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[Korrespondent] Military operations in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation
The first news about the alleged offensive of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation appeared on Tuesday, August 6. Zelensky officially confirmed the operation only a week later.
On August 6, 2024, the Kursk region authorities stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly tried to break through to the region's territory, but the FSB Border Service and the Russian Armed Forces did not allow this. However, on that day, Z-publics wrote that Ukrainian tanks had entered the Kursk region. The breakthrough was soon acknowledged by the Russian authorities. According to some reports, Ukraine captured more territory in less than 48 hours than during the entire summer counteroffensive of 2023. According to Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels, dozens of Russians were taken prisoner. The West made it clear that it is not against such a Ukrainian operation. Korrespondent.net is following the events online.
18:22 In the village of Tetkino in the Kursk region, Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed enemy communications equipment, a vehicle and a building with personnel of the Russian army, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported and showed a video:
09:04 Russia has transferred about 50,000 of its troops to the Kursk region, weakening its positions in other areas of the front in Ukraine, where the Russians were conducting offensive operations, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky. He specified that such actions by the enemy led to the weakening of its groups, in particular, in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions and in the Kramatorsk direction. "This, of course, made it easier for us to conduct a defensive operation," Syrsky added.
00:50 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has "pushed through" the left flank of the Kursk group of Defense Forces. According to analysts, the enemy has recently pulled together a large amount of equipment and manpower and is now trying to gain a foothold in the area of the settlements of Novoivanovka and Zeleny Shlyakh. "An extremely unreliable tactical situation has formed for adjacent units to the north," the analysts add.
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05:02 Ukraine is capable of holding territory in the Kursk region for at least several months or even longer, Bloomberg writes, citing American officials. They note that Ukraine has not yet encountered serious problems in supplying supplies to the Kursk area, "as Russian forces have launched only limited counterattacks and focused on the offensive in eastern Ukraine." In addition, American officials noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, thanks to the efforts of their allies, now have a more stable supply of artillery ammunition
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Russia has transferred about 50,000 of its troops to the Kursk region, weakening its positions in other areas of the front in Ukraine, where the Russians were conducting offensive operations, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.
Yeah, so that's why Ukrainians abandoned Ugledar? Do they really believe Putin doesn't have reserves for such contingencies? Sometimes I try but this is why I have trouble reading the Ukrainian perspectives.
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^I'll give you a hint: Ukrainians believe they're Aryan.
Only a few years ago the Ukrainians who believed themselves Aryan hung out with Russians who believed themselves to be the Ur-whites of white supremacy… and half of them admired Israel for standing up to the Moslem world (the other half thought Jews cosmopolitan and icky, which goes to show) There’s no difference as far as I can tell.
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So? I don’t see any difference between thinking oneself superior and destined to rule because one is a long-lost natural cousin on the wrong side of the blanket and thinking oneself superior and destined to rule because one is a paler shade of white than anyone else.
They’re equally vicious and stupid. The details by which they differentiate themselves from each other are completely unimportant, as far as I can see, just like I don’t care about the differences between Leninists, Trotskyists, and Stalinists. Or between any of the Communists and the Nazis. There is no better, there is no less bad.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:30 Denmark plans to create a fund to finance weapons production in Ukraine, the country's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. According to him, the fund should pool investments from different countries to speed up production.
22:21 Lithuania will transfer 5,000 FPV drones of its own production to Ukraine, the country's Defense Ministry reported. The UAVs were purchased from five Lithuanian manufacturers. "We are buying more than 2,300 Lithuanian drones for our own Armed Forces, and we will also supply about 5,000 of these drones to Ukraine, which will strengthen both our and Ukrainian defense," the report says. The approximate cost of the kamikaze drones that Ukraine will receive is $5 million.
20:13 Zelensky said that during the meeting with the Pope, he agreed that Ukraine would hand over to the Vatican a list of journalists held in Russian captivity. "We discussed in detail the return of civilians, the return of deported children. And we hope for support. We are preparing a meeting in Canada this month on this very point of the Peace Formula, on humanitarian issues. I invited the Vatican to participate," the president said.
19:54 The World Bank Board of Directors has approved the creation of a special financial trust fund for Ukraine worth at least $10 billion, Shmyhal said. The main donors will be the United States and several other countries, and the size of the fund may be increased in the future when other donors join. According to the Prime Minister, the funds will primarily be used to support the budget - wages and social expenses, as well as critical recovery needs.
18:22 In the village of Tetkino in the Kursk region, Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed enemy communications equipment, a vehicle and a building with personnel of the Russian army, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported and showed a video:
16:58 Zelensky said at a press conference with Scholz that he would like to end the war no later than 2025. According to the president, he will present the chancellor with a plan "on how to force Russia to peace." At the same time, Zelensky clarified that "this plan is not in exchange for our peace initiative, but to strengthen Ukraine's position in order to get closer to peace. We can do this in cooperation."
