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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:19 Russians have used ballistic missiles on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region - five people were killed and nine were injured, said Community Development Minister Oleksiy Kuleba. As a result of the attack, a civilian vessel under the flag of Panama, the container ship Shui Spirit, was damaged. This is the third foreign vessel attacked by the Russian Federation in the last four days, Kuleba added.
21:38 Defense forces today attacked a Shahed UAV storage base near the village of Oktyabrsky in Krasnodar Krai, the General Staff reported. According to available information, about 400 attack drones were stored there. A precise hit on the target was recorded, a secondary detonation was observed on the territory of the facility.
21:16 Zelensky will hold talks with the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany in each of the countries. The president announced this during a conversation with media representatives in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
20:27 EU ambassadors have agreed to provide Ukraine with a loan of 35 billion euros, which will be repaid using frozen Russian assets, Radio Liberty editor in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak reported. At the same time, he added that the ambassadors were unable to agree on extending sanctions against the assets of the Russian Central Bank for 36 months instead of six months, since Hungary is against such a decision. Extending sanctions against the Russian Central Bank for 36 months is a condition for providing Ukraine with a loan of 50 billion dollars, which was put forward by the United States. Washington thus wants to be sure that the EU sanctions imposed on Russian assets will remain in effect until Russia pays reparations to Ukraine.
19:01 The first point of the "victory plan" is focused on "whether the problem of the deficit of geopolitical certainty in Europe will be solved," Zelensky said at the Ukraine-Southeastern Europe summit. "Does Ukraine have a place in NATO? If so, and this is duly confirmed, Putin will lose geopolitically. Russia must recognize that Europe has borders, independent states, and each of them has the right to choose its own future. The truth is that Russia's acceptance of this reality can only begin with the understanding that Ukraine will never again be subjugated by Russia. Without geopolitical certainty, peace is impossible," the president emphasized.
18:49 Zelensky will visit Berlin on Friday, October 11, Bild reports, citing sources. During the visit, the Ukrainian president will present details of his "victory plan" to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In addition, confidential talks are planned with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
18:05 Zelensky said during a visit to Croatia that he expects to end the war in 2025. "In October, November and December, we have a chance to move towards peace and lasting stability. The situation on the battlefield creates an opportunity to make this choice - the choice of decisive action to end the war no later than 2025," Reuters quotes the Ukrainian president as saying.
Zelensky also reiterated that in November Ukraine will complete work on the "peace formula", which will be put up for discussion at the second summit. "In November, everything will be ready, with all the conditions that spell out a fair end to the war. This will be done at the second Peace Summit," the head of state said. According to him, his "victory plan" should force Russia to implement this formula.
17:54 Macron showed footage of the training of the Ukrainian Anna Kievskaya Brigade, which is currently undergoing training in France, in the eastern region of Grand Est. "I have taken on this commitment: our military is currently training 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers in Grand Est with the equipment they will use during missions," the French president wrote.
17:03 Zelensky will meet with the Pope on Friday, October 11, Reuters reports. This will be their third meeting, the last one taking place during the G7 summit in Italy this summer. Zelensky is also expected to hold talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
16:35 Ukraine and Croatia have signed a long-term cooperation and support agreement, under which they pledged to establish joint defense production, strengthen cooperation in cybersecurity, and exchange intelligence. In addition, Croatia has allocated more than 10 million euros for humanitarian demining of Ukrainian territories. It is also assumed that Croatia will help bring the Russian Federation to justice, compensate for damage caused by aggression, and will exert sanctions pressure.
16:28 Ukraine has confiscated the dry cargo ship USKO MFU under the Cameroon flag for illegally entering Crimean ports, the State Border Service reported. The vessel was detained in Odessa Oblast in July of this year, and now, by a court decision, it has been transferred to the ownership of the state of Ukraine. The captain is accused of violating the procedure for entering the occupied territories with the aim of damaging state interests.
15:59 The Lithuanian government has approved an additional €13 million to finance Ukraine reconstruction projects. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, Lithuania has already allocated €24 million through its Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Fund for Ukraine reconstruction projects.
15:15 Ukraine is considering lifting the ban on arms exports in order to make money from selling drones and scaling up their production, the Financial Times reports. According to the head of the economic subcommittee, Oleksandr Marikovsky, this could bring in up to $20 billion in revenue. Companies are to be allowed to export their surplus products. At the same time, the Ukrainian military says that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "are experiencing a colossal shortage of drones."
14:02 Over the past week, Germany has delivered two anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine - Iris-T SLM (medium-range) and Iris-T SLS (short-range air defense system). By the end of the year, Berlin will deliver two more anti-aircraft systems, said Christian Freiding, head of the special headquarters for Ukraine. He also noted that Germany plans to transfer 50 military aid packages to Ukraine this year for a total of 1.4 billion euros.
13:26 Ukraine's Western allies are recording Kiev's readiness to show "greater flexibility" on the issue of ending the war, Bloomberg writes. Although Zelensky publicly rules out the possibility of "bargaining" on the issue of Ukrainian sovereignty or territory, Ukrainian officials are ready to admit that the war must be ended, the agency notes.
