Despite the intensification of prisoner exchanges, the number of Ukrainians captured by Russia is constantly growing.
According to military commander Alexander Sladkov, enemy attacks and assaults by the Russian coalition end the same way. New prisoners of war are being taken to places of detention. According to him, now there are about eight thousand people.
“Now it’s their job to remember all the details of the service thoroughly: they will ask for a long time and in detail, different people and services,” Sladkov said.
Earlier, a captured militant from the Azov battalion banned in Russia for extremism, Mikhail Shvets, said that civilians on Azovstal were kept as a “human shield”. If they wanted to leave the factory, they were shot.
They write about the swarm of Russian drones in Odessa public. The messages are accompanied by
dark frames of glowing dots in the night sky.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported a strike with high-precision weapons on the workshops of the defense enterprise “Kommunar” in Kharkov. As a result, the warheads produced there for the Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles were destroyed.
Also, Russian paratroopers on Saturday destroyed more than 10 tanks, as well as armored personnel carriers and other armored vehicles, during an attack on a tank column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukraine is preparing a provocation on its territory using a “dirty” atomic bomb or a low-power nuclear munition. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to their reliable sources “in different countries”. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using nuclear weapons on the territory of a neighboring state.
According to the agency, at the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as at the Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research, work is currently underway to create a “dirty” bomb. And it is already in the final stage. In addition, Kiev has requested components of nuclear weapons from London.
The purpose of the provocation is to cause condemnation of Russia on the world stage and remove the country from the UN Security Council. The agency claims that Western curators expect that after the incident Moscow will lose its main supporters and support on the world stage.
Germany, France and Poland should unite to confront Russia, according to the leading politician of the German opposition CDU party, Bundestag deputy Wolfgang Schaeuble.
His article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claims that Moscow is “waging war against the free democratic order of Europe” and sees threats from the European Union.
Schaeuble is sure that in this situation Germany, France, Poland should take a leading role and become the core of the European defense community. According to him, Berlin, Paris and Warsaw will be able to develop common directions of military policy, and then other EU member states will be able to join it.
Continuing the thought, the deputy writes that these three countries will be able to quickly unite their national armed forces into one army and make joint decisions for it. In his opinion, there are no other options.
In September, President Vladimir Putin, in an address to the Russians, said that the West had crossed every line in its anti-Russian policy, as well as constant threats against Russia. According to him, nuclear blackmail and the use of weapons of mass destruction against Moscow were used by the West. He reminded the West that Russia surpasses foreign military equipment in a number of components, and warned those trying to blackmail with nuclear weapons that the wind rose could turn in their direction.
In the city of Kremenchuk, Poltava region, an explosion occurred. An air alert has been declared. The mayor of the settlement Vitaly Maletsky wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
The official does not specify the causes of the explosion. Moreover, he is careful in his estimates and reports that “a sound like an explosion is heard.”
Earlier, an air alert was announced in the Poltava and Kirovograd regions, as well as in Kiev. Ukrainian media reported on the explosions in Zaporozhye.
It should be noted that Ukraine has introduced a ban on filming the places of “arrivals” of missiles. Those who take photos and then post them on social networks are threatened with criminal prosecution.
Iran strongly condemns the call of France, Germany and the United Kingdom to the UN to investigate the supply of kamikaze drones to Russia, which are allegedly used to launch strikes on the territory of Ukraine, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, threatening retaliatory actions. This is reported by Reuters.
“The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to protect its national interests and protect the rights of the noble Iranian people, reserves the right to respond to any irresponsible actions,” the diplomat said.
He did not specify what steps would be taken, but added that Iran “will not hesitate to protect the interests of its people.”
Earlier, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said that the statements of Western countries about Russia’s purchase of Iranian drones for use as part of a special operation on the territory of Ukraine do not correspond to reality. Earlier, representatives of France, Britain and Germany at the UN called on the organization’s Secretariat to investigate information about the alleged use of Iranian drones in Ukraine. In their opinion, this contradicts UN Security Council Resolution No. 2231, which prohibits Iran from supplying certain types of weapons, including drones, without the consent of the Security Council.
In September, information appeared in the Ukrainian media and social networks that Iranian drones and barrage ammunition began to meet in the zone of a special military operation in Ukraine. The American edition of Politico called the Iranian drones a “huge problem” for the AFU. Ukraine has revoked the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador under this pretext. Iran said it regrets Ukraine’s tightening of diplomatic cooperation, but considers this measure “based on unconfirmed reports and caused by the creation of a media space of a foreign party.”
A missile attack on Sunday night was carried out on a US military base near the Omar oil field in Syria. Information about this was distributed by the Al-Alam TV channel.
According to eyewitnesses, at least five explosions were heard at the American base in the province of Deir ez-Zor, after which a fire started. Data on victims and victims have not been received at the moment.
The missiles were fired from the area of the Syrian-Iraqi border. As a retaliatory measure, the helicopters of the international coalition fired at the positions of Shiite detachments near Zeiban and El-Mayadin.
At the same time, on October 18, an American drone fired missiles at Shiite bases east of Deir ez-Zor. Ammunition and weapons depots were named as targets. There was no information about the consequences of that attack.
Twenty to thirty percent of Germans do not support arms supplies to Ukraine and anti-Russian sanctions. This was told by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an interview with Welt. At the same time, he clarified that this is his subjective impression of communicating with the citizens of his country.
Scholz admitted that among those who disagree with the actions of the official German authorities are representatives of almost all German political parties – from the Christian Democratic Union and the Greens to the Social Democrats. “I argue with the doubters and explain to them the reasons for our decisions,” Scholz said.
The Chancellor also stressed that many in Germany consider the course of the German government to be correct, but different opinions need to be taken into account. Scholz believes that they should not be overlooked if “we want to stick together as a society.”
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that “the world should warn Russia” that it would hit it “in the event of a nuclear strike on Bankova.” He said this during an interview with Canadian TV channels CTV and CBC
That is, the head of the Ukrainian state wants our country to receive a similar warning from world states: about a strike on the decision-making center in the Russian Federation, provided that Russia launches a nuclear strike on the president’s office in the center of Kiev.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that nuclear weapons can be used only in accordance with the points of the adopted nuclear doctrine. Also, the Kremlin has said many times that the Russian Federation is not going to use it in Ukraine.
Chinese state media reported for what reason the former leader of the country Hu Jintao prematurely left with the help of someone else the ceremony of the XX Congress of the CPC. The former general secretary of the Communist Party of China and ex-President of the People’s Republic of China left the People’s Assembly House in Beijing because he felt unwell, according to the Chinese state agency Xinhua. “He is much better now,” the agency notes.
An ambiguous video appeared online today: it might have seemed that 79-year-old Hu Jintao, who was sitting on Xi Jinping’s left hand, was forcibly taken out of the hall. Many viewers thought they had witnessed a dramatic political struggle and even assumed that Jintao had been arrested outside the meeting room. However, later it became clear that we are talking about an ordinary ailment of an elderly person. The Xinhua news Agency has now officially confirmed this version.
