5:29 p.m. – Crosetto: “We are preparing the eighth aid package for Kiev”
Whatever Italy could do for Ukraine has been done, “we are doing it today by preparing an eighth aid package”. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said this in his speech at the Il Foglio newspaper party in Florence. “There is a need to help a deeply affected nation. I’m trying to explain it to an Italian public that is now bored with the war,” Crosetto said. “There is a small problem,” to remind the impatient: “It is as if the Italian population, from Rome downwards, no longer existed, as if it had fled, and then there was not a single day in which bombs fell, not on Ukrainian soldiers, but on civilian targets,” the minister added.
3:48 p.m. – New Russian attacks on Kherson
Russian forces “bombed Kherson again” and “attacked a supermarket in the Dniprovsky district without causing any casualties.” The head of the regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin, announced this via Telegram. “The occupants just hit a supermarket, fortunately there were no casualties. The Russian army is bombarding the city with all kinds of weapons,” Prokudin wrote.
3:01 p.m. – Coe: “Suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee is the only possible decision”
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said the International Olympic Committee had made “the only possible decision” by suspending the Russian Olympic Committee. The decision was made on Thursday during the IOC session in Bombay, India, after the Russian body placed several organizations in the occupied territories of Ukraine under its authority. The IOC clarified on this occasion that this ban will have no impact on the possible presence of Russian athletes under a neutral flag at the 2024 Paris Olympics. A presence that will be decided “in due course”. “Our position within World Athletics is clear and has covered a range of topics since 2015,” emphasized Coe. This year the Russian Athletics Federation (Rusaf) was suspended for introducing a state doping system. Its athletes were forced to compete in major international competitions under a neutral flag.
1:26 p.m. – Zuppi: “The just peace is the one that restores what has been taken away”
“Just peace is the one that restores what has been taken away and that also resolves conflicts, that eliminates the causes of conflicts, and it must be secure because it must be guaranteed.” There are two ways: the military way, how “Unfortunately, he will let Ukraine bleed dry, and then we believe – and we hope not to be the last naive ones – that peace can be achieved through law and dialogue.” This was said by the Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference , Matteo Zuppi, in a video interview broadcast at the Festa del Foglio in Florence. “We still believe there are other ways beyond weapons to achieve the same result,” Zuppi added. “Pope Francis demands that the church invest in dialogue.” Without any compliance, without confusing responsibilities, without putting the attacker and the attacked on the same level. We must find a force to resolve conflicts that are not weapons.”
1:11 p.m. – Meloni: “The use of wheat as a weapon is unacceptable”
“On a day like today I would like to remember that there are people who use wheat as a weapon and that is unacceptable.” said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni among the stands of the Coldiretti village set up in the Circus Maximus in Rome, when asked about World Bread Day, which is tomorrow.
12:44 p.m. – 11-year-old boy killed in Russian attack in Donetsk
Russian forces launched a rocket attack on the village of Bahatyr in Donetsk Oblast, killing an 11-year-old boy and wounding his six-year-old brother. Ukrainian police reported this, adding that her mother was also injured when the Russian army attacked the village with the Smerch multiple rocket launcher. The attack damaged 20 houses, a church, a school, civilian cars and a power grid, the police said on Telegram. Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine has killed more than 500 children and injured more than 1,100, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office. However, the actual number of child casualties is likely much higher because it does not fully take into account areas still under Russian occupation, recently liberated by Ukrainian forces, or the site of heavy fighting.
12:31 p.m. – Kiev, the Russian patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin attacks again
Ukrainian forces again attacked the Russian patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin off the coast of occupied Crimea yesterday, as well as a Russian tugboat, navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk announced on the United News channel, Rbc-Ukraine reported. As Ukrainian security service sources reported yesterday, the Pavel Derzhavin had already been attacked with experimental naval drones last Wednesday. The same sources added that the security service and Ukrainian naval forces also targeted a Russian Buyan-class corvette in a joint operation yesterday. Pavel Derzhavin left Sevastopol, Pletenchuk added.
12.02 p.m. – Zuppi: “The EU is missing in Ukraine, it is missing its roots”
“We can ask: ‘Who saw it?’ However, I repeat: if the EU, which emerged precisely from a war that tore it apart and destroyed it, and therefore has a strength, a heritage in resolving many conflicts, does not actually pursue other paths of dialogue, I believe that This is also the case, in some cases losing its founding roots”. This is what the Archbishop of Bologna and national president of the CEI, Matteo Maria Zuppi, said with reference to the war in Ukraine, speaking via video at the Festa del Foglio in Florence.
11:52 a.m. – The situation at the front has “deteriorated significantly”
The commander of the Kiev ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, also confirmed the great difficulties for the Ukrainian army.
According to Syrskyi, fighting along the northern part of Ukraine’s Eastern Front – in an area other than Avdiivka – has also “significantly worsened.”
The Russian forces have regrouped after suffering losses and are attacking around the village of Makiivka and towards the city of Kupiansk: “The main aim of the enemy is the defeat of a group of our troops, the encirclement of Kupiansk and the capture of the Oskil River.” .”
According to the military commander, Russian forces carry out “dozens” of attacks every day, but Ukrainian troops are currently maintaining their position.
11:43 a.m. – The new Russian offensive, the stalling of the Ukrainian counteroffensive
The situation at the front, in Ukraine, appears to have once again become extremely difficult for the resistance forces against the Russian invasion.
This is confirmed by both Russian and Ukrainian and American sources.
