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Russian troops shelled Kherson’s Central district at around 18:45, wounding two men who have since been taken to hospital.

Russian forces on Sunday attacked an energy facility in the Koriukivka district, Chernihiv region, leaving nearly 55,000 consumers without power.

On October 19, Russian forces attacked four districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones.

One civilian was killed and four others were injured in the Kherson region over the course of the day as a result of Russian aggression.

On the morning of October 19, Russian forces shelled one of the settlements in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 71-year-old local resident.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is preparing certain actions on the front line and responding to every Russian attack.

Russian ships and submarines are currently absent from the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.

A 71-year-old man died as a result of Russian shelling of Kozatske in the Kherson region.

Ukrainian drones attacked a gas plant in Russia’s Orenburg region, the local governor said on Sunday, causing a fire to break out at a workshop which emergency services were working to put out. The governor, Yevgeny Solntsev, said on his official Telegram channel that none of the plant’s employees were hurt in the attack, which left the plant partially damaged. Solntsev said earlier this month that Ukrainian drones had tried to attack an unnamed industrial facility in the Russian city of Orsk near the border with Kazakhstan. Unverified video posted to Telegram at the time showed an object smashing into a facility identified as the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery in Orsk. Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian refineries and other energy facilities since August to try to disrupt petrol supplies and deprive Moscow of funding.

Members of the military partisan movement ATESH helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine damage Russian air defense systems near Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region.

On the Southern Slobozhanshchyna front, drone pilots from the Strix strike UAV unit of the 4th Border Guard Detachment destroyed four enemy positions, a shelter, and three Russian vehicles.

Ukrainian forces engaged in 116 combat clashes with Russian troops on October 18, with about a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook.

Soldiers of the 10th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have intercepted a radio transmission in which a Russian serviceman gives an order to execute a civilian in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.

In the town of Lozova, Kharkiv region, four people were injured on October 18 following a strike by a Russian aerial bomb.

Russian troops carried out attacks across multiple communities in Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in civilian casualties.

Russian troops carried out drone attacks on Sumy region, hitting educational facilities and railway infrastructure.

In Dnipro, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence unit caught a Russian agent "red-handed" while preparing to blow up a car of a National Police official.

Russian forces attacked Synelnykove, Pavlohrad, and Nikopol districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, causing multiple instances of damage.

An explosion occurred at a military plant in the Russian city of Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan region, on Friday, October 17.

India has halved its purchases of Russian oil, a White House official said, but Indian sources said no immediate reduction had been seen, as President Donald Trump’s administration presses New Delhi and other nations to buy less Russian crude. Russian oil is a main irritant for Trump in prolonged trade talks with India — half of his 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods are in retaliation for those purchases. His administration says Moscow is using petroleum revenue to fund its war in Ukraine. The White House official told Reuters on Thursday that talks with an Indian delegation in Washington this week have been productive and that Indian refiners were already cutting Russian oil imports by 50%. But Indian industry sources said on Friday that New Delhi had not informed refiners of any request to cut Russian imports. Trump says Modi pledged to halt Russian oil purchases Refiners have already placed orders for November loading, including some cargoes for December arrival, so any cut could be visible in December o...