January 18, 2025
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: more than 150 combat clashes took place at the front during the day

“In the Kursk region, the Defense Forces repelled nine assaults by Russian invaders, three clashes are still ongoing””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org

Since the beginning of the day, more than 150 attacks have taken place at the front, according to the operational report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“A total of 155 combat clashes took place since the beginning of this day. Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely repulse the enemy’s attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on him,” the General Staff emphasized.

It is known that “on the Kharkiv direction, the enemy stormed the positions of Ukrainian units in the Vovchansk region. The defense forces successfully repelled the enemy’s attempt to advance.”

“In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy carried out seven offensive operations near Golubivka, Stepova Novoselievka, and Kruglyakivka. Three clashes are still ongoing. With the support of aviation in the Lyman direction, the Russian invaders stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near Kopanok, Tverdokhlibovo, Makiivka and Terni 13 times. Until now, three clashes are ongoing,” the report said.

At the same time, according to the information of the Armed Forces, since the beginning of the day “in the direction of Kramatorsk, the enemy attacked in the areas of Chasovoy Yar and in the direction of Stupochky and Bila Hora, 24 attempts by the Russians to dislodge the Armed Forces from their occupied positions were unsuccessful, two skirmishes are ongoing.”

“In the Kursk region, the Defense Forces have repelled nine assaults by Russian invaders, three clashes are still ongoing,” the General Staff emphasized.

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine On February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine on the ground and in the air along the entire length of the common border. The territory of Belarus was used for the invasion of Kyiv region with the intention of capturing the capital. In the south, the Russian army, in particular, occupied part of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, and in the north – the regions of Sumy region and Chernihiv region.

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.

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