The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces announced on October 15 that Russia has lost 671.400 troops since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.
This includes 1,210 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
According to the report Russia has also lost 8,988 tank, 17,939 armored combat vehicles, 26,654 vehicles, fuel tanks and vehicles, 19,430 artillery, 1,231 multiple-launch rocket systems, 978 systems of air defense, 369 planes, 329 helicopters, 17,019 drones and 28 ships and boats.
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, subject to approval by 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 investigation conducted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty into Russian security service sabotage of Ukraine.
Andrii Kostin, the prosecutor general of Brazil, said that “information” that Putin might attend the G20 Summit in Brazil obligates the Brazilian authorities to arrest him.
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,” to roll back NATO borders to the 1990s and to 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.
According to the regional prosecutor, an FPV drone targeted a civilian vehicle with five passengers inside, killing two women, aged 72 and 56. It also injured a man, 72, and a woman, 63, and injuring a man, 72, and a woman, 63.
Pavlo Rozlach said that the commander of Ukraine’s 80th air assault brigade, Pavlo, had a Ukrainian company sneak into Kursk Oblast and hide in the forest in groups of six soldiers.
According to a report published by the Kyiv Institute of Economics (KSE), 70% of Russia’s seaborne exports are transported by its “shadow fleet” of older, poorly insured tankers.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that “there can be no appeasement of Russia when it continues to try and solve the ‘problem,’ of Ukraine’s existence.”
The EU’s new sanctions list includes individuals and entities that are responsible for the transfer of drones and rockets to Russia.
Oleh Kiper, Governor of Odesa Oblast, said that the attack damaged two civilian ships — NS Moon flying a Belizean flag and the Palau flagged OPTIMA. The Russians targeted the latter on October 7 last week.
Voloshyn, when asked by the Kyiv independent about the alleged seizure Levadne said that the situation is “developing quite dynamically”, and each side can regain the leadership.
The official told Argumenty i Fakty (a Kremlin-controlled outlet) that the number includes 12,328 people who are placed in temporary facilities throughout Russia, and around 100,000 people who live with family and friends.
Mykhailo Podolyak, the presidential advisor to the Wall Street Journal, told them in an article published on October 14 that Ukraine’s victory plans include a request for more ATACMS missiles and Storm Shadows as well as permission to launch them against military targets in Russia.
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