• Over the weekend Kiev’s troops gained ground around Avdiivka, north of Donetsk, where the border passes with the self-proclaimed pro-Russian republic.
• According to UK intelligence, Russia has suffered 150,000-190,000 permanent casualties (people killed or permanently injured) since the start of the invasion.
• Zaporizhzhia, the mayor of the city where the nuclear power plant is located: «Not enough staff and the water to cool the power plant is running low, the situation is getting worse». Our correspondent’s reportage.
• Between Saturday and Sunday, in the space of 24 hours, Russian forces launched a record number of aerial bombs in the Kherson region: as many as 36, according to Kiev. On Saturday evening a postal depot was hit: there were six deaths.
• The Pope’s appeal: «The war, and I am also thinking of the tormented Ukraine, is a defeat. Stop.”
10.41am – Kiev: 508 children killed since the start of the war
Since the start of the Russian invasion, 508 Ukrainian children have been killed and more than 1,138 have been injured, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine announced on Telegram. «More than 1,646 children in Ukraine have suffered as a result of large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. As of the morning of October 23, 2023, according to official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 508 children were killed and more than 1,138 received injuries of varying degrees of severity,” the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine wrote on Telegram. These data are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.” The Prosecutor’s Office added that 1,779 children are currently considered missing in Ukraine and 19,580 have been found, according to data from the portal « Children of War.”
09.49 am – Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the mayor of the city where the plant is located: «Reduced staff, how can safety be guaranteed?»
(By Giusi Fasano, our correspondent in Zaporizhzhia) «I would like to make you understand something». Energodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov speaks in a very low voice and enunciates the words well. «I believe that politics is not dealing with this topic in the way it should. Everyone tends to think that the situation is perfectly under control, but believe me: more attention is needed, because contrary to what people believe, the situation is not improving. If anything, although under control, it gets worse as time goes by.” The topic that Dmytro Orlov is talking about is the Energodar nuclear power plant, precisely (the one which, in the media, was most often referred to as the “Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant”, from the name of the capital, ed.): the city that he elected him shortly before the Russian invasion and which is now occupied by the enemy, including the atomic plant.
Read the full article here.
– On the left, the nuclear power plant. On the right, Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Energodar
09.46 am – The Zaporizhzhia region attacked 177 times in 24 hours
In the last 24 hours, the Russian army attacked 24 settlements in the south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia 177 times, Yuriy Malashko, head of the regional military administration, reported on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform. «177 attacks: the enemy fired on 24 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. 153 artillery attacks took place on the territory of Gulyaypole, Novoandriivka, Chervone, Charivne, Preobrazhenka, Huliaipilske, Shcherbaky, Novodarivka, Stepove, Lobkove, Stepnohirsk and other front-line towns and villages,” the statement read.
09.13 am – BBC-Mediazona: more and more Russian soldiers killed
At least 34,857 soldiers have been killed in the war in Ukraine by the Russian side, according to confirmation gathered in an ongoing investigation by Russian independent media Mediazona and the BBC. The real figure is probably much higher, but there are no credible official Russian statistics on losses. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, nearly 300 thousand Russians have died since the beginning of the conflict. According to another type of joint investigation by Mediazona and Meduza, by the end of May the conflict in Ukraine had caused the deaths of 47,000 Russians under the age of 50. Mediazona, in collaboration with the Russian service BBC News and a team of volunteers, continues to collect information on the Russian army. «Most of those killed in action are from the Krasnodar and Sverdlovsk regions, Bashkiria, Chelyabinsk region, Buryatia and Moscow region. The high number of reports of victims in the Krasnodar (also known as Kuban) and Moscow regions is largely due to the efforts of volunteers in documenting local cemeteries, which makes more victims publicly known» writes Mediazona.
09.12 am – Borrell: beware of double standards, Moscow observes
«The war in Israel and Ukraine have different roots and consequences but they equally cause earthquakes throughout the world. Russia is certainly taking advantage of this situation. The accusations of double standards were there before the war and now they return: we must be very careful to show the same concern for every civilian killed. Of course, we give strong support to Israel because it has suffered one of the strongest attacks against the Jewish people, but we must also take into consideration the killing of the Palestinians, who are also victims of Hamas.” Josep Borrell said this when he arrived in Luxembourg.
07.21 am – Governor of Kherson: last night’s explosions damaged critical infrastructure
Due to the explosions in Kherson last night, critical infrastructure was damaged. This was stated by the Ukrainian regional governor, Aleksander Prokudin. According to data presented on Prokudin’s Telegram channel, “a critical infrastructure, an engineering facility, as well as the territory of a transport enterprise and a production plant” were damaged in Kherson.
07.14 am – Russian forces hit four settlements in Sumy
Russian forces launched multiple mortar attacks against the territory of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine on October 22, attacking four communities and causing at least 13 explosions, the regional military administration said. This is what the Kyiv Independent reports. The attacks targeted the settlements of Kransopillia, Shalyhyne, Svesa and Nova Sloboda. No casualties or damage to civilian infrastructure were reported. Sumy is located about 50 kilometers from the Russian border.
07.13 am – Ukrainian Armed Forces: nine drones shot down over the Odessa region
During the night, the Russian armed forces attacked the Odessa region with Shahed attack drones: nine of these vehicles were shot down by the air defense forces. This was reported by the Defense Forces of the Southern Ukrainian Front. The night attack lasted more than three and a half hours. “Nine unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down in Odessa, another in Vinnytsia,” the defense forces reported.
2023-10-23 07:41:15
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