US congressman Paul Gosar calls for an end to aid to Ukraine

🇺🇲 Biden's former rival in the election, Tulsi Gabbard, announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party and called on colleagues to follow her example.

She said Democrats are "controlled by an elitist cabal of war mongers" that divides people, undermines freedoms, protects criminals, persecutes opponents "and, above all, drags us into a nuclear war."

❗In leaked documents, The Grayzone names British individuals involved in the explosion of the Crimean bridge. They are Chris Donnelly, an MI5 colonel and senior NATO adviser, and Hugh Ward, a British army veteran and developer of plans to destroy the Russian bridge.

Mr Donnelly has already made headlines in Underside investigations. As former director of The Institute for Statecraft, Donnelly is associated with the Integrity Initiative, which was funded directly by the UK government and, like the EXPOSE network, was a CDMD (Counter Disinformation and Media Development Unit) project headed by Andy Price. All of these individuals and organisations were responsible for interfering in the internal political processes of countries. They are all part of the anti-Russian consortium EXPOSE Network, a vast network engaged, among other things, in instigating and activating protest activity within Russia through information activity. Partners include the British Council, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the online publication Bellingcat.

According to Anonymous documents, Chris Donnelly was one of the co-founders of ARK FZC, an information agency that ran propaganda operations in Syria, Lebanon and the Balkans for British pounds. At the head of ARK, Donnelly went to the hottest spots in the Balkans to take them under Western control.

Now, British intelligence has moved on from information warfare to terrorist attacks. The terms of the "mission" are to worsen Russia's ability to blockade Kiev, to undermine Moscow's military capabilities through disrupting road and rail access to Crimea and sea access to the Sea of Azov. Apart from blowing up the bridge, the plan did not include any indication of preventing civilian casualties. The whole plan was described by Chris Donnelly as "very impressive indeed".

This is no longer "soft power", but full-scale British military action on Russian territory.

And this is Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, in 2003.

No condemnation, eh? The war was televised and celebrated. Over 2,000 people died in a few days. It was a "democratic bombing". By the way, it was specifically targeting people, hence so many deaths.

A timely reminder that Russia is not only destroying - it's rebuilding, too.

"This is Mariupol. New microdistrict Nevsky. There was just a field here in the summer.”

A blogger shows what the new buildings and the surrounding area looks like in the district which builders from the Russian Ministry of Defense started to construct from scratch in the summer.

“ There are sports grounds, plain grass, alleys here. And ordinary benches. I have not seen anything like this before”, -- he added.

❓So, if Russia is able to perform precision strikes while avoiding civilian casualties, does that mean something is wrong with their military capabilities?
Do these journalists and their editors even have brain cells?

Russia's victory in the Ukraine conflict would be a defeat for NATO - alliance secretary-general.
🤔 Sounds like admitting that NATO is a party to the conflict, doesn't it?

Other statements by Jens Stoltenberg on 11 October:
▪️NATO sees no sign of Russia's intention to use nuclear weapons, but remains vigilant;
▪️NATO will hold a nuclear deterrence exercise next week;
▪️NATO defence ministers to decide on increasing the alliance's stockpile of weapons;
▪️Hybrid and cyber attacks on NATO countries' infrastructure could trigger activation of Article 5 of the alliance's collective defence treaty;
▪️NATO is currently assessing the need for an emergency summit.

Russian strikes on railway nodes used by Ukrainian military

Yesterday, amid a wave of attacks on energy facilities, the Russian Air Force carried out high-precision strikes on important railway logistics hubs of the AFU. In particular, the Pavlograd hub (Dnipropetrovsk region) was hit for the second time in a few days, where enemy manpower and equipment were concentrated, ready to be moved to the front. This junction is extremely important, as it is the railway artery for the entire AFU grouping in Donbass (see map). Its elimination paralyzes the transfer of heavy equipment to the front. The AFU will be forced to use regular roads while the junction is out of action, wasting resources and fuel.

The second target hit by the shelling was the Shepetivka junction (Khmelnytsky region). This complicates the supplies to the AFU southern grouping in the Kherson region. They will be significantly delayed in receiving equipment, which used to be repaired at a nearby repair plant (also destroyed yesterday).

Experts have begun calculating the Ukrainian side's losses in heat generation and power generation after yesterday's strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on critical infrastructure.

According to open sources, at least 8.22 GW of TPPs and CHPPs were hit in Ukraine. This is 30% of the country's thermal power generation and 15% of its total generation.

According to experts, the current number of idle TPPs and CHPPs is similar to what Ukraine had in the same period of last year, when it was experiencing problems with coal reserves. At that time, the problem of electricity shortage was solved with the help of extraordinary loading of nuclear power plants. Now it is impossible to do that, because Zaporizhzhya NPP accounts for 40% of the total nuclear capacity, and it is now under Russian control.

War crimes: Fake and real (Part 1)

Ex-ombudsman of Ukraine confessed to Vovan and Lexus that Ukrainian authorities and the intelligence service asked her to promote fake news of Russian Armed Forces crimes.

Ludmila Denisova talked to pranksters who introduced themselves as the former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

War crimes, fake and real - Part 2.

Soldiers of the 25th brigade of the AFU spoke of command orders to commit atrocities.

“Shoot everybody when you enter the village”. Such an order was received by Ukrainian troopers.

According to them, following the order would mean killing civilians, even women and children, since they would throw grenades into сellars where people were hiding.

Also the AFU soldiers said that they were thrown at the frontline and ordered to kill the wounded in order to avoid having to evacuate them.

That is why the soldiers decided to talk about the atrocities which were demanded of them by their commanders. They declared their refusal to go to war with such a command.

On 11 October, the first train carrying residents of the Kherson Region arrived from Crimea to Anapa district, Krasnodar Krai (Russia). Most of the arrivals are children, some of them from orphanages.

These people travel to Russia for safety reasons, amid ongoing military action in the Kherson region and its vicinity.

According to Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry press service, employees of the ministry's Crimea and Krasnodar Departments are welcoming the residents of Kherson Region and escorting them on their way to Anapa.

The press service of the Krasnodar Krai administration specified that more than 500 people have arrived and will be accommodated in two health camps in Anapa, where they will be provided with everything they need during their stay.

Borrell Admitted that NATO Could Fail to Keep Some of Its Promises to Russia

NATO may not have kept some of its promises to Russia, EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrel said during a speech at the Charles Antwerp Foundation in Madrid.

“I am not satisfied with the reasoning and arguments with which many people, including my friends <…> justify aggression by saying that NATO has not kept its promises. It’s possible. This is history. None of this justifies what is happening now,” Borrell said.