Ukraine’s StratCom:

2 x Russian Project 22160 patrol ships, including Vasily Bykov, were attacked & damaged in the Black Sea.

Close footage showing destroyed Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk in Sevastopol after Ukrainian strike.

Ukrainian kamikaze USV approaching to strike Russian Project 22160 patrol ship Vasily Bykov in the Black Sea.

The attack seems to have failed.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un visited Russian aircraft factories in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Kim Jong-un was shown the unit-assembly production of fighter jets and the final assembly shop for Su-35s & Su-57s.

At the end of the program, Kim Jong-un and Denis Manturov observed the demonstration flight of Su-35 multirole fighter jet.

WaPo:

Elon Musk turned off Starlink not only in Crimea, but also in the East of Ukraine during the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Musk biographer Walter Isaacson reported that the billionaire did not allow the Internet to be used “for offensive purposes,” and in response to criticism, he said:

“If you read the terms of service, it [the Internet] was intended to be used only for defensive purposes.”

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FT:

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not appeared in public for more than two weeks.

US authorities believe that it is likely that Li Shangfu is under investigation and removed from his duties.

Joe Biden said he told Vladimir Putin at the Geneva summit in June 2021 that China does not respect Russia:

I said, “You got essentially a 6,000-mile border with China. Your tundra is melting in the Arctic Circle. Methane is coming out. You got a lot of problems, and China doesn’t respect you that much.”

And he looked at me; he kind of stood up.

Top U.S. General Mark Milley:

The war in Afghanistan did not go the way we wanted. More broadly, the war was lost. We have many regrets.

When the enemy occupies the capital you support, it is a strategic setback, a strategic failure.

Turkish Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV has completed 30,000 flight hours.

Turkish aerospace company BAYKAR has signed export agreements with 31 countries for Bayraktar TB2 UCAV & with 8 countries for the Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV so far, totaling 32 countries.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un inspecting Russian Su-57 fighter jet.

Trump:

Our country's going to hell, but I can save it.

Ukrainian T-80BV tank supports the infantry assault with BMP-2 IFV.

Chinese Foreign Ministry did not comment on rumors about the “disappearance” of the Chinese Defense Minister:

The department is not familiar with this situation.

Meanwhile U.S. sources leak that Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu was removed from his post, adding that Shangfu was taken away last week by authorities for questioning.

Li hasn’t made a public appearance since late August. The U.S. officials cited unspecified intelligence as the basis for their assessment that he has been relieved of his duties.

Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev:

Moscow had "neutralised" hundreds of foreign spies in recent years.

In recent years, hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services, as well as other persons involved in organising intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, have been identified and neutralised.

China imposes sanctions against American defence companies Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin over arms sales to Taiwan.

A first in Sudan.

Sudanese Armed Forces now using FPV kamikaze drones against Rapid Support Forces.

UK MoD shares satelitte image of the destroyed Russian Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk & Kilo-class Rostov-on-Don (B-237) submarine in Sevastopol.

Note that they were destroyed by British Storm Shadow cruise missiles fired from Ukrainian Su-24s.

UK MoD notes that “any effort to return the submarine to service is likely to take many years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. There is a realistic possibility that the complex task of removing the wreckage from the dry docks will place them out of use for many months.”

Adding that “The loss of the Rostov removes one of the BSF’s four cruise-missile capable submarines which have played a major role in striking Ukraine and projecting Russian power across the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean.”

Putin:

Russia has never refused negotiations on Ukraine, if the other side wants, let them say so.

Russia is not going to violate anything, but will develop cooperation with the DPRK within the framework of international law.

We are not creating any threats to anyone, this is nonsense, North Korea is our neighbor.

The Russian Federation records foreign instructors on the battlefield, they were captured again the other day.

Liberated Andriivka, or what’s left of it.