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πΉ NATO has 4,000 pages of plans for a potential Russian attack on its eastern flank, ranging from a βminimal crisis situationβ to a direct assault on Alliance members that would trigger Article 5, according to Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of the NATO Military Committee.
βThe Alliance is ready. The structure is ready. Troops, systems, and weaponry β everything is ready,β he said.
As a result, Russia would lose far more than it could possibly gain.
The main thing, of course, is finding the right piece of paper among those 4,000 pages in time.
πΈ β60,000 hryvnias turned into five years of imprisonmentβ: how Russia recruits Ukrainian teenagers to carry out terrorist attacks, The Washington Post reports.
Yaroslav Suzanskyi was 16 when he came across a Telegram ad promising easy money. He was offered about $165 to complete what appeared to be a simple task.
In reality, he was being paid to set fire to a railway signal cabinet.
After he torched the cabinet, he was offered 60,000 hryvnias, or about $1,430, to deliver explosives.
A person Suzanskyi knew as Artem sent him to a hotel in the Kyiv suburbs, where two backpacks had been left outside his room. One contained military clothing. The other held a taped-up box with wires. Suzanskyi initially mistook it for a radio jamming device, but later learned it was an explosive device.
The teenager was then taken by taxi to a library, where Security Service of Ukraine officers detained him before he could carry out the mission.
βThat 60,000 turned into five years,β Suzanskyi said.
Now 18, he is being held in a juvenile correctional facility, caught between being a criminal and a victim of the hidden side of Russiaβs war against Ukraine.
Sources told journalists that Russia recruits children from impoverished families, pressuring them to betray Ukraine in exchange for relatively small sums of money.
According to the Ministry of Justice, 13 teenagers, including five girls, are currently serving sentences across Ukraine for terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage commissioned by Russia.
More than 300 minors have been detained on similar charges. Some received suspended sentences, while investigations into others are ongoing.
πΊπ¦ Operation βVivaldiβ: Ukraineβs Defense Forces have liberated Shandryholove and Derylove in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian troops have also advanced near Shandryholove, according to the DeepState monitoring project.
Andriy Biletskyi, commander of the Third Army Corps, publicly announced the offensive in the northern Donetsk region on September 15. He said the operation was named βVivaldi.β
βοΈβWe just spoke with Trump. It was an important conversation. We agreed to meet in New York, and this meeting could change a lot. The diplomatic momentum is evident,β President Zelenskyy said.
π₯ An oil processing unit sustained the heaviest damage in the attack on the Moscow Oil Refinery.
According to the OSINT channel Exilenova+, the strike on the refinery in Kapotnya hit both primary oil processing units: the ELOU-AVT-6 unit and the integrated processing unit within the Euro+ complex.
Analysts say the integrated unit sustained significant damage, while the AVT-6 unit was also struck multiple times.
The CyberBoroshno channel noted that damage to both processing lines could bring operations at the facility to a complete halt.
According to the OSINT community, the equipment likely damaged was recently repaired following previous attacks.
Ukrainian defense company Fire Point has also released footage of the September 20 attack on the refinery.
πΉ Trump announced that he had agreed to turn a yet-to-be-built Triumphal Arch in Washington into a military complex.
The US president wrote that the military complex would be established at the request of the US Armed Forces. It would house rapid-response drones and sniper posts stocked with ammunition.
Trump described the project as βfirst-classβ and βone of a kind.β
πΉπ· TΓΌrkiye has presented a Black Sea de-escalation plan to Ukraine and Russia.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Ankara has developed a proposal to ease tensions in the Black Sea and has already shared it with Kyiv and Moscow. TΓΌrkiye is now awaiting a response from both sides.
Fidan did not disclose details of the plan. He also recalled the 2022 βgrain deal,β brokered by TΓΌrkiye and the UN to ensure the safe export of Ukrainian grain.
βοΈRussia could attempt to attack NATO territory within βmonths, not years,β according to Michal Koudelka, head of the Czech counter-intelligence agency BIS.
He outlined several possible scenarios, including a limited incursion into a NATO country bordering Russia, drone attacks, false-flag provocations, and large-scale information operations.
πΈ Russia destroyed the oldest building of Zaporizhzhia National University.
Following a Russian strike on central Zaporizhzhia overnight, the universityβs third building, constructed in 1902, burned down.
πΉ A shopping mall burned down and the oldest building of Zaporizhzhia National University was destroyed after Russian forces launched a massive attack on the city overnight.
A man also suffered burns after a Russian strike hit an apartment building in a residential area. Private cars parked in the courtyard were destroyed by fire.
πΈ Poland strongly condemns the Russian Federationβs holding of illegal elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, specifically in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, as well as in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, according to a declaration by Polandβs Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
βPoland also strongly condemns the organization of voting in Transnistria, Tskhinvali/South Ossetia, and Abkhazia without the consent of the authorities of the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, respectively.
In these instances, the βelectionsβ were likewise conducted illegally and in gross violation of all standards of international law and democracy.
We recall that on October 12, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution ES-11/4, βTerritorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,β in which 143 states unequivocally condemned the illegal pseudo-referendums organized by Russia and its attempted unlawful annexation.
The actions of the Russian Federation violate Ukraineβs sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders and contravene the fundamental principles of international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the obligations arising from the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The pseudo-elections organized by the Russian occupier have no legal consequences and cannot serve as a basis for legitimizing the attempted annexation of the occupied territories.
We call upon the Russian Federation to respect international law, cease unlawful actions that violate its international obligations, and withdraw its armed forces from the territory of Ukraine,β the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
πΉ The intelligence chiefs of the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Sweden believe Russia could step up attacks on NATO in the near future.
Czech officials consider it possible that a limited incursion or a false-flag provocation could occur within months.
At the same time, Latvia and Sweden see no signs of an imminent attack. They point out that Russiaβs resources are being depleted by the war in Ukraine and warn that stoking fears of a potential attack could play into the Kremlinβs hands.
πΈ Overnight, Russian forces attacked Lozova in the Kharkiv region with five drones, killing a woman and injuring three other people.
Residential and administrative buildings, as well as railway infrastructure, were damaged.
Russia also struck warehouses in the Odesa region, sparking a massive fire. No casualties were reported.
βοΈRussia is not scaling back its escalatory actions and is sending numerous signals that it is ready to expand the war, President Zelenskyy said.
βAll this is happening against the backdrop of global stability already having been shattered by this war. We must continue to pressure the aggressor to bring this war to an end. Every response and far-reaching sanction constitutes pressure that genuinely works, and the world feels it. Yet diplomacy must work in parallel,β the President noted.