❗️️️🇷🇺🇺🇦Chronicle of the special military operation
for October 26, 2022

🔻Starobelsk direction (see the map):

▪️In the Svatovsky sector, Ukrainian armored personnel carriers made five attempts to storm the positions of the Russian Armed Forces near the village of Kuzemovka. Russian troops repelled all attacks, the enemy retreated towards Sandy.

▪️In the Limansky sector, Russian units of the 3rd Motor Rifle Division of the 20th Army launched a counteroffensive on the eastern bank of the Zherebets River, knocking out the enemy from Makeevka and Novosadovoe. The RF Armed Forces are engaged in fierce battles with the enemy in Terny, Yampolovka, and Torsk.

▪️In the Lisichansk sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the defensive after failed attempts to storm the Russian positions near Belogorovka.

🔻Soledar direction:

▪️There have been no significant changes in the front line over the past day: Wagner PMC units are repelling enemy attacks in the area of ​​the asphalt plant on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), and are also fighting in the vicinity of Experienced.

🔻Donetsk direction (see the map):

▪️Russian servicemen are developing an offensive near the village of Peski. Subdivisions of the Sparta battalion occupied enemy strongholds on the Donetsk Ring Road, and also liberated most of Vodyanoye,

Parts of the NM of the LPR cleared the advanced positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Opytnoe, and are also fighting in the western part of Pervomaisky and in the fields near Nevelsky.

▪️Ukrainian artillery shelled the Donetsk agglomeration again: Donetsk, Makeevka, Golmovsky, Mikhailovka and other settlements were hit. Also, Ukrainian formations attacked an oil depot in the city of Shakhtersk - 12 tanks caught fire. The fire that started at the place of arrival spread to private houses.

🔻Zaporozhye direction:

▪️There are no significant changes to the front line. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in preparation for the counteroffensive, is concentrating additional forces in the area of ​​Orekhov and Gulyaipol.

▪️The parties are engaged in artillery duels along the line of contact.

▪️Toward midnight, a powerful explosion thundered in Zaporozhye, the city partially lost power.

🔻Southern Front: Nikolaev-Berislav direction

▪️The Ukrainian command continues to prepare for a large-scale offensive along the entire front line. At the same time, Russian units are strengthening the defenses and equipping new positions.

▪️After regular shelling of the crossing of the Dneper by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the passage of civilians on ferries from the right bank to the left was restricted.

▪️There was a terrorist attack in Kherson: unknown people fired from an RPG on the building of the police department in the Dnipro district. There are no victims or injured.

🔻Dnepropetrovsk region

In the evening hours, the RF Armed Forces delivered a massive blow to the Geran-2 UAV-kamikaze against enemy targets in certain regions of Ukraine. Explosions were recorded in Dnepropetrovsk and Pavlograd.

🔻Odessa region

During the evening strikes, Geran-2 UAV-kamikaze hit targets in the Ovidiopol district of the Odessa region.

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⚡️⚡️ Some key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on October 27


Blame it on the weather
Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine's defence minister, said wet weather and rough terrain were making Kyiv's counter-offensive in Kherson harder than it was in the northeast, where it pushed Russia back in September. Reznikov declined to elaborate when pressed on Kyiv's plans in the south, according to Reuters. However, Advisor to the office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich said that the situation in the Kherson direction has changed in an unpleasant direction for Kyiv. According to him, a "huge military force" has been thrown there.

While officials and military analysts have predicted Kherson battle will be one of the key ones, Russian forces are developing a counter-offensive in the north of Luhansk region as well as in Donetsk front.

Kherson evacuation
"The administration of the Kherson region has been moved from Kherson to the left bank,” Deputy head of the regional administration Kirill Stremousov told RIA Novosti. According to him, the city services of Kherson continue to work in a special mode.
Acting head of the region Vladimir Saldo said more than 70 thousand people had left for the left bank of the Dnieper after the authorities of the Kherson region urged residents to leave Kherson immediately "due to the tense situation at the front."

Plan B
US officials have been forced to scale back a plan to impose a cap on Russian oil prices, Bloomberg reports, following skepticism by investors and growing risk in financial markets brought on by crude volatility and central bank efforts to tame inflation.

