October 22

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Wordle today: Here's the answer, hints for October 22 (Mashable)

If you just want today's word, you can jump straight to the end of this article for October 22's Wordle solution, for puzzle #490. If you'd rather work through ...

But [Wordle isn't getting any harder by itself](https://mashable.com/article/wordle-harder-new-york-times) — it's the same difficulty that it's always been. [The entire archive of past Wordles](https://mashable.com/article/wordle-archive) used to be available for anyone to play in glorious days gone by. To ensure you're getting the right answer every day, refresh your browser before you play — the site will save your streak. The goal of Wordle is to have fun, and there's no right way to have fun. This is because the If you're staring at a black space, though, we've got some clues and the solution, [as we do every day](https://mashable.com/category/wordle). Occasionally, though, Wordle has accepted two different solutions as correct on the same day. [Wordle](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) was initially created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, though it quickly spread until it became an international phenomenon. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N. However, if you want to take a more strategic approach, If you'd rather work through it yourself, keep reading for some tips, tricks, and clues. [the new Taylor Swift album](https://mashable.com/article/taylor-swift-twitter-midnights) isn't the only thing on our minds: there's also a fresh [Wordle](https://mashable.com/category/wordle)!

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Horoscope Today: October 22, 2022 (Vogue India)

Vogue Daily Horoscope, 22nd October 2022: Today's prediction for all zodiac signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, ...

Trust that you are progressing at the right pace and collaborating with the right people. This is a time of deepening your connection; a time of dissolving the barriers and giving yourself the permission to come as you are. At the same time, the actions required to set things into motion have been taken. It's all happening in the here and now. You are where you are supposed to be, and what a beautiful place that is! Given that we’re officially stepping into the festive season, you may feel inspired to play host(ess) with the mostest. Give yourself the permission to explore the length and breadth of this connection without being attached to a specific outcome. Learning to replace expectations with acceptance will empower you to survive the drama synonymous with the holiday season. You don’t have to agree with everything they say in order to keep the peace. In order to make space for what you truly desire and deserve, you will have to recalibrate scales. Some days you’re going to feel like the crankiest version. Some days you’re going to feel like the messiest version.

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'Wordle' today, October 22: Answer, hints, and help for word of the ... (Digital Trends)

Trying to solve Wordle #490 for October 22, 2022, and need some help? Don't worry — we've got you covered. Contents. How Wordle works; Hints for today's ...

If you just want to see today’s Wordle answer to continue your streak, you can find it below. If you don’t get the answer in six guesses, you lose. And bookmark [our Wordle hub](https://www.digitaltrends.com/topic/wordle/) somewhere so you can come back for more hints and answers. No worries — you can’t get them all! - Green: The letter entered is 100% correct — the right letter in the right space. Each color has a different meaning.

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Wordle 490 answer for October 22: Weekend confusion? Check ... (Hindustan Times)

Wordle 490 answer for October 22: Today's puzzle can be confusing. You need to check these Wordle hints, clues and solution to find your way towards the ...

Make sure to come back again tomorrow for more hints and clues. The final clue should have revealed the answer to you. Maybe take a moment to think about it, and you should have it. This can be a big problem while solving the puzzle. This is third straight puzzle in a row without a repeated letter. If your streak is too high, it would be wise not to risk it.

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TODAY'S HOROSCOPE : October 22,2022 (The Kathmandu Post)

Your sleep cycle could get thrown for a loop if you abandon your typical schedule this morning. Being strict with yourself will provide you with a sense of ...

A helpful energy will come into play, helping you solve your issues. You may feel as though a wall has stood within your love life this morning. This celestial exchange will heighten your sensitivities, helping you read social cues and the energy of others with more ease. Being strict with yourself will provide you with a sense of empowerment. You’ll feel a shift and sense of balance this evening. Cerebral and anxiety-inducing dreams could plague your sleep early this morning.

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Your daily horoscope: October 22 (The Globe and Mail)

The sun links with Venus, your ruler, on your birthday this year, a combination that will smooth your path and improve your relationships both at home and ...

