Russia may consider Western commercial satellites used to help Ukraine as "legitimate targets,” a Russian foreign ministry official has said at the United Nations, Kremlin news agency TASS reported on Oct. 26.

Invading Russian forces may stage terrorist attacks, blowing up residential areas of Ukrainian villages and towns while retreating, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of Ukraine’s General Staff Oleksiy Hromov said at a briefing on Oct. 27.

The United States has accelerated the fielding of a more accurate version of its mainstay nuclear bomb to NATO bases in Europe amid Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, U.S. newspaper Politico reported on Oct. 26

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The Iranian-made drones used by Russia in attacks on Ukrainian cities have Austrian engines and use microprocessors from South Korea and Malaysia, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko said on Twitter on Oct. 24.

UkrainianPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Oct. 25 voiced the idea of establishing international platforms for the de-occupation of all currently Russian-occupied territories.

The United States may transfer some of its older HAWK air defense equipment from storage to Ukraine to help it defend against Russian drone and cruise missile attacks, the Reuters news agency reported on Oct. 25, with reference to two U.S. officials.

Open-source investigators have identified the members of the secret Russian military unit responsible for programming missiles targeting Ukraine – including civilian infrastructure.

Belarusian troops have been housed for three weeks a settlement close to the city of Melitopol in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, has claimed on Espreso TV.

Russian mercenary company Wagner Group has begun recruiting Russian prisoners suffering from various infectious diseases, in particular HIV and hepatitis C, Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence department reported on Oct. 25.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Oct. 25 called on the EU countries to establish a “financial Ramstein” procedure to help Ukraine in the reconstruction and restoration of its war-torn economy.

Ukraine recovered the bodies of 25 fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Oct. 25, the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories has announced on the government website.

Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets has called for the exclusion of Russian Red Cross from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The Ukrainian military has killed dozens of fighters from the so-called “Kadyrovtsy” formation, the personal troops of Chechen warlord Ramzam Kadyrov, at one of their bases in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine’s army said on the Telegram messenger on Oct. 24.

This winter will be “the worst in history” due to interruptions in the supply of electricity and heating, the head of Naftogaz of Ukraine, the country’s national state-owned oil and gas company, said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on Oct. 24.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Colonel General Serhiy Popko as the new head of the Kyiv City Military Administration on Oct. 24, according to a press release by the President’s Office.

Unemployment in Ukraine may reach about 30% by late 2022, Ukraine’s state-owned news agency Ukrinform quoted the country’s economy minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, as saying on Oct.

DirectorGeneral of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has agreed to urgently send experts to peaceful nuclear facilities in Ukraine which Russia deceitfully claims to be developing a dirty bomb, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter on Oct. 24.

Russia’s attempts to accuse Ukraine of preparing to conduct a false-flag “dirty bomb” attack are absurd and “preposterous”, and this strategy is aimed at possibly widen fissures within the NATO alliance, but it hardly indicates Moscow’s preparation to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its Oct. 23 summary.

Valeriy Patskan, a former Ukrainian MP, has been charged by Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies for illegally receiving compensation for housing, the press service of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) reported on Facebook on Oct. 24.