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Will not die, will not perish…
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💔 Former school principal killed in a drone attack in Oleshky after ceasefire ends
Konstantin Melnik was killed in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region, according to Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the Oleshky City Military Administration.
“Terrible things continue to happen in the community,” Hasanenko said.
Meanwhile, residents complain that humanitarian aid delivered during the six-day ceasefire is barely reaching them. Some received only small food packages that would not last even a week.
Some residents never managed to leave Oleshky. Others were unaware of the evacuation because they had no means of communication, while some feared Russian filtration procedures.
Melania Trump declared the humanitarian mission a success. Today, the US first lady is expected to meet with Ukrainian and Russian representatives at the White House to discuss the operation's results and possible next steps.
But for the civilians still trapped in Oleshky, the danger is far from over.
💔 Ghost town: Footage reveals the devastation in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Burned-out vehicles along the roads, destroyed buildings, and deserted streets. This is what Oleshky, a Ukrainian town in the Kherson region under Russian occupation since 2022, looks like today.
Archive drone footage released by Ukraine's 34th Separate Marine Brigade "Borysfen" in September reveals the scale of the destruction.
A temporary ceasefire is set to begin here on October 29, following an agreement between Ukraine and Russia brokered by Melania Trump. The pause is intended to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians.
According to estimates, between 1,700 and 2,000 people remain in the town, most of them elderly.
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Ukraine knocks out 15 Russian oil refineries, causing $23.2 billion in damage: officials trib.al/427QRnk
Womp womp
U.S. authorities sold a seized Russian oil tanker to a maritime scrap dealer for well under market value in an “economically irrational” deal meant to thwart the owner’s bid to recover the vessel, the company lawyers say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/own…
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Russie / L'usine de raffinage de Kstovo LUKOIL-Nijegorodnefteorgsintez est en feu après l'attaque d'aujourd'hui. (La capacité de l'entreprise est de 17 millions de tonnes de pétrole par an) bsky.app/profile/geopolitiqu…
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Dasha and Artem Zhukov came to a school in Komyshuvakha to collect humanitarian aid. russian bombs killed them.
Their little daughter Dominika has never known a life without war. Now she has to grow up without her mother or father.
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Heute haben ukrainische Schläge die Militärbasis der Kertsch-Brücke in Brand gesetzt und Pantsir-Batterien ausgeschaltet.
Die Brücke ist jetzt ungeschützt. 🔥
❗️ If Russia cannot even defend the Kerch Bridge garrison, who is actually protecting Crimea?
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=3VFhQGWI…
Substack: jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p…
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Kyiv plunged into a blackout: the entire capital is in the dark following Russian attacks.
Europe: We stand by Ukraine’s side.
No, you don’t.
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🚨 42 bodies have been pulled from the ruins of a school in Komyshuvakha, flattened by a brutal Russian airstrike on Nov 2, police report.
Forensics are racing to identify the dead.
Up to 33 people remain buried beneath the concrete as rescue efforts press on.
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Zelensky: “The Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children from our land, and now we see something even worse.”
According to the Ukrainian president, Russia has already started sending some of these children into the Russian army. These are children who were taken from Ukraine and have grown up over the years of this war.
“This is horrible. And it must stop.”
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There’s no water or power in Kyiv because russia is trying to cause Europe’s biggest humanitarian disaster. Millions of people live in Kyiv.
And Putin’s envoy Dmitriev is standing at a podium in the White House describing russia as a great humanitarian nation.
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A Kharkiv language school has reported the death «by suicide» of its teacher, 44-year-old Oleksandra Kazarovytska (Kolesnikova), following her arrest in occupied Crimea.
According to the school, Russian authorities ruled her death a suicide. The school states that the teacher was killed by Russia.
She had spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial.
Born in Sevastopol, she had lived in Kharkiv for most of her adult life. She was detained after returning to Crimea to help her parents sell their apartment, reportedly over messages with a volunteer dating back to the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
She leaves behind a husband and daughter.
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They brought the child kidnapper here too. Unbelievable.
Former Polish ambassador to US expresses disgust at the White House’s Kremlin guests: “A woman under sanctions… and accused of active involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian children is boasting about her presence at a press conference with @FLOTUS at the White House.”
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The effectiveness of the Ukrainian refinery strikes has increased lately, indicating that the next generation of long range strike weapons is in use. Both drones and missiles with better payloads and targeting.
💥🔥 15 of Russia’s 38 strategic oil refineries are out of operation and another 12 have cut production, according to Ukrainian defence intelligence.
