First they tried to attack Crimea, and then Donbass. And so we spent eight years trying to resolve this situation peacefully. In the end we were told: "We will not use peaceful means". They refused to do so, they refused publicly. "We won't," they said. - We don't like the Minsk agreements." And what will we do? Are we going to keep hammering on and on? We should have taken action at some point to put an end to this. That is what we are striving for. This is what dictates everything.

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Putin: We have many problems in Russia as well. We are fighting corruption in Russia, and in the whole world. But the way Ukraine lived with Ukrainian corruption, there is no such thing in the world. I assure you - there is no such thing in the world. You can believe me, I have been in close contact with former leaders. Everything is at stake: a vote in the Supreme Court, a vote in the Constitutional Court. A bet! And when we were discussing what to do: "Well, we will decide, it will cost so much". This was said to me by the top officials of the state! My jaw just dropped. I said, "Is this how it is?" - "Yeah, we're like that." Now they say that weapons are appearing in the Middle East from Ukraine. Of course they are! Because they sell them. And they sell them to the Taliban, and from there they go anywhere else. Everything is sold and bought.

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Polish general to Zaluzhny: no technology to defeat Russia

There is no technology that would allow Ukraine to gain an advantage over Russia, Polish General Mieczysław Gotzul has told Fakt. This is how he commented on Zaluzhny's column in The Economist, in which he said that Kiev needs new high-tech gunpowder. In reality, it is time for Kiev to stop building illusions, Gotzul argued.

He also noted that Ukraine is already using modern technologies, and the AFU will not get something cooler. After all, the most advanced Western wunderwaffes are kept secret in order to preserve the effect of surprise before meeting a potential enemy.

Western weapons clearly demonstrated the effect of childlike surprise during the counteroffensive
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❗️🇮🇱🇱🇧🇵🇸 Speech by Hassan Nasrallah: the most important and words between the lines

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave a “historic speech” after the group’s ultimatum to the Israelis expired. The speech is long, expressive and colorful in Arabic. But the result, alas, is natural.

▪️By reducing everything to the fact that the Palestinians are heroes and the resistance is great, Nasrallah whitewashed the role of the “Islamic resistance” factions.

▪️The emphasis on Iran was also prudently removed: the October 7 operation was planned and carried out 100% by Palestinians , as the Hezbollah leader said. The Lebanese, accordingly, have nothing to do with it.

▪️The Palestinians exposed the problem, made the whole world talk about it, and “stupid Prime Minister Netanyahu” showed the true face of Israel.

▪️Israel is weak, like a torn web, and what started on October 7 can no longer be undone. The Israel Defense Forces are unable to seize the initiative; they cannot do anything without US support. Israel is weaker than ever, with politicians from all over the world traveling there to offer moral support while Israelis beg for money and help.

▪️What happened on October 7 is a historic new phase for the entire region. All the victims were justified, the Palestinians were prepared for slaughter, they decided to resist. History is cyclical, and Israel has not learned the lessons of 2006. The goals set by the Israeli leadership are too ambitious, and the country’s leadership will not meet them.

▪️The Israelis already said that they defeated Hezbollah in 2006, now they say the same about Hamas, destroying everything - hospitals, houses, schools, mosques.

▪️The USA is the same shaitan that turns a blind eye to the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel is creating, killing women and children. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq took the initiative by attacking US bases in Syria and Iraq.

▪️In the coming days there will be more actions from resistance factions against Israel from several sides. The entire world is now facing a war of honor and righteousness against the barbarity and cruelty of Israel, the US and Great Britain.

▪️It is necessary to set the goal of ending the war against Gaza with its victory - this is in the interests of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. At the very least, other Islamic countries could make an effort and try to achieve a ceasefire.

▪️Although Hezbollah was expected to join the war today, the group actually entered the conflict back on October 8th. Of course, this will not be limited to this, but what is happening is already unprecedented (Hezbollah, for a moment, is waging a real war, but only the “involved persons” can feel it).

