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The aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit military command and power facilities in the Kiev and Kharkiv regions. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, an arsenal containing significant stocks of weapons, military equipment and ammunition received from Western countries was hit with high-precision long-range sea-based weapons in the settlement of Brody, Lviv region.
A member of the “alert group” in one of the St. Petersburg residential complexes Photo: A frame from the video
The administration of St. Petersburg confirmed reports previously transmitted by the media and telegram channels that military enlistment offices and police officers began to appear in the entrances of houses. In an interview with RBC, a representative of the city authorities said that these are “alert groups”.
“Due to the fact that <...The persons who personally received the summons did not appear at the military commissariat..."quot; - said the interlocutor of the publication.
According to him, for this reason, “they were repeatedly issued summonses”.
“The purpose is to notify citizens of the need to turn out,” the official added. – Residents of apartment buildings are asked to treat with understanding…> in pursuance of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation”.
On the morning of October 14, it became known that similar “alert groups&they began to come to the entrances of residential buildings in St. Petersburg and ambush tenants in front of elevators on the first floors. At the same time, raids began in Moscow” near many metro stations. Senator Andrei Klishas, commenting on this news, recalled that such actions of police officers are illegal, and called for each specific violation to be investigated. Also Klishas in histelegram channel made a repost of someone else’s message, which read: “I think that first of all it is necessary to mobilize the leader and accomplices of the raids. Their invaluable experience will come in handy in battle.” Klishas commented on it like this: “A very correct approach.”
There were shots of so-called “agenda raids” in Moscow and St. Petersburg
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The APU intensified the shelling of the Kherson region. The strikes fall on the locations of the civilian population, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the regional administration.
“In recent days, the shelling by the Ukronazis has intensified,” Stremousov said in a video message published on his Telegram channel. Kherson, Chernobayevka, Naked Pier, Novaya Kakhovka were attacked, Stremousov listed. “The missiles are aimed at homes, hotels and markets,” he stressed. “To a place where the Ukronazis can kill a large number of civilians.”
The Kiev authorities, according to him, will continue to give orders to shell the Kherson region.
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Former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin told why the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has become tougher towards the West than he was before. He noted that this is a reaction to the “deception” of Russia.
“Of course, he became tougher towards those who, in fact, deceived him and our country,” Stepashin says.
He added that during the time when Putin was replacing Stepashin as prime minister, he hoped that the country had finally made friends with the West in an adult way. However, things have become very different.
Sergey Stepashin served as Prime Minister of the Russian Federation from May 19 to August 9, 1999, after which Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, and on March 26, 2000 he was officially elected president.
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Vladislav Lobaev, a representative of the Lobaev Arms arms company, said that the company had created a prototype of a new anti-sniper system “Rubezh”, which it was ready to present to a potential customer.
“Currently, we are finalizing our anti-sniper system “Frontier” as part of: the complex “Defeat”, “False target” and “False weapon”. We are not even talking about a rifle, but about a robotic weapon,” Vladislav Lobaev said.
He also clarified that we are talking about the company’s know-how – there are no analogues of the system yet either in Russia or abroad.
As the developers explain, the operator of the new system can control all three components included in it at once: call the enemy’s fire on a false target, detect its position and destroy it with the help of a complex designed to hit the target.
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MK broadcasts events related to the special operation in Ukraine on October 13, 2022. The 232nd day. The United States assesses the risks of being drawn into the Ukrainian conflict together with NATO as “high”. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on referendums in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, where they refused to recognize them as part of Russia. On Wednesday, six explosions sounded in the center of Belgorod. In the Kiev region, explosions occurred at critical infrastructure facilities. Read online the previous day of the special operation here.
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10:15 Putin noted the existence of a real threat of famine and large-scale upheavals. They may arise against the background of volatility in energy and food prices in the world.
10:10 The movement of electric trains across the Crimean Bridge was resumed. The trains will run on an “enhanced” weekend schedule. This is necessary in order to relieve the load from the ferry crossing.
9:55 The Pentagon noted that the West will not be able to quickly transfer air defense systems to Ukraine. The reason is their shortage.
9:47 The DPR announced the liberation of the settlements of Opytne and Ivangrad in the Artemivsk direction.
9:42 The military commander of VGTRK Alexander Sladkov told about how the situation in the Donbass is developing. According to him, at the moment the Russian military has created a stable defense system in all directions. The initiative is gradually being transferred to the Russian troops. “Now Ukrainians are rushing at the front like mice in a barn,” he said.
