To fill an urgent labor shortage, the Kremlin has been recruiting women from places like Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, as well as Sri Lanka.

Five residents of Odesa Oblast have been injured in a Russian drone attack on the night of 8-9 October. Source: Oleh Kiper, Head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "Russian aggressors have been terrorising Odesa with attack drones for the third night in a row.

Russian forces attacked the city of Kryvyi Rih on the morning of October 10, damaging a five-story residential building, according to Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration.

The main building at Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's summer residence in Sochi has been demolished because he is apparently afraid to visit the area following Ukrainian drone attacks. Source: Proekt (Project),

A Russian drone attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa injured five people and damaged an apartment building, its regional governor said on Wednesday.

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine, AP investigation finds

Air defense forces destroyed most of the targets, but there was damage to the windows and facade of a nine-story building near Odesa - fortunately, no fire erupted there. Read also: Russia strikes civilian vessel in Odesa port,