French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu:

France is studying Armenia’s defense needs.

“The President (Emmanuel Macron) is personally monitoring what is happening because this issue is extremely important for France. He said that our absolute goal is the integrity, sovereignty and protection of the population of Armenia.

We have opened a defense mission in a country that did not exist until today and which will allow daily contact with the Armenian army and authorities to study their defense and security needs.

In any case, we are considering requests coming from Armenia so that they can defend themselves.”

Full video from the crash site of Russian Su-35 fighter jet, shot down by Russian air defense system in a friendly fire incident. The pilot was killed.

The jet fell in a field near the village of Novomykolaivka in Zaporizhzhia region - more than 35 km from the nearest contact line near Robotyne.

The footage was recorded by Ukrainian Shark UAVs, which flew unhindered to such a depth without being shot down by air defense.

But Russians successfully shot down their fighter jet.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted for a temporary bill that will allow the US government to continue operating for 45 days.

Aid to Ukraine was not included in the bill, despite pressure from Pentagon.

President Biden supported the bill to advance.

Supporters of Ukraine say failure to pass the aid will encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin and likely lead European allies to pare back their support for the war.

The Drive / The War Zone:

Satellite imagery shows Russia is now painting the silhouettes of Tu-95MS “Bear-H” strategic bombers in parking revetments at its master bomber base, Engels Air Base, also known as Engels-2.

Planet Labs satellite imagery obtained by The War Zone that was taken on Sept. 29 shows the two-dimensional decoys adorned on Engels’ tarmac — a near 'copy-paste' of the four-engine bomber’s distinctive planform right down to its black-painted cockpit area.

A second painted decoy appears partially complete next to the finished one.

It's worth noting that it is possible that these are some sort of low profile cloth/canvas or other decoy, but it has little to no vertical dimension, so paint is most likely.

Further details:

Separately, having assured Zelensky on Wednesday that the UK “will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine”, Mr Shapps suggested that Britain was preparing to play a more active role helping the country to defend itself against attacks in the Black Sea, where Russia has been increasingly targeting cargo ships carrying grain.

“We’ve seen in the last month or so, developments – really the first since 2014 in the Black Sea, in Crimea – and Britain is a naval nation so we can help and we can advise, particularly since the water is international water.

“It’s important that we don’t allow a situation to establish by default that somehow international shipping isn’t allowed in that water. So I think there’s a lot of places where Britain can help advise. [I] did discuss it with President Zelensky and many others this week.”

Deploying British troops to Ukraine or offering naval support in the Black Sea would mark a significant escalation in the UK’s involvement in the conflict.

One of the terrorists neutralized by Turkish Police during the attempted terror attack in Ankara today.

Medvedev:

German factories for the production of Taurus cruise missiles will become a legal target for the Russian Armed Forces if these missiles are supplied to Ukraine.

British military instructors will become a legal target for the Russian Armed Forces if training courses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are transferred to Ukraine.

The West is actively pushing Russia towards World War III.

Ukrainian HIMARS GMLRS strike on Russian Tor-M air defense system near Molochansk, south of Tokmak.

The German company DMG Mori, which bypasses all sanction decisions, continues to support Russia's military power.

While DMG Mori doesn't even sell CNC machines to defense industry companies in Turkey, it serves Putin's empire.

Russian customs records confirmed that DMG has delivered production machines with the latest technology to Russian defense companies.

During the ongoing war, DMG Mori earned millions of dollars from defense equipment used against Ukraine.

It's very clear that without equipment provided by the West, Russia's defense industry would not be able to produce sufficiently.

However, companies like DMG Mori continue to support Russian imperialism instead of supporting Ukraine and preventing the killing of civilians.

Azerbaijani flag has been raised in the city of Khojavend.

Reported footage showing Malian Air Force Bayraktar TB2 UCAV strike on a gathering of local militants.

Türkiye is targeted with weapons donated by Russia and the USA!

The weapons donated by the USA and Russia, who believed that security in Syria could be provided with terrorist organizations and illegitimate administrations, were used in the attack attempt in Ankara.

Terrorists, while trying to carry out an attack in Türkiye's capital with a Russian-origin RPO-A Shmel rocket launcher and a US-origin Colt M4 Carbine assault rifle, were killed by Turkish police.

British PM Sunak:

British soldiers will not be sent to participate in the conflict in Ukraine.

Plans to send British trainers to Ukraine involve long-term cooperation beyond the end of the current conflict.

Reports claim Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR) successfully attacked the parking lot of Russian helicopters in the Adler district of Sochi.

"Israel is guilty of killing Armenians with the weapons it produced"

Armenian Ambassador to Israel Hakobyan stated this in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

According to the ambassador, with the help of Israeli weapons, Azerbaijan is allegedly carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in Karabakh.

Ukraine’s People's Deputy Zheleznyak:

Ukraine received a warning from the United States that there should be no high-profile corruption scandals in the Ukraine for 45 days so that money for Ukraine does not disappear from the main budget.

#BREAKING UK deploys Typhoon fighter jets to Poland to defend against increasing Russian threat.

#BREAKING The terrorist organization PKK claims responsibility for the attempted terrorist attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ankara today.

Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Republican):

The priority for me is America and our borders.

Now, I support being able to make sure Ukraine has the weapons that they need, but I firmly support the border first.

They have more than $3 billion dollars right now to help them (Ukraine) to get through it. If they have some challenge, we can sit down and we can talk about that.

But the American border matters and more Americans are dying on our border than Americans are dying in Ukraine.