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20 October 2022
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October 2022 in brief
Russia opened a campaign against Ukraine's power grid on 10 October, firing 84 cruise missiles and 24 drones at Kyiv and other cities according to Ukraine's military, with at least 19 killed by later tallies; Putin called the strikes a response to the Crimean Bridge blast. [1] Ukraine's emergency service said more than 70 people had been killed and 290 injured in ten days of strikes, Zelenskyy said 30 percent of the country's power stations had been destroyed, and after a barrage on 31 October Kyiv's mayor said 80 percent of consumers in the capital lost water. [1][2] Iranian-designed Shahed drones hit Kyiv, killing four people including a couple expecting a child, and WHO recorded attacks affecting health facilities in Bakhmut and Zaporizhia. [1][2][3] Putin imposed martial law in the four regions Russia claimed, and Russian-installed officials began moving civilians out of western Kherson oblast, which Ukrainian officials and rights groups warned could amount to forced transfers. [1] Russian forces withdrew from Lyman, and an explosion on the Crimean Bridge collapsed road spans, killing three people according to Russian investigators; Putin blamed Ukrainian special services, and Kyiv did not claim it at the time. [1][2] Russia's defence ministry said drones attacked Black Sea Fleet ships at Sevastopol, blamed Ukraine with British help, which Britain rejected, and suspended its part in the grain deal. [1] The UN General Assembly voted 143 to 5 to condemn Russia's attempted annexation of four regions, an exchange freed 108 Ukrainian women, and Britain, France and the US rejected as transparently false Defence Minister Shoigu's claim that Ukraine was preparing a dirty bomb. [1][2]