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.
In Starobilsk in the Luhansk Oblast residents without Russian citizenship have been denied medical services and medication under social programs.
The human rights group posted on Facebook that patients must be registered in a registry and include their names.
The move will further pressure Ukrainians in occupied territories to accept Russian citizenship, or face severe health implications.
The National Resistance Center of Ukraine condemned this policy, calling it an act a genocide that aims to erase the Ukrainian identity.
The U.S.-based research group Ukraine Conflict Observatory said on Aug. 2 that Russia is forcing residents of the occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk to accept Russian passports.
The National Resistance Center reported on July 21 that Russian occupation authorities force residents in certain parts of Kherson Oblast to accept Russian passports or face deportation. In other cases, those holding on to their Ukrainian passports face losing their property rights and prison sentences as well as being mobilized into the Russian Army.
According to the Ukraine Conflict Observatory (UCO), Russia’s methods are a grave violation of international law. The Hague Convention of 1907 prohibits “forcing the inhabitants of occupied territories to swear allegiance” to an enemy power.
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 “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”, 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.
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 a Ukrainian company sneak into Kursk Oblast and hide 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” of old 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.”
The EU’s sanction list now 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 Palauan 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.
The lull was caused by the Russian attack on Ukraine in September with over 1,300 Shahed Kamikaze drones, which targeted settlements all across the country every day for a month. This daily pattern has continued into the first days in October.
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