16:10 Germany has provided Ukraine with a new military aid package worth 600 million euros, Scholz said at a joint press conference with Zelensky. The package includes the fifth Iris-T SLM air defense system, tanks, howitzers, drones, etc.
In addition, Scholz announced the allocation of another 1.4 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2024 together with Belgium, Denmark and Norway: "By the end of the year, with the support of our partners Belgium, Denmark and Norway, we will also provide Ukraine with another package of military support worth around 1.4 billion euros." He specified that this support includes additional IRIS-T and Skynex air defense systems, Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, self-propelled guns, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, combat drones, radars and artillery ammunition.
15:59 Journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in Russian captivity, was held in pretrial detention center No. 2 in the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region. Former prisoners say that this detention center is known for its brutal torture, said Tatyana Katrichenko, executive director of the public organization Media Initiative for Human Rights .
"Taganrog is known as one of the most brutal places of detention for Ukrainians in the Russian Federation. It is called hell on earth. In particular, defenders of Azovstal are held in Taganrog. Those released tell of terrible torture. There, everyone who they want to make criminals out of confesses to crimes - incriminates themselves. Then they are transferred to Rostov and tried," the human rights activist said.
15:48 Zelensky arrived in Germany for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, German media report.
14:26 Zelensky said that during the meeting with Pope Francis, the main issue was the return of Ukrainians from captivity. "We count on the Holy See's assistance in returning home Ukrainians captured in Russian captivity," the president emphasized.
13:57 The conference on the restoration of Ukraine will be held in Rome on July 10-11, 2025, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced.
13:29 The Russian army has advanced slightly in Toretsk, said Anastasia Bobovnikova, spokesperson for the Lugansk group of forces. According to her, the most difficult situation now is near Toretsk and New York. In addition, the Russians are not giving up on attempts to break through the defense in the Chasov Yar area. "There, despite the reduction in the number of assaults, the enemy is bringing new reinforcements to the forward positions. And we think that this is the calm before the storm, and they will intensify assault operations in this direction," Bobovnikova noted.
13:15 The World Bank will create a fund for Ukraine, which will be financed by the United States, Canada and Japan as part of a $50 billion G7 loan, Reuters writes, citing three sources. The financial institution's president, Ajay Banga, noted that the World Bank has successful experience in managing large non-military funds and can repeat this in the case of Ukraine.
12:53 Russia is losing one soldier per 2.5 square meters on the front, said Natalia Kostenko, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna. According to her, these figures confirm Russia's attempts to seize Vuhledar.
12:34 As a result of the Ukrainian strike on the Khanskaya airfield in Adygea on the night of October 10, four missiles, 15 aerial bombs and 41 UMPK were destroyed, the opposition Russian publication Astra reports, citing sources. The runway was also partially destroyed. According to the publication, one of the drones hit an ammunition depot, as a result of which the X-31 missile, three X-35 missiles and 15 UMBP aerial bombs detonated. Also lost were 41 unified planning and correction modules (they are installed on aerial bombs, which increases the range by tens of kilometers): 20 UMPK-500M, 16 UMPK-500 and five UMPK. Another UAV hit the runway.
12:08 Zelensky arrived in the Vatican, where he will meet with Pope Francis.
11:36 The Foreign Ministry has denied information from a number of Western media outlets about Ukraine's alleged readiness to make concessions to the Russian Federation at the expense of its territories. "Such statements are only perceived by the aggressor as a sign of weakness, giving it unjustified hope for the success of its aggression and the effectiveness of its ultimatums and blackmail," the ministry's statement reads. The Foreign Ministry also emphasized that the only realistic way to restore a comprehensive, fair and sustainable peace for Ukraine was and remains the "peace formula."
11:24 Air defense destroyed 29 out of 66 attack UAVs in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions at night, the Air Force reported. Another 31 enemy drones were lost in different regions of Ukraine, two drones turned towards Russia, four more are in Ukrainian airspace, combat operations continue. In addition to drones, Russia attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and an Kh-31P guided air missile at night.
11:12 The number of victims of the Russian missile attack on the port infrastructure in Odessa on October 9 has increased to nine people - another wounded person died in the hospital, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. Over the past two days, 13 civilians have died as a result of Russian attacks in the region, most of them young people.
10:40 France plans to transfer 12 to 20 Mirage 2000-5F fighters to Ukraine, Avions Legendaires writes. Deliveries are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2025. The aircraft are currently undergoing modernization, which should make them more "versatile." One of the main changes will be the Mirage's ability to carry and fire the SCALP-EG cruise missile, which is already in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
09:51 About 40-50% of the territory of Toretsk remains under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the head of the city military administration, Vasyl Chinchik. According to him, Ukrainian forces are holding their positions; over the past 24 hours, the Russians have failed to advance.
09:39 In the Kharkiv region, over the past day, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in the village of Kruglyakovka, Kupyansk district, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another five people were injured as a result of shelling in the village of Cherkasskaya Lozovaya, Kharkiv district (including three children) and one - in Kupyansk.
