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More than 3,000 Ukrainians may be being held in Russian deportation centres, which operate as "migrant prisons". These facilities hold, among others, political prisoners of the Kremlin who have served their "sentences" on trumped-up charges. Source: Aliona Lunova, Advocacy Director at the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, as reported by Suspilne Krym Details: After completing their prison sentences in Russia, Ukrainians continue to be held due to the peculiarities of migration legislation. Former political prisoners are regarded as offenders and are detained. Such people often find that they are unable to renew their documents because Ukrainian diplomatic missions have not been operating in Russia since 2022. Formally, foreign nationals are held in "migrant prisons" pending deportation or expulsion, but in practice, this mechanism does not apply to Ukrainians. Quote from former political prisoner Kostiantyn Davydenko: "They issue a deportation order. And in theory, by law, they are supposed to deport the person independently to their country of citizenship. But there is an unofficial policy not to deport these citizens. Formally, this is all justified by the fact that the 'special militar

Occupied Crimea lost power two nights in a row this week, according to Russian officials. Over the same days, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces hit two Pantsir air defense systems on the peninsula. Sevastopol, home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, is again living on rationed electricity. The two strands belong together. After interviewing drone forces commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, AP reported on 10 August that much of Russia’s Soviet-era air defense hardware runs on the power grid—one reason Crimea’s electricity network keeps being targeted. Seen that way, this week brought pressure on Crimea’s air defense from two directions: on the launchers, and possibly on the power some of them depend on. Two nights without stable power The grid was already fragile. Crimea has gone dark repeatedly since summer. In July, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said they hit the Balaklava power plant in Sevastopol, one of two plants that together supply about 90% of Crimea’s electricity. On 3 November, Sevastopol occupation governor Mikhail Razvozhaev claimed that another strike had hit energy facilities outside the city. He added that the power reaching Sevastopol could not sustain even

Russian troops on the front lines of the special military operation are defending the country’s statehood today, said Russian leader

For more than twenty years, Russia has obstructed the demarcation of the shared border, effectively refusing to recognize either Ukraine’s borders or its statehood.

The Polish prime minister launched a counterterrorism operation on Russia’s border, while his government descends into infighting With a constitutional crisis tearing the Polish government apart, an anti-Russia “special operation” was just what Prime Minister Donald Tusk needed to reassert his power – but his gamble could spiral out of control with horrific consequences. Poland has sent extra police and counter-terror units to its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Tusk announced on Tuesday, claiming that Warsaw had received reports that “acts of diversion or more serious provocations on the border with Russia, or even sabotage acts orchestrated by hostile services, could occur.” “Having received more precise information that incidents could occur in the first half of November – including an incursion into Polish territory by armed individuals – we decided to deploy substantial police and counter-terrorism forces to the border and to strengthen the border guard,” he said, claiming that Polish services had been tipped off by NATO, and by Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Tusk said Polis

The Polish prime minister launched a counterterrorism operation on Russia’s border, while his government descends into infighting With a constitutional crisis tearing the Polish government apart, an anti-Russia “special operation” was just what Prime Minister Donald Tusk needed to reassert his power – but his gamble could spiral out of control with horrific consequences. Poland has sent extra police and counter-terror units to its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Tusk announced on Tuesday, claiming that Warsaw had received reports that “acts of diversion or more serious provocations on the border with Russia, or even sabotage acts orchestrated by hostile services, could occur.” “Having received more precise information that incidents could occur in the first half of November – including an incursion into Polish territory by armed individuals – we decided to deploy substantial police and counter-terrorism forces to the border and to strengthen the border guard,” he said, claiming that Polish services had been tipped off by NATO, and by Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Tusk said Polis

Russian authorities have stopped providing residents of occupied Crimea with subsidized liquefied gas in cylinders, Krym.Realii, the Crimea service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, reported on 2 November. The fuel has become scarce in the region amid Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since summer, Ukrainian drones have been hitting the Russian trucks and ships that supply occupied Crimea. A year after Russia occupied Crimea, on 23 July 2015, the occupation authorities wanted to provide gas connections to 100% of Crimean settlements within 2 years, Neftegaz reported . Crimea is still not fully connected to gas, Krym.Realii notes. Social media users are now discussing whether the policy reversal could be linked to Russia cutting costs amid its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the media outlet reports. Previously, 13 categories of eligible Crimean residents living in homes or apartments without gas connections were entitled to receive liquefied gas free of charge, Krym.Realii reported. They will now have to pay for it. Dmitry Nadtochaev, head of the occupation’s state gas company Krymgazseti, announced the end of free bott

