**Evening Briefing: October **
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 Decisions on whether foreign diplomats should continue working in **Kiev** remain up to the countries maintaining missions there, Kremlin spokesman **Dmitry Peskov** said.
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 The AFU has been shelling the territory of the **thermal power plant crucial to the safety of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant** for two weeks, Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said.
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 Ukrainian forces overnight attacked a **laboratory building at the Zaporozhye NPP and a radioactive-waste processing facility**. No threat to nuclear safety was reported.
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 The Russian Army **liberated Samoylovka in the Zaporozhye Region**, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
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 The AFU lost **up to 1,435 servicemen** over the past 24 hours.
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 Russian air defenses shot down **861 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones** over the past day.
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 Russian forces are **tightening the encirclement of AFU formations in northeastern Kharkov Region** while expanding the outer zone of control.
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 AFU losses inside the encirclement reportedly exceeded **35 servicemen** over the past 24 hours.
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