WAR RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE - Consolidated Thread

The Duran discuss the speech made by Putin regarding the defense of Kaliningrad.

The Duran: Episode 2637
00:00:00 Putin's unsettling Valdai speech
00:01:29 A world in crisis as Western dominance ends
00:03:24 Ratcliffe's Moscow visit and the CIA collapse report
00:05:14 Kaliningrad warning sent to Western governments
00:10:03 Who is driving the push for confrontation
00:13:26 Europe's 2030 timeline and the long covert campaign
00:15:07 No reverse gear and the goal of breaking up Russia
00:17:37 Does Putin regret his outreach to the West
00:19:43 Rutte and Lithuania step back after the warning
00:22:41 Putin's path of China, BRICS and multipolarity
00:24:42 Medvedev and the Khrushchev playbook
00:28:18 Can Russia do both? The Russia China bloc
00:30:10 Should Russia shut the door on the West
00:32:51 Why China limits how far Russia can go
00:39:01 Deterrence, not friendship, is the new goal

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Russian attacks kill 6 in Ukraine and damage Kyiv’s Northern Bridge​


Updated 11:46 AM EDT, October 3, 2026
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least six people and damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge, suspending traffic and causing tailbacks for a third day in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life in the Ukrainian capital.

The strike came after two days of Russian assaults forced the full or partial closure of three of Kyiv’s six road bridges over the Dnipro River. Previously, Russia has hit apartment blocks, supermarket warehouses, gas stations and data centers, among other targets.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday it would continue to carry out “mass retaliatory strikes” on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, urging foreign nationals and diplomats to leave ‌the country. It previously issued a similar warning in May.

Russia invaded its neighbor more than 4 ½ years ago, and there are no concrete signs that a peace settlement might be possible. Fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line snaking through northern, eastern and southern Ukraine has been virtually deadlocked in recent months.

Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said the strike on the bridge damaged the road surface and trolleybus cables, forcing traffic to be suspended. He later said two people were wounded in the attack, one of whom was briefly hospitalized.

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday confirmed it was behind the latest attack, claiming the bridge is used to “facilitate troop movements and the logistics of military cargo deliveries” for Ukraine’s armed forces.

Videos circulating on social media appeared to show the moment of impact as vehicles crossed the bridge, including footage purportedly recorded by a driver’s dashcam.

Moldova expresses concern over the war spillover​

The aerial war has intensified, with Kyiv striking Russia’s oil industry and businesses while Moscow has menaced Ukrainian cities with hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Saturday that the war is “dangerously reaching” her country, following a spate of airspace incursions.

“I condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine this morning. Its war is dangerously reaching Moldova,” she said in a post on X, adding that five “Russian air attack weapons, including Banderol missiles and drones, violated our airspace and exploded on our soil.”

“Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped,” she added.

Ukraine’s air force said that Moscow overnight launched Banderol cruise missiles — low-cost, jet-powered loitering munitions that Russia uses to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses — at the Odesa region, which shares a long land border with Moldova. A loitering munition is designed to hover over an area, searching for targets, and detonate while crashing into them.

Russian, Ukrainian attacks leave 9 dead and scores wounded​

Russia attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and nearby areas with drones and guided bombs on Friday and overnight, killing five people and wounding over 40, according to regional head Oleh Syniehubov.

In nearby Izyum, Russian drone strikes wounded three people, according to the local military administration. It said a drone slammed into an industrial warehouse, while another damaged homes.

In Ukraine’s Odesa region, home to multiple Black Sea ports, a sailor was killed and three others wounded after Russian forces struck a civilian cargo ship on Saturday, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority reported. It said the ship was flying the Liberian flag.

In eastern Ukraine, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, Ukrainian drones killed two people and wounded two others, according to Kremlin-installed regional head Leonid Pasechkin. Pasechkin said the drones attacked a truck and passenger car driving along a highway, adding all victims were civilians.

In Russia, Ukrainian drone strikes killed a civilian and wounded two more in the Belgorod region, in villages just kilometers (miles) from the Ukrainian border, local authorities said Saturday.

