“The difficult situation remains in the Kurakhiv direction, say the Armed Forces”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“On the Kupyansk direction, the enemy tried once during the day to advance to our positions in the Kindrasivka area, the attack was successfully repelled, the situation is under control. In the Lyman direction, seven combat clashes took place near Grekivka, Nevsky, Terni and Serebryanka. Until now, one battle is ongoing in this direction,” the summary says.
At the same time, it is known that “on the Siversk direction, the enemy carried out one offensive action in the area of the village of Vyimka, in addition, it carried out airstrikes with six guided aerial bombs in the areas of Zakitny and Siversk.”
“The enemy struck with the involvement of bombing and assault aircraft in the Kramatorsk direction in the areas of the settlements of Chasiv Yar, Novomarkove and Kramatorsk, in addition, in the area of Chasovoy Yar, our defenders repelled one attack by the occupiers,” the Armed Forces reported.
In addition, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, “in the Toretsk direction, the invaders attacked four times in the Toretsk and Shcherbinivka districts. All attacks were successfully repelled by our defenders. The enemy dropped 13 anti-aircraft missiles on the settlements of Toretsk, Katerynivka, Petrivka and Kostyantynivka, and also struck nine unguided aerial missiles at the settlement of Druzhba.”
“The difficult situation remains in the Kurakhiv direction. Eight assaults were repulsed near Illinka, Novoselidivka, Vozdvizhenka, Voznesenka, Novodmytrivka, Maksimilianivka, Dalnyi, Antonivka, Katerynivka, and Kurakhovo, and our defenders are steadfastly conducting another thirteen skirmishes. In the Vremivsk direction, the aggressor attacked 11 times in the vicinity of Trudovoy, Makarivka, Novodarivka, Rivnopoly and Zeleny Pol’, Ukrainian military said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the full-scale invasion a “special operation.” Initially, its goal was defined as “demilitarization and de-Nazification”, 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.