A reasonable response to domestic opponents of SMO from a citizen of Ukraine, living in Europe.

“If they come to you in Russia, they won’t ask who supported Putin and who opposed. They will pummel, slaughter everyone!”

🇨🇳How the Chinese see the situation around Ukraine.
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On 17 October, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the Zaporizhzhya NPP with NATO artillery

HIMARS launched artillery strikes against critical infrastructure of Zaporizhzhya NPP and Energodar.

⚡️⚡️Key updates on Russia and #RussiaUkraineCrisis as on October, 24

💰Marshall plan
A German lobby group representing companies with interests in eastern Europe has called for a plan to rebuild Ukraine that would mirror the Marshall Plan that helped Europe recover from World War Two, the media group RND reported.

The 20-page "Rebuild Ukraine" dossier covering topics from industry to agriculture and energy will be discussed at a Ukraine-Germany business forum in Berlin on Monday, attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal. In an opinion piece in German business newspaper FAZ on Sunday, Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made a similar call for a "new Marshall Plan for the 21st century" for Ukraine.

🌐Valdai meet
The 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, noscriptd “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” kicks off in Moscow on Monday. The meeting will be attended by 111 experts, politicians, diplomats and economists from 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United States, Uzbekistan, the think tank said.

As Kommersant have learnt, many American and European experts who previously regularly participated in the club's events will not come to the Valdai meeting this year given the current circumstances. Several of them told the newspaper that they did not want to be associated in any way with a structure close to the Kremlin, especially since some of the meetings were held openly and broadcast by Russian media. On October 20, the so-called International Working Group on Sanctions against Russia, which is headed by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak and ex-adviser to the US President on national security issues, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, issued recommendations to expand the list of sanctions against Russia.

The annual report prepared by Valdai top experts, including Oleg Barabanov, Timofey Bordachev, Yaroslav Lisovolik, Fyodor Lukyanov, Andrey Sushentsov and Ivan Timofeev, states the their earlier projections (that have become gloomier since 2018) for the global order have come true, and the conflict in Ukraine “is not just a regional conflict or even a dispute over which of the main actors will take a higher place in the global order. It's about whether this order itself will remain in its usual form and if so, how it will look like”.

🚫Deadly crash
The Su-34 bomber crashed in Yeysk on October 17, leading to death of 14 people, due to two seagulls hitting the engine, a TASS source in the security agencies said. It added the birds caused the engine to catch fire. The Investigative Committee of Russia previously called the main version of the crash a technical malfunction of the aircraft. The remains of the birds were found by experts while examining the wreckage of the plane, the agency was told.

Meanwhile, on Sunday another fighter jet crashed in Irkutsk during test flight, again on a residential building. Both pilots died, however the residents were not hurt. The reason for the crash is yet to be announced.

⚠️ZNPP saga
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia is ready to discuss a security zone around Zaporozhye NPP, but not the demilitarization of the NPP. “We cannot fail to guard the station, not to ensure its safety. The protective zone is different, its parameters are under discussion. We think that a certain process of coordination, including diplomatic, with the agency of the parameters of such a protective zone is not just possible — it is necessary", Ryabkov told Izvestia on the sidelines of a diplomatic forum in Moscow.

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Earlier this month, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv as part of the IAEA’s efforts to prevent a nuclear accident during the current military conflict in Ukraine, stressing the urgent need to establish a safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).

🇮🇱Balancing act
Israel has provided Ukraine with intelligence "useful for targeting the Iranian drones," a source told The New York Times in Kiev. Western countries accuse Iran of supplying drones to Russia for using in its “military operation” Ukraine, which both Tehran and Moscow deny.

At the same time, NYT reports, Ukraine’s foreign minister’s plea to Israel for air defense weapons was rebuffed by Israel’s minister of defense, Benny Gantz, largely because Israel depends on Russian cooperation for the Israeli Air Force to conduct raids in Syria. Israel, he said, would provide early warning systems, but not air defense weapons. Mr. Sak, the adviser to the Ukrainian defense minister, said Israel could be missing an opportunity to hone its tactics in facing down threats in its own territory by assisting in the counter-drone efforts now underway in Ukraine, the newspaper reported.

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❗️Briefing on radiation safety threats by Russian MOD’s Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

▪️The Ministry of Defense has information about plans of Kyiv to launch a provocation involving the detonation of a so-called "dirty bomb" or a low-power nuclear munition.

▪️The detonation of a radiological explosive device will inevitably lead to radioactive contamination of an area of up to several thousand square meters.

▪️Thus, there is a motive for the use of a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine, as well as the scientific, technical and production potential for its creation.

▪️As a result of the provocation with the use of a "dirty bomb", Ukraine expects to intimidate the local population, increase the flow of refugees across Europe and expose the Russian Federation as a nuclear terrorist.

❗️The Ministry of Defense has organized work to counter possible provocations from Ukraine: forces and means are ready to perform tasks in conditions of radioactive contamination.

⚡BREAKING NEWS⚡

Russia will send a letter today to UN Secretary General in connection with provocation planned by Kiev involving use of a dirty bomb - First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UN Security Council Polyansky.

