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Former Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine Mykola Tochytskyi has arrived in Strasbourg, where he will begin his work as Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe.
Russian forces on Sunday attacked an energy facility in the Koriukivka district, Chernihiv region, leaving nearly 55,000 consumers without power.
On Monday, October 20, Ukraine's national power grid operator Ukrenergo will implement power limitation schedules for industrial consumers in all regions of Ukraine.
On October 19, Russian forces attacked four districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones.
One civilian was killed and four others were injured in the Kherson region over the course of the day as a result of Russian aggression.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the United States cannot give Ukraine all the weapons that Kyiv wants, as the country needs them for its own defense.
On the morning of October 19, Russian forces shelled one of the settlements in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 71-year-old local resident.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a meeting in Washington on October 17 that he was ready to join U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Budapest.
Since Sunday morning, 76 combat engagements have taken place in Ukraine, most of them in the Pokrovsk sector (26) and the Kostiantynivka sector (15).
Ukraine has presented the United States with proposals concerning gas infrastructure and nuclear power generation, and work on the details is now underway.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed Ukrainian diplomats to prepare a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in the near future.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is preparing certain actions on the front line and responding to every Russian attack.
Russian ships and submarines are currently absent from the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.
Kyiv Regional Governor Mykola Kalashnyk has reviewed the progress of fortification works aimed at strengthening the defense and security of the region's northern borders.
Electricity supply has been restored in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, after a two-day outage caused by a Russian attack.
A 71-year-old man died as a result of Russian shelling of Kozatske in the Kherson region.
Overnight on October 19, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck oil and gas refineries located in Russia’s Samara and Orenburg regions, as well as a fuel and lubricant storage facility in the temporarily occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region.
The explosions heard in Zaporizhzhia during the air raid alert were the result of air defense systems being activated.
During negotiations at the White House, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Ambassador at Large and Special Envoy to the Middle East, pressured Ukraine to cede the Donetsk region to the Russian Federation.
The number of Russian guided aerial bombs (KAB) strikes in southern Ukraine has increased by 15–20%.
A 67-year-old woman was injured in the village of Tomyna Balka in the Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling.
In the village of Hannivka, Donetsk region, rescuers removed the body of a dead woman from the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian military strike.
Currently, Russian forces are not making active attempts to seize the island zone on the left bank of the Kherson region, although they have not entirely abandoned their plans to bring it under control.
The Russian Federation has used nearly 50 missiles, over 3,270 strike drones, and 1,370 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine this week.
Operators of the Prime UAV unit of the 5th Border Guard Detachment eliminated the positions and communications equipment of Russian invaders in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Russian troops shelled a railway station and a gas station in Sumy yesterday, wounding four people. A total of 58 enemy shellings were recorded in the region.
Drone operators from the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade neutralized the Russian invaders' TOS-1A Solntsepyok multiple rocket launcher as it was being prepared for firing.
Over the course of 24 hours, the Russians shelled 17 settlements in the Chernihiv region 46 times.
In the Samara region of the Russian Federation, an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles caused a fire at the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery.