👨‍💻 Summary:

- Russian forces are still on attack mode.

- Russian air force still using FABs, but have decreased.

- Russian counter artillery has improved.

- Ukrainian forces still use HIMARS but have decreased significantly.

🧐 Russian forces are succeeding with local attacks almost every where but they are failing with large attacks in Avdiivka direction.

🇷🇺🇬🇧Footage of a Russian Su-27 fighter intercepting a group of Royal Air Force aircraft over the Black Sea on October 19.
#Crimea

📰 Russian Authorities: several Ukrainian missiles launched at targets in Crimea were shot down, including S-200 missiles modified to attack ground targets.

Good Morning

Tony

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦AVDEEVKA: The artillery cannonade intensifies. The operation of various MLRS can be heard. The front is burning and shaking -- Donetsk residents

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Avdeevka Opinion


There are a lot of questions about Avdeevka. I will say this and repeat myself again: there is a mode of silence (minimal reports), allowing our boys to work quietly. Moreover, this is on the initiative of the soldiers there, on the ground. This shows that what guys really need is silence.

As for the general situation, believe me, at the moment it is not in favor of the Ukrainians.

Yes, there are losses. Yes, the enemy uses every opportunity in the information field to sow panic and doubt in the minds of our citizens. If you feel these feelings, then you have become the target of an information war.

Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces are pulling together several brigades in this direction, bleeding others dry. Heavy equipment, electronic warfare, and artillery are being assembled. They really want to knock the Russian Armed Forces out of the waste heap, because this is the key to Avdeevka.

@belarusian_silovik

⚠️ Briefly about the Avdeevka direction (report from the ground)

DAY ELEVEN

At night, the enemy was preparing to launch a counterattack to recapture the fortification we had occupied, but the adventure failed. The group was burned and worked on with "Tulips" (Hv Mortars)

The day passed in a counter-battery fight.

The level of modern reconnaissance means does not allow a covert approach, all movements are detected, groups are covered with artillery and anti-aircraft guns.

Yesterday the neighbors on the right occupied two fortifications.

In the north, our troops again recaptured the key waste heap and reached Berdychi.

Now the most urgent thing is not to allow the "Germans" to transfer reinforcements from other directions. Well, keep going.

The fights are very brutal. Near our site today, an enemy FPV drone destroyed a civilian passenger car. There were a man and a woman in it. The man died on the spot.

Our FPV operators gave the machine-gun crews a nightmare and did not allow them to work.

The battle for Avdeevka is already being compared to the Bakhmut meat grinder, but this is not entirely correct.

On the one hand, flanking and encircling Avdeevka will determine the outcome of this battle.

On the other hand, the approaches are fortified in a way that, perhaps, no other section along the entire Donetsk front is fortified.

The miracles of heroism now lie not in moving forward, clearing trenches, but in simply holding on. And we do this every day. Pray for us.


Victory will be ours!

Call sign "Leader".

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According to the Russian MOD, 12 aircraft of the Ukrainian Airforce were destroyed over the past week (on the ground and in the air), of which:

- 10 MiG-29,
- 2 Su-25 attack aircraft.

Two Mi-8 helicopters were also shot down.

❗️Trouble brewing in the Baltic Sea


Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna.

The Balticconnector gas pipeline, which connects Finland and Estonia, was damaged from outside, such actions can be regarded as an attack on NATO infrastructure.

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President of Latvia Rinkevičs.

“Of course, this is an issue that affects a whole range of rules in the field of maritime law, but if Russia’s involvement is proven, then the possibility of protecting our critical infrastructure will need to be discussed, negotiations will need to be held on how we can close the Baltic Sea.”
About damage to the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia.

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NATO announced that it would increase Naval and Air patrols to protect infrastructure

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🇷🇺Fireproof suit for tank crews

The material can withstand about 45 seconds exposure to a strong fire which is enough time for the crew to leave the tank without burns.

The "Narodni Front" (Peoples Front) volunteer organisation which organises deliveries to the front says they will work on a speedy production and delivery of the suits to the front