The Russia-Ukraine war

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said at least 85 civilians had reportedly been killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine since 5 October, among them at least 30 when a strike hit two public buses in Kramatorsk on 8 October, according to local authorities. ^[1] A Russian missile hit an apartment block in Pryluky as residents slept, killing 20 people including five children, Ukrainian authorities said, and a strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia on 10 October killed 20, including three children, according to the State Emergency Service. ^[1][2] Russian strikes on 13 and 14 October hit Kyiv's three main power stations, leaving about 600,000 people in the capital temporarily without power, and HRMMU said the first two weeks of October were among the deadliest periods for civilians in years. ^[1][2] A run of drone attacks on merchant ships off Romania and Bulgaria began on 5 October, when a grain ship sank and Romanian authorities said two people died, and on 23 October the cargo ship Khoryv sank off Constanta with one seafarer dead, an attack Romania's president blamed on Russia. ^[1][2] Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire on 11 October that neither side confirmed, Zelensky said on 15 October that Ukraine's pause in refinery strikes was over, and on 16 October Trump waived most Russia provisions of the new sanctions law. ^[1][3] Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps said it had retaken 277 square kilometres near Lyman since September, and Russia and Ukraine exchanged 270 prisoners of war each on 23 October. ^[1][2] The White House said Russia and Ukraine had agreed a local ceasefire in occupied Oleshky from 29 October to let aid in and civilians out, and the UN Commission of Inquiry told the General Assembly on 26 October that Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy system amounted to crimes against humanity. ^[1][2]

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HRMMU verified 328 civilians killed and 2,105 injured in Ukraine in September, the highest September toll since the full-scale invasion, and 2,570 killed from January to September. ^[1][2][3] An overnight attack on Kyiv and its suburbs on 1 September killed at least 12 people, including six railway workers, officials said, and a daytime drone strike on 4 September hit the SBU headquarters in central Kyiv, injuring at least 12, the city military administration said. ^[1][2] Strikes on 28 September hit a medical centre in central Kyiv and set the National Academy of Sciences building on fire, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator said, and the UN Commission of Inquiry warned on 21 September that Russian attacks on energy were making living conditions increasingly unbearable. ^[1][2] Putin ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv and Zelensky halted strikes on Moscow as US envoys visited both capitals, and an IAEA-brokered local ceasefire let off-site power be restored to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on 7 September. ^[1][2] Ukraine announced a counteroffensive around Lyman on 15 September and claimed recaptured ground, struck the Moscow refinery, and said it hit the frigate Admiral Essen at Novorossiysk, where the Krasnodar governor said four people were killed. ^[1][2][3] Krasnodar region declared a state of emergency as Ukrainian strikes on Black Sea ports crippled grain exports, and Russian drones hit a locomotive and a fuel station near the Polish border on 13 September, after which Poland scrambled jets and briefly shut Lublin and Rzeszow airports. ^[1][2][3] Donald Trump signed a Russia sanctions act targeting energy, defence and the shadow fleet, which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called unfriendly, and Zelensky told the UN General Assembly that Putin was the only driving force of the war. ^[1]

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