Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Ukrainian drones reportedly struck the “Kremniy El” microelectronic plant in Bryansk City on the night of October 18 to 19.
- Ukraine and Russia conducted a one-for-one prisoner of war (POW) exchange on October 18 – the fourth exchange since the start of Ukrainian operations in Kursk Oblast in August 2024.
- Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office reported on October 18 that Ukrainian authorities opened an investigation into the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW) in Bakhmut Raion in September 2024.
- Russian forces recently advanced within the main Ukrainian salient in Kursk oblast and near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Donetsk City.
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Authors: Angelica Evans, Christina Harward, Davit Gasparyan, Nicole Wolkov, and Frederick W. Kagan.
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