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Associated Press writer Stephen McGrath in Coventry, England, contributed to this report.
 

Ukraine annihilates 3,000 enemy troops by dropping killer robots behind Russian lines, makes world history​

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Ukraine Annihilates 3,000 Enemy Troops by Dropping Killer Robots Behind Russian Lines, Makes World History

Ukraine Annihilates 3,000 Enemy Troops by Dropping Killer Robots Behind Russian Lines, Makes World History© Yan Dobronosov - Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images
The killer robots are here, and the Russians are paying the price.

Ukraine has announced that a squad of its “kamikaze ground robots” killed 3,000 Russian soldiers and retook 48 square miles of occupied territory in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to the New York Post. Five villages and three settlements were regained.


“Operation Vivaldi” began in May and ended in late September.

“An historic moment,” the Third Army Corps of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said via Telegram on Thursday. “The Third Army Corps has begun a new stage of the war with the landing of ground robots.”

“We’re the first in the world to use this tactic -- dropping ground robots,” Gen. Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the Third Army Corps, said.

More than 15,700 missions were completed.

“The enemy expects the threat from the sky, not the ground,” Biletskyi said. “Where the enemy least expected it, dead and wounded Russian soldiers appeared.”

“This drone, it has no fear, and unlike men, we are not afraid to lose it,” the commander of the 2nd Mechanized Battalion of the Third Army Corps, who goes by the name of Darwin, said, according to The Telegraph. “It makes the war safer for our soldiers.”

Unmanned ground vehicles are armed with heavy machine guns or packed with explosives.


The UGVs were flown by carrier drones at least 10 miles behind Russian lines in operations that were complex in and of themselves.

Electronic warfare jammed Russian drones to blind Russian watchers.

Ukrainian drones and artillery then kept Russian soldiers busy while the carrier drones flew past them at night.

“The most difficult part is to reach the point where you should lift the drone,” Darwin said. “We use radio electronic warfare to blind their drones, and they cannot see what we are doing any second.”

An intercepted exchange showed one Russian officer rejecting the idea that Ukraine could conduct such an operation.

“The distance was such that the commander did not believe it could have been our little machine,” Mykola Zinkevych, another commander in the unit, said.

“He said: ‘I’d sooner believe that our own guys drove up and hit you than that it was the khokhols,’” the Russian said, using a slur for Ukrainians.


Biletskyi noted Ukraine has advanced past other nations technologically, according to Reuters.

"The West slept through the (drone) revolution in many ways," he said.

"If the West really wants to not just keep up with the times, but to get slightly ahead, it needs to think about the next revolution," he said.

Deputy commander "Bar," a 23-year-old former bartender, said drones preserve Ukrainian lives.

"They don't need food, they don't need water, they don't need logs delivered to build shelters," he said. "Basically, we don't need to feel for them. It's a hunk of iron sent to do the job we used to send soldiers to do."

If UGVs had been used earlier in the war, he said, "a great number of my friends would still be alive."

 

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Turkish Cargo Ship Sunk By Drone Strike Off Romania, Two Sailors Killed​

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Oct 05, 2026 - 05:20 PM
There's no doubt that the tit-for-tat war on Black Sea shipping is getting nastier. For several months now, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have traded drone and missile attacks on ports and ships, disrupting vital Black Sea trade.

For Ukraine this national transit lifeline is even more important amid its war time economy. A major incident has unfolded Monday after an alleged direct hit by Russian drone on a Turkish cargo ship carrying grain from a Ukrainian port.

Screengrab from rescue footage of the Royad Mammadov sinking off Romania's coast.

Two crew members died, while eleven others were rescued, and with another reported missing. Ukraine quickly blamed Russia for the attack.

Romanian vessels and helicopters conducted the large rescue operation off national waters, some 20 miles from the NATO member's shore.

The Saint Kitts and Nevis flagged ship - identified as the Royad Mammadov - eventually sunk as a result of the attack after catching fire in the wake of the initial drone impact and blasts.

It had reportedly been headed out of the Ukrainian port of Ismail in the Odesa region navigating towards Ravenna, Italy when it came under assault.

