🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — A Ukrainian drone appears to have struck an electrical substation in Saint Petersburg, causing a brief power outage lasting only a few seconds.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian drones struck the port area of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian air defenses have shot down 126 drones over Leningrad Oblast, according to regional Governor Alexander Drozdenko.

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🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Saudi-led Coalition spokesperson announced that a Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) AH-6i light attack and reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran, killing both officers on board.

He said the crash was caused by a technical malfunction.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Geran-type drones struck the 330 kV electrical substation in the city of Artsyz, Odesa Oblast, resulting in power outages.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Russian Armed Forces have attacked Zaporizhstal for the fifth time, launching six more ballistic missiles at the plant.

After the previous strikes, the plant has not returned to normal production mode. Today, the missiles hit facilities of the internal energy and logistics infrastructure and once again damaged the production sites of the blast furnace operations.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — From 08:30 on October 17 to 08:30 on October 18, 512 UAVs were flying toward the Moscow region.

Most of them were destroyed by air defense forces at long range.

127 drones were neutralized as they approached Moscow

- Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin

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🇵🇰🇮🇷⚡️ — Pakistan has closed its border with Iran. The reason is unknown.

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🇶🇦⚡️ — Qatar denies it:

the Al-Udeid airbase has never been used for attacks against Iran.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — War Minister Pete Hegseth warned Iran that the country should abandon its nuclear ambitions through negotiations, otherwise it faces large-scale military strikes from the United States.

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🇦🇪🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — The United Arab Emirates has agreed to resume its participation in the conflict in Yemen and to restart payments to some government forces fighting in the south against the Iran backed Houthis.

In return, Saudi Arabia will provide air support to the forces opposing the Houthis.

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