“It is known that in the Lyman direction Russian forces attacked 11 times near Novomykhailivka, Grekivka, Nevsky, Novosadovo and Torsky”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Kupyansk direction, since the beginning of the war, Russian troops have conducted ten offensive actions near Petropavlivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Lozova, Pischany, Vyshnevoy, and Myasozharivka. Seven clashes are still ongoing,” the Armed Forces say.
It is known that in the Lyman direction Russian forces attacked 11 times near Novomykhailivka, Grekivka, Nevsky, Novosadovo and Torsky.
“On the Siverskyi direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled three enemy attempts to advance near Verkhnokamyanskyi, Ivano-Daryivka and Vyimka. Two battles on this part of the front are still going on. There have already been eight combat clashes in the Kramatorsk direction in the areas of Kalynyvka, Chasovoy Yar and Stupochky,” the General Staff said.
The department also specified that “in the direction of Toretsk, the Russian army, with the support of bomber aircraft, tried nine times to dislodge the Defense Forces from their positions in the Toretsk and Petrivka districts.” According to the information of the General Staff, “the invaders were severely repulsed.”
“In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops carried out 14 assault operations in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Lysivka, Krutoy Yar and Mykhailivka. The defenders of Ukraine restrain the onslaught, 13 attacks have already been repelled. One battle near Selidovoy is still going on. In the direction of Kurakhivka, the enemy attacked 32 times in the direction of Izmailivka, Hirnyk, Kurakhivka, Zhelanno Drugo, Tsukuriny, Novodmytrivka, Novoselidivka, Georgiivka, Kostyantynivka, and Antonivka. Half of his attempts to advance were already repulsed by the Defense Forces. The fighting continues, the hottest now is near Katerynivka,” the Armed Forces reported.
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.