SBU drones attacked an oil depot in the Voronezh region
On the night of October 4 in Russia, there was a fire at two oil depots at the same time – in the Voronezh region and the Perm region. Especially in the last one The brandy area at the oil depot was 10 thousand square meters. m.
Meanwhile, in the Voronezh region, local governor Alexander Gusev reported that the fire at the oil depot allegedly started “in an empty tank after an attack by a UAV.”
In the morning The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially confirmedthat at night there was indeed a strike at a storage base for fuels and lubricants in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation. A hit was confirmed in at least one of the vertical tanks and a fire broke out there.
Later it became known that the object was hit by drones of the Security Service of Ukraine. The attacked oil depot housed dozens of fuel tanks.
BBC mentioned Russian losses in Ugledar
Elite detachments of the Russian Marine Corps during the year of the battle near Ugledar lost four times more people than during ten years of war in Chechnya.
Ugledar is considered a strategically important point. The most intense and bloody battles for the city were in the fall of 2022 and the winter of 2023. Then elite divisions of marines – the 155th and 40th brigades of “black berets” supported by infantry fighting vehicles and tanks – were sent to storm the city. They were assisted by motorized rifle formations made up of conscripts and volunteers.
Based on open data, the BBC was able to confirm that at least 211 marines from the 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces were killed during the attacks on Vugledar, and another 42 were missing.
This is almost four times more than the losses of this unit during the ten years of the war in Chechnya. Among the dead were 19 officers, including battalion commander Tsiren Lubsanov.
Marines of the 40th Black Beret Brigade from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky participated in these battles side by side with the 155th Brigade. The publication confirmed the death of 72 soldiers and officers in this unit.
At the same time, serious losses of the “black berets” can be proven by the fact that the “Storm Z” units, formed from prisoners of Russian colonies, began to be assigned to the 155th and 40th brigades.
Zelensky arrived in the Sumy region and held a meeting at the headquarters there
On Friday, October 4, President Vladimir Zelensky visited the Sumy region. There he met Ukrainian soldiers participating in the Kursk operation and also held a meeting in the headquarters of the supreme commander.
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Russian drone debris found again in Romania
In Romania on Friday, October 4, again discovered the wreckage of an attack dronewhich the Russians launched in the direction of Ukraine.
Fragments of the drone were found in the area around the Litzovsky Canal, about one kilometer from the Georgievsky mouth of the Danube Delta.
“A team of specialists from the Ministry of Defense, the Romanian Intelligence Service and the Ministry of the Interior searched the specified perimeter, from where fragments of a drone of Russian origin were seized, which will be analyzed in accordance with legal procedures,” the Romanian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The parliamentary committee supported raising taxes for Ukrainians
The Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy of the Verkhovna Rada supported the bill on tax increases for the second reading. Some of the rules take effect retroactively from October 1.
Project No. 11416-d included an increase in the military tax from 1.5% to 5%, the introduction of a military tax for individual entrepreneurs and an increase in the bank profit tax to 50%.
The head of Khmelnitsky MSEC and her son were exposed to illegal enrichment
Employees of the DBI exposed the head of the Khmelnitsky Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise and her son for large-scale illegal enrichment. During searches, officials found nearly $6 million in various currencies.
According to RBC-Ukraine sources, we are talking about Tatyana Vasilyevna Krupa.
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The car of the “security chief” of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant exploded in Energodar
Yesterday, October 4, A car exploded in the temporarily occupied Energodar. It included a collaborator, the “security chief” of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Andrey Korotky.
“On October 4, at approximately 7:00 a.m., a car exploded in the temporarily occupied Energodar, where there was a war criminal – the “head of physical security” of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Andrey Korotky, “Main Intelligence Directorate.” reported.
RosSMI later reported that Korotky died of his injuries.
Ukraine will receive 12 Caesar installations from France
Ukraine will receive from the Franco-German defense group KNDS 12 Caesar self-propelled artillery unit. The corresponding contract was concluded the day before.
On the sidelines of the Kiev industrial forum, the KNDS group signed a contract for the supply of 12 Caesar artillery pieces to Ukraine. Financing of deliveries takes place at the expense of Ukraine.
According to French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecorne, the agreement is part of efforts to increase the production capacity of the defense industry, aimed at supporting Ukraine in its resistance to Russian aggression.
