning. House bypass is continued by the head of the municipality and operational services,” Gladkov said.
13:30 Ukrainian media report explosions in Zaporozhye, air raid alert
12:59 In the Kaluga region, a drone was shot down, another one disappeared from the radar, the regional governor Vladislav Shapsha said.
12:32 Over 400 Azov militants have been taken to various pre-trial detention centers in Russia since the end of September, they testify about crimes, the RF Investigative Committee reported.
12:32 Russian paratroopers recaptured during a special military operation, the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region, destroying four enemy tanks and more than 20 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
11:27 A summary of strikes as of 11:00 Moscow time on 10/13/2022
Energy problems in Ukrainian cities continue, as do targeted attacks on their infrastructure.
At the moment it is known that during the night were struck:
Nikopol - infrastructure facility
Kiev region - infrastructure facility
10:49 Fighter of the 95th Brigade of the VFU Andriy Chorniy published a photo of how he burns villages in the Lugansk region. In the comments, Ukrainians write: “Beautiful villages are burning beautifully”, “Otak and worked in Khatyn.”
09:23 A Ukrainian military plane crashed in the Vinnitsa region yesterday around 21:00 Moscow time during a "hunt" for Shahids, but the pilot managed to eject.
07:54 At least three explosions thundered in the Kyiv region - the authorities.
06:30 Reconnaissance of the Western Military District, performing tasks in the NVO zone, received information about the buildup of enemy forces in one of the directions. The combat mission is to destroy a heavy mechanized bridge across the moat, built for the rapid transfer of military equipment in the direction of Russian troops.
A group of special forces secretly advanced into the rear zone of the enemy, carried out mining and undermining the bridge. The plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were thwarted.
"We get tasks all the time. As soon as we perform one task, we immediately move forward to perform another task. Basically, this is the observation and detection of the enemy, the adjustment of artillery and aviation. There are also moments such as taking "tongue". The kids are doing the same. We have been working since the very beginning of the SVO, and everything works out for us," said the commander of the reconnaissance company.
The Russian Armed Forces carry out strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities on a daily basis using information received from intelligence and special forces units.VideoMinistry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
02:20 Explosion in Zaporizhzhia, before the strike in the region, an air raid alarm was activated.
01:16 An explosion in Nikolaev: a blow was struck at an enemy facility.
0:59 The UK will supply Ukraine with AMRAAM medium-range missiles for US NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems, The Times reports.
#2
Looks like either Russian missiles are so pitiful they turn around and hit their launch sites or Ukraine has figured out how to guide Russki missiles. I hope it's option 2:
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[NewsFrontInfo] According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for October 13, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- a woman born in 1984 was wounded;
- a man born in 1999 was wounded.
As of 21:30, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on October 13, 2022 is six people (two dead, four injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Aleutskaya, 24 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Belorechenskaya, 2 - private residential building, damaged garage.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Kirov, 429 - MBOU "School No. 77 of Donetsk";
- st. Mikhailovskaya, 34, 36, 38 - private residential buildings;
- st. Zamoskvorechnaya, 28 - apartment building;
- st. Zamoskvorechnaya, 4 - a private residential building.
For today, as of 21:30, the enemy fired 259 units of ammunition of various types, including artillery of caliber 155mm and 152mm, as well as 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad".
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
21:39 In the Artyomovsk area. Experienced, the forces of the Wagner group conduct offensive battles as part of assault groups. The enemy counteracts with the forces of the combined units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, TRO and mercenaries. At the moment, our artillery is working on enemy strongholds with incendiary rounds, aircraft and mortars.
In Bakhmut itself, the enemy conducts reconnaissance, consolidates in the private sector, equips dugouts and trenches. Observation posts and grenade launchers are equipped in skyscrapers. Looting and occupying the houses of civilians who left the city.
21:39 The plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the direction of Berdyansk-Melitopol is becoming clear. Based on the information coming from various sources, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine rejected the idea of ??an offensive at the junction of the front in the region of the settlement. Stepnogorsk, Plavny, Kamenskoye, and concentrates forces in the area of the settlement. Orekhov, Novodanilovka, as well as Walk the Field, Pologi.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Allied Forces are carrying out massive strikes at the junction of enemy forces in the direction of the triangle np. Bolshaya Novoselovka, Ugledar, Marinka, which significantly interferes with the operational-tactical plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and calls into question the expediency of wedging into the front in the areas described above. In the event of a breakthrough in the front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are waiting for a powerful blow from the left flank. cutting off a breakthrough group and a fire bag.
Over the past two days, the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Navy, and artillery have been striking at enemy concentration sites. nodal stations and places of deployment of the reserve in order to weaken the forces and means of the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in these directions. Work on the destruction of enemy manpower, equipment and logistics routes does not stop.
