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[Korrespondent] 20:36 Russians carried out aerial bombing strikes on Konstantinovka in Donetsk region: one person was killed, three were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. The enemy dropped two FAB-250 on the city this afternoon: ten private houses, two multi-story buildings, two administrative buildings, nine non-residential premises were damaged.
17:38 Rheinmetall intends to launch four weapons manufacturing plants in Ukraine, with the first plant already operating and the second "on the way," said Armin Papperger, director of the German concern. According to him, gunpowder and ammunition manufacturing plants are being built. An air defense system manufacturing enterprise is also expected to be created.
16:59 The death toll in Dnipro as a result of the Russian strike overnight has increased to five - rescuers have pulled another body out of the rubble. 21 people were injured, said OVA head Serhiy Lysak. More than 20 apartment buildings were damaged in the city, one was destroyed and another is in disrepair.
16:36 Republican US vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has said that Ukraine must give up its territory to end the war with Russia: "The Ukrainians are going to have to make that decision... They're already too exhausted." J.D. Vance says that such ideas are already slipping through in private conversations with Ukrainian officials: "They're starting to talk about it now. They're saying this can't go on forever. They don't have the people, they don't have the weapons, they don't have the money."
15:41 By Monday, October 28, 5,000 North Korean soldiers will be transferred to the Kursk region, The New York Times reports, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. According to him, the soldiers are part of an elite unit of the Korean People's Army. They will be delivered from Vladivostok by Il-76 transport planes to a military airfield in the European part of Russia, and then sent to the combat zone.
The official also said that there were mixed signals about whether additional North Korean troops would be sent to participate in the fighting on Ukrainian territory. They are currently concentrated only in the Kursk region.
Meanwhile, the first secretary of the DPRK mission to the UN, Il Ha Kim, denied the transfer of Korean troops to Russia. He claims that these accusations against Pyongyang are "dirty maneuvers by the US and its allies to mask their own crimes and prolong the conflict in Ukraine."
12:47 Air defense destroyed 44 out of 91 enemy UAVs (Shahed and unspecified types) in the Kirovograd, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky and Kursk regions at night, the Air Force reported. One drone left the airspace in the direction of Belarus, 44 Russian drones were lost, and another enemy UAV remains in the airspace of Ukraine.
In addition, during today's attack, Russia used three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, two Kh-59 guided air missiles and two missiles of an unspecified type. The enemy used missiles to strike civilian infrastructure facilities in Sumy Oblast and the Dnieper.
11:55 As a result of the night attack, there is partial power outage in four settlements of the Khmelnytskyi district, including the regional center, reported the head of the OVA Serhiy Tyurin. A hotel and two houses were damaged, no one was hurt.
11:46 In Dnipro, the death toll from the night attack has risen to four - another body was found under the rubble of a house. The number of injured has risen to 20, including four children aged eight to 17, said OVA head Serhiy Lysak.
10:59 Over the past evening and night, Russian troops struck Kiev, Dnipro, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi and other regions of Ukraine. In Dnipro, one of the most important hospitals in the country, the Mechnikov Hospital, was damaged, as well as ordinary residential buildings, Zelensky said.
09:38 Russians shelled the village of Borovaya in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:14 In the Kiev region, as a result of a night Russian attack, one person was killed and a 13-year-old child was injured, reported the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 26:
personnel - about 687,600 (+1690) people,
tanks - 9109 (+12),
combat armored vehicles - 18,332 (+45),
artillery systems - 19,782 (+29),
MLRS - 1240 (+2),
air defense systems - 984 (+2),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 329 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,726 (+56),
cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,460 (+95),
special equipment - 3541 (+6).
08:17 At night, the Russian army fired artillery at Kherson, one person was injured, OVA reported. Over the previous day, three people were killed and seven were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region, including one child.
08:11 In Donetsk region on October 25 as a result of Russian shelling one person was wounded - in Donetsk, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
07:45 Late in the evening of October 25, Russians launched a missile attack on the Dnieper: three people were killed, including a child, 19 were injured, including four children, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak. As a result of the attack, 13 apartment buildings and two private houses, a hospital, and cars were damaged.
07:39 As a result of yesterday's attack on Kiev by Russian UAVs in the Solomensky district, one person was killed and five were injured, reported the head of the KGVA, Sergei Popko. The deceased was a girl born in 2009.
