💥 Russia: Ukrainian drone destroyed a munitions stockpile hidden by the Russian fascists in a residential house in Glushkovo, Kursk region. pic.twitter.com/SuHocjHzeY
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:38 US President Joe Biden will hold talks with the leaders of the G7 countries on Friday, December 13. One of the key topics of discussion at the meeting will be support for Ukraine.
22:24 Current US President Joe Biden has agreed on a new aid package for Ukraine. This was stated by Biden's national security communications adviser John Kirby.
21:34 Russian occupiers attacked Kiev with attack drones on Thursday evening, December 12. The wreckage of one of the drones fell in the Pechersk district.
21:23 US President-elect Donald Trump said during a meeting in Paris on December 7 that Europe would be forced to bear the brunt of the commitments to support Ukraine and the upcoming ceasefire.
20:56 There is no immediate military threat to NATO members yet, but the Alliance is not ready for what will happen in four to five years. This was stated by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Mark Rutte, who added that Moscow is preparing for a long-term confrontation with Ukraine and the West.
19:44 At a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese leader Xi Jinping recalled the principles of preventing the spread of the "conflict" and pointed out the need to "defuse the situation" in the war against Ukraine.
19:39 The Ambassador of the French Republic to Ukraine Gael Veyssières emphasized that Paris is open to the idea of inviting Ukraine to NATO. At the same time, the diplomat added that any decision regarding NATO should be made by all member countries.
18.52 The IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna approved Ukraine's resolution on the security of energy infrastructure. Only Russia and China voted against.
18.46 Russians have launched a massive fake about allegedly poisoned water for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command has denied this Russian fabrication, the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reports.
18:23 The Ambassador of the French Republic to Ukraine Gael Veyssières confirmed that French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters will be delivered to Ukraine in early 2025. He stated this in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
16.35 US President-elect Donald Trump is against Ukraine launching long-range American missile strikes on Russian territory. He said this in an interview with Time magazine.
15:51 President Volodymyr Zelensky visited one of the divisions of the 27th rocket artillery brigade named after Petro Kalnyshevsky in the Zaporizhia direction. This was reported by the press service of the leader of the Ukrainian state.
15.22 Deputy General Designer and Head of the Software Department of the Moscow Experimental Design Bureau Mars Mikhail Shatsky was killed in the Moscow Region as a result of a special operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. This was reported by Ukrainskaya Pravda , citing its sources in the special services.
14.59 In the Carpathian region, two doctors - a father and son - were informed of suspicion for helping to "dodge" mobilization. For the "service" the doctors demanded 10 thousand dollars.
14.06 In Zaporozhye, the number of victims of the Russian missile attack was 11 people. The search and rescue operation in the city has been completed.
13.49 The court sentenced the head of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. This was reported by the SBU.
13.43 Ukraine is not yet ready for negotiations with Russia. To start them, our country must be strong enough to talk to the aggressor on equal terms. This was stated by the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in an interview with Suspilny.
12:37 In Moscow, Mikhail Shatsky, deputy general designer and head of the software department at KB Mars , who was involved in upgrading X-59 cruise missiles to the X-69 level and introducing new UAVs, was probably killed. This was reported by Russian media.
12.28 Russia's response to the alleged attack by Ukraine on the city of Taganrog will definitely happen - then and in the way that is deemed appropriate. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
11:23 As a result of a missile attack on the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, one soldier was killed and 41 others were injured. The strikes targeted an aircraft repair plant, a military airfield, and a military unit where the 5th aviation group of the 6955th air base is stationed, the Telegram channel ASTRA reported , citing sources.
8:50 The situation on the front remains difficult. The Russian Federation, using its superiority in manpower and equipment, continues to attack Ukrainian positions. In total, 203 combat clashes have been recorded over the past 24 hours. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that over the past 24 hours, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit four command posts and four areas of concentration of enemy personnel.
8:27 Russians are redeploying military equipment from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the occupied areas of the Zaporizhia region. This was reported by the ATESH partisan movement. The partisans recorded and tracked the movement of a column of military equipment moving along the highway to the north of the peninsula. They assume that the column was probably heading towards the temporarily occupied Zaporizhia region. This indicates possible offensive operations in the southern direction. A large number of armored vehicles were spotted in the column, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as well as military tractors and trucks.
