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[Korrespondent] 22:16 An enemy Su-25 fighter was shot down in the Avdeevsky direction, the General Staff reported.
22:08 A new “grain corridor”, training of Ukrainian pilots and military assistance are the main topics of today’s negotiations in Bucharest. According to Romanian media, Zelensky was personally invited to Bucharest by President Iohannis to demonstrate his support for Ukraine, as well as to discuss new projects at the highest level. However, the arrival of the Ukrainian president to Romania was not without scandal. Read more in the article What Zelensky agreed on in Romania .
21:23 A new US military aid package for Ukraine worth $200 million could be announced as early as Wednesday, October 11. According to Voice of America, the package will include AIM-9 and TOW missiles, HIMARS ammunition, precision aircraft munitions, and 155mm and 105mm projectiles.
20:31 The Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled all Russian attacks near Avdeevka, said Alexander Shtupun, speaker of the Tauride Defense Forces. According to him, “there was no loss of boundaries and positions.”
20:22 The Russians fired artillery at the village. Nelepovka, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region, one person was injured. Two more people were injured as a result of shelling in Krasnogorovka and Yekaterinivka, including a 16-year-old teenager, the prosecutor’s office reported.
19:45 The UN General Assembly did not support the election of Russia as a member of the Human Rights Council.
19:34 Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria are planning to create a special unit to clear mines in the Black Sea, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. Countries are working out the details and could create it as early as next month. The joint project is planned as a peaceful mission and is not a NATO operation.
19:28 The Russians shelled the village of Ugroedy, Krasnopolsky community, Sumy region, a child born in 2009 died, the OVA reported.
19:23 Germany will send ten more Leopard1 A5 tanks to Ukraine in the coming weeks, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported. In addition, Berlin will donate additional Patriot and IRIS-T, three Gepard anti-aircraft guns, 15 armored vehicles and 20 ambulances. The total cost of the package is 1 billion euros.
18:39 Local authorities of Avdiivka report massive attacks on the city. The Russian army began attacking the settlement at approximately five o'clock in the morning on October 10. The occupiers are constantly firing artillery, tanks and aircraft, and heavy fighting is taking place north of the city. There is information that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already lost several positions in this area. Read more in the material Aggravation in Donbass .
18:20 The 16th meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format will take place in Brussels on Tuesday, October 11. US Representative to NATO Julian Smith noted that decisions on air defense, ammunition and “a number of other systems that Ukraine now needs” are expected from this meeting. “We want to make sure that Russia’s attempts to leave Ukrainians in the dark and cold will not succeed,” she emphasized.
17:31 In the Avdeevka area, the enemy has concentrated a strike fist and is trying to break through the defenses of Ukrainian forces, including in the area of the settlements of Vodyanoye and Krasnohorivka, reported journalist Andrey Tsaplienko. Russian public pages, meanwhile, write about the offensive of the Russian army north-west of Avdeevka with the aim of cutting off the communications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and taking the city into a semi-circle.
16:23 A pilot training center will be created in Romania, and Ukrainian pilots will be included in the first wave of F-16 training , Zelensky said following a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. The parties also discussed the possibility of speeding up this preparation. In addition, Zelensky thanked for all the support packages provided by Romania and announced “good news on artillery and air defense.”
Another topic that was discussed in Bucharest was the grain corridor, which will soon begin operating from Ukraine through Moldova to Romania. “Ukraine and Romania together are important donors in the matter of security, in particular food security. We are working with various partners to strengthen our air defense both in the country as a whole and in the Odessa region. In the Ukraine-Romania-Moldova triangle we are able to create a very powerful the basis for the development of not only our countries and peoples, but also our entire Europe,” Zelensky emphasized.
During the meeting, Zelensky and Iohannis signed a bilateral declaration, which sets out the key points of interaction between the two countries: cooperation in the field of security, in particular in the Black Sea region, support for the Ukrainian Peace Formula, expansion of economic and logistics interaction, transport links, simplification of border crossing procedures, opening new checkpoints on the border. Zelensky stressed that Ukraine and Romania had reached an agreement on a strategic partnership.
15:44 Russian Z-publics publish a video of the shelling of residential areas in Avdeevka by the Russian army.
15:40 Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov said that he visited the positions of the Defense Forces in the south-eastern direction, met with the commanders of the operational groupings of the Tavria and Zaporozhye troops, and talked with the soldiers.