21:39 About 200 pravosekov were transferred to Artyomovsk, aka Bakhmut. Their task is to restore the lost position and prevent the abandonment of positions and the withdrawal of units of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade.
Despite the measures taken by the Nazis, units of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreat, they are knocked out by the troops of the Southern Military District, 2nd Army Corps and Wagnerites.
20:02 Four powerful explosions sounded in Kherson, presumably, the air defense system worked, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
There were no traces of air defense missiles in the sky.
19:30 DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
19:15 The Russian government will help residents of the Kherson region to travel to other regions, - Deputy Prime Minister M. Khusnullin.
19:00 Donetsk all day under heavy fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Formations of the Kyiv regime beat from barrel and rocket artillery. The main direction from which the enemy rounds residential areas of the city is the settlements of Orlovka, Netaylovo and Krasnogorovka. Two people are known to have died and five others were injured. Poddubny reports.
18:41 The sixth air alert in a day was announced in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, the air defense system went off and six explosions thundered, the military-civilian administration of the city reported on its Telegram channel.
17:53 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on October 13, 2022.
17:35 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants st. Petrovsky in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a man died.
17:29 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 13, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:
- a man born in 1956 died;
- a woman born in 1954 was wounded.
Petrovsky district:
- a man born in 1952 died.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Depreciated 21 transformer substations, without power supply 2100 subscribers Trudovsky.
Kyiv district:
— Partizansky Ave., 70 — multi-apartment residential building;
- st. Rudzutaka, 35 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Rudzutaka, 28, 30 - private residential buildings;
- Zasyadko Ave., 9 - households. mine yard. Zasyadko.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Biryuzova, 13 - apartment building;
- st. Petrovsky, 88/2 - a private residential building;
- st. Azovstalskaya, 14 - a private residential building.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Geroev Miusa, 13 - a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- st. Avangardnaya, 29 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- he is. Mira, 3 — Michurin correctional colony;
- st. Debaltsevskaya, 22 - a private residential building;
- st. Belyankina, 30, 36 - private residential buildings;
- st. Mining, 82 - a private residential building;
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n.p. Yasinovataya:
- st. Belinsky, 31 - MBOU "School No. 3 in Yasinovataya".
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
17:20 VFU attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was killed
As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants on the street. Aleutian killed a civilian.
16:56 As a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression, the Gorlovka villages have been de-energized: mines named after. N. A. Izotov, mines 6/7, Michurin, Mercury Combine, Metal Depot. Without electricity 5,301 subscribers.
16:19 The air defense forces of Russia daily work on enemy targets in the sky over the Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian militants regularly use drones and increased the intensity of artillery shelling of settlements, an air defense officer said. Video RIA Novosti.
16:18 Reflection of enemy attacks in the Davydov Brod area on October 9. Several tanks and AFVs were destroyed.
16:17 Not far from Nova Kakhovka destroyed BMP of the enemy with personnel in the amount of 10 people.
16:08 Help for the military personnel of the NM DPR from the "People's Front".
Volunteers of the public organization "People's Front" delivered a large number of necessary things for the servicemen of the People's Militia, including bulletproof vests, helmets, thermal imagers, drones and much more. Video NM DNR.
15:40 VFU attacked Yasinovataya, on the street. Belinsky damaged school building no.
15:27 Ukrainian militants are firing at the civilian population of Gorlovka. Residents of Ozeryanovka and Shirokaya Balka (Central City District of Gorlovka)
15:22 Air defense worked over Donetsk.
14:59 As a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, one person was killed, another was injured.
14:58 A blow Russian kamikaze drone "Lancet" on the car of the Ukrainian military.
14:28 Alexey Kulemzin reports:
Continues to receive information about the consequences of the shelling of the Kyiv region. Thus, one of the apartment buildings was damaged (window glazing was broken), three houses of the private sector were damaged (a direct hit was recorded in one of them), an arrival was recorded in the utility yard of the mine. Zasyadko (damaged glazing in the shops).
A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky District (Microdistrict of the Skochinsky Mine). The data is being specified.
14:26 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (10/13/2022)
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made another attempt with up to two battalion tactical groups to force the Zherebets River to capture the settlements of Stelmahovka and Rozovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
The enemy on the outskirts of the river was dispersed by the fire of Russian artillery and army aviation and retreated. Two tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks and about 60 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed.
A total of 10 American HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down in the areas of the settlements of Guselskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic and Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region.
Five depots of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novoaleksandrovka, Gulyaipole, Novopavlovka, Zaporozhye region and Solonchaky, Mykolaiv region.
