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[Regnum] A female bear mauled a woman picking berries in the forest in the Sakhalin Region. Kirill Lushin, head of the Sever search team, reported this on September 22.
The incident occurred on the evening of September 21 in the vicinity of the village of Lagurey in the Tymovsky district.
According to the leader of the Sever search team, two women were in the taiga when they were attacked by a mother bear and her cub. One of them managed to escape and immediately reported the incident to game wardens.
"We went into the forest with the survivor, and she showed us where to go. Despite the darkness, she navigated well. We found the backpack. The bear was about 35 meters away, and another one was to the left. It was dangerous to go any further, so we decided to return and continue the search in the morning," local news outlet TVOKHA.RU quoted Lushin as saying.
The search party found the woman's dead body. Boots and a bucket were scattered nearby, along with traces of blood.
According to the publication, the attacker was a female bear, previously spotted in the area with her cub. For safety reasons, the female bear was removed, and her cub fled into the forest.
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In 1976 I saw 2 women in NPS uniforms apparently picking berries on a mountainside in Glacier National Park. I was riding on the Many Glacier boat. From the deck of the boat the berry pickers were easy to see on the mountain side from the deck of the boat. A rather large bear's head popped up from the bushes about 30 feet from the women, who were oblivious to the bear. The boat's captain started blowing his horn in groups of 3 to warn the women. The women looked towards us and then scanned the area around them when the bear's head raised up again. All three fled in opposite directions and as far as I know, none was hurt.
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[Korrespondent] Almost half of Russian attacks are concentrated in the Pokrovsky direction. Six combat clashes are currently ongoing there.
Since the beginning of the current day, 83 combat clashes have occurred on the front, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report on Monday, September 22.
Thus, five attacks by Russian invaders have been repelled in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions . Three more clashes are ongoing.
Five enemy assaults have been stopped in the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction . Two more clashes are ongoing. The enemy is attacking near Vovchansk, Vovchanskiye Khutors, and toward Odradnoye and Kutkovka.
In the Kupyansk direction, our soldiers successfully stopped two enemy offensive actions near Kupyansk and Peschanoye.
Eight armed clashes occurred in the Limansky direction near the villages of Olgovka, Novoegorovka, Grekovka, Stavki, Shandrigolovo, Derilovo, Torskoye, and Zarechnoye. Three of these clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, two armed clashes are currently ongoing near Serebryanka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders stopped four attacks near Stupochki.
In the Toretsk direction, the invaders launched 12 attacks near the villages of Pleshchyivka, Berestok, Katerynivka, Kleban-Byk, Rusyn Yar, Poltavka, and towards Stepanivka. Fighting is currently ongoing in three locations.
In the Pokrovskoe direction, clashes of varying intensity erupted 32 times in the past 24 hours near the villages of Nikanorovka, Zolotoy Kolodets, Rodynskoye, Krasny Liman, Novoekonomicheskoye, Mirolyubovka, Promen, Mirnohrad, Zvirovoe, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Molodetskoye, and Dachnoye. Six clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovskoye direction, the aggressor attempted to advance eight times near the settlements of Filiya, Sichnevoye, Shevchenko, Sosnovka, Novoivanovka, and Ternovoye. Three combat clashes are still ongoing.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Gulyai-Polye, Orekhov and Dnieper directions.
Earlier on Monday, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were continuing their counteroffensive operation in the Dobropillia sector and were making progress. Our attack aircraft in some areas advanced up to 2.5 kilometers in the past 24 hours.
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[Korrespondent] Assault units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced up to 2.5 kilometers in some areas over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian forces are continuing their counteroffensive operation in the Dobropillia sector and are making progress. Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi announced this on Telegram on Monday, September 22.
"Over the past 24 hours, control over 1.3 square kilometers (0.7 square miles) was restored, and the enemy was searched and destroyed in 2.1 square kilometers (0.7 square miles) of the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk Oblast. Assault units advanced from 200 meters to 2.5 kilometers in certain areas," he wrote.
According to Syrsky, 43 occupiers were killed over the past 24 hours, with enemy casualties totaling 65. Eleven pieces of military equipment were also destroyed (four artillery systems, six unmanned aerial vehicles, and one motorcycle).
