Russian Spring war correspondents have published photos of the Admiral Makarov frigate, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, which was allegedly destroyed earlier during the attack of floating kamikaze drones on Sevastopol.
The photo shows that there is no damage on the ship.
“The photo was taken by our reader on 10/30/2022, the day after the attack,” the military officers wrote.
They also reminded all doubters that the ships are standing in a standard parking lot and are visible from many points of the city: “There is no secret here.”
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has published an updated online map of air alerts in the country.
According to the infographic, an air alert has been declared in several more regions of Ukraine. So, it is reported that the alarm sirens went off in the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
It should be noted that in the Poltava region, the alert was announced again. Earlier it was also reported about the alarm in Mykolaiv and Cherkasy regions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to reporters, called the explosions on the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines tragic events.
The Russian leader noted at the same time that the authorities in Europe pretend that nothing significant has happened.
“Europeans,… as almost always happens, they shut their mouths, they are silent, as if this is the way it should be, despite the fact that this really undermines their interests at the root,” Putin added.
He also called the version voiced in the EU that Russia itself blew up the gas pipelines impudent.
“It’s hard to imagine that someone thought of it… to such nonsense. Nevertheless, they come up with all this nonsense,” the President of the Russian Federation summed up.
Putin revealed the damage on the “Northern Streams”: “Two funnels, the pipe was torn out”
Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, rebuked Russian military enlistment offices for inertia at the end of mobilization.
It is inertia, according to Peskov, that is the reason that citizens continue to receive summonses.
“There is a certain inertia. Now all the signals have passed, and of course, there should be no such incidents”, – said the press secretary of the president.
The official representative of the State Department, Ned Price, said that the terrorist attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian vessels in the waters of Sevastopol cannot be an excuse for Russia’s suspension of participation in the grain deal.
“From our point of view and the point of view of other countries, there can be no justification for this,” he said at a briefing.
Price added that Russia’s arguments do not take into account the difficulty and blocking of grain access to countries that need it.
In the port of the city of Ochakov, as a result of the strikes, two civilian tugboats were allegedly destroyed, which, according to the Ukrainian side, had previously been involved in the transportation of barges with food. This is reported by the Ukrainian newspaper “Strana”, referring to the Operational Command “South” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian military has not yet confirmed this information, which is also worth considering. At the same time, it is known that it was from civilian vessels used in the transportation of grain that drones were launched, attacking ships and vessels on the roadstead in Sevastopol Bay.
Recall that today the territory of Ukraine has been subjected to massive strikes on military and energy infrastructure facilities. Earlier, Russia suspended participation in the grain deal, as Ukraine used a humanitarian corridor to export grain for drone attacks on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian vessels in Sevastopol.
The Institute for the Study of Wars (ISW) has made a forecast for the further course of its in Ukraine. The experts clarified that they took into account data on the weather, Russia’s plans to deploy military formations and the course of the energy war with Europe.
Analysts believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue the military operation using conventional weapons. He will try to hold the territories already liberated, get new regions and wait until the West stops supporting Kiev. Perhaps it will happen next winter.
The Russian leader will not escalate the conflict with the use of nuclear weapons against the background of significant successes of the Russian coalition in the east and south of Ukraine. But he will not give up his maximalist goals either.
The use of nuclear weapons can only be provoked by a sudden significant advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the collapse of the front line. But even in such a situation, this is unlikely.
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Photo: Wikipedia.org .
The Ministry of Defense of Russia has issued a statement stating the termination of all activities within the framework of partial mobilization related to the conscription of citizens in reserve.
The document emphasizes that the preparation and delivery of summonses is being stopped, and collection points are to be released to continue functioning as intended.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry ordered the personnel of the military enlistment offices involved in the partial mobilization to return to their duties as normal.
At the same time, the military commissariats will continue to work on recruiting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation by accepting volunteers and contract candidates.
The General Staff sent instructions to the commanders of the military districts and the Commander of the Northern Fleet to report on the completion of partial mobilization measures by November 1.
The American broadcaster NBC reported that US President Joe Biden lost his temper in one of the telephone conversations with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.
As reported with reference to the source, this conversation took place in June of this year. Then Biden called Zelensky and said that he had “given the green light” to another package of military aid worth one billion dollars.
However, according to four people familiar with this conversation, Zelensky immediately began to list all the additional help he needed, but did not receive.
After that, the American president lost his temper and told Zelensky, raising his voice: “The American people were quite generous, and his administration and the American military worked hard to help Ukraine.” Biden added that Zelensky could have expressed a little more gratitude.
At the same time, representatives of the American administration said that after Zelensky made a public statement in which he praised the United States for their generous assistance, relations between Biden and the Ukrainian president improved.
At the same time, the channel notes that this reflects the fact that in the summer Biden began to realize that public support and congressional support for sending billions of dollars to Ukraine may begin to weaken.
Now, the article says, Biden is facing resistance from some Republicans and Democrats, which was not present during the previous discussion of new tranches of military aid to Ukraine.
