US President Donald Trump again claimed that Volodymyr Zelenskyy "does not want the war to end", saying it was therefore "time for someone else to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf".
Germany insists that Ukraine must participate directly in any negotiations on ending the war with Russia. Berlin believes that only Ukraine can determine the terms on which peace would be acceptable to the country.
An enterprise was damaged in an evening Russian drone attack in the Obukhiv district of the Kyiv region. A fire broke out at the strike site. One person was killed, and others were injured.
Pope Leo XIV held a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and discussed the humanitarian situation in occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the intensification of Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities and expressed concern over the rising number of civilian casualties from attacks by Ukraine’s Armed Forces on Russian territory.
On the evening of 19 October, the Russian attack is continuing. Air raid alerts have been issued in a number of regions across Ukraine due to the threat of strikes.
The Third Army Corps is now led by Dmytro Rohoziuk, who previously commanded the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade. He was introduced by Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the Centre Grouping of Forces.
On the evening of October 19, another Russian attack on the Khmelnytskyi region damaged several industrial enterprises, a private house and a car. People were killed and injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed increasing supplies of interceptor missiles for Patriot systems and arranging repairs of F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine with a team from US defence company Lockheed Martin.
Operation "Vivaldi", which the Third Army Corps kept secret for four months, has concluded with the liberation of 277 km² of territory in the Lyman sector.
Among the six people killed in a Russian attack on a park in the settlement of Nova Vodolaha in the Kharkiv region were one-year-old Anhelina, who was killed in her stroller, and an 11-year-old girl.
Shots were fired inside a Territorial Centre of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS) in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district, leaving six people wounded — three law enforcement officers and three servicemen.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence continues to expand the number of Defence City residents. The special legal regime providing state support to defence industry companies now includes 63 domestic enterprises.
The Minister of Defence of Poland, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, stated that final decisions on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war cannot be taken without Ukraine’s involvement. He also emphasised the need to involve European states in the negotiations.
A Ukrainian "Hornet" kamikaze drone struck a vehicle belonging to a Russian mobile fire group in the Zaporizhzhia region. The occupiers tried to escape the drone, but a failed manoeuvre left their vehicle exposed to the strike.
In the Mykolaiv region, 79 settlements were left without electricity following a Russian attack on the energy infrastructure. More than 55,000 customers lost their electricity supply.
On the night of 18 October, Ukrainian drone operators from the Defence Forces struck the VKontakte data centre near St. Petersburg in Russia. As a result of the strike, the building sustained significant damage, and widespread disruptions were reported in the company’s services.
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