Members of the 810 Russian Marine Brigade were attending the awards ceremony on the occasion of Russia's Day of Missile Forces and Artillery, which also had entertainment provided by Russian actress Polina Menshikh, when the attack allegedly occurred.
Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, has refused to comment on the Russian propagandists' claims that the Russians are "regrouping troops" in the area of the Dnipro River, which were initially reported and later retracted by Russian media.
Ukraine's National Resistance Center (NRC) has stated that there has been no movement of Russian forces east of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, as has supposedly been reported by the Russian Defence Ministry.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted a successful strike on a key Russian air-defense facility in occupied Crimea on Oct. 30, the Strategic Communications Office confirmed on Telegram this morning.
Maksym Holdarb, the leader of the banned in Ukraine political party Union of Left Forces and former host of Viktor Medvedchuk's TV channels, has been served with a notion of suspicion of collaborating and justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine [Medvedchuk is a former Ukrainian businessman and pro-Russian politician; Putin is the godfather to his daughter - ed.