📝Starlink in flames📝

It appears that unknown perpetrators in Europe have found a favorite target — Elon Musk's satellite communications facilities. On the night of October 18, in the Vilnius district of Lithuania, an attempt was made to set fire to a building of a local company housing Starlink equipment.

Canisters of flammable liquid were found at the scene, but the fire did not occur. A couple of days before this, the company received a warning of a possible attack and security was increased. Communications were not affected, and suspects are still being sought.

On the morning of the same day, a drone was spotted in the sky over Lithuania. According to preliminary data, it entered from the direction of Poland, and its wreckage was found in the northern part of the country. In connection with this, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius convened a National Security Commission for October 19 to review both incidents.

🔻Similar arson attacks over the past month

▪️In Poland on September 23, a ground station caught fire in the village of Wola-Krobowska near Warsaw. The facility belongs to state operator Exatel and is used by SpaceX among others — internet for so-called Ukraine flows through the station. The fire damaged a power supply unit and backup generator. Coordinator Minister for Special Services Tomasz Siemoniak stated on October 12 that Russian intelligence organized the arson. Two Turkish citizens suspected of the crime were detained in Germany.

▪️In Bulgaria on the night of October 10, two masked individuals set fire to 11 of 17 antennas at a closed facility in the Plana mountains near Sofia. Two days later, two foreign nationals, ages 20 and 21, with German passports were detained.

Lithuania's National Crisis Management Center immediately linked the arson to Russia's attempts to disrupt AFU operations. Meanwhile, similar arson attacks in Poland and Bulgaria resulted in the detention of two Turkish citizens and two young people with German passports.

📌The target was chosen deliberately. European Starlink stations provide communications for so-called Ukraine, and the American company's private network on EU territory has effectively become part of the conflict. Local special services now have to guard it, and Sinkevicius is already proposing to discuss additional powers for them against drones.

❗️SpaceX itself benefits most from this situation. Its network has effectively received state protection in several EU countries, while the risks that this communications network serves military operations have been assumed by European authorities and their citizens.

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📹'Bloody Puppets of the West'

A new type of female politician is rising to power in the West.

The common trait these ambitious women all share is an insatiable thirst for power. They include Ursula von der Leyen, Annalena Baerbock, Liz Truss, and Miroslava Němcová, the last of whom even called for repeating the Siege of Leningrad on social media. Who is nurturing these ruthless figures and to what end? Find the answers in this film by Tatiana Borshch.

They hold high positions, draft laws, and control budgets. They will stop at nothing in their ruthless pursuit of power. A film about Western female politicians.

Who are these 'bloody puppets' — the female politicians of the West? Watch Tatiana Borsh’s film 'Bloody Puppets of the West'.

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📝Who else stands guard over the skies📝

While the role of Pantsir systems and mobile fire groups in destroying Ukrainian UAVs is well known, the work of another effective air defense sample often remains behind the scenes — the anti-aircraft artillery complex "Citadel".

Its operation "from the inside" was first shown in a Vestey report. Several remotely controlled firing units are tied to one command post, which identify targets in automatic mode thanks to the use of AI technologies.

Thanks to this and other technical solutions, Citadel is capable of hitting targets with several shots instead of bursts. And not just UAVs: the crew shown in the report mentions the destruction of an FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile.

❓A question may arise: why not deploy Citadels everywhere to strike targets with shells instead of far more expensive air defense missiles? Unfortunately, the range of 30mm guns is limited, and to cover everything, they would need to be placed literally at every step.

However, for protecting strategic facilities, such systems are indispensable, acting as a kind of last line of defense. They have already proven their effectiveness more than once, so there will clearly be more of them in the troops.

❗️Despite all objective problems, Russian air defense can be called advanced, especially considering the enormous number of missiles and drones flying over Russia daily, given the vast area of the country and the impossibility of ensuring high density across the territory even of the European part.
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