Translated from Rybar:
Combat use of the Kub-BLA kamikaze drone

Footage of the combat use of the Russian Kub-BLA loitering ammunition manufactured by ZALA AERO GROUP of the Kalashnikov concern.

In the video, airborne troops deploy the complex and launch a drone. The operator guides the loitering ammunition to the detected position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after which the UAV accurately hits the target.

The RF Armed Forces have repeatedly used Kub-BLA and Lancet kamikaze drones for targeted destruction of equipment of Ukrainian formations, including disabling radar stations and anti-aircraft missile systems.

Certainly, Russian Army has a wide range of high-precision ammunition. However, their numbers, especially in the places where they are needed most, are limited. The problem is partially solved with Geran-2 loitering ammunition drones.
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"Daddy, why is our house so cold?" – Putin jokes about EU sanctions.
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Russia overtakes US in export of nuclear reactors, says IAEA chief
29.10.2022 - 11:46

Russia has surpassed the United States in the world markets for the export of nuclear reactors. According to the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, this was due to a more flexible funding model.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced at a Carnegie Endowment conference that the dominance of the world's commercial nuclear reactor markets has shifted from the United States to Russia.

“I think this is a challenge for America. She has traditionally been a leader. It has lost that leadership,” Grossi said, commenting on the issue of commercial nuclear power technologies.

According to him, at present, "the main supplier [of commercial nuclear technologies to world markets] is Russian."

At the same time, Grossi noted the US attempts to restore leadership. According to him, the American nuclear industry is needed both at home and abroad. Especially in view of the current energy crisis.

However, Rosatom and the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) use different funding models than US competitors, Grossi said.

“Of course, they use a different funding model, which allows them to move with more flexibility, including in international markets. So this is a challenge for American companies abroad,” the head of the agency emphasized.

Grossi visited Moscow on 11 October and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They discussed the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP. Before that, he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, they also talked about the situation at the station. The shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant continues. The parties blame each other for them.

This year, Rosatom announced plans to create a company to promote reactors of various capacities on the world market. It is planned to create it on the basis of Rusatom Overseas by the end of the first quarter of 2022. Andrey Rozhdestvin, who currently holds the position of Regional Vice President for Western Europe at Rusatom International Network, will be appointed as the General Director of the new company.

Currently, Rosatom controls over 70% of the global NPP export market. But taking into account the large-scale plans to build new carbon-free generation facilities in the world as part of the global energy transition, Rosatom needs to further concentrate its efforts on promoting nuclear technologies, its representative said.

So far, the state corporation has contracts abroad only for the construction of large-capacity nuclear power plants, but, according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, low-capacity plants can take up to 20–25% of Rosatom's order portfolio in the world market.

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Powerful explosions thundered in Nikolaev and Zaporozhye
29.10.2022 - 12:35

In Nikolaev in the first half of the day on October 29, several powerful explosions thundered. Thick smoke rises from the landing sites.

The air raid alert was not issued. Ukrainian Telegram channels write that the barrage is carried out from Russian S-300 systems.

UPDATED
12:40. Several powerful explosions also thundered in Zaporozhye. An air raid is spreading across the eastern part of Ukraine.

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The Russian Armed Forces repelled an attempted landing at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant
Rogov announced an unsuccessful attempt to land Ukrainian troops near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

MOSCOW, October 29 - RIA Novosti. The Russian military repulsed an attempt to land a Ukrainian landing in the area of ​​the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, told RIA Novosti.
"Last night, an attempt was made by Ukrainian troops to land on the left bank of the Dnieper in Energodar near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The attempt was thwarted. The enemy suffered losses and retreated," the agency's interlocutor said.
According to him, the authorities specify the number of combat boats involved in the operation.
Zaporozhye NPP is the largest plant of this type in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Since March, the facility has been controlled by the Russian military.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly carry out artillery strikes on Energodar and the territories in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant.

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Putin has been watching and waiting for this moment in Washington
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waited and watched*, hoping for a fracturing of the remarkable Washington consensus built by President Joe Biden on the need to do everything it takes to defend democracy in Ukraine.

Now, at last, the first cracks may be appearing.

There is no sign that the $18 billion US pipeline of military aid that has helped Ukraine drive back Russia’s onslaught is immediately in danger. But the stirrings of political opposition to an endless US role in the war are growing on both sides of the aisle just two weeks before the November midterms.

Even the slightest hint of a softening of American resolve could comfort Putin as the Kremlin strongman prepares to inflict a painful winter on Ukrainian civilians and Europeans reliant on Russian gas.

In what can only be described as a political debacle on Tuesday, progressive Democrats published, then withdrew, a letter initially signed in June that called on the White House to match its effort to arm Ukraine with a strong diplomatic effort to engage Russia and seek a ceasefire. This came days after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the possible next speaker, warned that Kyiv could not expect a “blank check” on aid if the GOP is in charge next year.
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* I, honestly, think, that he had much more important things to do. We are not overestimating those signals; though, the change of rhetoric from the USA administration is becoming more and more noticeable.
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Time to Talk to Russia
Renewed contacts signal a welcome change in tone

Ted Snider for The American Conservative
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Despite the White House’s insistence on keeping the lines of communication [with Putin] closed, other voices have emerged. Thirty members of Biden’s party in the House sent a letter to the president urging him to begin a “proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire.” The signatories went so far as to say that there is “a responsibility for the United States to seriously explore all possible avenues, including direct engagement with Russia. . . .”

