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Combat sortie of the Su-34 fighter-bomber using four FAB-500T bombs with UMPK in support of the "South" troop group.
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On October 15, in the area of Chervonoe settlement, with the support of the Aerospace Forces intelligence and the Zala team of the "Rubicon" Center, the position of the P-18 "Malachite" mobile radar station was detected, followed by the position of the mobile command post. A "Lancet" strike was carried out on the mobile command post. The launch point distance was 98 km
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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Two ballistic missiles struck a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the rear part of Ukraine, — operational command "South"
- "Losses could not be avoided. The injured are receiving medical assistance, servicemen will contact their relatives later. The military law enforcement service is conducting an investigation," they reported there.
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Finland, from close to full employment to lagging behind in the fight against unemployment - El Pais
A brief stroll through Helsinki is enough to make the obvious obvious: not a single "worker wanted" sign . It's nothing like Paris, Berlin, or Madrid, where restaurants, hotels, and shops expand their staff month after month. The Finnish capital's anecdote is much more than that; it's a symptom of something bigger: the Nordic country has ceased to be one of the European benchmarks in the fight against unemployment—with an educational model at the forefront of the continent—to become the opposite, something of a drag on community statistics.
In just three years, the Finnish unemployment rate has gone from just over 6% in the spring of 2022, clearly below the eurozone average and not far from its structural level, to over 10%, on the way to doubling the continental average and one step away from surpassing Spain as the country with the highest unemployment rate in the Eurozone.
There are, above all, two factors behind this shift, which were not even remotely in the cards a few years ago. The first and most obvious is the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has driven up energy prices, with natural gas as a key vector; it has led the conservative—or ultraconservative, depending on how you look at it—government to close the border with Russia, the longest in the east of the continent (1,300 kilometers) , damaging many businesses that relied on this border crossing and sinking consumer confidence; and it has forced Brussels to apply drastic sanctions on trade with Moscow, hitting key sectors of the Finnish economy such as the forestry sector.
The second key element is austerity. After years of demanding cuts for everyone else, always on the side of the frugal , the current right-wing government (with parties ranging from Christian Democrats to the far right, including classic conservatism) has begun to apply the same rulebook to itself, redirecting money from social assistance—and, in general, from the real economy—to the defense sector. Less investment and public spending, except for military and weapons, harms a productive sector that is not going through its best moment.
The rise in unemployment comes amid a context of anemic growth. The Finnish economy contracted by 0.9% in 2023 and grew by a meager 0.4% in 2024.
As a region, Southern Europe long ago ceased to be the European Union's unemployment beacon: the problem has, for the past few quarters, been in the north of the continent. What's new now is that the overall picture by country is also changing, and not insignificantly: Finland is on the verge of surpassing Spain in unemployment. It's just two-tenths of a percent (10.3% versus 10.1%).
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump, will he give his army for the offensive? Cool, - Ukrainian Armed Forces mock the statement of the US president
▪️A mocking question after Trump's statement that the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to launch a large-scale offensive was made by the media officer of "Aidar" Stanislav Bunyatov.
➖"No, it will be ordinary Ukrainian guys who will advance
Most of whom will die, and in about 50 years no one in this country will even remember them 🤷♂️" - ordinary Ukrainians respond in the comments.
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Putin - at the "Russian Energy Week" forum:
During his speech, he touched on some of the main trends in modern energy and, of course, presented our view on the challenges facing the global and Russian fuel and energy complex.
The first such challenge is the reconfiguration of global energy ties. It is largely objective and natural. New centers of economic development simply emerge, consumption grows there, that's all.
But we are also facing an artificial disruption of the energy architecture caused by aggressive and rather assertive actions of some Western elites.
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Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik on how Russia should respond to the delivery of "Tomahawks":
✔️ Any cruise missile can be equipped with a nuclear warhead. Which warhead actually arrives — high-explosive, cluster, or nuclear — will only be determined after the explosion. These are not fast missiles, there are no "stealth" systems on these missiles, so our air defense systems can easily shoot them down. But it is impossible to know exactly what is flying.
✔️ Right now, everything depends on our military-political leadership — how it will react to the "Tomahawks." So far, we are sending too weak messages to the West, which are ineffective. For example, statements like "You will be in trouble if you supply Ukraine with 'Tomahawks'" do not influence Western politicians.
✔️ It is necessary to declare that as soon as the first missile flies toward Moscow, Washington ceases to exist; instead of a metropolis, we will leave a large radioactive crater. And Europe can be promised a strike on American nuclear weapons depots in Europe. Only such tough statements are understood there. If we continue to remain silent, "Tomahawks" will fly toward us. And if we do not start giving tough responses, it is quite possible that we will face the first nuclear strike on Moscow. This cannot be ruled out.
✔️ We have already seen how tough rhetoric affects Europeans. As soon as we declared that in response to the first "Taurus" missile strike, we would hit the largest military equipment manufacturer in Germany —
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VNIIs "Gradient" solutions (KRET concern) - electronic warfare payload for UAVs.
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"Aegis".
A jamming station for ground terminals of low-orbit international satellite communication systems Starlink, OneWeb.