Also, a total of 12 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novoluganskoe, Staromlinovka, Novogrigorovka, Ivanovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vladimirovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Tavriyskoe, Kisilevka, Tomarino and Chaikino of the Kherson region.
In addition, A total of 16 rounds of American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, as well as Ukrainian Alkha rounds were intercepted in the areas of the settlements of Troitskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Chernobaevka, Korsunka, Novoraysk, Kakhovka, Antonovka, Novaya Kakhovka of the Kherson region.
13:56 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 13, received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- 12 "a" Kremlin Avenue - City Clinical Hospital No. 21;
- st. Shchedrin, 2 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Shchedrina 5 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
13:30 As a result of the shelling of the village of Michurin (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), two buildings of the Michurinsky correctional colony were damaged by the VFU.
Houses were also damaged at the following addresses:
-- st. Debaltsevskaya, 22,
-- st. Belyankina, 36, st. Belyankina, 30,
-- st. Mining, 82 (strokes 1 and 2), an enemy shell hit the roadway.
On the photographs- destroyed house at the address: st. Vanguard, 29.
13:20 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, three housing constructions were damaged.
13:16 Ukrainian militants fired at hospital No. 21 along Kremlevsky Ave. in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
12:50 Under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine Kyiv district of Donetsk.
12:30 "One projectile - one target" - artillerymen of the NM LNR destroy the enemy.VideoNM DNR.
12:04 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 13, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal", a man born in 1961 was wounded.
As of 12:00 on October 13, a total of 78 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. three children, on mines PFM "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Pascal, 22, 24, 26 - private residential buildings, the gas pipeline was damaged.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:57 Daytime summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on October 13, 2022.
11:39 On the street. Lobachevsky in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man was blown up by a mine PFM-1 "Petal".
11:19 Prigozhin said that the village of Ivangrad was completely taken and cleared by the fighters of the Wagner PMC. Experienced has not yet been taken - heavy battles are going on for it. Opytnoye is the last settlement before the southern outskirts of Artemovsk - then the city itself begins.
11:13 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 13, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
13 transformer substations were de-energized, 1250 subscribers of Kirovsky and Petrovsky-western distribution zones were without electricity.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Isakova, 9/2, 19/1 - private residential buildings, two cars were damaged.
n.p. Staromikhailovka:
- st. Zhukovsky, 28 "a" - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
10:49 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports:
As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at 10:00 a.m., the following power was de-energized:
Kirovsky Distribution Zone - six transformer substations in the village of the Abakumov mine - without power supply for 250 subscribers;
Petrovsky-Zapadny RES: - seven transformer substations of the village. Staromkhaylovka - without power supply of 1000 subscribers.
10:35 A sabotage group consisting of Azov terrorists (banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as a terrorist organization) was abandoned on the territory of Mariupol, the DPR Ministry of State Security reported.
10:33 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 10.30 13.10.2022
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 226 units of ammunition from the null, barreled artillery of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm caliber, tanks and mortars of 120mm caliber.
Artillery fire was fired at the areas of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, two civilians were killed and four were injured. Fifteen housing constructions and seven 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: a tank, three armored personnel carriers, two long-term firing points, four enemy UAVs were shot down in the air.
Losses in enemy manpower amounted to 60 people.
At present, a set of works on the clearance of anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C) is ongoing.
10:17 Under the fire of VFU is the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of October 13, 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 55 personnel;
- two artillery installations;
- six armored personnel carriers;
-10 units of special automotive equipment.
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements.
Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Artemovsk using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing one missile.
As a result of the shelling, a man born in 1955 was killed, two residential buildings were destroyed and five were damaged.
There were no reports of casualties, damage is being specified.
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 12, they cleared more than nine hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Tsarevka and Demenkovo.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.
09:56 Work of DPR special forces sniper. A group of enemy DRGs was spotted, and then it was a matter of technology.
09:50 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants st. Shchedrin, Kuibyshevsky district, Donetsk.
09:49 The DPR announced the liberation of the Opytnoye and Ivangrad points in the Artemovsk direction.
09:37 Alexey Kulemzin reports:
Ukrainian fascists fired at Donetsk from multiple launch rocket systems BM21 Grad. According to the JCCC at 09:17 from N. p. 10 rockets were fired at Netailovo in the Kuibyshev region.
09:35 The Dnieper water is discharged through the cascade of hydroelectric power stations, among other things, to flood the coastal fortifications on the left bank and facilitate the upcoming landing operation of the Ukrainian troops at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
09:23 Briefly the situation around Kremennaya.
"We hold Kremennaya firmly, including by reducing the gray zone: we took control of Chervonopopovka and Peschannoye, where the dominant heights are. Namely, an important height in Sandy 160-7.
