#BREAKING Ruben Vardanyan has been detained, now in Baku, Azerbaijan.

WSJ: Germany Stalling Long-Range Cruise Missile Delivery to Ukraine

Germany is holding off sending Taurus long-range precision missiles to Ukraine because of concerns they would require German technicians to operate on the ground, which some officials fear could drag Berlin closer to a direct confrontation with Russia.

German officials said Germany’s three-party coalition government had approved delivery of the Taurus in principle but that Chancellor Olaf Scholz had stalled the move because of concerns that German personnel would have to travel to Ukraine to help service and operate the complex weapon.

Scholz believes moving military personnel to a war zone would require a vote of parliament, the officials said. He is also concerned that such a move could drag Germany deeper into the conflict, possibly causing a direct confrontation with Russia.

The Guardian:

Ukraine suggested allies launch missile strikes on Iraninian Shahed UAV factories.

Among the suggestions for action by Ukraine’s western allies – at which they would probably baulk – are “missile strikes on the production plants of these UAVs in Iran, Syria, as well as on a potential production site in the Russian Federation”.

According to the document, Iran has already diversified its production through the use of a Syrian factory delivering to the Russian port of Novorossiysk but the production of drones is shifting to Russia, to the central Tartar region of Alabuga, although Tehran continues to supply the components.

The document goes on:

“The above may be carried out by the Ukrainian defence forces if partners provide the necessary means of destruction.”

Footage showing the detention of Ruben Vardanyan in Karabakh.

Azerbaijani soldiers and doctors saved a 90-year-old Armenian woman in Karabakh.

“We can't bear to leave you here. Don't every worry. Let's go now, you will be treated and you will get better. We’ve no business with you, civilians. The Republic of Azerbaijan will take care of you.”

“Let the Armenian people be lost,” said the Armenian woman Gyozal Uguryan.

The first footage of the production process of УМПК - unified planning and correction module for Russian FAB-500 M-62 bombs (Russian version of JDAM aka JDAMski) at Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV) in Moscow.

Swiss authorities rejected an initiative to re-export Swiss weapons to Ukraine.

Russian head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Krasnodar was detained on suspicion of corruption.

Oleg Volynkin was detained on suspicion of abuse of power, he could face up to 10 to 15 years in prison.

🦾 The iron fist remains alive and kicking.

🇦🇿 Karabakh is Azerbaijan.

🎬 A Clash Report Original Series

#BREAKING Another member of Armenian-backed illegal regime in Karabakh, Vitaly Balasanyan, has been reportedly detained by Azerbaijani forces.

Balasanyan served as the head of the National Security Council of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh from November 2016 to November 2019 and again from December 2020 to January 2023.

He was also Major General at the so-called Artsakh Defense Army.

In the 1st Karabakh War, when Armenians occupied Kalbajar, they captured the child seen in this video footage recorded in April 1993.

The woman begging the Armenians there is his grandmother.

Armenian soldiers, ignoring the pleas and cries of his grandmother, put the boy on the tank and took him away.

They killed the grandmother in front of the child (Zabil Seferov) and kept him captive for 3 years.

For three long, excruciating years, Zabil and others like him endured the horrors of captivity.

In Armenian prison camps in Khankendi and Agdara, and within the merciless walls of Shusha prison, they were reduced to slaves.

The oppressors wielded their power without restraint, torturing and taking lives at will, regardless of age.

Under the leadership of the ICRC, he was released in a prisoner exchange in 1996.

Zabil Seferov was but a mere 15-year-old when the Armenians snatched him from his world in Kalbajar.

Today, Iran’s Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, using three-stage Qased launch vehicle, launched into Earth orbit the military reconnaissance satellite Noor 3.

Noor 3 was launched into orbit about 450 km above the Earth.

Iran claims Noor 3 is 7 kg heavier and its camera resolution is 2.5 times better than that of the previous Noor 2.

Noor 2 had a mass of 17 kg and a resolution of 12-15 meters.

The new Noor 3 satellite launched now should have a mass of 24 kg and a resolution of about 5-6 meters.

Russian FM Lavrov:

The leadership of Armenia should remember the unenviable fate of countries that relied on the United States.

Russia's interests in the Transcaucasus cannot be historically and geopolitically ignored.

There are many in the Armenian leadership who want to lose Russia and find new friends.

The United States and Ukraine agreed to work together under the control of the Pentagon to detect and prevent corruption crimes related to the supply of American weapons to Ukraine.

The relevant memorandum was signed by representatives of the US Ministry of Defense and NABU.

According to NABU, from October 18 Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch will monitor the receipt of aid that Washington sends to Kyiv, and will cooperate with the supervisory bodies of the US Agency for International Development and the US State Department.

Germans celebrating Oktoberfest in Saxony by listening to Nazi songs and making Hitler salutes.

4 x Russian FAB-500M62 guided bomb strikes on the Nibulon Port terminal in the Kherson region.

#BREAKING Another member of Armenian-backed illegal regime in Karabakh, David Babayan, voluntarily surrenders to the authorities of Azerbaijan.

He’s been serving as the so-called “Foreign Minister of Artsakh”.

#BREAKING Armenian-backed illegal regime in Karabakh abolishes itself.

On January 1, 2024, the “Republic of Artsakh” will cease to exist.

Institute for the Study of War (ISW):

Iran may soon conclude an agreement with the Russian Federation on the transfer of missiles.

UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which prohibits Iran from supplying ballistic missiles to other countries, expires on October 18.

Russia aims to acquire Iran's Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar ballistic missiles, both of which have a range of 300 kilometers or more.

Reports claim Azerbaijani flag will start to fly in Khankendi this noon.

Politico:

The US State Department and the Pentagon have disagreements over the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

State Department believes that deliveries need to be accelerated and intensified, but the Pentagon takes a “more cautious position”.