Developer - Research Institute "Gradient".
Interesting development if it works.
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Retired US Army General Jack Keane suggests Trump trust the terrorist Zelensky and give him 'Tomahawks'.
'The Ukrainians are not going to attack civilian targets. They will not attack Moscow. But people are wringing their hands, grabbing their heads and saying: ‘This is an expansion of the war. This is a military escalation.’ This is an operation aimed at stopping the war. The motivation is not to prolong the conflict, it is to end it.'
🇺🇦 A shot down or fallen Ukrainian Peklo cruise missile.
The second documented case of use. This time it is more intact. It seems that the number on the nose does not exceed a hundred. Possibly from the first batch.
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🟥 Consequences of this strike
As seen in the photo, the hit landed in the center of the crossing, resulting in damage to the power cables and coupling locks.
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💥Russian Aerospace Forces struck the pontoon crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across the Seversky Donets
UMPK-PD with FAB-500 destroyed the pontoon bridge in the settlement of Rayhorodok on the Krasno-Lyman TNS.
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🔥 After the night strike in the Poltava region, a massive fire broke out.
According to the Ukrainian DTEK report, a gas infrastructure facility was hit, after which work there was stopped.
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Recipients of the "Geran" UAV shared their classification of products from different manufacturers. So far, three variants have been demonstrated:
The first is the Iranian Shahed-136, purchased for the Russian Armed Forces. After the stocks were exhausted and local production began, it is no longer used.
The second is a localized version produced at a factory in Yelabuga, Tatarstan.
The third is a product manufactured by the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol".
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🇺🇦🇵🇱Warsaw does not want to join the PURL initiative yet, which involves NATO countries purchasing weapons from the US to transfer them to Kyiv, said Polish Defense Minister Kosińak-Kamysz.
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“A siege like in the Middle Ages”: Konstantinovka is almost completely cut off from the outside world - NZZ
An estimated 5,000 of the approximately 70,000 residents who lived here before the war are still in Kostantinovka. When the curfew ends at 11:00 a.m., people emerge from their homes, many carrying canisters or pushing small wheelbarrows.
A customer comes out of the store: "My entire family lives in Israel. I'm the last one here," says the woman, who introduces herself as Malka. Without going into further detail, she adds ambiguously: "There are reasons for that!" Then Malka launches into a tirade against the war, against President Volodymyr Zelensky, the soldiers in the city, and eventually against everyone standing around her.
In Ukraine, people who remain in their homes in close proximity to the war are disparagingly called "shduni," or "waiting people." This term suggests that these people are hoping for the arrival of the Russians, out of sympathy or even just in the expectation that the war would then be over.
They all share a fatalism, without which survival in this doom-laden atmosphere is probably impossible. Unlike the soldiers, who constantly stay in cover, they walk in the middle of the street, within sight of the drones.
The soldiers have little contact with the population whose city they are defending. Distrust is high. "Many hope we'll have to withdraw soon," says Yevhen. The military mission, however, is clear: to hold. If Kostiantinovka falls, the Russians would have access to Kramatorsk, one of the last large fortress cities in the Donbass.
He's been at the front for four years, says Mechan, the unit's gray-haired mechanic. "In war, every day counts as three. That's why I look so old," he says. He laughs, but the men's exhaustion is evident. They've been at the position in Kostiantinivka for months. A replacement is nowhere in sight.
That's become too dangerous, says Yevhen. "It's like a medieval siege, only with modern means. The Russians can't get into Kostantinovka, and we can't get out because the drones have everything under control."
In fact, the danger is even greater outside the city, especially along the northbound exit road. The only connection to the Ukrainian hinterland runs across the open fields. Everything entering or leaving Kostantinovka takes this route.
The road is both a lifeline and a death strip. Drones lurk in the air, but also on the ground, ready to launch at any moment. Interceptor nets are designed to deter them from attacking, but this doesn't always work. In several places, drones have torn large holes in the nets. Sometimes a burned-out car wreck stands next to them.
Here, too, military vehicles are the first target. But you can't rely on them. Recently, even a fire engine was shot at. Therefore, all vehicles race forward at maximum speed, 160 kilometers per hour, or better yet, 200. Even an old Lada clatters along the road at well over three figures.
"We lose several vehicles every day," says Yevhen. Only in dense fog does it improve. Then the drone pilots can't see anything. "But unfortunately, we don't have weather like in England." It's a beautiful autumn day in eastern Ukraine, with sunshine and clear skies. It's expected to stay that way for the next few days. In the land of drones, that's not a good prospect.
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🇺🇦 TCC continues to detain people all over Ukraine
- In Lvov, a man was detained right in the courtyard of a residential building. It is reported that local residents blocked the TCC vehicle with cars and the victim had to be released.
- In Kharkov, military commissars beat a man and detained him. Passersby tried to intervene, for which they were sprayed with pepper spray. It is reported that the military commissars punctured the tires of the draft dodger's car.
- In Odessa, a man was detained amid the cries of passersby.
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‼️🇭🇺🇷🇺Hungary will not support the European Commission's proposal to confiscate frozen Russian assets due to possible retaliatory measures from Moscow, — Orban.
