Attack on Kharkiv, increase in state budget for 2023: highlights

Shelling of Kharkiv

Early in the morning of October 6, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that Kharkiv was under fire and there was information about a strike on the central part of the esatern Ukrainian city. The police noted that two arrivals of Iskander missiles were recorded in the city. The hits occurred in the Kyivskyi and Osnovyanskyi districts.

Terekhov emphasized that the strikes hit solely civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv, in one case a residential building.

The attack killed a 10-year-old boy and his 67-year-old grandmother. Another 30 people were wounded. Among the injured are 20 men and nine women aged 18 to 85, as well as an 11-month-old boy who is the brother of the deceased child.

Search and rescue operations have been completed, the Interior Ministry said.

The condition of most of the wounded, including the child, is moderate. There are also several patients in light condition.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on the shelling of Kharkiv, said that the response to Russian terror should be Ukrainian forces' advancement.

Increasing expenditures to the state budget

The Verkhovna Rada has voted to increase the total expenditures of the state budget of Ukraine in 2023 by UAH 322.6 billion ($8.8 billion). Most of these funds will be allocated to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

The state budget will increase expenditures in a number of areas, but the Ministry of Defense will receive the most funds - UAH 211 billion ($5.8 billion).

MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak noted that two records have now been set in the history of Ukraine: for the first time, general budget expenditures will exceed UAH 3.39 trillion ($92.5 billion), and the deficit will exceed UAH 2 trillion ($54.6 billion).

Hearing on Kolomoisky's preventive measure

The Court of Appeal upheld the pre-trial restraint for businessman Ihor Kolomoisky in the form of detention and bail of UAH 3.8 billion ($103.7 million).

His lawyers stated that they considered the previous court decision on the preventive measure to be illegal and unfounded, and asked to cancel the detention.

The defense also argued that Kolomoisky "cannot, at least theoretically," pay such bail and claimed that the businessman suffers from chronic illnesses.

Prosecutors, on the other hand, opposed the appeal. In particular, they suggested that if released, Kolomoisky could hide in Israel and Cyprus, as he is a citizen of those countries.

In addition, PrivatBank filed an application to join as an affected party in the case against Kolomoisky for "imitating cash deposits" to the bank's cash desk.

Drone attack in Odesa Oblast

The Ukrainian military destroyed 25 out of 33 attack drones used by the Russian occupation forces to attack Ukraine on the night of October 6. Russian weapons were shot down in Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr oblasts.

The border and port infrastructure of the Danube region was hit: a grain storage facility was damaged, nine trucks caught fire, and the fire was quickly extinguished. Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration, said there were no casualties.

The ferry service has been temporarily suspended.

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