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[Korrespondent] European officials are now planning a trip to the US this week to discuss the plan, Bloomberg reports.
Ukraine, together with its European allies, is developing a 12-point plan to end the war along the current frontline, Bloomberg reports, citing its sources.
The proposed plan will be implemented by a peace commission chaired by US President Donald Trump, the media reports.
The plan envisages that after Russia agrees to a ceasefire and both sides establish territorial lines, all deported children will be returned to Ukraine and prisoners of war will be exchanged.
Ukraine will receive security guarantees, funding for reconstruction, and an accelerated path to joining the European Union.
At the same time, sanctions against Russia will be gradually eased, but approximately $300 billion in frozen bank assets will only be released after Moscow agrees to participate in Ukraine's post-war reconstruction. In the event of further aggression, the restrictions will be reinstated.
According to the plan, Kyiv and Moscow will begin negotiations on the management of the occupied territories, although neither Europe nor Ukraine will legally recognize the occupied lands as Russian.
The details of the plan are still being finalized and are subject to change, and implementation will require support from Washington.
European officials are planning a trip to the United States this week to discuss the plan. The proposal is in line with Trump's recent calls to freeze the conflict at its current positions until negotiations begin.
As a reminder, the Financial Times reported that Trump allegedly demanded that Zelenskyy agree to Russia's terms for ending the war during his meeting with him. Specifically, the issue of concessions in Donbas territory was discussed.
However, Trump himself stated that he had not discussed the issue of handing over Donbas to Russia with Zelenskyy. The head of the White House again called on the sides to halt the fighting along the front lines.
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[Korrespondent] The total losses of the occupiers' equipment at the junction of the 65th and 118th brigades exceeded 25 units.
Ukrainian defenders completely destroyed or damaged a significant portion of enemy equipment, the Southern Defense Forces reported.
Russian troops launched an unsuccessful attack on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Orekhovo area on Monday, October 20. The Southern Defense Forces reported this and released footage.
"The offensive was carried out in two main directions: to the village of Malaya Tokmachka (units of the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division, forces of up to two companies with armored vehicles) and to Novoandreyevka (503rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division).
"In total, in the area of responsibility of the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade in Veliky Lug, aerial reconnaissance recorded the movement of 11 combat armored personnel carriers (BBM), one tank, 10 motorcycles, and up to 120 foot mobiles," the report said.
As a result of coordinated fire, Ukrainian defenders completely destroyed or damaged a significant portion of the enemy's equipment.
In the Novoandreevsky direction, six armored fighting vehicles and eight motorcycles were destroyed, another five armored fighting vehicles and one tank were damaged.
The total losses of the occupiers' equipment at the junction of the 65th and 118th brigades exceeded 25 units, mainly due to the work of attack drone pilots.
"The enemy airborne forces were unable to reach Ukrainian Armed Forces positions. The 65th Brigade suffered no casualties, and not a single position was lost. Combat operations to finish off the remaining enemy forces continue," the Special Operations Forces added.
As a reminder, the OSINT project DeepState reported that Russian troops have expanded their control in the central part of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region.
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[NewsFront] 21:41 RF Armed Forcesare advancingin the Dnipropetrovsk region and are storming Pokrovsk
Fighters of the "Center" force group are actively destroying enemy infantry and equipment day and night.
In support of the offensive, attack drone operators carry out precise strikes on targets.
20:31 In the period from 16:00 Moscow time to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed 58 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
57 UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region and
One UAV over the territory of the Kursk region.
20:09 Operators of the Molniya UAV of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the West Forces Group provide powerful fire support for assault units. They destroy armored vehicles, camouflaged artillery pieces, and shelters housing Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
18:24 Ministry of Defense Russian Federation:
Servicemen from the Dnepr group of forces' UAV unit destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces Jupiter-H1 drone bomber and two Baba Yaga-type quadcopters in an aerial battle.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, FPV drone crews of the Novorossiysk paratroopers, as well as drone operators of the Vostok group of forces, continue to strike military installations and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Khar'kov region, an FPV drone operator from the "West" force group destroyed an M-113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while drone operators from the "North" force group destroyed a vehicle, a temporary accommodation point, and enemy personnel.
Attack UAV crews from the Center group of forces destroyed the air defense posts of Ukrainian Armed Forces formations along with enemy manpower in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
FPV drone crews from the Rubicon Center struck vehicles and armored vehicles, firing positions, UAV control centers, high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, and temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
Fierce fighting. The enemy is still heavily concentrated in the city. They continue to hold positions near the hippodrome, sections of Sazonov Gully near Nulevka and Pervy Stavka, and in the Yuzhny, Shakhtyorsky, and Solnechny microdistricts. Control of the city is akin to a "layered cake."
