**Special military operation: Situation and key developments on October **

About 11% of the Donetsk People’s Republic remains under Ukrainian control, Putin said. He added that Russia would take control of this territory much sooner than Kiev and Europe predict; 

Trump said that Zelensky had turned down powerful US munitions; 

The IAEA is coordinating local ceasefires to allow repairs at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant; 

The Russian army has taken control of three settlements in the Kharkov region, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported; 

Russian forces took control of 93 buildings in Dobropillya over the past 24 hours, killing more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen; 

Ukrainian forces lost 30 personnel in an encirclement in the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours; 

Air defenses shot down seven guided bombs and 650 Ukrainian UAVs over the past 24 hours; 

Ukrainian forces lost 1,435 servicemen over the past 24 hours.

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