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2024-10-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: October 22, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:58 NATO cannot confirm the involvement of North Korean troops in the war in Ukraine on Russia's side and is waiting for information from South Korea, Secretary General Mark Rutte said. He added that an information meeting would be held at NATO early next week: "Then we will see whether North Korea really does or does not support the criminal Russian war in Ukraine. If this is confirmed, if they really send troops to Ukraine, this will mean a significant escalation."
19:16 The US and other G7 members have agreed on a loan to Ukraine by 99%, with repayment coming from income from frozen Russian assets, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.
19:04 Ukraine has information about the training of two units of North Korean military in Russia, maybe even two brigades of 6,000 people, Zelensky said: "This is a challenge. But we know how to respond to this challenge. And it is important that our partners do not hide from this challenge. If North Korea can interfere in the war in Europe, then the pressure on this regime is definitely not enough. And if Russia can still make this war larger and longer, then everyone in the world who still does not help force Russia to peace is really helping Putin fight. Criminals must be stopped. We expect a tough, concrete reaction from the world. Preferably, not just words."
18:20 By the end of the year, Germany, with the participation of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, will fully staff one of the brigades of the Defense Forces, Zelensky said.
17:08 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on the situation with medical and social expert commissions and abuses by officials of various government agencies in obtaining disability benefits.
"Many facts of violations and obviously false disabilities of officials have been established. The National Security and Defense Council has defined a list of decisions that will restore justice. I approved them by decree. But I believe that responsibility for the situation now should be personal. I have instructed the Prime Minister to solve the problem at the level of central executive authorities, in particular, the relevant ministries. Personnel decisions are needed. There should also be political responsibility of the Prosecutor General for the situation in the prosecutor's office of Ukraine," the President emphasized.
Following this, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin announced that he had resigned.
16:57 Andrey Polukhin, the spokesman for the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade, denied the information from his colleague from the brigade's press service, Ivan Petrichak, that Russian troops have penetrated the Ukrainian line of defense in the area of Chasov Yar. "As we have said before, Russian small infantry groups are entering there. They enter and do not leave because they are blocked by our drones. The occupiers are there temporarily, our guys immediately drive them out... That is, this cannot be called a consolidation or a penetration, some kind of movement along the defense line," Polukhin explained.
16:39 In addition to ground troops, North Korea sent its pilots to Russia last month, South Korean TV Chosun reported, citing a local official. This could be related to training on Russian combat aircraft supplied to the DPRK, but it is also possible that Russia, which suffers from a catastrophic shortage of pilots, has asked for help. Newsweek notes that in this case, this would be the first overseas deployment of DPRK combat pilots since the Vietnam War.
15:46 The number of people wounded as a result of enemy shelling of Zaporizhia on October 21 has increased to 20, three people have died, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
15:37 In the morning, Russians dropped a KAB-250 on a five-story building in Mirnograd, Donetsk region - one person is known to have died and two wounded, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
15:33 Zelensky expects that partners will extend Ukraine an invitation to join NATO within internationally recognized borders. The President stressed that "no matter what path we take," legally "no one will recognize the occupied territories as territories of other states." The head of state also claims that Ukraine is not discussing NATO membership in exchange for territories.
According to Zelensky, most NATO countries support inviting Ukraine to the Alliance, but "we will have to work hard with Germany." The president reiterated that Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, and now "we need NATO, because we do not have weapons that can stop Putin."
15:21 Russians fired artillery at the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region: one person was killed in Marganets, another was wounded in Nikopol, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
14:49 Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine's population has fallen by nearly 10 million people, said Florence Bauer, the UNFPA regional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She said a significant number of people have left the country, "the population is aging, and young people are looking for opportunities elsewhere and leaving."
Bauer notes that the birth rate in Ukraine was low before the war, and has now become one of the lowest in the world: about 1.0 children per woman, while 2.1 are needed to renew the population.
14:12 Russian troops have penetrated the Ukrainian line of defense in the area of Chasov Yar in Donetsk Oblast, but there is no talk of losing the city, said Ivan Petrichak, a spokesman for the press service of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo. According to him, the Russians used the change in weather to cross the canal, and now it is blocked. "Work on localization is ongoing, and now all the brigade's forces are set to destroy the occupier in the square where he is currently blocked," Petrichak said.
13:37 At a plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament supported the mechanism proposed earlier by the European Commission for allocating a loan to Ukraine in the amount of up to 35 billion euros, to be repaid from income from frozen assets of the Russian Federation. 518 deputies out of 635 who voted voted for the proposal, 56 voted against, and 61 parliamentarians abstained. Now the decision must be finally approved by the European Council.
12:45 Russian opposition publication Astra has shown yet another confirmation of the presence of North Korean troops in the Primorsky Krai of the Russian Federation. Journalists geolocated a video that, as its authors claim behind the scenes, shows the arrival of soldiers from the DPRK at a military base. This is likely military unit 44980 of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division in the village of Sergeyevka in Primorsky Krai. The barracks complex in the video is the newest in Primorsky Krai; it was opened in July 2022.