Polish police, working alongside the armed forces, the border guard and the security services, have established a special operations headquarters for a preventive security operation in the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie voivodeships. Source: Marek Boroń, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish National Police, on Polish radio station RMF FM, as reported by European Pravda Details: Preventive measures are being taken in response to reports that acts of sabotage may be carried out on the border with Kaliningrad Oblast in the coming days. "This is directly related to the situation in our country today, namely acts of diversion and sabotage, this hybrid crime and the activities of Eastern secret services," Boroń explained. The operation is being conducted by the police. Its command centre is located at the National Police Headquarters. The regional police headquarters in Olsztyn and Białystok are also involved. The authorities were warned last week by military intelligence and allied intelligence services that sabotage could take place on the border with Russia, including incursions by armed groups. Quote: "The police are ensuring security in the Królewiec district in case of possible inciden

Valentina Matviyenko said that Russia highly appreciates China's position on what is happening in Ukraine, as well as its "readiness to contribute to a peaceful resolution of this conflict"

The closer Russia gets to a successful completion of the special military operation, the more aggressive and sophisticated the anti-Russian actions of the West become, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it had thwarted a series of terrorist attacks planned by the Ukrainian special services using bombs in FPV goggles to control drones sent to the special military operation area.

Two operatives were reportedly detained in Vienna as rumors flew that Kiev had ordered the killing of a former top prosecutor Austria has launched an espionage investigation after two Ukrainian military intelligence operatives were detained in Vienna, the Austrian newspaper Kurier reported on Saturday. The report comes after former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who fled to Austria in September, alleged that a team had been sent to kill him on orders from Ukraine’s presidential office. According to Kurier, the head of the Artan Group, a special operations unit within Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR), was spotted at the Park Hyatt hotel in Vienna. The man, identified as Viktor T., reportedly told Austrian security officials that he was on vacation. The unit was originally established to carry out operations in Russia but has also been accused of involvement in plots to assassinate “Ukrainian defectors,” the newspaper said. Kravchenko and Ukrainian media identified the Artan commander as Viktor Torkotyuk, known by his callsign Titan. On October 5, Austrian police reportedly arrested two operatives under Torkotyuk’s command wh

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - In October, the Russian Armed Forces liberated 39 settlements within the special military operation zone, with the largest number located in the Kharkov Region, according to calculations by Sputnik based on data from the Russian Defense Ministry.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine will expand its long-range (deep-strike) units and highlighted their ability to reach targets as far away as the Yamal Peninsula and Western Siberia in Russia. Source: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Quote: "We have set key priorities for the further use of Ukraine's long-range capabilities. Our deep-strike units will also be expanded, drawing on the capabilities of the Security Service of Ukraine, particularly its Alpha Special Operations Centre, as well as our intelligence agencies and other components of Ukraine's defence forces ." Details: Zelenskyy noted that every Russian strike on Ukrainian cities and communities always "gets our fully justified response" . Quote: "Russian facilities along a line stretching from Yamal to Western Siberia are now within range of our deep strikes, and we are working to ensure that our drones and missiles can reach even more distant parts of Russian territory." Details: Zelenskyy added that key areas for the further deployment of Ukraine's long-range capabilities have been identified. Quote: "Ukraine's long-range strike capabilities are one of the real guarantees of our independence now, during this war, a

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) carried out an ambush on the territory of the Russian Federation, destroying a vehicle and seizing enemy documents.

Andrey Marochko noted that amid this decline in strike capability, effective counterattacks by Ukrainian troops in the special operation zone "have become practically impossible"

Kiev forces lose almost 1,190 troops in special military operation zone

Vladimir Zelensky’s office has pledged to block a regional plan to honor UPA leader Roman Shukhevich, Polish officials claim Kiev has moved to block a planned tribute to Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevich, who was involved in the killing of an estimated 100,000 Poles during World War II ethnic purges, officials in Warsaw have claimed. The reported retreat comes amid a series of disputes between the two countries in recent months over Kiev’s veneration of Nazi-linked figures that have eroded Polish support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. The controversy erupted on Tuesday when the Lviv Regional Council in western Ukraine voted to declare 2027 the Year of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and to celebrate the 120th anniversary of its commander Roman Shukhevich while deciding to organize “cultural, memorial, scientific, and mass media events,” as well as exhibitions and national patriotic rallies on the occasion. Read more Poland fumes as Ukrainian city celebrates ‘architect of genocide’ The move triggered a fierce response in Poland, which regards the UPA as perpetrators of genocide against Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia and Shukhevich as a key &ldq