7:45 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,390 Russian occupiers in one day. The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 12.12.24 were approximately 758,730 people. This was reported by the General Staff.
7:23 Rescuers have unblocked the body of a woman from under the rubble of a building in Zaporizhia destroyed by a Russian missile strike on December 10. The number of victims due to enemy shelling has increased to ten people. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are waging fierce battles in the east and south of Ukraine.
More attacks were recorded in the Kurakhovsky direction in the area of five settlements. Currently, 13 battles are ongoing there.
Since the beginning of the day, 138 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Most of the battles were recorded in the Kurakhovsky, Pokrovsky and Vremivsky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00 on Thursday, December 12.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy stormed the areas of Volchansk, Glubokoe and Staritsa four times. Currently, one battle is underway.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russians tried to advance near Sin'kovka, Zagryzovoy and Zapadnoye. Three clashes continue.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 14 times near Kopanki, Novoegorovka, Lozovaya, Nadezhda, Makeyevka, Terny and in the Serebryansky forest. Five attacks are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled six attempts by the occupiers to advance forward in the area of Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Stupochki and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy twice tried to displace our units from their positions in the Toretsk region. The battle is currently underway.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy carried out 30 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Promen, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Novy Trud, Peschanoye, Shevchenko and Mlechnoye. The defense forces repelled 24 attacks. Six battles are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the invaders attacked 37 times near Solntsevka, Starye Terny, Kurakhovo, Dalnee and Uspenovka. 24 assaults have already been repelled. 13 battles are still ongoing.
In the Vremivsky direction, the enemy 24 times attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Sukhi Yal, Konstantinopolskoye, Razdolnoye, Neskuchnoye and Novodarovka. 11 combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, our soldiers repelled an attack in the direction of Novodanilovka.
Nine enemy attacks have been repelled in Kursk region , and seven more clashes are ongoing.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky named the main goals for the Armed Forces of Ukraine . The head of state also announced new personnel changes in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It should be noted that the Russian Ministry of Defense in the last few weeks or so has stopped identifying Ukrainian units by number and type in its operational reports, instead using just the type of unit.
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces defeated formations of the Territorial Defence Brigade near Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops and one armoured fighting vehicle.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, two territorial defence brigade, and one National Guard brigade of the AFU close to Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, Zagryzovo, Lozovaya, Kupyansk, Zeleny Gai (Kharkov region), Terny (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry. Seven counter-attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 410 troops, one tank, one pickup truck, two 105mm M-119 guns, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one ammunition depot.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defence and defeated detachments of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Minkovka, Chasov Yar, Ostrovskoye, Annovka, Uspenovka, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 295 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and one pickup truck.
As a result of decisive actions of the Tsentr Group of Forces' units, Zarya (Donetsk People's Republic) was liberated.
Strikes were delivered at the enemy's manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade, one nmaval infantry brigades, one National Guard brigade, and Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Mirolyubovka, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic). Nine counter-attacks launched by AFU armed formations were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 390 troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and defeated units of one mechanised brigade and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Velikaya Novosyolka, Storozhevoye, Razliv, and Komar (Donetsk People's Republic). Three counter-attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 150 troops, two motor vehicles, one 155mm Bogdana and one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of two territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Mikhailovka and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, two motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged one AFU UAV workshop and clusters of AFU manpower and military hardware in 137 areas during the day.
Air defence systems shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 37 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 649 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 37,596 unmanned aerial vehicles, 586 anti-aircraft missile systems, 19,730 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,500 MLRS combat vehicles, 19,482 field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,146 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 liberated Novoivanovka during the offensive actions, and inflicted fire damage on formations of three mechanised brigades, one heavy mechanised brigade, two tank brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Viktorovka, Guyevo, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolskoye, and Sverdlikovo.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Aleksandriya, Kurilovka, Novaya Sorochina, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Zhuravka, Loknya, Miropolye, Pavlovka, and Starikovo (Sumy region).
Over the past 24 hours, AFU losses amounted to over 200 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and three mortars.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses have amounted to more than 40,060 troops, 236 tanks, 175 infantry fighting vehicles, 123 armoured personnel carriers, 1,251 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,115 motor vehicles, 308 artillery guns, 40 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 72 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 27 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counter-obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, six armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 12.12.2024 to 00:00 13.12.2024.
Seven armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
DAMAGED:
Two civilian infrastructure facilities.
