Night air attack, 134 combat clashes, fighting in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, explosions at Russian distilleries.
Donetsk region under enemy fire
Russia attacked Sumy several times at night and in the morning, Acting Mayor of Sumy Artem Kobzar reported on his Telegram page. According to updated information, three people were killed, including a child.
The enemy hit private and apartment buildings, as well as infrastructure. The victims lived in the private sector.
As of 1 a.m., employees of the State Emergency Service continued to work on the scene and eliminate the consequences of the attack.
Later, the prosecutor's office added that the weapon hit a private home. A 50-year-old man was injured, his 50-year-old wife, 62-year-old sister and 14-year-old daughter were killed. clashes.
Russia launched two missile strikes, as well as 82 airstrikes, including 136 KAB. In addition, it carried out more than four thousand shellings of populated areas and positions of our troops, 154 of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 46 offensive and assault actions of the aggressor near Sukha Balka, Vozdvizhenka, Mirolyubovka, Krasny Yar, Luch, Lisovka, Krutoy Yar, Selidovoye and Mikhailovka. The enemy actively used aviation.
In the Kurakhovsky directionThe Defense Forces repelled 26 attacks in the areas of Gornyak, Novodmitrovka, Maksimilianovka, Georgievka, Dalny, Yekaterinovka, Zvezdny, Ostroy and Antonovka.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue their operation in the Kursk region.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,350 soldiers. Since the beginning of the invasion, the defenders have destroyed about 681,580 occupiers.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the night of October 22, the Russians attacked Ukraine with Shahed-type attack UAVs and drones of an unknown type. A total of 60 enemy UAVs were detected in Ukrainian airspace that night.
According to the Air Force, the drone launch areas are Kursk, Yeysk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia.
42 enemy UAVs have been confirmed to have been damaged in the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Kherson, and Kharkiv regions.
Most of the attack UAVs were shot down in the Sumy region. There are casualties and casualties in the region as a result of the attack.
In addition, 10 Russian drones were lost. One UAV flew to Belarus, three more – back to Russia. One enemy UAV is in the airspace of Ukraine.
Three people were killed and 19 were injured in Zaporizhia due to an attack by Russia. Among the injured is an 8-year-old girl. These are the consequences of the enemy attack on the regional center, said the head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Ivan Fedorov.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers have launched 303 strikes on 9 settlements in the Zaporizhia region.
The enemy launched a missile strike on Zaporizhia.
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry commented on the upcoming visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to Kazan, where the Russian-led BRICS summit is taking place, on the X network.
The diplomatic department recalled that the UN Secretary General refused to come to Switzerland in June to participate in the Global Peace Summit. Now he has accepted an invitation from war criminal Putin.
The Foreign Ministry is convinced that this is “the wrong choice, which does not contribute to the cause of peace, but only harms the reputation of the UN.”
The mayor of Kyiv, the head of the Kyiv City State Administration Vitali Klitschko dismissed his deputy Volodymyr Prokopiv due to the investigation by Bihus info journalists.
On the morning of October 22, he said that he would contact law enforcement agencies to verify the facts presented in the investigation. Journalists published the first investigation into the state of Prokopiv's family on the 14th.
“I am asking law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies to verify the facts presented by Bihus Info investigative journalists regarding Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Volodymyr Prokopiv. And also, for the duration of the investigation, for its objectivity, I am suspending Prokopiv from the duties of Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration for self-governing powers,” said K.G. .
More details about journalistic investigations regarding Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Prokopiv are in the news.
Attack drones struck objects near thermal power plants in two regions of Russia at night.
According to local residents, a fire broke out at a synthetic rubber plant in Yefremov, Tula Oblast. A UAV also operated close to a thermal power plant in Bryansk Oblast.
Officially, the authorities acknowledged the impact only in Tula region. But, according to the governor, two distilleries were burning. The head of the Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Andrey Kovalenko, for his part, stated that Russian distilleries are used to produce not only alcohol, but also smoke for military needs and explosives. That is why they are being attacked.
Kovalenko noted that last night Ukrainian UAVs attacked 4 enterprises in the Russian Federation:
- “Biokhim” – molasses processing and ethyl alcohol production;
- Luzhkov distillery;
- Efremovsky distillery;
- Industrial enterprise of the Voronezh region.
According to Kovalenko, these are all military facilities, despite being disguised as something else.
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