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A large-scale fire broke out at an oil refinery in Iran: video from the scene Margarita Voloshina

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A small Pars Petro Shushtar oil refinery has caught fire in the city of Shushtar in southwestern Iran. There is information about at least one person killed and several injured in the incident.

The fire, which Reuters writes about, occurred the day before, on October 15. According to local authorities, the fire broke out when a tanker truck collided with fuel tanks, and an investigation is underway.

Iranian oil refinery on fire in Shushtar

According to the publication, an oil refinery in the city of Shushtar, in the southwest of the country, has caught fire. At least one person has now been reported dead. According to local authorities, the fire broke out when a fuel truck collided with fuel tanks.

Iranian oil refinery fire: watch the video

Shushtar authorities say that the fire is now “under control.” However, firefighters and rescuers are still at the scene.

An official in the Khuzestan region, which is located in the southwest of the country, told the state news agency IRNA that many people were injured.

A fire broke out at an oil refinery in the city of Shushtar: watch the video

At the same time, the Iranian official did not name the exact number of victims. Let us recall that several weeks ago, Western media wrote that Iran handed over ballistic missiles to Russia, but without launchers.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will soon travel to Europe to attend meetings of NATO and G7 ministers.

This was announced by Sabrina Singh, Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of Defense.

What will be discussed at NATO and G7 meetings

— Secretary Austin will travel to Brussels from October 16-18 to attend a series of multilateral meetings, — noted the deputy speaker of the Pentagon.

Among them — meetings at the level of NATO defense ministers and countries that are part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.

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Sabrina Singh said that in Brussels they will discuss strengthening NATO's collective defense positions, adapting the anti-ISIS coalition to possible threats and increasing military support for Ukraine.

Then the US Secretary of Defense will travel to Naples, Italy, for a meeting at the level of G7 defense ministers, which is scheduled for October 19.

The main issues that they plan to discuss concern the provision of further military assistance to Ukraine.

A meeting of the Contact Group on Ukrainian Defense Issues was recently scheduled to take place in Germany in the format Rammstein.

However, US President Joe Biden postponed the meeting due to hurricanes that swept through various US states. The meeting was to be chaired by him Rammstein.

They shoot for trifles: former ambassador to the DPRK told terrible details of life in the country Alexandra Sadovaya

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The authorities in North Korea can kill their citizens even for the smallest trifles. In particular, when the main or second or third persons speak during a meeting, and someone in the hall falls asleep. It is known that at least one of the generals was shot for this.

The DPRK also monitors whether people mourn correctly, for example, on the anniversary of the death of leaders Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il. The first Ukrainian ambassador to the DPRK, Igor Litvin, told Channel 24 about this.

“When it comes to the anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il, everyone watches everyone to make sure they meet the standards. The standards are such that if there is sadness, you must be sad. You cannot pretend that you are not sad as you should be,” he said.

Pay attention!North Korea supplies Russia with its military. The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, Andrey Kovalenko, reported that the enemy may first use military from the DPRK to repel the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

The population of the DPRK is divided into categories

Igor Litvin noted that three programs are shown on TV in Pyongyang, where one is on in the evening, and the other two are on every other day. The screens there regret that supposedly such “bright people” as Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il have passed away, and so on.

You also can't wear blue jeans, because then a person is considered a “sycophant of capitalism.” In general, the streets in Pyongyang look as if there are very few people. Wide avenues with one, two, three cars, maybe a few motorcycles. There are no traffic lights. Model-looking traffic controllers stand at intersections.

All border guards have been given clear instructions that if any person from the DPRK tries to escape to South Korea, they are to be shot on the spot. This is so that everyone is scared and doesn't even think about doing it.

They divide their people into groups. There are privileged people who can live in Pyongyang. They call them “tomatoes.” The rest are divided into the middle class – “apples.” And the third category is “enemies”, people who have shown themselves negatively to the authorities, – explained the first ambassador of Ukraine to the DPRK.

In addition, in North Korea there is a formula for punishing three generations. That is, if a person did something “wrong”, he and his family are put in prison. They give birth to children there. The second and third generation must live in the same prison.

Powerful explosions thundered in Kyiv on the night of October 15-16. Enemy drones reached the capital.

Explosions in Kyiv at night — what are the consequences

The work of the air defense was a consequence of the night explosions in Kyiv.

According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, the air threat arose due to the movement of enemy drones.

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Kyiv on the map

Kyiv — is the capital and largest city of Ukraine. The city is located in the middle reaches of the Dnieper.

Photo: Google Maps

The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for 965 days.

