• Lukashenko: “Serious stalemate between Kiev and Moscow, we have to negotiate.”
• A family of nine was massacred at home by Russian occupiers in Donbass. Moscow arrests two of its soldiers: private revenge.
• Blinken: “US aid turned the invasion into a debacle for Moscow.”
• The Russian Defense Minister: “If the necessary conditions are created, we are ready to politically discuss both the post-war solution to the Ukraine crisis and the parameters of further coexistence with the West on a realistic basis.”
11.48 a.m. – Putin via video link to the conference on economic issues
Russian President Vladimir Putin will lead a video conference on economic issues with interested ministers and officials this afternoon from his residence on the outskirts of Moscow in Novo Orarovo “to review the economic situation,” the Kremlin announced.
11:38 a.m. – Bombs in central Kherson, one dead and three injured
A Russian bomb attack in the center of Kherson this morning left one man dead and three people injured: the victim was an employee of the city’s military administration. This was announced by the head of the military administration, Roman Mrochko, as Ukrainska Pravda reported.
10:31 a.m. – Kiev: 118 villages affected within 24 hours, record since the beginning of the year
Ukraine said Russia bombed more than 100 settlements in the past 24 hours, more than in a single day this year. “Within 24 hours, the enemy bombed 118 settlements in 10 regions. “This is the highest number of attacks on cities and villages in one day since the beginning of the year,” said Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko.
Kiev also reported a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, a central industrial city. There were no injuries, but it took nearly 100 firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze. Kiev and the West fear that Russia will step up its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ahead of the cold winter, as it did last year.
10:23 a.m. – Web report – In the rubble of Hroza, where the Russians killed 50 innocent people
(by Giusi Fasano, correspondent) “Last time we buried a woman. There were 600 grams of her in the coffin. Nothing else”. Evhen Pirozhok knew them all, Hroza is dead, including that woman. He can’t remember some of the names, but he knows that “19 died on this street, 8 on the other over there, and Doryna and Dmytri’s parents lived there …”. There is no house here in which there is no sadness. Death traces the new geographical map of this village, a stone’s throw from the Russian border. We are in the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region , in northeast Ukraine.
Hroza is nothing in the middle of an endless landscape. And into this void, on October 5th, a Russian Iskander missile arrived. Destination: a shop bar where dozens had gathered to mourn a boy named Andriy, who died at the front last year. They had buried him in Dnipro, but as soon as possible his family picked him up and brought him back to Hroza.
Read the web report here.
10.20 a.m. – Cloud of smoke on the Crimean bridge
(by Giusi Fasano, correspondent) Widely visible clouds of smoke envelope a section of the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Crimean peninsula with the territories of the Russian Federation. The cause is currently not clear. Pro-Russian news channels speak of “smoke protection” systems in use that are intended to prevent the missiles’ optical systems from “seeing” the bridge. Kerch was closed to traffic. Currently no comment from the Ukrainian side.
10:01 a.m. – “One million rounds of ammunition from North Korea for Moscow”
South Korean intelligence estimates that North Korea is supplying over a million artillery shells to Russia, which is involved in the war effort against Ukraine. This is what the leaders of the Spy Service (NIS) reported in a closed hearing in the Seoul Parliament in the Yonhap report, which quotes a member present, on developments in Russian-North Korean relations after the summit between the leader Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. In addition, Pyongyang is said to be in the final stages of preparations for its third attempt to launch a military spy satellite into orbit.
7:58 a.m. – Kiev: “18 of 20 drones and one Kh-59 missile shot down during the night”
During the night, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a Kh-59 cruise missile and 18 of the 20 Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones launched by Russia in the country: this was announced by the Kiev Air Force, Ukrinform reported. The Kh-59 missile and part of the drones were fired from Russia’s Kursk region, while the rest of the unmanned aircraft came from the Russian naval base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk (southeast). “During the night attack, an air raid alert was declared in most regions of Ukraine. “The attack drones were destroyed along the pursuit route by tactical aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, as well as air force mobile fire groups in cooperation with the air defense of the Defense Forces of Ukraine,” the report said.