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General Staff operational report October 19, 2022 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The 238th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 19.10.2022. The Russian army is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in certain directions, at the same time, it does...
Russian troops hit thermal power plant with missiles in Ukraine’s west
The head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration Svitlana Onyshchuk noted that Russian troops did not stop attacking the critical infrastructure of Ukraine. They launched rocket attacks on the thermal power plant in the territory of the Ivano-Frankivsk region (west of Ukraine) on October 19, 2022. Source: The head of the Ivano-Frankivsk...
Russia’s attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine are acts of pure terror, – EU
The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that deliberate attacks by the Russian Federation against the civilian population and critical infrastructure of Ukraine in the face of approaching winter are acts of pure terrorism, and this is how all of Europe should treat such actions. She said this on October 19, 2022, in Strasbourg...
More than 400 objects of Ukrainian infrastructure were attacked by Russia since October 10
Oleksiy Chernyshov, the Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine noted that 408 Ukrainian infrastructure objects were attacked and damaged by Russia from October 10 to October 18, 2022. More than 45 of them are energy infrastructure objects. In addition, there are data on damage to more than 180 residential buildings....
Ukraine’s police opened 43 criminal proceedings on sexual crimes committed by Russian troops
The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Kateryna Pavlichenko noted on October 18, 2022, that Russian troops committed the greatest number of sexual crimes in the Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine. Source: The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Kateryna Pavlichenko 43 criminal...
UN found evidence of numerous Russian war crimes in the liberated territories of Ukraine
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine investigated the events of February-March in the territories of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions of Ukraine liberated from Russian troops and concluded that a lot of war crimes, as well as violations of human rights and international humanitarian law were committed there...
Russia has carried out about 190 missile and drone attacks on Ukraine since October 7
Russia carried out about 190 massive strikes with missiles and kamikaze drones on 16 regions of Ukraine and Kyiv during the period from October 7 to October 18, 2022. More than 70 Ukrainian civilians died during this period. Source: Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, the Press Officer of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine “According to operational...
Ukraine’s Parliament recognized Ichkeria as territory occupied by Russia
On October 18, 2022, it became known that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as occupied by Russia and condemned the genocide of the Chechens by Russia. Source: The People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharenko “The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as...
Ukraine’s police exhumed the bodies of 5 children killed by Russian troops in the Donetsk region
Ukrainian law enforcement officers exhumed the bodies of five children who died from shrapnel wounds during Russian shelling in the liberated city of Lyman in the Donetsk region on October 18, 2022. Source: The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “The police officers exhumed the bodies of girls born in 2021, 2019, and 2008,...
Japan will help Ukraine restore damaged energy facilities
The Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko held a meeting with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori on October 17, 2022. They discussed systematic attacks carried out by Russian troops on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities and the consequences of their destruction. Source:...