09:27 In Donetsk Oblast, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling on October 10 - in Novoselidovka. Four more people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:04 Russia has transferred about 50,000 of its troops to the Kursk region, weakening its positions in other areas of the front in Ukraine, where the Russians were conducting offensive operations, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky. He specified that such actions by the enemy led to the weakening of its groups, in particular, in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions and in the Kramatorsk direction. "This, of course, made it easier for us to conduct a defensive operation," Syrsky added.
08:42 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:28 Russia attacked the Odessa region with ballistic missiles - four people were killed, including a 16-year-old teenager, ten were wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. As a result of the attack, a two-story building in which civilians lived and worked was destroyed.
08:11 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 11:
personnel - about 666,340 (+1140) people,
tanks - 8953 (+8),
combat armored vehicles - 17,800 (+35),
artillery systems - 19,322 (+59),
MLRS - 1229 (+4),
air defense systems - 976 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 329 (+1),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,837 (+70),
cruise missiles - 2619 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 26,398 (+84),
special equipment - 3396 (+10).
07:49 Three people were injured as a result of yesterday's Russian strike on Nikolaev, OVA head Vitaly Kim reported. He said that the enemy launched a double strike with a 20-minute interval using ballistic missiles (preliminary - Iskander-M) on a critical infrastructure facility in the city. A fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished. Four apartment buildings and one private home were damaged.
01:07 Zelensky held talks with the head of the Council of Ministers of the country Giorgia Meloni in Italy. The President said that he presented her with his "victory plan": "We discussed all aspects of the plan very productively today. The main thing is to strengthen Ukraine's position and our relations with our closest partners in such a way that we create the necessary conditions, the necessary fair atmosphere for honest diplomacy." The parties also discussed the preparation of a new military aid package and a conference on the restoration of Ukraine, which will be held in Italy.
00:36 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied three settlements in the area of the city of Mirnograd in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region - Nikolaevka, Krasny Yar, Krutoy Yar. Analysts note that "Nikolaevka is essentially the last settlement before Mirnograd. Therefore, soon the large city will feel attempts to pressure and break through to the southern outskirts."
Experts also report that the Russian army has "pushed through" the left flank of the Kursk group of the Defense Forces. According to analysts, the enemy has recently pulled in a large amount of equipment and manpower and is now trying to gain a foothold in the area of the settlements of Novoivanovka and Zeleny Shlyakh. "An extremely unreliable tactical situation has formed for adjacent units to the north," the analysts add.
The Russian Ministry of Defense failed to their normal daily report available.
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces continued offensive operations and inflicted losses on formations of the 22nd, 41st, 47th, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd and 95th Air Assault Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, 103rd, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Daryino, Lyubimovka, Tolsty Lug, Novy Put, and Plekhovo.
Moreover, over the past 24 hours, units of the Sever Group of Forces repelled five enemy attacks in the direction of Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Novaya Sorochina, and Kremyanoye.
As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops killed and wounded; one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured fighting vehicle, and one motor vehicle were destroyed.
Army Aviation and artillery strikes inflicted losses on manpower clusters and hardware of the 21st, 22nd, 47th, 61st Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st, 17th National Guard brigades, 103rd, 112th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Bondarevka, Goncharovka, Daryino, Zazulevka, Kurilovka, Leonidovo, Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novy Put, Nizhny Klin, Novoivanovka, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Sverdlikovo, Tolsty Lug, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes on concentration areas and reserves of the 21st, 47th, 115th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 78th Air Assault Regiment, 103rd, and 119th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Belopolye, Bunyakino, Dibrova, Iskriskovshchina, Katerinovka, Malushino, Makeyevka, Mirlogi, Miropolye, Obody, Pavlovka, Rechki, Stepanovka, and Shpil (Sumy region).
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 300 troops, 13 units of hardware, including five tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured fighting vehicles as well as four artillery guns, one MLRS launcher, one mortar, one electronic warfare station, and four motor vehicles. One serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 21,900 troops, 144 tanks, 69 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armoured personnel carriers, 897 armoured fighting vehicles, 594 motor vehicles, 181 artillery guns, 34 MLRS launchers, including eight of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the U.S., nine SAM launchers, five transport-loading vehicles, 47 electronic warfare stations and nine counter-battery radars, three air defence radars, 22 engineering and other vehicles, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 11.10.2024 to 00:00 12.10.2024.
A total of 28 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of two civilians being injured, including a teenager. Two employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry were injured.
DAMAGED:
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
Seven artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 21 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 84 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:01 Sumy region under attack by Russian Aerospace Forces: Enemy reserves and military facilities are being destroyed.
21:00 The Ukrainian army is constantly retreating, and talk about the 1991 borders is meaningless, said the commander of the K-2 battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyrylo Veres.
19:08 Destruction of FPV drone of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the AK-74M from the first person.
