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Ukraine Field Report: Russian Ballistic Missiles Hit Kyiv as Germany Arrests Suspected Russian Spy

Russian forces struck Kyiv with three waves of ballistic missiles overnight into October 22, killing one person and injuring 24, including four children, according to city authorities.

The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched Iskander-M, S-400, Zircon, and Onyx missiles, along with 210 drones, 110 of them jet-powered. Air defenses shot down 181 drones. Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired 21 missiles at the capital and struck targets across 12 regions.

The State Emergency Service reported damage in six Kyiv districts. In Dniprovskyi, one person was killed and six were injured, including a child, as fires engulfed homes and cars. In Pechersk, strikes damaged buildings, ambulances, and a monastery, injuring eight people, including three children.

A missile hit a non-residential building in Holosiivskyi, injuring six people, while two others were injured in Obolonskyi. A restaurant complex burned in Sviatoshynskyi, and transport infrastructure was damaged in Darnytskyi.

In the Bucha district, a drone struck near a store, damaging homes as well as cars on the highway and wounding a 59-year-old. Kyiv was also hit last month.

In the north, Russia struck an enterprise in Chernihiv twice with Banderol munitions, killing a 61-year-old man and injuring a 54-year-old man, regional head Viacheslav Chaus said. A Shahed-type drone also set fire to a warehouse at an agricultural enterprise in Semenivka.

In Sumy Oblast, nearly 60 Russian attacks hit 26 settlements across 14 communities, killing a 74-year-old man and injuring five people.

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Germany plans to force social media platforms to fill 20% of algorithmic recommendations with ‘state-approved’ content

Germany’s federal states are proposing that social media platforms reserve at least 20 percent of algorithmic recommendations for content from a pool of approved media outlets deemed important for opinion diversity, according to a draft under public consultation. The proposed measure is already being slammed as a state-mandated propaganda effort that would force German citizens to view content friendly to the ruling establishment parties.

The measure is part of the second stage of a planned Digital Media State Treaty developed by the Broadcasting Commission of the Federal States. Under the draft, public broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF and Deutschland Radio would automatically qualify for certain offerings.

Meanwhile, private outlets would generally need to apply and demonstrate that they meet criteria including news and political reporting, information and educational content, documentaries, local or regional coverage, original journalistic production, editorial staffing and accessibility standards. Approvals would be decided by the 14 state media authorities.

In other words, the state wants to control what people are seeing in their feeds.

As the Berliner Zeitung reports, the media law involves “media quotas with an advantage for ARD and ZDF,” which are two state broadcasters that already have a massive advantage over private competitors. Both outlets, which are notoriously in favor of mass migration and known for their anti-AfD bias, and which employ virtually all left-wing journalists, are already known for not playing on a level playing field.

Austrian remigration activist Martin Sellner, along with other right-leaning accounts, already are warning about the new plans.

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Now You Say! German Chancellor Admits Immigration and Failed Assimilation Caused French Riots

More than a decade after Berlin opened the gates of Europe to mass migration, a German Chancellor has publicly admitted that importing millions of foreigners and the failure to integrate them is causing carnage in Europe.

On the sidelines of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin this week, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is concerned that riots in France and Italy could spill over into other European Union nations.

When pressed in an interview with Bloomberg as to the reasons for the unrest seen in cities like Paris and Milan, which have seen thousands of arrests, widespread looting, and arson attacks, Chancellor Merz admitted that it is “most likely” the result of “non-integrated people” due to “migration”.

He said this was leading citizens to vote in larger numbers for “extremely right and extremely left” political parties, creating “tensions and obviously riots in some countries, including France.”

The admission that mass migration and the failed attempts at assimilation are not only radicalising the host populations, but also responsible for violent civil unrest is quite striking from Merz, who leads the same Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party which sparked the European Migrant Crisis of 2015 under then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, resulting in one of the largest demographic shifts in modern history.

While Merz campaigned on clamping down on immigration, he largely abandoned this position after forming a coalition with the left-wing, pro-open-borders Social Democrats (SPD) rather than partnering with the anti-mass-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which he has claimed is outside the bounds of political acceptability.

During his 17-month tenure in office, Merz has frequently defended the need for continued mass migration into Germany and Europe as a whole, claiming that more waves of foreigners are required due to supposed shortages in the labour market and to mitigate the demographic impacts of an ageing population.

“Germany is a country of immigration. It has always been so; it is so now; and it will remain so,” he declared just last May.

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The Truth Telling Of Alice Weidel: So Refreshing, She Calls Out Nefarious False Flag Attempts

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, claims that the German government has no interest in ending the war in Ukraine. She made the case in a recent interview.

Told that everyone would like the war to end, she replied: “Not our government, actually.” “While we impose one sanctions package after another, Donald Trump talks with Vladimir Putin about the delivery of further diesel, oil and gas. We would like to have the same thing for Germany because we need to lower our energy costs.”