Ukrainian Armed Forces positions are often simply blocked, taken over by attack drone crews, and assault units advance further. This has created the threat of partial encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in the central and southwestern areas.
West of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), our units are advancing along the railway and in the area of the Pokrovskoe-Lenino (Molodetskoye) mine administration in the direction of Sergeevka.
17:19 Destruction of the antitank missile system of the 255th Separate Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Operation of the Vostok group of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Prosyanaya,video.
17:07 Servicemen of the engineering unit of the North group of forces eliminate the consequences of enemy shelling and destroy explosive devices of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region.
16:45 In the period from 12:00 Moscow time to 16:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Bryansk region.
15:42 Fighting on the Volchansk Front: Russian Army breaks through to Sinelnikovo
After capturing the Volchansk oil extraction plant, Russian troops are conducting a mopmup operation and consolidating their positions along the Volchya River.
15:31 Crew of the 152mm Msta-B howitzer of the Vostok group of forces tore offEngineering work to equip new dugouts and firing points for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
15:18 Battle for Kupyansk: 68th Guards Motorized Rifle Division en masse burns armored vehicles and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city and region
Guardsmen from the 68th Division of the Western Group of Forces continue to hunt for military equipment and Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters around Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region, supporting the assault on the city.
14:34 The Russian army has broken into Malaya Tokmachka and is clearing out the important village, advancing towards Orekhovo –VIDEO
14:01 Khar'kov border area. Assault groups reached the northern outskirts of Sinelnikovo –MAP
13:30 Crew of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system of the Southern group of forces destroyed Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV "Furia".
12:45 In the period from 8:00 Moscow time to 12:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on dutydestroyedthree Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
One UAV – over the territory of the Bryansk region,▫️
One UAV – over the territory of the Kursk region,
One UAV – over the territory of the Oryol region
. 12:11 Footage of the destruction of Ukrainian equipment on supply routes in the area of responsibility of the North group,video.
10:41 In the area of the village of Stetskivka, our drone operators identified and destroyed a self-propelled howitzer "Bogdana" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, -video.
09:51 Crews of the 68th Motorized Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District destroy infantry and transport of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, video.
08:39 The Severyan "Solntsepyoks" defeated enemy manpower in the Dvurechansky area,video.
08:31 Orekhovskoye direction. Russian Armed Forces took up new positions in Malaya Tokmachka, MAP.
07:56 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type:
34 UAVs over the territory of the Rostov region,
Seven UAVs over the waters of the Black Sea.
Six UAVs over the territory of the Voronezh region,
Three UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar region,
Three UAVs over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
Two UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea
07:30 Changes on map over the past 24 hours:
Russian Armed Forces entered the village of Zlagoda (Pershotravnee)
Russian Armed Forces reached the outskirts of the village of Yarovaya.
Lenino (Molodetskoye) was liberated
Advancen in the Drobyshevo area
Expansion of the control zone in Pokrovsk
05:01 Mortar crews of the Center group of forces destroyed infantry group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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[REGNUM] After Zelensky reposted a video of a Ukrainian woman with low social responsibility to his Instagram, everyone rushed to find out who Anna Maligon was and why the Ukrainian dictator had such an interest in her.
But the story of one Onlyfan woman easily unfolds into a whole battle scene.
It was a jumble of successful and not-so-successful saleswomen of young bodies, inattentive political strategists, greedy tax officials, and trends of exploiting Ukraine's suffering for personal enrichment.
In short, Ukrainian life is hectic, and the episode with the deleted repost is merely an excuse for analysis and detailed conclusions.
WRONG LOGIN
Of course, we all understand the high probability that a CEO's Instagram* is managed by a trusted person—approximately over 90 percent. And trusted people have their weaknesses.
Watching models on OnlyFans is also one of those. So, the desire to repost Maligon's rather pointless dance video is a common occurrence. In this case, the user forgot to log out.
And since this has happened before, one can assume from the characteristic style that the lover of the onlyfans is the black political strategist and scandalous blogger Vladimir Petrov, a native of Dnepropetrovsk who collaborates with the Office of the President.
The public first learned of him in 2009, when he anonymously ran the blog lumpen on LiveJournal and simultaneously wrote for politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk's page on the same platform.
No one would have known about this if Petrov hadn't forgotten to re-login and written an obscene comment addressed to one of the users, posing as Arseniy Petrovich. Using a litany of obscenities, "Yatsenyuk" threatened to do something terrible to his mother, as the two disputants had disagreed on their worldviews.
