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.

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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.

Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki called on Ukraine to be grateful for the fact that Poland gave asylum to millions of Ukrainians, and not to trust Germany.

"I understand that Zelensky now thinks that he will have a close alliance with Germany. I warn you, the Germans will always want to reach an understanding with the Russians with the help of the Central European states.

But it was Poland that took several million Ukrainians under its roof at the moment when the Germans wanted to send 5,000 helmets to the besieged Kyiv.”

Josep Borrell, the European Union's outspoken foreign policy chief:

The EU will continue to provide and increase financial assistance to Ukraine regardless of what happens in the United States, since EU considers the conflict in Ukraine an existential threat to itself.

Since last year, the European Union has allocated 85 billion euros to support Ukraine.

Reuters:

Slovakia's pro-Russian and anti-liberal election winner Robert Fico was poised on Sunday to begin coalition talks to form a government likely to join Hungary in opposing the European Union's military aid for Ukraine.

The 59-year-old former prime minister's SMER-SSD party scored nearly 23% of Saturday's parliamentary poll, earning the president's nod to start talks to replace a technocrat government that has been backing Kyiv against Russia's invasion.

"We are not changing that we are prepared to help Ukraine in a humanitarian way," said Fico, whom analysts consider to be inspired by Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban who has frequently clashed with the EU.

"We are prepared to help with the reconstruction of the state but you know our opinion on arming Ukraine," he added at a news conference.

Fico's campaign call of "Not a single round" for neighbouring Ukraine resonated in the nation of 5.5 million.

Fico said Slovakia has bigger problems than the Ukraine issue, including energy prices and living costs, but his party would do everything possible to start peace talks.