Both roads: from Rubizhne and Svatovo are under our full control.
The army enters Terny, by the evening we expect positive information."
08:23 For the period since the beginning of the NWO, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded:
A total of 1,205 attacks on the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy used more than 10,000 units of ammunition of various calibers in the settlements of the Republic, including missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (37 missiles) and the American HIMARS MLRS (359 missiles), MLRS (122mm BM-21 Grad, 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane", 220mm BM-30 "Smerch") - 2,508 rounds, 155mm artillery pieces (69 rounds).
During the above period, 419 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression, of which 103 people died and 316 were injured. As a result of the shelling, seven children were killed and 27 were injured.
A total of 2,729 housing constructions in 72 settlements were destroyed and damaged.
A total of 278 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged, including 72 educational and 13 medical institutions. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
09:07 Front-line report for the morning of 10/13/22.
In the Kherson direction, Russian artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the main M-14 highway. Strikes near Pravdin, Soldier and Ternovy Pod. Russian artillery also actively worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the left bank of the Ingulets in Blagodatovka, Sukhoi Headquarters and Davydov Brod.
In turn, the Ukrainian army on the ground tried to advance in the area of Bruskinsky and Ishchenka.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops again attacked the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnohorivka. And to the north they conducted assault operations in the Pervomaisky area.
Artillery hit another fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka. To the north of Gorlovka, attacks by Russian troops resumed in the area of ??the Mayorskaya railway station.
PMC "Wagner" are fierce battles with the Ukrainian garrison on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut.
And to the south-east of Soledar, the battle for Bakhmutskoye continues. Nobody wants to give in.
In the Lugansk direction, the Ukrainian army is trying to break through in the area of the local Pervomaisky and Kurilovka in the direction of Orlyanka and Kislovka. The goal is to cut the road and go to the section of the R-66 highway. This is the main supply line for the Russian group in the Donbass. Wargonzo reports.
09:04 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 10/13/2022
08:02 122mm BM-21 rocket artillery from 100th brigade destroy the enemy.
Servicemen of the 100th Brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR are developing an offensive in the area of the settlement. Nevelskoe. While the assault platoons are clearing the enemy's trenches, the gunners are successfully destroying fortified areas, including using the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS. VideoNM DNR.
08:01 During the day, two people were killed on the territory of the DPR, four more were injured
Over the past day, from 08:00 on October 12 to 08:00 on October 13, two people were killed and four more civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
07:37 Drones strike objects in Kyiv early in the morning.
05:30 Over the past day, on October 12, 2022, the LPR representative office in the JCCC recorded shelling at the settlement. — 01.45 a.m. Artemovsk using MLRS HIMARS (one missile).
A man born in 1955 died, 2 residential buildings were destroyed and 5 were damaged.
01:19 Night battle on the Zaporozhye front.
Destruction of the stronghold and armored vehicles of the enemy.
The fighters of the tank battalion of the 58th Army behind the levers of modern T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks in a quick raid went to the flank of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and defeated them with fire.
O npictures of objective control the work of one of the calculations: a thermal imaging sight captures the exact hit of rounds.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. Svatovo-Kremennaya.
Fighting continues in the area of the settlement. Terny and Torskoye. The enemy strengthens his grouping in this direction. To the northwest of Svatovo, the enemy continues to attack. Has little progress.
2. Artemovsk.
Our troops (PMC Wagner) have taken Ivangrad and are fighting for Experienced (the village has not yet been taken).
Fighting is underway on the eastern outskirts of Artemovsk.
There is no progress towards Kurdyumovka.
In the Soledar area - no changes.
3. Donetsk direction.
The cleansing of Pervomaisky continues. About a third of the destroyed village is reported to have been liberated.
There are fights in the direction of Nevelskoye.
In the area of Avdiivka and Marinka - no changes.
4. Kherson direction.
The enemy continued to try to probe the front in the area of Davydov Broda and Dudchan.
The enemy did not abandon the goal of the attack on Berislav - now there is an accumulation of forces in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions for attacks in the coming weeks.
In general, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to own the initiative in the Svatovsky, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions. The RF Armed Forces have the initiative in the Artemovsk and Donetsk directions. On the Seversky and Krasnolimansky directions there is a struggle for the initiative.
Also today, missile strikes and UAVs continued, but not as intensively as on October 10-12, when about 30 percent of Ukraine's energy system was damaged.
[Jpost] "The main advantage of this weapon is the ability to use concrete-piercing and chemical shells, as well as special munitions with a nuclear charge," said Russian state media.
