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[Korrespondent] 22:50 The Main Intelligence Directorate tried three times to de-occupy Energodar and Zaporizhia NPP, but without success, Budanov said in an interview with NV. According to him, during the first operation, the fighters landed near Energodar, but were unable to gain a foothold. After this, the fighters tried to land twice more on the left bank of the Dnieper, and several hundred people took part in the last of these attempts.
With each operation, the GUR soldiers gained experience, however, the occupiers also became more and more prepared, said the head of Ukrainian military intelligence. At the time of the third landing, the Russians brought heavy military equipment, including tanks, to the very shore, so the Ukrainian special forces again failed to gain a foothold.
21:39 Zelensky, in an evening video message, announced next week joint work with Ukraine’s partners “for the sake of the unity of the world in confronting terror.” According to him, various international events are planned. “Terror has already opened too many fronts against humanity. The war against Ukraine. The war in the Middle East. Terrible destabilization in Africa. A constant attempt to provoke a crisis in the food market of the world. To be strong in such conditions is to resist terror,” the president emphasized.
17:36 Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov visited the Bakhmut direction for the first time after his appointment, where he met with the military, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported. According to the minister, the hottest destinations remain Bakhmut and Kleshcheevka.
17:31 Italy intends to continue to support Ukraine, but this assistance “cannot be unlimited,” said the country’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. He clarified that assistance to Ukraine will continue to the extent that it does not lead to the depletion of Italy's own defense reserves.
Crosetto also believes that there is a “strategic impasse” on the front in Ukraine, and things are heading towards a political resolution of the conflict: “We see that the situation in Ukraine is deteriorating. It is very difficult for Kiev to regain its lost positions. And Moscow will never be able to conquer a nation that she attacked. We are witnessing the impossibility of resolving conflict on the battlefield. Therefore, we continue to help those who are right, but every day we analyze more profitable tactics to build dialogue, achieve peace and begin to restore the captured and destroyed territory."
17:12 The Russians shelled the village of Kindiyka, Kherson region: an 11-year-old girl was wounded, she is in a coma. In addition, the enemy attacked Berislav, one person was wounded. Three more people were injured as a result of the strike near a church in Kherson, the OVA reported.
15:47 The war between Hamas and Israel is beneficial to Russia, since it distracts the attention of the international community from the war in Ukraine, said Polish President Andrzej Duda.
13:34 North Korea has sharply increased the number of cargo shipments to Russia, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reports, citing satellite images. They show that at a railway facility in the North Korean city of Tumangan, on the border with Russia, on October 5 there were an unprecedented number of freight cars - about 73. The organization suggests that this indicates that North Korea is supplying weapons and ammunition to Russia.
11:46 In the morning, the Russian army shelled Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, presumably using an Iskander cruise missile, the prosecutor’s office reported. The attack hit a residential area, wounding four people, including a nine-year-old child. Ten multi-storey residential buildings, 19 private households, a boiler room, a gas pipeline and an electric power line were damaged.
09:18 Autumn and winter will be a record year for the number of drones that Russia will use against Ukraine, predicts Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat. According to him, the Russian Federation used more than 500 drones in September alone, while over the entire six months of the last heating season, more than 1,000 Shahed drones were used. Ignat noted that air defense systems will focus primarily on protecting energy and critical infrastructure.
09:13 As a result of a Russian artillery strike on Belenky in the Zaporozhye region on October 7, two people were killed and two were wounded, said the head of the OVA, Yuriy Malashko.
08:59 The Russians shelled residential areas of Kherson all night, 11 people were wounded, including a nine-month-old child, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Also among the injured is a Red Cross medic. In addition, the Russian army fired from Grady Stanislav, the consequences are being clarified. Over the past 24 hours, three people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 8:
- personnel - about 282,280 (+580) people,
- tanks - 4821 (+21),
- armored combat vehicles - 9123 (+21),
- artillery systems - 6705 (+17),
- MLRS - 808 (+0),
- air defense systems - 542 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5190 (+5),
- cruise missiles - 1530 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9111 (+38),
- special equipment - 959 (+3).
07:58 The defense forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions, and had partial success northeast of Andreevka, Donetsk region, the General Staff reported in its morning report .
Over the past 24 hours, 68 military clashes took place at the front. In the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - in the Makeevka area of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - in the Andreevka area of the Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky and Maryinsky - in the areas of Avdeevka, Pervomaisky, Maryinka, Krasnogorovka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the areas of the settlements Vodyanoye and Zolotaya Niva, Donetsk region.