A serviceman of the anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Ivanovo Airborne Forces unit destroyed an enemy kamikaze FPV drone near the village of Chasov Yar, which was trying to attack Russian soldiers, with targeted fire from small arms.
18:41 Russian forces have already liberated 15 of the settlements in Kursk Oblast captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alaudinov reported in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
18:11 The situation in Dzerzhinsk in the Kiev-occupied part of the DPR: fierce street fighting continues in the city. The Russian Armed Forces control more than half of the settlement.
18:08 Footage of destruction of the Ukrainian armored fighting vehicle "Kozak" in the Kupyansk direction.
17:07 Consequences of "arrival" at the parking lot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the Khar'kov region.
16:24 Russian troops are advancing in the Kursk region, daily destroying a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, reported Apty Alaudinov.
16:17 Units of 1220mm 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled mortarss suppressed Ukrainian Armed Forces firing points in the border area of ??Kursk Oblast –video.
16:00 Explosions in Sumy and Khar'kov regions. Also, "Geran" are flying in the direction of Kirovograd.
15:34 Kursk direction: advance of Russian troops
In the Glushkovsky district near Vesyoloye, the Russian Armed Forces were able to push the enemy back to the railroad and approach the outskirts of the New Way. In addition, it was possible to clarify the situation in Medvezhye: Russian troops not only liberated the village, but also drove the enemy out of the adjacent forest belts.
Thus, units of the 137th Airborne Division, 56th Airborne Assault Regiment, 51st Airborne Division, 155th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade, 83rd Separate Airborne Assault Brigade and 1434th "Akhmat-Chechnya" Regiment have almost completely driven out Ukrainian formations from the Glushkovsky district.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces remain present only in the ravine south of Krasnooktyabrsky and in Novy Put, as well as a small triangle with forest belts south of the railway.
In the Korenevsky district, the Russian Armed Forces were also able to make significant progress in the vicinity of Lyubimovka — Zeleny Shlyakh, the villages of Pokrovsky and Nizhny Klin came under control. At the same time, counter-battles are still taking place in Lyubimovka, the enemy is "clinging" to the settlement, finding itself in semi-encirclement on the outskirts and in the village of Tolsty Lug.
In the Sudzhansky district, fighting also continues and the Russian Armed Forces are advancing.
Russian troops are advancing from the Ulanok side through the swampy forests near the Psel River and have now “half-captured” Plekhovo, disrupting the supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, bypassing it from the south and north.
In the north, a large forest has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces; according to preliminary information, the 38N-515 highway in the Plekhovo-Mahnovka section has already been cut off. To the south, Russian troops have taken several strongholds.
Further north, in the area of Russkaya Konopelka, fighting continues: neither side has complete control over the settlement, but the initiative here belongs to the Russian paratroopers.
To the south, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing along the railway towards Kolmakov and Agronom, taking control of the 66th kilometer stopping point.
To the southwest of the railway there is also an advance of the Russian Armed Forces. The enemy has been driven out of several forest belts to the east of the gas station, for which fighting is underway.
15:11 Problems with logistics and confusion are being noted in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kursk region, the security forces reported.
“According to data received from radio broadcasts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently in disarray in the Kursk border area; there are major problems with logistics,” the representative of the security forces specified.
15:09 Frontovaya Ptichka reported on the active advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Pokrovsky direction:
"Our motorized riflemen are actively developing an offensive in two directions. After the liberation of Krasny Yar, Sukhoi Yar and Luch are next in line. The T-72B3 and T-80BVM tanks are already fueled. The BMDs are ready. We are moving out!"
14:49 The liberation of the village of Ostrovskoye in the DPR opens a direct route for Russian troops to Kurakhovo, which it borders, security forces reported.
14:22 An explosion occurred in the city of Sumy in northern Ukraine, the Ukrainian publication "Public. News" reported.
14:12 The advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced and are fighting in Zeleny Shlyakh, Novonikolayevka and Lyubimovka.
14:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces leave Ostrovskoe and go to Kurakhovo, the Russian army is approaching the city.
13:35 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from October 5 to 11, 2024):
From October 5 to 11, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 38 group strikes with high-precision weapons, including hypersonic aeroballistic missiles "Kinzhal", as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result of the strikes, oil and gas and energy facilities that ensured the operation of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, as well as the infrastructure of military airfields, were damaged.
In addition, workshops for the production and storage of unmanned boats and UAVs, fuel depots, ammunition depots and military-technical equipment, as well as temporary deployment points for units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, nationalist groups and foreign mercenaries were hit.
During the week, units of the North group of forces continued the operation to destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces formations in the Kursk region, during which they liberated the settlements of Novaya Sorochina and Pokrovsky. Air strikes, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery fire defeated units of six mechanized, a tank, three airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, four territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade. In the Volchansk and Liptsov directions, units of the motorized infantry, ranger, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade were defeated.
