News digest in Ukraine and the world for October 12, 2023 — read on ICTV Facts.
▪️Criminologists have completed the identification of victims of the attack on the village of Groza in the Kharkov region. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as of October 12, it can be said that Russia killed 59 people when it hit a cafe in this village with an Iskander-M missile.
— All victims — local residents. Pensioners, doctors, farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs. All — civilian. Entire families, several generations died, — noted the Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs added that 19 people were identified using mobile DNA laboratories. To do this, samples were taken from relatives, profiles were generated, and fragments were found to match. One of the dead — 60-year-old man — Forensic scientists identified 20 body parts. Two more people were identified using personal belongings seized from the premises of the victims, because they did not have direct line relatives to compare DNA profiles.
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▪️The Russians launchedstrikes on Avdeevka, Bagatira Volnovakha district, as well as Galitsinovka and Gornyak Pokrovsky district.
The result of another terrorist attack by Russia was both dead and wounded people. There are children among them.
The Office of the Prosecutor General says that in Avdiivka a 58-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds.
As a result of the missile attack on Bagatira, an 11-year-old boy was killed and his six-year-old brother was injured in the torso. Their 31-year-old mother was hospitalized with multiple lacerations.
However, the attack in Galitsynivka resulted in injuries to a 32-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman.
In Gornyak, a 44-year-old woman was killed by Russian ammunition, and her 24-year-old son-in-law was injured. In total, the Russians killed two people, including an 11-year-old child, and wounded seven more citizens.
▪️In Sevastopol, in Crimea, the Russian large patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin was blown up .
This was officially confirmed by the representative of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captain 3rd rank Dmitry Pletenchuk.
According to him, now it is impossible to disclose all the details of the incident, but he can officially state that This patrol ship is damaged.
A Navy representative clarified that Pavel Derzhavin is a ship of the Russian fleet, although Ukraine previously had a ship with the same name. However, he emphasized that this is not a Ukrainian ship.
Sources from Crimea report that this allegedly happened in the roadstead of Sevastopol. It is not yet clear what exactly happened and how the ship could have been blown up.
▪️Social network X (formerly — Twitter) started the fight against fakes and Hamas accountsagainst the backdrop of a possible blocking of the social network in the EU. The company had to act quickly, since it was given only a day to solve the problems.
Such changes in the work of the social network were announced by the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino. According to her, the company had to reallocate resources to quickly respond to different situations.
— Site X has no place for terrorist organizations or extremist groups, which is why we continue to remove such accounts in real time. We are engaged in identifying fakes against the backdrop of an active crisis, — Yaccarino said.
▪️New drone debris was found in Romania after Russian attackson Ukrainian ports in the border areas of the Odessa region.
The Romanian Ministry of Defense discovered a crater 3 km to the west from the village of Plauru, located across the Danube River from the Ukrainian port of Izmail. This happened after the Romanian Ministry of Defense announced that they had tracked a number of drones flying in the direction of Ukrainian river ports.
The ministry said the drone likely exploded during the collision, but it was not immediately clear when or where the drone was launched.
▪️The International Olympic Committeesuspended activities and funding for the Russian Olympic Committee.
The IOC stated that the Russian NOC violated the Olympic Charter when it included the territories of Ukraine annexed by the Kremlin.
The head of the Ministry of Youth Sports of Ukraine Vadim Gutzeit has already responded to the IOC decision.< /p>
▪️The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel, where the war between Jews and radical Islamist militants from the Palestinian Hamas movement continues, said that about 200 Ukrainians will be able to fly from Israel to Romania on Saturday evening — on the night of October 14-15.
An evacuation flight is also expected.
— Ben Gurion Airport is operating as usual; about 1 thousand citizens have been approved on the embassy website, who have filled out a form confirming that they are willing to pay the cost of the ticket. The first evacuation flight, that is, the first 200 people whose tickets have already been issued, will fly to Bucharest on Saturday evening, — he noted.
The ambassador said that the next evacuation flight from Israel will also fly to Romania. It is planned for Sunday evening, that is, on the night of October 15-16.
▪️The United States plans to supply Ukraine with additional batches of Switchblade 600 loitering drones, which will increase the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike Russian troops.
Currently in the Armed Forces, the more common version is the Switchblade 300, rather than the Switchblade 600.
The Switchblade 600 is designed to destroy enemy tanks and armored vehicles on the battlefield. Its range is — up to 90 km.
▪️According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,in the Avdeevsky directionthe fighting has intensified, but the Ukrainian defenders are “courageously holding the defense” and repelled 7 enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area and 7 more attacks nearby Lastochkino, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye, Donetsk region.
The head of the Avdeevka MBA Vitaly Barabash says that the city is “very difficult and tense” ;.
— Everything that the enemy has available works: cannon artillery, Grads, mortars, etc. The enemy carried out many air missile strikes on the city, — reported Barabash.
According to him, the fighting in the Avdeevsky district does not subside either in the south or in the north of Avdeevka.
