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reports that Ukrainian forces "killed 50 Russian troops and destroyed two tanks, three large-caliber howitzers, Giatsint self-propelled guns, a self-propelled artillery installation, a mortar, a Tor missile system, an electronic warfare station, and three armored vehicles" on Sunday.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said almost 65,000 Russians had been killed since the February 24 invasion, a figure far higher than Moscow's official Sept. 21 estimate of 5,937 dead, Reuters reported.
A 17th-century Czech chateau is now home to Ukrainian refugees. With no central heating, it's hardly luxurious, but for Anna Serdyuk, her mother, two children, and a niece, it's given them a chance to get settled after fleeing Ukraine.
In his , Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made note of World Food Day, celebrated on Oct. 16.
“For decades, the world has worked to solve the problem of famine. And it is unlikely that any of the founders of the U.N. could have thought at the time that in the 21st century all of us in the world will again be forced to fight the threat of mass famine, moreover artificial famine!” Zelenskyy said.
“A famine for which only one country in the world is responsible - Russia - and its terrorist war against the free world. When Russia blocked our Ukrainian ports and disrupted normal food supply chains, it returned the world to a situation as if these decades of work for international food security had never existed,” he said.
“Fortunately, Ukrainian ports started working again for the export of agricultural products. Since July, we have been supplying exactly the amount of food that restores stability to the world market. And precisely to those segments of the food market that ensure the consumption of some of the most fragile countries in Africa and Asia.”
OPEC+ member states lined up on Sunday to endorse a steep production cut agreed this month after the White House, stepping up a war of words with Riyadh, claimed Saudi Arabia had coerced some other nations into supporting the move, Reuters reported.
Washington noted on Thursday that the cut would boost Russia's foreign earnings and suggested it had been engineered for political reasons by Riyadh, which on Sunday emphatically denied it was supporting Moscow in its war with Ukraine.
The kingdom's defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, also said the October 5 decision to reduce output by 2 million barrels per day - which was taken despite oil markets being tight - was unanimous and based on economic factors.
His comment was echoed by Iraq and several other producer states.
Russian forces continue to target civilian infrastructure in towns and villages across Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian troops are fending off repeated Russian attacks on the strategic eastern town of Bakhmut and after reports of a deadly Russian military range shooting,
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said early on October 16 that Russian forces had targeted more than 30 towns and villages across Ukraine, launching five missile and 23 air strikes and up to 60 rocket attacks in the past 24 hours.
In response, Ukraine's air forces carried out 32 strikes, hitting 24 Russian targets, it said.
Prague and other Czech cities are donating old trams and buses to war-torn Ukraine where public transit systems across the country have been damaged by Russian bombing.
Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe, told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine he believes the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula could be liberated by summer, reported.
“When I look at the situation, I see that the situation of the Russians is getting worse with every week,” Hodges said. “They say war is a test of will and logistics – and on both counts Ukraine is far superior.”
“The Russians have to lose [the war]; otherwise, they’ll try again in two or three years,” he added.
Hodge said he believes Moscow’s “one hope” is that the West will waver in its support for Ukraine.
Russian-installed proxies in Kherson Sunday published a video of around 100 residents transferred to Russia's Krasnodar Krai, reports. The video depicted women, children, and the elderly, carrying backpacks and suitcases.
The Institute for the said Saturday that Russia may be forcing deportations of Ukrainians as part of a “deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign."
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said Friday that “several thousand” children from Kherson Oblast were “already in other regions of Russia, resting in rest homes and children’s camps.”