Russia’s representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, said the ongoing fighting in the east of the country marked a new phase in its campaign and meant that the Ukrainian counteroffensive was over.
“Russian troops have been on the offensive along the entire front for several days,” Nebenzia told a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. “The so-called Ukrainian counteroffensive can therefore be considered complete.”
In the US, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that while the Russian action amounted to a “new offensive” – he was also sure that “the Ukrainian army will be ready to repel the forces Russian”.
There has been fighting in Avdiivka for four consecutive days; Russia has concentrated its campaign along the 1,000 km front in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June made some progress both in the east, near Bakhmut, and in the south; But Ukrainians have not yet replicated the rapid progress they made through last year’s advances in the northeast and south.
10:39 a.m. – Moscow, two Ukrainian drones are shot down over the Black Sea near Sochi
The Russian Defense Ministry said that at around 7:10 a.m. Moscow time, air defense systems stopped an attempt by Kiev to carry out a drone strike on targets in the Russian Federation and two Ukrainian unmanned vehicles were destroyed over the sea. Black near the coast of Krasnodar Territory. Flights were temporarily limited to Sochi airport, which is now operating normally again. According to the Sochi authorities, there were no casualties or destruction as a result of the Ukrainian drone crash, and all city systems are functioning normally.
10:13 a.m. – The Russians hit Berislav in the Kherson region: one dead
On the morning of October 14, Russian forces again shelled the city of Berislav in the Kherson region, leaving one person dead. This was announced by the head of the Ukrainian regional military administration Oleksandr Prokudin. The army of the Russian Federation attacked the city at around 6 a.m. The residents targeted a house: a 60-year-old woman was buried under the rubble.
9.40 a.m. – “The head of the Red Cross in Minsk must be fired”
(Giusi Fasano, sent to Odessa) The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (Ficr) is angry. In recent days, Minsk has shown foreign diplomats the children abducted in Ukraine, and the FIRC has returned to the ultimatum to its headquarters in Belarus: either fire your boss, or our relations end here. The man to be fired is the head of the Belarusian Red Cross, Dzmitryi Shautsou. It is repeated from headquarters that he “violated the basic principles of the Red Cross,” misused his name and violated its rules, “its integrity and its neutrality.” Reason? He admitted (months ago) the involvement of the Belarusian branch of the FICR in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children: from the territories occupied by the Russians to Belarus. This was reported by the Kiev Independent, which writes that the FICR Council has given its men in Belarus until November 30 to fire Shautsou, otherwise it will suspend the branch and call on all interested parties to stop any kind of cooperation with them . This means a funding freeze. The International Federation’s investigation found that only Shautsou was involved in the children’s abduction and that the branch itself was not involved in any violation of the rules. For this reason, the dismissal request is directed solely at the boss and is aimed at the others in the Belarusian office. But Belarusian state media (reports by the Kiev Independent) report that the Belarusian branch of the Red Cross voted unanimously on September 7 to keep Shautsou in office, promising to continue to “help” children in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine “where they take them Belarus. According to official estimates, Russia has abducted over 20,000 children in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and the Belarusian authorities themselves have confirmed that they are receiving children abducted from Ukraine with the blessing of President Alexander Lukashenko. And precisely on the issue of child deportations, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for organizing illegal transfers. The European Parliament called on the ICC to issue a similar arrest warrant against Lukashenko, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on the ICC to do the same against Shauthsou.
9:16 a.m. – Russia, three of Navalny’s lawyers arrested
Russia has arrested three lawyers for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and searched their homes, aides said. It was an attempt to “completely isolate” Navalny, his ally Ivan Zhdanov said on social media.
9:11 a.m. – Fourth day of fighting in Avdiivka
Fighting on the eastern front in Avdiivka has entered its fourth day as Russia tries to regain the initiative in its biggest offensive in months. Ukraine’s top military command said it had repelled more than 20 attacks around the city in recent days, while Ukrainian reservists were reportedly sent in to bolster defenses after the Russians’ initial breakthroughs.
5:52 a.m. – Hamas attack will not cause allies’ support for Ukraine to decline
“Hamas’ attack on Israel will not undermine the allies’ determination to continue supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Deutsche Welle, The Kyiv Independent reported. “NATO countries have made it clear that they are concerned and shocked by the brutality of the terrorist attack on Israel last weekend,” says Stoltenberg, “but this will affect our ability, our willingness or our determination to continue to support Ukraine , not undermined.”
05:49 – The Ukrainian government will double funds for business development
Next year, the government will double the funds of the micro-grant program for business development: it is expected to provide grants worth UAH 3.5 billion (around 87.5 million euros). This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Tetyana Berezhna. Both active entrepreneurs and Ukrainians with no experience in entrepreneurship can receive a scholarship to start or expand their business. The application is submitted through the Diya portal. An entrepreneur operating in both a city and a village in any region of the country can receive a subsidy. In particular, the leading regions whose entrepreneurs received the most subsidies include Lviv, Rivne, Kiev, the Ivano-Frankivsk region and the city of Kiev.
5:03 a.m. – 6.5 million euros from Croatia and Spain for humanitarian demining
Croatia will provide 5 million euros for humanitarian demining in Ukraine. The Spanish government has promised to provide another 1.5 million euros for the same needs. This was learned during the international donor conference on humanitarian demining in Ukraine, which is taking place in Croatia. Representatives of more than 40 foreign countries gathered at the event: defense and foreign ministers, ambassadors and heads of foreign organizations. Previously, Ukraine and Croatia signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of mine clearance.