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[Korrespondent] 20:28 Russians dropped three guided aerial bombs on Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast - at least one person was killed and six were wounded, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported. 17 multi-story buildings, three educational institutions, and gas pipelines were damaged.
19:59 Zelensky announced two new packages of sanctions in an evening video address - "against those who betrayed Ukraine, as well as military production in Russia, and those legal entities and individuals who work for terrorism."
18:45 The number of victims as a result of today's strike on the Saltovsky district of Kharkiv has increased to seven, including a ten-year-old child, two people were killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In total, the enemy fired six KABs at the region today.
18:19 The Second Peace Summit will not take place in November, as expected - it has been postponed to a later date, said Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office Daria Zarivna: "The Second Peace Summit will not take place in November. But everything for its preparation should already be ready. For now, thematic conferences are being held on each point of the Ukrainian peace formula." She added that the date of the summit will be chosen after the completion of thematic conferences on the points of the Peace Formula. The last such conference will take place on October 30-31.
18:13 Biden has postponed his trip, during which he was supposed to take part in the Ramstein meeting in Germany, due to the hurricane raging in Florida, the White House said.
18:04 Radio Liberty showed satellite images of the aftermath of the Ukrainian strike on the largest oil depot in Crimea in Feodosia on the night of October 7. The photo from October 8 shows plumes of smoke, as of 11:44 Kyiv time the large-scale fire was still ongoing.
17:37 Russians have struck a densely populated area of ​​Kharkiv again - four KABs have been launched at Saltovsky district. Two people have been killed and at least three wounded, OVA chief Oleg Sinegubov reported.
16:52 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters on the issue of providing the Defense Forces with weapons and military equipment. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation Mykhailo Fedorov, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, Minister for Strategic Industries German Smetanin and others reported. They defined priorities for the defense industry for the next year - these include, in particular, missiles, drones, shells, as well as actively attracting investments from partners.
16:18 In Kharkov, the number of victims as a result of two strikes on the Industrial District has increased to 28, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:56 Hungary has blocked the allocation of 35 billion euros in EU loans to Ukraine until the US elections on November 5, Euronews writes. "We believe that this issue - the extension of Russian sanctions - should be decided after the US elections. We must see in what direction the future US administration will move on this issue," said Hungarian Finance Minister Mihaly Varga.
15:05 The UK government has announced sanctions against the Russian Armed Forces' Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces (RBDRF) and its head Igor Kirillov for violating the Chemical Weapons Convention and using chloropicrin against the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Two laboratories of the Russian Defense Ministry have also been subject to restrictive measures for supporting the development and deployment of this weapon for use on the front lines.
14:57 The SBU reported that it had detained one of the Kremlin's ideologists of the "SVO" against Ukraine, Dmitry Chistilin. Chistilin is an assistant to Putin's former adviser Sergei Glazyev, one of the main "moderators" of the seizure of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and the developer of the "Information War Strategy". Among other things, Chistilin took an active part in promoting the Kremlin's interests outside the Russian Federation - in particular, he organized interference in elections in Eastern and Central European countries.
Acting allegedly on behalf of the Ukrainian public, Chistilin took part in holding so-called "round tables" in European countries. After one of these "forums" he was detained in cooperation with Moldovan law enforcement officers when he tried to return to Moscow through the territories of third countries. The traitor, who left Ukraine before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, is in custody and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
14:41 The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate an additional 86 million euros for the construction of protection systems around energy facilities, Shmyhal said. The Prime Minister explained that Ukraine will redistribute funds within the framework of a loan from the European Investment Bank for the modernization of substations.
14:26 Russians have exported more than 180 thousand tons of stolen Ukrainian grain through the port of Mariupol in a year, Shmyhal reported.
14:13 The Verkhovna Rada adopted bill #11407, according to which Ukrainian military personnel will decide who will receive payments if they go missing or are captured. If a serviceman does not draw up a personal order, the money will be paid in equal parts first to the wife (husband), legal representatives of children, parents, and secondly to adult children, brothers, sisters.
