SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre

The ceasefire in the Oleksandrivka area is currently being observed – spokesperson for Ukraine's Marine Corps This assessment, as of 9:00 AM on October 27th, was provided by Pavlo Drogal, spokesperson for the 30th Corps of the Ukrainian Navy's Marine Corps.

Ukrainian military personnel are monitoring the operational situation and promise to report any changes. The ceasefire was implemented for a humanitarian mission: to deliver aid to the residents of the temporarily occupied Oleksandrivka and to prepare for the safe evacuation of civilians.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets has traveled to the area to coordinate the process. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, approximately 1700 people remain in the city.

As Ukraine's partners continue to withold air defenses that have been paid for, Russia again sttacks Kyiv with ballistic missiles, striking a University and other civilian targets. There are dead and wounded.

A section of the metro line between the "Darnytsia" and "Chernihivska" stations, as well as exits from the "Lisova" station, were also damaged. * Around 3:00 AM, the Russians struck the Southern Bridge, damaging the metro infrastructure.

Traffic on the bridge was temporarily closed, and train service on the green line was suspended between the "Osokorky" and "Chervony Khutir" stations.

Most of the injured are students from a dormitory at the university in the Desnyansky district. * In the Dniprovsky district, two medical facilities and a non-residential building were hit.

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Overnight, drones attacked the Russian city of Voronezh. Fires broke out at several industrial facilities. The "Voronezhsintezkauchuk" plant and the VASO aviation plant may have been targeted.

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🔹 "Voronezhsintezkauchuk" is part of the Russian group "SIBUR" and produces synthetic rubber and polymer materials. 🔹 VASO (Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Building Company) is part of the Russian aviation corporation and is involved in the production of Il-96 aircraft and aviation components.

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Indeed, placing Orban into the role of Secretary General of the UN sounds like yet another plan written in the Kremlin.

Russian Information Interference: Propaganda Blames Ukraine and Europe for Obstructing Peace The news cycle was driven by statements from Kremlin representatives regarding the possible continuation of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November.

In this way, Russia is attempting to present itself as a party willing to compromise, while Europe is depicted as a force that is allegedly hindering agreements.

🔹 The goal of these information operations is to place the responsibility for the lack of peace on Kyiv and Brussels, weaken Europe's role in the negotiations, and create a basis for pressuring Ukraine to accept Moscow's terms.

In this way, propaganda obscures the reasons for the lack of peace and shifts the blame onto Ukraine.

🔹 Moscow's demands are presented by propagandists as "security guarantees for both sides," while the participation of European partners in the diplomatic process is portrayed as an obstacle.

Putin's aide, Yuri Ushakov, described the first meeting as merely "exploratory," while Dmitry Peskov accused the EU of taking a non-constructive stance on the diplomatic process. During October 23-25, the Center for Strategic Communications recorded 824 publications promoting this narrative.

🔹 Sputnik and RT portray Russia as a proponent of a "lasting settlement," while Kyiv's position on territorial issues and the mobilization in Ukraine are presented as evidence of alleged "double standards."

The Russians that are likely filling Musk's head with nonsense forgot to mention that the Russian army in Ukraine is almost entirely volunteer contract soldiers - men that agreed to murder people in Ukraine in exchange for around $4000/month.

Ukrainian President Zelensky explains how he gave Washington three ways to end Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries. 1. An energy truce with Moscow, wherein Russia no longer strikes Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

2. Enable Starlink access over Russian ballistic missile launch sites. The White House said Musk refuses. 3. Supply Ukraine with Patriot interceptor missiles. The United States agreed to none of them, and restricted Starlink.

Russia is reportedly preparing a series of disinformation operations in Russian occupied Oleshky, with aim of blaming Ukraine for the humanitarian catastrophe that's been inflicted on the local population throughout the entire occupation.

kyivpost.comIs the Kremlin Preparing a Propaganda Spectacle in Oleshky?A possible ceasefire in occupied Oleshky risks becoming a Kremlin propaganda stage, masking blocked aid and once again recasting Russia as the rescuer before foreign audiences.

We expect Russia's western paid influencers and the standard cabal of Kremlin propagandists to unleash a blitz on western audiences. www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

In one 24 hour period, resources involved in foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) disseminated 183 publications in foreign languages about the supposedly "peaceful Russia."