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⚡️⚡️Key updates on Russia and #RussiaUkraineCrisis as on October, 25

💣 Dirty bomb talks
The issue of a possible provocation by Kiev using a "dirty bomb" (a device for spraying highly radioactive isotopes) will be discussed at the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at a press conference at the Valdai Discussion Club. According to him, the problem will be identified "today or tomorrow."

The talks are not limited to diplomatic channels — the military, too, engaged in large scale diplomacy. On October 24, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, had a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milli. Earlier on October 24, Gerasimov had the same conversation with the Chief of the British Defense Staff Anthony Radakin. Russian defence minister held talks with both UK and US counterparts on Sunday.

💰Lobbying power
Germany and the EU will co-host a gathering Tuesday on how to rebuild Ukraine after Russia's aggression, but Kyiv shouldn't get its hopes up — the meeting is unlikely to deliver anything concrete, Politico writes. As we reported earlier, a German lobby group representing companies with interests in eastern Europe has called for a plan to rebuild Ukraine that would mirror the Marshall Plan, same plea was repeated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

According to Politico, the conference in Berlin that the German government is co-costing in its capacity as president of the G7 group, however will not include any "pledging segment" and “there won’t be any political agreements endorsed”. Instead, the goal is to provide input “to the relevant political fora” at an unspecified date, an “appropriate juncture, which will be decided politically.”

🔥Blasts around Nord Stream
Helsinki institute of seismology recorded four explosions in Russia equatorial waters of the Finnish bay, where the Nord Stream gas pipeline runs.

According to Finnish seismologists, the explosions occurred in Russian territorial waters about 40 km southwest of Vyborg. The report was first spotted by a local TV channel LOT (Channel 47). The magnitude was 1.3—1.8. According to seismologist Jari Korstrom, quoted by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin sanomat, these aere relatively small explosions — 50-100 kilograms of explosives, even though they were unusual.

⬇️Support cuts
In the first 9 months of 2022, Russian Ministry of Finance reduced the volume of transfers to every fifth Russian region compared to the same period a year earlier, RBC reported citing rating agency ACRA report.

A decrease in revenues (by more than a third) was recorded in the Kaliningrad and Magadan regions. . Transfers to Moscow and St. Petersburg have significantly decreased — by 32 and 18%, respectively. However, both cities do not depend on transfers to "any significant extent," analysts said. The total volume of transfers to the regions increased by 12% year—on-year, primarily due to targeted subsidies.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of the special military operation
for October 24, 2022

🔻Border territories of the Russian Federation:

A terrorist attack occurred in the Bryansk region near the border with Belarus: an improvised explosive device went off on the Novozybkov-Zlynka stretch. The railway track was damaged, there were no victims or injured.

🔻Starobelsk direction (see the map):

♣ Units of the Ukrainian 71st Jaeger Brigade, reinforced by two SOF companies, attempted to storm Russian positions near the villages of Pershotravneve, Orlyanka and Berestovoye. The attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repulsed, under artillery fire the enemy retreated to their original positions.

♣ On the Limansky section of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they tried to take the heights south of Makeevka and again approach Krasnopopovka. Two companies of Ukrainian motorized infantry attacked strongholds of the Russian Armed Forces, but came under concentrated artillery fire and retreated with losses.

♣ In Belogorivka, the battalion of the 54th Ombre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an offensive. Russian units carried out a counter attack and pushed the enemy back to their original positions.

♣ The enemy command continues to transfer reserves to the front line to make up for losses. 20 infantry and 2 tanks arrived in the Serebryanka area.

🔻Soledar direction:

▪️Fights are going on on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut: the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to dislodge the Wagner PMC units from all positions on the territory of the asphalt plant.

🔻Lugansk region:

▪️Ukrainian formations attacked Starobelsk, as well as Zorinsk, Belokurakino, Zolotoe and Krasnorechensk. Late in the evening, a strong explosion thundered in the area of ​​​​the Yubileynaya mine in Luhansk: according to preliminary data, the fire broke out for domestic reasons.

🔻Donetsk direction:

▪️Ukrainian formations shelled Donetsk, Yasinovataya, and other settlements of the agglomeration.

🔻Zaporozhye direction:

▪️There are no significant changes in the situation. Artillery duels are on the front line, Ukrainian DRGs are trying to reveal weaknesses in the Russian defense in the Gulyai-Pole, Orekhovsky and Ugledarsky sectors.

🔻Southern Front: Nikolaev-Berislav direction

▪️On the morning of October 24, two companies of the 3rd and 8th separate regiments of the Ukrainian SOF on three Husky TSV armored vehicles, with the support of the 17th territorial defense battalion on converted civilian vehicles, tried to conduct reconnaissance in combat near the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in Borozensky and Pyatikhatki.

▪️The convoy was discovered from the Orlan-30 drone, after which it was attacked by Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The Giacint-B howitzers and the Smerch MLRS also worked on the forward positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy attack was thwarted: the Ukrainian formations retreated, having lost all armored vehicles.

▪️Ukrainian MLRS HIMARS and Alder launched a missile attack on Novaya Kakhovka, as well as the village of Cairo.

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