The Russian military received a batch of overhauled and modernized self-propelled artillery guns that Russian state media made a special note on Wednesday can be used to launch chemical and nuclear shells.
The Uraltransmash shipped new versions of the Soviet-era 2S7 Pion guns to the Russian military ahead of schedule as part of a 2022 order, RIA reported.
RIA said that the 2S7M Malka "can fire high-explosive fragmentation projectiles, as well as active-rocket ammunition. The main advantage of this weapon is the ability to use concrete-piercing and chemical shells, as well as special munitions with a nuclear charge."
Dmitry Semizorov, General Director of Uraltransmash, also said that the "modernization has improved all the main characteristics, including maneuverability, mobility, command controllability," according to RIA.
The Russian military has been using the Malka self-propelled gun to bombard Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
CONCERNS OVER TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Russian state media's note of the artillery for weapons of mass destruction comes as fears rise that Russia may use tactical nuclear weapons to stave off Ukrainian military momentum.
Putin's Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has called for Moscow to use low-yield nuclear weapons.
"More drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law at the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons," said Kadyrov.
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I wonder how many of these will end up in the service of the Ukrainian military like a lot of their other equipment. They have restocked the Ukr with T-90s, air defense systems, counterbattery radar and control, 152mm SP arty, more BMP/BMD/BTR than you can shake a stick at, and even acouple of SIGINT/ELINT ops vehicles.
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800 "modernized" Soviet era T-62's pulled out of mothballs for service. Looks like big times ahead.
They are "modernizing" them. They aren't currently. Also aka.... slapping crappy ERA panels on them. Doesn't fix the underpowered gun for today's standards as it can't support the pressure and the weak armor compared to today's standards.
[Jpost] When examining the track record of the new commander, nicknamed “The Butcher of Syria” for his part in Russian operations in Syria, the missile onslaught on Ukraine may not come as a surprise.
Only two days after the appointment of a new commander of the Joint Group of Forces in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, a wave of missile strikes swept across Ukraine, hitting countless civilian targets.
“I am not surprised to see what happened this morning in Kyiv. Surovikin is absolutely ruthless, with little regard for human life,” a former defense ministry official, who has worked with Surovikin, told the Guardian. “I am afraid his hands will be completely covered in Ukrainian blood.”
According to Ukrainian sources, Surovikin is trying to achieve "quick results" in order to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin, and according to Ukrainian intelligence, this is exactly his style.
“This is his style, the style of the new butcher of the Russian army in Ukraine – to launch rockets at infrastructure, in particular civilian infrastructure facilities, he is trying to show that Putin's new personnel appointments in Russia have some meaning, to show some quick results," Ukrainian intelligence said.
When examining the track record of the new commander, who earned the nickname “General Armageddon” in Syria for his tough and uncompromising approach, this missile onslaught may not come as such a surprise.
"THE BUTCHER OF SYRIA"
Surovikin led Russia's military campaign in Syria in March of 2017, initially, he was supposed to serve a mere three months in the region to gain some firsthand combat experience, but ended up commanding Russian forces in Syria until the end of the year.
Surovikin’s “defending” of Moscow’s interests in Syria involved dozens of air and ground attacks on civilian objects and infrastructure, particularly in Aleppo, where the city was practically leveled.
Russian forces under his command struck Syrian “homes, schools, healthcare facilities, and markets – the places where people live, work, and study,” according to a 2020 Human Rights Watch report.
The report further stated that air and ground attacks on civilian sites, including homes, schools and hospitals, were a hallmark of Russia’s campaign in Idlib, which Surovikin participated in during his second tour in 2019.
“He is being called the ‘Butcher of Syria,’ but every general that took that post was a butcher of Syria,” Kirill Mikhailov, a researcher with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), which has been monitoring Russian military activities since 2014 told the Washington Post. “It’s a job you take because killing people and making their life miserable is what the Russian air force can do best.”
The Russian Defense Ministry repeatedly credited Surovikin with achieving critical gains in Syria, saying that Russian and pro-Assad Syrian forces “liberated over 98 percent” of the country under him.
From his time in Syria, Surovikin had developed a good working relationship with the Wagner private military company, Gleb Irisov, a former air force lieutenant who worked with Surovikin up to 2020 told the Guardian.
THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF "GENERAL ARMAGGEDON"
The career of 55-year-old Surovikin developed rapidly and was filled with scandals at almost every stage.
Surovikin first gained notoriety during the failed 1991 coup d’état attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, when he led a motorized rifle division through barricades erected by pro-democracy protesters. Three men were killed in the clash, including one who was crushed.
