Destroying 4 russian helicopters in 18 minutes and Ukraine’s history book for Elon Musk: timeline and solutions of October 12

KEY EVENTS

Ukrainian army's success

🇺🇦 Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated five more villages in the Berislav district of the Kherson region. Under the Ukrainian flag are Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamianka, Tryifonivka, and Chervone. 

📌 Ukrainian Air Force made 15 strikes and hit 13 areas of concentration of russian weapons, military equipment, and two air defense systems.

📌 Ukraine's missile troops and artillery hit 12 control points, 17 areas of concentration of russian soldiers, weapons and military equipment, four ammunition warehouses, and more than 20 other essential enemy objects over the past day.

📌 Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of 7 settlements in the east of Ukraine.

📌 Ukrainian military shot down 9 Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in the morning over Mykolaiv Region.

📌 In Vinnytsia Region, air defense shot down two more kamikaze drones.

📌 In the south of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force's anti-aircraft missile units destroyed four russian attack helicopters (probably Ka-52) in 18 minutes. It is a record!

📌 The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) neutralized the network of the russian GRU [russian military intelligence] in the Kharkiv region, whose members were adjusting fire and searching for HIMARS. Criminals collected information using their friends and acquaintances.

They also exposed a traitor who provided russian troops with coordinates for missile strikes on Kyiv.

📌 In the occupied Enerhodar (Zaporizhia region), the car of the so-called head of the occupation administration, Oleksandr Volga, was shot yesterday. Unfortunately, he survived.

📌 Near Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed six russian S-300 systems along with ammunition and service. These are the same ones that shelled Zaporizhzhia.

📌 Explosion occurred in the occupied Kherson region. According to local Telegram channels, the explosion happened in the village of Kozatske. Residents report the detonation. In occupied Beryslav, there was also a strike, leading to a fire.

📌 Bad morning for the occupiers in captured Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region: A car of a collaborator was blown up there. 

russia's crimes

📌 The russian forces shelled the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region seven times during the night with Grad MRLS and heavy artillery. More than 100 shells have been fired! One of them flew right into a private house. A 6-year-old girl and her mother were seriously injured. They and another victim were hospitalized. The child's legs were amputated.

In the morning, the russians struck the energy infrastructure in the Kamianke district. There is intense fire and destruction. 

📌 At night, russia fired about 7 S-300 missiles at Zaporizhzhia and the outskirts. Three of them hit private residential houses. Rescuers found three people and took them out from under the rubble.

📌 Yesterday, the russian occupiers attacked Stepnohirsk and Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of the attack, seven people were killed, and the same number were injured.

October 10 has increased to 8 people.

In 12 days of October, over 70 people died in the missile strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

📌 In the morning, the russian army fired artillery at the Kutsuruby community in the Mykolayiv region. More than 15 residential buildings were destroyed. 

📌 The russians do not stop terrorizing the border areas of the Sumy region. In the morning, Myropillia and Seredyna-Buda communities were shelled by artillery. Two more artillery strikes from the territory of the russian federation were on infrastructure objects. In the Sumy and Shostka districts, there was an emergency power outage.

📌 On October 11, the russians killed six civilians in the Donetsk region: 4 in Lyman and 2 in Terny. One more person was injured.

📌 As a result of today's shelling of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, seven people died, and 11 were injured. 

📌 The russian occupiers are using chemical grenades against the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In the Zaporizhzhia region, the air defense shot down an enemy drone. It was carrying a K-51 grenade, which contained an irritating substance.

📌 There are Iranian instructors, who teach russians how to use Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and directly monitor strikes on Mykolaiv and Odesa, the Center of National Resistance reports. We will remind you that Iran officially denies participation in russia's war in Ukraine.

📌 About 30% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure was damaged in two days of rocket fire. putin is at war with civilians. The occupiers want to torture Ukrainians with a lack of electricity, water, and heating.

