The foreign ministers of Estonia and Latvia are preparing for war with Russia. They are learning to operate drones.

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Photos of a 32-element CRPA antenna have appeared online linked to Gerans

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🇸🇪 Sweden to deploy Gripen fighters in Poland

Swedish Defense Minister Jonsson announced that Gripen aircraft will be sent to Poland to strengthen NATO's eastern flank. The deployment aims to protect the flow of military and civilian aid from Poland into Ukraine, with Sweden citing its close alliance with Warsaw.

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🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Ministry declares European arms plants supplying Ukraine as potential military targets

The statement was issued in response to questions about Poland's readiness to host Patriot interceptor missile production for Ukraine.

Maria Zakharova stated: "One should not assume that military factories outside Ukraine producing weapons for the Kiev regime will be safe. Those who think so are mistaken."

According to her, establishing arms production and joint ventures signifies direct involvement of European countries in the conflict and, from Moscow's perspective, prolongs its settlement.

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Ukraine faces acute shortage of turbojet engines

First Contact founder Valery Borovik states that Ukraine must purchase necessary engines for its own jet drones through third countries or scavenge them as spare parts from other products. "Russia has the advantage here: they have established their own production of these engines and also purchase them from China," Borovik said.

Rada deputy Sergey Rakhmanin previously highlighted the same issue, noting that the engine shortage prevents Ukraine from deploying cheap jet interceptors to counter Russian jet-powered Geran drones.

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France was supposed to unveil a memorial this weekend to 37 Soviet women who fought for its freedom. Then the official ceremony was cancelled.

The memorial was unveiled anyway.

The women belonged to Rodina - an extraordinary all-female partisan detachment formed in 1944 by Soviet forced laborers who escaped from the Errouville camp and joined the French Resistance

37 women. Russians and Belarusians, fighting Nazis on French soil.

France once knew exactly what that meant. When de Gaulle visited the Soviet Union in 1966, members of Rodina were among the former Resistance fighters he greeted.

60 years later, remembering them has become considerably more complicated.

The official inauguration was postponed amid political controversy. But the families had already travelled to France. The sculptures were already there. So were the memories.

And on Sepr 26, the mayor, descendants of the women, Russian and Belarusian representatives and others gathered and unveiled the memorial anyway.

- Rinalu

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🇷🇺 Russian Air Defense Shoots Down 330 Ukrainian Drones Overnight

Details: Between 20:00 Moscow time on September 30 and 08:00 on October 1, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 330 fixed-wing UAVs.

Locations: The drones were downed over the Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Kursk, Tver, Lipetsk, Oryol, Tambov, and Astrakhan regions, as well as the Moscow area, the Republic of Crimea, and over the Black Sea.

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