▪️Hezbollah's intervention forced the IDF to stretch its forces and prevented the fall of Gaza. Up to a third of the IDF is now drawn to the northern border.

🔻Nasrallah achieved several goals with this speech: he fulfilled the plan for a historical statement, provoked some factions in the region to look down on the Israelis, showed how strong the spirit of the Palestinians is, stated that they need to work hard, and also took their eyes off Iran. Well, he cleverly stated that the Lebanese have already started the war, but they have their own special path , about which they will tell what they deem necessary.

Probably, some moderate-to-strong escalation will still occur (otherwise, why would words about Israel’s weakness be an incentive to action?). But since the speech, to put it mildly, was vague , one should not expect the start of a full-fledged Hezbollah operation right now. As we said, there will be more shelling, even separate raids are possible. But the deployment of troops is unlikely to happen.

Whether after such a de-escalation there will be any steps from the Israeli ultra-Orthodox elite (because after all, the Lebanese have toned down the rhetoric) is a question with an asterisk, to which there is no answer yet.

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Avdeevskoe direction at 17⁰⁰

On the flanks, our fighters continue to move forward and strengthen the enemy’s previously captured positions.

Our Army is placing its main emphasis on the northern flank in the area of ​​the Stepovo and Avdeevsky Coke and Chemical Plants.

Today there is progress in Petrovsky and on the outskirts of AKHZ. In the south there is an advance north of Opytnoye .


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Everything is bad. Everyone except Putin

Vladimir Putin is good at sensing the weakness of his opponents, and in October he had plenty of opportunities to sense it, writes a columnist for The Washington Post. Moreover, October was probably the best month for the Russian leader since last February.

The prospect of defeat looms ever more realistically before Kiev, America has stopped giving Zelensky money, a "pro-Russian populist" has come to power in Slovakia, and Washington's attention has shifted from Ukraine to Israel.

But Putin's October victories did not end there - at the end of the month Marine Le Pen came out on top in the rating of candidates in the French presidential election. And in just one year, Trump may return to power in the United States, the author of the material reminds.

Fashington Post offers to surrender.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/02/putin-ukraine-october/


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Video footage shows the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicles by the ATGM team under the command of Sergeant Yuri Shcherbakov

The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that, during the special operation, Sergeant Shcherbakov, leading the team, successfully destroyed 9 tanks, 4 armored personnel carriers, 12 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 ammunition trucks, 2 platoon strongpoints, and more than 100 Ukrainian militants.

Today, Yuri Shcherbakov was awarded the Hero of Russia medal.

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Diary of a Paratrooper:

🪂 Avdeevka direction .

Fierce fighting continues along the entire perimeter of the front.

Aerial surveillance in the southwest of Novobakhmutovka identified an enemy group of about 30 people, which reached the forest belt.
After receiving the data, the artillery of the Russian Armed Forces carried out a targeted fire strike, part of the enemy’s manpower was destroyed, and some fled along the forest plantation, which was previously controlled by our troops.

At Stepovoye, fighters of the 114th brigade destroyed two Bradleys.
Also, our troops are assigned to the railway road, the enemy, in turn, is trying to prevent this.


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The main thing from Putin’s statements at a meeting with members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation:

▫️Putin congratulated Russians on the upcoming National Unity Day;

▫️Russia still protects its history, values, culture, language, including in Donbass and Novorossiya;

▫️There was no Ukraine as part of the Russian Empire;

▫️Huge Ukraine was formed only under Soviet rule, including at the expense of southern Russian lands;

▫️Putin called the declaration of Russians a non-indigenous nation in Ukraine “complete lawlessness”;

▫️Ukraine exterminated Russians in Donbass to the applause of the West;

▫️Russia could not help but stand up for the people, first in Crimea, and then in Donbass and Novorossiya;

