The Associated Press published a report from the Izyum city hospital in the Kharkov region. The doctors told how they worked during the spring battles for the city and during the Russian occupation. An important part of the report is the story of a 70-year-old doctor who was shot dead by a Russian military man. "You have come to kill and rob" The death of pathologist Fyodor Zdebsky was witnessed by two hospital employees, one of them was Valentina Bachanova.

War is not only casualties and destruction, but also costs. Ukraine has lost more than a third of its economy, but is receiving support from outside. On the contrary, they are trying to prevent Russia, as an aggressor. How long can Russia afford to fight? "For a long time! — answers MSU professor Natalya Zubarevich . — Our military budget was planned for 2022 in the amount of about 3.5 trillion rubles. The total federal budget expenditures will be 29 trillion rubles.

One of the main reasons for the war in Ukraine is propaganda. To fight her, the project of Ilya Krasilshchik “Support Service” begins a series of publications “Russia-24 (without propaganda)”. On the 24th of each month, materials will be released on how to deal with propaganda, how to dissuade their loved ones, how to generally reduce the influence of propaganda on Russian society.

A couple of weeks after the start of mobilization, on October 4, the General Staff of the Armed Forces decided not to send three children under the age of 16 to the war of the fathers and issued appropriate instructions for the military enlistment offices. The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on October 19 stated that 9,500 large fathers were released from mobilization and returned to families. But in fact, many people allegedly freed from mobilization remain in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense is preparing to counteract “possible provocations from Ukraine”, which the Russian military suspect of intention to apply a “dirty bomb”. “Forces and means are readiness to perform tasks in the conditions of radioactive infection,” General Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Ministry of Defense, said on October 24. What exactly the ministry took, Konashenkov did not specify.

On October 8, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Alexey Russkikh, met with the mobilized Ulyanovsk residents who were attending exercises in Penza. There, according to the daughter of one of the mobilized, he handed over sets of uniforms to the military. But not everything reached the conscripts. Evgenia’s father was mobilized on September 29, and the next day he was sent to training in Penza and placed in a barracks at the Olympic indoor stadium.