“On Ukrainian territory, the situation was the most tense, as in previous weeks, in three areas – Pokrovsky, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There have been 45 skirmishes in the Kursk direction since the beginning of the day, 26 of which are still ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out seven airstrikes, dropping 10 guided bombs and carried out 212 artillery strikes on populated areas of the Russian Federation and the positions of our defenders,” the day’s summary reads.
On the Ukrainian territory, the situation was the most tense, as in previous weeks, in three directions – Pokrovsky, Kurakhivskyi and Vremivskyi.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian invaders made 19 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Novy Trud and Novoolenivka settlements. The defense forces restrained the onslaught and repulsed 17 enemy attacks, two skirmishes are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy army attacked 28 times in the direction of the settlements of Sontsivka, Stari Terny, Zorya, Kurakhove, Lysivka, Elizavetivka, Hannivka, and Uspenivka. 19 attempts by the occupiers to advance have already been repulsed.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy tried 19 times to break through the defenses of our defenders in the areas of Trudove, Vesely Gay, Kostiantynopolske, Rozdolne, Novy Komar, Novoandriivka settlements; until now, there are 11 clashes,” the Ukrainian military informs.
Also, fighting continued in the Kupyan, Lyman, Siver, 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 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.