She said that all of this defense money should be spent in Germany. “Military spending and defense spending, as the word says, should be invested in our own defense capabilities.” But instead, she argued, “Germany is now in the position of being the main financier of Ukraine, also giving away our ammunition and everything. The other European states are pulling back. Trump is out already. This policy is very harmful to Germany’s national security and also to the other European states.”

“This is our stance: It is not our war. It is very dangerous, and it is very costly, especially for us. Germany has spent over €100 billion on the war in Ukraine. This is quite dangerous and endangers Germany as a state because right now we could already be a target.”

On the reported Russia-attack on Leipzig Airport: “Well, to be honest, I’m not an eyewitness to that. What evidence do we have? With this so-called attempted drone attack, we haven’t seen any evidence in parliament.”

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Germany Approves EU Digital Identity Wallet Law

Germany is getting its version of the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, as the country’s parliament (Bundestag) has passed the Digital Identities Act on October 15.

The law serves as the national legal framework for the introduction of the digital ID wallet, that the EU’s official digital ID scheme will be implemented with, and that Germany will launch on January 2, 2027, under the name d-you.

What the bill does is make it easier to exchange biometric data between the authorities in charge of passports and ID cards; it lowers the age at which people can use online ID from 16 to 13; and it gives citizens the option to refuse the biometric photo.

One of the issues was the age at which children can start using the digital ID, with the Left rejecting the lowering of the age to 13, “because it ultimately amounts to preparation for introducing a social media ban for young people, which it also rejects.”

EU rules say that very large online platforms are under obligation to accept the wallet, while the committee report said that the German law “extends the acceptance obligations” to situations with no cross-border element.

Reclaim The Net has previously reported about the plan of the Social Democrats (SPD) to make verification with the EUDI Wallet mandatory for social media users aged 16 and above. SPD Secretary General Tim Klüssendorf has been quoted as saying that “We are currently not meeting the state’s obligation to protect” and that workarounds “such as via a VPN tunnel” should not be possible.

The EU, however, says that the wallet will be voluntary.

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Here’s Where Germany’s 17 Million Immigrants Come From

Germany is one of the world’s largest destinations for international migrants, shaped by decades of labor migration, European mobility, and more recent refugee arrivals.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Srijaa Chatterjee, uses UN international migrant stock data compiled by Our World in Data and analysis from DataPulse Research to show where Germany’s foreign-born residents originated and where German-born emigrants live.

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Police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl, probe whether young men were at the controls

German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said.

Police in the western city of Cologne responded after the incident overnight Saturday to Sunday in which the robot’s suspected 16-year-old owner and a 19-year-old companion were said to have filmed the alleged assault.

They were said to have streamed the incident and commentated on it online.

Cologne police spokesman Christoph Bermel said the two male teenagers have not been charged but are considered suspects, and investigators were examining whether the robot’s movements were preprogrammed or controlled in real time.

Police were unfamiliar with this type of incident, he said.

“We have not been aware of this phenomenon so far,” Bermel told The Associated Press, saying it was “new territory for us.”

Emergency teams that were dispatched to the scene near a fast-food restaurant found the robot in the trunk of a vehicle, Cologne police said in a statement on Monday. The robot and the two young men’s mobile phones were confiscated.

North Rhine Westphalia Police Cologne, on Facebook, posted an image of the red-and-gold robot lying on the ground.

The robot, said to be 120 cm (about 3 ft 11 inches) tall, was dressed in a white tank top, black sweatpants and wearing a gold chain and sunglasses. It also had what appears to be a fake mustache.

Videos circulated on the internet show two young men escorting the robot toward a group of women, bumping into one and hugging others, on a lively nighttime street.

One of the men repeatedly shouts at the robot and pulls it backward after it makes sexual gestures, prompting laughter among people in the area.

On the police’s Facebook account on Tuesday, officers criticized inappropriate comments and warned that sharing or joking about such incidents can worsen the impact on any victim.

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AfD’s Weidel Tells Berlin The Truth: A German Company Goes Bankrupt Every 19 Minutes While Merz Sends Billions To Kyiv

German businesses are going bust in alarming numbers, claims AfD co-leader Alice Weidel. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is devoting his strength and taxpayers’ money to Kyiv, she charged. The numbers for the first part of her statement are dramatic.

“A wave of bankruptcies is sweeping across our country,” Weidel said. “Every 19 minutes, a company in Germany goes bankrupt. In the third quarter of this year alone, the wave of insolvencies affected 41,000 jobs. Many of them will disappear permanently.”

The 19-minute figure traces to official data from the Federal Statistical Office. There were 2,373 corporate insolvencies in July, 8% up on the previous year and thus the highest July figure since 2013. As small-business expert Marc Evers of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry told n-tv: “Every 19 minutes a company in Germany goes insolvent.” In the seven months to end-July a total of 15,185 corporate insolvencies were registered, 6.9% up on the same period of the previous year. Insolvencies were most frequent in the transport and storage sector, followed by the hospitality industry and construction.

