Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Alexey Arestovich admitted that in the Kherson direction the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is “unpleasantly changing.”
According to him, about six battalion tactical groups have been additionally deployed to this area.
“In total there are already under 30 or over 30. This is a huge military force that will be very, very difficult to “grind” just like that. Moreover, there are combat-ready troops…. They are preparing counterattacks,” the presidential adviser added.
Russia continues Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. It is the 245th day. The Pentagon said that Russia had notified the United States of plans to conduct exercises of the strategic nuclear forces “Thunder”. A bill has been submitted to the Parliament to ban partial mobilization for those who did not serve. The Security Council of the Russian Federation declared the need for the “desatanization” of Ukraine. Applications for deferrals for fathers of disabled children turned out to be premature.
Photo: Donetsk News Agency
14:23 “Interfax”: Putin from the situation center is watching the training of strategic deterrence forces.
10.30 The Ministry of Transport of Russia reported on temporary restrictions on the priority of cargo on ferry services across the Kerch Strait.
9.55The Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, Irina Volynets, made a proposal to make travel free for family members of mobilized citizens.
9.53The secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak proposed to recalculate the payment for housing and communal services for the mobilized.
9.52The government supported the project on the status of veterans for volunteers in the SVO.
9.24Two infrastructure facilities in the Mykolaiv region came under fire, said the head of the regional military administration Vitaly Kim.
9.00 An air alert was declared in Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Odessa and Kharkiv regions, as well as a part of the Zaporozhye region occupied by Ukrainian troops.
Opposition Ukrainian politician Anatoly Shariy wrote in his telegram channel on Wednesday that he became aware of the upcoming provocation with the use of the so-called “dirty bomb”, which Russia has claimed and continues to claim, accusing the Kiev authorities of preparing it.
“Someone is planning to fly a dirty bomb from the side of the border of Belarus,” writes Shariy.
According to him, it is planned to shoot down the bomb “over the Chernobyl zone” to minimize the consequences.
Shariy wrote this post around six in the evening. And about half an hour later, he added that he would very much like “someone to abandon this moronic plan,” noting that all its main details were “already clear to him.”
On Monday, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Russian troops, Igor Kirillov, said that work is underway in Ukraine to create a “dirty bomb” and they are already at the final stage. According to him, Kiev plans to carry out a provocation to blame Moscow for this.
On Wednesday, it became known that Ukraine had already made a dummy of the Russian Iskander missile to organize the provocation. A dummy filled with nuclear waste was planned to blow up over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and present it as a “downed Russian missile.”
photo: kirill stremousov. video frame, source: social networks
Kirill Stremousov, Deputy Governor of the Kherson region, considers false reports about the accumulation of 60 thousand troops by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for an offensive on Kherson.
Stremousov said this on Wednesday in his telegram channel.
According to him, the last 4 days “the situation in the theater of military operations in the Kherson region remains unchanged.” Stremousov explained that “the parties are building up their forces.”
At the same time, he believes that “the words of the Ukrainian side about the accumulation of 60 thousand troops for the attack on Kherson are deliberate false stuffing.”
Earlier, Kirill Stremousov reported that Russian troops continue to repel attacks by Ukrainian military formations in the Kherson direction.
A frame from the video in which Ostanina told about the call to the deputy Defense Minister
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said that he had not recently spoken with State Duma deputy Nina Ostanina, who, referring to such a conversation, said that the Ministry of Defense decided to exempt fathers of two children with pregnant wives, as well as fathers of disabled children, from partial mobilization.
“There was no conversation with Deputy Ostanina either today or yesterday,” Interfax quoted Pankov as saying.
Ostanina on Wednesday, October 26, said that “she had just phoned with Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov” and that changes had been made to the directive of the General Staff on partial mobilization. Ostanina claimed that the postponement for two more categories of Russians was “accepted.”
Ostanina also stated that “in return, we were asked not to insist” on amendments to the law “On Mobilization” until the end of the SVO, since “the directive is valid until the end of the SVO.”
photo: the Ukrainian military are loading the bodies of the dead. video frame, source: social networks
Polish mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine destroyed several militants of the “Right Sector” (an extremist organization banned in Russia) who tried to force the Poles to attack the Kremen direction in the Donbass.
This was told by the police colonel of the Luhansk People’s Republic Vitaly Kiselyov, who is familiar with the situation.
According to Kiselyov, the Russian army dealt a crushing blow to the Ukrainian units that broke through into Kremennaya.
“After several unsuccessful attempts to go on the attack, the mercenaries from among the Poles refused to try their luck and go forward,” RIA Novosti quotes Kiselyov.
The police colonel noted that the mercenaries consider it inappropriate that they are used in the advancing units. They insist that detachments formed from territorial defense go forward. And “influence” them with the help of fighters of the Ukrainian national battalions.
The interlocutor of the agency noted that the disassembly of mercenaries and Ukrainian Nazis is “frequent” because “they forced the mercenaries to go along with the Terbats.”
This time … Representatives of the Right Sector (an extremist organization banned in Russia) have arrived,” Kiselyov said. – According to our data, the Poles partially “disposed” of Bandera lovers.”
At the beginning of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the grouping of the Russian Armed Forces did not exceed 200 thousand people, but now it will be very difficult to solve the tasks with such forces. This statement was made by the former People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev.
“There were more than enough of us near Kharkov. But when they started shooting at the troops, they stopped. If five thousand of our servicemen had entered the city, the city would have been ours,” Tsarev wrote in his Telegram channel.
He also noted that the Russian army occupied those settlements and positions from the beginning of the special operation that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could take with a large advantage in terms of the number of troops compared to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, Tsarev is sure that after some time it will be necessary to increase the size of the army to a million people. According to him, it will not be possible to achieve great success if there is no numerical advantage over the Ukrainian army.
Ukrainian security forces are mocking prisoners of war in a camp in Dnepropetrovsk, says Vladislav Egilnitsky, a soldier from the DPR who was freed from Ukrainian captivity.
“They were very harshly bullied…” the man noted, adding that when air alarms were heard, people were forced to kneel for the entire air alarm or, in particular, to sing the anthem for four hours. “They were bullied and humiliated there,” the serviceman believes.
According to him, the camp management forbade complaining about the conditions of detention in the UN and the Red Cross. For example, for the complaint of one prisoner about processing, the Ukrainian security forces forced the whole squad to sit down 500 times, Egilnitsky claims.
It is noted that the prisoners of war were engaged in work in the industrial zone, collected boxes for apples, knocked down pallets, chopped wood chips and collected gift bags.
The colony “Zapad-1”, where the man was, is the first camp exclusively for prisoners of war. In other regions of Ukraine, Russian soldiers are left in ordinary pre-trial detention centers and prisons.
The press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported that the government of the Russian Federation supported the bill on the status of a combat veteran for volunteers who take part in a special military operation.
“Volunteers participating in the SVO will receive the status of a combat veteran, as well as servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The government has already approved it,” the report says.
Among other things, those who were injured while participating in a special operation will also be able to apply for the status of a combat disabled person.
Politico reported that if French President Emmanuel Macron refuses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to hold a joint press conference, he will humiliate the leader of Germany.
According to the newspaper, Berlin announced a meeting of politicians with media representatives the day before, but later the Elysee Palace said that such an event was not planned.
“If this happens, then what happened will be an insult to Scholz,” Politico notes.
The authors of the publication clarified that at the moment the relationship between Scholz and Macron has cooled. The heads of state are arguing even over plans for joint communication with the press.
