Due to the need to fund its military budget, Russian business no longer has the resources for development, and entire industries may face collapse in the near future.
On the morning of October 19, Russian forces shelled one of the settlements in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 71-year-old local resident.
Members of the military partisan movement ATESH helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine damage Russian air defense systems near Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region.
On the Southern Slobozhanshchyna front, drone pilots from the Strix strike UAV unit of the 4th Border Guard Detachment destroyed four enemy positions, a shelter, and three Russian vehicles.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 116 combat clashes with Russian troops on October 18, with about a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook.
Soldiers of the 10th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have intercepted a radio transmission in which a Russian serviceman gives an order to execute a civilian in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.
In Dnipro, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence unit caught a Russian agent "red-handed" while preparing to blow up a car of a National Police official.