The Russian army ensures the safe departure of the population from the region

In the area of Kherson, the Kiev regime is going to conduct military operations using prohibited methods, Sergei Surovikin said in his first interview with the rank of commander of a Joint group of troops in the area of the SVO.

As already reported, on October 8, 2022, Army General Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of a Joint grouping of troops (forces) in the area of a special military operation. On October 18, Army General Sergei Surovikin made his first public statements in his new position, giving a brief interview.

Without waiting for the arrival of reservists undergoing training in the rear, Russian troops took control of the village of Vorobyovka in the Kupyansk direction. Perhaps this local success portends a larger onslaught. It is obvious that with the arrival of reservists, the balance of forces will change and a new Russian offensive should be expected. Where are the most vulnerable areas of the front of the AFU?

The "Yearbook of CAMTO-2022" (volume 1,532 pages, 710 tables and about 60 diagrams) provides a statistical analysis of the world arms trade over the past 8-year period (2014-2021) and a forecast for the next 4 years (2022-2025).

These days, Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group of Companies) organizes a joint exposition of Russian military products at the XXVI International Exhibition of State Security Equipment "Interpolitech-2022", and also participates in the International Exhibition of Land, Naval Weapons and State Security Equipment Defexpo India 2022.

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.