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Local authorities reported that Russian forces used guided aerial bombs to attack a densely-populated area in Kharkiv on Oct. 8. At least two people were killed and five others injured.
The attack on Kharkiv is the second to cause civilian casualties that day.
In the early morning, a second attack injured over 20 people, among them a 16-year old child.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of the city, said that preliminary data indicated that Russia had hit a multistory building during the second attack. He added that the strike had damaged 15 apartment blocks in the Saltivka District.
Among the dead are a woman and a 70-year-old man.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2020, Kharkiv has been constantly attacked by Russia. In the last few months, strikes have intensified against densely populated areas in the city.
Denys Shmyhal, the Prime Minister of Donetsk Oblast, said that Russia had stolen more than 180,000 tonnes of Ukrainian grain from the port of Mariupol.
According to Bob Woodward’s book, the former U.S. president Donald Trump secretly sent Putin the COVID-19 test device for personal use when the coronavirus epidemic began in 2020.
Biden was to convene in Germany a meeting of leaders of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on October 12, where President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected present his victory plan.
Local authorities reported that Russian forces used guided aerial bombs to attack a densely-populated area in Kharkiv on Oct. 8. At least two people were killed and five others injured.
“We believe this issue, the extension of the Russian sanctions should be decided after U.S. election.” We need to see what direction the new U.S. administration takes on this issue, said Mihaly Varga, the Hungarian Finance minister.
Oleksandr Ohrimenko, commander 72nd Mechanized Brigade, said: “The enemy had superiority on tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery systems as well as anti-tank weapons and personnel.”
The police announced on October 8 that the head of an inter-district Center for Medical and Social Experts located in Kyiv would appear in court for allegedly issuing fake disability certificates.
The Foreign Office of the United Kingdom announced on October 8 that sanctions were issued against Russian units who used chemical weapons in the battlefield in Ukraine.
In a post shared on the official account of the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s X page, Carlos M. Pereira said that Cuba had officially requested to be a BRICS ‘Partner Country.’ This was done through a formal letter sent to Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
The documentary of Anastasia Trofimova has been criticized by many for what they perceive to be an attempt to whitewash Russians who were involved in the war.
“As Russia has signed a treaty with North Korea that is similar to a military alliance,” South Korean Defense minister Kim Yong-Hyun told the parliament.
The governor initially claimed that Russia used KAB air bombs, but later clarified the type of weapon still being determined.
Regional authorities reported that Russian attacks in Ukraine have killed at least 3 people and injured 50 others, including children, over the past 24 hours, according to regional authorities.
In an interview broadcast on October 7, Vice President Kamala Harri said that Washington would address Ukraine’s possible entrance into NATO “if and whenever it reaches that point.”
Unidentified sources in the government told Reuters, as well as several Ukrainian media outlets, that the cyberattack was carried by Ukrainian hackers to “congratulate” Russian President Vladimir Putin on his birthday.
A French minister announced that the planes would be fitted with “new equipment: air-to ground combat capabilities and antielectronic war defense.”
After the Slovak government declined to participate, the “Ammunition for Ukraine campaign” raised almost 4.5 millions euros ($4.9million) for the Czech artillery project.
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