October 29, 2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 22:57 Zelensky praises unity against “aggressor Russia” at Malta meeting +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praises the meeting of representatives from more than 60 countries in Malta as a sign of unity against the aggressor Russia. “World unity is what is really needed to defeat the aggressor,” Zelensky said in his daily video message. The president thanked representatives from 66 countries, including national security advisers and top diplomats, who supported his “peace formula” for ending the Russian war of aggression, which was first presented a year ago. This is a “strong sign of international unity”.
+++ 22:05 Update: Storm in Ukraine kills four people +++
A storm in Ukraine left four dead and nine injured, reports Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Oleksiy Kuleba. The winds, which gusted up to 90 kilometers per hour, felled trees, blew debris across the city and damaged power lines. According to local authorities, more than 250 trees fell in Kiev alone. There were three dead and seven injured in the capital and surrounding region, while Dnipropetrovsk Oblast had one death and Kharkiv Oblast had two injured, Kuleba said.
+++ 9:30 p.m. Kiev: Deputy police chief suspended after media report +++
Ukraine’s deputy police chief Dmytro Tyshlek has been suspended after a journalist claimed that his wife had a Russian passport, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said. Investigative magazine Buhus. Info reported on October 26 that Oleksandra Balakai, Tyshlek’s wife, still holds a Russian passport that she applied for in the 2000s while living in Russia’s Rostov region. The journalists also discovered that the deputy police chief and his wife drove cars and lived in properties owned by a Russian crime boss.
+++ 20:48 Zelenskyj: Global majority unites for a common vision of peace +++
The Ukrainian President Zelensky says in an evening address that the majority of the world’s population is gradually agreeing on a common and just vision, which is expressed in the Ukrainian peace formula. “Last year, when I presented the formula for the first time, the world was still discussing different visions, very different approaches to restoring our national border and a just peace. And the world majority is gradually agreeing on a common and just vision, which is reflected in the peace formula “The unity of the world is what we really need to make the aggressors fail.”
+++ 20:12 General Staff: Ukraine repels 48 attacks while Russia attacks the East +++
The Ukrainians repelled 48 Russian attacks in many sectors of the Eastern Front over the past day, including in the Avdiivka, Kupiansk, Bakhmut and Marinka axes, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its evening report. According to the military, Russian forces attempted to recapture lost positions near Klishivka and Andrivka in the Bakhmut sector. All six attacks were repelled.
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