More than 26,000 Ukrainians, including 15,000 military personnel, have been missing since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, the Ukrainian government announced Thursday, October 5. “Among them, 11,000 are civilians and around 15,000 are military”, announced a Deputy Minister of the Interior, Leonid Tymchenko, on national television. Follow our live stream.
Volodymyr Zelensky in Spain for a summit of European leaders. Ukrainian President attends Summit of the European Political Community brings together nearly 50 European leaders in Granada. “The key for us, especially before winter, is to strengthen air defense, and we already have the basis for new agreements with our partners”which must now be “confirmed and implemented”wrote Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram.
A Russian city attacked by cluster munitions. The governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, on Thursday accused the Ukrainian army of dropping cluster munitions on the town of Rylsk. “A woman was injured by shrapnel, she was hospitalized”, the governor wrote on Telegram. The use of these weapons, delivered by the United States, is very controversial, because the charges they disperse can cause many collateral civilian victims. Russia had denounced these supplies, although its army also uses them in Ukraine, according to numerous witnesses and independent organizations.
New night attacks. The Ukrainian army announced Thursday morning that it had shot down 24 explosive drones out of a total of 29 launched by Russia. These Iranian-made Shahed-type aircraft were fired from eastern Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow, before being shot down in southern and central Ukraine, the Army reported. Ukrainian air on Telegram.
American aid “worries” Joe Biden. The political crisis in Washington could threaten American aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden suggested for the first time. While the American Congress must vote on its annual budget, Republican elected officials are opposed to a new envelope to finance support for kyiv. “That worries me”declared the American president on Wednesday. “But I know that there is a majority of elected officials in the House of Representatives and the Senate, in both parties, who have said that they support funding aid to Ukraine”, he added. He also promised a “major speech” to come on this issue.
UK accuses Russia to consider attacking civilian ships in the Black Sea with sea mines, in order to prevent the export of Ukrainian grain. Moscow “will certainly want to avoid openly sinking civilian ships and will falsely blame Ukraine for any attacks”completes the British Foreign Office.