It says combined refining capacity at the facilities assessed is down 55.4% since the start of the year.
This footage reportedly shows fires burning in five locations at the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl after the 3 November strike.
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💥🔥 15 of Russia’s 38 strategic oil refineries are out of operation and another 12 have cut production, according to Ukrainian defence intelligence.
It says combined refining capacity at the facilities assessed is down 55.4% since the start of the year.
This footage reportedly shows fires burning in five locations at the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl after the 3 November strike.
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British intelligence assesses that two to four Russian Su-34s were destroyed at Borisoglebsk airfield on October 14–15.
BORISOGLEBSK
Ukraine said it used Neptune missiles against the airfield in Russia’s Voronezh region. The UK Ministry of Defence assesses that the strike very likely destroyed two to four Su-34 fighter-bombers. A Pantsir-S1 air-defence system west of the runway and protective structures around the aircraft parking area failed to stop it. UK briefing imagery marks two destroyed aircraft, a scorched impact area and a destroyed building.
THE OCTOBER TOLL
On October 29, a Ukrainian strike destroyed two more Su-34s at Marinovka airfield in Volgograd region. A Su-57 also burned and was destroyed at Akhtubinsk airfield in Astrakhan region after a likely technical fault. That was not part of the Ukrainian strike.
The UK assessment puts Russia’s losses at at least 11 tactical aircraft in October, and at least 115 since the start of the full-scale invasion. That wartime total excludes strategic and transport aircraft.
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💡🇺🇦 Kyiv — everything is in complete darkness. The capital is illuminated only by car headlights.
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🇷🇺 MASSIVE EXPLOSION ROCKS RUSSIAN GAS PIPELINE DEEP IN SIBERIA
A powerful explosion has struck a major gas pipeline in Russia’s Kemerovo region, triggering a large fire in the Topkinsky district.
The blast occurred thousands of kilometres from the Ukrainian frontline, with flames reportedly engulfing part of the pipeline infrastructure.
Preliminary accounts suggest that a loss of pressure containment may have caused the explosion. The exact circumstances and extent of the damage have yet to be established.
Kemerovo sits in the heart of Russia’s industrial Siberian region, where reliable energy supplies are essential for factories, heating networks and surrounding communities.
A serious pipeline failure can disrupt gas deliveries and require extensive inspections before normal operations resume, even if the damaged section is relatively small.
The incident also highlights a vulnerability that often receives less attention than drone attacks: Russia’s enormous energy network depends on pipelines, compressor stations and ageing industrial equipment operating safely across vast distances.
There is currently no verified evidence linking this explosion to Ukrainian military activity.
For now, the immediate questions are what caused the rupture, whether anyone was injured and how long the affected infrastructure will remain out of service.
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New: Russia agreed to supply Iran with 90 launchers for the advanced guided missiles widely used by its forces in Ukraine, a sign of Moscow’s military support for Tehran despite the demands of its own sputtering war effort.
with @MilesMJohnson:
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BREAKING: A group has claimed responsibility for the wave of bomb threats targeting airports and flights across Europe.
A threatening email received at Rome Fiumicino Airport was allegedly signed by the Fighters of the Male State group.
The message reportedly stated:
"You are all complicit in a criminal conspiracy. We want to destroy you for this. Your feminist regime will remember this forever. The explosion will occur in 60 minutes. Today your sky will be red."
The email allegedly threatened the presence of explosives aboard aircraft and contained ideological language directed against what the sender described as a feminist regime.
UPDATE: At least 16 aircraft have been targeted by bomb threats across Europe today.
The reported incidents include:
🇵🇱 LOT Polish Airlines — Warsaw to Brussels
🇮🇪 Aer Lingus — Dublin to Rome
🇫🇮 Finnair — Helsinki to Rome
🇫🇮 Finnair — Helsinki to Vienna
🇩🇰 Copenhagen Airport — Two flights targeted
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — Three aircraft affected, two diverted to Sofia and one to Plovdiv
🇨🇿 Prague Airport — Four aircraft targeted: two EasyJet flights, one Ryanair flight and one Austrian Airlines flight.
🇷🇴 Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport — A Wizz Air flight arriving from Milan Malpensa landed at 11:09 local time with 182 passengers on board.
🇮🇹 Milan Malpensa Airport — Two flights targeted:
• Aegean Airlines A3552 from Thessaloniki, landed at 09:33
• Ryanair FR8953 from Porto, landed at 10:22
All reported aircraft have landed safely.
The total number of aircraft targeted across Europe over the past 72 hours has now reached at least 25. +-
