WAR IN UKRAINE: November 1, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 251
Residents of Kyiv region may be temporarily resettled in other regions if the electricity situation is critical - said Oleksii Kuleba, head of Regional Military Administration. "If we understand that the infrastructure is so damaged that the situation cannot be resolved quickly, we have a plan for the temporary transportation of people to regions where the situation is more stable," — he says.
People in Kyiv had to queue for water after Russian missiles struck key facilities across the country on Monday. An evening update from the city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said 40% of consumers in Kyiv remained without water, and 270,000 homes had no power. Thirteen people were injured in the attacks nationwide, Ukraine said. In all, the Ukrainian military said it had shot down 45 out of 55 missiles that were launched - BBC
In addition to the capital, other areas affected by the strikes included Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzia. Overall, 18 facilities - most of them energy-generating - were hit by missiles and drones in 10 regions, Ukrainian officials said.
Following the explosion of a Russian missile in Moldovan territory, Moldova later said a Russian embassy employee in Chisinau had been told to leave its territory - without specifying who the individual was. The missile was reportedly headed towards a Ukrainian target but was shot down by air defenses. This is the second time in a month that Russian missiles have violated Moldovan air space.
A record 354,500 tons of agricultural products left Ukrainian ports on October 31 as part of the Black Sea grain deal, a spokesman for Odesa's military administration said, despite Russia's withdrawal from the UN-brokered agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain after accusing Kyiv of staging a drone attack against its Black Sea Fleet - RFE/RL
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe officially closed its two missions in Ukraine after failing to gain the support of Russia. The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and the Project Coordination Office are both now closed. However, three members of the SMM have been detained in Donetsk and Luhansk for over six months: two have been ‘sentenced’ by local authorities. The Vienna-based organization has been widely criticized for not following the lead of other foreign organizations and offering evacuations to national staff when Russia launched its full scale invasion. The SMM was inaugurated in 2014 after Russia illegally annexed Crimea.
