WAR IN UKRAINE: October 24, 2022
KAM'YANKA, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 23: Buildings lie in ruins after being destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian occupying forces, on October 23, 2022 in Kam'yanka, Kharkiv Oblast. President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of launching a massive attack on his country's energy grid causing around 1.5 million households to be left without electricity. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 243
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the Ukrainians themselves will decide when to return to negotiations on peace with Russia. “Let’s not let the world become a hostage of the Russian authorities. Peace is possible, but only Ukrainians will decide when,” he said speaking at the summit in Rome. Macron also called for continued military assistance to Ukraine, so that at a certain time the Ukrainian people could choose peace on the terms that they determined.
Minister: Russia’s war destroys 90% of wind power, 50% of solar power facilities in Ukraine. The bulk of green energy is located in Ukraine’s southern regions, and their losses are currently the largest, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said on television. The share of green energy in Ukraine's energy system was about 10-11% before the full-scale Russian invasion, the minister said - Kyiv Independent
One of Russia's most powerful officials, Sergei Naryshkin, head of the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, has told the BBC that accusations of nuclear sabre rattling by the Kremlin have been overblown, pointing the finger back at the West. “We are, of course, very concerned about Western rhetoric about the possibility of using nuclear weapons. "Yesterday Russia's defence minister talked by phone with his colleagues from Turkey, the US and France. He told them about the possible plans of the Ukrainian leadership to use a so-called 'dirty nuclear bomb.’”
Around 500 shipments of Cisco gear reportedly arrived in Russia in August, months after the American networking giant ended business operations there. The majority of shipments were coming from China, according to the info from a leaked database
The Russian military has destroyed or damaged about 7.5% of the housing stock in Ukraine. The amount of direct losses due to destroyed apartments and private houses of Ukrainians has already reached $51 billion, which is 40% of all direct damage caused by Russia’s invasion. Maksym Nefyodov, Reforms Support Project Manager at the Kyiv School of Economics, made this statement during the briefing at the Media Center Ukraine.
Vyacheslav Boguslaev, president of the Motor Sich company, is facing a preventive measure in the Shevchenkiv District Court of Kyiv. He has reportedly held Russian citizenship since 2000, Radio Svoboda reports. Motor Sich manufacturers jet engines and was in the selling block to China before the U.S. intervened