Then, as is generally logical, Petrov switched to systematically discrediting his former client. He also participated in the discrediting of Alexey Goncharenko, Gennady Korban, Vadim Rabinovich, Sergey Terekhin, Viktor Ukolov, Oleg Lyashko, and others.
His entire life was one long line of scandals, including sexual ones, when, together with a blogger from his company, he framed a high-ranking National Police officer, the husband of the first deputy chair of the State Bureau of Investigation, Olga Varchenko.
Allegedly, he aggressively harassed a KPI student, threatening her with all sorts of punishments and death if she was not kind to him.
So if it was Petrov who set Zelensky up, sparking a barrage of vitriolic ridicule, that doesn't necessarily mean he was mistaken. It's entirely possible he's already found a new employer.
FEMME FATALE
The second important question is: why does the “person on social media” follow Anna Maligon’s work?
The thing is, "Maligoshik" has really boosted her account thanks to "Ukrainian content." In videos shot last spring, she posed in camouflage in various war-torn locations across Ukraine—at a gas station, in a school, on a bridge, in a church. Each time, she repeated the same message: "I'm Ukrainian, and this is my car (church, school, etc.)."
A number of other videos followed a different pattern, showing how the war had changed the everyday lives of Ukrainians. In one, titled "Living in Ukraine is like...," a young man advises her to wear her "best outfit" for an evening out. Which, predictably, turns out to be a soldier's uniform.
However, this has nothing to do with the life of the 22-year-old girl from Kharkov herself – six months before all the “events,” she left to study in Canada.
When she appeared on social media, she showed only a carefree life abroad and did not comment on events at home. Soon after "suffering in devastated Ukraine," she boasted about buying a house in Los Angeles. However, since it was undergoing renovations, she temporarily lived in a rented "castle" with a butler, posing for fashion magazines and filming music videos.
Another viral video, mockingly titled "I'm Ukrainian, and this is my Porsche," revealed the influencer's wealth. The video has garnered 13.4 million views and nearly 50,000 likes.
Perhaps in response to the criticism, the next day, Maligon posted on X: "I'm done with OnlyFans, time to join the army," accompanied by a photo in military uniform and geotagged to Santiago, Chile.
So, the young woman truly has a keen sense of trends and behaves exactly like the Ukrainian authorities, which can't help but endear her to them. Exploiting her homeland's suffering to profit enormously from the image of victimhood—this approach even makes her akin to Zelenskyy.
So, meeting online was by no means a coincidence. Although there was another reason for it: money.
MODELS IN DEBT
OnlyFans has become the most profitable company in the world by revenue per employee—$37.6 million per person—and this money is haunting the Ukrainian tax authorities: according to their calculations, the country's citizens earned a combined $123 million there from 2020 to 2022.
In the fall of 2024, the State Tax Service (STS) received this information and assessed the successful entrepreneurs 384.7 million hryvnias in taxes (approximately 750 million rubles), sending out "chain letters." And on March 10, 2025, tax authorities received data from Fenix International Ltd. (which includes the service) on the income of Ukrainians on OnlyFans for 2023.
They have already been processed by the State Tax Service and sent to the territorial tax service bodies for execution on September 5, 2025.
At the same time, the number of criminal cases brought for distributing pornography, even involving test purchases, has increased sharply. Meanwhile, the issue of decriminalizing it, raised by models through the petition system, has been carefully shelved in the Verkhovna Rada.
The reason is clear: if they don't hand over the money voluntarily, they'll do so through criminal prosecution, since, according to Article 301 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, punishment for such activity can reach up to seven years in prison.
According to MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, OnlyFans already pays taxes in Ukraine, but the models do not. "But even if the 'Ukrainian actors' wanted to pay taxes, it's impossible. This is essentially a confession," the MP noted.
That same "Maligosha," according to detractors, has already earned around $2 million from her racy content. So, watching videos of her dancing in dresses made of noodles and cotton candy is akin to a well-fed cat chasing a mouse for pure pleasure. Just because "Zelenskyy's favorite Onlyfan" once slipped from the sticky clutches of her homeland, doesn't mean she's smart enough to stay put.
This means you need to monitor the content and seize the moment.
In the meantime, there are still thousands of Ukrainian women who sell their videos from home to make a living—there's no other work anyway.
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[Regnum] A pine cone picker in Primorsky Krai survived a second bear attack. This was reported on October 21 by the Nakhodka City Hospital.