Overall, 164.5 square kilometers were liberated during the counteroffensive operation, with 180.8 square kilometers cleared of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Control over seven settlements was restored, and nine were cleared of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
The total losses of the Russian occupiers in the Dobropillia area amount to 2,696 people, of which 1,492 are irretrievable. The "exchange fund" continues to be replenished.
The Russian army also lost 856 pieces of weapons and military equipment. These included: 12 tanks, 38 armored combat vehicles, 175 artillery systems, 5 multiple launch rocket systems, 441 vehicles, 58 motorcycles and ATVs, 1 special-purpose vehicle, and 173 unmanned aerial vehicles.
As a reminder, last week it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting a counteroffensive in the area of Pokrovsk and Dobropillia . At that time, the Ukrainian defenders advanced 3 to 7 kilometers into the Russian defenses.
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[NewsFront] 21:10 For the first time in a long period of time, the Ukrainian side sent drones towards Moscow and the Moscow region.
As of 9:00 PM, nine drones have been shot down over various areas of the capital. The airstrikes are still ongoing.
20:53 Russian pilots"worked"at the deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Volchansk, Khar'kov region.
19:36 A selection of the work of Rubicon specialists in the Donbass region has been published, video.
19:28 Fighters of the Center group of forces told, how the village of Muravka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
19:02 Iskander destroyed S-300PS complex of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Progress, Chernihiv region.
18:04 Artillerymen of the Center group of forces destroyed an enemy UAV control point camouflaged in a forest belt in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
17:46 On the southern flank of Seversk, attack aircraft of the 88th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces continue to carry out a mop up of the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.
17:29 New footage: the Geranium jet-powered UAV attack soil depot in the city of Bakhmach, Chernihiv region.
17:01 Servicemen of the 92nd Engineer Regiment of the "West" group destroyed explosive objects of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the liberated territories of the LPR.
15:39 Posted footage of the Geranium landing at a Ukrainian oil refinery (approximately in the Chernihiv region).
15:06 Our fighters destroyed the remnants of enemy forces in the south of Stepova Novoselovka and advanced west in the Kupyansk direction.
14:43 Published footage of a Geranium jet flying over a Ukrainian oil refinery in the Chernihiv region.
14:02 Operational sources confirm information about the beginning of the battle for Novogrigorovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the control of the eastern part of the village by our units.
13:29 Russian Armed Forces soldiers with Lancets destroyed engineering equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Pogoreltsy in the Chernihiv region.
12:39 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of September 22, 2025:
Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, an airborne assault brigade, an assault and airborne assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Alekseyevka, Varachino, Mogritsa, and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Sinelnikovo and Grigorovka in the Khar'kov region.
Units of the West group of forces have improved their tactical position.
They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of three mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Glushkovka, Velyka Shapkovka, Izyumskoye in the Khar'kov region, and Kirovsk and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the Southern group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions.
They defeated formations of six mechanized, motorized infantry, and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades, and a National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Mayskoye, Reznikovka, Minkovka, Berestok, Ivanopolye, and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the Center group of forces have improved their position along the forward edge.
They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of four mechanized, an airmobile, an airborne, an assault, two airborne assault brigades, three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Moskovskoye, Rodinskoye, Krasny Liman, Balagan and Krasnoarmeysk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the "East" military group advanced deep into enemy defenses and liberated the village of Kalinovskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Formations of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Gavrilovka, Orestopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and Chervone in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades and two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region, Berislav, Otradokamenka, Tyaginka, Sadovoe and Belozerka in the Kherson region.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groupings damaged Ukrainian aviation industry enterprises, military airfield infrastructure, storage and launch sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, a training center for foreign mercenaries, and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian armed forces in 147 districts.
Air defense systems shot down seven guided aerial bombs, two US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets, and 339 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
12:26 In the period from 8:00 to 12:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed 28 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod region.
12:11 Our fighters took under control of half of the village of Kleban-Byk and are advancing north of Shcherbinovka in the South Konstantinovsky direction.
12:10 "Solntsepyok" by Severyanburn out Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the left bank of Vovchansk.
11:54 The clearing of Shandrigolovo continues, fighting is underway in Novoselovka and in the Derilovo area in the Krasnolimansky direction, map.
11:40 According to Ukrainian local channels, in the suburbs of Khar'kov arrived rocket.