Ukraine's President Zelensky laid direct blame on Russia. "A horrific strike by two Russian drones on a civilian vessel in neutral waters carrying corn and owned by Türkiye. Azerbaijani and Indian citizens were on board," he wrote on X.


"As of now, unfortunately, we know that the ship's captain was killed. My condolences. The fate of one other person is still being ‌established. Eleven ⁠crew members were rescued, one of them injured," he added.

While Russian authorities did not comment or own up to the specific attack, the Russian Defense Ministry did announce hours earlier that its forces had struck two cargo vessels, according to Reuters.

Surreal footage showing large cargo ship about to go under the water amid high-risk rescue operation:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107192286413242834
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These attacks on Black Sea shipping have been steadily ramping up all summer. With roughly 90% of Ukrainian grain and sunflower shipments departing from the primary port cluster of Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdenne, the fallout on Ukraine's agricultural sector has been severe.

Moscow seeks to sever military supply routes and disrupt arms shipments bound for Ukraine, but this has also obviously resulted in damaged and sunken tankers, auxiliary vessels, and even deaths of civilian bystanders among international shipping crew. It has accused Ukraine of seeking to hide military shipments under the guise of civilian cargo transit.
 

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Drones Hit Two Ships Within Bulgaria's Economic Zone, Sinking One, Crew Missing​

by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Oct 06, 2026 - 12:40 PM
Escalation in the Black Sea has now become a daily occurrence in the context of the Ukraine war, and more dangerous is that Russia and NATO are inching closer to direct conflict.

Bulgaria has announced Tuesday that two commercial ships were hit by drones in what it says marks a first attack on shipping within the NATO member’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev declared "This is an unacceptable attack in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone. It is a blatant violation of international law and maritime law."

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The vessels have been identified as the Togo-flagged Alfa Watan and the Palau-flagged Able. Both caught fire as a result, with the Alfa Watan having quickly sank at the scene, with no immediate word of the crew's fate.

The impact on Togo-flagged ship was reportedly much bigger and more devastating. As for another interesting and alarming detail:

The crew of the first ship confirmed it was under attack from both "aerial and sea drones," Radev said.
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And this was followed by a threat related to a mystery ship off Bulgaria:

Radev stated that the Bulgarian defense ministry is tracking a suspicious “drifting ship” in the Black Sea, which has reportedly been on the country’s radar since August. "If it continues to somehow head toward our coast, we are fully ready to act," he added.
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As for the Able, all 18 crew members were rescued amid the Bulgarian emergency response, with two among the sailors suffering severe injuries and transported to the hospital. The attacks happened at around 3am, some 80 miles off Bulgaria's coast.

Unlike in prior Black Sea incidents where authorities were quick to name Russia's military as behind the attack, it is curious that in this case the Bulgarians have not been quick to make allegations as the origin of the drones has not been established.

PM Radev continued, “As a state responsible within our exclusive economic zone for the health and lives of anyone navigating in this area, regardless of who is responsible, we are obliged to conduct emergency search and rescue operations."

"What is happening is seriously disrupting shipping in the Black Sea, driving up insurance costs even further and making shipping extremely difficult," he added.

Monday saw a prior major maritime attack incident which was quickly widely blamed on Russia. A Turkish cargo ship identified as the Royad Mammadov was sunk after being hit by a drone, after it left the Ukrainian port of Ismail in the Odesa region.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107407641739702719
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That earlier incident happened off Romania, triggering a large-scale rescue operation. Two crew members died, while eleven others were rescued, and with another reported missing. Ukraine's Zelensky said Russian forces were behind it.


There's no doubt that the tit-for-tat war on Black Sea shipping is getting nastier as for several months now both Russian and Ukrainian forces have traded drone and missile attacks on ports and ships, disrupting vital Black Sea trade.
 
Under the circumstances, how do we know that Zelinsky didn't order that attack just to stir up animosity against the Russians. Ukraine has plenty of pieces of Russian drones that they could put together. Were the ships attacked carrying weapons to Ukraine or anything else to help Ukraine's war effort? If not, then why would Russia attack them?
 
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