A 49-year-old man encountered the bear approximately 8 km from the village of Laz. He tried to scare the bear away, but the animal attacked. However, the animal was well-fed and quickly lost interest in its prey. The pine cone picker, despite blood loss, was able to escape the forest on his own.
"The ambulance crew delivered the victim with extensive lacerations to the head and body, comminuted fractures of the facial bones, and an eye injury," the medical facility said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
The patient was urgently referred for surgery. The wounds were 16 cm long, and surgical debridement took an hour and a half. The victim will undergo further treatment in the maxillofacial surgery department of Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2.
After doctors stabilized the man's condition, he explained that this wasn't his first encounter with a bear. A similar incident occurred about 10 years ago. He also required medical attention then.
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[Regnum] Russian hackers from the KillNet group have hacked the database of the largest marketplace for drone manufacturers for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported on October 21 by a representative of the cell nicknamed KillMilk.
"Brave1 and the Ukrainian startup fund USF opened the doors for us to over 1,500 manufacturers across Ukraine. Our mole at the Ministry of Transformation also decided to go the extra mile and leaked to us all the documentation for all UAV and electronic warfare products," RIA Novosti quoted a source as saying.
According to the agency's source, the hack resulted in the acquisition of technical specifications for drones of the following models: Skat, Gor, UJ, Thor, Archangel Sword, DaVinci, Iron Sky, Flirt Cetus, F7, Pixel, Sirko, Hermes, and the FPV system Kruk.
Commentary by Russian miitary journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Civic Chamber has called for internet access to 18+ websites to be made strictly passport-only.
Several State Duma deputies have already supported this initiative, clearly hinting that it marks the beginning of a gradual process of mandatory authorized internet access. There are a number of reasons for this.
1. The state (and not only in Russia) is currently shifting from indirect to direct regulation and control. While the methods vary, the essence is the same: control over one's own segment of the internet.
2. The rise in subversive and terrorist activity using the internet naturally prompts intelligence agencies to seek complete control over any means of maintaining anonymity online.
3. The development of neural networks and their ability to mimic human behavior (even now, many people often can't immediately tell whether they're speaking to a human or a machine in comments), as well as the ability to generate endless social media accounts, will inevitably lead to a desire to separate machine accounts and comments from human ones, and this can only be achieved through personal authorization (in our case, through linking to government services).
In general, I've been writing about this for several years now: over time, mandatory authorization using personal data online will become practically inevitable. This can be pushed through under various pretexts, but military necessity, the desire for control, and countering the dominance of neural networks will ultimately lead to it. And not only in our country. Tales of a "free internet" are already a thing of the distant past. Pasha Durov's belated hysteria about the fight for internet freedom is 10-15 years too late.
Russians are accustomed to more control by the authorities than Americans, a situation that long predates the Communists. The ones who can’t live like that either revolt or flee to the West.
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Russian government has implemented a mandatory app called "Max" that controls everything you do on your smartphone, from chat to banking. What could go wrong? Some VPNs still work, but the use is supposed to be illegal now and will soon be impossible.
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A dream of the Davos mob.
Of course, how many millions of fools have opted to use their fingerprint for "easy login"?
Commentary by Russian military jouirnalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] An employee of a Crimean mobile operator sold nearly a million numbers to Ukrainian scammers. The scheme was orchestrated by two foreigners in January 2023. They created a fictitious company and used it to purchase 45,000 SIM cards, ostensibly to activate accounts for posting reviews on various online resources.
Maxim M., a manager at the mobile operator, quickly realized the business was profitable. In exchange for additional fees from the organizers of the fraudulent scheme, he illegally modified the operator's billing system: changing SIM card numbers, setting up call forwarding, enabling additional services—in short, he did everything to make the numbers fully usable online. It's not hard to guess that the scammers used the Crimean numbers to operate fraudulent Ukrainian call centers.
Maxim M. changed the subscriber numbers on the SIM cards he sold every week, and now he has 900,000 numbers, which are linked to nearly 300 instances of embezzlement totaling over 100 million rubles!
Meanwhile, Maxim M. made a nice profit – he bought a brand new Cadillac for 4 million rubles! And he kept all 45,000 SIM cards he sold in the basement of his garage.
Now he's the one to answer for – criminal cases have been opened for fraud, unauthorized access to legally protected computer information, and violation of telephone privacy. Regarding the question of where the monotonous number bots in the comments come from (not counting the already widespread neural networks).
And regarding the gradual implementation of mandatory online authorization. And this is not to mention his complicity with the "Sberbank security service" from Dnipropetrovsk.
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