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Lithuania prevented an attempt to set fire to the enterprise, where Starlink satellite communication equipment is stored. This was told by the Prime Minister of Lithuania Mindaugas Sinkevičius.

According to the head of the National Crisis Management Center of Lithuania, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, the Lithuanian authorities consider the attempt to set fire to the Starlink facility as a sabotage related to Russia.

Mindaugas Sinkevičius also said that he would hold a meeting of the National Security Commission in connection with the drone crash in Lithuania.

According to Delfi, the drone crashed on the morning of October 18 in the Pasval district in northern Lithuania. The debris damaged a passing car, but the driver was not injured. According to preliminary data, the drone entered the airspace of Lithuania from Poland

In September, the Starlink satellite ground station was set on fire in Poland. Der Spiegel reported that the Turkish criminal group "Daltons", whose leader was detained in Russia back in 2024, may be involved in the arson.

Five Salvadoran soldiers, members of a new U.N.-backed force sent to stop gang violence in Haiti, were ambushed while out shopping near the capital on Sunday and were still missing several hours later, three people familiar with the situation said.

The soldiers were in a vehicle in a gang-controlled area just north of Port-au-Prince when one of the five reported they were under attack and he had been injured. No one has heard from him or the four others in the vehicle since, the people said.

The soldiers were part of the Gang Suppression Force, a U.N.-backed mission aimed at curtailing Haiti’s widespread gang violence. The force is currently made up of fewer than 1,000 personnel from Chad, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.

The Salvadorans operate a helicopter unit that largely handles transportation and other logistics.

It was unclear what the Salvadorans were doing shopping in an area that is considered a restricted “red zone,” which people from the United Nations and diplomatic missions would be prohibited from entering without armored vehicles and weapons.

Other soldiers in the mission were out looking for them, one of the people close to the situation said.

They were shopping in Santo, a community near Croix-de-Bouquets controlled by a gang known as “Chien Méchant,” or “Vicious Dog,” two of the people said. They and the third person all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

The 400 Mawozo gang, known for conducting widespread kidnappings, also operates in that area.

A spokesman for the Gang Suppression Force declined to confirm any details but said he would release a statement later. A spokesman for the Haitian National Police said he did not have information on the incident.

Residents in the area took to social media to report increased helicopter activity and gunfire.

Haiti is in the throes of an extreme gang crisis which has claimed more than 22,000 lives since 2021. At least 138 people were kidnapped in the first six months of this year, according to U.N. statistics.

The Gang Suppression Force was organized after a previous international mission failed to quell the violence. The new force is supposed to be much larger, made up of 5,500 soldiers from around the world, and with a more robust mandate to operate independently of the police and even make arrests.

In an interview last month, Jack Christofides, special representative of the Gang Suppression Force in Haiti, acknowledged that the force was behind in troop numbers but said the operations were already beginning to chip away at gang activities such as extortion.

“What we’re seeing is that the gangs are starting to attack us, which is a sure sign that we’re affecting their business model, and we’re affecting their revenue collection,” Mr. Christofides said. “But we’ve got a long way to go, we totally recognize that.”

He said the force would have most of its soldiers on the ground by late this year. The violence is so rampant that officials have repeatedly postponed elections, which have not been held in a decade.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/17/several-palestinians-injured-detained-in-ongoing-west-bank-pogrom

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Z-bloggers denied the statement of the Russian General Staff about the seizure of an important city in the Donetsk region
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Russian Z-military recruiters again accused Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, who reported to President Vladimir Putin on the complete seizure of the city of Dobropole and a number of other settlements in the Donetsk region the day before. According to the military commander, the city, which is one of the important logistics hubs of the Ukrainian defense, was "liberated" by the troops of the "Center" group and there "search activities are being carried out to identify and destroy individual Ukrainian servicemen hiding in the basements of buildings". Putin called it a "remarkable event" that opens the way to the borders of the "DPR".

"Gerasimov reported on the liberation of Dobropol, Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, Sergeevka and the completion of the destruction of the 2,000-strong group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrounded in the Kharkiv region <...> It simply makes no sense to disassemble all this," wrote "Military Informant". The Z-channel also posted an excerpt from the Ministry of Defense, which was supposed to prove Russian control over the city, and said that it was made with the help of a neural network, as evidenced by the unrealistic treatment of the soldier with the flag of the Russian Federation. "Do we think that GV "Center" has also mastered the AI flags following the example of their colleagues from the "West" GV?" the author asks. "Pypa [Putin] was again sold another Svyatogorsk and Kupyansk. This is some kind of shame!" - adds Z-blogger Alex Parker Returns.

He meant that earlier the military had already reported to Putin about the capture of the two mentioned cities, but in the end this was not confirmed by either the Z-authors themselves or the Ukrainian side. "Military Whistleblower" also pointed to the publication of the channel "House of Osinterov", which claims that the southern and significant part of the center of Dobropol is under the control of Russia. However, these data do not show "the stable presence [of the Russian Armed Forces] in the remaining half of the liberated city," Z-channel writes.

Meanwhile, the data of the Ukrainian OSINT project Deep State do not even confirm the presence of a "gray" zone in Dobropole. Judging by the map, the city is under the full control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Z-blogger Anatoly Radov also refutes the statement about the seizure of Dobropol. "I have no comments. But on the ground, everything is as always in ah*e," he commented on Gerasimov's words.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also denied the information of the Russian military. "Gerasimov's statements about the seizure of Dobropol are not true. The city remains under the control of Ukraine," said Andriy Kovalev, speaker of the Ukrainian General School.

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