14:08 The EU Council announced that it had approved a new sanctions regime against hybrid threats from the Russian Federation. The measures are aimed at combating hybrid threats such as interference in electoral processes and the operation of critical infrastructure, the spread of disinformation, cyberattacks, manipulation of migration flows, etc. The new restrictive measures include freezing assets and a ban on cooperation with EU citizens and companies. In addition, individuals from the list will be banned from entering the territory of the European Union.
13:25 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Zhelannoye Pervoye in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region and Stelmakhovka in the Svatovsky district of Luhansk region, and has also advanced into Maksimilianovka in the Pokrovsky district.
13:19 During the retreat from Ugledar, the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade was unable to evacuate all of the wounded soldiers, the new brigade commander Alexander Okhrimenko reported: "The evacuation was carried out. We were able to evacuate some of the wounded using medical units, and used infantry fighting vehicles of units intended to assist in the evacuation. But, unfortunately, we were unable to take a certain number of people. Under enemy fire, the evacuation groups that were leaving sometimes could not even reach the evacuation point, the meeting point."
13:14 Russian troops attacked Antonovka in the Kherson region - one person was killed, five were wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
12:38 In Kharkov, the number of victims has increased to 21, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
11:32 Russians have struck the Industrial District of Kharkov - according to preliminary information, civilian production was damaged, 11 people were injured, including a 16-year-old teenager, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
11:29 At night, Russians dropped guided aerial bombs on civilian infrastructure in the Esman community of the Shostka district of the Sumy region, killing two people, the prosecutor's office reported.
11:25 France will supply Ukraine with upgraded Mirage 2000 fighters, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said. They are expected to be ready for delivery in the first half of 2025. According to the French minister, the refurbishment will be carried out at the Cazaux base in Gironde. "The goal is to equip them with air-to-ground combat capabilities and enhance their electronic warfare system," he added.
11:21 The DPRK will likely send its military to Ukraine to support Russia, writes the South Korean agency Yonhap, citing the country's Foreign Ministry.
11:17 In September 2024, 250 cases of Russian troops using ammunition loaded with dangerous chemicals against the Defense Forces were recorded, the General Staff reported. The use of dangerous chemicals by Russians has become systemic since February 2023. Since then, as of September 24 of this year, 4,228 such cases have been recorded.
10:56 In Feodosia, an oil depot is still burning after an attack by Ukrainian drones on the night of October 7. The head of the occupation "administration" of the city, Igor Tkachenko, reported that more than a thousand people have been temporarily evacuated in the areas of the Black Sea embankment and Blizhnie Kamyshi, and the fire is still being extinguished. Russian publics write that the fire from damaged tanks has spread to neighboring oil tanks.
10:42 The Financial Times writes that the mood in the US and some other Western countries is changing regarding how and how Russia's war against Ukraine should end, and Kiev is entering the third winter of a full-scale war "with a darker mood than ever." More details on the new configurations of possible negotiations are in the article A Deal for Peace .
09:28 In Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, a Russian KAB hit a sports ground on the territory of an educational institution, two people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:19 In Donetsk Oblast, on October 8, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Slavyansk. Another 12 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:13 Air defense destroyed 18 out of 19 attack drones at night, another UAV returned to Russia, the Air Force reported. In addition, at night the enemy struck the Odessa region with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Air defense forces worked in the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia and Ternopil regions.
08:44 Russia attacked Odessa region with attack drones at night, OVA head Oleg Kiper reported. In Chornomorsk, as a result of the attack, fires occurred in a multi-story building, an administrative and industrial building was damaged in Odessa district, no one was hurt.
08:37 Kamala Harris said that if elected US president, she will not meet with Putin for peace talks unless Ukraine is represented: "On a bilateral basis without Ukraine - no. Ukraine should have a say in the future of Ukraine."
08:25 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 8:
- personnel - about 662,970 (+1340) people,
- tanks - 8940 (+7),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,740 (+30),
- artillery systems - 19,203 (+47),
- MLRS - 1223 (+0),
- air defense systems - 973 (+1),
- aircraft - 368 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,686 (+43),
- cruise missiles - 2618 (+3),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 26,185 (+83),
- special equipment - 3373 (+9).
08:16 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and 24 were injured, including four children, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.