(English) Ukraine on Fire, October 21

Russian Army manpower losses as of October 21: 292, 850

Children killed (according to the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine): 508

Russia loses 16 tanks and 55 armored vehicles in one day

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported that Ukrainian defenders killed 790 Russian invaders and destroyed 16 tanks and 55 armored combat vehicles over the past day.

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UN Commission publishes report on rape and torture in Russian-occupied territories

The document states that the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has focused its recent investigations on Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. The documented cases of rape by the Russian military occurred between March 2022 and July 2022 in small villages in Kherson Oblast. In the cases investigated, the rape victims were a 16-year-old girl and women aged 19 to 83. Most of them were in a vulnerable condition. One of the victims was a 16-year-old pregnant girl, three were elderly women, some lived alone or with their children, or with a family member with a disability.

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Ukraine returned four more children from occupation and deportation

Ukraine returned four more children from occupation and deportation — a 17-year-old girl and three boys aged 6, 3 and 9. This was announced by the head of the Presidentʼs Office Andriy Yermak.

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There will be no peace talks while Russia continues to occupy Ukrainian territory – Ukraine's Security Council chief

Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has once again stressed that Ukraine will not negotiate with Russia while Russia continues to occupy Ukrainian lands. Danilov said he was certain that the "situation will fundamentally change" once F-16 fighter jets arrive from the West but admitted it was difficult to predict how long it would take to regain all of Ukraine’s territory.

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