Photographer Roman Filippov reports from Donetsk:

This is what studying looks like in a school that has already been hit by four shells. The head teacher teaches the only student in the corridor, away from doors and windows. That morning a shell hit about 20 metres from the school - it sliced the whole facade and blew out half the windows.

In fact, all the kids are now in distance learning, and this kid probably has no computer, I didn't look into the details.

In Dagestan (Russia) FSB and MVD are arresting administrators of anonymous Telegram channels which have been stirring up protest mood and propagating fake news about the mobilization.
The authors of the channels presented false information, mixing it with religious messages to influence the mostly religious residents of North Caucasus.

Moreover, organizers of “protest” actions against mobilization are being arrested too. One of them was arrested 30 September, early in the morning. There were Molotov’s cocktails, “butterfly” knives and many other things found at his home. It is very significant that he had arrived from the Moscow region specifically to take part in these meetings.

⚔️🇷🇺🇺🇦 "What about Ukraine's Advance in ____ ?"

When Russia advances, they do so at the expense of Ukrainian forces while preserving their own.

When Ukraine advances they do so at the expense of Ukrainian forces while Russia preserves their own.

They are not fighting for territory at this point in time - they are preserving their forces while destroying the finite reserves Ukraine has assembled for these large-scale offensives.

Asking every day/hour about Kharkov, Lyman, Kherson - this village and that village - while ignoring the logistical and sustainment cliff Ukraine's forces are hurdling over means you don't get it and probably won't at this point.

Meanwhile those panicking and in hysterics are rendering themselves in service of Western propaganda - creating anger, tension, division is the whole purpose of this offensive that otherwise is unsustainable and incapable of delivering "victory."

Donetsk was shelled on September 28, at 5 am. Something unusual: some 155mm shells exploded above the surface, they hadn’t reached the road or the walls. The fragments were scattered around, craters are relatively small.

Usually such ammunition is used to increase the fragmentation damage factor. In short, to kill more people.

SBU recruits children from socially vulnerable families in Kherson Region to assist shelling of the region. This was reported by a teenager to Izvestiya on 20 September.

According to him, the special service needs data for shelling civilians. According to a 14-year-old resident of Kiselevka, he and his friend began communicating with SBU representatives via social networks.

As a result, the children sent photos, videos and coordinates of Russian military equipment to the Ukrainian special services. The children were promised to be paid three thousand hryvnias per picture.

The fact that the teenager was sending information to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) was discovered after his phone was checked at a checkpoint. The phone contained pictures of military equipment.

The information for artillery strikes was also sent to the AFU by the mentally retarded teenager’s uncle. The man said that he had been doing tasks for the SBU, but realized his mistake.

Blinken said that there is now a great opportunity to supply gas to Europe:

"It's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy."

Everything is so open, brazen and cynical! Europeans are being ripped off so openly and obviously that there is no point speaking for these "losers". They are totally incapable of defending their national interests, the "punching bag" regime suits them completely

Ukrainian propagandist Arestovich called the AFU criminals.

"By the way, from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation, all servicemen fighting in the ATO ("Anti-Terrorist Operation" is the official name of the war in Donbas in Ukraine since 2014) are all criminals without exception. ALL. And in terms of international law too. Because the status of the ATO does not explain why we fire "Grad" MRLS at peaceful cities, hit them with heavy artillery and use aviation.

The video is old, but it has not lost its relevance.

The Daily Mail reports that legendary 61-year-old Ukrainian Top Gun with the call sign 'Grandfather', who led the infamous 'Ghosts of Kyiv' pilot division, died in a combat mission over the Black Sea.
(Remember, that the "Ghost of Kiev" never really existed, this has long been officially recognised by the Ukrainian Air Force)
But Air Force Colonel Mikhail Matyushenko, 61, was indeed killed in an air battle over the Black Sea.

Eleven countries, including Russia, Belarus and China, issued a joint statement in Geneva condemning the limitation on the rights and freedoms of Russians and Russian-speaking residents unleashed by the authorities of several states in recent months.

Bolivia, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela joined the statement.

Macron made his first appearance in a turtleneck, which French officials have begun wearing instead of traditional shirts and ties to save on heating costs

While Lisichansk city is trying to recover from the hell it has endured and to prepare for the winter, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed the water department and the equipment used to restore critical infrastructure. Kiev wants the city's residents to live without water, heat and light even in winter.

They shot teachers, who had started working” - Kharkov region residents about atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Elena, a refugee from Kharkov region, could not hold her tears, telling about nazi atrocities.

A Photo of George Bush, made using the faces of dead American soldiers.

You lied, Bush, and sent these men to die, every face in every picture probably had family and aspirations, ruined because of your greed, I am not even the most American-loving man around, but I know we are equally worthless to you, I hope you never slept in peace since then, filth.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺The New York Times wrote that Daria Dugina's murder was organized by Ukrainian special services and sanctioned by "parts of the Ukrainian government", while US special services had nothing to do with and were not even aware of the assassination attempt being prepared and were afraid of possible escalation after the murder.

Strictly speaking, it looks like an attempt to cover oneself up, especially since the NYT is the main mouthpiece of the current White House administration. However, it should be remembered that such a scenario (proactive Ukrainians decided to carry out an attack without asking permission from their masters in Washington and Langley) is possible and even took place back in 2016 with the attacks in Crimea, which incidentally involved the current GUR head Kirill Budanov and for which Biden personally scolded Poroshenko by phone.
Quote:
"The United States is concerned that such attacks — while high in symbolic value — have little direct impact on the battlefield and could provoke Moscow to carry out its own strikes against senior Ukrainian officials. American officials have been frustrated with Ukraine’s lack of transparency about its military and covert plans, especially on Russian soil.

Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s security services have demonstrated their ability to reach into Russia to conduct sabotage operations. The killing of Ms. Dugina, however, would be one of the boldest operations to date — showing Ukraine can get very close to prominent Russians."

OPEC+ countries will cut oil production despite requests and panic in the US.

The OPEC+ monitoring committee agreed to reduce oil production during a meeting on October 5.

As reported by Reuters citing sources, the production will be reduced by 2 million barrels per day (this is the maximum possible reduction).

In the run-up to the OPEC+ meeting, the US presidential administration was actively trying to oppose the decision to reduce production.

According to CNN, plans to reduce production by more than 1 million bpd caused panic in the White House.

OPEC+ opposes the cap for Russia for fear of setting a precedent for other exporting countries. And the higher the difference between market and 'ceiling' prices, the less likely it is that the cap will actually be met."
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