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From Southfront – A few hours after the Black Sea Fleet attack, Russia identified the culprits. British specialists located in Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region coordinated the preparation of the attack and trained Ukrainian servicemen of the 73rd Special Center for Naval Operations.
DGTV – Russia Seeks Revenge for NATO Attack on Black Sea Fleet
On October 30, the Ukrainian training center in Ochakov, where the attack on Sevastopol was coordinated from, was hit by Russian missiles. The Ukrainian Emergency Services reported two fires in the town after Russian missile strike, but as usual it was silent about damage to its military facilities. According to various sources, warehouses, headquarters buildings and barracks with personnel were destroyed.
Attacks by Russian missiles and drones on military and energy infrastructure facilities continue. On the morning of October 31, the Ukrainian authorities confirmed damage to energy infrastructure facilities in the Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions. Part of the railway lines in Ukraine remain without power. There are also the largest losses of energy supply throughout the country since the beginning of the Russian military operation.
Source: Southfront – Russia Seeks Revenge For NATO Attack On Black Sea Fleet
Overview Of Russian Strikes On October 31: Ukraine Plunging Into Darkness
Ukraine continues plunging into darkness. Since the early morning of October 31, dozens of Russian missiles and drones have hit military and energy infrastructure facilities across the country.
Today’s missile strikes on the energy system were called “catastrophic” at an emergency meeting of the Ukrainian government in Kiev. The power grid of Ukraine, although with the maximum voltage of generation and transformer substations, already failed to provide electricity throughout Ukraine, but today it almost collapsed. So far, more than forty key facilities of Ukraine’s power grids were hit, including the largest facilities like DneproGES, Yuzhno Dniester HPP, Kanevskaya and Kremenchug HPP.
Ukrainian officials claimed that 18 targets were hit on October 31, while “the Air defense forces destroyed 44 of the 50 cruise missiles fired by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine this morning”, according to the Air Forces of Ukraine. It is not clear how Russian forces managed to hit 18 facilities with 6 missiles. Kiev continues to hide the losses, but it can no longer hide its lies.
Due to damage to the energy infrastructure in the capital of Ukraine, about 80% of residents remain without water supply and at least 350 thousand apartments in the city were left without electricity, the mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko claimed.
Source: Southfront – Overview Of Russian Strikes On October 31: Ukraine Plunging Into Darkness
UPDATED: Major Attack Of Ukrainian & US Drones On Russian Black Sea Fleet In Sevastopol, Crimea
According to the locals, a semi-submersible drone was destroyed this morning near Omega Bay in Sevastopol. Also unconfirmed reports emerge of underwater UAVs were also involved in the attack.
The Defence Ministry confirmed that the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets and net boom in Yuzhnaya Bay received minor damage.
The hull of the minesweeper Ivan Golubets was pierced, but it is afloat. In addition to shrapnel damage to the hull of the frigate Admiral Makarov, its radar system was disabled.
The US RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV, which took off from Sicily, has been circling over the neutral waters of the Black Sea near Crimea for several hours, according to Flightradar data. According to open sources, the reconnaissance flight of the US UAV took place at an altitude of 17 kilometers above the neutral waters.
Several embedded videos are on Southfront.
Souce: Southfront – UPDATED: Major Attack Of Ukrainian & US Drones On Russian Black Sea Fleet In Sevastopol, Crimea
There are reports that Liz Truss iPhone had been hacked by the Russians; and that they obtained a year’s worth of information. Associated with these reports is a message she sent to Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, a minute after the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up, texting “It’s done.” – Phone Hack Reveals Ex-UK PM Liz Truss Allegedly Texted Antony Blinken “It’s Done” Minutes After Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage
KimDotCom tweeted (3:11 PM · Oct 30, 2022):
“How do the Russians know that the UK blew up the North Stream pipelines in partnership with the US? Because @trussliz used her iPhone to send a message to @SecBlinken saying ‘It’s done’ a minute after the pipeline blew up and before anybody else knew?” Dotcom wrote, adding, “iCloud access rocks!”
The astonishing incident, disclosed by security sources, solves the mystery of why Ms Truss was forced to change the mobile number she had used for over a decade shortly before becoming Prime Minister, reported Mail Online.
Some even speculate that this hack, along with the government’s failed attempts to suppress it, led to Truss being replaced.
ANOTHER UPDATE ON THE FOOTAGE:
The Russians got their hands on one of the surface drones as it tried to attack Russian ships and recovered the following video. You can see the splashes from Russian fire trying to stop the drone. It is not clear how the Russians captured the footage. The Mediocrity of British intelligence vividly displayed in string of Terrorist Attacks Against Russia
Video was featured in this related article – Drone Attacks on the Russian Black Sea Fleet
DGTV – George Galloway talks to Scott Ritter about the Recent News
By The Way – NATO Neptune “Drills” just concluded in the Mediterranean Sea:
• NATO Concludes Successful Vigilance Activity Neptune Strike – 31 Oct, Neptune Strike demonstrated the combined capacity of the Alliance while underscoring allied and partner nations’ commitments to deterrence and defense of sovereign Alliance territory. (NATO exercise, Neptune Strike, was underway in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, Oct.17. The exercise, taking place from the 14th-19th of October, involves more than 10 NATO allied countries, including the US, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Poland.) The George H.W. Bush CSG deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in August.
• NATO Secretary General Visits USS George HW Bush – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Adriatic Sea on Tuesday (25 October 2022). The Bush currently leads a carrier strike group under NATO command, which Stoltenberg called “a demonstration of US capability and commitment to the Alliance”.
• According to this article, “Anti-Ship Missiles: How Ukraine Could Save Odessa from Russia?“, employing the potent Naval Strike Missile (a Norwegian-made anti-ship missile that can be ship or shoreline-based) could “protect” Odessa. To get the Naval Strike Missile to the Ukrainians, the United States would have to be involved. Or, the Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles could better protect Odessa.
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