“According to the General Staff, the most battles took place in four directions – Lymanskyi, Pokrovskyi, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Yesterday, the enemy launched two missile strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas using two missiles, as well as 42 airstrikes, in particular, dropped 55 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, it carried out more than 5,700 attacks, of which 289 were from rocket salvo systems, and involved about 2,400 kamikaze drones for attacks… Yesterday, aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit 10 areas of concentration of personnel and weapons and military equipment of the enemy, one control point, one enemy artillery system and one other important object were destroyed the enemy,” the morning summary says.
According to the General Staff, the most battles took place in four directions – Lymanskyi, Pokrovskyi, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi.
“With the support of aviation, the enemy attacked 25 times in the Lyman direction. He tried to advance near the settlements of Kopanky, Cherneshchyna, Novosergiivka, Platonivka, Zeleniy Gai, Druzhelyubivka, Makiivka, Terny, Zarichne, and Torske.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 42 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the direction of Vozdvizhenka, Myrolyubivka, Promen, Lysivka, Zeleny, Dachensky, Novy Trud, Pischany, Pokrovsk, Novoolenivka, Vovkovo, Shevchenko, and Novotroitsky.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled 23 enemy assaults. The main offensive efforts of the enemy were concentrated in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlivka, Slovianka, Andriivka and Kurakhove.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy carried out 24 assaults on our positions near the settlements of Yantarne, Vremivka, Kostiantynopol, Novy Komar, and Kostiantynopolske,” the message states.
Fighting also continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Siver, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Gulyaipil, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
“On the Kursk direction last day, our defenders repelled 20 enemy attacks, the enemy fired 424 artillery strikes, including 30 from rocket salvo systems, launched 24 air strikes, dropping 34 anti-aircraft missiles,” the Ukrainian military informs.
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.