9:36 The mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovoy, called on residents of the city to equip heating points in their homes with the help of wood-burning stoves. He also noted that it is worth keeping a constant supply of water.
9:32 Vladimir Putin said at the VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia that barriers to global supply chains must be eliminated. According to him, Moscow, for its part, “is making every effort to provide critical products to countries in need of it.”
9:26 The British authorities will transfer AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range missiles to Ukraine. According to Sky News, they are capable of shooting down cruise missiles.
9:20 Alexander Lukashenko said that the West failed to fulfill the function of a guarantor of stability in the world after the collapse of the USSR. According to him, the practice of the West to organize coups in other countries and sanctions carries the risks of a Third World War.
9:16 Zelensky instructed the government of Ukraine to consider the abolition of the visa-free regime with Belarus. It was raised in an electronic petition.
9:06 Recep Erdogan said at the Astana summit that Turkey’s goal is to “achieve a truce as soon as possible” in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin said that the regime in Kiev has been using terrorist methods for a long time. He puts his activities on the Internet, and then, realizing the mistake, wipes, said the President of the Russian Federation. He also said that Russia will not act contrary to common sense, “at its own expense to pay for someone else’s well-being.” “We will not supply energy resources to those countries that will limit their prices,” Putin said.
Vladimir Zelensky has requested additional loans from international partners for the restoration of energy infrastructure.
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, summing up the talks with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov in Brussels, said that the member countries of the alliance are strengthening support for Ukraine. He added that Kiev must win the conflict with Moscow.
Chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin held an operational meeting in Simferopol on the progress of the criminal investigation into the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge. Within the framework of the case, 12 persons have been identified who are directly related to the commission of a terrorist act. “The evidence received at the moment indicates that the terrorist act was organized by the special services of Ukraine,” he stressed.
It was reported that the Russian army broke through the Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut.
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Since Starlink satellite Internet terminals, created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, first began arriving in Ukraine last spring, they have become a vital source of communication for the Ukrainian military, allowing them to fight and stay connected even when cellular communications and Internet networks were under attack by Russia, CNN writes.
To date, about 20,000 Starlink satellites have been transferred to Ukraine, and Musk wrote on Twitter on Friday that the operation cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year.
But these charitable donations may come to an end, as SpaceX has warned the Pentagon that it may stop funding the service in Ukraine unless the US military allocates tens of millions of dollars a month.
Documents obtained by CNN show that last month, Musk’s SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon saying it could no longer continue to fund the Starlink service as before. The letter also asks the Pentagon to take over the financing of the Ukrainian government and the military use of Starlink, which SpaceX claims will cost more than $120 million by the end of the year and could cost about $400 million over the next 12 months.
“We are not in a position to donate terminals to Ukraine in the future or to finance existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales wrote to the Pentagon in a September letter.
Among the SpaceX documents sent to the Pentagon and seen by CNN, there is a previously unreported direct request made to Musk in July by the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, for almost 8000 more Starlink terminals.
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Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told reporters that military conscripts will be collected in the country in the near future.
According to him, this will be done in order to assess the country’s readiness for “unexpected situations.”
“President… requests to check the readiness of the armed forces, territorial defense troops to unexpected situations. Therefore, fees will be held to check who is registered, whether they are suitable for military service,” the minister said.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told reporters about the introduction of a counter-terrorism operation regime in the country.
“The armed forces and special services of Belarus are ready to fight back against any provocations from neighboring states,” the Foreign Minister said.
On October 13, the wreckage of a Ukrainian MiG-29 was found near Vinnitsa, which was destroyed with the help of a UAV “Geran-2”. This is the first fighter in history destroyed by a kamikaze UAV during an air battle.
Moreover, judging by the footage, the downed fighter belonged to the aerobatic group “Ukrainian Falcons”.
According to the official information of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine, the plane crashed due to fragments of a downed Russian kamikaze drone “Geranium-2”, which he was chasing.
According to military expert Boris Rozhin, the victory of “Geranium” is largely accidental – the Ukrainian pilot, attacking a kamikaze drone, came too close to it, and after the explosion of “Geranium”, the wreckage of the drone caused irreparable damage to the fighter.
“Nevertheless, even the random nature of such a victory does not negate the uniqueness of this event. It must be admitted that the destruction of Ukrainian fighters in air battles is not included in the main profile of the work of Iranian “infernal mopeds”. And yet, even here they were able to surprise,” the expert noted.
