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[Korrespondent] 20:29 In Belarus, representatives of Zimbabwe, India, Qatar, China, Cuba, Mongolia, UAE, Russia, Syria and Palestine met with 44 deported Ukrainian children from Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, said lawyer of the Regional Center for Human Rights Ekaterina Rashevskaya.
According to her, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Belarus, Karina Bagieva, confirmed that Russian citizenship is being imposed on Ukrainian children and education is being organized for them, which does not allow them to preserve their national identity. Bagieva also noted that the Naftan oil refinery was involved in the removal of children.
Qatar's charge d'affaires Abdulaiz al Kuwari noted at the meeting that Belarusian families are taking in Ukrainian children and expressed hope that "even more children will be able to leave Donbass."
20:25 The Russian Cabinet of Ministers approved a temporary procedure for the entry of Ukrainian citizens into the Russian Federation, according to which, from October 16, they will be able to enter Russia only through the Ludonka automobile checkpoint in the Pskov region and through Sheremetyevo. The new entry procedure does not apply to children under 14 years of age traveling from third countries alone or accompanied by Russians. The procedure for entry into the Russian Federation for Ukrainian citizens located in Russian-occupied territories remains unchanged.
20:16 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The main issues are the situation at the front and preparations for winter. The President is confident that attacks on energy facilities will continue this winter: “This winter, Russian terrorists will again try to destroy our energy system. They are not able to accept the fact that Ukraine will not be conquered anyway. But they will try to make more strikes and more attempts to bypass our defenses. We are fully aware of the danger."
According to Zelensky, today at Headquarters there were reports from the military and all officials responsible for energy protection and winter tactics. He especially emphasized that not only the military, but also local authorities must do their part of the preparatory work.
20:05 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many reports have appeared in the media about foreign mercenaries in the Russian army. The Russians are trying to find people all over the world who want to fight in Ukraine for money. It turns out with occasional success. For example, the recruitment of Serbs caused a wide resonance. Read more in the article Let's go around the world .
19:44 “Governor” of the occupied Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said that local residents who have not received a Russian passport will no longer receive medical care from 2024.
19:39 The Netherlands is allocating 102 million euros in aid to Ukraine, the country's government reported. The money is intended, in particular, to support Dutch companies that will invest in the restoration of Ukraine, as well as for the purchase of gas, parts for electrical networks, etc. In general, the Netherlands has reserved 2.5 billion euros for Ukraine for 2023.
19:35 Yesterday, the Russians killed 52 residents of the village of Groza, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, with an Iskander missile. Last year Groza was under occupation. According to the prosecutor's office, about a hundred people currently lived in the village. Most local residents lost several loved ones at once. Only local resident Valery Kozyr lost his daughter, son-in-law, matchmakers and godfathers yesterday. For more details, see the article Entire families died .
19:27 The United States imposed sanctions against 49 companies from China, India, Turkey, Estonia, Germany and several other countries for supporting the Russian military industry. Of the 49 companies, 42 are in China, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security reported. All of them supplied Russia with “integrated circuits of American origin.”
18:52 The Russians attacked Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, with four kamikaze drones and artillery, one person was wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. An administrative building, an infrastructure facility and a hotel were damaged, as well as two private houses, cars and a power line.
18:49 North Korea has begun supplying Russia with artillery for the war against Ukraine, CBS News reports, citing an American official. However, he said, it is not yet clear whether this transfer is part of a new long-term supply chain or a more limited batch. It is also unclear what North Korea gets in return.
18:33 Search and rescue operations have been completed in Kharkov after a morning missile strike, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. As a result of the strike, two people were killed, one of whom was a child, and 30 people were injured, 12 of whom were hospitalized.
17:57 At the site of the missile attack on the village. Search and rescue operations have been completed in the Kharkiv region , said the head of the Police Investigation Department, Sergei Bolvinov. According to him, 51 people were confirmed dead and six more were injured. In addition, four local residents were missing, including two children. It will be possible to tell whether they were victims of a Russian strike once the DNA analysis is completed. Eleven body fragments, including small ones, were sent for examination.
17:09 Russian public pages write that Russian air defense shot down its own plane near Mariupol, the pilot survived. This is already the fifth Russian aircraft shot down by its own air defense since the beginning of a full-scale war.
16:35 Patrol police showed the first minutes after today’s attack in Kharkov. This is video from the bodycams of police officers who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the attack.
15:57 In the morning, the Russians fired from the Tornado-S MLRS at the village of Shevchenkovo, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, one person was wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. Also in the morning, the enemy attacked the city of Volchansk, two people were injured.
15:36 The Russian ambassador was summoned to the Austrian Foreign Ministry due to a missile attack on the village of Groza, Kharkov region, the department reported. “Attacks against civilians are a war crime. Those responsible must be held accountable,” the Austrian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
15:17 The number of those wounded as a result of the morning attack on Kharkov has increased to 30 , two were killed, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
14:48 Zaluzhny said that together with the Chief of the General Staff Sergei Shaptala, they carried out work in groupings of troops performing tasks within the framework of defensive and offensive operations. “We analyzed possible threats from the enemy and determined our further actions, taking into account the constant change in the operational situation at the front,” said the commander-in-chief.
14:20 Thanks to Western missile and artillery systems, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to create a long-range “fire fist”, because of which the Russian army cannot effectively conduct counter-battery combat, said Sergei Baranov, head of the Main Directorate of the Missile Forces and Artillery and Unmanned Systems of the General Staff.
13:59 Zelensky will visit Romania next week for the first time since the start of the war, local TV channel Digi24 reports, citing sources. The Ukrainian president will meet with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis, with whom they met yesterday in Granada, Spain. After this, Iohannis will visit Kyiv.
