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Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Khrystyna Hayovyshyn stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the investigation into the supply of Iranian drones to Russia should be launched immediately. As an Ukrinform correspondent reported from New York, Hayovyshyn urged "all states to consider any possible steps to stop supplies of such UAVs, missiles or conventional weapons from Iran that could be used in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine." The diplomat noted that Ukraine had appealed to the UN Security Council on October 14 with a request to start a corresponding independent investigation. "In our…

Ukraine has returned the bodies of 25 of its defenders as part of another operation. That's according to Ukraine's Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Ukrinform reports. "The operation was carried out with the cooperation of the Commissioner for Missing Persons, Oleh Kotenko, and a number of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. The process of returning bodies takes place in accordance with the norms of the Geneva Convention," the report said.

The Ukrainian troops have pushed back Russian forces in the settlements of Karmazynivka, Myasozharivka, and Nevske in Luhansk region and Novosadove in Donetsk region. This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on October 24 published on Facebook. “The enemy tries to hold the temporarily captured territories and improve its tactical position. The enemy focuses its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in separate directions, while going on the offensive in Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. Today, the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled enemy attacks in…

The bodies of 131 people have been already exhumed in the de-occupied territory of Donetsk region but this figure is not final. "The bodies are exhumed now at the two main burial sites, 131 bodies have been exhumed, but ... there are mass graves where the bodies were buried in trenches and there are individual graves found in yards. Therefore, this number is not final, it keeps growing, unfortunately," Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform. Read also: Russian torture chamber discovered near Sviatohirsk Lavra According to…

The Russian armed forces struck Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, with S-300 missiles. “Under the procedural guidance of the Kupyansk district prosecutor's office of Kharkiv region, a pre-trial investigation has been launched over the violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 1 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram. According to the investigation files, on the morning of October 24, representatives of the Russian Federation launched a missile attack on Kupyansk, disregarding the norms of international humanitarian law. An administrative building was partially destroyed. According to preliminary information, the enemy fired…

The Ukrainian military has shot down two Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters in the Kherson region in the space of 30 minutes. The Ukrainian Air Force said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "On October 24, from 13:00 to 13:30, units of the Odesa and Kherson anti-aircraft missile brigades of the Air Command South of the Air Force shot down two Ka-52 attack helicopters in the Beryslav district of the Kherson region," the post reads. Earlier reports said that Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 30 enemy targets, including four helicopters, on October 23. Between February 24 and October 24,…

The creation of the territorial defense of Kherson by the occupation regime may turn into a direct mobilization of Ukrainians. The invaders are creating a humanitarian crisis in the city. Serhii Khlan, a deputy of the Kherson Regional Council, said this at a briefing at the Ukraine - Ukrinform Media Center, according to Ukrinform. "The latest narrative that the occupiers are creating a so-called territorial defense out of those who remain in the city is a real threat because, according to what Putin introduced regarding the Kherson region as an occupied territory, that means the direct mobilization of our men.…

Five apartment blocks and detached house suburbs were damaged in Russia’s missile attack on the city of Mykolaiv last night. The relevant statement was made by Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Eliminating the effects of the night shelling. According to the district administration, five apartment blocks were damaged. About 250 windows and 115 balcony panes were blown out,” Sienkevych wrote. In his words, 10 detached houses had their windows broken by the blast wave and the debris. The roofs were also damaged in two of them. Municipal workers are already closing the damaged windows. The…

The Russians decided not to return to parents a group of children who had been taken from Enerhodar to Russia’s Krasnodar region for a “vacation.” That’s according to Dmytro Orlov, the mayor of the satellite town servicing the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukrinform reports. "Some parents who, despite the full-scale war, recently sent their children from Enerhodar and the surrounding villages to Russia’s Krasnodar region, have already started receiving alarming signals. The occupiers confronted them with the fact that the children would "remain in Russia for an indefinite period," also telling parents to send in warmer clothes, and "reassuring" them…

At night, the enemy again attacked Zaporizhzhia city with kamikaze drones and S-300 missiles. "At night, the occupation forces attacked Zaporizhzhia city with drones (Shahed-136 kamikaze drones according to preliminary data), as well as surrounding settlements using S-300 missiles. One of drones hit a public building in the regional center. No casualties have been reported so far," Oleksandr Starukh, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram. As noted, private houses and school premises in one of the villages of Zaporizhzhia district were damaged with S-300 missiles. People were not injured. As reported, Russian terrorists have already destroyed…