The situation in the cities can be monitored on the interactive map of military operations in Ukraine and on the map of air raids in Ukraine.

In the US, a police officer shot a woman 5 times after arriving to check on her condition Anastasia Lukashevskaya

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In the US, a police officer shot a woman 5 times after she allegedly cut his face with a knife. 33-year-old Sydney Wilson died in hospital on September 16. Now, footage from the police officer's body cameras has been released.

The officer arrived at the call to check if everything was in order with security, since the police had previously received a message from a psychological counselor that Sydney was in an “excited state.” So he went to check on her.

Bodycam video shows Officer Peter Liu approaching the apartment door, knocking, waiting, and then Wilson opening the door – saying “hi” twice before closing the door again.

Woman lunges at sheriff with knife

Liu continued knocking and asking Wilson to open the door. When Wilson opened the door again three minutes later, she asked “how are you doing” before picking up the knife and lunging at Liu.

“Jesus Christ,” Liu said and retreated into the hallway as Wilson followed, still waving the knife. The officer then pointed his gun at Wilson and ordered her to “back off” several times, the footage shows.

When Wilson lunged at the officer again, he fired two shots and fired three more times when Wilson appeared to still be moving toward him before she fell to the ground.

Wilson was originally from Pennsylvania but lived in Reston. She worked as a leasing operations manager at JLL Mid-Atlantic in Washington.

County police said Liu acted in an appropriate manner. The sheriff has now been placed on “limited duty” with another department as the investigation into the shooting continues.

In 2024, UNICEF launched two cash assistance projects for Ukrainian families with children affected by the war. These The programs are aimed at helping families meet basic needs and prepare for winter.

Both projects are being implemented jointly with the Ukrainian government, namely the Ministry of Social Policy and the Ministry of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

ICTV Facts found out on the organization's hotline whether it is possible to receive assistance from UNICEF now and how to do it.

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Assistance from UNICEF: who can receive

UNICEF's first program focuses on families with children who live in the regions most affected by the war: Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions (some settlements).

These families receive financial assistance to meet their most important needs. Each family member can receive 10,800 UAH, and the total number of recipients in a family is limited to five people. You can get 3,600 UAH per person per month.

— Families receiving assistance from UNICEF must have children under 18. If it is a mother with a child, the organization will pay UAH 21,600 at a rate of UAH 3,600 per person per month, — the hotline reports.

How to get cash assistance from UNICEF for the winter

There is also assistance for the winter. This UNICEF program is aimed at families living in settlements located near the front line (up to 30 km). This concerns families from the following regions:

• Dnipropetrovsk
• Donetsk
• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Sumy
• Zaporizhzhya

UNICEF is preparing a large financial aid for these families — 21 800 UAH. These funds should help families prepare for winter, in particular to provide heating.

Applications are accepted only until the end of October.

However, if the family applied for winter assistance from other charitable foundations, then, most likely, they will not be able to receive assistance from UNICEF.

How to apply for assistance from UNICEF

We asked the organization's Hotline how to apply for assistance. In general, the organization works with local authorities, which submit the relevant lists of vulnerable categories of the population. But you can call the organization's hotline and submit an application yourself.

— Information about the person is checked, the vulnerability category is recorded. If it meets all the requirements, then the person will be able to receive assistance, — note on the hotline.

For questions related to financial assistance from UNICEF, you can call the hotline at 0 800 600 017 from 8:00 to 22:00.

Army instead of prison: in Russia the military committed a record number of crimes Sergey Popovich

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A record increase in crime among the military has been recorded in Russia. In 2024, more than 6,000 people were convicted, which was a record for the past 13 years.

The current number of military personnel convicted in Russia is twice as many as last year and is a record for 13 years, the Center for Countering Disinformation reports.

Criminalization of the army

Such a surge in crime is explained by the fact that in Russia there is a legal opportunity to avoid punishment if you sign a contract with the army.

A criminal can be released from punishment at the stage of investigation or trial if he signs a “contract for participation in the “SVO”. The severity of the crime has almost no meanings.

Thus, thousands of Russian criminals end up in the army and are not afraid to commit another crime, because they have the opportunity to avoid punishment again and return to war, the department notes.

The war unleashed in Ukraine is increasingly affecting the lives of Russian citizens. Now this is not only a decrease in the standard of living and a restriction of freedoms, but also a surge in crime due to their own “heroes of the SVO”.

On the night of October 14, for the first time in 48 days, Russian occupiers did not carry out a single attack on Ukraine with Shaheds.

