Russia is stepping up “nuclear blackmail” by bombing the site of Ukraine’s Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant, its director Igor Polovich said Tuesday.

With Monday’s strike in the southern Mykolaiv region “the second phase of their nuclear blackmail has begun,” said Polovich.

Attacks around nuclear facilities in Ukraine have spurred calls from Kyiv and its Western allies to de-militarise areas surrounding the complexes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine’s military has grabbed dozens of tanks left by fleeing Russian troops in the east, adding crucial weaponry to its arsenal

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N. Korea says it has never supplied weapons or ammunition to Russia

At the same time, their authorities stated that "they do not plan to do this, warning the United States to 'keep their mouths shut' and stop spreading rumors aimed at 'denigrating the image of the country'."

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AFGHANISTAN – 70 Taliban fighters from the city of Shahr Bozur, Badakhshan province, with 15 vehicles of various types and all their military equipment, joined the ranks of the National Resistance Front forces in the city of Lower Iftal.

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URGENT – Syria: Turkish warplanes carried out an operation against the joint military positions of the PKK/YPG and the Syrian regime in the Russian controlled Tel Rifat/Maranez region, targeting the Turkish forces in Syria.

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Ukraine asked Israel to provide intelligence information on the
supply of Iranian UAVs to Russia

➡️ The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense notes the increased intensity of the use by the Russian military of Iranian loitering ammunition Shahed-136 / Geran-2.

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⚡️ *Today's attack on Ochakiv was carried out by the Russian army with the help of Iranian kamikaze drones of the Shahid-136 type, the Operational Command "Pivden" reported.

🔗 FLASH (@Flash\_news\_ua)

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UKRAINE – The Ukrainian authorities are considering the possibility of a large-scale mobilization of women doctors.

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Forces from Israel and the U.S. completed a four-day exercise in the Gulf of Aqaba, Sept. 22.

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https://www.dvidshub.net/news/429843/us-and-israel-complete-unmanned-exercise-gulf-aqaba

🔗 U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet (@US5thFleet)

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Reportedly video of mobilized men at the Sokol airport in Magadan loading onto An-12 aircraft.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/breakingmash/38376

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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Meanwhile, it only took a few hours for another group of mobilised Russians to get dead drunk. "What are we going for? Where are going? F*ck knows!", one concludes.

🔗 Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan)

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A Ukrainian National Guard soldier shot down a Russian Ka-52 helicopter today with an Igla MANPADS in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/ngu_war_for_peace/5687

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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NEW – Reuters news agency reported that Israel agreed to sell Rafael's Spyder air defense system to the UAE.

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OSINT – Iran, Russia and China plan to hold joint naval exercises this fall.

This was stated on Thursday by Chief of the General Staff of the IRGC, Mohammad Bagheri at a press conference at the parade of the country's Armed Forces.

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#Iran showed Russian Tor-M1 air defense systems and a new Rezvan ballistic missile with a range of 1400 km.

🔗 Dana Levi דנה🇮🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧 (@Danale)

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Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in the field, two sources said-- a highly unusual management tactic in a modern military that these sources said hints at the dysfunctional command structure that has plagued Russia's war from the beginning-CNN

🔗 Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel)

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Reportedly a HIMARS strike on a rashist ammo depot.
(With my favorite song).

🔗 Bogdan Vasylchenko 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@BVasylchenko)

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🚨🚨 BREAKING – The possibility of a direct US nuclear conflict with Russia or China is real!

This was stated by the head of the Strategic Command of the US Armed Forces Charles Richard

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Footage of a Ukrainian Varta armoured personnel carrier that was reportedly hit by a Russian tank during the Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv Oblast in early September.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/grey_zone/15125

🔗 Status-6 (@Archer83Able)

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The Ukrainian BTR-80 skilfully escaped the impact of an anti-tank guided missile in the Kharkiv direction

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