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Main news for Sunday, October 20: attacks on Kharkov and Krivoy Rog, strike on Lipetsk-2 airfield

Enemy shelling, preliminary results of the referendum in Moldova. How the 970th day of the full-scale war will be remembered.

Dnipropetrovsk region under fire

President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on corruption in medical and social expert commissions and demands a response from law enforcement agencies regarding the issuance of fake disabilities by prosecutors.

He reported this in his evening address.

“Unfortunately, in the rear here in Ukraine, things happen that don't require any enemies. with the MSEC and issued fake disabilities for themselves,” Zelensky wrote.

He emphasized that he expects law enforcement agencies, in particular, first of all, the SBU, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of the Prosecutor General, to make “appropriate, quick, tough decisions.”

Today, at about 15:15, Russian occupiers carried out another shelling of the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region, the Kharkiv OVA reports.

The village of Novoplatonovka, which is part of the Borovsk community, came under fire. As a result of enemy shelling, a private residential house was damaged, according to preliminary KAB.

During search and rescue operations, the bodies of a 71-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman were found under the rubble.

Russian troops have again attacked Kharkov with guided aerial bombs.

“Explosions are heard in Kharkov. The city is under attack by enemy KABs – be careful! Three districts of the city were hit. Some of them have certain problems with electricity supply,” Mayor Igor Terekhov reported on Telegram. p class=”MsoNormal”>According to preliminary information, one hit the Osnovyansky district of the city, near a residential building.

“Another strike on the Kievsky district of the city, near one of the supermarkets – a gas station was damaged, we are waiting for confirmation,” Terekhov added.

Nine casualties are currently known. Among them is a child.

Russian troops also launched a missile strike on Krivoy Rog.

Last night, drones of the SBU, SSO and GUR struck the Sverdlov plant in the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which is part of the Russian military-industrial complex. The plant is under sanctions from the EU and the US, since its products are used to wage war in Ukraine.

This is reported by LB.ua sources.

At the Sverdlov plant, the enemy produces explosives, aviation and artillery shells, aviation bombs, including KABs, warheads for cumulative anti-tank guided missiles, warheads for air defense missile systems.

The distance from the Ukrainian border to the plant is 900 km. After the “visit” of Ukrainian drones, the Russians wrote all night on social networks about the incursions into the plant.

“The SBU has worked to strengthen sanctions against the Sverdlov plant. We have added a drone to the economic sanctions, which has an immediate effect. Work on curtailing the enemy's military capabilities will continue,” an informed source in the SBU said.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked another airfield in Russia. “Lipetsk-2” was hit.

The government confirmed the “Lipetsk-2” situation with the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Tonight, fire damage was inflicted on the infrastructure of the military airfield “Lipetsk-2″ in the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation. In particular, the target was ammunition depots, storage areas for fuel and lubricants and aviation equipment. 31st Air and Space Forces of the enemy,” the report says.

Moldovans voted against their country's accession to the European Union in a referendum on October 20. The Central Electoral Commission of Moldova has provided these results after receiving data from nearly 60% of polling stations, Radio Liberty reports.

Data as of 23:00 indicate that just over 44% of referendum participants voted “for”, while nearly 56% voted “against”.

The referendum was to decide “whether the goal of joining the EU should be enshrined in the country's constitution”. The current president and candidate for a new term in office, Maia Sandu, actively supports this idea. According to her, “everyone's vote is important, regardless of the voter's location.” Five candidates in the elections called for voting against or boycotting the referendum.

The most complete picture of today is on our website. We hope that tomorrow there will be more good news.

We hold on and bring Victory closer!

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