Suspension of draft deferral through Diia portal, strikes on factory and airfield in Russia: October 20 highlights
In the Diia application, the reservation of employees has been suspended. The Defense Forces struck the Lipetsk-2 airfield and the factory in Dzerzhynsk in Russia. We collected the main news for October 20.
Reservations have been suspended through Diia portal
In the Diia application, the reservation of employees was suspended until November 15. Currently, the audit of already reserved conscripts is underway.
The authorities promised to inform about the restoration of the draft reservation process later.
Defense Forces attacked a plant and an airfield in Russia
Drones of the SBU and the Defense Forces hit the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhynsk, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of the Russian Federation. This is the largest enterprise for the production of explosives.
The Defense Forces also struck the infrastructure of the Russian airfield Lipetsk-2. The target was ammunition depots, storage places for fuel and lubricants, and aviation equipment.
According to the military, Su-34, Su-35 and MiG-31 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are based at the airfield.
Russia attacked Kryvyi Rih
Late in the evening of October 19, Russian troops struck Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with ballistic missiles. As a result of the attack, 17 people were injured.
Russian troops used a double-strike tactic: after the rescuers arrived to eliminate the consequences of the first missile strike, the aggressor struck a second time, as a result of which one rescuer was injured.
The body of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna has not yet been returned to Ukraine
Russia did not hand over the body of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, to Ukraine as part of the October 18 exchange.
Currently, negotiations with the Russian side regarding the return of the body of the deceased Viktoria Roshchyna are still ongoing.
The whistleblower of the "record bribe" received 13 million hryvnias
Yevhen Shevchenko, who was the whistleblower of the "record-breaking bribe" of ex-Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevskyi, has already received his reward from the state in the amount of 13.3 million hryvnias ($315,877).
He said that he directed the entire amount to what he is currently doing — to the production and supply of EW systems and drones to the military, as well as to the financing of scientific developments and research and development works in the field of the defense complex.
A hurricane in the USA took the lives of a family of Ukrainians
As a result of Hurricane Helen, a family of Ukrainians who moved to the USA from Kherson to escape the war died in North Carolina.
Anastasia Novitnya-Sehen, together with her husband Dmytro Sehen, 13-year-old son Yevhen, and mother Tetiana Novitnya evacuated from Kherson at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Western parts were found in a missile from the DPRK
Components produced by Western companies were found in the missiles that North Korea supplies to Russia for attacks on Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was outraged that the leaders of Russia and North Korea still have access to components for Western-made weapons. Because of this, Ukraine calls for stronger sanctions and export controls against the Russian Federation and North Korea.
Defense Forces repelled an attempt by the Russian Federation to seize a crossing in Kharkiv Oblast
Russian troops tried to seize a crossing over the Oskil River in the Kupyansk sector in Kharkiv Oblast. Fighters of the National Guard and Airborne Assault Troops repelled the enemy's attack.
In total, the Ukrainian military destroyed 8 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 tanks and hit another 6 IFVs. It was also possible to eliminate 21 Russians, another 26 soldiers were injured.
Other news
- General Oleksandr Syrskyo on the battles in Kursk Oblast: the enemy is trying to seize the initiative, but the situation is under control.
- In Lviv, unknown persons damaged the graves of fallen soldiers at the Lychakiv cemetery. The police are looking for them.
- There is no activation of the mobilization, after the story with the Okean Elzy concert, the police drew attention to this again.
- Russia admitted that the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation "changed its registration" through Ukrainian drones.
- A large-scale pro-European march was organized in Georgia.
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