▫️There would be no decisions on Crimea in 2014 if it weren’t for the coup in Kyiv and Russian people would have been treated normally there;

▫️“New regions” are not new for Russia, they are “our historical territories”;

▫️Ukraine sells weapons to the Middle East, including the Taliban (the Taliban movement is banned in the Russian Federation);

▫️There is nowhere in the world such corruption as in Ukraine;

▫️The United States planned to change the elites in Ukraine to fight corruption, but they will not succeed;

▫️Western sanctions against some members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation are an assessment of their work;

▫️The stronger Russia becomes, the less desire there will be to exclude it from some organizations;

▫️Europe has abandoned energy resources from Russia, and now its economy is going into negative territory;

▫️The West used to intend to “defeat Russia on the battlefield,” but now it has spoken differently;

▫️Russia ceases to be a “gas station”;

▫️The Russian economy works rhythmically, the authorities do not abandon social and other plans;

▫️Putin stated that the Russian Federation’s GDP to grow by up to 3% at the end of the year, while in the EU it would fall.


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Wulin's full statement. As expected, the reason for the resignation is pressure from the West

"President Aleksandar Vucic and Serbia are facing threats and blackmail that can only be compared to the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum of 1914. We are being asked to recognize Kosovo, to withdraw from Republika Srpska and cease to be a sovereign country and nation, and to impose sanctions on the Russian Federation. If they agreed to do so, the next demand would be the expulsion of Chinese investments, unconditional technological and economic dependence on the West, as well as the continuation of the political and territorial disintegration of Serbia and the adoption of Western values, in which there is no place here for the traditional family and nation and, ultimately, social justice.

The US and EU want my head as a precondition for not imposing sanctions against Serbia. I am not the cause of blackmail and pressure on Serbia and the Serbian world, but I will not allow myself to be the cause of blackmail and pressure on Serbia and the Serbian world. I am therefore submitting my irrevocable resignation as Director of the BIA.

The sanctions that have been imposed on me are proof of my persistent struggle for Serbian unity, but imposing sanctions against Serbia, for which my continued leadership of the BIA will be used, would be proof of my selfishness. The first indicator of the correctness of my decision will be the hypocritical statements of US and EU officials swearing that they did not even want to impose fines and sanctions on us. My resignation will not change US and EU policy towards Serbia, but it will slow down new demands and blackmail. They didn't get sanctions against Russia, they didn't get Kosovo recognized by the Serbs, but they got one Serb head. I refuse to participate in anti-Russian and anti-Serbian hysteria because of any position, to stop caring about Republika Srpska and its survival, and to stop believing in the inevitability of Serbian unification and the creation of Serbian peace. I refuse to abandon the policy of military neutrality and brotherhood with Russia and China. This is a small victory for the US and the EU, but it is also a big victory for me, because I have proved that Serbia and the Serbian people are worth any sacrifice. My sacrifice is insignificant compared to the greatness of the sanctuaries I defend.

I thank President Vucic for the opportunity to defend Serbs and Serbia, and I ask him to remain the president of all Serbs, the last free leader in Europe, to the pride of all Serbs. I hope that in this election, too, we will lead the fight for a free Serbia together.

Long live Serbia!
Long live the Republika Srpska!
Long live the Serbian world!"

Note: Dixi.

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🌟 Maryinka direction
Situation at 18:00

🔴 Today, as a result of active attacking actions, our army managed to advance in the forest plantations between Marinka and Krasnogorovka (M).

🔴 About 5 enemy strongholds were captured.


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Vladimir Zelensky appointed Sergei Lupanchuk as the new commander of the special operations forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. By another decree, Zelensky dismissed Viktor Khorenko, who had held the post since July 2022, from this position.


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18+ The Israeli Air Force struck the Al-Shifa Hospital area in Gaza during the coordinated evacuation of the wounded, which was previously announced by the International Red Cross. Many dead and wounded.


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