Interfax Ukraine reported that Oleksandr Litvynenko, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said on October 15 that Ukraine is preparing to face mass Russian attacks during autumn and winter.
Lytvynenko stated that “with the start of the “heating season,” we can expect massive Russian attacks on the energy industry.” The “heating seasons” is the colder part of the year that usually starts in mid-October. It lasts until April.
Russia launched a massive aerial campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid in the spring, similar to that which was launched during the winter and fall of 2022-23.
The damage caused an energy deficit that led to rolling blackouts in the country.
Officials said that the Ukrainian energy sector was able to implement innovative solutions throughout the war and that Russia did not destroy Ukraine’s economic system.
Officials in Ukraine have warned that Moscow has been preparing to strike against Ukrainian nuclear facilities before the winter months. It is hoping to bring the country to a permanent cold and break the Ukrainians’ will.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, said that between March and August this year, Russia destroyed all thermal power stations and almost all hydroelectric capacities in Ukraine.
According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Ukraine’s electricity shortfall could reach 6 gigawatts as a result this winter, which is approximately one-third of its peak demand.
“With the beginning of the ‘heating seasons,’ we can anticipate massive Russian strikes in the energy sector,” Oleksandr Litvynenko said, National Security and Defense Council Sec.
Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukraine’s presidential advisor, reacted after a nearly week-long 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 investigation conducted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 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,” 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 people in it, killing two women, aged 72 and 56. It also injured a man, 72, and a woman, 63, and injured a 72-year old woman.
Pavlo Rozlach said that the commander of Ukraine’s 80th air assault brigade, Pavlo, had revealed that a Ukrainian company had sneaked into Kursk Oblast and hidden in the forest in groups of six soldiers.
According to an analysis published on October 14 by the Kyiv Institute of Economics (KSE), 70% of Russia’s seaborne exports are transported by its “shadow fleet” which is comprised of older and 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.”
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