Ukraine News in brief. Saturday 14 October. [Ukrainian sources]

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
Twitter handed over to the Senate more than 200 pages related to Russia to the US Senate.  There is no armored vehicles in the world that can not be destroyed by the Ukrainian SKIF.  Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive more than 1 thousand units of armament and military equipment by the end of the year. FSB claims detention of six Ukrainians in Russia.  Tymoshenko announced her intention to run for president: "I can no longer give it to anyone anymore".  In the RF Federation Council called "unfriendly" Turkey's decision not to accept ships from the occupied Crimea. A strange man was walking down the street in Kyiv.   Nationalists' March to the Day of Defender of Ukraine and the 75th anniversary of the UPA is taking place in Kyiv.

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Twitter began to cooperate with the authorities after being accused of not seriously considering the case of Russia's interference with the US presidential election.

Twitter has handed over to the US Senate Committee the names of 201 accounts allegedly used by Russia to intervene in the US presidential election, according to Censor. NET with reference to 112 Ukraine , reports Associated Press .

According to the source of the agency, the company began to cooperate with the Senate after being accused of not seriously investigating the so-called Russian affair.

On September 6, Alex Stamos, director of the security service of Facebook, said that almost two years ago, Facebook accounts from Russia bought and distributed political advertising in the social network. Subsequently, Facebook blocked all these pages because social networks are forbidden to use fake accounts.

Stamos noted that the vast majority of these ads did not concern the topic of the US presidential election or specific candidates. However, through these accounts, there were provocative messages that targeted LGBT themes, immigration, and the right to weapons.

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The tests of the new anti-tank rocket complex "Skif", which took place both in Ukraine and abroad, especially in conditions of high temperatures in the desert, have been successful.

Tsensor.NET reports referring to the press service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said NSDC secretary Oleksandr Turchinov.

According to him, missile launch vehicles "accurately, without miss, strike targets at a distance of up to 5.5 kilometers."

The secretary of the National Security and Defense Council informed that the combat part of the SKIF "Skif" "showed a unique result, burning armor in a thickness of up to 1 meter".

"That is, in the world there is no armored equipment that could not be destroyed by the Ukrainian" Scythian", - summed up Turchinov.




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The Ukrainian army received in 2017 more than 1.3 thousand units of weapons and military equipment, and at the beginning of the next year will receive more than 1 thousand.

According to Tsensor.NET with reference to 112 , on October 14, in the Zhytomyr region, President Petro Poroshenko stated in the ZSU about this transfer of 200 units of equipment.

"The new quality of the army was made possible thanks to the solidarity of the entire Ukrainian people. I remember well the year 2014, then the defense industry handed over the armament unit that was enough for the platoon, and today we only deliver tanks that are enough to provide a complete set of tank brigades. Now the Ukrainian army is becoming stronger due to the regular party, which consists of more than 200 units of armored vehicles, artillery, airplanes, anti-aircraft missile systems and other samples, "the president said.

He cited new samples of Ukrainian weapons that were adopted during this year's arsenal.

"Portable missile complex" Corsar", armored car" Kozak-2"," Volcano "machine, radio relay stations P-414 and P-402, signal mines, screen-exhaust devices, trainer of crew of armored carrier BTR-4 and many other samples", - the president added.

"As a whole, about 1,300 units of armament and military equipment were handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2017. More than 22,000 missiles and other ammunition were handed over to the Armed Forces by 2017. By the end of the year, more than 1,000 armaments and military equipment will be received by the troops, a vivid example. how now the president, the government, the state are referring to the Armed Forces, "he stressed.

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Russian intelligence agencies are announcing the prevention of an attempt to smuggle 20 tons of agricultural products from Ukraine.

According to Censor.NET, Russian Interfax reports that six citizens of Ukraine allegedly violated the Russian state border in order to smuggle about 20 tons of agricultural products to Russia, detained by employees of the border control of the FSB of Russia in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions together with the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia reports that the detainees allegedly arrived from the territory of Ukraine, hiding in one of the train cars that traveled along the route Kupyansk (Ukraine) - Valuyki. The train did not reach the Russian border crossing point, according to the FSB, made an unauthorized stop to unload the smuggled goods. In the case of detainees, proceedings are being conducted.

Two train drivers, as well as citizens of Ukraine, have been brought to administrative responsibility.

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The BYuT leader made a statement on television on the air.

Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko intends to run for president in the next election, reports Tsensor . NET . Such a statement is the People's Deputy " NewsOne .

" I will run for president. We will win in order to put the country on its feet, "Tymoshenko

said, while she said that she had already supported Viktor Yushchenko as President and Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister, but this did not lead to anything.

"I no longer trust anyone in this business," the People's Deputy emphasized.

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The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council's Committee on Defense and Security of neighboring Russia, Franz Klyntsevych, is alarmed by the decision of Turkey to prevent the receipt of ships from the ports of the Crimea and believes that this may push Russia to correct the relations between the two countries.

According to Tsensor.NET , on October 13, he stated in a comment to the agency "TASS" .

"No one doubts Turkey's ability to pursue a policy that is in the best interests of its own. At the same time, the artificial tightening of its ambitions may become an obstacle to the joint actions of Russia and Turkey in Syria, but much worse if Turkey, by its latest moves, deliberately pushes us for a correction of relations between the two countries"- said Klytsevych.

He noted that Russia would "carefully monitor the situation" and called this decision "unfriendly".

"I do not want to be too categorical in the estimates, but this decision of the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Navigation and Communications is alarming, and, to put it mildly, it can not be called friendly, especially since there was obviously nothing without the pointing finger of Turkey's supreme authority, Senator believes.

Recall earlier the Turkish side said that ships from Crimean ports will not accept in Turkish.

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A naked man walked along Belitsky Street in Kyiv at night.

The corresponding video is posted on YouTube Kyiv Operativ.

As you can see in the frames, a man without clothes and shoes walked along the sidewalk with a quick step. The patrol arrived to the scene, which tried to stop the strange passer-by. When asked by the police about where the man is heading, he replied that he was going to the church.

When the security forces asked the violator of public order to go with them in the car, he began to resist them. The patrols used special means during detention. After that the husband was taken to the local police department. About his further fate is not reported.



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In the center of Kiev, the Ukrainian nationalists staged a march on the occasion of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine and the 75th anniversary of the UPA, participants are preparing for the March of Glory.

This is reported by the correspondent Censor. NET.

According to him, in the park named after Taras Shevchenko in the center of Kiev gathered from three to five thousand people.

From the improvised scene, representatives of the "Liberty", parties "National Corps" and "Right sector" act. The rule of law is guarded by a large number of policemen.









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The Islamic State of Islam (IDIL) in its weekly "Naba" newspaper reported that 15 soldiers from government troops in Syria were killed during a military operation on October 10 near the village of Khatal, located east of the city of Deir Ez-Zor.

This is reported by Telegram-channel Directorate 4.

According to militants, a Russian officer was found among the dead Syrian soldiers. Additional information about it is not specified.

Recall that two Russian soldiers were taken captive to the IDIL fighters recently near the city of Deir-ez-Zor , who were subsequently executed by Islamists . The information was shown that the citizens of the Russian Federation were not personnel soldiers, and mercenaries from the Wagner's PVK.

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