During the month of October, Russian forces liberated 39 settlements in the area of the special military operation. Between October 1 and 31, 18 settlements in the Kharkiv region, 10 in the Zaporozhye region, seven in the Donetsk People's Republic, three in the Sumy region and one in the Dnepropetrovsk region came under Russian control. RT in French dare to ask.