Vladimir Putin has decided to introduce martial law in four new regions of Russia. A different regime is being introduced in the territories bordering Ukraine – the "average level of response". Another important change is the creation of a coordinating council, with the participation of the government and law enforcement agencies. How do the special regimes differ from each other and what are the tasks of the new council?

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On measures implemented in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in connection with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated October 19, 2022".

On Tuesday, October 18, a meeting was held on the territory of the Dimitrovgrad industrial site of the OAT Group, which is part of the KAMAZ structure, with the participation of the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Alexey Russian, the General Director of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, the President of AVTOVAZ Maxim Sokolov and the General director of the OAT Group Firdaus Kabirov.

The Canadian Coast Guard has announced the acceptance of the third medium icebreaker, which has been repaired and refitted at the Chantier Davie enterprise in Levi (prov. Quebec) as part of the third component of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

According to the general director of the shipyard Mikhail Budnichenko, the loading of the enterprise is comparable to the loading of the Soviet period

The construction of submarines of the 4th generation in the interests of the Russian Navy is carried out in three shifts, the press service of JSC "PO "Sevmash" reported on Monday.

The operation of the power plant, steering device, auxiliary mechanisms, communication and navigation equipment, anchor device is being checked, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported

The newest small rocket ship (MRC) "Storm" of the project 22800 - the carrier of cruise missiles "Caliber", built at the Leningrad Shipbuilding plant "Pella" for the Baltic Fleet, is undergoing factory sea trials at the Baltic sea ranges, the press service of the fleet reported on Monday.

Over 800 specialists in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, robotics, advanced communication systems and telecommunications will be trained at the Southern Federal University (SFU) for three years. The training takes place on the basis of the advanced engineering school "Cyberplatform Engineering", which was formed at the SFU with the participation of Rostec State Corporation. Investments in the creation of modern educational infrastructure will amount to more than 500 million rubles until 2024.

Rosobronexport noted that in the future, 100% localization of the production of Russian automata should be achieved

A joint Russian-Indian plant for the production of AK-203 Kalashnikov assault rifles in the Indian city of Korve is ready to start production by the end of 2022. This was stated on Monday in the message of Rosobronexport.

The delegation of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group) will take part in the International Exhibition of Land, Naval Weapons and State Security Defexpo India 2022, which will be held from October 18 to 22 in Gandhinagar (Gujarat).

Researchers from the University of New South Wales have developed a technology for upgrading diesel engines, which allows them to be switched to work on a mixture of diesel fuel and hydrogen. It was created with the expectation that the transition to green energy will make millions of old engines useless, while new hydrogen fuel systems and engines will not have time to become mass-produced yet. This transition period needs to be filled with something - Australian engineers have proposed creating hybrids.

For many years, the Pentagon has been talking about the need to update the fleet of amphibious armored vehicles in service with American Marines. This issue became particularly acute after the incident that occurred in July 2020, when almost the entire department, 11 out of 13 people, died as a result of flooding off the coast of California of the "old horse" of the KMP – the AAV7 car.

Any mention of T-62M tanks, whether it is information about their presence in the zone of a special military operation in Ukraine or the modernization currently underway, causes a violent reaction.

MWM: Russia is upgrading T-62 tanks because Ukraine will have nothing to oppose them

Russia may commission several hundred updated T-62 tanks, MWM reports. Some Western sources present the modernization and restart of Soviet cars as a symbol of despair due to sanctions, but the authors of the article explain why this argument is untenable.

The Hill: The US urged Biden to "give in" to Russia on the issue of Ukraine

Biden should not even think about a forceful response to the "nuclear blackmail from Putin" invented by him, according to the American edition of Hill. This is certain death for everyone, the author writes, regretting the damage from such a concession — the reduction of Ukraine in size. But the country would have remained intact if the United States had said to itself "stop" back in 2014.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin understand that the nuclear option is not a way out of the current situation in Ukraine, writes TAC. It is encouraging that the topic of nuclear war is being inflated by the media, the author of the article notes. There is no need to find out who will blink first in the confrontation between the United States and Russia.

To ensure its leadership, Russia needs a powerful national weapon, writes Baijiahao. According to the author of the article, one of the latest artillery developments of the Tornado MLRS can be called such. This "king of missiles" is capable of destroying an aircraft carrier in one strike.

German Defense Minister Lambrecht: Germany will be able to supply Ukraine with the remaining IRIS-T air defenses only in 2023

Germany recently delivered the first IRIS-T SLM air defense system to Ukraine. The other three, promised to Kiev, will arrive only next year. This was announced on Monday by Defense Minister Kristine Lambrecht.

Enemy drones are destroyed by an electromagnetic pulse, the source told TASS

The latest hand-held systems for combating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "Harpoon-3" are successfully used by the Russian military during a military operation in Ukraine. This was reported to TASS by a source in the law enforcement agencies.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on October 15, 2022 at 22:55 Moscow time from the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat crew of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces of Russia successfully launched a light-class carrier rocket "Angara-1.2" with a spacecraft in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The United States will pay the Philippines about $ 100 million for the termination of the deal for the purchase of Russian Mi-17 helicopters. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported by the American ambassador in Manila, Marykey Carlson.