20): If you are of a mind to take a vacation or start something new and exciting don’t just think about it, do it. 20 - Mar. For best results you must get someone else involved, maybe a friend whose creative spark is a match for your own. You will, of course, have to back up your words with action. Both the sun and Venus, your ruling planet, leave your sign this weekend but that is not an excuse to slow down.

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Wordle today: Wordle 490 October 22 hints and today's answer (HeraldScotland)

The game was created by software engineer, Josh Wardle, who sold the popular word game to the New York Times after it became a worldwide sensation. In a ...

But those still trying to crack the 5-letter code, look away now. [Letters](https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/letters/) that are wrong turn grey to help the process of [elimination for the six tries.](https://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/19835718.wordle-everyone-playing/) [right spot](https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/national/uk-today/19921089.worlde-wordle-map-spin-off-game/) and form the correct word, the square turns green. But if the guessed letter is in the word but not in the right spot, the square turns yellow. [Wordle has taken](https://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/19835718.wordleWordle%20today:%20Wordle%20449%20September%2011%20hints%20and%20today's%20answer-everyone-playing/) the [world](/news/world_news/) by storm, and if you’ve not given in to playing the daily game, we can guarantee you’ve seen the elusive squares all over social media. [5-letter word](https://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/19835718.wordle-everyone-playing/) in only six attempts.

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Dear Evan Hansen Ends Olivier-Winning London Run October 22 (Playbill.com)

Olivier winner Sam Tutty, who opened the production, has been with the award-winning musical throughout its entire run.

arrangements and additional arrangements are by Justin Paul. supervision, orchestrations, and additional arrangements are by Alex Murphy, and Rupert Young as Larry Murphy, with Tricia Adele-Turner,

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Wordle answer today (Saturday 22 October 2022): Wordle word of ... (Rock Paper Shotgun)

Wordle October 22 hints · Today's Wordle word shares the same first three letters as a common arachnid. · The word contains two vowels. · The word refers to a type ...

You must adhere to every clue, and make sure every single word you enter is potentially the answer. [Worldle](/worldle-is-my-new-favourite-wordle-spin-off), in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. If Wordle is starting to get too easy, there are a few ways you can make the game more challenging for yourself. You can do this on the Wordle site by clicking the cog icon in the top-right of the screen. There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day's Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. So after a bit of refinement, Wardle released it to the public on his website, However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. Head over to the With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they're in the correct place, or yellow if they're in the wrong place. Below you'll find not only some carefully crafted hints to lead you towards the solution, but also the Wordle answer itself and an explanation of its meaning for those who need it. Looking for the Wordle answer for Saturday 22 October 2022?

Dimond Park Aquatic Center to Cap Weekend Open Swims ... (City and Borough of Juneau)

Like many organizations, Juneau Pools is facing ongoing staffing shortages; we hope to return to previous capacity when staffing has improved. We apologize for ...

The class is open to a maximum of 10 people. – 5:00 p.m. Parks and Recreation will offer a lifeguarding class November 18-20 at Dimond Park Aquatic Center. If you have questions, please contact DPAC at (907) 586-0839. – 8:30 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Corrections: Oct. 22, 2022 (The New York Times)

An article on Friday about American intelligence assessments of Ukraine's ability to retake its port city of Kherson misidentified the location to which ...

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). It was the Ventura County District Attorney’s office, not the F.B.I. 16 about the musician Anderson .Paak misidentified the agency that investigated .Paak’s mother and her husband for securities fraud. [guest essay](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/health/doctor-patient-medical-school.html) on Oct. [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/dance/camille-a-brown-trilogy.html) on Page 9 this weekend about the choreographer Camille A. 14 about the 25th anniversary of “Sensation,” the famously provocative exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London that featured a radically new kind of art being made by young graduates, misspelled the given name of the author of the novel “Trainspotting.” It was written by Irvine Welsh, not Irving. Brown misstates the number of times Brown has choreographed at the Metropolitan Opera. It is the eastern side of the Dnipro River, not the western side. These patients lack sperm ducts congenitally; they do not lose them later in life. An

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October 22: Your Daily Horoscope (Times Colonist)

Saturday, October 22nd ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You must – repeat, must – resolve a partnership dispute that has taken up far too much of your time and ...

