After a scandal rose up due to comments made by Russian TV presenter Anton Krasovsky, where he advocated for the murder of Ukrainian children, Russia’s Investigative Committee has begun a probe into his remarks, the agency said on Telegram on Oct. 24.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the Ukrainian side was allegedly preparing false flag attacks with the use of a “dirty bomb” to blame Moscow.

Russian occupiers in Kherson have stolen a pair of statues from the city’s streets, users on social media claimed on Oct. 24.

After the liberation of occupied Crimea by Ukraine, the bridge across the Kerch Strait, connecting Crimea to Russia, will be destroyed, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov stated in an interview with NV’s sister publication, Ukrainska Pravda, on Oct. 24.

Ukraine has lost up to 90% of wind and about 40-50% of solar energy due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told the We – Ukraine YouTube channel on Oct. 23.

Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov has held talks with his French, British, and Turkish counterparts after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s false allegations about Ukraine’s supposed preparations of a false-flag “dirty bomb” attack against Russia, according to a tweet by the Ministry of Defense on Oct. 24.

King Charles III on Oct. 17 met with families of refugees, including Ukrainians fleeing from the war, during his working visit to Aberdeen, a port city in northeast Scotland, the BBC reported on Oct. 17.

On 7 October, an explosion destroyed some of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea.  It is a new construction. When Russia invaded Ukraine the first time, in 2014, there was no such bridge, no road connection between Russia and Ukraine's Crimean province.  From the perspective of Ukraine, Crimea is a peninsula.  From the perspective of Russia, Crimea is an island. 

A new wave of missile strikes and drone attacks on Oct. 17 proved that Russia relies more on psychological terrifying Ukrainians than on the effects of such strikes on the battlefield, according to an assessment by the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), published on Oct. 17, following mass Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian targets.

The World Bank has placed all loans made by its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development division to Belarus into non-performing status, the World Bank said in a press release on Oct. 17.

Your slice of the top headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Tuesday, October 18th, 2022.

Russian missiles struck two power stations in Kyiv on the morning of Oct. 18, killing one person and wounding another seven, the privately-owned DTEK Energo power company reported on its page on Facebook.

A U.S. senior military official, commenting on Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, said that the goal Russia is trying to achieve is to instill terror and create panic, according to a statement published on Oct. 17.

Italy has provided Ukraine with a new military assistance package – the fifth one since the outbreak of Russia’s full-scale war, the Ministry of Defense announced on Telegram on Oct. 17.

The Ukrainian military shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Kherson Oblast on Oct. 18, Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on Ukrainian national TV.

Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the aggressor has lost about 65,850 of its troops, including 530 over the past day, according to Ukraine’s General Staff update posted on Facebook on Oct. 18.

The death toll as a result of a suicide drone attack on a residential building in the center of Kyiv has grown to three people, with another four injured, presidential deputy chief-of-staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported on Telegram on Oct. 17.

Ukrainian Eurobonds over the past week – amid Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and threats to disrupt the extension of the grain initiative – lost an average of about 7.9% in price and are quoted near the level of historical minimum, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Oct. 17.

Kyiv’s downtown areas were hit by Iranian-made kamikaze drones in a Russian attack on the morning of Monday, Oct. 17.

Kyiv Oblast was attacked by two waves of kamikaze drones on Oct. 17, although there was no serious destruction, the head of Kyiv Oblast’s military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said on Ukrainian national television.