Though the White House rejected the letter’s urging, its writing represented a significant change in tone on Capitol Hill. According to the Washington Post, it was the first time Democrats had broken from the unanimous note favoring supporting the fight against Russia and openly advocated negotiating. However, facing pressure, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the leader of the Progressive Caucus of which all of the signatories were members, has since retracted the letter.

While a few Democrats in the House were writing to Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was talking to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the phone. While the call may have focused on measures to avoid accidental clashes between U.S. and Russian planes and ships in the Baltic, the Pentagon says that “Secretary Austin emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war against Ukraine.” According to Russian reporting, the two discussed “current issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine.”

Two days later, Shoigu called Austin, and the two spoke again after not talking since May 13. For the second time, Austin “reaffirmed the value of continued communication amid Russia’s unlawful and unjustified war against Ukraine.”

Austin wasn’t the only one talking to Shoigu. On October 23, Shoigu also spoke to officials in France, Turkey, and the U.K. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace expressed a “desire to de-escalate this conflict.” He added that “the UK stands ready to assist” if “Ukraine and Russia seek a resolution to the war.” Like the letter to Biden, the British defense minister’s comments represent a potentially important change in tone.

On October 24, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley talked to Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov for the first time since May. The two top generals reportedly agreed “to keep lines of communication open.”

Though far from negotiations, these contacts represent the first small openings in the closed channels of communication. Those openings are accompanied by the first whispers to negotiate, or to assist in negotiations, from the U.S. and U.K. They are small. But, coupled with increased signals from Moscow that they may be willing to talk, they may offer the first hope of a change in tone.

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While the media has been on constant Paul Pelosi coverage, the State Department announced another $275 million in aid to Ukraine today.

In addition to more ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), the latest package is expected to include 500 precision-guided 155mm rounds; 2,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems; 125 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs); more than 1,300 anti-armor systems; small arms and more than 2.7 million rounds of small arms ammunition; and four satellite communications antennas. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-himars-ammunition-us-aid/

⚠️ Today at 4.20 am, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack against the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships that were on the outer and inner roadsteads of the Sevastopol base.

◽️The attack involved nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous maritime drones.

💥The prompt measures taken by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed all air targets.

💥When repulsing the terrorist attack on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol, four marine unmanned vehicles were annihilated by shipborne weapons and maritime aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, and three more were destroyed on the inner roadstead.

◽️Minor damage was received by the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets as well as the floating net boom in Yuzhnaya Bay.

◽️It should be emphasised that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were subjected to the terrorist attack are involved in ensuring the security of the ‘grain corridor’ as part of an international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports.

◻️The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of military personnel of 73rd Marine Special Operations Center were carried out under supervision of British specialists in the city of Ochakov, Nikolayev region in Ukraine.

◽️According to the available information, representatives of this unit from the British Navy were involved in plotting, organising, and implementation of the terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on 26 September this year to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

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The Russian Defence Ministry has accused the British military of blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines

“Representatives of the British Navy unit took part in the planning, support and implementation of the terrorist act in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year to undermine the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

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The offensive of our troops near Ugledar: the first line of defence of the enemy is burned out
29.10.2022 - 14:18

Russian troops this morning began an active offensive near Ugledar in the DPR. It is reported that aviation and artillery are inflicting massive strikes on the enemy's first line of defence. The remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to flee from the line, abandoning their equipment.

First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov also reports on progress in the Donetsk direction.

“The enemy’s first line of defence in the Ugledar direction in the Pavlovka area has been plowed up almost completely. There is a forest where the enemy has dug in, but our Sunbakers are actively burning it out. The enemy left equipment for reinforcements, which our aircraft and artillery are actively destroying, preventing them from approaching the first line of defence.

There are also successes in other sectors of the front in the Donetsk direction. It is difficult to imagine what losses the enemy is suffering. But if they had surrendered in advance, as they were previously offered, they would have remained alive,” Bezsonov writes in his Telegram channel.

Russian military journalist and documentary filmmaker, head of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in the Middle East and North Africa, Yevgeny Poddubny, spoke about the importance of Pavlovka, in the area of ​​​​which a breakthrough began, in providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Army and ground attack aircraft worked in the morning along the enemy’s first line of defense in the Ugledar direction. Later, the Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower systems, cannon and rocket artillery joined the case.

According to reports from the field, the greatest losses of the forces of the Kyiv regime suffered in the area of ​​the village of Pavlovka, which is south-west of Ugledar itself. It is in Pavlovka that there is a large automobile interchange, which allowed the enemy forces to carry out the supply of ammunition and carry out rotation, ”said Poddubny.

The authors of the Terrible Edda telegram channel write that a head-on battle has begun:

“Our troops launched an offensive near Ugledar. Aviation and artillery made hell for the enemy. In turn, the crest had just worked out with his aviation on Chervonopopovka. We can say that a head-on battle has begun. We are advancing near Ugledar, the crest is trying to portray something near Kremennaya and Svatovo.

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