The governor of annexed Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozzhaev , reported that a Ukrainian missile was shot down in the area of ​​Mount Kara-Koba. “The warhead detonated on the ground in a field. No people were hurt. There is no damage to the infrastructure,” he claims.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of October 18, 28 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones were shot down over the Black Sea, as well as the territories of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. The department did not provide data on casualties and destruction on the ground.

The Russian woman with the children went to Kyiv to save her husband from captivity. But he was not ready for their meeting In the summer of 2023, Evgeny Kovtkov, a civilian husband of an accountant from Krasnoyarsk Irina Krynina, who is fighting in Ukraine, stopped in touch. Soon Krynina found him in one of the video with prisoners of war.

On the night of October 18, the Russian army launched six missile attacks on Zaporozhye. One of the missiles hit a multi-storey residential building. this The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports . According to the department, as a result of the impact, the ceilings of several floors in one of the building's entrances collapsed. According to preliminary data, two people were killed and three were injured. There may be three more residents of the house under the rubble.

The governor of the Tambov region, Maxim Egorov, introduced a bill to the regional Duma banning inducement to artificial termination of pregnancy. This is reported on the website of the regional government. “By inducing an artificial termination of pregnancy is meant forcing a pregnant woman to have an artificial termination of pregnancy through persuasion, offers, bribery, deception, or making other demands.

In Yekaterinburg, a criminal case was opened against two police officers who did not intervene in a fight that ended in the murder of a foreign graduate student of the Ural Federal University. about this The local publication It's My City writes , citing the decision to initiate a case, which was at the disposal of the editors.

Investigators in St. Petersburg opened a criminal case against the author of the animated series “Masyanya” Oleg Kuvaev. He is accused of “public calls for activities directed against the security of the state” (Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), TASS reports .

Novaya Gazeta Europe published a long interview with the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in which she, in particular, spoke about the work on new passports for Belarusians who were forced to leave their homeland. According to her, work on this issue began a year ago, but became much more urgent after Alexander Lukashenko issued a decree prohibiting citizens of the country from obtaining new documents outside its borders.

State Duma deputies immediately passed a bill in the second and third readings to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. This was reported in the State Duma telegram channel. In the first reading, the State Duma approved this bill the day before, on October 17. This document was submitted to the lower house of parliament after Vladimir Putin allowed Russia to withdraw from the treaty, speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club on October 5.

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin, who is being persecuted in Russia for the “Happy ChKist Day” protest, was kidnapped. about his abduction wrote The telegram channel of the Left Bloc . Two sources who requested anonymity confirmed this information to Kholod. As Kholod was told, contact with Skoryakin was lost at about two o’clock in the morning on October 17.

Hospital explosion On the evening of October 17, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reported an Israeli strike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. As a result, as the department initially said, between 200 and 300 people died. Al Jazeera reported that the number of victims could exceed 500 people. Al Arabiya TV later reported 800 casualties. The exact number of people in the hospital at the time of the impact was unlikely to be known, the noted .

The Bank of Russia suspended the issue of a new banknote with a rating of a thousand rubles. The corresponding message appeared on the Central Bank website. The release of a new banknote in the Central Bank was announced on October 16. Then there was shown its design. Among other things, a museum of the history of statehood of the Tatar people and the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan and the Suyumbike tower were depicted on the bill.

There are about a thousand Russian citizens and members of their families in the Gaza Strip. this at an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council . stated Russian permanent representative Vasily Nebenzya In his speech, Nebenzya called them “virtual hostages of the military blockade” of the Gaza Strip, but did not provide details. about a thousand Russians who are in Gaza reported The day before, the Russian Foreign Ministry .

Alexei Navalny's lawyer Alexei Liptser was taken away from the Moscow pre-trial detention center "Bear". about this , citing an unnamed woman who sent him a letter. writes OVD-Info “The woman received a message that the addressee had left when she tried to contact him through the F-Letter service,” the human rights project said in a statement. According to the First Department, Liptser is now in the Kremlin Central pre-trial detention center. Vadim Kobzev was also taken there.