20): 20 - Mar. You will, of course, have to back up your words with action. Both the Sun and Venus, your ruling planet, leave your sign this weekend but that is not an excuse to slow down. Get out and about and enjoy yourself to the full. A Sun-Venus union will make it easy for you to smooth things over and get back to the positive relationship you had before.

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Daily Horoscope: October 22, 2022 (Free)

The sun meets Venus, Mercury connects with Saturn, and the moon enters Libra.

The sun and Venus meet in Libra, which can bode very well for your career and reputation. The sun and Venus meet in Libra, which can bode well for your finances, or find you receiving a lovely gift! Big discussions can take place as Mercury in Libra opposes Jupiter in Aries. Exciting discussions about your future may take place as Mercury in Libra opposes Jupiter in Aries. The sun and Venus meet in Libra, which can find you feeling especially cozy and comfortable at home. The sun and Venus meet in fellow air sign Libra, which can bode especially well for your love life!

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Aquarius Horoscope Today, October 22, 2022: Love may take a next ... (Hindustan Times)

Horoscope Today for October 22 to read the daily astrological prediction for Aquarius. The clouds are moving out of your way and sending you the ray of hope ...

The clouds are moving out of your way and sending you the ray of hope. If you are new to your occupation, give it some time to settle in. You are an independent individual today who is capable of earning a good living on your own. The unmarried folks are likely to get wedded. Your health is your actual wealth, react accordingly. Gone are the days when you had to request your parents for the extra bucks.

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Today's famous birthdays list for October 22, 2022 includes ... (cleveland.com)

Celebrities Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd share a birthday today. Check out our photo slideshow of famous people with birthdays on October 22, ...

[‘Scream’](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/scream_celebrates_its_20th_ann.html) [‘Romeo + Juliet’](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/11/romeo_juliet_turns_20_where_ar.html) [‘Dirty Dancing’](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/08/celebrate_dirty_dancing_turnin.html) [Alec Baldwin](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/04/theres_more_to_alec_baldwin_th.html) [Rachel McAdams](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/11/rachel_mcadams_fun_facts_15_th.html) [2020](https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/11/celebrity-deaths-in-2020-remembering-stars-who-died-this-year.html) [Kate Mara](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/02/kate_mara_fun_facts_15_things.html) [Britney Spears](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/britney_spears_15_fun_facts_ab.html) [Alan Alda](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/01/alan_alda_12_interesting_facts.html) [Emma Watson](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/emma_watson_fun_facts_23_thing.html) [Danica McKellar](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/01/danica_mckellar_fun_facts_13_t.html) [Emma Stone](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/emma_stone_fun_facts_20_things.html) [Jennifer Aniston](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/02/jennifer_aniston_fun_facts_15.html) [Dave Matthews](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/01/dave_matthews_fun_facts_15_thi.html) [Miley Cyrus](http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/miley_cyrus_fun_facts_21_thing.html)

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October 22 Wordle Answer 490 (Game Rant)

Every day, the New York Times Wordle presents players with a brand-new mystery word to try and guess in just six tries.

They have a total of six tries to get to the answer before they lose the game. Once a good starting word is chosen, type it into the Wordle grid and press enter. Wordle answers have yet to repeat, so avoiding previous answers is also a great way to go about starting. Players should also make sure to choose words that are not proper nouns and those that contain loads of different [Wordle](https://gamerant.com/tag/wordle/) went viral back in early 2022, there are loads of copycats out there. But the original version of [Wordle was purchased by the New York Times](https://gamerant.com/new-york-times-wordle-purchase-odd-fitting-2022-theme/) back in February, and it is still hosted on the newspaper's Games site and its Crossword app.

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Today's Wordle #490 Hint, Clues And Answer For Saturday, October ... (Forbes)

We've had some pretty decent Wordles lately. I always prefer the more challenging words. Wordle is a pretty straightforward game compared to more ...

