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1. Peace Came To Ugledar

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Kiev does not change its terror tactics while the Russian army smashes the enemy in a fair fight.

On the night of October 4, the Russian armed forces launched numerous strikes against targets in the rear areas controlled by the Ukrainian military.

Local authorities have confirmed a series of strikes on targets in the city of Odessa and the surrounding region. The mayor of the capital confirmed the fires in Kiev. Russian strikes were recorded in the Kirovograd, Cherkassy and Zhytomyr regions. Ukrainian military reserves are in the process of being ground down in Kharkiv, Kherson and Sumy.

The Russian army dominates not only in the sky, but also on the ground. On October 3, the Russian Defense Ministry officially announced the complete liberation of Ugledar. Despite all the attempts by Kiev's propaganda and the Western MSM to justify the Ukrainian defeat, control of this fortress is of great strategic importance. It is not for nothing that Russian forces made their first attempts to storm it two years ago.

The fall of the Ukrainian defense in Ugledar will cause a domino effect. It reveals the crisis and lack of Ukrainian reserves. For the sake of his image, Zelensky sacrifices the last combat-ready units.

Kiev's dreams of a new counteroffensive in the south have been destroyed. The loss of Ugledar puts an end to dreams of a breakthrough to Crimea and the Sea of Azov, which significantly undermines the morale of the Ukrainian population and its military.

Ukrainians are urgently building new lines of defense in the steppes.

The Russian command is highly likely to try to take the large front southwest of Donetsk into a cauldron. The ongoing advance from the north from the Pokrovsk area and from the south from the Ugledar area will force the Ukrainian army to withdraw far to the west.

Russian control of Ugledar also increases the safety of peaceful life in Mariupol and secures important logistics routes in the region. They include new railway and automobile routes that Russia has built to Mariupol and Crimea. The Russians will be able to rebuild their lives and launch large scale enterprises faster in the region.

Meanwhile, the Russian soldiers completed the mop up operations in Ugledar, where new unpleasant details of Ukrainian tactics were revealed.

The fleeing Ukrainian military abandoned the bodies of their wounded and killed comrades all over the city.

At least 116 civilians have already been found in basements. This is more than what was officially stated by the Ukrainian government. Local residents said that Ukrainian soldiers drove 36 of them into the kindergarten building. The Ukrainian Nazis handed out grenades to people and ordered them to meet the Russian military in a fight. Fortunately, none of the civilians dared to attack Russian soldiers. The rescued residents joyfully welcomed the Russian soldiers who helped them end the nightmare that they've been living in over this past year.

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3. Kiev Forces Receive More Defeats In Kursk (Videos)

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The Russian military's Sever Group of Forces defeated several Ukrainian formations in the Kursk direction after inflicting heavy losses on them, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

In its October 4 briefing, the ministry said that Ukraine's 22nd, 41st 115th mechanized brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU, 1st National Guard Brigade and 36th Marine Brigade as well as the 103rd and 129th territorial defense brigades took losses close to the settlements of Daryino, Lyubimovka, Novy Put, Pokrovsky and Plekhovo.

The Sever Group of forces also repelled two counter-attacks by Kiev forces near the settlements of Lyubimovka, Olgovka and Plekhovo, according to the ministry, which said that some 30 Ukrainian troops were killed or wounded.

In addition, the ministry announced that five Ukrainian attempts to break through the Russian border near the settlement of Novy Put were foiled.

"The enemy sustained losses of more than 30 troops killed and wounded, one armored fighting vehicle and two motor vehicles," it said.

Russian air and artillery strikes also struck gatherings of the 22nd, 41st, 61st, 115th mechanized brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th and 95th air assault brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade and 36th Marine Brigade as well as the 103rd, 112th, 116th and 129th territorial defense brigades, per to the ministry.

The gatherings were targeted close to the settelements of Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, Daryino, Kositsa, Kolmakov, Knyazhy Pervy, Loknya, Lyubimovka, Lebedevka, Martynovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Pokrovsky, Pravda, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.

The ministry said that other strikes hit the Ukrainian region of Sumy, which borders Kursk, targeting the reserves of the 21st, 41st, 47th, 115th mechanized brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade, 82nd, 95th air assault brigades and 1st National Guard Brigade as well as the 101st, 103rd, 106th and 129th territorial defense brigades near the settelments of Belovody, Bondarevshchina, Belaya Beryoza, Belokopytovo, Zhurovka, Katerinovka, Kislaya Dubina, Loknya, Miropolye, Mirlogi, Nikolayevka, Pavlovka, Petrovskoye, Obody, Pavlovka, Sukhodol, Sumy, Khoten and Yunakovka.