11:27 Warriors of the "East" released another populated area in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The village of Kalinovskoye became the seventh settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the ninth in September to be liberated from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This time, assault aircraft from the 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade distinguished themselves.
11:22 Footage has emerged of objective monitoring of the liberation of the village of Muravka by fighters of the Center group of forces,video.
They entered the village stealthily, at night, under anti-drone blankets. The enemy abandoned their positions. Attempts to rotate equipment ended even worse for the enemy—they burned everything at the entrances.
11:20 Military personnel of the "East" group of forces told details of the liberation of the village of Ol'govskoye.
"The enemy is unprepared. When they try to counterattack, they fail," reported a squad leader with the call sign "Timokha."
10:00 As a result of the enemy UAV strike on the Republic of Crimea, several objects on the territory of the Foros sanatorium were damaged, and a school building in the village was also damaged.
As a result of the strike, 16 people were injured and three were killed.
9:28 Russian Army attacked Patriot air defense missile system positioning area near Kyiv
Dozens of drones attacked Boryspil Airport near Kyiv, including a jet-powered UAV.
8:50 Geran-2 UAV crews amazed temporary deployment point of the 156th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Zelenaya Dubrava in the Sumy region.
8:20 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 114 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
- 25 UAVs over the Rostov Region and Krasnodar Krai,
- 19 UAVs over the Belgorod Region,
- 13 UAVs over the Astrakhan Region,
- 10 UAVs over the Republic of Crimea,
- Seven UAVs over the Bryansk Region,
- Five UAVs over the Sea of Azov,
- Three UAVs over the Yaroslavl and Volgograd Regions,
- Two UAVs over the Black Sea,
- One UAV over the Kursk and Voronezh Regions.
8:05 In Belgorod, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone detonated near the city administration building. Two people were injured.
An ambulance crew transported a woman with a penetrating shrapnel wound to the shin and a man with a superficial facial wound to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2. All necessary medical care is provided.
Information on the consequences is being clarified. All emergency services are working on the scene.
8:01 TOS-1A "Solntsepek" crew of the "Vostok" group destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Chervone in the Zaporizhzhia region.
7:50 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, as a result of an attack by a strike drone, moderate injuries were sustained.receiveda boy born in 2006 and a man born in 1992
Five residential buildings and a civil infrastructure facility were damaged.
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[Regnum] Following the 2025 spring conscription, 160,000 people were sent to serve in the Russian Armed Forces, as well as other troops and military formations. This was announced on September 22 by Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky.
The conscription task established by the decree of President Vladimir Putin was fully fulfilled, the vice admiral noted.
"Over 170 civil aviation flights, 14 Armed Forces aircraft flights, and 15 military echelons were used to send young recruits to military units," the Russian Defense Ministry press service quoted Tsimlyansky as saying.
In total, over 125,000 conscripts were transported by aircraft, troop trains, and passenger trains during the spring conscription campaign. At the assembly points, all conscripts were provided with the required rations, the vice admiral added.
Tsimlyansky also reminded that the autumn draft will take place from October 1 to December 31. All conscripts will serve only in the Russian Federation and will not be called upon to participate in special military operations. The length of conscription remains unchanged at 12 months. The vice admiral also noted that, from this date on, the decision to conscript into military service is now valid for one year from the date it is made.
Recruits scheduled to serve in the Russian army during the fall 2025 draft will not be involved in the special operation. This was announced on September 22 by Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, Deputy Chief of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
"I would like to note that conscripted military personnel will not be involved in special military operation tasks," Tsimlyansky said during a briefing.
According to him, at least a third of the conscripts will be assigned to training units and military bases. There, they will master modern military equipment and receive a military registration specialty, which will allow them to be assigned to the armed forces upon completion of their training.
The vice admiral also announced that all new recruits will be assigned to serve in units permanently stationed exclusively within Russia. Furthermore, conscripts who have completed their mandatory military service will be discharged in a timely manner and sent back to their places of residence, he concluded.
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[Regnum] Law enforcement officials shut down 27 underground weapons workshops and seized 200 firearms and 250 kg of explosives. This was reported by the FSB Public Relations Center ( PRC ).
"The activities of 27 underground workshops modernizing weapons and manufacturing ammunition have been stopped," the statement said.