The figure of 41,000 jobs also corresponds with the third-quarter insolvency tracker from the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). According to this, there were approximately 4,880 cases of insolvency of partnerships and capital companies in the third quarter, down 2.3% from the record high of the second quarter. However, this still corresponds with the second highest number of quarterly cases of insolvency since 2005 and approximately 41,000 jobs were affected, about 10% fewer than in the second quarter. Weidel’s assertion that many of these jobs will disappear permanently is her own assessment and not a statistic.

Smaller businesses have not yet experienced the upswing the government is predicting for this year. Instead, according to n-tv, they are slipping into insolvency more and more often. Evers said the small upswing “threatens to be short-lived, because it is based mainly on high, debt-financed government spending.”

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Migrants Account for 87% of Criminal Suspects in Germany

Germany’s latest arrest-warrant figures raise a basic question about the competence of the people running the country. As of July, 148,311 people are wanted on outstanding warrants as, with only 11.2% holding exclusively German citizenship and another 1.5% holding German citizenship alongside another nationality. Foreign nationals reportedly account for 87.3%. Berlin should explain how this backlog developed, which cases involve dangerous offenders, and what it is doing to find them. Issuing a warrant is only the beginning. If the state cannot enforce it, the paperwork offers very little protection to the public.

Among temporary migrants, nationals of Algeria, Morocco, Georgia, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Albania together represented roughly 2.1% of the population but 15.5% of suspects. Ukrainians represented almost 36% of that population and around 13% of suspects. These figures concern suspects rather than convictions, but the differences are substantial. A competent administration would examine what lies behind them, where repeat offending is concentrated, and which measures actually improve integration and public safety.

Germany identified 197,347 violent criminal suspects in 2024: 112,335 German citizens and 85,012 foreign nationals, putting the foreign share at 43.1%. In 2025, that share remained almost unchanged at 42.9%. Violence against women has been a massive, underplayed problem across Europe. Authorities recorded 6,892 German rape suspects and 4,437 non-German rape suspects, a foreign share of 39.2%. The group rape figures are especially disturbing. Government records show 751 cases in 2025, approximately two a day, with foreign nationals accounting for 53% of identified suspects.

Merkel’s promise that Germany could manage the influx never relieved the government of its obligation to plan for it. Someone had to provide the housing, classroom places, language instruction, and administrative capacity. Someone also had to deal with those who broke the law. Politicians could celebrate their intentions while municipalities worked out how to pay for the consequences. That gap between the announcement and the practical work is where confidence begins to erode. People become angry when they are expected to finance a policy and then treated as unreasonable for asking whether it is working.

Civil unrest is inevitable. The arrogance of these politicians is infuriating. They make the decisions, leave the public to absorb the consequences, and then expect credit for their intentions. A woman whose life has been shattered by an assault does not owe anyone silence to protect the reputation of a migration policy. Neither does the taxpayer financing police, courts, and prisons. The government’s obligation is to protect people, prosecute offenders, and correct policies that are failing. If officials cannot manage that, they should get out of office. There is nothing compassionate about leaving victims to carry the damage while the people responsible for governing congratulate themselves on their moral superiority.

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Hundreds of Child Marriages Exposed in Germany: Girls as Young as 11 Married to Iraqi, Syrian, Afghan and Pakistani Men – Only 8 of 358 Cases Annulled

Another devastating milestone of the open-borders catastrophe has come to light.

New report out of Germany reveals that hundreds of child marriages have been officially logged across the country, exposing young girls, some as young as 11 years old, trapped in marital unions with adult men hailing from high-risk migration zones like Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.

The findings emerged after lawmakers Nikolaos Boutakoglou and Emely Knorr of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party demanded answers from the state government.

For years, the legacy media and globalist elites in Berlin insisted that mass migration would enrich European society without consequences. Instead, they imported medieval practices that fundamentally clash with Western law, leaving vulnerable children to bear the brunt of reckless, unvetted border policies.

Since April 2012, officials in Baden-Württemberg recorded 358 marriages involving a child. Just eight were formally annulled. Since 2015 alone, 350 cases were logged.

According to Euronews, the records include several troubling cases involving girls from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, as well as a German teenager married to a Pakistani man.

Among the documented cases:

  • 2020: An 11-year-old Iraqi girl was married to a 17-year-old Iraqi boy. Authorities subsequently annulled the marriage.
  • 2018: A 14-year-old Afghan girl was married to a 30-year-old man before the marriage was annulled.
  • 2024: A 16-year-old German girl was married to a 25-year-old Pakistani man. The marriage was annulled.
  • 2024: A 16-year-old Syrian girl was married to a 27-year-old Syrian man. That marriage was also annulled.

Nearly 40 percent involved Syrians, while marriages between two Germans accounted for a mere 0.3 percent, according to AfD politician Nikolaos Boutakoglou.

The Baden-Württemberg inquiry also uncovered troubling information from YASEMIN, a counseling service supporting young people threatened by forced marriage.

In 2025, the organization recorded 271 counseling cases, including 80 involving individuals facing the threat of forced marriage.

Of those 80 individuals, 33 were minors.

Four were younger than 12, five were 12 years old, and two were 13.

These figures concern reported threats of forced marriage and must be distinguished from confirmed marriages.

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