"Over the past 24 hours, the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] losses amounted to more than 350 troops, six armored fighting vehicles, as well as three artillery guns, including one French-made Caesar self-propelled artillery system, one American-made M777 towed howitzer, three motor vehicles, three electronic warfare stations, and one counter obstacle vehicle," the ministry detailed in its briefing.

Russian media released videos showing a failed ground offensive by Kiev forces and recent strikes on Ukrainian equipment in the direction of Kursk.



Kiev forces launched a surprise attack from Sumy into Kursk in August with support from their backers in NATO. The Russian military has already launched a counter-attack and liberated more than a dozen settlements in the region.

According to the Russian MoD, since the start of the battle in Kursk Kiev forces have lost 20,200 troops, 135 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armored personnel carriers, 870 armored fighting vehicles, 580 motor vehicles, 165 artillery guns, 33 launchers, including eight American-made HIMARS and six MLRS systems, nine air defense systems, five transport-loading vehicles, 43 electronic warfare stations, nine counter-battery radars, three aerial radars, 20 engineering vehicles, including 12 counter obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle and two armored recovery vehicle.

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4. Zelensky’s Laughable ‘Victory Plan’ Seems To Be ‘Working’ – He Already Got $8 Billion

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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

In the last two and a half years, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky pitched a number of "peace" plans, formulas, platforms and whatnot. Last year, the so-called Crimea Platform was all the rage, with the United States pressuring numerous countries to join this effectively void initiative. Then came the so-called "peace summits" in Switzerland, with Zelensky insisting everyone should come except the one country that actually matters – Russia. Supported by the US/EU/NATO, he kept pushing until many countries started signaling that such events are pointless and a waste of everyone's time. By mid-July, the Kiev regime realized it would lose even the formal "support" that Washington DC and Brussels gathered through "diplomacy" (i.e. blackmail, coercion and arm-twisting). As the battlefield situation kept deteriorating, Zelensky suddenly became "open to the idea" of Russia attending the next "peace summit".

However, the Kremlin was on the verge of laughing in the face of those who suggested this, refusing to take part in the political West's ludicrous games. The "peace plan" that was offered to Moscow effectively boiled down to capitulation at a time when its forces were already making steady gains across the frontline, but particularly in the Donbass, by far the most heavily contested region in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. Thus, in order to shift attention away from its collapsing defenses, the Neo-Nazi junta resorted to the most daring PR stunt yet – the Kursk oblast (region) incursion. Expectedly, this also turned out to be a disaster, with the political West itself frustrated by the way the Kiev regime forces were wasting precious resources while the defenses in the Donbass failed to stop the Russian advance. Zelensky's PR team was now essentially out of new phrases/tropes and realized there won't be any "peace summits" with Russia.

That was when the Neo-Nazi junta finally decided to recycle the old one – "winning the war". All of a sudden, the word "peace" was replaced and now we got a "victory plan" once again. Obviously, such "grand schemes" require more money, so Zelensky traveled to the US and spent around a week there in late September, formally pitching the latest "victory plan" to the troubled Biden administration. Many pro-Trump Americans were frustrated by this and even argued that Zelensky was engaged in election meddling, as he visited Pennsylvania, the top swing state. On September 26, the White House hosted Zelensky, where he and Biden happily announced that the Kiev regime would immediately get $400 million, while the US pledged another $8 billion in so-called "aid". Apparently, Zelensky was frustrated as Washington DC refused to allow the use of NATO-sourced long-range weapons, so he was given all those billions to "lighten up".

The Neo-Nazi junta frontman officially presented his "victory plan" to the troubled Biden administration, prompting the Trump campaign to call Zelensky "the greatest salesman on Earth". Obviously, anyone familiar with the way this works knows that the so-called "Ukraine aid" is just another way to get more taxpayer's dollars back into the US and straight into the coffers of the DNC and Biden crime family. The latest revelations about this scheme show that the warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC initiated the Ukrainian crisis over a decade ago precisely for this reason. However, at least part of these promised funds will surely end in Ukraine, where they'll be used to bribe numerous Kiev regime officials, but also prolong the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. The unfortunate populace of the NATO-occupied country is paying the price, while the rest of us get to live in fear of uncontrollable thermonuclear escalation.

This still leaves the obvious question – what is this "victory plan" about? It wouldn't be the first time that the Neo-Nazi junta is claiming that it can "win", but it "just needs this one game changer". So far, only nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers haven't been delivered to its forces. However, nothing worked, so how would this new "plan" turn the tide? Russian offensive capabilities only keep growing, with a deadly combination of artillery dominance and air superiority aided by unrivaled long-range strike systems. Not even NATO itself can match that, let alone the battered Kiev regime forces. The latest assessments only confirmed previous findings about their atrocious casualty ratio, which is why the Russian military is advancing much faster across the frontlines. The Neo-Nazi junta simply doesn't have the manpower and equipment to prevent this, forcing it to continuously pull back to new defensive positions.

