Cover image: Ukrainian soldiers in the Mykolaiv region (Ukraine), October 26, 2022. VALENTYN OGIRENKO / REUTERS
- The head of the Kyiv regional military administration, Oleksii Kuleba, reported on Thursday morning on Telegram, than bombings of “the enemy” had touched “one of the communities in the region”and caused a fire. The first balance sheet does not mentionno casualties.
- According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, “extremely fierce fighting” occur “near Bakhmout”a city in Donetsk Oblastin eastern Ukraine, which has been a priority target for the Russian army for months.
- The head of the Russian occupation administration in Kherson believes that more than 70,000 people left the right bank of the Dnieper River, while the Ukrainian army is advancing with difficulty in this illegally annexed region. Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian Defense Minister, believes that the trenches dug by the Russians and the rains are slowing down the progress of the soldiers.
- Forces “strategic” Russians took part in military nuclear deterrence maneuvers on Wednesdaywith shots “ballistic and cruise missiles” in the Russian Far East and the Arctic, according to the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw this training.
- Moscow has repeated to India and China its allegations that Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb”. On Wednesday evening, the Slovenian government assured that Moscow had used a photo from Slovenia and dating from 2010 to support its allegations on this “dirty bomb”.
- kyiv announced on Wednesday a new prisoner exchange with Moscow involving ten Ukrainian soldiers. Russia also returned the body of an American volunteer killed in action in August.
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