06:08 In parallel with using the proceeds from frozen Russian assets through a $50 billion loan from the G7 countries, Ukraine is working with partners to confiscate the entire amount of blocked Russian funds, about $300 billion, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova told Ukrinform. According to her, the United States supports full confiscation, but other G7 member countries need to be convinced.
02:13 G7 leaders issued a joint statement announcing that they had reached a consensus on how to provide Ukraine with about $50 billion in loans, to be repaid using revenue from frozen Russian assets. The funds would be distributed through several channels to support budgetary, military and reconstruction assistance for Ukraine.
00:02 The enemy launched missile strikes on the infrastructure of the cities of Sumy and Konotop, OVA reported.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian defenders bravely hold the line.
The hottest part is in the Pokrovsky direction. Fierce battles are being fought in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Krutoy Yar, Nikolaevka and Selidovoye.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information on the Russian invasion as of 16:00 on October 26.
It is reported that since the beginning of the day, the total number of military clashes along the entire front line has increased to 90.
The occupiers continue to use aviation, in particular, UABs, and attack in almost all directions of the east and south of our country, especially actively in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions. The defense forces hold the lines and take all necessary measures to prevent a breakthrough of the defense.
The occupier continues to use artillery and aviation on the territory of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
According to currently available information, the enemy carried out 18 airstrikes on the territory of the Kursk region, using 29 UABs.
Seven combat clashes took place in the Kharkov direction today. Our troops repelled four Russian attacks in the areas of Vovchansk and Staritsa. Three more combat clashes near Staritsa are still ongoing.
Five assault actions of the invaders were repelled near Kondrashovka, Sinkovka, Kruglyakovka, Berestovoye and Pervomayskoye in the Kupyansk direction. Near Kruglyakovka and Kondrashovka, three more clashes continue. The enemy is actively using aviation. Peschanoye, Glushkovka, Zagryzovoye were hit by UABs, and Berestovo was also hit by unguided air missiles.
In the Liman direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, is attacking in the areas of Grekovka, Makeyevka, Terny, Torskoye, Serebryanka and Grigorovka. In total, since the beginning of the day, there have already been 12 combat clashes in this direction, four of which are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the occupiers attacked twice in the Belogorovka area, one clash is still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked our troops' positions near Shcherbinovka six times. Three attacks have already been repelled.
The hottest part is in the Pokrovsk direction. Fierce battles are underway in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Krutoy Yar, Nikolaevka and Selidovoye. The enemy has made 20 attempts to storm Ukrainian positions, 12 attacks have already been repelled by our defenders. The Russians dropped an air bomb in the Mirnograd area.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, 11 combat clashes continue in the areas of the settlements of Izmailovka, Stepanovka, Novodmitrovka, Novoselidovka, Ostroye, Dalneye, Antonovka, Yelizavetka, Yekaterinovka. Seven enemy assaults have already been repelled by our defenders.
In the Orekhov direction, an enemy attack was repelled in the Novodanilovka area. The invaders actively used aviation in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Tokmachka and Malye Shcherbaki.
In the Dnieper direction, our defenders repelled four enemy attacks. The occupiers launched an air strike on the settlement of Lviv, using unguided air missiles.
Earlier, the media reported that last September was the bloodiest month of the war for Russian troops in Ukraine. Military analysts estimate Russian losses at an average of more than 1,200 people per day.
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[Korrespondent] 15:41 By Monday, October 28, 5,000 North Korean soldiers will be transferred to the Kursk region, The New York Times reports, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. According to him, the soldiers are part of an elite unit of the Korean People's Army. They will be delivered from Vladivostok by Il-76 transport planes to a military airfield in the European part of Russia, and then sent to the combat zone.
The official also said that there were mixed signals about whether additional North Korean troops would be sent to participate in the fighting on Ukrainian territory. They are currently concentrated only in the Kursk region.
Meanwhile, the first secretary of the DPRK mission to the UN, Il Ha Kim, denied the transfer of Korean troops to Russia. He claims that these accusations against Pyongyang are "dirty maneuvers by the US and its allies to mask their own crimes and prolong the conflict in Ukraine."
October 25
14:40 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense intercepted conversations between servicemen of the 810th separate marine brigade of the 18th army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, which is participating in combat operations in the Kursk direction. In the intercepts, the Russians discuss preparations for the reception and distribution of DPRK servicemen (code name - battalion "K").