I got very lucky with my opening guess, but even still, getting to the final answer took time. That was certainly not the case when I went to Black Adam, a superhero movie that promised to upend the DC Extended Universe but is, effectively, just another formulaic dud. So many of the problems with bad TV and mediocre movies these days can be traced back to bad writing. I’m just finally getting over this two-week cold and as the brain fog lifts, I want to be challenged. I welcome the challenge. I always prefer the more challenging words.

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Today's Wordle 490 answer and hint: Saturday, October 22 (PC Gamer)

Looking for today's Wordle answer? The October 22 #490 puzzle has arrived so here's a hint to help you out, as well as the full answer if you need it.

The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of [games like Wordle](https://www.pcgamer.com/best-games-like-wordle/) (opens in new tab), refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. Don't forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS). 🟩 means you've got the right letter in the right spot. - October 15: CATCH Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh. There's no time pressure beyond making sure it's done by midnight.

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Heardle, October 22: Here are clues, answer for today's music puzzle (Economic Times)

Heardle is out with another puzzle. Todays Heardle answer is a song that was released in 1999. More such hints and the correct answer is provided here in ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). For the first try, you get only the first second of the clip and additional seconds with additional tries. The game was designed by You’ll get to listen to sixteen seconds from the song for the day, spread across six attempts. But before we start, we shall discuss what Heardle is all about and how to play this musical game. We have enough hints and clues for you to guess the song.

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What to Do: Saturday, October 22 (WCAX)

It's all a part of National Chemistry Week. Organizers say to come in costume, and maybe you could win the costume contest! It's free with admission or your ...

[Hawk-warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry](https://vinsweb.org/event/hawkwarts-school-of-witchcraft-wizardry/)! You can purchase tickets at the door or [online](https://vtiff.org/vtiff-now/). today, and is free with admission to the nature center. [Dark Waters Paranormal Convention](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-waters-paracon-tickets-386410583457)! to 9:00 p.m. gather to celebrate the organization’s accomplishments, honor members of the community, and raise funds for the year to come. [ Vermont International Film Festival](https://vtiff.org/). The event is from 11:00 a.m. Organizers say to come in costume, and maybe you could win the costume contest! to 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., explore foods that glow, make marbled paper, and participate in other spooky science activities with the chemistry department of UVM. [Creepy Chemistry Weekend](https://www.echovermont.org/event/creepy-chemistry-weekend/2022-10-22/) at ECHO!

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Wordle Today: Here are hints, answer for October 22 (Economic Times)

Todays Wordle answer means an elaborate speech. Here are more hints for you and the answer as well to keep up your winning streak. Keep scrolling to read ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Letters in the correct position are highlighted in green. Wordle has been a tremendous success and a huge inspiration for other similar games like Quordle, Heardle, and Nerdle. The game requires you to find a five-letter word for the day. Wordle has no ads or sign-in requests, unlike other word games on the internet. But before beginning, let’s discuss what Wordle is all about and how to play it.

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Wordle today: Answer, clues for Saturday, October 22 2022 word of ... (For The Win)

WARNING: THERE ARE WORDLE SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT THE OCTOBER 22, 2022 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

If you’re here, you’re probably [struggling with it](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wordle-best-first-words-list) and looking for some help. [hardest Wordle words go](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wordle-hardest-words-nyt-buys), Saturday’s answer was somewhat challenging. [That’s a topic](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wordle-strategy-first-word-best-adieu) we’ve [covered a bunch here.](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wordle-best-first-words-list) According to the Times’ WordleBot, [the best starting word is:](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wordle-best-starting-word-ny-times-wordlebot) CRANE. [this link from the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) and start guessing words. How to play Wordle And the answer to Saturday’s Wordle is below this photo:

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Wordle 490: October 22, 2022 Hints & Answer (Screen Rant)

October 22nd brings a more difficult Wordle answer to fans of the game. Today's daily word could cause some win streaks to be broken.

