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The hellish seesaw battle continues in Pokrovsk.
The city is de facto controlled neither by the enemy nor by us.
The fighting is going on for one huge gray zone.
We have logistics, and so does the enemy. But it depends on specific positions. 2/7
In general, the enemy now has more than a dozen positions that are surrounded. I will not comment on the number of our positions in the same state, but there are fewer of them.
And I am only counting positions where there is a group of more than 3-4 fighters.

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Ukrainian Forces Encircle Russian Troops Near Shakhove, North of Pokrovsk

The Ukrainian army has encircled a pocket of Russian troops in Shakhove, located north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. 2/6
While the exact number of Russian soldiers trapped in the pocket remains unknown, the maneuver marks a significant tactical success for Ukraine on this front.

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Ukrainian defense sources report that their forces have successfully prevented the encirclement of Pokrovsk by Russian troops after days of heavy fighting in the Rodynske area. According to official briefings, 2/8
Ukrainian units have restored key supply routes that are essential for maintaining logistics and frontline coordination in the Donetsk region.

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Many people still confuse medieval Rus’ (Ruthenia) with modern Russia, but they are not the same — not historically, politically, or culturally. 2/
Rus’ (also known as Kyivan Rus’ or Ruthenia) was the name of the ancient state founded in Kyiv in the 9th century by a Scandinavian dynasty of Rurikids (Igor and Olga — Ingvarr and Helga in Old Norse — were the founding couple).

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The situation in the Pokrovsk area.
The enemy continues to build up its forces in the city, where it is constantly being detected and targeted throughout the entire settlement. 2/7
At the same time, the city is gradually being absorbed, with the Russians already controlling the area, setting up positions, establishing staging areas, and controlling their logistics for infiltrating the city.

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Putin to continue war orders year long forced conscription. 👿
themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/04/put… 2/4
In search for men, Putin has signed a law mandating year-round military conscription in Russia.
en.topwar.ru/273218-v-rossi…

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❗️All three lines of the oil product pipeline used by Russia to transport gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel to the front exploded simultaneously, the HUR reported. 2/4
The strike disabled a major military facility near Moscow. Neither the anti-drone net nor the paramilitary guards protecting the site could prevent the attack.

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🇺🇦🇬🇧🤩 OCTOPUS interceptor drone, developed jointly with British scientists, will be mass-produced in the UK, — Zelensky.

❗️Thousands are planned monthly, with the first batch already approved. 2/5
🇺🇦 Zelensky: We’re not trying to find how to stop Putin and finish this war without US. Putin wants to divide us, make us weaker.

🇩🇰 Frederiksen: Putin’s strategy has been to wait for us to stop helping Ukraine, at some point he expected us to give up. This will never happen

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Russia’s large-scale summer offensive involving over 100,000 troops has failed to seize strategic ground near the Pokrovsk axis in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian forces have regained tactical initiative, conducting clearing operations in the Dobropillia sector. 2/4
Since August, nearly 13,945 Russian troops have been neutralized, alongside the destruction of numerous tanks and armored vehicles.
euromaidanpress.com/category/russi…

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🪖"Senezh. "Operation "Revenge"" - on October 17 at 6:00 p.m., the premiere of a documentary project on the destruction of the elite group of the Russian special forces "Senezh" in the forests of the bordering Chernihiv region on the YouTube channel "Chernihiv Society". 2/6
The operation, which military experts consider unique, was planned and carried out by the fighters of the 54th separate intelligence unit. Since 2023, "Senezh" terrorized the border areas of Chernihiv Oblast and Sumy Oblast, killing soldiers/ civilians
militaryland.net/ukraine/armed-…

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🇺🇦‼️ Ukrainian long-range drones struck once again the Bashneft refinery near Ufa in Bashkortostan, currently Russia. The refinery, which is around 1,400 km (900 miles) from the Ukrainian border has been hit multiple times. 2/4
According to President Zelensky, a target has been struck for the first time using the Ukrainian-made “Ruta” missile-drone — it hit a Russian naval tower in the Black Sea from a distance of 250 kilometers.

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Germany has reportedly delivered over 1,000 Mercedes-Benz military trucks to Ukraine under a confidential logistics agreement, marking one of Berlin’s largest covert aid efforts. 2/3
The vehicles will greatly enhance Kyiv’s mobility, troop transport, and ammunition delivery capacity across multiple fronts. This transfer strengthens Ukraine’s logistical endurance amid prolonged combat and signals Germany’s growing commitment to sustain allied support.

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Ukrainian "wall of drones" in Pokrovsk direction reduces Russian platoons to lone survivors, who then post desperate videos on social media, begging others not to join the army. 2/4
Ukrainian swarms of unmanned aircraft hunt down Russian troops both in the open and inside shelters. Twenty Russian soldiers die for every single meter of territory gained, shattering Russian morale.

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Over 70% of Czech military exports—mainly large-caliber artillery ammunition—are now being exported to Ukraine, according to Jiří Hynek, President and Executive Director of the Defense and Security Industry Association of the Czech Republic.

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He made the statement during a defense conference in Brno, held on 24 September.

(Former PM Andrej Babiš wants to cancel Prague’s ammunition initiative, but critics warn that would harm both Prague and Kyiv.)
politico.eu/article/czech-…

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Ukrainian forces have created their largest encirclement of Russian troops yet in the Pokrovsk direction, trapping enemy soldiers in three separate pockets with no escape routes. 2/5
The operation relied heavily on drone swarms that hunted down Russian reinforcements and supply convoys before they could reach the frontlines.

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Slowly but surely, information is emerging about the AFU attack on a key target in the Balaklava district of occupied Crimea (UK).


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The most interesting area is Gorbachev's old dacha (Government Dacha No. 11), about 2.5 km west of Foros.
dzen.ru/a/ZynoR4wADCLX…

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Update from Ukraine | Awesome news! Ukraine Ambushed Russian Best Drone Unit "Rubicon" 2/4
Part of a secretive, larger organization called Rubicon, the unit worked methodically, hammering the lines that supplied Ukrainian positions in the village of Sudzha

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🇷🇺 Yuri Evich, a veteran of the separatist movement in Donbas and participant in the so-called “SVO,” well-known among Russian Z-patriots, said on ROY TV: 2/5
“For example, in Madiar’s 414th Brigade of drone operators there are 5 battalions and 13 separate companies, as well as the K-2 regiment, and many other independent battalions and companies operating unmanned systems.”

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Breaking: Russian soldiers en masse hand over their weapons to Ukrainians and surrender in Dobropillia

In the Dobropillia direction, Ukrainian units are conducting one of the most successful operations of recent months.
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Here Russian Army has found itself in operational encirclement, and its losses significantly exceed those of Ukraine.
As the head of the Assault Units Directorate Valentin Manko reported on Telegram

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💥 Ukrainian Agents Strike Russian Base Near Vladivostok

Reports confirm that Ukrainian agents operating deep inside Russia have carried out a daring attack on a Russian military base near Vladivostok, the eastern-most part of the country. 2/6
The strike triggered large explosions at the base, which houses the 155th Separate Marine Brigade — a notorious unit implicated in some of the most severe war crimes committed against civilians in Ukraine.

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Russian radars in Crimea have begun to be covered with domes

Ukraine announced that it had destroyed the Nebo-SVU, Podlet K-1 and 96L6E radars from the S-400 air defense system, 2/7
as well as some dome (spherical) structures on Mount Ai-Petri, where the air defense base of the 3rd Radiotechnical Regiment (military unit 85683) of the Russian Armed Forces and the BK-16 transport and landing craft of Project 02510 are located.