Thus, Zelensky's "victory plan" effectively boils down to an over the top wishlist counting on a Russia-NATO escalation. In simpler terms, the political West needs to go to war with Moscow to prevent the Kiev regime's complete defeat. Unsurprisingly, many in Washington DC aren't really happy about this, as going to war with nuclear-armed Russia would mean the end of America itself, particularly as Moscow has an advantage in terms of both quality and quantity. Its strategic arsenal is second to none and the Pentagon is surely aware of this. Zelensky's "victory plan" is yet to be publicly revealed, but senior US officials who have seen it say there's nothing original or innovative in it. On September 25, The Wall Street Journal quoted one who said that he's "unimpressed", as "there's not much new there". It can only be concluded that the Neo-Nazi junta and its overlords simply want to keep the NATO-orchestrated war going for as long as possible.

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5. Israel Admits Two Soldiers Killed, Over 20 Others Wounded In Iraqi Drone Attack (Videos)

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged on October 4 that two soldiers were killed and two dozen others were wounded in a drone attack from Iraq a day earlier.

According to an IDF probe, two suicide drones were launched from Iraq in the attack. One of the drones was shot down by Israeli air defenses. However, the other one impacted a military base in the northern part of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The military said that the two slain soldiers were a signals officer cadet and IT specialist from the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion.

In addition to the slain soldiers, another 24 were wounded in the attack, including two seriously, one moderately and 21 lightly.

The deadly attack was likely carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) which said that it launched suicide drones at three targets in northern Israel late on October 2.

The IRI also announced an attack with a advance suicide drone on a target in southern Israel on October 3, and said that it attack three more targets in the Golan Heights and near the Sea of Galilee with suicide drones on October 4. Hebrew media reported multiple interceptions over these areas.



The IRI, an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi armed factions, began carrying out attacks against Israel as well as against United States forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria last October in response to the Israeli war on Gaza.

In September, the group escalated its attacks against Israel in response to Israel's ongoing aerial campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The drone attack on the Golan Heights IDF base marked the first known time an attack by the IRI has resulted in Israeli casualties.

Israel has not openly responded to the IRI's attacks yet. However, it was blamed for several strikes that targeted Iran-backed armed factions along the Syrian-Iraqi border and near the Syrian capital, Damascus, after the start of the war in the Strip. Iraqi fighters and commanders were killed in some of these strikes.

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6. Rear Israeli Airstrike Kill 18 Palestinians In West Bank (18+ Video)

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At least 18 Palestinians were killed late on October 3 when an Israeli airstrike hit the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the death toll in a statement. Meanwhile, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said that "Israeli warplanes struck a popular cafe in the al-Hamam neighborhood of the Tulkarem camp with at least one missile while several civilians were present."

Following the airstrike, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a brief statement annoncing that one of its fighter jets targeted Tulkarem as part of a joint operation with the Shin Bet security agency.

The military said in a later statement that it assassinated Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, the head of the Hamas Movement in Tulkarem.

"Earlier today, in a joint IDF and ISA ]Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet] counterterrorism operation, the IAF [Israeli Air Force] conducted an ISA intelligence-based strike in the Tulkarem area and eliminated…Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi," the head Hamas in Tulkarem, a military statement said.

The IDF went on to claim in the statement that "Oufi planned and led the attempted car-bombing attack in Ateret" last September.

"As part of his role, Oufi planned and led a significant amount of attacks directed toward communities in Judea and Samaria (in the West Bank) and the rest of the Israeli Home Front," it added.

The statement noted that "multiple other significant terrorists who were part of Hamas in Tulkarem were eliminated alongside Oufi."



The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the airstrike was the first of its kind carried out by an Israeli fighter jet in the West Bank since the Second Intifada in 2000.

The airstrike came just two days after seven Israelis were killed and 17 others were wounded as a result of a shooting attack in the central city of Tel Aviv that was claimed by Hamas. Israeli security forces killed two gunmen who carried out the attack.

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 41,000 Palestinians, led to an increase of violence within Israel and in the West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the war. Over 5,250 others have been arrested. During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli soldiers and police officers, have been killed in attacks in Israel and the West Bank.

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7. In Video: Hamas Fighters Hunt Down Israeli Tanks, APCs & Bulldozers In Gaza

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Nearly a year after the October 7 surprise attack which sparked the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, continue to inflict losses on the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Palestinian enclave.

On October 2, the group released video footage showing its fighters targeting two Merkava MK 4M main battle tanks, a Namer armored personnel carrier and a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer with rocket-propelled grenades in the al-Tanour neighborhood to the east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.



