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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The Black Sea Fleet was attacked from civilian ships of Ukraine
A Ukrainian drone was launched from a civilian vessel during an attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, the Russian military picked up its wreckage. This was stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“It has been established that the launch of marine unmanned vehicles was carried out from the coast near Odessa. According to experts, this may indicate a preliminary launch of this device from the board of one of the civilian ships, ”the agency said in the telegram channel. It is also specified that the drones were moving along the “grain corridor” zone. In this regard, they could have been launched from one of the ships that was used to export grain.

Earlier, The New York Times reported that the attacks on ships in Sevastopol were inflicted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attack itself took place on October 29 in the morning.

Turkey Persuades Russia to Return to Grain Deal
Turkey is negotiating with Russia to get the latter back into the grain deal. It is reported by Bloomberg.

“Negotiations [with Turkey] are underway with Russia, which will continue until Monday on the status of the Black Sea grain initiative,” the newspaper writes, citing a Turkish official. He clarifies that there are grounds that the negotiations can be successful.

Earlier it was reported that Turkey is negotiating by phone "at all levels" on the grain deal. In turn, a military expert, head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the PRUE. G. V. Plekhanov Andrey Koshkin explained that the West is using the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the grain deal in order to put Russia in an unsightly light, Channel Five reports. Also, readers of Le Figaro supported Russia and accused Ukraine on this issue, Tsargrad reports .

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the condition for returning to the "grain deal"
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the condition for returning to the "grain deal", RIA Novosti reported . According to the deputy head of the department , Andrey Rudenko , it is possible to discuss the conditions for returning only after investigating the attacks on the Sevastopol Bay and ships of the Black Sea Fleet.

“First of all, you need to find out all the circumstances of the incident. This sheer disgrace violates all the conditions that were agreed upon earlier,” Rudenko said at a meeting with journalists. According to him, only after an investigation and study of all the details of the attack, which the Foreign Ministry previously called a terrorist attack, it will be possible to talk about further steps.

The Deputy Minister recalled that the discussion of the problem would take place at the UN Security Council , which was convened by the Russian Federation . Rudenko noted that Moscow was counting on contacts with the UN and Turkey on a grain deal after the suspension of its participation in it, adding that negotiations could take place in the near future.

Drones attacked ships of the Black Sea Fleet on October 29. After the incident, the Kremlin accused London of preparing a terrorist attack. France came to the defense of Great Britain , calling Moscow's accusations unfounded.

Earlier it became known that Turkey suspended the exit of ships from the ports of Ukraine . And those that are already waiting to enter Istanbul will be carefully inspected.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Take $100 billion off the top of the seized Russian money and let the Ukrainians go shopping at the world's arms makers, they could hold a trade show in Kyiv and offer free demos of AA systems! That should tide them over for a spell and simulate some arms manufacturing while silencing the money whiners. Those who refuse to see a good INVESTMENT and Helluva opportunity when they see one, the EU can see it and it's become very clear to the European allies, Biden, the State Department and Pentagon. Russia has the money abroad to pay for the war, the damage to Ukraine, the aid given and even enough to compensate Ukrainian victims. So far there is an estimated 150 billion in property damage in Ukraine, say $200 billion before it's over. If the Ukrainians have $100 billion of Russian money in an EU trust to play with, it doesn't matter what the republicans do in congress.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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They are wire tying a pretty big bomb onto a big racing quad and with a 4 or 6S (Series) LiPo battery it might get about 3 minutes of flight time hauling that much weight. However, it could go 3 miles in that time at 60mph and the FPV video should be much better than that seen in the video which was taken shooting the screen. Perhaps they didn't bother to deploy a better antenna on the ground, because 1 watt video transmitters for drones only cost about $30USD. It used a standard 5.8 GHz video transmitter (the antenna) and probably a standard 2.4 Ghz control transmitter, this one is in a suitcase with the video receiver. The drone probably cost a couple of hundred bucks and the motors can output from a half to 1 HP each!


Ukrainian volunteer battalion uses homemade Kamikaze drone to attack Russian position
928,117 views Oct 28, 2022 This footage reportedly shows troops from the Stugnabat Volunteer Battalion, also known as "Stunga" Battalion, attaching a explosive to a drone to make a homemade weaponised kamikaze drone.

The drone is then flown a Russian position with troops before it detonates.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I can't say I agree with his long-term forecast, Ukraine and central Asia will have their energy resources developed by Europe, China and the USA. China is unlikely to upset the apple cart with their economy and population in decline and economic expansion using soft power into central Asia would come at no international cost, Tawain would be a disaster for them. They have serious financial and political issues; many are not happy with Xi's grab for despotic power. Russia is clearly a loser and to be taken advantage of and their military and political weakness exploited. The wise would follow the path of least resistance and that is towards central Asia, north Asia too, if Russia self-destructs.

Population declines for sure, the end of globalization, not so much, more on shoring and self-sufficiency, but global trade and shipping containers aren't going away anytime soon. As for subsistence farming, there is gonna be a lot of that in Russia and a real back to the land movement. They can at least eat as neopeasants of Czar Vlad the blunderer by growing their own potatoes, get in touch with their roots and how their ancestors lived.


Peter Zeihan "China Might Demolish To The Ground In Few Weeks, The Whole World Is Ready To Speculate
 

DIY-HP-LED

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They are using missiles on the power infrastructure because low speed drones would be easy to defend power substation from them with a point defense gun system and by simply caging them in commercial fishing nets stung on power poles. This would catch the drones several meters from the transformers, reducing the potential for damage. Also breaming and sandbagging around them up to 3 meters high might be helpful to harden them too. Drones would be used on large harder to defend population centers.

They must be using these missiles on power generation plants which are higher value. The only answer might be to shut the lights out in Moscow by attacking substation power transformers with drones all over the Moscow region, same with other cities. If we have to freeze in the fucking dark so, do you, a form of MAD, only with power grids! 80 % of Russians live in European Russia and most of them would be in range of mass-produced cheap GPS guide drones, or at least their power infrastructure would be. Russia could neither defend adequately to such an attack, they couldn't replace the destroyed and damaged electrical equipment like Ukraine can with the combined resources of the EU and UK to support them. The idea being that deterrence works, Ukraine can shut your lights off too and you won't be able to turn them back on without help.

 
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