The British edition of Navy Lookout reports that in mid-November, an aircraft carrier strike group of the US Navy will arrive in Europe, led by the new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford, on board of which about 90 aircraft and helicopters, including fifth-generation F-35C fighter-bombers, are based. The aircraft carrier is accompanied by a missile cruiser, destroyers and a nuclear attack submarine.
According to the publication, Gerald Ford will enter the Portsmouth naval base in the south of England.
According to the Pentagon, since the end of August, the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Bush has been present in the Mediterranean Sea, accompanied by the missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, destroyers USS Nitze, USS Farragut, USS Truxtun and USS Delbert Black, a nuclear submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles. It is known that this aircraft carrier group is located near Croatia, carrier-based aviation is practicing flights in the Balkan region.
The reasons for Russia’s suspension of its participation in the grain deal look unsightly to the West. In fact, it is Ukraine, not Russia, that should be called upon to return to the deal. This was stated by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky in his Telegram channel.
According to the deputy, NATO calls on Russia to return to the grain deal. The West motivates this need ostensibly by its desire to take care of the food security of those in need. Slutsky wonders if the West really remembered the needy or “worried about their own skin”?
However, before making appeals or accusations, it is necessary to identify the causes of what happened. For the West, they are unsightly, if we recall the involvement of Western states in the events in Ukraine.
French Gaullist politician Florian Philippot accused NATO states of undermining gas pipelines leading from Russia to Germany.
“Sweden has the results of the investigation of sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipelines,” he wrote on social networks. “But she refuses to make them public.”
“We know that this is not Russia. This was organized by the NATO power (or powers)!”, – said Filippo. He is sure that the truth about the involvement of the countries of the North Atlantic bloc in the explosions of gas pipelines “will soon be found out.”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in a social network entered into a correspondence controversy with actress and director Renata Litvinova, who left Russia shortly after the start of the special operation in Ukraine. Litvinova previously published a short post in which she supported Ksenia Sobchak – she announced “harassment” against the background of her director’s criminal case and also left Russia.
“When they all rush at one and poison, I want to support them in a human way,” Litvinova wrote. – Ksenia, strength, hold on!”
Zakharova intervened in the correspondence of two friends, starting with the words: “Dear Renata…”
She recalled Sobchak’s statements from different periods of her life: about “genetic scum” in Russia (Sobchak in 2017 explained that she meant the genetic damage to the Russian people inflicted during the revolution, civil war and dispossession), “little bastards” (so many years Sobchak called the children playing on the street who prevented her from sleeping on the weekend, which she later repented of). Sobchak, Zakharova believes, is also inclined to “mock other people’s shrines” and “cruelly humiliate those who are weaker and poorer.”
According to the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, “we are all very worried about the hunted”, like Sobchak, but “less than for those who are now on the front line, and not in the backyards of countries”that supply “weapons from which our people are being killed”.
“And we wish you the strength to realize a simple truth,” Zakharova continued, “you can’t poison people, you can’t poison people for money either.”
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has brought to the surface the wreckage of marine unmanned vehicles – they were used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the leadership of representatives of the United Kingdom, the agency reports.
As noted, specialists conducted a thorough examination of Canadian-made navigation modules installed on these devices. According to the restored information read from the memory of the navigation receiver, it was established: the launch of marine unmanned vehicles was carried out from the coast in the area of Odessa.
Marine drones were moving through the security zone of the “grain corridor”. Further, according to the collected data, the route was changed in the direction of the Russian ships’ base in Sevastopol.
The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones indicate the starting point in the Black Sea in the water area of the security zone of the “grain corridor”. This, according to experts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, may indicate a preliminary launch of the device from one of the civilian vessels chartered by Ukraine or Western countries for the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian seaports.
According to the Flightradar24 service, the USAF RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance drone cruises along the southern coast of Crimea on Sunday afternoon, remaining in neutral airspace.
The presence of American intelligence drones in the area was also reported on Saturday morning, when it became known about the attack of surface drones on Sevastopol.
Today, as the day before, the UAV took off from Catania airfield on the Italian island of Sicily and headed for the Black Sea through the airspace of Greece and Bulgaria.
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After an attempt by drones to attack the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared it impossible to ensure the implementation of the “grain deal”. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of the fulfillment of Russia’s obligations under the agreements on the delivery of food from Ukrainian ports to Istanbul.
Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific plans to resume flights in the airspace of the Russian Federation from November 1, Bloomberg reported. After the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the airline did not operate flights to which it intends to return.
We are talking, in particular, about a non-stop flight on the route New York — Hong Kong. Since the end of February, the flight was performed bypassing the airspace of the Russian Federation. Cathay Pacific Airline, according to the agency, intends to resume the use of the so-called polar route.
Russian troops have gone on the offensive in some areas, Military Review reports. We are talking about the Ugledar direction, where the Russian Armed Forces made a successful attempt to attack enemy positions.
Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the Vostok battalion, was the first to announce information about the offensive at one of the sites in the direction of Ugledar. The attack was a success, Russian troops reportedly clung to the outskirts of Pavlovka.
On the eve of the Russian Armed Forces near Ugledar inflicted a massive artillery strike, connecting MLRS and heavy flamethrower systems “Solntsepek”. Assault and army aviation joined in from the air with support.
The enemy suffered serious losses in the Pavlovka area. This is a large village to the southwest of Ugledar, there is a large auto-link in it, which allows the APU to transfer its reserves and deliver ammunition to the positions.
