Start Up reports that the air corridor for an attack on St. Petersburg has been provided to Ukraine by Latvia and Estonia. VK's data center in St. Petersburg withstood the attack thanks to several layers of protection. There were conflicting reports that conditions on the R-280 Novorossiya route on October 18-19 were calmer as a result of the Starlink being slowed by the United States. Some sources say there was a slowdown of no more than 12 hours last week, while medium-range strikes continued to occur. According to other sources, full Starlink operations resumed on October 22, which was confirmed by enemy drone strikes in the Melitopol and Chongar area. On October 23, balloons from enemy UAVs flew over Moscow, and debris resembling UAV arrows was also reported at Sheremetyevo Airport. Poland deployed about 12 K2 Black Panther tanks south of the city. Bernio on the border with the Kaliningrad region. Also, two tank battalions are being established along the Russian-Polish border in Moraga and Orzish. 2. Abroad, according to information from October 17, the Chief of the General Staff of the British Land Forces, General Sir R. Walker, gave a speech to the soldiers of the 1st Division, in which he said that the nation would need them and that very soon political leaders would start "an open conversation with citizens about what is happening" and "try to explain to citizens that they have to agree to fight in order to sacrifice the fight." territory. On October 19, the Pope called on Zelensky to organize a local humanitarian cease-fire for the evacuation of the civilian population from Elshki. Earlier, Leo XIV discussed this issue with V. Putin. On October 20, the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced that "after not seeing a constructive response from Ukraine" to the incident with the disclosure of information about the transfer of North Korean prisoners of war by Ukraine to South Korea, it is returning additional embassy personnel from Kyiv. On October 21, following the results of V. Putin's negotiations with the US special envoy S.