War in Ukraine. Latest information on 6 October
20:42. The war caused by Russia in Ukraine is not a local conflict, but a risk to global security, and in this situation, peace can only be achieved on the basis of justice, President Egils Levits said today in Valletta, the capital of Malta, at the 17th informal meeting of the presidents of the European parliaments
19:36. The Ukrainian army liberated Hrekivka in the Luhansk region, the head of the region’s administration, Serhii Hayday, announced Thursday. “Hrekivka has been liberated. Heavy fighting continues for other settlements in the Luhansk region,” Haidaj said on Facebook. He stressed that the Russians, in preparing for a long-term defense, arm, undermine the occupied territories and create reserves. But the Ukrainian military has completely different plans, Haidaj added wryly.
18:23. Activists who sympathize with Russia generally do not cross the “red lines” set by the Latvian state, however, there are some people who try to balance the border in their activities, Egils Zviedris, director of the Office for Constitutional Protection ( SAB), said Thursday on the Latvian radio program “Krustpunkt”. The Swede said in the interview that the Saeima elections held last week were among the interests of the Russian security services. SAB is known to have gathered information of a general nature and provided an assessment of the situation and possible election results, as well as prospects for pro-Russian parties. In addition, the SAB detected the Russian intelligence-led hacker activities, which targeted both the Central Election Commission homepage and the social networks and homepages of individual parties. Asked to make an assessment of the activities of pro-Russian parties in Latvia and to tell what is being done to prevent their threat, the director of the SAB replied that first of all it is necessary to define what is meant by pro-Russian party. The Swede didn’t want to talk about specific people.
16.52. Members of the European Parliament (EP) in the resolution call on countries to significantly increase military aid to Ukraine and urge them to unequivocally condemn the bogus referendums in Ukraine.
In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs declared bogus referendums held at gunpoint to annex the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions “invalid” and called on member states to adopt severe additional sanctions.
Praising the courage shown by the Ukrainian people in defending their country and European values, MEPs urge EU member states and other countries that support Ukraine to significantly increase military aid, especially in areas where the Ukrainian government it requires it. In particular, member states that still hesitate should provide their share of the military assistance needed to help end the war earlier.
16.42. Since October 1, the Ukrainian army has liberated 29 settlements in the Kherson region, Brigadier General Oleksiy Khromov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Main Operations Department announced Thursday at a press conference.
16.01. The European Union (EU) approved the eighth package of sanctions against Russia, continuing to punish Moscow for its full-scale war against Ukraine.
The new sanctions impose a ceiling on Russian oil prices and also extend restrictions on imports of goods and services to and from Russia.
15.30. In Russia, opponent and publicist Vladimir Kara-Murz was accused of treason, Kremlin propaganda media TASS reported Thursday, citing law enforcement.
He faces up to 20 years in prison. This was also reported by the daily “Izvestija” and other state-controlled media.
Kara-Murza is currently in custody on charges of “discrediting the army” and in this case faces up to ten years in prison. This case was filed against him in April.
14.17. A new council of the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was elected and, underlining the blatant violations of international civil aviation conventions, Russia was not re-elected internally.
13.20. In the two weeks since President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization, more than 200,000 people have received summons in 53 regions of Russia, however, the mobilization hits the poorest regions the most, according to the publication “Vazhnie istorii” and the “Conflict project.” Intelligence Team “. “(CIT).
Their estimates show that around 213,000 have been mobilized, which is in line with the announcement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that more than 200,000 people have joined the armed forces since the mobilization began.
At the same time, the researchers point out that they have no data on the remaining more than 30 regions, from which there is also evidence of conscription, so it can be concluded that the number of conscripts is higher.
12.58. On Thursday, the Council of the European Union approved the decision to introduce a new package of economic and individual sanctions against Russia in response to Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories.
12.15. According to a Reuters / Ipsos poll, nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the United States should continue to support Ukraine despite Russian threats to use nuclear weapons.
11.21. Russia forcibly deported more than 1.6 million Ukrainians, dispersing them across its territory and stripping many of their documents, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in a speech at the General Assembly session of the Organization of States Americans (OAS) in Lima.
“More than 1.6 million Ukrainians have already been forcibly deported to Russia. They are scattered throughout the territory of this country, scattered in different regions of Russia. Many of them have been deprived of their documents, many of them they passed through the terrible filtering of the occupiers’ camps, where they were mocked and intimidated. These are people. But for Russia it is also an asset “, said the Ukrainian president.
10.45. Russia has no soldiers to protect the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian armed forces have moved the front line another 20 kilometers, so Russia could deploy reservists mobilized in this area, concludes the British Defense Ministry in the latest review of the situation. on Ukraine ahead.
10.12. Russian troop losses in Ukraine reached 61,330 troops on Thursday morning, according to the Ukrainian army general staff. During the day 330 invaders and 14 tanks were destroyed and 15 drones were shot down.
Since the reinvasion began on February 24, the Russians have lost 2,449 tanks, 5,064 personnel carrier tanks, 1,424 guns, 344 multi-charge rocket launchers, 177 anti-aircraft artillery installations, 266 airplanes, 232 helicopters, 1,047 drones. , 246 cruise missiles, 3,854 cars and 15 tankers and, in addition to 134 units of specialized equipment.
09.42. US intelligence services have expressed confidence that the car bomb explosion that killed Daria Dugin, the daughter of “Russian world” ideologist Alexander Dugin, was authorized by people under the leadership of Ukraine, they revealed on CNN. sources familiar with US intelligence.
08.46. The month-long counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army is not coming to an end and could continue with the liberation of the territories in the Luhansk region, analysts from the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) concluded.
In its latest intelligence analysis, ISW recalls that after Russian troops lost much of the occupied territories in the Kharkiv region in early September, they were unable to settle on natural borders using the Oskil and Severskiy Donets. As a result, the Ukrainians liberated the right bank of the Oskyla, forced Severskii Donets and occupied Liman and its surroundings, and further on there are no such obstacles for the Ukrainian army.
07.54. The Russians fired seven rockets at skyscrapers in Zaporizhia, there are victims, people were found buried under the ruins. As a result of the enemy’s attacks, fires broke out in the city, reports Oleksandr Starukh, head of the military administration of the Zaporizhia region.
07.03. Ukraine’s swift offensive in the Kharkiv region, which resulted in hundreds of Russian armored vehicles falling into the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, made the Russian military the main supplier of heavy weapons to the Ukrainian military, according to an article in the US publication “The Wall Street Journal” (WSJ). The Russian army, in its chaotic retreat, also left behind a large amount of Soviet-style artillery shells, which were nearly depleted in Ukraine.
05.00. The first Russian citizen, sent to war against Ukraine as part of the partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, surrendered in Ukraine, the headquarters of the coordination for the treatment of prisoners of war reported on its “Telegram” channel. “. 26-year-old Mikhail Kulikov from the Russian city of Orsk was sent to the Ukrainian front five days after receiving the summons.
2:00 am. The Ukrainian military has cleared three other settlements in the Kherson region from Russian occupation in the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced in his video speech Wednesday evening.
“By the way, today I want to point out the staff of the strategic operational group” Alexandria “for creating the conditions for a successful attack, for planning and preparing active actions in the Kherson region. It is our actions that are already giving tangible results. But there only on this day, Kherson in the region, settlements such as Novovoskresenske, Novohrihorivka and Petropavlivka were liberated and stabilized by the pseudo-referendum. [uz priekšu] keep going, ”Zelensky said.