Life amid war

📌 In the center of Kyiv, near the building of the National Transport University, a monument to Aleksander Pushkin was demolished (pictured above). Another eight objects in honor of the russian poet are on the way.

📌 Shakhtar Donetsk drew with Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage match. Before the start of the game, the fans staged a performance depicting the colors of the Ukrainian and Polish flags at the stadium. ⬆️ 

📌 IDP students and those in the Ukrainian territories captured by russia will be transferred to a scholarship form of education at universities. The relevant resolution was adopted by the government today.

📌 The flag of Ukraine has been hoisted on Mount Mera Peak in Nepal! Khrystyna Mishchenko, a programmer of the ATB-Market company, conquered six and a half thousand meters and installed the Ukrainian flag on the top. ⬆️

📌The first-after-occupation Oschadbank ATM started working in the liberated Sviatohirsk, Donetsk region.

SOLUTIONS TO WIN

Foreign partners' support

💡 In two days, 9 of 11 Shahed-136 UAVs were shot down by Ukraine's air defense. "This results from high-quality training of our anti-aircraft fighters, which our Polish brothers conducted. It was Poland that provided the complexes with which Ukrainians use Soviet missiles to shoot down Iranian drones launched by the russians," the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhnyi thanked.

💡 Germany, in cooperation with Denmark and Norway, will transfer 16 Zuzana self-propelled guns. In addition, Germany will hand over 130 heating systems, 36 medical transporters, 100,000 first-aid kits, and 450,000 dry rations.

💡 Canada will provide a new $47 million aid package. It provides for 500,000 units of winter military clothing, artillery shells worth $15.2 million, provision of satellite communications for $2 million. 

Also, Canada is sending 40 engineers to Poland to train the Ukrainian military. They will train sappers and experts for engineering reconnaissance and demining.

💡 The USA will allocate $4.5 billion to Ukraine to support the state budget.

💡 The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with anti-missile and anti-aircraft missiles worth more than 15 million euros.

💡 4 additional M142 missiles from the USA and the German IRIS-T air defense are already in Ukraine. 

💡 The European Investment Bank transferred 550 million euros to Ukraine to restore energy infrastructure.

💡 France warned Belarus about sanctions for any new support for russia's war.

💡 Permanent representatives of the EU countries agreed not to recognize russian passports issued in russian-occupied territories and not under the control of the authorities of Ukraine and Georgia.

Ukrainians, let's unite! 

💡 Odesa bakers bake and distribute free patriotic bread with the Ukrainian coat of arms. Bakers have been working since the war started, making about 30 kilograms of bread every day.

💡 The monastery monks in Hurby in the Rivne region have formed a voluntary firefighting brigade that will help neighboring villages. They built a garage next to the cells, and the State Emergency Service provided a special-purpose vehicle. "Of course, we will not be leaving in cassocks. We have been provided with suits and everything we need," the monastery's abbot explained.

💡 Yulia Kurenkova and Yurii Bilousov, a couple from Zhytomyr, are dog trainers. During the last five months of the full-scale invasion, they trained and handed over eight dogs to search for explosive devices. ⬆️

💡 Bilopillia in the Sumy region is slowly recovering from the shelling on October 10. The russians hit the city center, firing cannon artillery from the territory of the russian federation. The two-story multi-apartment building suffered the most damage—16 apartments are uninhabitable. Utility workers, caring people, and damaged house residents are sorting out the debris.  

💡 Vinnytsia transferred three buses to Dnipro, where the russians destroyed the city's bus fleet.

💡 The textbook on the history of Ukraine, which Ukrainians raised for the Serhii Prytula fund, has already been sent to Elon Musk. The remaining $63,100 will be spent on walkie-talkies for our armed forces. 

💡 ​Prime Minister Shmyhal thanked the Ukrainians who reduced electricity consumption by 10% in the previous two days and called for it again. For no planned outages, this indicator should be 25%. As a reminder, the government asks to turn off unnecessary things from the network and not to turn on powerful electrical appliances from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.