“It is very symbolic that Sergei Surovikin, the only officer who ordered the shooting of protesters in August 1991 and killed three people, is now leading a desperate effort to restore the USSR ,” wrote Grigory Yudin, a Russian political scientist and sociologist. “These people knew what they were doing, and now they know too.”
After the failed coup, Surovikin was jailed for several months but then was freed and never convicted of any crime as prosecutors in Moscow ruled that he was simply obeying an order, the Russian state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported in 2011.
In 1995, as a student of the Frunze Military Academy, the military court of the Moscow garrison found Surovikin guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR then in force, accusing him of stealing, illegally holding and attempting to sell firearms. But the sentence turned out to be soft and completely humane: one year of imprisonment on probation.
His ruthless reputation grew in 2004 when a report in the business daily Kommersant reported that a colonel serving under him had killed himself after he received a heated dressing-down from Surovikin. The report further stated that a lieutenant colonel from Surovikin’s division filed a complaint against Surovkin and other officers for beating him because of political differences.
KREMLIN TRIES TO APPEASE HARDLINE CRITICS
By appointing Surovikin, the Kremlin may be trying to satisfy its nationalists and top critics, who blame the Russian army leadership for the repeated failures in Ukraine and for not using tough enough measures to force Kyiv into submission.
His appointment has indeed softened some of the public outrage among Russian hardline nationalists, who were growing increasingly impatient with the country’s military failures.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the notorious head of the Chechen republic, and the Wagner head, Yevgeny Prigozhin welcomed Surovikin's new appointment as they both pushed for a much tougher stance on Ukraine.
In the past month and a half, both the head of Chechnya and the creator of the Wagner PMC, against the background of heavy defeats of Russian troops at the front, openly, although without naming the names of Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, criticize the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry for insufficiently decisive actions and retreats.
Kadyrov even went as far as to criticize Moscow for not using enough force in Ukraine, suggesting the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.
“Now, I am 100% satisfied with the operation,” Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday morning, referring to the shelling of Kyiv, where at least 11 civilians were killed.
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^ Yes, he is well received by the troops
of Russia. Shock and awe for sure. Wagner and others have done well but now the fresh Russian troops of some 300 thousand are ready to act. Being a lawyer Putin had to follow Russian rule of law that restricted him from going all out in the beginning with only 20,000 Russian forces. He had to balance his efforts also to hold onto support from India and China especially. Low numbers of Russian lives lost was a priority. Contrast with Ukraine losses that have been staggering. That is why we have troops on the ground now as well as several other NATO countries. Yet, we have the time to go into Haiti. We will only hear western media spew its psyops propaganda meanwhile. Western management of this event is as well run as their inflation and energy efforts. Time to clean house in November. Absolutely no holdovers.
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Or as Bush said: Got wood?
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And yes FrankG, you're right. Must be a Sliders episode I missed.
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Russia gave Germany the choice to continue their economic model and be neutral, or support Ukraine and go into a recession.
Germany chose to support Ukraine. That says a lot about the German character right there. They have lots of allies and while they have a hard decade or less retooling, they have friends. Russia only has toadies... and weak ones at that.
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^2/3 of the world population you call toads. You drink too freely from the western cup of propaganda. Reality can be a bitter brew but I chose reality and commonsense. Continue to be coned and believe what you believe. Follow group think. Western manipulation of other nations is no longer accepted. In history this has occurred many times and always at some point ends. When we chose paper money we could print whatever was needed. Overextended with military conflict in many parts of the world (for many years now) eventually exhausts any nation.
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Dale, wipe your chin. Still got some Putie spunk on it.
2/3 of the world friends... please. India is only out for India and how has plenty of cheap oil and is cutting back on purchases. China made Putin kowtow to it and he got Jack/shit in return. China pulled back support and still got frozen out of the world chip market so expect them to publicly chew out Russia in the future. They will continue to pull in food and what oil they can as they are dependent on imports to survive as they can't produce enough on their own.
Not exactly friends. More like extortionists taking advantage of a country in distress.
Try again, mein freund. The word is DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, and it’s obvious to any competent economist or businessman. Germany ads an industrial power is screwed if this war lasts much longer.
Germany faces a looming threat of deindustrialisation
THE ECONOMIST
Sep 11, 2022
German factories are struggling to cope with soaring energy costs, which may prompt many to leave the country for a cheaper location, Bloomberg has reported, citing industry sources.
"Energy inflation is way more dramatic here than elsewhere," Ralf Stoffels, chief executive of BIW Isolierstoffe, a silicon parts supplier to a range of industries. "I fear a gradual deindustrialization of the German economy."
