After a more than 3-week pause, Russia renewed its aerial assaults on the Ukrainian capital region overnigh, killing at least 6 people and injuring another 21.

Russian forces carried out overnight strikes on energy and civil infrastructure across ten regions of Ukraine on 22 October. — Ukrinform.

A Russian drone attack killed four people in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region on Tuesday, local broadcaster Suspilne reported citing the regional police. According to preliminary information, four others were wounded in the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi,

For more than a decade, Russian aggression has made Ukraine’s Donetsk region synonymous with war. It’s both a symbol of Kyiv’s resistance and a gauge of the conflict’s progress. Analysts

Ukraine's Air Assault Forces have liberated the village of Kucheriv Yar in the Dobropillia sector. — Ukrinform.

Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is central to the Kremlin’s political and military priorities; its importance -- economic, cultural, historic -- stretches back decades, if not centuries. Why the fixation?

According to Financial Times, Ukraine sees such proposals as unacceptable, particularly after years of bloodshed and failed attempts by Russia to fully conquer the area. For Kyiv, giving up Donbas would mean surrendering to a war strategy built on force, falsehoods, and destruction—a line they are not willing to cross.

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