Power outage on Krym – Rubio should change jobs – Continued high Russian personnel losses

Crimea has been hit by a widespread power outage. “The entire peninsula is without electricity,” reported the Telegram channel Exilenova+ last night based on satellite data, online monitoring, and local reports. According to satellite images from NASA FIRMS, the Taman transformer station in Krasnodar Krai was damaged in an attack during the night. The transformer station supplies electricity to the occupied Crimea.

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Rubio reveals his lack of mental capacity when he claims that Russia’s war against Ukraine is merely a simple quarrel over the eastern parts of the Donbas region. “(People) keep talking about it being a war in Ukraine. That war is about Donbas. It’s about a region in the country,” Rubio said to reporters during a state visit to India. “At its core, the war is about about 11 percent of a part of that country that Russia wants and cannot take militarily and that Ukraine is not willing to give up.” Rubio’s comments come ahead of the planned trilateral peace talks between the US, Ukraine, and Russia in November. One might then wonder why Russia at the start of the war attacked northern parts of Ukraine via Belarus and why they made such an effort to reach Kyiv? Why bomb the entire country then?
By portraying Russia’s invasion as if it were a minor dispute over small parts of Ukraine, he reveals where the Trump administration stands ahead of the next negotiation round and a total (probably completely deliberate) misunderstanding of the war.
Rubio is obviously an idiot or he has absolutely zero normal morality and just does what he is told. He should look for another job.

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Zelenskyy, by the way, has grown tired of US nonsense and mocks them. “I may not be as great a humanitarian as Putin,” he jokes as Ukraine’s relations with Trump collapse. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed his reaction to Washington’s shifting loyalty in an interview with ABC News. Although he maintained a calm and measured tone and avoided personal remarks regarding the relationship with the US president, he said the administration’s recent actions “were not supportive” and acknowledged his frustration.

“I am a normal person. I am just human. Maybe not as great a humanitarian as Putin, of course,” Zelenskyy told ABC News.

The sick thing about this is that Trump and his accomplices will probably try to make it appear as if Zelenskyy admitted that he is a worse person than their favorite leader Putin. I feel sick, and it is NOT because of yesterday’s Friday drinking.

Russian losses

KWIA just under 2000 but about 200 above the current average. The Russian soldiers probably aren’t having much fun, but at least they don’t have to suffer for long.

• 1980 KWIA
• 5 Tanks
• 3 AFVs
• 64 Artillery systems
• 2 MLRS
• 2 Air defense systems
• 1855 UAVs
• 8 UGVs
• 413 Vehicles & fuel tanks
• 1 Special equipment

Ukrainian General Staff Morning Report

Operational information as of 08:00 on October 24, 2026, regarding the Russian invasion

Glory to Ukraine!
The 1704th day of the Russian Federation’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.

Total Russian attacker losses over the past day amounted to 1,980 personnel. Additionally, five tanks, three armored fighting vehicles, 64 artillery systems, two rocket artillery systems, two air defense systems, eight ground-based missile systems, 1,855 unmanned aerial vehicles, 413 vehicles, and one unit of special equipment were neutralized.

In the past day, a total of 181 combat engagements were recorded.
Yesterday, the enemy conducted 88 airstrikes, during which 309 guided aerial bombs were dropped. Additionally, the attackers used 10,270 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,755 shellings against communities and our troops’ positions, of which 45 were with rocket artillery.

Hostile shelling affected, among others, the communities of Bezsalivka, Korenok, Tovstodubove, Ulanove, Rohizne, Neskuchne, Bachivsk, Volfyne, Vovkivka, Kozache, Smolyne, Brusky, Novovasylivka, Sopych, Baranivka, Rivne, Smykarivka, and Nova Huta in Sumy region, as well as Mykhalchyna-Sloboda in Chernihiv region. Tovstodubove was subjected to an airstrike.

In the past day, the defense forces’ missile units and artillery struck two areas with concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment, three artillery pieces, a command post for unmanned aerial vehicles, and two other important enemy targets.

On the northern Slobozhansky and Kursk sectors, the attacker conducted two airstrikes with six guided aerial bombs and 47 shellings against our troops’ positions and communities.

On the southern Slobozhansky sector, Ukrainian units repelled five enemy attacks. The attackers assaulted areas around Okhrimivka, Rybalchyne, and Chuhunivka.

On the Kupyansk sector, the enemy attempted five times to improve their positions through offensive operations toward Radkivka and Podoly.

Attempts to break into our defense were repelled on the Lyman sector, where the occupiers made three assault attempts toward Zarichne, Zakitne, and Kolodiazi.

On the Sloviansk sector, the enemy conducted five attacks in the areas around Ozerne, Kryva Luka, Pyskunivka, and Rai-Oleksandrivka.

On the Kramatorsk sector, the enemy conducted no assault operations.

On the Kostiantynivka sector, 23 attacks were recorded. The attackers conducted offensive operations in the area around Kostiantynivka as well as toward Druzhkivka, Novoselivka, Mykolaipillia, Novopavlivka, Toretske, Vilne, and Rusyn Yar.

On the Pokrovsk sector, the enemy conducted 19 attacks. The occupiers tried to advance toward the communities of Dobropillia, Sviatohorivka, Chernihivka, Myrne, Hulive, Serhiivka, Molodetske, and Novopavlivka.

On the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy stormed once toward Myrne.

On the Huljajpole sector, the occupiers attacked our defenders’ positions ten times. The enemy tried to advance toward the communities of Uspishne, Rizdvianka, Hirke, and Yehorivka.

On the Orikhiv sector, the enemy attempted twice to attack toward Pavlivka and Chervona Krynytsia.

On the Prydniprovsk sector, the occupiers conducted no assault operations.

On the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs have been detected that the enemy is forming offensive force groupings.

We continue to stop the Russian armed aggression.

Join the defense forces! Glory to Ukraine!

Comment:
73 localized attacks out of a total of 181 gives 108 unlocalized, and thus the ratio is 108 / 73 ≈ 1.48. We now have a positive ratio every single day.