Ukraine Breaking News Today Live on 10-04-2024

Years have passed, but Ukraine remains determined to prevent Putin's plans from working. Westerners, committed to Ukraine's success, have also been chipping in to prevent Russia from making progress.

After decimating the Russian naval fleet and pushing back the Kremlin’s forces in Crimea, the Ukrainian forces could be poised to take back the peninsula – with American allies’ support.

Ukraine is making steady progress in its fight to retake Crimea a decade after Russia’s “little green men” first invaded the peninsula in 2014 – and more major advances are expected later this year.

This suggests that the Russian armed forces are preparing to repel a major attack on their military facilities and are bolstering their defenses, according to Atesh partisans.

The Atesh guerrilla movement has uncovered a route used to transport missiles to the Russian S-300 air defense system near the Kerch Bridge in occupied Crimea and have also reported increased missile transportation to various air defense complexes across the peninsula.

“This indicates that the Russian Armed Forces are preparing to counter a large-scale attack on their military facilities and are reinforcing their defenses,” the Atesh report said.

The new uResidency program will help freelancers get e-resident status and more easily do business in Ukraine – encouraging investment in the country.

Two hundred applications were submitted to a recently launched uResidency program in Ukraine that allows foreigners from some countries to create a legal business entity in the country and more easily contribute to the Ukrainian economy. 

The scheme was announced by Mykhailo Fedorov, the Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science, and Technology Development, and Minister of Digital Transformation, on his Facebook page on Thursday. 

Six officers from North Korea were among the 20 soldiers killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, intelligence sources say.

More than 20 soldiers were killed as a result of an Oct. 3 missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, including six officers from North Korea, who came to confer with their Russian counterparts, Kyiv Post’s intelligence sources said. Three more North Korean servicemen were wounded.

According to reports from Russian social media, prior to the missile strike, the Russians were demonstrating to North Korean representatives the training of personnel for assault actions and defense.

The night before drones pounded a military airfield nearby in the industrial Voronezh region. Local authorities said there was no significant damage, but fires were still burning on Thursday.

Ukraine renewed long-range drone attacks against Russia’s energy infrastructure on Thursday, hitting a fuel storage base deep inside the central Voronezh region and setting it ablaze.

Local officials said the air raid targeted the Annanefteprodukt refinery, near the village of Anna, 80 kilometers east of the major Russian industrial city Voronezh. Likely Ukrainian drone launch sites were 300 kilometers away from the fuel processing and storage facility.

The BBC Russian Service reported the discovery that an employee of Russia’s Ren-TV used bogus credentials to get close to Russian opposition figures in Europe.

The UK’s BBC discovered that a journalist from Moscow’s federal television propaganda channel Ren-TV was posing as a correspondent for the corporation’s Russian Service, to film interviews with Russian opposition members in Europe.

Airat Shiryaev who had previously worked for Russia’s NTV and Izvestia, now produces content for REN TV. Using the name Mark Nazarov, he used a British registered cell phone to set up WhatsApp and Telegram accounts, the email address marknazarov.bbc@gmail.com, and a fake BBC correspondent’s press card. Genuine BBC email addresses would use the corporation’s own server not “gmail.”

The aim of the meeting, to be held in the southern Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik, is that the "whole region supports Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in the fight for freedom", Croatia's PM said.

Croatia will host a Balkans leaders summit on Ukraine next week that will also be attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Croatia's prime minister said Thursday.

The aim of the meeting, to be held in the southern Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik, is that the "whole region supports Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in the fight for freedom", Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said during a regular government session.

Andrey Korotkiy, an alleged collaborator with Russian forces, who was reportedly involved in repressive actions against Ukrainians and supported the Russian occupation, was assassinated.

A car explosion in the occupied city of Enerhodar on Friday morning, Oct. 4, killed Andrey Korotkiy, the “head of physical security” at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) reported on its official Telegram account.

According to HUR, Korotkiy, a collaborator with Russian forces, was involved in repressive actions against Ukrainians and supported the Russian occupation. HUR posted a video on its Telegram channel of a car exploding.

HUR hackers attacked Russian military supply sites, accessing key data and disrupting logistics, leaving an owl above a defeated enemy “calling card” on compromised sites.

The cyber unit of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) struck several online rsites linked to the supply lines of the Russian army, a HUR source told Kyiv Post on Friday morning, Oct. 4.

As a result of the attack, hackers were able to infiltrate websites that support Russia’s military logistics network and gather information on the movement of military personnel. One of the most significant targets was the “okrug.ru” site, which supplies the Russian army with various types of equipment and uniforms.

“The right moment when the wind will blow in favor of a free Belarus will be Ukraine’s victory,” President in Exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya tells Kyiv Post in an exclusive interview.

Lithuania has filed a case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) concerning crimes against humanity committed by Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarusian regime. The request was prepared with the involvement of the opposition’s National Anti-Crisis Management team. Kyiv Post discussed this, as well as Lukashenko’s games with the West, the situation of Belarusians, and the prospects for a democratic Belarus with opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, from whom Lukashenko stole the elections.

Michał Kujawski: It has been four years since the rigged elections in Belarus. What has changed since then?

Bohdan Nahaylo, editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Post, joined TVP World studio to discuss the upcoming search for Volhynia's massacre victims and its significance.

