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Thursday, October 8
'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center
"We certainly are capable," Zelensky said about striking Russian data centers. "We always respond in kind. Regarding data centers, as you all know, they have been and still are striking our data centers."
Zelensky sends delegation to meet Trump envoys as he hints at secret US-Russia economic talks
"Meetings are expected to take place over two days... we are counting on a European team to join our negotiating group," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Russia lifts quarantine in Irkutsk region, where lab worker allegedly died of plague
Initial reports raised concerns that 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who worked at the Anti-Plague Institute, might have died of pneumonic plague after a laboratory accident.
Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions
The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Putin last appeared on U.S. soil for a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, in August 2025. That meeting produced no progress toward ending the war that Putin started against Ukraine. If anything, the Russian bombardment of
Ukraine war latest: Russian glide bomb strikes in Kramatorsk kill at least 33
Key developments on Oct. 8: * At least 33 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk buses * Russian drone barrage on Kyiv kills 4, injures 19, disrupts electricity, water supplies * Polish SIM cards found in Russian drones downed in Poland * US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart * Ukraine strikes Russia's Omsk oil refinery in Siberia, General Staff confirms * UK ramps up sanctions against Russian shadow fleet, crypto industry, big oil A Russian glid
At least 33 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk buses
"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
About Donetsk Oblast
The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Donetsk Oblast, covering 26,517 square kilometers (10,239 square miles) in Ukraine’s East with a pre-war population of approximately 4.1 million. The administrative center is Kramatorsk, as Donetsk city has remained under Russian occupation since 2014. Donetsk Oblast has been the scene of intense fighting, for example, around the cities of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Vuhledar, as Moscow attempts to capture the entire region.
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The Bolivar Battalion consists of about 250 soldiers, most of them from Colombia, Chile, and Veneuzela.