▪️Currently, Hungary is "consulting on this issue with Russia," added the country's prime minister....
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Putin:
Russia maintains its position as one of the leading oil producers despite the use of unfair competition mechanisms against us. We provide about 10% of the world's production, and we expect that by the end of the year, 510 million tons of oil will be produced in our country.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian guided aerial bomb struck a target in Nikolaev for the first time
- The distance from the explosion site to the front line is about 60 km, enemy sources claim the launch was conducted from 150 km away from the target.
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Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik on how Russia should respond to the delivery of "Tomahawks":
✔️ Any cruise missile can be equipped with a nuclear warhead. Which warhead actually arrives — high-explosive, cluster, or nuclear — will only be determined after the explosion. These are not fast missiles, there are no "stealth" systems on these missiles, so our air defense systems can easily shoot them down. But it is impossible to know exactly what is flying.
✔️ Right now, everything depends on our military-political leadership — how it will react to the "Tomahawks." So far, we are sending too weak messages to the West, which are ineffective. For example, statements like "You will be in trouble if you supply Ukraine with 'Tomahawks'" do not influence Western politicians.
✔️ It is necessary to declare that as soon as the first missile flies toward Moscow, Washington ceases to exist; instead of a metropolis, we will leave a large radioactive crater. And Europe can be promised a strike on American nuclear weapons depots in Europe. Only such tough statements are understood there. If we continue to remain silent, "Tomahawks" will fly toward us. And if we do not start giving tough responses, it is quite possible that we will face the first nuclear strike on Moscow. This cannot be ruled out.
✔️ We have already seen how tough rhetoric affects Europeans. As soon as we declared that in response to the first "Taurus" missile strike, we would hit the largest military equipment manufacturer in Germany — "Rheinmetall" — talks about missiles stopped. The US only retreats when it receives resistance.
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The EU wants to ban the sale of cigarettes with filters, writes Euronews.
The document has not yet been published and is based on a leak from the European Commission. Several bans and restrictions are planned, but the main argument of the supporters of the ban is precisely cigarettes with filters - ecology. Billions of cigarette butts with filters pollute nature every year. Opponents note that without filters, smokers will inhale more tar and toxins.
In addition, the idea of banning the sale of tobacco to people born after a certain year is being discussed - as was attempted in New Zealand. Such a law was introduced there but was immediately repealed due to a sharp increase in the black market.
No final decision has been made yet. On October 17, EU countries will discuss the issue at a working meeting.
Ukraine will not want to join the EU if so. 😂
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A close look at the bridge in Pokrovsk, damaged by airstrikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
A bit has fallen off the side, a hole appeared in the deck, but it is still passable. It needs to be finished off, or more bombs should have been used from the start.
- Military Informant
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If the US provides Ukraine with "Tomahawks," they will most likely be operated by the Americans themselves, writes the Financial Times.
A Western military official told the newspaper that "the missiles could be delivered relatively quickly with the involvement of American contractors to assist in their use. This would eliminate the need for extensive training of Ukrainian troops and would allow the US to maintain control over targets and other issues."
Moscow may respond with major strikes on Ukraine, a senior NATO official believes.
According to him, Russia will likely respond "with irresponsible rhetoric that includes some nuclear saber-rattling," as well as "a few larger strikes" on Ukraine.
"But I don't think there is a very specific, concrete response that the Russians could give here that would actually be something they didn't expect," the official added.
Western experts interviewed by the publication do not believe that the US will give Ukraine a large batch of "Tomahawks" that would change the "rules of the game." A senior NATO official said that the "Tomahawks" "will complement what Ukraine is already achieving" with its long-range drone attacks.
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The loitering munition "Lancet" strikes a military truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in temporarily occupied Izyum, Kharkov region.
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🇮🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺"Indian authorities in the field of energy imports focus on the interests of consumers," — Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Trump
▪️Official representative of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Randhir Jaiswal practically denied Trump's words that Prime Minister Modi told him about the readiness to stop purchasing Russian oil.
➖"India is a major importer of oil and gas. Protecting the interests of Indian consumers amid an unstable energy situation has always been our priority. Our import policy is entirely based on this goal," he stated.
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Ukrainian channels report on the modernization of the "Geran" — the use of warheads with an incendiary mixture weighing 90 kg in new drones is recorded, as well as an increase in the number of UAVs with antennas that allow controlling the drone directly in flight, when it flies not by coordinates but by operator commands.
It is noted that guided UAVs are used, among other things, for attacks on railway infrastructure in the Chernigov and Sumy regions.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 At night, a large-scale enemy UAV raid was repelled, 51 airplane-type drones were intercepted and destroyed — Ministry of Defense
▪️12 UAVs – over Saratov region.
▪️11 UAVs – over Volgograd region.
▪️8 UAVs – over Rostov region.
▪️6 UAVs – over the Republic of Crimea.
▪️4 UAVs each – over Bryansk and Voronezh regions
▪️3 UAVs – over Belgorod region.
▪️1 UAV each – over Kursk region, Black Sea and Azov Sea.
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