12:03 In occupied Energodar, a propane tank caught fire as a result of a drone attack on a gas station, said Gauleiter of the occupied part of Zaporizhia Oblast Yevhen Balitsky. He also reported one fatality. There is currently no electricity in the city.
11:56 North Korea's UN envoy called reports of troops being sent to Russia "baseless rumors" during a meeting of the UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. Yonhap writes that this was the first public comment by a North Korean official after South Korean intelligence reported last week that about 12,000 North Korean troops had been sent to fight in Russia's war in Ukraine, of which 1,500 had already arrived in Vladivostok.
"My delegation does not consider it necessary to comment on such groundless stereotypical rumors aimed at denigrating the image of the DPRK and undermining the legitimate, friendly and partner relations between the two sovereign states," the North Korean representative said.
11:17 French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu called for a discussion on the deployment of "non-nuclear forces" in Ukraine after the end of the war. Commenting on Zelensky's "victory plan," the French minister noted that this is only "the beginning of the political path," and it is necessary to start thinking about what will happen next. "The idea of a ceasefire for Kiev raises the question of non-nuclear deterrence, which would prevent new Russian aggression, and this is an issue that needs to be discussed now," Lecornu said.
10:22 Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Kovalenko stated that Russian distilleries are used to produce not only alcohol, but also fuel for military needs and explosives, so they are considered military facilities. According to Kovalenko, Ukrainian UAVs attacked four enterprises in Russia: Biokhim, Luzhkov Distillery, Yefremovsky Distillery, and an industrial enterprise in the Voronezh Region.
09:38 In the morning, Russians struck a public transport stop in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson with a UAV, one person was wounded, OVA reported. Over the previous day, nine people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
09:27 At night, a Russian drone struck the village of Senkovo in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:16 India has already returned 85 of its citizens who were recruited by Russia for the war in Ukraine, said the country's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. He added that India is working on returning at least 20 more of its citizens who are still fighting in the Russian Armed Forces.
09:05 Air defense destroyed 42 of 60 enemy UAVs (Shahed type and unspecified type) in Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions at night. Most of the attack drones were shot down in Sumy region, the Air Force reported. In addition, ten Russian drones were lost, one flew to Belarus, and three more - back to Russia. One enemy UAV remains in Ukrainian airspace, combat operations continue.
08:41 Four people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on October 21: two in Myrnohrad, one each in Kurakhovo and Novoukrainka. Five more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:29 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 22. At the same time, the total number of cruise missiles was adjusted, and the losses per day are presented in the usual mode:
- personnel - about 681,580 (+1,350) people,
- tanks - 9079 (+8),
- combat armored vehicles - 18,199 (+24),
- artillery systems - 19,623 (+34),
- MLRS - 1234 (+2),
- air defense systems - 981 (+2),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 329 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,404 (+71),
- cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,111 (+77),
- special equipment - 3499 (+20).
08:12 The UK will provide Ukraine with a loan of 2.26 billion pounds sterling (about 2.93 billion dollars), which will be repaid from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets. The British government said that Ukraine will be able to use these funds to purchase and develop air defense systems, artillery and other types of equipment and weapons.
07:47 Drones attacked several enterprises in Russia at night. Thus, in the city of Rasskazovo in the Tambov region, as a result of the attack, a fire occurred at the Biokhim enterprise, Governor Maxim Egorov reported. The fire has been extinguished, there are no casualties. The Biokhim plant produces various types of alcohol.
Tula Region Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported that the UAV attack damaged the premises of the Yefremovsky distillery and the distillery in the village of Luzhkovsky in the Suvorovsky District. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties. Local residents also wrote about an attack on a thermal power plant in the Tula Region.
Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev reported a fire at an industrial enterprise after a UAV attack. He did not specify what kind of enterprise. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian air defense destroyed 18 drones over the Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Tula and Oryol regions overnight.
07:25 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's Russian strike on Zaporozhye has risen to 19, including an eight-year-old child, three people have died, said OVA head Ivan Fedorov.
07:08 At night, Russians struck a private residential sector in the city of Sumy with drones - three people were killed, including one child, OVA reported. In the morning, the enemy also struck a residential apartment building and critical infrastructure facilities, the consequences of the attack are being clarified. During the night, air defense forces have already shot down 25 "shahids" in the skies over Sumy region.
00:24 UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said after a meeting with Putin that he is ready to support efforts to achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine. Reuters writes that the two leaders held an informal conversation at Putin's residence near Moscow. "We continue to make efforts through mediation in the exchange of prisoners. And I assure you that we will continue to work in this direction. We are ready to make any effort to resolve crises and in the interests of peace, in the interests of both sides," the UAE president emphasized.
00:16 South Korea is considering sending military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine, Newsweek reports. A South Korean intelligence official told local media that the personnel could conduct interrogations in Ukraine or provide translation services if North Korean soldiers are captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They would also provide Kiev with information on North Korean military tactics, doctrine, and operations. The South Korean Defense Ministry later said it would consider measures to possibly supply lethal weapons to Ukraine with an "open attitude."
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