During the week, units of the "West" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense and took more advantageous positions. They defeated formations of two tank, six mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades and two national guard brigades. A total of 23 counterattacks of assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
As a result of decisive actions by units of the "Southern" group of troops, the settlements of Zhelannoye Vtoroy and Ostrovskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic were liberated. The manpower and equipment of five mechanized, motorized infantry, two infantry, assault, mountain assault, airborne assault, two airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and two national guard brigades were defeated.
The active actions of the units of the "Center" group of forces liberated the settlement of Grodovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. The formations of the tank, seven mechanized, motorized infantry, two infantry, ranger, airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry, three territorial defense brigades and three brigades of the National Guard were defeated. A total of 58 counterattacks of the enemy assault groups were repelled.
As a result of coordinated actions by units of the "East" military group, the settlement of Zolotaya Niva in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, four territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade were defeated. A total of 10 counterattacks of assault units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on formations of two mechanized, infantry, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and four territorial defense brigades.
Over the course of a week, 43 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the contact line.
Over the course of a week, air defense systems shot down three US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, three French-made Hammer guided air bombs, a guided missile from the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system converted for firing at ground targets, 33 US-made HIMARS rockets, and 603 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles
. 13:17 Russian troops control more than half of Toretsk, said local Gauleiter Vasily Chinchik.
"Approximately 40-50% of the city, one could say, is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The rest of the territory is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces," he said.
Earlier it was reported that Russian troops had advanced into the central part of Toretsk. Fierce fighting in the city continues.
12:35 Strikes were carried out on enemy targets in Kremenchuk
12:24 In Tolstoy Lug, Kursk region, a mop up operation against the Ukrainian Armed Forces has begun.
12:12 As a result of active actions by units of the "Southern" group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces, the settlement of Ostrovskoye in the DPR was liberated, reported military correspondent Rudenko.
11:07 Russian troops have come close to the city of Kurakhovo from the eastern side, the security forces reported. Active work is underway to the northeast of Kurakhovo, from where the city is just over one kilometer away.
10:52 In the morning, the enemy admits that up to 60% of Dzerzhinsk has already been liberated by Russian troops. Over the past week, serious progress has been made in liberating this important city. With the liberation of Dzerzhinsk and the clearing of the adjacent territories, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' ability to shell heroic Gorlovka will be significantly reduced.
10:28 After the liberation of Lyubimovka in the Kursk region, Russian troops began assault operations in Novoivanovka. This potentially opens the way to Malaya Loknya and the further "cutting off of a whole piece" of the territory occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north.
10:18 In the western Ukraine in the city of Starokostiantyniv, strikes are again being carried out on enemy targets
09:47 The situation in Chasovy Yar is moving towards taking the defending garrison of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into operational encirclement, said the chief of the operational headquarters of the Melodiya intelligence center of the 88th volunteer brigade "Espanola" with the call sign "Chukcha".
In particular, “heavy fighting is underway for the Oktyabrsky microdistrict, and tasks are being resolved to cut off the routes for delivering ammunition and provisions to the city.”
09:04 Russian military personnel have driven out Ukrainian Armed Forces units from their positions in the Myasozharovka area and, having advanced 1.5 km, have reached the administrative border of the LPR, military expert Andrei Marochko reported.
08:52 Ka-52m crew storn off rotation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
08:11 The Ukrainian Armed Forces acknowledge the general deterioration of the situation in the western part of the Kursk salient. It is reported that the Russian Armed Forces have made serious advances in the area of Lyubimovka and Novoivanovka, with significant losses and disruption of defense communications. They are trying to transfer reserves to problem areas via Sudzha.
08:07 Starlink satellite antennas destroyed on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Unmanned aerial vehicle operators detect and destroy communication antennas and repeaters to prevent the enemy from controlling their FPV drones. During another flight over the right bank of the Dnieper, a UAV operator discovered camouflaged Starlink satellite antennas. A decision was made to destroy them with a kamikaze drone strike.
08:00 More trophies took away scouts of the "Center" troop group in the Avdeevka direction.
During the assault on one of the forest belts on the approaches to the settlement of Grodovka in the DPR, servicemen of the reconnaissance unit destroyed a mortar battery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and took two Ukrainian 82mm mortars KBA-48M1 as trophies, after which they struck the retreating enemy forces with them.
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[REGNUM] After the surrender of Ugledar
…aka Vuhledar in Ukrainian…
and the exposed suffering of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, which seemed to give an underground shock, a powerful wave of "betrayal" swept through Ukraine, the peak of which was the adoption of the law "on the legalization of desertion." This expression belongs to the well-known people's deputy Maryana Bezuglya, who, incidentally, voted for it herself - in order to then loudly criticize it.
The fact is that the problems with maintaining discipline in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, motivating servicemen and, as a result, mass desertion have become so large-scale that they can no longer be ignored. But punishing for “unauthorized abandonment of the unit,” especially using the criminal article on desertion, means to completely ruin everything.