The familiar plume of smoke no longer billows from one of the two chimneys at ArcelorMittal's massive steelworks in Hamburg's harbour. Soaring energy prices have forced operators to partially idle the plant, adding to fears that Germany's industrial companies, the backbone of Europe's biggest economy, are facing an existential threat. Germany is already bracing for a recession as the energy crisis triggered by Russia's war in Ukraine takes its toll, and the latest government forecasts on Wednesday will likely make grim reading.
“Der Deutsche Wald" (The German Forest) has special significance for the country's sociocultural identity. It is the backdrop to historical and to national myths and a metaphor for Germanic culture. It became the landscape of longing in Romantic poems, fairy tales, and legends since the beginning of the 19th century. Andin Nazi ideology, the motif of the "German forest" had its place in propaganda comparable to "blood and soil.”
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Germany faces a looming threat of deindustrialisation
This is one of the few times I will agree. Germany's auto industry most likely will move overseas and their petrochemical industry will be lost, most likely forever. Other heavy industry will be shuttered for 6+ months and will then be spun up again at a far lesser rate than before.
Germany and its allies will find a way through, but Germany is in for a good chunk of years of pain. But remember, they chose this instead of being subservient to Russia.
For the short term they will have suck. Long term I think it will be beneficial getting off the Russian energy tit.
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"Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch." (Hölderlin)
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A slight correction it seems 300 thousand troops was Russian military plus the 70 thousand volunteers. The next few days will be very active times.This information I heard presented by Scott Ritter as I recall.
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Dude, deindustrialization means there won’t be a “long-term.” It’s not a recession. It’s a permanent and significant decline in living standards, wealth, power and influence.
The Germans won’t stand for such foolishness from their leaders. Their government will fall just as Boris Johnson’s did, and the Germans will join the majorities in the US, France, Italy, Hungary, Czechia and elsewhere who want the US to negotiate in earnest and end this foolish war.
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^ Zelensky knows. Ask him. So do his puppet masters.
Zelensky was close to a deal with the Russians in early April of this year, and then the Biden fools intervened, suited up their moronic messenger boy Boris Johnson and sent him to Kiev and put the kibosh on the peace talks.
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I ask you again: What's there to be negotiated?
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Looking for fresh meat...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1580947532712013826
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What’s to negotiate
You’re joking, right? You do realize, don’t you, that the Ukrainians rejected Minsk II, which in retrospect was a far better deal than anything the Ukrainians can hope to achieve now.
Still, reconstruction of Ukr offers the mother of all Grifts to thieves and corruptocrats like Zelensky, the Bidens and the Wall Street crowd, so provision #1 below is enough to get the deal done. It’s all that matters to these characters. Buy them off, basically:
1 Ukraine’s reconstruction => Russia pays for it ($500 billion) and US hedge funds, Pelosi, Biden et al get sweetheart deals like the ones that the Biden Crime Family scored from Iraqi “Reconstruction” and from Hunter’s trips in Air Force Two.
Other terms— basically borrowing from and adding to the Minsk Accords:
2 Ukraine’s security => Russia guarantees (DMZ established)
3 Russia’s security => US guarantees (no more NATO expansion, no more threats to Crimea, withdrawal of all YS and NATO forces from Ukraine)
4 Plebiscites in the four eastern regions supervised by Israeli and Indian election experts
5 Neutrality for Ukr. => post-plebiscite remainder of Ukraine becomes permanently neutral like Austria, can never join NATO or
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Ukraine’s reconstruction => Russia pays for it ($500 billion) and US hedge funds, Pelosi, Biden et al get sweetheart deals like the ones that the Biden Crime Family scored from Iraqi “Reconstruction” and from Hunter’s trips in Air Force Two
Excellent idea.
And there’s a worthy precedent. That’s basically how the Russians put an end to Chechen terror. Pound the shit out of them and then line their pockets with tons of gold.
Buy them off. Biden will jump at it, so will Zelensky and his master Kolomoisky
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DV, please, be careful what you ask for. I guarantee you won't like the people who are waiting to take the place of Russians. We all might like it a whole lot less when those people get their hands on Russia's nuclear weapons. Likewise, if and when Ukraine joins the European Union, they are likely to experience some consternation when they receive their first batch of immigrantscolonists from Africa and the Middle East. Allan Snackbar!
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I understand that you were raised to regard Russians as the enemy. That was because the Soviet Union's communist ideology ordained the spread of communism all over the world. That was the Cold War and thanks to Ronald Reagan, we won. Now the Soviet Union is kaput. Further, whatever you might hear from Joe Biden and other globalists, whatever ambitions Putin might actually harbor, Russia today is far too weak to restore the Soviet Union much less threaten NATO members like Poland or any of the Baltic countries either. Instead, it is NATO that is threatening to expand into the former Soviet republics and thereby pose an existential threat to Russia itself. For this Joe Biden is risking a much wider war with a far greater likelihood of escalation to nuclear holocaust. We need to be more pragmatic about our self-appointed role as the world's police force because there are far too many people in the world who do not accept us in that role. Remember Vietnam? It didn't work out so well. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...all disasters. In other words, NATO has gone far enough and Ukraine is none of our damn business.
