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• Ukraine Calls Russian Strike On Grain Ship In Odesa 'Deliberate Terrorist Tactic' RFE/RL 07 Oct 2024 -- Russian forces continued to hit the Odesa region - with Ukraine's main Black Sea ports - with ballistic missiles, damaging a second foreign-flagged civilian vessel a day after striking the main city itself.
• Hundreds Evacuated After Ukrainian Strike On Crimean Fuel Depot RFE/RL 07 Oct 2024 -- A Ukrainian drone strike on the largest fuel depot in occupied Crimea early on October 7 triggered a huge fire that prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people as Russia and Ukraine exchanged another series of drone attacks.
• Ukrainian forces hit oil terminal in Crimea; Zelenskyy touts 'victory plan' VOA 07 Oct 2024 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he was discussing Ukraine's "victory plan" this week in a series of meetings and negotiations with "every country that can really help bring peace closer."
• Ukrainian forces strike oil terminal in Crimea VOA 07 Oct 2024 -- Ukrainian forces carried out an attack Monday on an oil terminal in the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Ukraine

• Ukrainian PM Tells Slovakia's Fico That Russian Gas-Transit Deal Won't Be Extended RFE/RL 07 Oct 2024 -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on October 7 told Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico that Kyiv will not extend a gas-transit deal with Russia when it expires at year's end, a move likely to increase tensions between the EU and NATO member and Ukraine, which aspires to join both organizations.
• We Will Try to Convince Our Partners at "Ramstein" of the Need for Significant Reinforcement of Our Capabilities - Address by the President President of Ukraine 07 Oct 2024
• Andriy Yermak Had a Phone Call with Anders Fogh Rasmussen President of Ukraine 07 Oct 2024

Russia

• Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comment on Kiev regime using and planning to use chemical weapons Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 07 Oct 2024
• Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (7 October 2024) Russia MoD 07 Oct 2024 -- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
• Russian Minister of Defence Andrey Belousov sent the telegrams to formations and a military unit, who showed courage and heroism when liberating Grodovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Russia MoD 07 Oct 2024 -- Since the first days of the special military operation, the military personnel of the 55th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade have been performing their military duty to protect the people and our country exemplary and honourably in the most critical directions. In the battles in Chernigov and Maryinka directions, in liberating Lisichansk and Avdeyevka, the soldiers wrote glorious pages of heroism in the history of the formation.
• Briefing by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the Chief of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces Russia MoD 07 Oct 2024 -- Materials of Russian Defence Ministry's briefing on U.S. and Ukrainian biological warfare activities
• Ukraine Loses Over 150 Soldiers in Russia's Kursk Region in Past Day - MoD Sputnik 07 Oct 2024 -- The Russian forces have eliminated about 150 Ukrainian soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, as well as two artillery pieces, four mortars in the border areas of Russia's Kursk Region over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• Russian Forces Take Control Over DPR's Grodovka Village - MoD Sputnik 07 Oct 2024 -- Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr has taken control of the village of Grodovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• Russian Air Defense Shot Down 21 Drones Over Crimea, Black Earth Region - MoD Sputnik 07 Oct 2024 -- Russian air defense systems destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, six over the Kursk region, and one each over the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Voronezh regions last night, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
• Russian Armed Forces Advance Northwest of Ugledar in DPR - Defense Ministry Sputnik 07 Oct 2024 -- Russian troops of the Vostok ("East") group of forces have advanced northwest of Ugledar (Vuhledar) and in the area of Vesyoloye (Vesele), approaching Bogoyavlenka (Bohoyavlenka) in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

United States

• Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds an Off-Camera, On-The-Record Press Briefing DoD 07 Oct 2024

NATO

United Nations

• Update 253 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 07 Oct 2024 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been informed both by the Russian Federation and Ukraine about the assassination last week of an individual in the city where most staff of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) live, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.

Foreign Reactions

• OSCE supports Ukraine's efforts to counter illicit trafficking in firearms OSCE 07 Oct 2024 -- On 2 and3 October 2024, the OSCE and the European Union Advisory Mission to Ukraine (EUAM) organized a seminar in support of Ukraine's National Co-ordination Centre on combating the illicit trafficking of firearms, their components and ammunition.
• Norwegian Government to expand and extend support for Ukraine's fight for freedom Government of Norway 07 Oct 2024 -- The Norwegian Government is proposing to increase the overall funding framework for the Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine to NOK 135 billion and to extend the Support Programme for an additional three years.

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