To organize interaction, it is planned to assign one translator and three Russian servicemen to every 30 servicemen from North Korea. However, the Russians themselves express doubts about the possibility of providing the newly arrived with Russian command staff.
14:33 Soldiers of the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade showed how they wrote the radio dictation of national unity in Sudzha:
14:28 Syrsky denied Putin's statement about the alleged encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine called this "blatant disinformation that does not reflect the real situation." According to Syrsky, Ukrainian troops continue active operations in the Kursk direction, destroying the enemy's combat potential for the third month in a row.
According to the Commander-in-Chief, from August 8 to the present, Russian troops in the Kursk region have lost 17,819 people, of which 6,662 were irretrievable losses, 10,446 were medical losses, and 711 were captured. During this period, the Russian army also lost 45 tanks, 256 armored combat vehicles, 565 vehicles, 99 artillery systems, and five multiple launch rocket systems.
13:04 Zelensky reported that he had heard Syrsky's report, including on the progress of the Kursk operation: "We are implementing our tasks. The buffer zone on Russian territory protects Ukraine from Russian attempts to expand the war in the east of our country and ensures tangible Russian losses. The Commander-in-Chief reported on the fulfillment of tasks by our units in certain areas of the Kursk region."
10:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation footage, that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kursk region, in particular to the southeast of Korenevo as part of the main "Ukrainian bridgehead." Geolocation footage indicates successes by the Ukrainian army along the Snagost River north of Darino. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also hold positions in Darino and Nikolayevo-Daryino.
09:00 The General Staff showed the "road of death" in the Kursk region - "a path paved with destroyed enemy equipment, a burnt-out trail left by the enemy when he suffered defeat." The 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces suffered the greatest losses of equipment.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 31st Mechanised Brigade and 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU near Liptsy and Goptovka (Kharkov region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops and three motor vehicles.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the 53rd, 60th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU, and 107th Territorial Defence Brigade near Donetskoye, Borovaya (Kharkov region), Petrovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry. One counter-attack launched by an AFU assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 510 troops, five pickup trucks, two U.S.-made 105mm M-119 guns, and two Bukovel-AD and Anklav electronic warfare stations. Four AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of successful offensive operations, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Aleksandropol (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on formations of the 23rd, 54th Mechanised brigades, 3rd, 10th Assault brigades, 79th Air Assault Brigade, 46th Airmobile Brigade of the AFU, and 37th Naval Infantry Brigade near Chasov Yar, Zvanovka, Seversk, Dachnoye, Vesely Gay, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched by an AFU assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 740 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 gun. One AFU ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the 100th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU, 119th Territorial Defence Brigade, and 12th National Guard Brigade near Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Berestki, and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk People's Republic). Six counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 545 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 gun, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade and 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU near Trudovoye and Dobrovolye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 120 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, one U.S-made 155mm M-198 howitzer, and one French-made CAESAR 155mm howitzer.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and 15th National Guard Brigade near Rabotino and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, two motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 gun. One AFU ammunition depot was destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at infrastructure of military airfields, attack UAV depots, as well as engaged the AFU clusters of manpower and military hardware in 149 areas.
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 25 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 647 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 34,329 unmanned aerial vehicles, 584 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,877 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,480 MLRS combat vehicles, 16,773 field artillery guns and mortars, and 27,624 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
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 actions and inflicted losses on formations of the 22nd, 41st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka, and Plyokhovo.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces repelled four enemy counter-attacks in the direction of Kamyshovka, Novoivanovka, and Pogrebki. The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops killed and wounded and five armoured fighting vehicles. Seven AFU servicemen surrendered.
Moreover, an attempt of the AFU to break through the state border of the Russian Federation in the direction of Novy Put was foiled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 10 troops killed and wounded and one Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle. One AFU serviceman surrendered.
