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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

As the RIA Novosti news agency reported on October 8, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed that "by the decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of the joint grouping of troops (forces) in the area of a special military operation."

The Kremlin recognized the shortcomings in the system of conscription of reservists and promised to put it in order

There is no second wave of partial mobilization in Russia, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on October 12. Experts explained to Izvestia that there really are no waves of mobilization, but the process itself is stretched out in time for objective reasons.

At the same time, convicted persons may be released from punishment

Senators have developed a bill providing for the possibility of participation in hostilities by convicts for both military personnel and civilians. At the same time, they can be released from punishment if they "show courage and heroism in military service"; the text of the document is available to TASS.

The Ministry of Defense has released footage of the work of the intelligence unit of the second Army Corps of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic during a special military operation (SVO).

The Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday, October 13, published footage of the combat work of calculations of self-propelled anti-tank missile systems "Sturm-S" of the Southern Military District (SE) in the zone of a special military operation.

Modern short-range reconnaissance stations "Fara" and radar stations "Sobolyatnik" first entered service with the special forces of the Southern Military District in January of this year, although their serial production was established by the same NGO "Strela" in early 2021.

According to the agency interlocutor, there is no full understanding that the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine has stopped working yet

There is no complete understanding that the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine has stopped working, but it can be influenced, for example, by silencing the control channel by introducing interference into the signal band. This was reported to TASS on Thursday by a source working in the relevant field.

143 countries voted in support of the resolution

The UN General Assembly adopted on Wednesday an anti-Russian resolution on referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as on the situation in Ukraine. This is reported by a TASS correspondent.

In an interview with CNN, US President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a "rational" person who "miscalculated" with the start of the special operation in Ukraine. In addition, the American leader promised Saudi Arabia some "consequences" for the decision to reduce oil production within OPEC+.

The United States has been preparing the ground for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict since 2014, the author of an article on the Al Jazeera website writes. All in order to overthrow Putin and put a more "convenient" president, as it was in Ukraine. After all, America cannot allow its hegemony to end.

Politico: lessons from the Caribbean crisis are holding back the US

The United States is investing more and more funds in maintaining the conflict in Ukraine, writes Politico. Against this background, tensions in relations between Washington and Moscow are increasing. However, the threat of a nuclear confrontation with Russia deters the White House from rash steps.