Seven artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 21 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:21 Telegram channel "Colonelcassad"
Kupyansk direction. Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near the village of Kruglyakovka.
20:05 Armed Forces of Ukraine fell into the operational encirclement in the Annovka area, south of Kurakhovo
19:00 Telegram channel "Rybar"
The situation in the Pokrovsky direction as of 19:00 on December 12, 2024:
-Russian troops continue fierce fighting taking place several kilometers south of Pokrovsk, gradually moving closer to the agglomeration.
- Fighting continues in Shevchenko. Fighting continues on Sosnovaya and Gagarina streets at the moment.
- The situation in Novotroitskoye remains quite dynamic. Over the past three days, at least two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been recorded in the village. In addition, the enemy also blew up one of the bridges leading to Pokrovsk. Later, footage appeared of fighting in the center of the village, where Ukrainian and Russian infantry units are trying to attack each other's positions.
18:40 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Sappers are clearing explosive objects from Pavlovka settlement near Donetsk.
Local residents are turning to sappers for help, asking them to check their homes and plots for explosive devices.
17:05 24-hour detection, tracking and destruction of air targets –video
The Buk-M2 air defense missile system crew provided air cover for units of the Center group of forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
16:09 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Su-34 crew struck personnel and a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
15:55 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a school in the village of Giryi with three missiles –video
In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to terrorize civilians.
According to eyewitnesses, the strike was carried out by three missiles. Emotions of a local resident behind the scenes.
14:40 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Around 13:10 Moscow Time an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region by air defense systems on duty.
13:27 Tula Airborne Forces unit continues to push the enemy out of the Kursk border area
As a result of coordinated actions, the Tula paratroopers of the Sever group released the settlement of Dar'ino in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region.
11:56 Russian naval infantry are pushing aside Ukrainian occupiers from the Kursk border region.
-Naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet drove Ukrainian Armed Forces militants out of the administrative building of one of the settlements in the Kursk region.
-As a result of the assault actions, our soldiers destroyed the enemy's combat equipment and cleared their fortified positions. The enemy retreated, abandoning their dead soldiers and weapons.
10:35 In the Khar'kov region, an FPV drone strike destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicle, –video
The enemy armored vehicle was identified and destroyed by the FPV crew of the North group.
10:25 Starlink and Ukrainian Armed Forces generators destroyed in Zaporizhia direction, –video.
10:18 122mm BMN-21 "Grad" of the Northern Fleet naval infantry destroyed several enemy strongholds on the right bank of the Dnieper.
9:50 Russian naval infantry recaptured long-term fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area – video.
As a result of the assault actions, Russian naval infantry destroyed the equipment of the Ukrainian militants and cleared their fortified positions. The enemy retreated, abandoning their dead fighters and weapons.
9:10 Teleram channel "WarGonzo":
Frontline summary as of the morning of 12/12/2024:
Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes. Positional battles with the use of long-range weapons continue.
Donetsk Front. In the Velikonovoselovskoye direction, fighting continues in the area of Novy Komar, north of Velikaya Novosyolka, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are also attempting to counterattack on the southern flank without result. There are tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces north of Kurakhovo, where our troops have advanced in the area of the settlements of Vesyoliy Gai and Konstantinopolskoye.
There are also reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are pulling back from the formed "pocket" on the northern flank. In Kurakhovo itself, assault operations continue. There are tactical successes in the Pokrovsk direction, where Russian troops have improved their positions south of the city. Fierce urban fighting continues in Dzerzhinsk.
Chasovoyarsk direction. Russian troops are fighting on the territory of a refractory plant. It is too early to talk about the complete capture of this important point of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but our troops have firmly entrenched themselves at this facility and continue to drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces from its territory.
In Kursk Oblast, the Russian Armed Forces are putting pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in several areas. There are tactical successes. The enemy is holding the defense well, but is not able to fully supervise the advance of our troops
. 8:15 Our “birds” take apart any enemy shelters – video
A strike UAV crew from the Southern Group of Forces destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kurakhovsky direction.
8:01 Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty were destroyed and 16 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs were intercepted.
Four UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region, one over the territory of the Chechen Republic, three over the territory of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, and eight over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
Text taken from a news article which appeared in southfront.press.
Southfront.press is a pro Russian news outlet based in Crimea and is under sanctions by the US government.