12:48 Zelensky said that he arrived in Croatia to meet with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, representatives of other countries in the region and to participate in the third Ukraine - South-Eastern Europe summit. In particular, the Ukrainian president plans to discuss defense cooperation, rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and the restoration of Ukraine with the Croatian prime minister. The summit in the "Ukraine plus 12 countries" format is planned to discuss international efforts to bring peace closer and implement the "peace formula", as well as interaction on the path to the European Union and NATO.
12:20 NATO Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli has compiled for Congress a list of American weapons that the US has not yet transferred to Ukraine and that could help the Ukrainian Armed Forces, CNN reports. In particular, the list includes JASSM air-to-surface missiles, as well as a communications system known as Link 16 - a data exchange network used by the US and NATO.
12:03 The Rammstein format meeting, which was supposed to take place on October 12 with the participation of the leaders of the countries, has been decided to be postponed to another date, Radio Liberty reports, citing sources at NATO headquarters. The new date has not yet been determined.
11:59 Zelensky will visit Croatia today, where he will take part in the Ukraine - South-Eastern Europe summit, N1 reports, citing sources in the Croatian government. The purpose of the meeting in Dubrovnik is to demonstrate solidarity and support for Ukraine.
11:53 The General Staff confirmed that the Defense Forces struck the 67th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry in the Bryansk region at night. The warehouse contained ammunition for missile and artillery weapons, including those from the DPRK, as well as guided aerial bombs. A significant portion of them were stored in the open air. Explosions were recorded on the territory of the arsenal, and local authorities blocked the road in the area.
11:25 In mid-October, the book War by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward will be published in the United States . In it, he, citing his own sources, talks about what was happening in American political life during two wars - in Ukraine and the Middle East. The book, in particular, says that Putin panicked because of losses at the front and could resort to tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the likelihood of such a development in the fall of 2022 increased from 5% to 50%. Read more in the article Nuclear Strike and Zelensky's Successor .
11:16 The Verkhovna Rada adopted bill No. 11379-d, which provides for exemption from mobilization for men under the age of 25.
10:12 In the Karachevsky district of the Bryansk region, a municipal emergency situation has been recorded "due to the detonation of explosive objects", a state of emergency has not been declared, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported.
09:44 In the Bryansk region, drones attacked the 67th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) in Karachev, after the attack a fire broke out in the ammunition depot, publics write. The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Kovalenko also claims that near the city of Karachev, the 67th arsenal of the GRAU closest to the front line was hit. It is located 114 km from the border with Ukraine. According to Kovalenko, the depot stored ammunition, including from the DPRK, as well as KABs.
Residents of Yeisk in Krasnodar Krai also reported explosions at night. Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that in the village of Shabelskoye in Shcherbinovsky District, a private home and a gas pipe were damaged as a result of falling UAV debris.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that on the night of October 9, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 47 drones: 24 over the Bryansk region, five over the Belgorod region, two each in the Kursk and Rostov regions, one in the Krasnodar region, and 13 over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
09:39 At night, Russian troops attacked a medical and social institution in Stepanivka, Kherson region, two nurses were injured, OVA reported. Also in the morning, as a result of Russian shelling of the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, one person was injured. Over the previous day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed and 16 were injured.
09:10 In Poltava Oblast, as a result of a Russian strike with three ballistic missiles, an industrial facility was damaged; according to preliminary information, no one was hurt, reported the head of the OVA, Filipp Pronin.
08:46 Russians attacked Odessa region with drones at night. As a result of the attack, a nine-story residential building in Odessa district was damaged, five people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. There was also a fire in the attic floor of the unfinished building on an area of 400 sq. m, it was quickly extinguished.
08:37 In Donetsk Oblast, on October 8, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Konstantinovka. Another 11 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:28 On the evening of October 8, Russians struck the village of Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region with a KAB, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
08:19 Air defense destroyed 21 of 22 attack UAVs at night, another drone turned in the direction of Russia, the Air Force reported. Air targets were shot down in the Odessa, Vinnytsia and Kiev regions. In addition, at night the enemy struck the Poltava region with three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 9. At the same time, the total number of UAVs and aircraft was adjusted, and the losses per day are reported as usual:
- personnel - about 664,120 (+1150) people,
- tanks - 8944 (+4),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,751 (+11),
- artillery systems - 19,222 (+19),
- MLRS - 1223 (+0),
- air defense systems - 973 (+0),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,718 (+31),
- cruise missiles - 2618 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 26,240 (+55),
- special equipment - 3385 (+12).
07:17 On the evening of October 8, Russians struck a car with an FPV drone in the village of Primorskoye, Vasilievsky district, Zaporizhia region - one person died, one was injured, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
02:08 The Pentagon is considering the possibility of postponing the Ramstein meeting, which is scheduled to take place in Germany on Saturday, October 12, said Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of Defense Sabrina Singh. She recalled that due to Hurricane Milton Biden will not be able to travel to Germany to participate in the meeting of the contact group on the defense of Ukraine, so the possibility of postponing it and combining it with the meeting of NATO defense ministers on October 17-18 is being considered.
00:34 In the Belgorod region, two more settlements are being evacuated due to constant shelling - the villages of Solovyovka and Petrovka, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.
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