Russia is ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in an interview with Pavel Zarubin of state broadcaster VGTRK, published on 22 October. He said they should settle security for both countries after a final peace deal, not a brief pause. Putin spoke a day after he hosted US envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would accept freezing the war along the front line. In May, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov named Ukraine’s withdrawal from Donbas and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts as the only condition for peace. Any new round would start from that gap: Kyiv offers to stop where the armies stand, while Moscow’s last stated terms demanded more land. Talks in November Putin stated that Moscow and Washington had agreed Russia was ready to resume trilateral contacts. He added that he generally agreed with a US point that European security architecture should also be discussed. On 21 October, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov stated that the sides had settled on mid-November, with Abu Dhabi as the likely venue. "Historical Russia" In a 21 October Fox News interview , asked about a freeze lea

On 20 October, the Lviv Oblast Council voted to declare 2027 the year of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), its commander Roman Shukhevych, and Oleh Olzhych, a poet and member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The vote on the UPA and Shukhevych took 45 seconds, Ukrainska Pravda reported , citing the council's online broadcast. It reopened a dispute Kyiv and Warsaw had only just settled. In May, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a special operations unit the honorary name "Heroes of the UPA," and Polish President Karol Nawrocki later stripped him of the Order of the White Eagle in response. Poland is the main hub for Western aid to Ukraine, and that role rests on Polish trust, which every new fight over the two nations' shared past erodes. Since 2022, Poland has also paid for nearly 30,000 Starlink terminals for Ukraine, Rzeczpospolita reported . The sorest point is the UPA. Poland recognizes the UPA's 1943 Volhynia massacres of Poles as genocide, a classification Ukraine disputes, pointing to the broader Polish-Ukrainian conflict of World War II, in which both sides killed civilians. A batc

The Russian president outlined what is needed for a lasting settlement, highlighting Kiev’s duplicity on territorial disputes and its brutal conscription methods Russia remains ready to negotiate a lasting settlement in Ukraine but will achieve its objectives regardless, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Thursday. He also outright rejected “schizophrenic” claims in Western media that Moscow could be seeking a war with Europe. Putin’s comments followed nearly three hours of talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. Witkoff brought new peace talk proposals following his own discussions with Vladimir Zelensky, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s Chief of Staff Bjoern Siebert, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo. The new diplomatic engagement comes after Putin’s October 9 agreement with US President Donald Trump on Russian diesel supplies, whereby Washington eased fuel export restrictions while engaging with Moscow on broader economic cooperation. Lasting peace, rather than a temporary pause Putin confirmed Russia’s readiness

"The special military operation continues, and the demand for kamikaze drones remains very high," Denis Fedutinov said

Кремлівський лідер Володимир Путін повідомив, що Росія повідомила США про готовність відновити тристоронні переговори. Джерело : російські державні агентства з посиланням на заяви Путіна ввечері 22 жовтня Деталі : Російський правитель заявив, що метою переговорів із США та Україною буде "досягнення остаточного миру та забезпечення безпеки Росії". За словами Путіна, Росія й зараз "готова домовлятися та шукати вихід із складної ситуації в Україні". Він стверджує, що РФ вирішить свої завдання і "всі цілі СВО (так російська пропаганда називає російсько-українську війну – УП: будуть досягнуті". Також Путін згадав, що українців, "як безпритульних собак, збирають на вулицях, насильно заганяють на фронт". Пряма мова : "Київ сам обрав війну – "будь ласка". РФ пропонувала Україні допомогти домовитися з Донбасом, але Київ обрав гармати, заявив Путін". Передісторія : 21 жовтня в Санкт-Петербурзі відбулася зустріч спеціального представника президента США Дональда Трампа Стіва Віткоффа та глави Кремля Путіна. Вона тривала близько 3 годин. Переговори в РФ відбулися наступного дня після того, як Віткофф в Осло зустрівся з президентом України Володимиром Зеленським та лідерами Норвегії й Фінляндії.

The company representative said that the anti-drone system is expected to be deployed in the special military operation zone soon