War in Donbass

Russia said Wednesday the toll climbed in its worst single reported loss from a Ukrainian strike, which an increasingly criticised Moscow blamed on troops using mobile phones.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has hit the 10-month mark. With western backing, Ukraine has staunchly resisted the incursion of Russia, which is caught up in a costly conflict with no clear exit strategy. 

"We remind Russia that the right to information is enshrined in the international documents to which Moscow is a party", said today a spokesperson for the European Commission in response to a question related to the announcement that the Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev is wanted by the Russian authorities, BTA reported.

A Ukrainian strike on a complex in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Makiivka killed 63 Russian troops, the Russian defence ministry announced on Monday.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Kyiv reported 400 Russian fighters killed in a missile attack

Ukraine claims to have killed around 400 Russian soldiers in a missile attack in the occupied Donetsk region, the BBC reported.

"Ukrainian side, maintaining unconditional right to defense and protecting its own sky, expressed readiness in the same time, to conduct unbiased research into the incident that occurred in the sky above the territory of Belarus as a result of the rejection of the forced missile attack of Russia," it is said in the commentary published on the site of Defense Ministry.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's scheduled talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on 27 October will cover a wide-ranging agenda from the war in Ukraine and the circular deal to send armoured vehicles to Kyiv, to further arms collaboration, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and energy (following the second illegal Turkey-Libya cooperation agreement recently) and Turkey'

This is how John E. Herbst, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan and senior director of the Eurasian Center of the Atlantic Council, evaluates the current situation in Moscow in a commentary for "National Interest".

Russian President, as stated, is introducing more and more stringent security measures in the regions on the territory of Russia, and he declared the first state of war in the four regions that he annexed Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

As he stated, the President of Turkey played a significant role in a number of issues and Russia is grateful to him for that.