““In the Kharkiv direction, since the beginning of the day, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Hoptivka, Hlyboke, Visoka Yaruga, Bugruvatka, Staritsa, a total of seven clashes took place””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Kharkiv direction, since the beginning of the day, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Hoptivka, Hlyboke, Visoka Yaruga, Bugruvatka, Staritsa, a total of seven clashes took place,” the military said.
At the same time, in the Kupian direction, “the enemy stormed the positions of our defenders seven times in the areas of Kucherivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Bohuslavka, Zagryzovo, and Nova Krystynivka. Ukrainian defenders repelled five attacks, two are still in progress.”
In the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is also stated that “in the direction of Lyman since the beginning of the day, the Russian invaders attacked the positions of Ukrainians 36 times near the settlements of Zeleny Gay, Novosergiivka, Novoyehorivka, Grekivka, Makiivka, Nadia, Ivanivka, Terny, Toretsk, Hryhorivka and in the direction Druzhelyubivka, Dibrovy, Serebryanka. Eighteen attacks are still repelled by our defenders.”
“On the Siverskyi direction, during the day, the enemy attacked 12 times in the areas of Bilogorivka, Verkhnokamyanskyi, Ivano-Daryivka, and Vyimka. One battle is still ongoing. In the Kramatorsk direction, seven skirmishes have so far been recorded near Vasyukivka, Chasovoy Yar and Stupochky, four attacks have already been successfully repelled by our defenders, three more skirmishes are ongoing,” the General Staff emphasized.
It is also known that since the beginning of the day “in the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers tried 34 times to break through our defenses near the settlements of Lysivka, Sukha Balka, Promin, Zelene, Ukrainka, Dachenske, Shevchenko, Novoukrainka, Pokrovsk, Novovasylivka, Novoelizavetivka, and Novoolenivka. So far, there have been seven clashes.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the full-scale invasion a “special operation.” Initially, its goal was defined as “demilitarization and denazification”, later – “protection of Donbas”. And in September and early October, Russia made an attempt to annex the partially occupied Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions. Ukraine and the West have declared that these actions are illegal. On October 12, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the Russian Federation’s attempt to annex the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The Russian authorities say that the army does not attack civilian objects. At the same time, Russian aviation, missile forces, navy and artillery shell Ukrainian cities every day. Residential buildings and objects of civil infrastructure throughout the territory of Ukraine are subject to destruction.
At the end of October, Ukraine estimated Russia’s losses in the war at more than 70,000 dead soldiers. In September, Russia announced that its losses were less than 6,000 dead. In June, President Zelensky estimated the ratio of losses of Ukraine and Russia as one to five.
Having not overcome the resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the surviving Russian units withdrew from the territory of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions in early April. And in September, as a result of a lightning counteroffensive, the Ukrainian army liberated almost the entire occupied part of the Kharkiv region.
On November 11, the Ukrainian Defense Forces pushed the Russian forces out of Kherson.
After the liberation of Kyiv region from Russian troops, facts of mass murders, torture and rape of civilians, including children, were discovered in the cities of Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel and villages of the region.
Ukrainian authorities have declared that Russia is committing genocide. Western countries are involved in confirming the facts of mass murders and investigating them. The Russian Federation rejects accusations of war crimes.
Later, the facts of torture and murder of Ukrainian citizens began to be revealed in almost all settlements that were liberated from Russian occupation. In particular, in Chernihiv Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast.
Since September 2022, fierce battles of the Russian-Ukrainian war have been going on in the east and south of Ukraine.
On June 6, 2023, the dam of the Kakhov reservoir was completely destroyed (it was under the control of the Russian army from the beginning of March 2022, and in October it was mined by the occupiers), which led to the flooding of a large area, human casualties, destruction of agricultural land, pollution of the Dnipro and the Black Sea. Ukraine called it ecocide.
In total, during the full-scale war from February 24, 2022 to the end of June 2024, the UN verified data on at least 33,878 civilian casualties, including 11,284 deaths.
According to experts, the real number of losses is much higher. According to the Ukrainian authorities, more than 20,000 people could have died during the blockade and bombardment of Mariupol alone.