2023-10-23 06:00:23
Cover image: View of the town of Avdïivka, located on the war front between Ukraine and Russia. October 18, 2023. STRINGER / AFP
Ukrainian positions are “protected” around the town of Avdiïvka, in the east of the country, according to the Ukrainian president. But the situation is « difficile », because Russian forces are carrying out numerous assaults, he also admitted. Russian forces dig tunnels near Ukrainian positions, a spokesperson for a battalion deployed in the area, Anton Kotsukon, reported on Saturday. According to the War Institute, Russia is funneling resources to Avdïivka.Six people were killed and seventeen injured on Saturday by Russian missile attacks on a postal depot in the suburbs of Karkhiv, in the northeast of Ukraine. According to the regional prosecutor’s office, Russian forces in the Belgorod oblast, which borders Ukraine, fired S-300 missiles, two of which hit the depot.Russian forces said they shot down three Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea on Sunday, peninsula annexed in 2014 by Moscow. These three projectiles were neutralized in the Kherson oblast, according to the pro-Russian authorities in the region. Later in the day, explosions were heard in Sevastopol and a column of smoke rose above the Cossack Bay, according to messages posted on Telegram and the collaborative map Liveuamap. No official information has been released.Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksi Danilov once again asserted that kyiv will not conduct negotiations with Moscow as long as Russia occupies Ukrainian territory. “There will be no meaningful negotiations as long as Russia continues to occupy the territory [ukrainien]Crimea included,” he said again in an interview with Kyodo Newsa Japanese news agency.Turkey will participate in a meeting on peace in Ukraine, hosted by kyiv in Malta, on October 28-29, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday after an exchange with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Three Ukrainian children who were taken from Ukraine to Russia and the occupied territories have been returned home, according to Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian human rights commissioner.
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