“According to the General Staff, the most active combat operations were in four directions – Lymansky, Pokrovsky, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“According to the detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched one missile strike against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas using one missile, as well as 17 airstrikes, including dropping 34 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, it carried out 4,385 attacks, of which 140 were from rocket salvo fire systems, and engaged about one and a half thousand kamikaze drones for destruction… Over the past day, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit one control point of an unmanned aerial vehicle, a warehouse with ammunition, five personnel concentration areas, an electronic warfare device and two artillery systems of the enemy,” it was stated in the morning summary
According to the General Staff, the most active combat operations were in four directions – Lymansky, Pokrovsky, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi.
“On the Lymansky direction, the enemy attacked 31 times. He tried to penetrate our defenses near the settlements of Druzhelyubivka, Zeleny Gayu, Novoehorivka, Makiivka, Terniv, Torsky, and in the direction of Hryhorivka.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 60 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Myrolyubivka, Promeny, Lysivka, Novy Trud, Dachensky, Shevchenko, Vovkovo and Novovasylivka.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled 36 attacks. The occupiers most actively tried to advance near Petropavlivka, Shevchenko and in the area of Kurakhovo.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy carried out 34 assaults on our positions in the areas of Uspenivka, Yantarny, Konstantinopolsky, Konstantinopol, Rozlyv, Rozdolny, Novy Komar, Novosilka, Velika Novosilka, and Storozhevo,” the morning summary reads.
Fighting also continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Dnieper directions.
“An operation is ongoing in the Kursk region, where 37 combat clashes between Ukrainian defenders and invaders took place over the past day,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
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 bombard 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 at the beginning of 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 discovered in almost all settlements that were liberated from the 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, the destruction of agricultural land, and the 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.