Russian Defense Ministry: The Armed Forces continued to strike military targets in Ukraine, the goals were achieved

The Russian armed forces continue to strike at the facilities of the military administration and the energy system of Ukraine, all tasks have been completed. This was announced on Monday, October 17, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

The greatest losses in manpower were recorded in the Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk directions, follows from TASS calculations based on data from daily briefings by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov.

The Deputy Acting Governor of the Kherson region reported that the AFU also lost 320 tanks

Over the past month and a half, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have lost about 9.8 thousand military personnel, including mercenaries, and about 1,590 pieces of equipment, including 320 tanks, in the Kherson direction alone. This was announced on Monday by the deputy acting Governor of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov on the air of Channel One .

Belarus will accept up to 170 tanks and about a hundred guns from Russia to the regional grouping

About 170 tanks, up to 200 armored combat vehicles and up to 100 guns and mortars with a caliber of more than 100 mm will arrive in Belarus within the framework of the Belarusian-Russian group of troops being deployed from the Russian Federation, said Valery Revenko, head of the Department of International Military Cooperation – Assistant to the Minister of Defense of Belarus for International Military Cooperation.

Japanese MP Suzuki: Ukraine must stop fighting

Statements about the "weakening" of Russia, replicated in the Western media, raise doubts, writes Muneo Suzuki in an article by Yahoo News Japan. If you can't fight on your own, lay down your arms and end the conflict, he tells Ukrainians. The readers of the portal agree with the politician.

Military historian Miroslav Morozov — about the lessons of strategic bombing campaigns of the past for the wars of the present and the future

The increasingly widespread use of high-precision aviation ammunition, long-range ballistic missiles and attack drones has reawakened interest in the far from new concept of "contactless" wars. Is it possible now with a campaign of strategic bombing with modern weapons to undermine the defense capability and bring the enemy state to its knees?

The lead ship, a Zumwalt-class destroyer, recently left Japan, where she was on her long voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Prior to that, the ship visited the US naval base on Guam on September 19. The current cruise is the longest voyage of the destroyer from the home port in San Diego, since the ship was commissioned in 2016.

On October 14, 2022, a ceremony was held in Bremerhaven (Germany) to hand over to the Egyptian Navy the lead frigate Al-Aziz (tail number "904") of the MEKO 200EN project, built by the German shipbuilding association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in a series of four ordered ships.

In light of the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian nuclear torpedo "Poseidon" attracts the interest of the whole world, Yahoo News Japan reports. The radioactive wave caused by it is higher than the Empire State Building and is capable of reaching Washington. The United States has nothing to resist the "Doomsday weapon".

The crew of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich is serving in the Mediterranean Sea

Traditionally, the Day of the commander of the ship is celebrated in Russia on October 8. The holiday was approved by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy on September 18, 2007.

St. Petersburg designers and designers work closely with shipbuilders, one of the most important and promising areas of development is instrumentation

Shipbuilding enterprises of St. Petersburg plan to transfer 16 warships, four submarines and six military vessels to customers by 2025. Alexey Yakovlev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade of St. Petersburg, told about this at a press conference in the St. Petersburg press center of TASS.

As reported by JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), on October 14, 2022, the new nuclear icebreaker Ural of project 22220 (LK-60YA), built at JSC Baltic Plant (part of USC), left St. Petersburg for the first stage of sea trials.

FT: Ukraine has become digitally dependent on a "capricious" billionaire

Informed observers in the United States are concerned about whether Elon Musk is going to prevent the "advances" of Ukrainian troops. The author of the FT article recalls that the Starlink system belongs to a capricious billionaire, and this dependence carries a great vulnerability of Kiev.

According to the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak, Kiev expects SpaceX to provide a stable connection until the end of negotiations

Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak promised to find a way to finance the operation of the Starlink satellite communication system produced by the American company SpaceX in Ukraine and without funding from the founder of the company Elon Musk.

First Deputy press Secretary of the department Sabrina Singh said that the Pentagon is negotiating with both SpaceX itself and other organizations

The US Department of Defense believes that the Starlink satellite communication system manufactured by the American company SpaceX in Ukraine has alternatives, the department is negotiating with both SpaceX itself and other organizations. This was stated to reporters on Friday by the first deputy press secretary of the Pentagon, Sabrina Singh.

American billionaire Elon Musk commented on the statement of the Pentagon representatives after his decision to refuse further financing of the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine. Recall that Musk previously stated that he could not continue to provide Ukraine with Internet from his company Starlink for free, since traffic in this country is a hundred times more active than for ordinary households. And immediately offered to solve the issue of funding to the Pentagon.

The Biden administration's unprecedented package of bans on the sale of chips and equipment for their production to China, announced on October 7, exacerbates the already difficult situation in this high-tech market. At the same time, unprecedented measures are being taken in China to ensure that sanctions do not particularly affect the availability of semiconductors to the industry.

Recently, the US administration introduced new export rules. Their main goal is to deprive China of the possibility of importing the most advanced Western–made semiconductors. This is reported by the American edition of The New York Times. Since various restrictions on trade with China were introduced earlier, in fact, we are talking about a full-fledged technological war against China.

The company also provided 43 million free Skype communication hours to Ukrainians and their families outside the country

The American corporation Microsoft has provided Ukraine with more than $ 250 million in technical support. This was reported on Thursday by Bloomberg with reference to a representative of the company.

The US military, who took part in testing Microsoft's augmented reality headset, criticized the device. This is reported by Bloomberg.