Here is a fresh example, also connected with Ugledar: fighters of the 123rd Troops brigade refused to carry out a combat mission in Donbass and voluntarily left the military unit. After that, the commander of one of the battalions, Igor Grib, shot himself. After all, it was this brigade that was supposed to take up positions further behind the abandoned city. But since this did not happen, the "black Zaporozhians" exhausted in the battles for the city were sent there, which caused an uproar.
The fugitives returned home to Voznesensk in the Nikolaev region and held a rally to speak out about their lack of training and weapons to participate in military operations. Now they are facing criminal liability - but only because they are available. Most simply "disappear."
It is precisely these people that Bill No. 11 322, adopted on October 8 in the first reading, speaks about. It eases the responsibility for the first unauthorized absence if the serviceman returns to service on his own. The contract is immediately automatically extended, payments and the issuance of due allowances are resumed, benefits and guarantees are included. If a criminal case has already been initiated on the fact of absence, then there is nothing to worry about.
This humanism is surprising for Ukraine, but it can be explained by the catastrophic (and this is again not our definition) situation at the front.
IA Regnum has already cited an interesting episode, again from the Ugledar history, when out of 50 elderly “recruits” sent to strengthen the city’s defense, only four made it to their positions, but they also deserted during the first rotation.
"30 of them were immediately sent to rear units and hospitals, since their health was unfit for service on the front lines (because the TCC was fulfilling the conscription plan and mobilizing the sick). Of the remaining 20, 16 servicemen deserted on the second day. Thus, four were sent to the positions out of 50 people, and after the first rotation, these four also deserted," said journalist Vladimir Boyko, a serviceman in one of the Troops brigades,in the worldly world - a well-known whistleblower and troublemaker.
But, besides him, the problem with soldiers who have no desire to die for Zelensky's regime is being trumpeted from literally every iron. Former MP Yegor Firsov, who serves in the Ukrainian army, recently shocked viewers of the "unified telethon" by telling how a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declared that he would not shoot at Russians because it was a fratricidal war. And he did it in Russian.
And the reason for all this, Firsov (who, by the way, is a Russian speaker in everyday life) muses, is forced mobilization, which does not take into account the mood of those who are sent to the army. "The TCC runs after a man, pushes him into a minibus, does not give him the opportunity to call his relatives, finish his business, after a month of training he immediately found himself in a trench - there can be different moods," the MP emphasized.
Meanwhile, enemy voices from CNN are also reporting that the Ukrainian army is suffering from low morale and “socks,” which is especially felt in infantry units “in the east of the country.”
Six Ukrainian officers who are currently fighting or who have recently left their units confirmed that desertion and insubordination are becoming increasingly common among newly mobilized soldiers. Officer Dima left his position after losses in his unit because he could no longer watch his men die (more than half of the 800 men were killed or seriously wounded).
At the same time, many mobilized soldiers refuse to return to their positions after the first rotation.
"Not all mobilized soldiers leave their positions, but most do. When new guys come here, they see how difficult it is here. They see a lot of enemy drones, artillery and mortars. They go to their positions once and, if they survive, they never come back. They either leave their positions, or refuse to go into battle, or try to find a way to leave the army," one of the Ukrainian commanders fighting in the Pokrovsk area told CNN.
According to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in the first four months of 2024 alone, almost 19,000 criminal cases were opened against soldiers who abandoned their posts or deserted. However, their real number is much higher, since commanders try to resolve these issues informally, convincing soldiers to return to service without punishment.
"It will only get worse. Until March 2024, it was still possible to fix the situation, but today the collapse of the army has reached such a scale that no measures will help - there are simply no people at the front. There are none and there will not be. Since the "busified" soldiers are not going to die for the rotten corrupt regime, and the means of coercion - that is, military justice - were liquidated by the 95th quarter back in 2019," writes Boyko, according to whom there are already 170 thousand deserters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
And there will be even more, since along with the decriminalization of desertion, the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada approved a bill on amendments to Article 24 of the Law of Ukraine "On Military Duty and Military Service", according to which deserters "will forever remain on the lists of the unit". At the same time, a member of the committee, People's Deputy Fedir Venislavsky announced that the facts of leaving the place of service will not be entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
So the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen can now lay down their arms and leave the frontline home with impunity. And they are happy to take advantage of this.
"For example, in my military unit alone, in August-September 2024, after amendments were made to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, half of the servicemen deserted from the number who voluntarily left service over the previous 2.5 years. And their number is growing every week. Because why serve if you can not serve and nothing will happen for it?" Boyko reasons.
But on paper, military units will remain staffed - after all, commanders will not be able to cross out a deserter and take another person in his place. And fugitive soldiers are not eager to return to the trenches.
The publication "Strana" quotes people involved in illegal border crossings, they say that previously deserters were rare among clients. However, since about May, one or more servicemen were in almost every group. And in Romania, no one checks this, unless you admit it yourself.