Army Aviation and artillery fire inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 21st, 22nd, 41st, 47th, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 103rd, 112th, 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU, 17th National Guard Brigade near Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Guyevo, Daryino, Zamostye, Zeleny Shlyakh, Kazachaya Loknya, Kolmakov, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Mirny, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, Pravda, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes at concentration areas in Sumy region and reserves of the 41st, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 1004th Security and Service Brigade, 103rd, 107th, 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Alekseyevka, Basovka, Vladimirovka, Zhuravka, Miropolye, and Pavlovka.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops and 14 units of armoured hardware, namely, four infantry fighting vehicles, including one Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, 10 armoured fighting vehicles as well as two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS launchers and two transport-loading vehicles, three mortars, and six motor vehicles. Eight AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 26,900 servicemen, 177 tanks, 97 infantry fighting vehicles, 105 armoured personnel carriers, 1,013 armoured fighting vehicles, 692 motor vehicles, 229 artillery guns, 40 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, nine anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport and loading vehicles, 57 EW stations, 11 counter-battery warfare radars, three air defence radars, 22 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 22:09 In Sumy inflicted a strike on a military convoy carrying foreign instructors. 21:37 Situation in the village of Selidovo:
The E-50 highway to the fork in Pokrovsk is under heavy fire. The highway to Vishnevoye is also under fire from Russian troops.
City limits: there are reports from various sources that the Russian Armed Forces are already checking the ID cards and documents of local residents in the city (an indication that the enemy has been pushed back). The only place where the enemy can still gather in small groups is the western one-story buildings on the outskirts of the city (again, the enemy is unlikely to be able to hold out there for more than a day, and there is no point in doing so).
R/n south of Selidovo, settlements Novodmitrovka, Vishnevo and Novoalekseyevka. In Vishnevoe they took more than half of the settlement, in the coming days the enemy may retreat. In Novodmitrovka they advanced from the eastern part. There is also an offensive on Novoalekseyevka.
19:54 The Russian army is approximately seven7 km from the village of Sontsovka in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
19:05 Repeated strikes are carried out on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Odessa.
18:47 Explosions in Odessa. Before this, there were reports of rockets in the direction of the city.
18:44 Crew of the T-80BVM tank of the separate guards motorized rifle brigade of the "Southern" group of forcesdestroyedmortar and enemy manpower in the Donetsk direction.
The tank crews moved to a pre-prepared firing position and fired at a distance of nine kilometers from the target. Thanks to good air fire adjustment using UAVs, the tank crews managed to destroy the nationalists' crew and gun.
18:30 The Russian army has broken through to Bogoyavlenka and is taking the village beyond Ugledar in a pincer movement, the Telegram channel “Voenkors Russkoy Vesny” reported.
In the South Donetsk direction, northeast of Ugledar, Russian troops have broken through to the important settlement of Bogoyavlenka, are storming it and bypassing it from the west, threatening encirclement.
18:09 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the "West" group destroyed equipment and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.
15:57 Continues advance The Russian Armed Forces Selidovo. The city is gradually coming under our control. Not much time left.
In the Svatovo-Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are clearing Kruglyakovka after cutting the enemy's bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Oskol into two parts.
14:58 Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed camouflaged armored vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region
14:15 Servicemen of the North group of troops destroyed self-propelled artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a loitering munition "Lancet" in the border area of the Kursk region
Aerial reconnaissance detected a camouflaged position of a self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a forest belt. After analyzing the received intelligence and refining the coordinates, a decision was made to fire on the enemy's self-propelled artillery unit. The detected target was successfully hit with a direct hit from a Lancet loitering munition.
13:54 Results of night strikes on enemy targets on Ukrainian territory analyzed Donbass Partisan:
On the night of October 25-26, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces struck key infrastructure facilities and temporary deployment points of the enemy in various regions of Ukraine, using UAVs and OTRKs. The main targets were logistics hubs, military facilities and positions of foreign specialists.
Kyiv: the territory of the Kuznitsa na Rybalskom plant was hit by attack drones. According to preliminary data, the damage is minor and affected peripheral buildings, but not the main production workshops of the enterprise.
Sumy: Two missiles hit the territory of the Sumy-Tovarnaya railway station, one of the key logistics hubs providing supplies of weapons and ammunition to the Kursk region.
Vyazovoe, Sumy region: missile strikes hit the territory of the agricultural company "STS" (part of the TRANS TRADE Group). The company was used as a logistics point for the placement of freight vehicles and the distribution of weapons.
Dnepropetrovsk: Iskander-M missiles hit areas near the I. I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital. It is possible that the target of the strike was the institution itself, since its individual buildings function as one of the main hospitals for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Irpen, Kiev region: A strike drone strike hit the territory of the Foreign Legion training camp, which was located on the territory of one of the health facilities.
Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region: The hotel "Sluch", where foreign instructors from France were staying, was hit by a strike drone raid. This strike was a continuation of the operation to neutralize the centers for coordination and training of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen by foreign specialists.
13:15 The Russian flag was raised over the mining technical school in Selidovo –photo.
12:50 Units of the Russian Armed Forcesare developingsuccess in several areas of the Krasno-Limansky direction. In the northern part of the settlement of Terny, where aviation had previously been active, Russian forces were able to gain a foothold in 10 buildings.
Also, nine buildings in Torskoye came under control. According to some reports, the enemy is introducing reserves to hold the settlement.
12:49 New strikes on enemy targets in Khar'kov and the Khar'kov region.
12:45 Russian Armed Forces launch missile strikes on targets in the Khar'kov region.
12:35 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 26, 2024):
Units of the North group of forces in the Khar'kov direction defeated formations of the 31st Mechanized and 57th Motorized Infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Liptsy and Goptovka in the Khar'kov region.
The servicemen of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. The manpower and equipment of the 53rd, 60th Mechanized, 95th Airborne Assault, 3rd Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 107th territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Donetskoye, Borovaya in the Khar'kov region, Petrovskoye in the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as Serebryanskoye forestry. A counterattack by the enemy assault group was repelled.
As a result of successful offensive actions, units of the "Southern" group of forces liberated the settlement of Alexandropol of the Donetsk People's Republic. Formations of the 23rd, 54th Mechanized, 3rd, 10th Assault, 79th Airborne Assault, 46th Airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 37th marine brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Chasov Yar, Zvanovka, Seversk, Dachnoye, Vesely Gai and Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People's Republic. A counterattack by an assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled.
The Center group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. It defeated the manpower and equipment of the 100th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade, and the 12th National Guard Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Berestki, and Kleban-Byk of the Donetsk People's Republic. Six counterattacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
Units of the "East" group of forces improved the position along the front line, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 72nd mechanized and 58th motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the Trudovoye and Dobrovolye settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Fighters of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on formations of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 15th Brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino and Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhia region.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, storage sites for strike unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 149 areas.
Air defense systems shot down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, four US-made HIMARS rockets and 25 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
12:15 Kurakhovsky direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the west of the settlement of Pobeda –map.
11:47 In the Khmelnytsky region, as a result of strikes, infrastructure facilities were damaged, the regional center and three other settlements were partially de-energized, - head of the regional administration Tyurin.
11:35 Servicemen of the 18th Army destroy boats of Ukrainian militants in the Kherson direction.
11:21 Marines of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed a unit of Ukrainian Armed Forces assault reconnaissance aircraft in the Plekhovo area of the Kursk region, the security forces reported.
10:34 In the Kurakhovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are breaking through to the settlement of Ilyinka and "slamming the lid of the cauldron" - Voevoda writes. In addition, it is reported that the 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade has already liberated Alexandropol.
10:10 While units of the Vostok group of forces are advancing in Dobrovolye/Bogoyavlenka, the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense is “ironing out” Trudovoye – a farm north of Dobrovolye –video.
09:47 Liberation of Alexandropol 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces.
The 110th Brigade, part of the group operating in the Kurakhovsky direction, successfully liberated the settlement of Alexandropol, raising the Russian flag right in the center of the village. These actions confirm the determination of the Russian Army not to slow down and continue to crush the enemy, liberating the lands of our Motherland from the Ukrainian invaders.
09:32 Russian Armed Forces paratroopers during battles near Vesyoloye in Kursk OblastcapturedBradley IFV and Kirpi armored vehicle, killing or capturing their crews.
Western equipment was delivered to the rear by servicemen of evacuation units, said the head of the regiment's armored service, call sign "Badger".
09:05 Air strike destroyed temporary deployment point of the 14th Separate Motorized Brigade in Petropavlovka.
The enemy was located in a technical building and an agricultural building. Up to 20 militants and four units of equipment were disabled.
08:12 At one of the intersections of Toretskis on fire an enemy tank destroyed by Russian soldiers from the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces.
08:00 Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber inflicted a bombing attack on a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
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[REGNUM] On the morning of October 26, it became known that a mass escape of prisoners from a local penal colony (IC) had occurred in the Lipetsk region. This was reported by the region's governor, Igor Artamonov. "Six prisoners escaped from penal colony No. 2. At the moment, all operational services are focused on finding them; an interdepartmental group is working," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
As reported by the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), the escapees were able to escape through an underground tunnel. It is specified that the penal colony employees first discovered a manhole, after which they began checking the cells and discovered the absence of six prisoners.
