Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:26 Biden said the world needs a new world order: “We lived in the post-war period for 50 years, and it worked well, but it kind of fizzled out. We need a new one - a new world order in some sense, similar to the one that was".
According to the American president, the fate of the next 4-5 decades is now being decided: “We are at a turning point in history. And this means that the decisions that we make in the next four or five years will determine what the next four or five decades will look like.” ". Biden also said that if the United States stops helping Ukraine, Russia will win.
20:08 Zelensky, in an evening video message, thanked Biden for preparing a new package of “long-term and reliable support for Ukraine.” “I think that not only Ukrainians, but all peoples - all the free peoples of Europe - expect the preservation of American unity with our protection. The world needs American leadership, and I am grateful to both parties in Congress who understand this, who support, in particular, the fight of our people for their independence,” the president emphasized.
He also said that Ukraine is preparing for a new summit of the Crimean Platform at the parliamentary level, which will be held in the Czech Republic. According to the head of state, “the number of participants is very serious.”
19:57 Today in Donetsk, a military unit of the Russian Federation was struck in the Motel area, hidden among the residential sector, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko. Meanwhile, Russian propaganda media write about fragments of HIMARS found in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk.
19:29 Russian oligarch Magomed Musaev became the shadow owner of the global media group Forbes. Previously, he officially became the owner of the Russian division of the business magazine, writes The Washington Post. Formally, the agreement was signed to American Austin Russell, who, according to documents, paid $800 million for a controlling stake. The seller was the Hong Kong company Integrated Whale Media Investments, which bought Forbes Media back in 2014.
18:16 Russian troops in the Avdeevka area of the Donetsk region began to dig tunnels and use special remote-controlled vehicles to deliver ammunition, said Anton Kotsukon, speaker of the 110th separate mechanized brigade named after General Mark Bezruchko.
“They are blowing up tunnels closer to our positions. Firstly, in terms of camouflage, and secondly, in order to emerge somewhere closer to our positions unexpectedly... And our intelligence officers also recorded the use by the Russians of robotic machines that perform the function of such remote-controlled transport vehicles, ammunition is being delivered," he said.
16:37 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan, they discussed the next round of negotiations on the Peace Formula, which will take place in Malta, and food security.
14:45 Germany will provide Ukraine with 200 million euros of financial assistance, State Secretary of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Jochen Flasbarth said during a visit to Kiev. The funds will be used for education, healthcare, drinking water supply and urban reconstruction.
13:58 The Russians hit Nikopol with heavy artillery, one person was killed, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Sergei Lysak.
11:06 British intelligence believes that Putin’s statements about MiG-31s equipped with Daggers patrolling over the Black Sea are aimed at a domestic audience. “This statement is consistent with typical Russian rhetoric aimed at a domestic audience, which calls the West an aggressor, and presents Russia’s actions as necessary to defend the state,” analysts note. The intelligence also added that the Daggers are actually still in the operational testing stage, and their effectiveness in Ukraine has so far been low.
10:30 Soldiers of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade showed what Kleshcheevka, deoccupied a month ago, now looks like. The video shows that all the houses have been destroyed, and the remains of broken equipment lie on the streets.
09:44 During the night attack, Russia simultaneously launched cruise missiles and guided aerial bombs (KAB) into Ukraine for the first time, said Natalya Gumenyuk, spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces. “This is clearly an attempt by the enemy to carry out a missile strike as effectively as possible for himself, because they know that we cannot work on the KABs,” she explained.
According to Gumenyuk, that night, guided bombs were almost simultaneously launched from tactical aviation aircraft at front-line territories and cruise missiles of the X-59 type were launched at the territories of the second echelon of training, for example, Krivoy Rog, Nikolaev region. Attack drones were also used. “In fact, everything was simultaneously aimed at depleting the air defense and achieving maximum results,” Gumenyuk added.
09:21 Boryspil airport will resume operations “a month after the end of the war,” CEO Alexey Dubrevsky said in an interview with Politico.
08:48 The EU is intensifying work on the 12th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Bloomberg writes. According to the agency, the new package may include a ban on the supply of Russian diamonds, further limiting the Russian Federation’s ability to circumvent sanctions and inclusion in the list of companies in third countries that help Moscow in this. In addition, the EU wants to expand the list of prohibited goods that Russia can use for military purposes.
08:27 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 21:
- personnel - about 292,850 (+790) people,
- tanks - 5063 (+16),
- armored combat vehicles - 9612 (+55),
- artillery systems - 7017 (+5),
- MLRS - 822 (+0),
- air defense systems - 548 (+0),
- aircraft - 320 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5330 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 1535 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9391 (+21),
- special equipment - 990 (+5).
07:46 Over the past 24 hours, more than 100 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region, as well as near Nadezhda, Lugansk region; on Limanskoye - in the Nevelskoye district of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - in the Bogdanovka, Khromovo and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky - in the Novokalinovo, Stepnoy and Pervomaisky districts of the Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the districts of Zolotaya Niva, Staromayorsky and Rivne of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Poltavka and Rabotino districts of the Zaporozhye region.
07:34 At night, the Russians again attacked Krivoy Rog with missiles and attack drones, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak. There was destruction at the industrial infrastructure facility, a fire occurred, which was quickly extinguished. No people were hurt.