One of these "skiers" is 42-year-old Sergey, with whom Ukrainian journalists spoke. Mobilized in 2023, after his second injury he went to the Special Operations Department, "sat out for some time with relatives in a village near Vinnytsia, then found a "corridor" to Romania." He explains his actions simply: everyone around him is dying, becoming crippled, and at the same time it is completely unclear how it will all end and when. "And life goes by..."
Everyone understands that in Ukraine, given the current situation, there is no future.
Even the authoritative The Economist writes without embarrassment: "There is no clear way out of the army once they have joined it, which makes mobilization seem like a one-way ticket to the morgue." What can we say about people who were broken into pieces on the street and forced to fight. They have been fleeing at the first opportunity since the "counteroffensive", when it suddenly turned out that all the bravado and hope for Western help turned into terrible losses and no results.
Former MP Igor Mosiychuk, who embodied the incredible type of "peace-loving Banderite" and branded the government from a safe foreign country, tells a chilling story in his Telegram channel. The 129th separate Krivoy Rog brigade of the Troops of Russia sent recently mobilized men. Without documents, even without a military ID - they said that they would send more after they were processed, apparently there was no time.
"Do you understand what will happen next? They will die, and no one will even know who they are and what they are. Can you imagine the cynicism of the bastards who have pinned on general's shoulder straps, who are awarded by the president, and who dispose of Ukrainians? And the most important thing in this situation is the following: desertion is causing the collapse of the front. But if it becomes a mass phenomenon, if such rallies as in Voznesensk are constantly happening, then you understand that this is a complete collapse, catastrophic, and a threat to our statehood," groans Mosiychuk, who is now for peace and negotiations with Russia.
Although, in fact, he is a former deputy commander of the Azov* battalion (at the dawn of its existence), who brought the Berdyansk traffic cops to their knees, threatened Crimea with "friendship trains" on behalf of the Right Sector* and joyfully welcomed May 2 in Odessa. Caught taking a bribe, he brands the "greens" for their "sad, criminal scheme", predicting the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
People like Mosiychuk paint the situation in dark colors, predicting the collapse of the front and tens of thousands more deserters. And although they, of course, exaggerate everything somewhat, the problems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are really big. In order to cover the personnel deficit, it is necessary to mobilize 20-year-olds, which is currently prohibited. But this is what is periodically loudly discussed - including by foreign comrades who give money for the war.
As a temporary measure, commanders of some particularly trusted military units will be given the right to staff combat units with volunteers, bypassing the TCC. But, as experienced people predict, this list will certainly include “blatnye battalions” that will recruit “ukhilyanty” for money and share with the General Staff, which forms the list.
So now the Ukrainian leadership with its menacing mood of "not giving up an inch to the enemy" faces a difficult choice. To start mobilizing student youth - to get hysteria, chaos and flight across the border with double force. Not to start - in a few months there will really be no one to fight, "busification" has exhausted itself, and deserters who have smelled death will definitely not be lured back.
"Western partners" can continue to allocate money, provide weapons and strengthen sanctions against Russia. But there is one weak link in this scheme: there is no one to replace Ukrainians as manpower. And if so, a turning point in the war will inevitably come, despite all the wishes of Zelensky and his company.
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[Regnum] The Russian Armed Forces (AF) are using drones to record cases of mass shootings by Ukrainian blocking units of Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) fighters who are trying to escape from the line of combat contact. This was reported by an attack aircraft of one of the Russian units with the call sign Shturman.
According to the fighter, when the enemy runs out of ammunition, they try to retreat. Then the Ukrainian Armed Forces' barrier detachments open fire on them.
"They open fire on them with machine guns or something heavier. During each assault or counterattack, up to ten Ukrainian servicemen die," TASS quotes Shturman as saying.
The attacker also added that Ukrainian units are suffering heavy losses of personnel. But despite this, the number of fighters killed under friendly fire is increasing.
On July 16, Regnum news agency reported that Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were shooting their fellow soldiers who were trying to surrender in Rabotino. According to the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, in other parts of the front, Ukrainian fighters who were trying to surrender were being shot by their own fellow soldiers.
In Kursk Oblast, Kiev militants shot their own comrades for attempting to surrender. The incident occurred near the village of Vesyoloye in Glushkovsky District. Ukrainian fighters were driving at full speed toward Russian positions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters had to break through the fire of their comrades. The crew did not survive.
Russia's always has been a brown water/coastal navy.
[Regnum] Russia has developed a conceptual design for the newest aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy. It was presented by the Krylov State Research Center. This was reported on October 11 by the center's general director Oleg Savchenko.
In a conversation with RIA Novosti, he specified that the design of the vessel, called the sea-based aircraft carrier complex, was completed two years ago. The center's specialists continue to provide scientific support for the aircraft carrier project.
At the moment, the Navy has only one aircraft carrier in combat service: Admiral Kuznetsov. It is currently undergoing repairs and modernization.
