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The Russian forces are trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, focusing their efforts on attempts to disrupt the actions of the Ukrainian defense forces in certain directions, and are conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its latest operational update posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. According to the General Staff, the enemy is shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, fortifying defensive positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. The enemy continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the…

Last night Russian troops opened fire on the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district with heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). About 40 enemy projectiles struck the city of Nikopol. The relevant statement was made by Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Head Valentyn Reznichenko on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Explosions were rocking the Nikopol district all night long. Russian occupation troops struck the district with MLRS and heavy artillery six times. According to the preliminary data, people remained unharmed,” Reznichenko wrote. In the city of Nikopol, several apartment blocks were damaged, as well as 10 detached houses, household buildings, transport…

Russian invasion forces have recently been weakened to a point where they no longer have the capacity to re-occupy Ukrainian territories, recently liberated by Ukraine's Army. That’s according to an update issued via Twitter, Ukrinform reports. “Current Ukrainian gains are very likely durable. Due to attrition and severely limited re-supply options, Russian forces lack the capacity to stage a counter-attack,” the agency wrote. Read also: Russia has few high-quality forces available to stabilize front - British intelligence It is noted that Russian forces have been pushed back more than 20 km in some sectors of the front north east of …

On Thursday, the Russian Federation struck Ukrainian cities with Iranian drones, which it uses daily, as well as with missiles. “Today, Russia launched another airstrike on Ukrainian cities. It used Iranian drones again. By the way, they are used every day, and so far Iran says every day that there are allegedly no such drones here. And again hit with rockets,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the participants of the European Political Community summit in Prague. People were killed and injured, houses burned down in those strikes, he emphasized. After the first missile strike on…

On the morning of October 6, Russia launched an airstrike on the territory of Ukraine from the territory of Belarus. Oleksiy Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this at a briefing, Ukrinform reports. “This morning, four Tu-22M3 strategic aviation aircraft of the aggressor country launched an airstrike on the territory of Ukraine from the airspace of Belarus," Hromov said. At the same time, he did not specify which settlement was targeted by an airstrike from the territory of Belarus. Read also: Bodies of two victims found under…

Russian troops again struck Zaporizhzhia with missiles, the second such attack since Thursday morning. Oleksandr Starukh, the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, said this in a statement on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Another missile attack by the enemy. Stay in shelters!" he wrote. Earlier reports said that at 05:00 on October 6, the enemy fired S-300 missiles at the city. Two of them hit residential buildings, leaving two people dead and about ten wounded.

The UK Ministry of Defense believes that the Russian command will send recently mobilized reservists to strengthen the defensive positions on the right bank of the Kherson region. The ministry said this in its latest intelligence update published on Twitter, Ukrinform reports. It added that Russia faces a dilemma: withdrawal of combat forces across the Dnipro makes defense of the rest of the Kherson region more tenable; but the political imperative will be to remain and defend. The ministry noted that Russia had already committed the majority of its severely undermanned airborne forces, the VDV, to the defense of Kherson.…

Russian authorities kicked off their covert mobilization campaign after the Russian army’s first significant failures on the battlefield back in May. That’s according to the Ukrainian defense intelligence spokesman Vadym Skibitsky, who spoke on the air of the Orestokratiya show, Ukrinform reports. "Back in May, the first signs appeared that Russia wasn’t coping with the tasks they had set before themselves. Both the blitz capture of Kyiv and full occupation of Ukraine failed. At the same time, the first so-called volunteers began to appear, the ‘combat army reserve’ was recruited, Russian private military companies began to actively hire people, and…

A new enemy offensive from the territory of Belarus cannot be ruled out, as Russia is posed to send mobilized military units there. Some units have already been deployed on the Belarusian territory and are now refurbishing mothballed airfields built back in Soviet times. That’s according to Security Service Colonel Roman Kostenko, who now serves as Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, who spoke in an interview with Ukrinform. He emphasized that Ukraine considers Belarus to be its enemy, therefore it maintains defenses along the entire common borderline. "I have information that Russia will…

In Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, rescuers put out a fire caused by enemy kamikaze drones this night. Three infrastructure buildings were damaged. Oleksiy Kuleba, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, announced this during the nationwide telethon, Ukrinform reports with reference to Kuleba's Telegram channel. According to him, "all necessary safety measures were taken and the fire caused by six kamikaze drone strikes was put out. Three infrastructure buildings were damaged." Read also: Russian invaders attack Kyiv region’s Bila Tserkva with suicide drones "The life of an injured person is not in danger," the head of the Administration noted. As…