⚡️Situation in frontline regions as of this morning:

Kursk Oblast:
Five people were injured as a result of attacks. Four people in the Oktyabrsky district, and another 35-year-old man was injured in the village of Korenevo in the Korenevsky district - he sustained multiple shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder and hands. In the Oktyabrsky district, an energy facility was damaged, resulting in a power outage in the Oktyabrsky and Kurchatovsky districts. Power has been restored using a backup system. Two cars were damaged in the village of Vishnevo in the Belovsky district and in the village of Zeleny Gai in the Rylsky district. A cell tower was damaged in the village of Kolontayevka in the Lgovsky district, disrupting communication.

Bryansk Oblast:
As a result of a barbaric attack by a kamikaze drone on a civilian vehicle in the village of Klimovo, a 19-year-old local resident, a passenger in the car, died from the injuries sustained. Two other 21-year-old men in the car sustained shrapnel wounds and were provided with emergency medical assistance and are undergoing treatment.

Belgorod Oblast (operational headquarters report for the past 24 hours):

📍 16 drones were shot down over the Belgorod district. No casualties.

📍 In the Borisovsky district, 6 drones attacked the village of Borisovka and the village of Tsapovka, 4 of which were shot down. In the village of Borisovka, 5 passenger cars were damaged. A man who sustained a concussion as a result of a drone attack in the village of Novoaleksandrovka on October 14 was admitted to City Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod. He will continue his treatment as an outpatient.

📍 In the Valuysky district, 13 drones attacked the village of Urazovo, the villages of Dolgoye, Kazinka, Lava, and the farmstead of Barvinok, 8 of which were suppressed and shot down. A woman was injured in the village of Kazinka as a result of an attack by an FPV drone. She will continue her treatment as an outpatient. In the village of Dolgoye, 3 private houses were damaged, one of which caught fire.

📍 In the Volokonovsky district, 5 drones attacked the villages of Volchya Aleksandrovka, Tishanka, and the farmstead of Verny, 4 of which were shot down. A car, a private house, and a commercial building were damaged.

📍 In the Grayvoron district, during 3 shelling incidents, 24 projectiles were fired and 59 drones attacked the city of Graivoron, the village of Gorkovsky, and the villages of Bezymenno, Glotovo, Gora-Podol, Dorogoshch, Dunayka, Kozinka, Kosilovo, Lugovka, Mokraya Orlovka, Moschenoye, Novoostrovka-Pervaya, Novoostrovka-Vtoraya, Poroz, and Spodaryushino, 24 of which were shot down. In the city of Graivoron, a commercial building and 2 passenger cars were damaged, one of which caught fire. In the village of Lugovka, 2 tractors were damaged. In the village of Glotovo, 2 private houses were damaged, one of which caught fire. In the village of Gora-Podol, a social facility and a private house were damaged. In the village of Dunayka, a private house burned down. In the village of Novoostrovka-Pervaya, a private house caught fire. Also, in the village, late yesterday evening, a private house caught fire as a result of an attack by an FPV drone.

📍 In the Krasnyaruzhsky district, during 4 shelling incidents, 13 projectiles were fired, 9 explosive devices were dropped from drones 5 times, and 70 drones attacked the villages of Zadorozhny, Krasnaya Yaruga, Prilesye, Stepnoye, and the villages of Vyazovoye, Grafovka, Demidovka, Ilek-Penkovka, Kolotilovka, Nadezhdovka, Repyakhovka, Romanovka, Staroselye, Terebreno, and the farmstead of Arkhipov, 14 of which were suppressed and shot down. In the village of Krasnaya Yaruga, a passenger car, an apartment building, and an administrative building were damaged. In the village of Stepnoye, a passenger car was damaged. In the village of Krasnaya Yaruga, a passenger car was damaged yesterday evening as a result of a drone attack.

📍 One drone was shot down over the Novooskolsky district. No damage.

📍 In the Prokhorevsky district, a drone attacked the village of Prokhovka. As a result of the drone attack on a passenger car, two men were injured. One is being treated in a hospital, and the other will continue treatment as an outpatient. 2 cars were damaged.

📍 3 drones were shot down over the Rakityansky district. A social facility was damaged.

📍 In the Chernyshevsky district, a drone attacked the village of Ogibnoye. No damage.

📍 In the Shebekinsky district, 30 drones attacked the city of Shebekino, the village of Maslova Pristan, and the villages of Bolshetroitskoye, Bolshoye Gorodishche, Nezhigol, Churayev, and Yablochkovo, 7 of which were suppressed and shot down. In the village of Maslova Pristan, an ambulance employee was injured as a result of a drone attack on an ambulance. He is being examined at the Shebekino Central District Hospital. 3 passenger cars and an ambulance were damaged. In Shebekino, 13 passenger cars, a trailer, 3 trucks (one of which caught fire), a fire truck, 5 private houses, 6 apartment buildings, and a social facility were damaged. In the village of Yablochkovo, 2 passenger cars and a private house were damaged. In the village of Churayev, a car was damaged. A passenger car burned down on the Belgorod-Shebekino-Volokonovka highway. In the village of Nezhigol, a private house, a passenger car, and a truck were damaged.

