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Ukraine will receive the first NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) during October. This was stated on Friday by the country's Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov.

The Ministry of Defense of the country noted that it coincides with Tallinn's plans to update the stocks of weapons and equipment

Estonia's military assistance to Ukraine does not have a negative impact on the defense capability of the Baltic Republic, since it coincides with Tallinn's plans to update its stocks of weapons and equipment.

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.

Denis Shmygal at the same time admitted that the capacity of the backbone networks is reduced due to numerous destructions

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal said on Friday that the power supply disrupted as a result of Russian strikes has been restored throughout the country, and rolling blackouts are no longer applied.

Russia will close the grain corridor if it is confirmed that the explosives for the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge were taken out of Odessa on a grain truck, the president said

Partial mobilization will be completed in about two weeks, more than 220 thousand people have already been called up for it, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Friday following his visit to Astana.

The President of Ukraine has agreed with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he had agreed in a telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud to provide Riyadh with macro-financial assistance to Kiev.

French MEP Thierry Mariani noted that within the EU there are also supporters of more active participation in the military operation in the person of Poland and the Baltic countries

French MEP Thierry Mariani accused some EU partners of trying to indirectly weaken the economy by increasingly dragging countries into the Ukrainian conflict and called for finding ways of peaceful settlement. He stated this on the air of the BFM TV channel on Friday evening.

222 thousand people have already been sent to military units out of the planned 300 thousand

All partial mobilization activities will be completed within two weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 14. According to him, 222 thousand people out of the planned 300 thousand have already been sent to military units. On the same day, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told about new strikes on objects of the military control system and energy of Ukraine.

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.

TNI: Russian air defense systems are a serious threat to the F–35

The US Air Force is practicing combat missions on the F-35 in the face of countering the best Russian-made air defense systems, writes TNI. American fighters must be prepared for any eventuality – the threat from ground-based aircraft suppression systems is very serious.

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".

There were reports that during a special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces used Penicillin complexes. These complexes allow for artillery reconnaissance.

Defense industry: the IL-76MD-90 aircraft will be able to carry up to eight Molniya drones

The Russian Il-76MD-90 military transport aircraft will be able to carry up to eight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Molniya air launch. On Saturday, October 15, TASS was informed by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The newspaper does not exclude that Italy and Spain may supply Ukraine with Aspide short-range anti-aircraft guided missiles

Italy, presumably, will supply Ukraine with Spada medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems. As the newspaper La Repubblica reported on Saturday, citing sources in NATO, such readiness was announced on Wednesday at a meeting of the alliance's defense ministers in Brussels.

NATO will soon hold "long-planned" exercises on nuclear deterrence forces. Among the members of the alliance, the United States, Great Britain and France have nuclear weapons. The question now is what consequences this action may have, Javan writes.

Since the beginning of the special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to liberate Donbass and demilitarize Ukraine, the total losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to 123,133 servicemen. Such figures are called by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in an appeal to the Ukrainian military.

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.

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.

According to the Defense Ministers of Ukraine and Germany, on October 11, 2022, the German side handed over to the armed forces of Ukraine the first set of the IRIS-T SLM medium-range anti-aircraft missile system of the new production of the German company Diehl Defense (as part of the Diehl Group). The transfer, as stated, was carried out on the territory of Poland near the Ukrainian border, and on October 12, the complex was delivered to Ukraine, becoming the first modern Western-made medium or long-range air defense system delivered to Ukraine.