Military action in the Donetsk region, 142 combat clashes, enemy shelling, the beginning of the epidemic season, Nobel laureates in physics. How the 958th day of a full-scale war will be remembered.
As reported by the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov, the occupiers struck a densely populated area.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov reported that, according to preliminary information, one person was killed. He later added that two people had already been killed and the number of wounded had risen to five due to Russian shelling of the multi-story building.
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported that the enemy had launched FAB-250 strikes on the UMPK from the territory of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation. Two Su-34 aircraft were used for the shelling. The strikes were recorded in the Saltovsky District of Kharkiv.
“Among the five injured were three women, a man and a 10-year-old boy. The child was wounded by glass, and medics provided him with assistance,” the prosecutor's office added.< /p>
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on October 8, 142 combat clashes have occurred.
Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely repel the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting effective fire damage on them, depleting them along the entire front line.
Since the beginning of the day in the Pokrovsk directionRussians have tried to break through our defenses 37 times near the settlements of Sukhaya Balka, Novotoretskoye, Luch, Sukhoi Yar, Lysovka, Kruty Yar, Novogrodovka and Selidovo.
The hottest today is in the Kurakhovsky direction. The enemy attacked our positions 39 times near Tsukurino, Novoselidovka, Gornyak, Maksimilyanovka, Georgievka, Konstantinovka, Yekaterinovka, Antonovka, Kurakhovka, Izmailovka, Ostrogo, Kurakhovoye and Vodyanoye. According to updated information, three combat contacts are still ongoing.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of October 8 – in the news.
The Second Peace Summit will not take place in November. Preparations for the event are still ongoing, said Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office Dariya Zarovna, reports.
“The Second Peace Summit will not take place in November. For now, thematic conferences are being held on each point of the Formula, which end with the adoption of a communiqué.”The date of the Second Peace Summit will be decided after the completion of the thematic conferences,” Zarovna noted.
US President Joe Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola due to a hurricane in Florida, the White House said.
As part of the visit, Biden was supposed to chair the Rammstein meeting. A meeting with Zelensky was also planned in Germany.
More information in the news.
The bill on the ban on the mobilization of partially fit Ukrainians aged 18 to 25 (No. 11379-d) was worked out in the committee today, and tomorrow it should be put to a vote in the hall. At the same time, the document will not contain provisions on the demobilization of those who have already been mobilized.
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that the committee will meet this evening. This became known during the meeting, the broadcast of which was hosted by MP Oleksiy Goncharenko.
The bill should be considered in the hall at the next meeting, that is, tomorrow.
“And then we need to find an option to fill the vacated places in order to prevent landslides at the front. We are moving in this direction, and I really ask the committee to work so that we can bring it to the floor tomorrow,” Stefanchuk said in response to Goncharenko's question.
About the collision, which actually allowed the mobilization of young men from 18 to 25 years old, unfit for peacetime and limited fit for wartime, – in the news .
In October, the epidemic season begins in Ukraine: this means that the number of cases of acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) is growing: colds, COVID-19, and flu. The Ministry of Health reminds how to distinguish between these diseases.
Colds, like flu, are viral infections primarily of the respiratory tract.
Colds are often used to refer to illnesses caused by other viruses. Colds are most often associated with rhinovirus infections. However, more than 200 different viruses can cause symptoms that we group together under the term “cold”, which usually develops over several days and is often experienced by people “on their feet”. As a rule, it begins with a sore throat and a runny nose. Within a few days, a person has a sore throat, a stuffy nose, a slightly elevated temperature, weakness and a headache.
More details in the news.
On 8 October, the Council of the European Union set new sanctions limits in response to Russia's destabilising actions abroad. This will allow the prosecution of individuals and organisations linked to the Russian Federation that undermine the core values of the European Union and its Member States, their security, independence and integrity, as well as the values of international organisations and third countries.
“The EU will now be able to counter various hybrid threats, such as the undermining of electoral processes and the functioning of democratic institutions; the threat to and sabotage of economic activity, services of public interest or critical infrastructure; the use of coordinated disinformation, manipulation of information and interference; harmful cyber activities as an instrument of influence and other destabilizing actions,” the Council website says.
The new sanctions regime is part of the EU's response to Russia's campaign of hybrid activities, which has recently intensified through new operations on European territory.
More information is in the news.
The Nobel Committee has announced the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. They are American John Hopfield and Canadian Geoffrey Ginton.
The award was given for “fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning using artificial neural networks.”
It is noted that machine learning has long been important for research, in particular for sorting and analyzing large amounts of data.
“John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used the tools of physics to develop methods that helped lay the foundation for today's powerful machine learning. Machine learning based on artificial neural networks is now revolutionizing science, technology, and everyday life,” the report says. The most complete picture of today is on our website. We hope that tomorrow there will be more good news.
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