The group released another video on October 3 showing a recent ambush that targeted an armored unit of the IDF in the al-Fakhari area to the east of the city of Khan Yunis city, which is also located in the southern part of the Strip.

During the ambush, Hamas fighters targeted three Merkava MK 4M main battle tanks, two Namer armored personnel carriers, five Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers and one drill with rocket-propelled grenades. The fighters also blow up a group of Israeli combat engineers with explosive devices.

The last part of the video shows Israeli bulldozers pulling out damaged tanks, military helicopters evacuating casualties, combat gear left behind by wounded troops and the remains of destroyed vehicles.

So far, the IDF has lost 348 troops during ground operations against Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza and along its border. Around 2,280 others have been reportedly wounded in the Strip. In addition, over 500 vehicles were hit there, according to Hebrew media.

Meanwhile on the Palestinian side, the death toll from the Israeli war has exceeded 41,700, with women and children making up most of the casualties.

Despite killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroying most of Gaza, Israel is yet to fulfill any of the war's stated goals.

Hamas is still ruling the Strip, the group's military wing remains highly capable and it continues to hold around a hundred Israeli hostages who were captured during the October 7 surprise attack.

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8. Houthis Share Footage Of Recent Attack On Oil Tanker In Red Sea

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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen released on October 3 video footage documenting their attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker Cordelia Moon in the Red Sea.

The Cordelia Moon was attacked by an uncrewed suicide boat some 64 nautical miles northwest of the Yemeni Red Sea port of al-Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a detachment of the Royal Navy, reported on October 1.

The tanker, which was in ballast condition, was damaged on its port side tank, British security firm Ambrey and the United States Navy-run Joint Maritime Information Center said, adding that it was proceeding to its next port of call.

The Houthis alleged that the Cordelia Moon was owned by the UK. The group said that the oil tanker was targeted in support of the Gaza Strip and Lebanese as well as in response to recent American and British strikes on Yemen.

The footage released by the Houthis shows a large fireball bursting out of the vessel's port side tank, sending a thick column of dark smoke into the air.

Since November, the Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

The group also launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel and shot down at least eleven American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.

The U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since January. Israel also launched two waves of strikes against civilian infrastructure in the western Yemeni province of al-Hodeidah in July and September. However, the group remains undeterred as evident by its recent attacks.

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9. Israel Struck Lebanon-Syria Border Crossing Used By Civilians To Flee (Videos)

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An Israeli strike hit Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria on October 4, cutting off a road used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days.

Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told Reuters that the strike hit inside Lebanese territory near the key border crossing, creating a four-meter wide crater. The minister noted that the crossing was subject to the authority of the Lebanese state.



Colonel Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman, had accused Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on October 3 of using the Masnaa crossing to transport military equipment from into Lebanon. The IDF did not provide any evidence to support the claims.

"The state of Lebanon is responsible for its official border crossings and its ability to prevent Hezbollah from [using] these crossings. The IDF urges the Lebanese state to carry out a strict inspection of the trucks passing through the civilian crossings and to return the trucks and vehicles containing weapons to Syria," the spokesman said.

"If necessary, [the Israeli military] will not hesitate to act, just as it has done during the entire war," he added.

More than 300,000 people, mostly Syrian nationals, had crossed from Lebanon into Syria over the last ten days to escape Israel's intense bombardment, according to Lebanese government statistics.

The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out last October after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. In September, Israel escalated its strikes on Lebanon and went on to launch an invasion into the country.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have so far claimed the lives of around 2,000 people and left more than 9,000 others wounded. Civilians make up the vast majority of the victims.

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10. Hezbollah Presumed New Leader Reportedly Targeted In Israeli Strikes On Beirut (Videos)

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Intense Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, over the night of October 3 and 4, with reports suggesting that Hezbollah's most senior leader was targeted.

Axios reporter Barak Ravid cited two Israeli sources as saying Hashem Safieddine was the target. The New York Times also reported that the strikes targeted a meeting that Safieddine was attending with other senior Hezbollah leaders in an underground bunker

Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah's executive council, is presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination in the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh on September 27.

The Israeli Defense Forces issued several evacuation orders for buildings in Dahieh, a known stronghold of Hezbollah, during the intense overnight attack. However, the military has not yet commented on the reports alleging that Safieddine was targeted.

Hezbollah is also still silent over reports alleging that Safieddine was targeted. Previously the group refuted reports alleging that he was appointed as its new secretary-general.



The confrontation on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 30 it launched a ground offensive in the country.

Overall, the confrontation between Hezbollah and IDF has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 31 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 2,000 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.

Israeli strikes killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 151 others on October 3 alone, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

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