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[Korrespondent] 22:48 Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova announced a major exchange of prisoners with Ukraine. According to her, the exchange work goes on every day.
21:46 Further support for Kiev will depend on the choice of the new speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress, Western media state. Read more in the article Help for Ukraine is at stake .
19:34 Peskov said that events in Israel will not affect the course of the war in Ukraine, “this is an independent process, everything is going according to plan.”
19:20 The third assault brigade reported that its fighters in the Bakhmut direction captured a Russian major, commander of the Alga 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade volunteer battalion of the Russian Federation.
19:09 Zelensky will be visiting Romania on Tuesday, October 10, at the invitation of President Klaus Iohannis, the office of the Romanian president reported.
18:47 The war in Ukraine has been the focus of global media attention for the past 19 months, but that changed on October 7 after the Islamist militant group Hamas carried out its deadliest attack on Israel. The Kremlin has already openly stated that it hopes to reduce arms supplies to Kyiv due to the Hamas attack on Israel. Read more in the article How the Russian Federation is using the situation against Ukraine .
17:58 Ukrainian forces launched a missile strike on the forces and means of the Russian Armed Forces in occupied Dzhankoy, said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region. He did not disclose details, since the data is being clarified and verified. Russian telegram channels reported that as a result of the attack, 21 special forces soldiers of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces were allegedly killed, and another 16 were injured.
17:33 The Russian army is shelling Kherson, three people are known to be wounded. The information is being clarified, said the head of the OBA, Alexander Prokudin.
15:10 The Russians fired at Kherson - they hit it near one of the local libraries, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. Another person was wounded as a result of shelling in the suburban village of Kindiyka.
14:36 Zelensky replaced the commander of the TRO forces: instead of Igor Tantsyura, he became Major General Anatoly Bargilevich, who since 2022 had been the chief of staff of the Eastern Group of Forces, and before that - deputy commander of the Ground Forces.
13:57 Denmark is working to “expand and deepen” the coalition of countries that have pledged to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen said.
13:39 Zelensky, while addressing a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Copenhagen, called for unification and the fight against terrorism, comparing the tactics of Hamas in Israel with the tactics of Russia: “The same evil, and the only difference is that this is a terrorist organization that attacked Israel, and here is a terrorist state that attacked Ukraine."
12:44 The Russian GRU handed over to Hamas terrorists captured weapons made in the USA and EU countries that were captured during the fighting in Ukraine. Thus, Russia is using the attack by Hamas militants on Israel for a large-scale provocation against Ukraine, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
The next step should be fake accusations of the Ukrainian military of allegedly selling Western weapons to terrorists on a regular basis. These fakes should form the basis of a number of “revelatory publications” and “investigations” in the Western media. To be convincing, the Russian special services intend to use the relevant comments of the traitor from the Ukrainian border service Ruslan Syrov, who recently fled to Moscow, the GUR warns.
11:52 In Kiev, shelters in preschool educational institutions will be inaccessible to outsiders - this decision was made by the Capital Defense Council. Now shelters in such establishments can only be used by staff and children. This is necessary for the safety of children, the KMVA explained.
10:15 In the village of Groza, Kharkov region, where 52 people were killed as a result of a Russian strike on October 5, five local residents are considered missing. So far, 49 bodies have been identified, said regional police chief Vladimir Timoshko.
09:41 Another reserve of manpower was transferred to Mariupol and the region - the arrival of newly formed and/or newly recruited Russian units in the amount of about 5,000 people was recorded. They are dressed in a completely new uniform, with two guns on their chevrons, said advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko. According to him, the last such introduction of new reserves was recorded in April 2023.
08:52 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army fired 96 shells at Kherson, hitting residential areas, a parking lot and a critical infrastructure facility in Kherson, as well as the territory of a church in the Kherson region. As a result of shelling in the region, one person was killed and 18 more were injured, including two children, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
08:49 On the evening of October 8, the Russians fired artillery at Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region, one person was killed, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
08:35 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops have increased mining in the Rabotino-Verbovoe area and are trying to pin down Ukrainian forces on front sectors away from the west of the Zaporozhye region.
08:06 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 9:
- personnel - about 282,630 (+350) people,
- tanks - 4823 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 9126 (+3),
- artillery systems - 6706 (+1),
- MLRS - 808 (+0),
- air defense systems - 543 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5190 (+0),
- cruise missiles - 1530 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9113 (+2),
- special equipment - 959 (+0).
07:20 Defense forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol direction, having partial success in areas west of Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region. In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have had partial success in the areas of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, the General Staff reported in its morning report.
Over the past 24 hours, 37 military clashes took place at the front. In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - in the Makeevka area of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - north of Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka; on Avdeevsky and Maryinsky - in the areas of Avdeevka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the area north of Novoprokopovka, Zaporozhye region.