It is noted that the decision to build a new aircraft carrier has not yet been made.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, 50 new ships will join the Russian Navy by the end of 2024. According to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Viktor Yevtukhov, the list will include boats, as well as small missile ships and support vessels. Last year, 32 ships joined the Russian fleet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the end of last year that five frigates, eight corvettes, 13 small missile ships and more than 50 other ships of various classes were at various stages of completion at Russian shipyards. The head of state emphasized that Russian shipbuilding had entered a new important stage — serial production of combat ships of various classes.
Alexey Rakhmanov, who at that time held the post of head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, stated that the return of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to the navy will take place in 2024. Repair and modernization of the ship began in 2017.
The US Navy conducted surveillance of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in 2011, when the ship was in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria. This is stated in an author's publication by former US Congress employee, analyst Brandon Weichert for The National Interest.
"The U.S. Navy kept a close eye on the carrier while deploying to the Mediterranean to support Syria in 2011," Weichert said.
According to him, the surveillance was allegedly connected with the desire to “help in case the ship starts to sink.”
Weichert did not specify the reason why the Russian ship was supposed to sink.
On December 6, 2011, Admiral Kuznetsov set out with a detachment of Northern Fleet ships to the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Syria.
The heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser was laid down at the Black Sea Shipyard on September 1, 1982 and launched on December 4, 1985. The aircraft carrier was named "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" only on October 4, 1990, having changed several names before that. In January 1991, the ship was assigned to the Northern Fleet.
The ship can accommodate a crew of 1,960 people, including 518 officers and 210 warrant officers. The ship is equipped with four steam turbines with a capacity of 50 thousand horsepower each, nine turbo generators and six diesel generators with a capacity of 1,500 kW each. In addition, the ship is capable of carrying 26 aircraft and 24 helicopters.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Link to the Telegram channel is in Russian.
[ColonelCassad] Just the other day I came across information on the Internet that the governor of the Belgorod region advertises a website where they "train" people in first aid. This is not an isolated case, more and more often, against the backdrop of a special military operation, organizations have begun to appear that are trying to win grants (targeted cash subsidies) for "training" citizens. What is the main problem? Naturally, the intention is good on the one hand, but on the other - the devil is in the details.
Almost every training portal tells us how to apply a tourniquet and everywhere, without exception, mistakes are noticeable that, unfortunately, will cost the life of the victim, and will cause psychological trauma to the rescuer in the future. Just a week ago I wrote that the most common mistake is the opinion that a person has the knowledge and skills to provide assistance.
A similar situation is observed on the part of employers. All employee training comes down to simply signing in logs on safety precautions, etc. And now in more detail.
The video posted on the First Aid portal requires the rescuer to apply a tourniquet as close to the wound as possible. But what if the victim (especially in Belgorod) received multiple injuries? This is more difficult. Let's imagine that a shell exploded next to the victim and caused him multiple wounds. The victim is on his back and a blood stain is spreading under his clothes. Can you determine the type of bleeding? Can you determine where exactly the blood is flowing from?
It is for this reason that tactical medicine teaches people to apply a tourniquet as high and as tightly as possible. In our classes, we constantly show photographs of fatal outcomes when the tourniquet was applied as close to the wound as possible, and above the tourniquet there are small wounds, severed arteries, and then death.
It turns out that, unfortunately, many are still trying to teach people using old methods. Where there is no finger pressure and no direct pressure on the wound, there is just a tourniquet, and then a call to the ambulance. Next week I will try to tell you how fast a victim of a traumatic limb amputation or other injuries can "flow out" and what is the advantage of finger pressure.
Let's go back to the above-mentioned site, but what if a person has a severed artery in his arm and leg? or in both legs and an arm? Is it difficult? Just apply a tourniquet?
Dear friends, I urge you to study and study for real. For the good!
I can only support the author, over the years of the SVO I have seen a lot of photos and videos with different types of injuries to our and Ukrainian soldiers (if anyone is interested in such things, watch the "Khilera" channel, but this is not for the faint of heart), often the cause of death is an incorrectly applied tourniquet. One friend died this way in 2023, the tourniquet was applied incorrectly and it "flowed out".
In general, it is necessary to study tactical medicine in a real way. Honor and respect to military doctors who save lives. In terms of the quality of military medicine, this is the most effective war of the last decades, the percentage of rescues is very high.
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There are only 4 places to put a TQ. Standard was self-application 1-handed in 30 seconds blindfolded. When your life - or your buddy's - is on the line, one tends to practice. Carry 2 every day - 1 for me and 1 for thee. Those 2 plus an Israeli, a chest seal, and hemostat gauze.
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Need one for each limb and as close to the torso as possible and need to be tight enough to make the victim cry out in pain if conscious. If blood is still seeping it isn't tight enough.
For areas you can't do that, you have to pack and put pressure so they can last long enough to get to the surgeon
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