15:33 Exactly a year ago, on October 10, 2022, Lukashenko announced that he had agreed with Putin on the deployment of the so-called regional grouping of troops of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. The official reason was given as a military threat that arose near the borders of the so-called “union state,” but in reality the regional group was needed to cover the training of mobilized Russians.
At the beginning of July 2023, the training of Russian conscripts at Belarusian training grounds was stopped. According to estimates by the monitoring group Belarusian Gayun, in total, from October 2022 to July 2023, at least 15 thousand military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces could have passed through training camps on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, who then went to fight in Ukraine.
14:42 The German concern Rheinmetall reported that it has received another large order for 150 thousand artillery shells for Ukraine. The contract provides for the supply of more than 100 thousand 155-mm shells, as well as additional high-explosive fragmentation shells DM 121. Several tens of thousands of shells are planned to be delivered in 2023, the rest in 2024.
14:10 British intelligence is confident that the Kremlin will try to minimize unpopular political steps during the preparation for the Russian presidential elections, and therefore will almost certainly not conduct a new wave of mobilization until March 2024.
13:54 The Center for National Resistance under the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claims that agreements have been reached between the FSB of the Russian Federation and the KGB of the Republic of Belarus to conduct a false flag operation against one of the objects on the territory of Belarus, in order to then blame Ukraine for this. The Brestoblnefteprodukt oil depot near the settlement of Priluki, Brest Region, located 2 km from the Belarusian-Polish border, is currently being considered as a target for a terrorist attack. The object is planned to be attacked from a UAV. According to information from the Belarusian underground, aerial reconnaissance of the proposed objects was carried out by the Wagnerites in August of this year.
12:49 Data on more than 236 thousand Russian military personnel have been entered into the interdepartmental War Criminal database, 2,100 of them have been identified and they have been informed of suspicion, Head of the National Police Ivan Vyhovsky said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
11:35 The number of deaths in the village of Groza, Kharkov region, as a result of the Russian strike on October 5 increased to 53 people, said the head of the Investigation Department of the regional police, Sergei Bolvinov. According to him, the death toll may still increase as DNA examinations of the remains of the bodies continue. Five people are still considered missing.
11:22 Since five in the morning, the Russians have been continuously shelling Avdeevka, Donetsk region - attacking residential buildings with both artillery and aircraft, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko.
10:34 Zelensky said that he is on an official visit to Bucharest, Romania. In particular, the president will meet with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis to discuss a “wide range of topics” - cooperation on security issues, the development of aviation and other defense coalitions, strengthening Ukrainian air defense, the overall security architecture in the Black Sea region and relations with partners.
09:45 The White House is considering the possibility of combining funding for Ukraine and Israel into one request to Congress in the hope that this will increase the chances of approval of assistance to Kiev, the Washington Post writes, citing sources.
09:36 In the morning, the enemy launched a missile strike, preliminarily with an S-300 air defense system, on the village of Velikiy Burluk, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, three people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:25 Zelensky signed a decree that put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to allocate more than 21% of GDP from the state budget for defense. Thus, when finalizing the bill on the state budget for 2024, the government must provide for a total financial resource for defense of at least 21.6% of GDP.
09:13 During a night drone attack in the Odessa region, a hit was recorded on the logistics infrastructure, no people were injured, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA.
08:52 US senators from both parties intend to approve in the coming weeks an annual aid package for Ukraine worth from 60 to 100 billion dollars, which is significantly more than Biden requested, The Wall Street Journal writes.
08:19 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 10:
- personnel - about 283,080 (+450) people,
- tanks - 4829 (+6),
- armored combat vehicles - 9129 (+3),
- artillery systems - 6713 (+7),
- MLRS - 808 (+0),
- air defense systems - 544 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5207 (+17),
- cruise missiles - 1530 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9125 (+12),
- special equipment - 961 (+2).
07:41 Air defense at night destroyed 27 of the 36 Shahed attack UAVs with which Russia attacked southern Ukraine. The launches took place from Cape Chauda, Crimea, the Air Force command reported. Enemy drones were destroyed within the Odessa, Nikolaev and Kherson regions.
07:20 Defense forces continue assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and have partial success in the Andreevka area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also continuing their offensive in the Melitopol direction, the General Staff said in its morning report .
Over the past 24 hours, 39 military clashes took place at the front. In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks near Sinkovka and Ivanovka, Kharkov region; in the Liman direction - in the Makeevka area of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - not far from Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky and Maryinsky - in the areas of Maryinka and Novomikhailovka; on Shakhtarsky - near Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Levadny district of the Zaporozhye region.
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