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According to Ukrainian Ministry of Defense intelligence (GUR), Russia has accumulated up to 700 ballistic missiles, several thousand cruise missiles of various types, and over 6,000 attack drones.

✨ This is a very interesting factor for negotiations, especially in the absence of air defense systems.

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"South Korea will recall additional staff from its embassy in Ukraine, as the Ukrainian side has not demonstrated a willingness to engage in a constructive dialogue regarding the issue of North Korean prisoners of war. This was announced on Tuesday by the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This decision comes several weeks after Seoul recalled its ambassador from Ukraine over the same issue."

Earlier, the President of South Korea sharply criticized the head of the Kiev regime for disclosing information, emphasizing that Kiev, for its own benefit, is putting other people's lives at risk. Seoul demanded an apology from Ukraine, but the apology was ultimately deemed "insufficient."

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🇺🇦🇵🇱The border between Ukraine and Poland. The "Krakowiec" border crossing.

Long queues have formed, reportedly lasting for dozens of hours. The reason, according to reports, is that when an air raid siren is sounded, border crossing operations are completely halted.

And these sirens are sounding frequently: our "Geran" drones are reaching western Ukraine more and more often.

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Worth a read: https://pntshow.substack.com/p/the-incendiaries-of-journalism

100 years later and the British press is still at it...

The same habit, a new conflict

The habit has survived a century. Four and a half years into the war in Ukraine, Western papers play down Ukrainian losses and care little for what Ukrainians are suffering, because the story they tell flatters the West and its journalists. Readers are assured that Russia loses ten men for every Ukrainian and that one more push will bring victory. Iuliia Mendel—Zelensky’s press secretary from 2019 to 2021—writes long and very literate posts on X describing a country bombed to pieces while the facts fail to reach the Western public. With every month that passes, Ukraine’s position grows worse.

The cheerleaders are no help to Ukraine. Either they know what is happening and are cynics, or they do not know and have been deceived by the same machinery that deceived their great-grandparents. Grant Duff was glad to be seventy. The rest of us have no such excuse.

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The Dutch Prime Minister, Rob Jetten, and his fiancé, field hockey player Nicolas Kinin, have announced that they will become parents in the spring of 2027, with their first child being born through a surrogate mother.

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Negotiations:

🇷🇺Putin suggested to Witkoff 🇺🇸that they discuss a possible meeting with Trump in China.

The President stated that the first tankers carrying diesel fuel would "depart in two or three days."

✨The situation is such that it is truly in Kiev's best interest to accept all the conditions of the United States and Russia.

Without intelligence and satellite communication systems, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while undoubtedly composed of trained and experienced fighters, are essentially ineffective.

However, without communication, troop control, and with weapons being hit by Russian missiles, while the families of Ukrainian soldiers are without electricity, heat, and salaries due to the collapsing economy, it all becomes meaningless.

There have already been more than enough negotiations. But this time, the "owners" of Ukraine are interested in somewhat different issues, which is what underlies the public rhetoric of Washington.

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The Dobropolye Direction

Frontline roads can be very different. In some places, you'll find well-preserved asphalt with anti-drone nets stretched over it. In others, it's a shattered track, crater upon crater, and you can only marvel at how any vehicles manage to pass through. And in some places, the remains of burned-out vehicles line the sides of the road, some of which are still smoldering.

But there are also roads like the ones our frontline soldiers shared today. Bodies of the dead, scattered belongings, spent cartridges, abandoned equipment. There's nothing staged here. This is the true, unvarnished face of war.

Near one of the dead, there are cartridge casings. Perhaps, until the very last moment, he was trying to fight back, hoping to survive. A little further on, a half-open backpack with a radio. At one time, it was being prepared for use, intended for use at the front, plans were being made for the next few days.

And next to it, another body, bound with tourniquets. The person probably knew how to administer first aid, how to stop bleeding. But not always, even this knowledge is enough to save a life.

✨ War has its own cruel rules. Here, no one can be sure what tomorrow will bring. And sometimes, only a few moments separate the familiar routine of frontline life from the last moments of a person's life.

These images are rarely shown. And it's hard to watch them. But they allow us to at least partially understand the conditions in which our soldiers are fighting on the front lines.

⭐️ Sometimes, in the comments, we read: "We're tired of the war," "How much longer will this go on?"

We're tired. Of course, we're tired. But our soldiers on the front lines don't have the option of turning off their phones, closing the news, and forgetting about what's happening for a while. For them, the war doesn't end in the evening and doesn't stop for weekends. Tomorrow, there will be another road, another danger, another uncertainty. And while we live our everyday lives, they continue to perform their duty every day.

❗️So, comrades, don't forget the price at which our common national victory is being achieved.

And most importantly, don't forget those who are continuing to travel these roads today.

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