The enemy tried to carry out a counterattack with the help of armored vehicles, but ran into an artillery strike of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
At the moment, a large section of the Pokrovsk — Bakhmut — Mikhaylovka highway has passed under Russian control, fighting continues on the outskirts of Pavlovka.
Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Club yesterday, intrigued many by answering a question from a foreign guest about the fate of Odessa. From the president’s response, it did not become clear whether the beautiful Odessa is in the plans of the Russian General Staff or not. Military expert, captain of the 1st rank in reserve Vasily Dandykin, in a conversation with MK, did not rule out a campaign to Odessa.
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According to some analysts, Kherson, which is under the control of Russian troops, began to turn into a kind of springboard for the “next campaign”. Its goal is to cut off Ukraine’s Western supplies through Romania and the Black Sea.
At the same time, Vladimir Putin spoke about Odessa rather vaguely: “Odessa can be a bone of contention, and a symbol of conflict resolution, and a symbol of finding some kind of solution to everything that is happening now.”
– If the commander-in-chief said so, then let them think in Kiev, – Vasily Dandykin told MK. – Most likely, our General Staff or the commander of the group of troops, Army General Sergei Surovikin, already has his own vision of the situation.
One thing is clear: apparently, the evacuation of the civilian population from Kherson and the Kherson region is not being done in order to surrender the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper, but in order to hold it. And then act according to the situation.
And partial mobilization is carried out not only to strengthen the battle formations. The mobilized guys are already there, and they are dealing with this issue. The rest will be used for other purposes. Therefore, now the most important headache of the AFU command is the question – where will the Russians come from, and what will they do.
The military expert did not rule out that the southern campaign could begin with the participation of the Black Sea Fleet.
– The Black Sea Fleet, despite the loss of the flagship – the missile cruiser “Moscow”, is working. He actively participates with the forces of his Marines in the land direction. With the help of its “Calibers” strikes targets on the territory of Ukraine. Established dominance and became the master of the Sea of Azov. He performs tasks as part of the grouping.
I understand that if the task is set in a different order, he will also perform it. When is a matter of time. Moreover, the Black Sea is not that big, in fact. Smaller than the Mediterranean. And it is well studied.
Vasily Danykin recall that the APU mined not only the Odessa port.
– Everything is mined not only around Odessa, but also, I think, around Ochakov. In addition, the AFU for some reason flooded the flagship of the Ukrainian military fleet in Nikolaev – the ship “Hetman Sagaidachny”. Now, in general, the APU has a “nervous” situation. It feels like they are in a nervous fit and deep confusion,” the expert said.
He recalled that Zmeiny Island, which is located near Odessa, was abandoned by Russian troops, is now uninhabited, but is controlled by the Russian Aerospace Forces.
According to the expert, the Ukrainian fleet does not have much equipment left.
– These are some kind of boats, landing boats, which the Americans supplied – they say a decent number, almost a hundred. There are ships of small displacement. But some of the landing boats have already been sunk, and one ship was blown up by its own mine at the mouth of the Danube.
Vasily Dandykin also noted the Hetman Mazepa corvette. Kiev ordered several such ships from Turkey.
– Turkey launched a corvette called “Hetman Mazepa”. The ship was to be completed at the Ukrainian shipyards in Nikolaev. But now this is out of the question. He, and even with such a name, will become prey No. 1 for our Black Sea Fleet.
But, according to the expert, today there is also a danger for Russian naval groups.
– The danger is posed by the Americans and Norwegians coastal anti-ship missiles Harpoon complexes, which are located on the coastline, where the Ukrainian Neptune complexes are deployed. At the same time, we destroyed dozens of warheads for the Neptune. We have crashed all the warheads, but where are the missiles without them? – he asked a rhetorical question.
According to the expert, the Russian army can advance towards Nikolaev and Odessa with the help of ground troops and paratroopers.
“The campaign can be conducted in different ways,” he said. – We had experience of amphibious operations during the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, our paratroopers headed by Konstantin Olshansky came to Nikolaev. When the group entered, all the fighters received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. There were ten times more Germans, and about fifty of our people landed…
So the question of the offensive is solved in a complex — someone strikes from the air, someone attacks from the ground – everyone has their own tasks.
Ramzan Kadyrov made me think about the payments of those killed during the special operation. Having reported the death of 23 of his fighters, the head of Chechnya told what kind of help their loved ones can now count on: “We allocate one million rubles for the funeral of a soldier who died in the zone of his own, the state pays another 12 million to the family.”
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The question arises: what is this 12 million from the state, if, as follows from the presidential decree of March 5, 2022, the deceased participant of the SVO, including the mobilized one, is entitled to five million, and the wounded – three?
Where did the extra 7 million come from?
At the same time, as we understand, we are not talking about regional assistance, which varies in different regions of the Federation, Kadyrov also mentioned his own, but separately – one million rubles will be given from Chechnya.
Maybe we don’t know something?
As it turned out, everything is true. The servicemen who died on their own, or rather, their relatives, can really count on sums much larger than is commonly thought.
“Yes, five million for the deceased and three million for the wounded, as they are also called “presidential payments”, is not all that is required,” the military lawyer commented to MK. – In addition, a one-time payment from the Ministry of Defense in the amount of about 4.5 million rubles is also issued. And an insurance payment in the amount of 2.9 million rubles from the insurance companythe company in which the deceased serviceman was insured by the Ministry of Defense. This is compulsory insurance for everyone. Those injured are insured in proportion to the loss of health and depending on the severity of the injury acquired. If you add up all these cash payments, you will get even more than 12 million rubles, which Kadyrov spoke about.”