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^ word.
Exceptionally well said, Abu. Thank you.
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DV, please, be careful what you ask for. I guarantee you won't like the people who are waiting to take the place of Russians
It will happen anyway. Ethnic Russians currently make up 87% of the population. Before the war the demographics were collapsing so badly by the end of the century they would only be 55-59% of the population. Hard to suppress and dominate minorities when your population is well on its way to becoming one. We need to think of what will happen to their nukes (if they even work anymore) when the Federation finally comes apart. Any grants to Russia will only embolden them to try this shit again.
Also thank you to the people that self identified that would have supported giving the Sudetenland away in this thread.
[Twitter] The Russian federal budget has gone from large surplus at the beginning of the year to near balanced. In October it will go negative as decreasing oil and gas sales and the costs of mobilization, increased war production and purchases of Iranian drones and North Korean rockets and shells come due.
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Manageable. Nearly insignificant. Vast difference compared to Western Nations. They have huge natural resources to back them whereas we have what to back our currency. Our currency is backed by debt. Need money just print more. Our administration is just a big con game. I dread the day of electronic currency. They will just expand as they please with no thoughts of the future. Your money is theirs. "You didn't build that".
[Rudaw] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... on Thursday doubled down on his proposal to turn The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... into a gas hub for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after deliveries to Germany through the Baltic Sea’s Nord Stream pipeline were halted.
Putin floated the idea of exporting more gas through the Turk Stream gas pipeline running beneath the Black Sea to Turkey as he met with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kazakhstan.
It’s the second unlikely energy proposal that Putin has pitched in as many days, with European leaders calling Russia’s cuts in natural gas a political bid to divide them over their support for Ukraine. It’s created an energy crisis heading into winter that has fueled inflation, forced some industries to cut production and sent utility bills soaring.
"This is just another attempt by Russia to use gas as a geo-strategic tool to weaken EU and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... countries," said Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
Russia was "tempting Turkey to becoming an energy hub — a long lasting strategic aim of the country — while trying to create new divisions among European countries," the analyst said, adding that Putin’s strategy was not likely to succeed.
A day earlier, Germany rejected Putin’s proposal to step up gas flows to Europe via a link of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea — a pipeline that has never been operational. Moscow has cut off the parallel Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline over what it claimed were technical problems.
The Russian leader first voiced the proposal on Wednesday, saying that Russia could increase the volume of its gas exports to Turkey through the Black Sea pipeline.
"We could ... make the main routes for the supply of our fuel, our natural gas to Europe through Turkey, creating in Turkey the largest gas hub for Europe -- if, of course, our partners are interested in it," Putin told a Moscow energy forum.
On Thursday, he said the hub could help regulate "exorbitant" prices. "We could easily regulate (prices) at a normal market level, without any political overtones," Putin said.
"Putin is in a desperate situation. Nord Stream 1 and 2 are not operational and are unlikely to be operational for a long while," said Mehmet Ogutcu, chairman of the London Energy Club. "Europe has made clear that it will not enter an engagement (with Russia) as long as the war in Ukraine continues."
"Turkey remains Putin’s only option," he said.
Ogutcu said Turkey was likely to tread carefully, wary of further increasing its dependence on Russia.
"There is a delicate balancing act (by Turkey). If the balance tilts too much toward Russia this will damage (Ankara’s) relations with the West," Ogutcu said.
Erdogan did not comment publicly on the proposal but Putin’s front man, Dimitry Peskov said Turkey has reacted positively to the idea. Officials from Erdogan’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Turkey’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... however, quoted Ottoman Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez as saying on Wednesday that it was "too early to assess" the proposal.
"Technically it is possible," Anadolu Agency quoted Donmez as telling news hounds at the same Moscow energy forum. "For such international projects, technical, commercial and legal evaluation and feasibility studies need to be conducted."
NATO-member Turkey, which is depending on Russian for its energy needs and tourism, has criticized Moscow’s actions in Ukraine but has not joined U.S. and European sanctions against Russia. It has maintained its close ties with both Moscow and Kyiv and positioning itself as a mediator between the two. Ankara recently helped broker key deals that allowed Ukrainian to resume grain exports and led to a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia.
Although Russia is still conveying gas to Europe via Ukraine, the amount has plummeted drastically with the two Baltic pipelines out of commission.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline never came on stream because Germany blocked its operation just before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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