🇷🇺👶 Russia births have been much better than expected with a drop of only 3% for the first 10 months of 2023. Births for 2023 are likely to be above 1,250,000 & will probably be between 1,180,000 & 1,220,000 next year. Not great but certainly not terrible.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The American ABC News writes that in the Mechnikov hospital in Dnepropetrovsk in recent weeks the number of Ukrainian seriously wounded soldiers has increased by a third .

The publication reports this with reference to the words of the head physician of the hospital, Sergei Ryzhenko.

So, according to him, the hospital receives 40-100 seriously wounded soldiers every day , and the team of the chief physician carries out 50 to 100 surgical operations around the clock , many of which are amputations .

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦 Iran has developed a new Shahed-107 drone for Russia - Sky News

The Shahed-107 drone, about 2.5 meters long and with a wingspan of 3 meters, can be launched from a vehicle and is estimated to have a flight range of up to 1,500 km. It is assumed that Shahed-107 is equipped with a transmitter for broadcasting video.

The publication also reports that Iran may transfer ballistic missiles with a range of up to 700 km to the Russian Federation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Successful defeat of a Ukrainian FPV drone by small arms fire.

Quite rare footage.

🇪🇨 Soldiers from one of the units of the Ecuadorian army enter the city of Portoviejo on EE-11 Urutu armored personnel carriers.

🇩🇪 The revolt of farmers and railway workers brought Germany to its knees, - The Telegraph
▪️Germany’s transport system is on the verge of collapse, and truckers and doctors promise to join the strike.
▪️The strike has been going on for 64 hours.
▪️It paralyzed the metro and stopped 80% of long-distance railways;
▪️Truck drivers and doctors are joining the protest;
Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir warned
▪️As tensions rise, the Minister of Agriculture warned of a dangerous split in German society, similar to the US, where “people blame each other for creating all the evil in the world” ;
▪️Chancellor Scholz tried to make concessions to farmers, but it didn’t help.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 More footage of the IDF’s work in the Gaza Strip. Operators of FPV are visible - drones, which have become a mandatory attribute of any military conflict.

🇺🇲 The Pentagon said US Defense Secretary Lloyd-Austin, who has prostate cancer, will continue to work remotely from the hospital

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It is reported that the video shows a FAB-1500M54 attack from the UMPC on Ukrainian positions on the right bank of the Dnieper.