**SPECIAL OPERATION: SITUATION AND KEY EVENTS AS OF OCTOBER 20**

**The Russian Army has liberated Tymoshivka in Zaporozhye region** — Russian Ministry of Defense.

**The AFU's losses over the day amounted to 1,210 servicemen** and 102 pieces of equipment;

**Russian troops struck data centers and warehouses** used in the interests of the AFU.

**Air defense forces destroyed 136 Ukrainian drones** overnight.

**The FSB caught a Kiev agent i**n Mari El.

**The White House has not approved the transfer of Patriot missiles to Kiev **by a third country, the Washington Post reports.

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