Instead of strangling the Kremlin’s oil revenues by imposing a strict lid on prices that would have been observed by a broad “buyer’s cartel” of nations, the US and European Union are likely to settle for a more loosely policed cap at a higher price than once envisioned, with just Group of Seven nations and Australia committed to abide by it, according to people familiar with the matter.

CIA hand
The head of the CIA, William Burns, travelled to Ukraine in early October, CNN revealed citing sources. In Kyiv, he held meetings with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and other officials. “While there, he reinforced the US commitment to provide support to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, including continued intelligence sharing,” a US official told CNN.

Putin at Valdai
Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in a plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club on the last day of the conference. The session’s topic will be A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security For Everyone. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Putin would deliver an extensive report, which will be followed by a discussion. The session will be moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov.

“HOW CAN YOU THROW THAT MANY OF YOUR PEOPLE TO DEATH? DO THEY WANT NO MALE CITIZENS LEFT IN UKRAINE AT ALL?”

Igor ‘Said’, battalion commander of the 11th motorized rifle regiment of the 1st DPR Army Corps appeals to the Government of Ukraine.
He has been fighting since 2015. Even he is surprised by Kiev's attitude to their own soldiers.

Like at Kherson: Vladimir Zelensky approved Washington’s simple decision - to pave all the way to Kherson with Ukrainian soldiers’ corpses. And in addition, they need to take this city by storm without encircling it.

Kiev is doing its best not to let Biden down, trying to make noise about the success of their country which is in fact a cooling corpse.

💥Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/Sladkov_plus
💥Translated by @node_of_time_en

‘Kolomoysky wanted to take over Odessa. He’d do well: five ports, drug trafficking, and all that.’ Experts and local residents explain what role the oligarch Igor Kolomoysky played in the formation of Nazism in Ukraine.

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The armed Forces of Ukraine say they will not report on the results of their air defence operation

This also applies to the progress of arrival of IRIS-T and Nasams anti-aircraft missile systems and their combat performance, the statement says.

It looks like the vaunted NATO systems developed in the 90s, have failed to meet Ukrainian hopes.

💥Source: t.me/RVvoenkor
💥Translated by @node_of_time_en

Red Cross Ukraine calls on international Red Cross movement participants to implement "strict measures" against the Russian Red Cross - after it was revealed that they were raising money for the families of the mobilised.

Section - international organisations. 🤦‍♂

Biden administration forced to revise upward the planned ceiling on Russian oil prices as it failed to reach agreement with many countries on its implementation - Bloomberg

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Yet another SUDDEN discovery of Ukrainian nazism by Europeans 🤦‍♂

The Economist magazine called Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grids effective.

Russian strikes on Ukraine's critical energy infrastructure look competent and effective. The British Economist magazine wrote this on October 24, citing experts in the Ukrainian energy sector.

"I believe that the Russian military was assisted by professionals from the Russian energy sector," said Dmytro Sakharuk, executive director of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company.

According to him, the targets were carefully chosen and the strikes targeted power substations connecting different parts of the Ukrainian energy system. The purpose of the strikes was to tear the system apart so that capacity could not be shifted between Ukrainian regions to balance the load, the specialist explained.
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🛰 US commercial satellites could become legitimate targets if they are used in military operations in Ukraine

This was stated by Deputy Head of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Konstantin Vorontsov.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Putin’s speech in Valdai

Key Messages:

- US global dominance (as predicted in the Munich speech more than 10 years ago) is in the past. In fact, we have a new reality, where the United States and its "allies" are in the absolute minority.

- Today's confrontation is akin to the Second World War and will end with the same significant changes for the world.

- The new world is being formed multipolar, and will be built on new rules (the system that exists now has completely discredited itself). - This is not Russia (and China), but the West, its current so-called. "elites" does not have the right to participate in its construction (that is, it is they who are conditional Hitler in this war and not Russia, as this very "elitist" West wants to put it).

- Traditionalists in the West are part of the population enslaved by their elites, and as a result of the struggle they will receive liberation (a very important message).

