WAR IN UKRAINE: October 9, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 228
Missiles started raining down on Zaporizhzhia around 5 am Sunday, and multiple residential buildings were hit, writes the CBC’s Corinne Seminoff on Facebook. “They are still trying to find people under the rubble. Local residents like this woman (photo above) who was pulled out of a still smouldering mountain of metal and concrete was probably sleeping peacefully in her bed when the rocket hit her home obliterating all 5 floors, and her life.”
Ukrainksa Pravda, quoting local officials, say at least 12 people died in the missile strike on Zaporyzhzhia. The city close to the frontline was hit by 12 rockets damaging 20 private buildings and 50 multi-story structures. More people are feared dead under the rubble. Other reports put the death toll at at least 17 and 40 injured. Video posted on Suspilne’s Telegram channel shows massive damage to apartment buildings.
Russia ramped up security on its only bridge to Crimea after a huge blast destroyed sections of it on Saturday. President Vladimir Putin has now ordered the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) to oversee the key connector to the occupied peninsula. Russia's deputy prime minister ordered the destroyed parts of the bridge to be taken down immediately, and said divers would begin investigating damage below the waterline on Sunday morning, Russian news agencies report - BBC
Podolyak: Crimean Bridge explosion result of conflict between Russian military, law enforcement. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the President’s Office, said that the explosion that occurred at the Crimean Bridge on Oct. 8 is the result of a conflict between Russia's Security Service (FSB) and private military companies on one side, and Russia’s Defense Ministry and General Staff on the other - Kyiv Independent
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant resorts to diesel generators due to Russian shelling. Ukraine’s state nuclear operator Energoatom said overnight shelling cut power to the nuclear plant, which requires cooling to avoid a meltdown, forcing it to resort to its emergency generators. Energoatom head Petro Kotin told BBC that the diesel generators have a limited supply of fuel. “If (the generators) run out of fuel, after that they will stop, and after that there will be a disaster… there will be a melting of the active core and a release of radioactivity from there,” Kotin said. “Right now, we are working on logistics to supply more fuel for these generators,” he added - Kyiv Independent
Required reading…
The tide of this war has shifted, and the Russians are far less brave
On the banks of the Oskil river, it is clear to Ukraine's poised troops that the enemy is short of ammunition and struggling to respond.
Read the full The Telegraph report by Roland Oliphant here