What happened in brief: 6 October

• The EU approved the eighth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes an oil price cap. There is also a ban on the export of coal, specific electronic components found in Russian weapons, technical items used in the aviation sector, certain chemical compounds, and firearms. The EU also slapped sanctions on Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, and other individuals.
• Russian politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was previously arrested for spreading “fake news” and participating in the activities of an “undesirable organisation”, was charged with treason, TASS reported. “According to the source, FSB investigators think that Kara-Murza has cooperated with a NATO state for a long time,” the news agency wrote.
• Two people were killed in Russia’s missile strike on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, governor Oleksandr Starukh said on his Telegram channel. “One woman was killed. The other one died in an ambulance. There are at least 5 people under the rubble,” the official stated.
• On the morning of 6 October, the Russian aviation launched a missile strike on Ukraine from the territory of Belarus for the first time since August, Ukrainian army official Oleksiy Gromov told Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.
• Russian senate speaker Valentina Matviyenko urged the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments to launch negotiations as soon as possible. “Let’s do it today, right now, at the G20 parliamentary platform, let’s come to the negotiating table: the parliament of Russia and the parliament of Ukraine. Let’s try to understand each other, to find some agreements,” she said during the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit in Indonesia.