It is known that the escaped criminals were from Central Asia - five citizens of Uzbekistan and one citizen of Tajikistan, previously convicted of rape, pedophilia, robbery, and drug possession. The oldest of them is 28 years old, the youngest is 19.
Before their imprisonment, some of them did not even have a fixed place of residence in Russia, but there are also those who were officially employed. Now law enforcement agencies will have to figure out what exactly brought the fugitives together and pushed them to commit a crime. It will also be determined whether they were involved in extremist communities.
SOME HAVE ALREADY BEEN CAUGHT
The personnel of the combined detachment of the Federal Penitentiary Service was alerted, search posts were set up and preliminary data on the convicts was sent out. The "Interception" plan was announced in Lipetsk, and law enforcement officers began checking vehicles at the entrances and exits of the city.
To search for and detain the fugitives, employees of the central office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia were sent to the Lipetsk region; an operational headquarters was also formed with the participation of employees of the search department of the agency.
By midday on October 26, it became known that two escaped criminals had been detained near Tambov - they tried to resist, but to no avail. Later, two more fugitives were caught in the village of Ulusarka in the Lipetsk region.
That was fast.
Now they face a tougher regime and additional punishment for the escape - up to five years of imprisonment in addition to the terms they already have.
Their remaining accomplices are still being sought by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian National Guard, the FSB and the FSIN Directorate for Lipetsk Oblast in both regions. Presumably, they could have headed towards Kazakhstan, then gone to Uzbekistan and evaded Russian justice.
At the same time, Igor Artamonov calls on the region's residents not to panic and trust only verified sources of information regarding the search activities. " I would like to note separately that we expect a large number of leaks and fake news related to the escape, " the regional governor emphasizes. " The information war continues, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not miss the opportunity to take advantage of this situation."
THEY DUG FOR SIX MONTHS
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case on the fact of negligence of the employees of the FSIN of the Lipetsk correctional colony, from which dangerous criminals escaped. It is assumed that the escape of prisoners was carried out due to improper performance of their duties by officials of the correctional institution. The prosecutor's office of the Lipetsk region has joined the case, an official investigation has also been ordered in the colony itself, interrogations and inspections are being conducted.
The investigation will have to find answers to questions that are logical in such a situation: how the prisoners managed to hide the shovels from the colony administration, how they got rid of the earth they dug to create the manhole, why their actions were not recorded on camera, and whether they had accomplices on the territory or outside the penitentiary institution. Especially since, according to available information, the escape was planned for six months (!), and they dug underground passages several meters long.
It is claimed that the tunnel was noticed by the FSIN officers the day before, but for almost a day the penal colony officers tried to find the escapees on their own - allegedly the law enforcement officers from Moscow joined them only on Saturday morning. In addition, it is interesting that the penal colony officers first discovered the tunnel, and only then discovered the absence of six prisoners - the question arises as to how the prisoner count was carried out there.
In this situation, it is not surprising that the escaped prisoners managed to calmly cover a considerable distance to the neighboring region. “ And they had the whole night to commit new crimes,” Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, notes in her Telegram channel. “Some of them were convicted of sexual crimes against minors, and they have nothing to lose.”
It should be noted that the institution's employees had previously been held accountable for violating their official duties: contrary to the rules, the inmates of the penal colony arranged for themselves a "resort life" with phones, barbecues and alcohol. Meanwhile, the media publishes information that the colony in the Lipetsk region was recently involved in another scandal - an attempt to smuggle drugs and phones onto the territory of the institution.
SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL
On the one hand, employees of other Russian correctional colonies have repeatedly successfully thwarted attempts by criminals to escape to freedom. Thus, on September 24, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, law enforcement officers managed to thwart the plans of an extremist group of three prisoners.
According to the investigation, prisoners of the Federal Penitentiary Institution IK-6 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region propagated radical religious dogmas among convicts, and also spent several months preparing a mass escape.
However, this year there have been several high-profile cases involving penitentiary institutions. In particular, on June 16, six prisoners in Rostov-on-Don managed to escape from the cells of the local pretrial detention center and took two employees of the detention center hostage. Then the security forces worked quickly and efficiently, eliminating the hostage-takers in just a few minutes.