Russian Telegram channels claimed that Ukrainian drones attempted to strike the Kursk NPP on Thursday, along with four missiles that were intercepted in flight.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has firmly denied accusations from Russian media that Ukrainian forces targeted the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) using drones and missiles.

MFA spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi dismissed the reports, stating, “We categorically deny the allegations of Ukrainian strikes on or near the Kursk nuclear power plant.”

These internet domains allegedly used by Russian intelligence agents to try to gain access to the computers and email accounts of Pentagon, State Department and other US government employees.

The United States announced the seizure on Thursday of 41 internet domains allegedly used by Russian intelligence agents to try to gain access to the computers and email accounts of Pentagon, State Department and other US government employees.

"The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans' sensitive information, using seemingly legitimate email accounts to trick victims into revealing account credentials," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement.

The move comes as Kyiv is scrambling to bolster its troop ranks as it tries to stave off Moscow's invasion of Ukraine's east in February 2022.

Ukraine said Thursday, Oct. 3, that it had opened its first recruitment office in Poland aiming to enlist citizens for its fight against Russia's invasion.

The move comes as Kyiv is scrambling to bolster its troop ranks as it tries to stave off Moscow's invasion of Ukraine's east in February 2022. 

Volunteer project leader Stanislav Ivashchenko fights to preserve the cultural heritage of Chernihiv, which is suffering from the neglect of officials, Russian strikes, and harmful adaptations.

Chernihiv is an ancient city in Ukraine, 100 miles north of Kyiv. Located among forests, it has traditions that make it unique among other Ukrainian areas. It is known especially for its special wooden architecture – much like in Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania and the northern states of the US – where building with wood and decorating houses with wooden patterns is popular.

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Overnight Israeli air strikes on central Beirut killed at least six people, Lebanese officials say. Reports say the target was a building where a Hezbollah member lived, which is also the headquarters of a medical centre believed to be affiliated to Hezbollah. Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut, was also attacked. In the south of the country, the Israeli military warned on Thursday morning that air strikes would continue. Israel began a ground invasion of the south this week and yesterday announced the death of eight soldiers inside Lebanon - BBC

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will not support an Israeli strike on sites related to Tehran’s nuclear program in response to Iran’s missile attack on Israel. “The answer is no,” Biden told reporters when asked if he would support such retaliation after Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Biden’s comments came after he and fellow Group of Seven leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom spoke by telephone about coordinating new sanctions against Iran. The U.S. and allies are scrambling to keep the Mideast conflict — sparked by Iran-backed Hamas militants’ in Gaza’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel — from spreading further. They are urging Israel to show restraint as it weighs retaliation against Iran for Tuesday’s attack. - AP

Karavan Outlet would be the sixth shopping mall the investment bank bought and the largest of its Kyiv shopping malls.

A company from Dragon Capital Group – which belongs to Czech entrepreneur Tomas Fiala – seems likely to buy Karavan Outlet, one of Kyiv’s oldest shopping malls.

The Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMKU) gave permission for the Dragon Capital company to buy 50% of the company owning the shopping mall. 

Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.

Key Takeaways from ISW:

• The Russian offensive effort in eastern Ukraine that began in fall 2023 continues to produce gradual Russian tactical gains in specific sectors of the front, but operationally significant gains will likely continue to elude Russian forces.
• Ukrainian forces are conducting an effective defense in depth along the frontline, inflicting significant losses upon Russian forces while slowly giving ground but preventing the Russian military from making more rapid gains on the battlefield.
• Ukrainian forces do face serious operational challenges and constraints, which are providing Russian forces with opportunities to pursue tactically significant gains.
• Russian forces do not have the available manpower and materiel to continue intensified offensive efforts indefinitely, however, and current Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine will likely culminate in the coming months, if not weeks, as Ukrainian officials and ISW have previously assessed.
• Russian forces have recently made notable tactical gains but have not demonstrated a capacity to seize operationally significant objectives.
• The Russian military command prepared the ongoing Russian summer 2024 offensive operation for months in advance and accumulated operational reserves and resources for the operation that the recent months of attritional fighting have likely heavily degraded.
• Russian forces have reportedly committed a significant portion of their intended operational reserves to offensive operations in Donetsk and northern Kharkiv oblasts, indicating that the Russian military command may have prioritized forming operational reserves to support offensive operations in priority sectors of the frontline over developing theater-wide strategic reserves for the entire offensive campaign in Ukraine.
• The Russian military command is continuing to prioritize offensive operations in priority sectors of the frontline over long-term planning for Russia's theater-wide campaign in Ukraine, but the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast appears to have significantly complicated the development of Russia's operational reserves.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be using the "Time of Heroes" veteran support program to militarize regional and local government administrations and further solidify a pro-war ideology into the Russian state and society.
• Russian authorities continue to arrest Russian officials on charges related to mismanagement and corruption within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
• Strikes reportedly targeted an ammunition depot near Russia's Hmeimim Airbase in Latakia Province, Syria overnight on October 2 to 3.
• Russian forces recently advanced south of Siversk and east and southeast of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.
• Russian authorities continue to nationalize Russian enterprises for the benefit of the federal government.