🗞 Important news by Friday morning, October 16:

🟠 Over the past night, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 644 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. They were shot down over the territories of the Bryansk, Vologda, Volgograd, Voronezh, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Orenburg, Oryol, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula, and Ulyanovsk regions, the Moscow region, the Leningrad region, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, and over the Black Sea.

🟠 In the Odessa region, strikes were carried out on the "Bloom" logistics center and a dry cargo ship, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. According to the agency, the center was used to store military cargo and dual-use products for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the ship was delivering military supplies to the port of Odessa.

🟠 The Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities and energy infrastructure. According to incoming reports, three "Geran-5" drones hit an energy facility in Lutsk, and objects in Kiev and Zaporizhzhia were also attacked.

🟠 In western Ukraine, there are reports of a strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces facility in Rovno, a strike on an oil depot in the Khmelnytsky region, and impacts in the area of ​​the "Yagodin" checkpoint in Volyn.

🟠 Ukraine has only a couple of Patriot missiles left - WP.

🟠 There is no longer confidence in Ukraine regarding weapons supplies from NATO - WP.

🟠 The USA is considering easing sanctions on Russian tankers to lower diesel fuel prices - Financial Times.

🟠 The order to restrict satellite communications used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces came from the White House - Reuters.

🟠 Radicals want to use Afghanistan as a springboard to shift threats into Central Asia and the Russian Federation — Lavrov

🟠 About 1.2 billion young people will enter the global labor market in the next 10-15 years, but the global economy will be able to offer them only about 400 million jobs. This was stated by World Bank President Ajay Banga.

🟠 Former executives of an enterprise under the Ministry of Transport received prison terms of up to 7.5 years; they embezzled 100 million rubles allocated for Russia's transport security. These concerns former top managers of "ZashchitaInfoTrans."

🟠 The heating season could not begin in parts of Kiev's Dnepro and Darnytsia districts due to damage to an energy facility — Klitschko..

🟠 Great Britain will send additional batches of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine. The decision was made during a meeting in London between Prime Minister Burnham and Zelensky earlier this week.

🟠 French presidential candidate for the 2027 election Marine Le Pen called on Zelensky to prepare for the fact that France will no longer pay his bills.

🟠 A coin featuring Trump helped the US Mint set a sales record of $1 billion. This was reported by the United States Department of the Treasury.