“The Ukrainian military notes a significant intensification of hostilities in the Seversky direction and in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The Russian invaders launched one missile and 51 air strikes on the territory of Ukraine, used one missile and dropped 70 guided air bombs. In addition, more than a thousand kamikaze drones were engaged for destruction and more than four thousand shellings were fired at the positions of our troops and populated areas,” the evening summary reads.
The Ukrainian military notes a significant intensification of hostilities in the Seversky direction and in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
“On the Siverskyi direction, our defenders repelled 55 assaults of the occupation troops in the direction of Verkhnokamyanskyi, Bilogorivka, Spirnyi, Vyimka and Berestovo. Until now, 39 clashes are ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out airstrikes with four guided bombs on the districts of Siversk and Hryhorivka.
Since the beginning of the day, 55 skirmishes have taken place in the Kursk area, 25 of which are still ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out ten airstrikes, dropping 14 guided bombs and carried out 348 artillery strikes on populated areas and the positions of our defenders,” the message states.
As in previous weeks, the situation on the Pokrovsky, Kurakhiv and Vremiv directions remains tense.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of this day, the enemy has attacked in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Novy Trud, Sukhy Yar, Zelene, Pischane, Petrivka, Shevchenko, Novotroitske, Ukrainka and Novoolenivka. Our defenders have stopped 41 enemy assaults, seven more clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy does not stop trying to break through our defenses near the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Zorya, Kurakhove, Lysivka, Elizavetivka, Hanivka, and Uspenivka. 34 combats have been completed, eight are still ongoing.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy tried 25 times to break through the defenses of our defenders in the areas of Trudove, Vesely Gai, Kostyantinopilske, Rozdolne, Novy Komar, Velyka Novosilka, Storozheve, Makarivka and Novoandriivka,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs.
According to his data, fighting also continued in the Kharkiv, Kupyan, Lyman, Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Orihiv and Dnieper directions.
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, destruction 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.