- Well, the Victory will be ours (and whose else?)

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Based on:
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⚡️⚡️ Some key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on October 28

🐤Musk grabs Twitter
Elon Musk, who advocated for Russia-friendly peace plan for Ukraine, became the owner of Twitter Inc on Thursday. His first move war to fire top executives. He “provided little clarity over how he will achieve the lofty ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform”, as Reuters puts it.

Earlier, Tesla chief said he wants to "defeat" spam bots on Twitter, make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to its users publicly available, and prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division, even as he limits censorship.

⚔️⚠️Sabre-rattling
U.S. President Joe Biden expressed skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin's remark during Valdai Discussion Club on Thursday that he had no intention of using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine."If he has no intention, why does he keep talking about it? Why is he talking about the ability to use a tactical nuclear weapon?" Biden said in an interview with NewsNation. “He's been very dangerous in how he's approached this,” Biden added.

As we reported earlier, Putin insisted Russia had not threatened to use nuclear weapons and had only responded to nuclear "blackmail" from Western leaders.

Earlier this month, Biden warned the world of possible nuclear “Armageddon”, after which the U.S. national-security spokesman had to clarify the remarks “were not based on any specific developments and that the White House does not see an imminent threat”.

💣IAEA to check on “dirty bombs”
The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will arrive in Ukraine to check its nuclear facilities in a couple of days, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.

He reiterated that IAEA inspectors would carry out verification activities at two locations in Ukraine, following a written request from the Ukraine government, issued after Russia made allegations about activities related to the possible production of “dirty bombs” at the two locations, which are under IAEA safeguards and have been visited regularly by IAEA inspectors.

💊NATO for EU
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has a message for U.S. Republicans making election promises to slash Ukraine’s support: That will only empower China. Stoltenberg pushed his point in an expansive interview with POLITICO this week, in which the military alliance’s chief made the case for a long-term American presence in Europe and a widespread boost in defense spending. 

“The presence of the United States — but also Canada — in Europe, is essential for the strength and the credibility of that transatlantic bond,” Stoltenberg said. 

🔴Kherson evacuation over
The head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov and the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko visited Kherson on Thursday. According to Aksenov, the process of evacuation of the residents of Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper was completed. “I am glad that everyone was able to quickly and safely leave the territory that is being shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he said.

Aksenov and Kiriyenko, who was previously in charge of Russia’s Rosatom (and the nuclear industry in whole), have also visited Zaporozhye NPP and "assessed the general situation in the area of the station”. He admitted that “things are not easy” for people working at the NPP. “We are doing everything possible to support them,” he claimed.

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The Polish Senate unanimously recognised the Russian authorities as a terrorist regime.

And there is nothing surprising or extraordinary in this decision, it is just Britain continuing to "cut off" Russia from western Europe, thereby preserving US military bases and British influence in the European Union.

In response, it is urgent to recognise Poland as an occupied territory, whose people must soon be freed from the American occupation and the terrorists in power who mock Poland by supporting the Nazis and glorifying the murderers of the Polish people from the UIA and other thuggish nationalists.

Duda's bloody occupation regime must go, the Polish people will be free!

💥Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/VasiletsDmitriy
💥Translated by @node_of_time_en

Polish politicians are already voicing their territorial "wish list": we want Galicia and Moldova!

"The real stakes of this war are Russia's future": Sejm member and former Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Pawel Kowal, said in an interview that the main goal of the West is to make Russia collapse, while Poland's task is to take parts of Ukraine and Moldova.

"Basically, no one doubts that we have a war now between Russia and the West," Kowal said. - Russia and its future are at stake.

"But if the temperature in the flats in Berlin and Paris is low, a lot can still happen. Two or three degrees down will already make Westerners indifferent to Putin's policies."

💥Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/mriya24
💥Translated by @node_of_time_en

Apparently, the report we used as a source was a misinterpretation.
According to the original article (in Polish), Mr. Kowal was talking about the accession of Ukraine and Moldova to EU, not any territorial claims by Poland.
Apologies, and thanks to our Polish subscribers for spotting!