[Wordle](https://screenrant.com/tag/wordle/) has been reset for October 22nd and today's answer is not a very common word. For those that prefer a more difficult challenge though, [today's Wordle copycat, Quordle](https://screenrant.com/wordle-quordle-four-times-difficult-hard/) is also ready for players to solve and contains four different words that need to be solved at the same time. SPIEL was used as our fourth guess and gave us a Wordle win-in-four on this chilly October morning.

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This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through ... (Singularity Hub)

“A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable—enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs ...

[ROBOTICS](https://singularityhub.com/tag/robotics/) [Tired of Laundry Folding? [FUTURE](https://singularityhub.com/tag/future/) [Technology That Lets Us ‘Speak’ to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. With it, scientists will build a vast map of the sky as seen from the southern hemisphere, including 20 billion galaxies and 17 billion stars in the Milky Way—a significant fraction of all galaxies in the universe and of all stars in our own galaxy, [Aaron] Roodman says. College students learn that the ball is actually a bundle of three elementary particles called quarks. This would make the material well suited for spacecraft that have to spend very long periods under constant irradiation. “Using machine vision, a neural network called BiManual Manipulation Network (BiMaMa-Net), and a pair of industrial robot arms, SpeedFolding can fold 30–40 randomly positioned garments per hour, usually finishing each within two minutes. This allows a computer to train the network by tweaking the beam stiffness. At the same time, the technology and the world it’s enabling are, unsurprisingly, imperfect, and the ethics of creating a virtual version of someone are complex, especially if that person hasn’t been able to provide consent.” “In the recent research, pulsing a laser periodically at the 10 ytterbium qubits kept them in a quantum state—meaning entangled—for 1.5 seconds. “A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable—enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second. …’It’s an incredibly large amount of data that we’re sending through, essentially, less than a square millimeter [of cable]. [TECH](https://singularityhub.com/tag/technology/) [Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet’s Traffic Every Second](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342833-chip-can-transmit-all-of-the-internets-traffic-every-second/)

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Eye 5 for October 22, 2022 (KLCC FM Public Radio)

This week, Bret McKenzie gets serious, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard continue to spiral far out, and Omar Apollo gets wistful.

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Latest Developments in Ukraine: Oct. 22 (Voice of America)

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine. All times EDT.

"It would not be desirable for these (drones) to be used in Ukraine," the 68-year-old Lukashenko said. defense ministry said Russian forces continue to reinforce crossing points over the Dnipro River, and have completed a barge bridge alongside the damaged Antonovskiy bridge in Kherson. Russian forces likely intend to continue that withdrawal over the next several weeks but may struggle to withdraw in good order if Ukrainian forces choose to attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin is demonstrably setting conditions for Russia to continue a protracted war in Ukraine, not for a negotiated settlement or offramp. federal indictment unsealed this week, Orekhov allegedly told the unnamed businessman that the paperwork would have to be falsified to show a fake Malaysian company was the purchaser, in order avoid U.S. The Court of Arbitration for Sport set Nov. Turkey has threatened to block the process unless Finland and Sweden meet its demands. It claimed that the scale of destruction has been comparable to the fallout from Moscow's first coordinated attack on the Ukrainian energy grid, Oct. 3:17 p.m.: Ukrainian forces are using Soviet-era T-64B tanks to defend the area around the key city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, said on Telegram Saturday that almost 1.4 million households lost power as a result of the strikes. In a Facebook post Saturday, Ukrenergo accused Russia of attacking “energy facilities within the principal networks of the western regions of Ukraine." nuclear bomb was dropped August 6, 1945, resulting in the deaths of 140,000 people.

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Saturday, October 22. Russia's War On Ukraine: News And ... (Forbes)

The scale of damage from today's missile attack by Russian troops on energy facilities of main networks in the western and central regions of Ukraine may exceed ...

