Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry on October 2 urged people to share information about relatives who may have ended up in the combat zone, and on October 7 about a dozen families came to the ministry in Astana and asked to speed up the return of the men whom their loved ones say were deceived into joining the Russian army. The consular section of Kazakhstan’s embassy has already contacted one of them, Miras Tasharganov, and his mother, and then sent a note to Russia’s Foreign Ministry asking for help in bringing the citizens home.

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klychko advised residents who have the opportunity to temporarily leave the capital of Ukraine because of Russian strikes on critical infrastructure. After the attacks on October 8, Kyiv experienced major power outages, and the metro temporarily stopped train service.

#VitalyKlichko #WarinUkraine #Kiev #StrikesagainstUkraine #Ukraine

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Special envoys of U.S. President Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are advancing new ideas and proposals for ending Russia’s war with Ukraine, Axios writes. On October 9, they plan to brief the Ukrainian delegation in the U.S. on them, and by the end of the month — to visit Russia.

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Vladimir Putin marked his 74th birthday in Moscow on October 7 together with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The Kremlin said the president learned about Schröder’s arrival from the media and invited him home; according to The Insider, this is at least their fourth personal meeting since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #Germany #GerhardSchroeder #Rosneft #SojuznikiKremlja

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The oil slick behind the Aframax Rio tanker, which caught fire on October 6 off the coast of Sochi, has increased to 25 sq. km. Greenpeace reached this conclusion after analyzing satellite images of the water area for October 7 and 8.

#AframaxRio #greenpeace #WarinUkraine #Krasnodarregion #Sochi #StrikesagainstRussia #Ukraine #BlackSea #ecology

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On the night of October 9, a drone struck a plant in the settlement of Redkino in Tver Oblast, after which a fire broke out there. Near Belgorod, an oil depot caught fire after the attack, and in Belgorod District two people were killed and four more, including a child, were injured.

#Belgorod #BelgorodOblast #WarinUkraine #Kaluga #KalugaOblast #DefenseForcesofUkraine #Tverregion #StrikesagainstRussia

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The decision was made in Seoul amid a diplomatic dispute. The reason was President Volodymyr Zelensky’s public statement about handing over two North Korean prisoners of war to South Koreans.

#AndreySibiga #VladimirZelensky #WarinUkraine #odd #Ukraine #Southside

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The Kremlin bot network «Matryoshka» has launched a new wave of disinformation against French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the AntiBot4Navalny project said. According to researchers, the videos accuse Macron of militarizing France and Merz of corruption involving aid to Ukraine.

#Matryoshka #Bots #WarinUkraine #Germany #EuropeandRussia #fakes #France #FriedrichMerz #EmmanjuelMakron

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On the afternoon of October 8, drones attacked the Omsk region; one of them reached the northern industrial hub in Omsk, where Gazprom Neft’s Omsk refinery is located. Governor Vitaly Khotsenko said that air defenses shot down most of the drones, but he did not write about any damage or casualties.

#VitalyHocenko #WarinUkraine #oil #oilrefinery #Omsk #OmskOblast #DefenseForcesofUkraine #StrikesagainstRussia

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In Russia, some online media outlets and services experienced a disruption: the websites of several major publications and platforms stopped opening. Some companies linked the outages to an attack on Yandex’s data center in the Ryazan region, and the company itself confirmed a fire and the suspension of the site’s operations.

#WarinUkraine #rbc #RussianRailways #RIANews #RyazanOblast #Sasovo #StrikesagainstRussia #cyanogen #Yandex

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On the night of October 8, Russian forces carried out new strikes on Kyiv and the Odesa and Rivne regions of Ukraine. Two people were killed in Kyiv, an animal shelter was hit in the Odesa region, and a civilian enterprise was damaged in the Rivne region.

#WarinUkraine #StateEmergencyService #Kiev #Odessaregion #Rivneregion #StrikesagainstUkraine #Ukraine

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Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate — the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker — urged Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Russia more quickly. They sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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The far-right «Alternative for Germany» and the left-populist «Alliance for Social Justice», which together control the majority in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, plan to put their first joint resolution on ending military aid to Ukraine to a vote on October 14. In the document, they also demand that the failure of sanctions against Russia be declared, peace talks with Moscow be started, and economic relations with it be normalized.

#AfD #WarinUkraine #Gazprom #Germany #EuropeandRussia #PomoshUkraine #Populists #SaxonyAnhalt #SSS

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In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, search and rescue operations continued throughout the night after the Russian missile strike. As of the morning of October 8, the deaths of 22 people have been confirmed, including five children, and 54 people were injured, including seven children.

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Nikita Mikhalkov said in an interview with RT that the war with Ukraine was «sent» to Russia by God so that Russians would reconsider their values. According to him, this was supposed to make society «wake up» and understand what is truly important in life.

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In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, the number of dead after the Russian missile strike has risen to 16, and the number of injured to 55. Among the dead are 4 children, among the wounded are 7 children.

#WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #StateEmergencyServiceofUkraine #Pryluky #Rockets #StrikesagainstUkraine #Ukraine #ChernihivOblast

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In 2026, Russia’s spending on the war will reach nearly 17 trillion rubles — 40% more than the 12.1 trillion rubles budgeted. Bloomberg пишет, что бюджетные расходы увеличили на $60 млрд, or approximately 5.11 trillion rubles.

#bloomberg #BudgetoftheRussianFederation #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #Russia #finance #Economy

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Evgeny Nakaznenko, wanted by Russia, arrived in France in August 2026 on a humanitarian visa. After relocating, he says he began receiving threats on WhatsApp with messages about «deportation from Georgia» and «we kiss you on the cold forehead».

#Fakesaboutthearmy #WarinUkraine #Georgia #Kazakhstan #Russianemigration #Russia #France

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Monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ claim that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the Samara oil pumping station in the Samara region for the second time this week. According to Exilenova+, after the attack a large fire broke out on the facility’s premises, and roads in the nearby settlement were blocked.

#uav #WarinUkraine #oil #Russia #Samara #SamaraRegion #DefenseForcesofUkraine #StrikesagainstRussia

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The Baltic Fleet Military Court in Russia sentenced 68-year-old Igor Odintsov to six years in a high-security penal colony in a case involving justification of terrorism. This was reported by the Kaliningrad portal «Russian West».

#JustificationofTerrorism #WarinUkraine #EuropeandRussia #Kaliningrad #Lithuania #repressions #Russiancourts #Russia

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