A medic walks past a burning car after a Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, October 10, 2022 (Roman Hrytsyna/AP)


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Source: CNN


Wednesday’s Coverage: “Heaviest of Battles” Ahead to Liberate Kherson


UPDATE 1311 GMT:

Russian proxy authorities in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine are carrying out checks of residents’ mobile phones.

Vladimir Rogov said those who are receiving “propaganda resources of the terrorist Kyiv regime” will receive a warning and then will be fined. There will be “criminal liability” for “malicious violations of a law on the activities of foreign agent”.


UPDATE 1305 GMT:

The Kyiv region is facing a 30% deficit in power capacity after Russian strikes early Thursday.

“Last night the enemy damaged the facilities of the energy infrastructure of our region. A number of critical facilities have been disabled,” Governor Oleksiy Kuleba said in a video on Telegram.

The reginal military administration said residents must “prepare for emergency power outages for an indefinite period”.

A timetable of scheduled blackouts is being circulated.


UPDATE 0826 GMT:

The latest Russian strikes across the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine have killed three civilians and injured two.


UPDATE 0820 GMT:

The US automobile manufacturer Ford has confirmed its full withdrawal from Russia.

Ford said it has completed the sale of its 49% stake in a joint venture in the region for “a nominal value”.

The US company retains a buyback option for five years.

Mercedes-Benz also announced plans to sell its Russian assets to a local investor on Wednesday. Renault and Nissan have already ended their presence in the country.


UPDATE 0813 GMT:

Russia’s Defense Ministry has been caught using yet another fake image for its disinformation that Ukraine is planning to use a “dirty bomb”, an explosive laced with radioactive material.

Trying to stave off — or at least divert from — Ukraine’s advances in the east and south, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu has called US, UK, French, Turkish, Chinese, and Indian Foreign Ministers with the false message.

But Russian officials undermined the effort by using an image from an Assad regime disinformation film in Syria’s conflict. Then the Defense Ministry used an image from Slovenia in 2010.

The Slovenian Government responded to the tweet pointed out that the image is from Radioactive Waste Management Agency. It is of nuclear waste stored securely, under surveillance, and “not used to create any kind of dirty bombs”.


UPDATE 0643 GMT:

The Russian proxy administration has left Kherson city in southern Ukraine and moved to the other side of the Dnipro River, according to deputy head Kirill Stremousov.

Stremousov declared, “All the tasks we face to ensure the life of the region are being fulfilled,” despite the withdrawal in the face of an advancing Ukrainian counter-offensive.

More than 70,000 residents have been moved out of the city, said the Russian-proxy acting head of the region, Vladimir Saldo.


UPDATE 0634 GMT:

Reviewing more than 1,000 pages of documents from an abandoned bunker in the town of Balakliia, Reuters details Russia’s chaotic retreat in September from the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine.

In the weeks before that defeat, Russian forces were struggling with surveillance and electronic warfare. They were using off-the-shelf drones flown by barely trained soldiers. Their equipment for jamming Ukrainian communications was often out of action. 

By the end of August…the force was depleted, hit by death, desertions, and combat stress. Two units – accounting for about 1/6 of the total force – were operating at 20% of their full strength.

The material also cites the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine’s forces, using US-supplied HIMARS medium-range rocket systems that repeatedly hit command posts.


UPDATE 0628 GMT:

In his nightly address to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces have downed almost 250 Russian helicopters during Vladimir Putin’s invasion:

The Russian occupiers have already lost as much equipment — aircraft and other — as most of the world’s armies simply do not have and will never have in service.

Russia will not be able to recover these losses.

Ukraine’s military claims Russia has lost almost 70,000 troops since the launch of the invasion on February 24.


UPDATE 0624 GMT:

Russian proxy officials say an oil depot is on fire in the occupied city of Shakhtarsk in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

Vitaly Khotsenko said 12 fuel reservoirs were damaged near the railway station by Ukrainian shelling.


ORIGINAL ENTRY: Russian forces have again launched aerial attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the city of Zaporizhzhia in the south of the country.

Air raid sirens sounded in the capital around midnight, as officials urged residents to seek shelter.

Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba wrote on Thursday morning:

The Russians terrorize the Kyiv region at night. We have several arrivals in one of the communities of the region.

Rescuers and all emergency services are on the scene. The elimination of the fire and the consequences of the impact is ongoing.

The acting mayor of Zaporizhzhia, Anatoly Kurtev, posted that Russian forces struck the city and the surrounding area, causing a fire.

Facing the defeat of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, the Russians have stepped up attacks from October 10 with cruise and anti-air missiles and with Iranian-supplied “kamikaze” drones. Scores of civilians have been killed, and about 1/3 of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure knocked out.

The attacks had receded this week, with Ukrainian and Western intelligence services saying that Russia has used up most of its missile stock.

In his nightly address to the nation, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked rescuers and workers carrying out essential repairs “to maintain the stability of our energy system despite all threats”. He urged Ukrainians to continue to limit consumption.

The President concluded, “No matter what the enemy does, our task is to break its plans and protect Ukraine.”