On October 18 at 3:00 p.m., a briefing will be held on the topic: "Information about the dead and injured during Russian missile strikes on the capital, the work of the State Emergency Service during the liquidation of the consequences of missile strikes."
On October 17, 2022, another prisoner swap took place between Ukraine and Russia, and a total of 108 Ukrainian women were released from Russian captivity.
On October 18, at 11:00 a.m., a briefing will be held on the topic: "The ICRC mission's attempts to get to the Olenivka colony, where Russia holds prisoners of war; the reaction of the Ukrainian authorities."
This morning one of Iranian-manufactured Shahed-136 suicide drones, used by Russia to attack the city of Kyiv, has been shot down with small arms by the police officers.
On Monday morning, Russia attacked the city of Kyiv again – with Iranian-made kamikaze drones this time. As many as 28 drones were detected in Kyiv region; five of them struck the city.
After the morning drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has called on all democratic countries to unite to repel the evil of terror.
The Bayraktar strike drone, purchased for the needs of the Armed Forces with funds raised in a crowdfunding campaign in Poland has already been prepared for shipment to Ukraine. The UAV was named "Marik" in honor of Mariupol.
The European Union has officially approved the allocation of another tranche worth 500 million euros for Ukraine to further support the capabilities and resilience of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine has appealed to the Council of the European Union to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine and impose sanctions on Iran, as well as the ninth package of restrictions – on Russia.
Bodies of a Ukrainian couple who were expecting a child were retrieved from under the rubble of a residential building hit by the Russian strike on Kyiv Monday morning.
A local resident from the Kherson region’s Novooleksandrivka, liberated from Russian invaders, has told of her grandson, who was shot in the back with a machine gun by Russian occupiers.