🔹 Aid to Ukraine is presented as payment for a war "to the last Ukrainian." This thesis is combined with speculation about a "shared past," in an attempt to turn Western taxpayers against supporting Kyiv.

The goal of the interference is to weaken European unity, undermine military aid to Ukraine, and impose a surrender "peace" on the terms of the Kremlin.

In one 24 hour period, resources involved in foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) disseminated 183 publications in foreign languages about the supposedly "peaceful Russia."

🔹 The aggressor is portrayed as a supporter of peace. By manipulating the topics of negotiations and security guarantees, propagandists shift the responsibility for starting and prolonging the war onto Ukraine and the West.

🔹 Europeans are convinced that resisting Russia is futile. Hostile resources claim that a strategic defeat of Russia is impossible, and warnings about the Russian threat are called "political schizophrenia."

In one 24 hour period, resources involved in foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) disseminated 183 publications in foreign languages about the supposedly "peaceful Russia."

This is one of the top narratives identified by the Center for Strategic Communications during monitoring on October 22nd. The trigger was an interview with Putin after a meeting with Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg.

In 1994, in referring to Russia as a "responsible party" the U.S. agreed to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine in the event that Russia should seek to sieze, occupy or otherwise invade Ukrainian territory, further citing that event as "hypothetical" as "not probable."

In exchange for guarantees such as this, Ukraine agreed to give up one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals.

Ukraine and Finland have reached two important agreements to strengthen Ukraine’s defense and infrastructure resilience.

Finland will also donate 10 diesel locomotives, along with spare parts, to Ukrainian Railways. Unlike electric trains, these locomotives can operate independently of the power grid, helping keep Ukraine’s railway network running during Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

Both agreements were announced during Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s visit to Kyiv on October 22.

Ukraine and Finland have reached two important agreements to strengthen Ukraine’s defense and infrastructure resilience.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense will work with Finnish companies ICEYE and Nokia to establish a secure national satellite communications network, with Ukraine retaining full state control over the system, from low-Earth-orbit satellites to ground terminals.

Non-stop Russian terror attacks are continuing all across Ukraine, as Russians use their control of the White House to scale up masssacres. Here Russians target civilian commuter traffic, automobiles on a highway in southern Kyiv.

Once the beacon of global democracy, the U.S. is increasingly discarding alliances with the world's largest economies in favor of a country openly at war with the western world that has an economy smaller than the state of Florida. The US State Department says the Russians are invited to G20.

"Trump decided to pin this problem not on Putin, but on me, explaining to his people that diesel prices in America are going up because of us. That is completely untrue. The Strait of Hormuz is blocked. That's the root of the problem.

I've tried many times to tell the president of the United States: Just understand us. This is a huge compromise just to hold the lines where we are. The way Trump talks about me, he needs to adopt that kind of rhetoric about Putin.

Congress voted for strong sanctions. He can do it. Maybe they have a special relationship. Maybe something else. I can only guess." - Zelensky

As Russia paralyzes Ukraine's partners with more rounds of fake negotiations, they target Kyiv’s historic center with Iskander ballistic missiles carrying K5 cluster warheads.

This warhead detonates above the ground, dispersing 58 submunitions across an area roughly 400 by 400 meters, maximizing the danger to people and vehicles below. The attack caused extensive damage and left numerous civilians wounded.

The use of a cluster warhead in a densely populated historic district underscores the extreme danger posed to civilians by this strike.

Another horrific day for Russian invaders, hitting the highest 24 hour personnel losses of the entire war, 2,250 in a single day. For comparison, the highest daily Russian personnel losses of the war:

1. October 21, 2026: 2,250 2. December 19, 2024: 2,200 3. October 18, 2026: 2,100 4. September 27, 2026: 2,090 5. November 28, 2024: 2,030 Three of the five highest daily losses have occurred in just the past month.

Putin's "humanitarianism" on display all last night in Kyiv, pouring dozens of ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones onto the civilian population.

How Russia is trying to swing the US midterm elections.

Another anti-record for Russia, the past 24 hours suffering their highest single-day military losses of the entire full-scale invasion on October 21, 2026. Ukrainian forces inflicted 2,250 Russian personnel casualties in just 24 hours, setting a new daily record since February 2022.

An unprecedented glimpse inside a covert operation run by a small circle of officials in Putin’s presidential administration, orchestrating a global disinformation campaign both online and on the streets.