13:37 Peskov, commenting on the Russian strike on the village of Groza in the Kharkov region, said that Russia allegedly does not strike the civilian population, but “works on the accumulation of military and army leadership.”
13:28 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that a group of UN experts went to the village of Groza in the Kharkov region, where more than 50 people were killed due to a Russian missile attack. They will talk to local residents and victims and collect more information about the shelling.
13:20 Ukraine has returned the bodies of another 64 dead soldiers, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported.
13:09 The United States has options for financing military assistance to Ukraine; they will not transfer money from other areas for now, First Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Gix said in an interview with Bloomberg. She clarified that the United States has options for extending assistance to Ukraine, even if Congress does not approve the latest proposal from the White House. According to Gicks, the Pentagon is not considering the possibility of “reprogramming” money allocated for other areas.
12:51 The Russians shelled Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region: a residential building with three apartments was destroyed, three people were wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
12:37 The death toll as a result of the morning attack on Kharkov has increased to two, 29 people were injured , the prosecutor’s office reported. They clarified that rescuers found the body of another person under the rubble - the grandmother of a deceased ten-year-old boy and a wounded 11-month-old child. Rescue and search operations continue.
11:56 At night, for the second time in ten days, the Russians fired at civilian infrastructure on the border with Romania, namely the Orlovka ferry checkpoint, said the head of the Odessa OVA Oleg Kiper. Currently, the work of the checkpoint is suspended.
11:23 In the morning, the Russians fired at residential areas in the central part of Kherson, there was no information about casualties. Over the past 24 hours, two people were killed and four were injured as a result of enemy shelling in the region, the OVA reported.
10:51 During the Russian strike on Kharkov, there was no air raid signal because the missiles were flying along a ballistic trajectory, said Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat.
10:47 Sweden will provide Ukraine with a new package of military assistance worth $199 million, Defense Minister Paul Johnson said. The package will mainly include ammunition and spare parts for previously transferred equipment.
10:14 Scholz said that Germany has not yet made a decision on supplying Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine because it is trying to “prevent escalation.”
09:49 As a result of the morning strike on Kharkov, 23 people were injured, including an 11-month-old child, and a ten-year-old child was killed , said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Work continues to clear the rubble. The enemy launched two missile strikes, first with Iskander missiles. One of the missiles hit the roadway, windows were broken in neighboring houses. The second rocket hit a three-story residential building, causing a fire.
According to updated data, in the village. Thunderstorm in the Kupyansky district as a result of yesterday's missile attack, 52 people were killed and six people were injured.
08:53 The Russians hit Kharkov in the morning, there is preliminary information about hits in the Kiev and Osnovyansky districts, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. According to preliminary information, a ten-year-old child died and 16 other people were injured , including an 11-month-old child. Rescuers continue to clear the rubble. The mayor of Kharkov, Igor Terekhov, clarified that the missile strikes were carried out exclusively on civilian infrastructure, in one case, on a residential building.
08:27 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 6:
- personnel - about 281,090 (+620) people,
- tanks - 4777 (+20),
- armored combat vehicles - 9082 (+30),
- artillery systems - 6666 (+23),
- MLRS - 806 (+2),
- air defense systems - 540 (+0),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5158 (+29),
- cruise missiles - 1530 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9015 (+35),
- special equipment - 951 (+3).
08:09 At night, air defense destroyed 25 of 33 Shahed attack drones , which Russia attacked from Cape Chauda (Crimea) in several groups in the direction of the southern, eastern and central regions of Ukraine, the Air Force command reported. UAVs were destroyed within the Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkassy and Zhytomyr regions.
07:48 At night, the Russians attacked the border and port infrastructure of the Izmail district of the Odessa region with drones, said the head of the OBA Oleg Kiper. The granary was damaged and nine trucks caught fire. The fire was extinguished, no people were injured. The ferry crossing has been temporarily suspended.
07:36 Defense forces continue assault operations south of Bakhmut, and were successful east of Andreevka, Donetsk region, the General Staff reported in its morning report . At the same time, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to restore the lost position in the area east of Dilievka, Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, 37 military clashes took place at the front. In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the area east of Makeyevka, Lugansk region; on Avdeevsky and Maryinsky - in the areas of Avdeevka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the areas of the settlements Zolotaya Niva and Vodyanoye, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the area southeast of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
04:02 “Governor” of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that in the area of the Northern Pier, anti-submarine and anti-sabotage crews of the Black Sea Fleet repelled an attack by two unmanned sea boats.
02:35 The Biden administration is considering using the US State Department grant program to provide additional military assistance to Ukraine, since there is still no decision on funding in Congress, Politico writes, citing two American officials.
Meanwhile, Pentagon Speaker Patrick Ryder said that the US Department of Defense intends to actively interact with Congress in order to quickly resume military support for Ukraine. He recalled that there is currently $5.4 billion left in the budget to support Ukraine, as well as about $1.6 billion to replenish Pentagon stocks used in aid packages to Ukraine.
00:52 NATO will provide Romania with more air defense systems to strengthen protection against attacks by Russian drones on the border with Ukraine, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said. According to him, additional air defense systems will be deployed in the region near the Ukrainian border on the Danube.
00:23 In Brussels on Tuesday, October 10, the next meeting of the contact group in the Ramstein format will be held, at which the issue of increasing military assistance to Ukraine will be considered. It will be attended by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and the new head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Brown, the press service of the US Department of Defense reported. In addition, a meeting of NATO defense ministers will take place on October 12 at Alliance headquarters.