Unfortunately, in August, when prisoners took hostages in the IK-19 penal colony in Surovikino, Volgograd Region, it was not possible to avoid casualties - three employees of the institution died. It should be noted that in these cases, radical ideas figured in the motives that pushed the prisoners to commit crimes. Their growth in prisons has been increasingly noted recently, but it is unlikely that this alone can explain all the existing problems.
It is certainly possible that the crimes could have been facilitated by corruption among the employees. However, one can doubt the sufficient motivation of even law-abiding employees of the FSIN with their very, very low level of salaries. In addition, in order to stop a crime, people are needed who will react to preparations for committing a crime. In the current conditions of understaffing, it is not so easy to keep track of those who do not stop engaging in illegal activities even behind bars.
What contributed to today's incident is yet to be determined by the investigation, but the incident, unfortunately, is far from the first in a series of failures committed in Russian correctional institutions.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Just for the record.
Thanks to the General Staff strategy, skillful command in a number of areas, improved tactics of assault operations and active work of the military-industrial complex, we have moved from a situation with the liberation of several hundred square meters per day in 2023 to several tens of square kilometers per day in the fall of 2024.
A significant difference.
This does not mean that there are no problems with equipping troops, organizing assault operations or actions at the operational level. Of course, they do. But they were also in 2022 and 2023. The dynamics of solving these problems is important here.
Everything is known in comparison and in comparison with what was observed in 2023. This is a fairly serious indicator of the efforts that the state is making to improve the overall effectiveness of military operations. And these efforts are now more than visible, when we have moved from battles from the "forester's hut" to the systematic liberation of populated areas and our territory.
But there is still a long way to go before our military victory, which requires further efforts to improve our army and increase the momentum of our military-industrial complex. Complacency and relaxation in the face of obvious successes are as dangerous as underestimating the enemy (primarily those forces that stand behind Ukraine) and boasting. So the consolidated efforts of the state, army, military-industrial complex and society must be aimed at strengthening the positive trends for us and eliminating objective shortcomings - only in this way will our common victory be achieved. Ultimately, we must do the work so that we are not ashamed before our ancestors.
[HotAir] 'What the F**k to do With Them?': Russian Troops Not Thrilled with North Korean Conscripts
We've be hearing for a few days now that North Korean troops are now preparing to enter the battlefield against Ukraine. CNN reports on some audio intercepts which suggest the Russian troops aren't thrilled with their presence so far.
The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the incoming North Korean soldiers, codenamed the “K Battalion,” at one point referring to them as “the f**king Chinese.”
In the same extract, a serviceman describes another who has been tasked to “meet people.”
“And he’s like standing there with his eyes out, like… f**k,” the soldier says. “He came here and says what the f**k to do with them.”
Another concern seems to be who will command them, especially given that none of these troops speak Russian.
The intercepts also reveal plans to have one interpreter and three senior officers for every 30 North Korean men, which the Russian soldiers are heard in the audio condemning.
“The only thing I don’t understand is that there [should be] three senior officers for 30 people. Where do we get them? We’ll have to pull them out,” one Russian serviceman says.
So what happens if the translator is hit? Apparently that whole unit is reduced to sign language. There's also a story floating around suggesting lack of leadership has already been a serious problem.
The Suspiline news outlet, citing Ukrainian intelligence sources, reported that 18 North Korean soldiers fled their positions somewhere on the border between the Bryansk and Kursk regions of Russia, just 7 kilometers (4.4 miles) from the state border with Ukraine.
The source said the reason for them absenting themselves is not known but it said Russian forces were currently hunting them while the commanders in the area were trying to cover up the incident and to hide it from higher command.
I've seen different comments on this. Some say the soldiers had been left alone with no food for days and wandered off to find something to eat. Others claimed maybe they'd seen enough of the Russian Army to want to head home. Whatever the case, this doesn't seem to be off to a great start.
There's also a video circulating which allegedly was put out by the Ukrainians offering safety and regular meals to defectors. Given where these soldiers came from, that might be a compelling offer to a lot of them. Why fight and possibly die only to be returned to a land of starving people if you could just defect? Presumably some of these soldiers have families back home that they care about but probably not all of them. Anyway, we may find at fairly soon how they perform. They were supposedly going to start moving into position in Kursk this week.
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