The National Police announced on October 15 that they had examined more than 2,00 messages with bomb threats. They launched a full investigation.
On Oct. 14, hundreds of Ukrainian schools, businesses and media outlets including the Kyiv Independent received bomb threats by email. This prompted the evacuation of state institutions.
After examining the incident, police confirmed that all threats were false. According to reports, the vast majority of messages came from Russian IP addresses.
“Such messages are typical of Russian intelligence services that are waging hybrid warfare against Ukraine and trying to cause panic and exhaust the state and law enforcement agencies,” police said on October 15.
The threats seemed to be linked to a recent Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), investigation into the sabotage attempts of Russian security services in Ukraine.
The sender claimed that he represented a “terrorist organization” and said three RFE/RL investigative journalists were responsible for the attack. The name of the group is identical to that of a Telegram channel which calls for Ukrainian military personnel to be set on fire.
RFE/RL’s investigative project Schemes published a report, on 10 October, documenting how Russian security forces recruit Ukrainians to burn the cars of military personnel and recruitment officials.
The email threatening the journalists who wrote the report was addressed to them.
Stephen Capus, RFE/RL’s President, said: “We will not be threatened and will stand behind our journalists who will continue to report news to Ukrainian audiences in a fearless manner.”
Capus has pledged to work with authorities on the investigation.
In an interview with Kremlin’s RIA Novosti, published on October 15, Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that Budapest and Russia‘s state-owned Gazprom are in discussions on additional gas purchases next year.
The Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces shot down 12 of the 17 drones of the type Shahed launched by Russia over night. Overnight, seven S-300/400 and two Kh-59 rockets were fired at Mykolaiv Oblast.
“With the beginning of the “heating season,” we can expect massive Russian attacks on the energy sector,” Oleksandrlytvynenko said, National Security and Defense Council Sec.
Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukraine’s presidential advisor, reacted after almost a full week of silence following Ukrainska Pravda’s claim that the Ukrainian Government is exerting “systematic” pressure against one of Ukraine’s largest news media sites.
The statement follows an article in the French newspaper Le Monde that claimed that Tuareg fighters of the anti-government CSP were using Ukrainian drones to attack the military and Wagner mercenaries.
“Now the town is more like a desert world: there are no shelters either for civilians or soldiers,” Anastasia Bobovnikova said, a spokesperson for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk.
“It was (Ukraine) the apple of his eyes; he used talk about it.” Donald Trump said that he had told him, “You’re not going to go in, and he was not going to go in.”
This includes 1,210 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
According to Vitalii Kim, the Russian forces attacked the city at around 2:30 am with S-300 anti-aircraft weapons. An industrial complex, a restaurant, shops, residential structures, and cars were all damaged.
According to the Eastern Human Rights Group, Ukrainians suffering from diabetes, bronchial asthma, and other illnesses on Russian-occupied territory will no longer be eligible for free medication unless they obtain Russian passports by 2025.
Lubos Blaha is a senior member of the pro-Russian Smer party (Direction), led by Robert Fico, who visited Moscow on October 12.
Josep Borrell announced on October 14 that he plans to extend the EUMAM for two more years, pending the approval of the EU Council.
On Oct. 14, hundreds of Ukrainian schools, businesses and media outlets including the Kyiv Independent received bomb threats by email. This prompted evacuations. The threats were linked to a recent Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty investigation into Russian security services sabotage of Ukraine.
Andrii Kostin, the prosecutor general of Brazil, said that “in light of information that Putin may attend G20 in Brazil I would like reiterate that the Brazilian authorities are required to arrest him as a party to the Rome Statute if he dares visit.”
According to Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, Russia’s fall and winter plans include “the actual participation of North Korea in war”, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on October 14.
The treaty stipulates that both countries must provide military support to each other in the event of an attack. The first treaty was signed by Putin in June 2024 with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
According to German intelligence chief Bruno Kahl, Moscow’s ultimate goal is to “push” the U.S. “out of Europe”, roll back NATO borders to the 1990s and create a Russian sphere of influence that will cement a new world order.
Russian investigators claimed Laurent Vinatier, in addition to violating the registration of foreign agents, had pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining military information.
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