FSB, Ministry of Internal Affairs, and National Guard officers identified 43 individuals involved in illegal activities, residing in 32 regions. They are involved in the illegal trafficking of weapons and ammunition, the refurbishment of civilian weapons, and their distribution, the agency explained.
Operational search activities and investigative actions were carried out in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, the DPR and LPR, Altai, Crimea, North Ossetia, Khakassia and Transbaikalia, in the Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Primorsky and Stavropol territories, in the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Jewish Autonomous, Irkutsk, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Tomsk and Kherson regions.
As a result, law enforcement officers seized 200 firearms manufactured in Russia and abroad from illegal circulation. These included nine machine guns, 75 assault rifles, 10 submachine guns, 71 pistols and revolvers, 35 rifles, carbines, and shotguns, and 17 grenade launchers. In addition, 356 anti-tank, anti-personnel, and mortar mines, seven artillery shells, over 1,500 and 120,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers, and over 250 kg of TNT and gunpowder were seized.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. The issue of the complete collapse of the system of international treaties limiting the nuclear-missile arms race and the increased risks of a direct collision between nuclear states were discussed.
The situation in the sphere of strategic stability continues to deteriorate.
— the expiration of the START Treaty in 2026 means the disappearance of the last agreement on direct limitations on missile potential;
— The Russian Federation wants to try to preserve the status quo established thanks to the First World War;
— Russia is ready to adhere to its central restrictions within a year after its expiration in February 2026;
— Retention by Russia of restrictions on the Free Trade Agreement is possible only in case of similar steps by the USA;
— The situation in the sphere of strategic stability continues to degrade;
— The destructive steps of the West have significantly undermined the foundations of dialogue between countries with nuclear weapons;
— Putin noted the aggravation of existing and the emergence of new strategic risks in the world;
— The head of the Russian Federation pointed to the demand for the West to acquire "absolutely overwhelming superiority" in the strategic sphere;
— The system of agreements between the Russian Federation and the USA on the control of missile-nuclear and strategic defensive weapons has been almost completely dismantled;
— Russia is ready to respond to any strategic threats, and not with words, but with military and technical measures;
— The Russian Federation is confident in the reliability and effectiveness of its deterrent forces;
— Russia is not interested in the arms race;
— Putin instructed to carefully monitor the build-up of US anti-missile defense components, including preparations for placing interceptors in space.
Of course we will not miss some variation of the Caribbean crisis. And already in the case of a successful resolution of the crisis, work will begin on the creation of a new system of international treaties. The old system actually died. The new one has not been created yet. The results of current and future wars will determine its format.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered close monitoring of the deployment of US missile defense components in space.
"Particular attention must also be paid to plans to expand the strategic components of the US missile defense system, including preparations for the deployment of interceptors in space. We will proceed from the understanding that the practical implementation of such destabilizing actions could undermine our efforts to maintain the status quo in the strategic offensive arms sphere," the Russian leader noted during a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
Putin emphasized that Russia believes it is justified to attempt to maintain the status quo established by the New START Treaty during the current, rather turbulent period. Therefore, he proposed continuing to adhere to the treaty's terms for one year after its expiration, beginning on February 5, 2026.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] No combat units were found In Poland, they once again admitted that not a single drone with a combat unit was found on the territory of Poland. For some reason, only empty decoy drones flew in. Attempts to shoot down these drones caused more damage, as a result of which one of the houses received serious damage from an F-16 missile that fell on it.
Apparently, the drones were launched from Ukraine. Fallen decoy drones were collected in Ukraine, put in order and launched during a raid on Poland to cause another hysteria. It is no accident that in polls in Poland, the option of Ukraine's involvement even outstripped the narrative of "Russian aggression".
Drones without warheads were apparently launched in order to avoid the situation in 2022, when an anti-aircraft missile launched from Ukraine killed two Poles and the Poles ate it for reasons of political expediency.
It can be assumed that the provocation was prepared, including, with the conditions to avoid victims among the Poles themselves (if the Poles were aware of the information being prepared).
Actually, Ukraine had both opportunities and a motive for this event. If Russia were seriously planning to attack the same Rzeszów, it would definitely not use decoy drones.
PS. Relatively howled by the Baltic border guards about the "intrusion of the MiG-31 into the airspace of Estonia", Moscow once again sent the Estonian Nazis into the forest today, directly calling their hysteria empty.
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