As a result of the attack, 45 civilian objects were destroyed and damaged and civilians were killed and injured. 13 settlements were under the fire, the National Police of Ukraine In the regional center, a private home was damaged by the shock wave and fragments of the rocket. Also, as a result of a Russian attack with high-precision Kalibr missiles, two objects of critical infrastructure were hit. The scale of damage from today's missile attack by Russian troops on energy facilities of main networks in the western and central regions of Ukraine may exceed the consequences of the attack on October 10-12, Ukrenergo reported. As a result of the destruction, almost 15,000 million Ukrainians were left without electricity.

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October 22, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news (CNN)

What we covered here · Ukrainian military: Looting has increased in Kherson as Russia orders evacuations and pulls back troops · Russia says Ukrainian shelling ...

Parts of Lutsk — in Ukraine’s far west — were left without power due to a hit on an energy facility there, Mayor Ihor Polishchuk said. An attack on an energy facility in the Kropyvnytskyi region of central Ukraine also left residents there and in neighboring Cherkasy without power, according to officials from both region’s military administrations. Residents in the western city of Rivne were told to “stay in shelters” while electricians worked to restore power across the city, the head of the region’s military administration, Vitaliy Koval, said on Telegram.

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ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 22 - Kyiv ... (Kyiv Post)

Key Takeaways Russian forces continued large-scale strikes on Ukrainian… - Oct. 23, 2022. By ISW.

The line covers some newly occupied settlements like Lysychansk, Zolote, and Popasna, but excludes Kreminna and Severodonetsk.[19] Prigozhin and Wagner commanders are likely preparing to defend the positions they think they can realistically hold, not the present extent of Russian lines or all of the territory the Kremlin claims to have annexed, and are likely not confident in Russia’s ability to defend settlements north of Lysychansk such as Kreminna and Svatove. The Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nevenzya, claimed on October 22 that Russian drones are only hitting civilian targets in Ukraine because Ukrainian defensive fire requires the drones to change course, a bizarre admission of culpability.[15] The Ukrainian General Staff reported on October 22 that Russian forces launched 40 missile strikes and 16 Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones at Ukrainian infrastructure and that Ukrainian forces shot down 20 Russian cruise missiles and 11 Russian drones.[12] Russian strikes hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure in Volyn, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zaporizhia, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts. The Kremlin is likely attempting to maintain its limited framing of the war, which will likely continue to upset the nationalist community that is seemingly concerned by the lack of defenses around Belgorod Oblast. Russian authorities are likely also making initial efforts to evacuate at least those civilians who are willing to cooperate with Russian occupation authorities and would otherwise be in the path of flooding resulting from the blown Kakhovka dam. Russian forces conducted massive missile and drone attacks to degrade Ukrainian energy infrastructure in nine oblasts on October 22. Russian forces are likely preparing to destroy the dam at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP), flooding and widening the Dnipro River to delay any Ukrainian advances.[6] Russian occupation authorities in Nova Kakhovka are likely attempting to moderate the resultant flooding; Nova Kakhovka Occupation head Vladimir Leontyev said on October 22 that Russian authorities are lowering the volume of water from the reservoir behind the dam to minimize damage in case the KHPP is destroyed but stayed true to the false narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, would blow the dam.[7] Ukraine has no interest destroying the dam and every interest in preserving the energy supply in newly-liberated parts of Kherson Oblast. Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command reiterated that Russian military leadership has moved their officer corps across the river but left newly-mobilized men on the western bank of the Dnipro River as a detachment left in contact.[8] Using such inexperienced forces to conduct a delaying action could prompt a Russian rout if Ukrainian forces choose to press the attack, as ISW previously assessed.[9] One Russian milblogger noted that the situation in Kherson Oblast is dire for Russian troops, noting that it is ”virtually impossible” for Russia to evacuate troops from the first lines of defense and that only two questions remain: how to withdraw the final front line of forces, and how to explain the withdrawal to the Russian population.[10] Russian forces continued to withdraw from western Kherson Oblast while preparing to conduct delaying actions that will likely be only partially effective. Russian forces expect to leave the city and are therefore likely trying to depopulate parts of the oblast that Ukraine will recapture, damaging the long-term social and economic viability of southern Ukraine. - Occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast ordered civilians to evacuate east on October 21. - Russian forces continued large-scale strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure.

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