French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecorniou said Tuesday that France will send more troops and equipment to Romania in the coming weeks and increase its presence in other eastern European countries as the war in Ukraine continues.

President Emmanuel Macron's decision to "strengthen our defensive position on Europe's eastern flank" will be taken as part of France's commitment to NATO, Lecornieu told the Senate.

France is responsible for NATO operations in Romania, where some 350 soldiers are currently deployed, as well as Belgian and Dutch units.

This number will be doubled in November and France will also send 12 armoured personnel carriers and about 10 Leclerc tanks.

"We are also going to continue to strengthen our defensive positions in Lithuania," Lecornue said, noting the dispatch of additional Rafale fighters to patrol the airspace

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The media in the country that bombed Belgrade and Baghdad into the Stone Age are reporting that Russian missile strikes on Ukraine are not sufficiently destructive

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❗️ A bill has been introduced in the US Senate to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia for one year

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@Rybar: What do foreigners think of Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure?

The biggest single volley of Russian missiles in months by the NWO yesterday morning and continued strikes today have caused a stir on foreign Telegram channels.

▪️American journalist Oliver Martin believes that the new strikes should demonstrate the following

➖Minimal casualties and no significant damage to civilian targets speak volumes about the high effectiveness of the Russian strikes.

➖The duration of the strikes demonstrates Russia's significant stockpile of precision-guided weapons, as well as its ability to reproduce them quickly, which refuted the belief of many that Russian missiles allegedly ran out as early as March.

▪️Even according to Ukraine's official figures, 12 people were killed during the shelling. Therefore, it is impossible, with all desire, to present another shocking picture to a Western viewer. Although the media is certainly trying very hard.

The channel Za PraVda is surprised that loud condemnations of the shelling are heard even from Bulgaria--a country that has officially declared that it will not supply weapons to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Bulgarian weapons have already been found repeatedly in the war zone, and even the suppliers have been traced.

▪️Despite the predictable first reaction of European leaders, it is not only Ukraine that will face the consequences of the Russian strikes, according to Italian journalist Rosella Fidanza, as electricity exports to the EU have stopped today.

▪️Channel @italiazforzaverita, continuing the idea of difficulties for the EU, notes that in the press, occasionally but occasionally, thoughts about "the unacceptability of US economic domination amid a weakened Europe" are breaking through and will probably become louder with the onset of winter and protests over utility prices. However, it is unlikely that even the complete destruction of the Ukrainian energy system will make European elites back down, so don't count on it.

▪️ The French channel ActualiteFR has expressed a degree of skepticism about Russian strikes, which so far are perceived as a symmetrical response to Ukrainian shelling and appear limited. Nevertheless, there has been a clear demonstration that even a few missiles can bring down Ukrainian infrastructure if the right vulnerable targets are chosen.

▪️ The Spanish channel Vakulinchuk agrees. A systematic continuation of strikes is necessary because Ukraine is bound to keep trying to retaliate and accumulate forces for new attacks. Sending mercenaries from NATO and training AFU soldiers is on stream, which means the longer Russia delays destroying all Ukrainian logistics, the more people will die on the battlefield.

▪️ The French analysis channel Terra Bellum believes that Russia is stalling until November-December when mobilised troops will be ready for a counter-offensive. Infrastructure strikes in the interior are designed to paralyze Ukrainian commanders, and disrupt electric trains, communications, and troop movements for offensives in the south, in addition to the already accumulated fatigue of Ukrainian soldiers who conducted a successful offensive against Russian positions a few weeks ago.

▪️Analyst Pepe Escobar opined that the Russian strikes are an "incentive" to force NATO to negotiate and a successful means to permanently strip Kiev of its ability to wage war. The key question is how the White House will react to this and whether it will dare to raise the stakes.

Source: @Rybar / https://t.iss.one/rybar/40077

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Belarus is handing over tanks, SAMs and BKs to Russia. Several new echelons with equipment of the Belarusian Armed Forces in the direction of Russia were recorded today, - Belarusian opposition media

From the direction of Minsk in Borisov a train with T-72A tanks (witnesses say there were up to 30 tanks), and at least 28 Ural trucks. Another train was seen at Orsha. UAZs, MAZs, and Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile launchers were also transported.

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👆👆👆Are we going to hit again from Belarus? Or it is a ruse?🧐

👆👆👆It's complicated now. Approaches are mined and filled with territorial defense units. Not that is a big wall but it's an obstacle. Maybe Kiev is not the target this time...

Chernihiv region left partially without electricity - authorities

Part of the Chernihiv region of Ukraine has been left without power after an emergency line outage - the region experienced an emergency shutdown of a power line feeding the north of the region around 19:00 hours.

Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said that some settlements in Chernihiv, Koryukiv, and Novhorod-Siversky districts were without power. He added that emergency blackouts could occur throughout the region and Chernihiv.

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The DNR's Cascade OBTF fighters control the movement of the Ukies and hit the rats right in their burrows with precision.

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KGB of Belarus is aware of the preparation of a series of terrorist attacks in the country in view of the creation of a joint force grouping with Russia - the head of the agency


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Zelenskyy said that according to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia ordered 2,400 Shahed-136 (aka Geran-2) drones from Iran.

According to other reports, Iran did not transfer drones to Russia, but only the technology. The Russian Federation has allegedly opened factories for the production of these kamikaze UAVs.

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👆👆👆👆Option no 2 sounds more plausible. Iran also needs its stocks, just in case.

A portrait of a Russian woman who gave her washing machine to the production of cruise missiles.

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Analysis of the Ukrainian Regrouping on the Kremennaya Front

If we assume that the Ukrainian army has removed its troops from the Kremennya zone not to another part of the front, but to another direction, then we can consider two versions of where exactly they could go and with what purpose they would do it.

"The Nazis are urgently regrouping their forces in the direction of Svatovo, it looks like there will be an attempt to attack," reports the 105th regiment of the DPR People's Militia. Starshe Eddy (@VysokyGovorit) claims the same thing. Perhaps they are both wrong, but we have here an attempt to undertake analysis without clear intelligence data.

So, there are the two versions of a possible AFU offensive, given their retreat from the Zherebets river line:

1) A flank attack bypassing the Tavolzhansky stronghold in order to reach Troitskoye to be able to establish control over the former state border area north of Svatovo. With further prospects of a turn to the south. If successful, this strike would significantly reduce the role of Svatovo and cut through some of our supply lines.

2) In the Pervomayskoye-Raygorodok section, with a possible supporting strike in the Raigorodok-Makeevka area, to knock out the Kotlyarovsky stronghold and saddle the Kupyansk-Svatovo route with access to the Krasnaya river its tributaries north of Svatovo in order to attempt traversing them. If this turns out to be successful, then mobile units may be sent into the breach zone. The consequences of this are difficult to predict.

All of these, however, are only promising areas, which the Ukrainian armed forces have been pounding on with varying degrees of success recently. At this moment, there is no evidence that any reserves capable of breaching our defenses have been deployed here (which does not guarantee the absence of such a deployment). On the contrary, there is ample evidence of our forces being deployed here.

Ukrainian analysts, in fact, publicly estimate our forces deployed in the area, including in the Belgorod Oblast, at 25K + 3K in reserve. There is no reason to believe them, but these are the numbers they are voicing publicly.

from @Zola_of_Renovation

(click on the map link below for both variants of Ugolny's analysis of the Ukrainian regrouping)

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