What is the reason for such a “lull”? ICTV Fakty asked military expert Alexander Musienko.

Why Russia did not attack Ukraine with Shaheds for a day

According to the head of the Center for Military and Legal Research, Alexander Musienko, such a pause in the use of Shaheds could have occurred for three reasons.

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The first reason— Ukrainian forces hit a warehouse where about 400 Shahed-type attack drones were stored.

On October 9, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a Russian base where about 400 attack drones were stored. It is located near the village of Oktyabrsky in the Krasnodar Territory.

The second reason — Russia is running out of Shahed supplies.

According to the expert, Russia used a record number of Shaheds in September.

— There is reason to believe that Russia has used up the maximum of its available reserves. That is, it will take some time to produce new drones, Musienko said.

The third reason could be unfavorable weather conditions.

— These three factors influence. Strikes at warehouses where Shaheeds are located — are a very influential and effective tactic. I think that the Ukrainian Defense Forces will continue it. In addition, I can say that Russia is preparing to open another plant in the south of the Russian Federation for the production of Shaheeds. Therefore, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are working to identify both production and storage facilities. And to strike at them in order to reduce the enemy's capabilities, — the expert noted.

ICTV Fakty previously reported that African workers who were recruited to work at Russian enterprises complain that they are being forced to work at factories producing Iranian drones.

To fill the urgent labor shortage, Russia is recruiting women aged 18-22, primarily from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

Provocations or a real challenge: why the DPRK blew up roads to South Korea Dzvenislava Moshovskaya

On October 15, the DPRK blew up part of the roads that connect it with South Korea. This could affect the difficult relations between the countries.

Korea expert Nikolai Polischuk told Channel 24 that North Korea's actions may contribute more to propaganda than to aggravating the situation. The DPRK is stepping up its rhetoric against South Korea through military maneuvers it holds there.

Blowing Up Roads

Nikolay Polischuk explained that the roads between the DPRK and South Korea run through the mountains. They are mined on both sides.

You can often see that the roads run through a deep gorge, and on top there are huge concrete blocks that, in the event of military action, should be blown up and block all the roads, – said the Korea expert.

He believes that there is no strategic goal in this detonation, since there are no roads between North and South Korea.

Interesting. Earlier, on October 14, Kim Jong-un's sister said that South Korea will face a “terrible catastrophe” if its troops do not stop maneuvering drones over the DPRK. Seoul said that North Korea plans to blow up roads between the countries.

The only place where you can cross from one country to another is the Panmunjom area. There is a demarcation line there, which is neutral territory for negotiations between both sides.

It seems that nothing was blown up there. That is, this event most likely has a propaganda value rather than a military one, – said Polischuk.

North Korea has blown things up before. Therefore, her actions probably do not indicate any military escalation between the DPRK and South Korea, since those roads were not of great importance.

Winger of the Ukrainian national football team and Zhytomyr Polesie Oleksiy Gutsulyak was injured in the match of the fourth round of the UEFA Nations League against the Czech Republic team.

This happened in the first half, when the blue-yellows scored their goal. Gutsulyak collided heads with the opposing team's captain, Tomas Soucek. After that, the footballer left the field on a stretcher.

Gutsulyak's injury in the Ukraine — Czech Republic match

Alexey Gutsulyak came out in the starting eleven for the match against the Czech Republic. A few seconds before scoring against Anatoly Trubin, he collided heads with Soucek. The football players fell to the pitch, but Gutsulyak immediately felt ill and lost consciousness.

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Medics were called to the field, who took the player off the field on a stretcher. Alexander Zubkov came onto the field instead of Gutsulyak.

Later, the UAF reported that the football player was conscious and went to the hospital for examination. After the match, the head coach of the Ukrainian national team Sergey Rebrov said that the football player had a concussion.

— Unfortunately, a very severe concussion. He is in the hospital. The situation is quite complicated, so he stays here (in Wroclaw, — Ed.). We'll see, — Rebrov said in a comment to Megogo.

According to the TaToTake Telegram channel, Gutsulyak's injury did not lead to serious consequences. There was no broken jaw, and doctors in Wroclaw preliminarily diagnosed Alexey with a mild concussion. He will undergo a more detailed examination in Ukraine.

It is noted that, according to optimistic forecasts, Gutsulyak will begin training with the general group in at least two weeks.

During the international break in October, the Ukrainian national team played two matches in the League of Nations. In the first match, the blue-yellows beat Georgia by a minimum margin (1:0), and in the second — tied with the Czech Republic (1:1).