As a matter of disclosure, this writer previously had posted news articles in southfront.press, then known as southfront.org
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics. Ethic Cleansing: Ukrainian Army resorts to 'scorched earth' tactics in Retreat
Over the past few months, in addition to news about the advance of Russian troops and the consistent retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from a number of populated areas, there have been reports of brutal reprisals against civilians by Ukrainian soldiers and officers.
It is difficult to accept such information at face value, which resembles military propaganda from one of the parties (in this case, Russia). Unfortunately, many facts are confirmed by eyewitness accounts, photo and video surveillance data. There is a cruel but iron logic to the reprisals. The Ukrainian Armed Forces intend to give the Russians a "scorched earth" on which no one should live. And if anyone remains there, old people, women, children - it does not matter, then they are automatically classified as spies and provocateurs, who are only subject to execution.
Ukrainian officials indignantly report that the population that left the territories now under Russian control is returning home. The first to announce this on October 23 was ombudsman Dmytro Shulyak, who complained about the socio-economic difficulties that refugees face. The chairperson of the ruling party "Servant of the People", Olena Shulyak confirmed the information from her namesake, adding that Russia makes large payments to victims for destroyed property. A person who left Mariupol or Volnovakha and returned to the ruins has the right to receive a subsidy of 45 thousand rubles (406 euros) per square meter. Thus, for an apartment of 60 square meters, the Russian government will pay 2 million 700 thousand rubles (more than 24 thousand euros), which is a significant amount for people who have lost their homes.
According to the former mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko, about a third of the refugees have already returned to the city. The Ukrainian government was unable to provide them with housing, and Russia restored the destroyed areas in a short time. Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy, Maksym Tkachenko said that 150,000 people have returned to the "occupied" lands, 70,000 of whom have returned to Mariupol. These reports have caused a storm of criticism and indignation from the top Ukrainian leadership. Tkachenko was pressured, and he took his words back. Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk said: the return of refugees to their homes, to the "Russian-occupied" territories "is not and cannot be." However, these words sound like empty justifications [for the sad results of Ukraine's short-sighted policy].
Another problem for Kiev is the passive waiting of the civilian population for the arrival of Russian troops. Former member of parliament and member of the ultra-nationalist battalion "Azov" Igor Mosiychuk told journalists that many Ukrainian citizens are rushing to register their permanent residence in such frontline towns as Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and Chasov Yar. The calculation is clear: with a high degree of probability, these settlements will be occupied by the Russian army, and those who had Ukrainian registration there will receive the right to Russian citizenship and compensation for lost housing. For the Ukrainian leadership, such actions are akin to high treason.
This is most likely what is behind the brutal purges in the frontline zones carried out by Ukrainian troops and Western mercenaries. During the retreat from Selidovo (Donetsk People's Republic), Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters deliberately killed civilians who refused to be evacuated to the rear. According to the testimonies of the townspeople, the reprisals were carried out against entire families. RIA Novosti military correspondents filmed a man who miraculously escaped being a victim of the purge. His family members were killed by the Ukrainian military: “I don’t know how my legs carried me out. And when I came back, I saw that they [the relatives] had already been burned. Completely.”
Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Rodion Miroshnik promised to thoroughly investigate these crimes and announced the first results of the investigative actions. To date, 15 people have already spoken about the reprisals in the town of Selidovo - all the witnesses are residents of this settlement. The townspeople named the specific streets where the crimes were committed, as well as the names of the people killed. The circumstances of the death of 50 civilians are known. Moreover, not only the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters took part in the cleansing, but also foreign mercenaries. Residents of Selidovo heard Polish speech and saw people in Ukrainian uniform, but without identification marks. It has also been proven that French mercenaries also took part in the shooting of civilians.
The International Public Tribunal for Ukraine (created in March 2022, investigates the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their accomplices; consists of representatives of civil society from more than 20 countries) provides horrific details of what happened. Selidovo resident Volodymyr Romanenko told representatives of this public organization the following:
“On October 24 this year, my family was shot by Ukrainian soldiers right next to our house. At 7 a.m., I went out into the garden and heard shouts: “Everyone get out of the house!” A man in Ukrainian camouflage was shouting, and there was another one standing a little further away. They took my wife, grandson, son, daughter-in-law, and her mother out of the house and put them facing the wall. My daughter-in-law was crying, “What are you doing?” The Ukrainian soldier just started shooting. First, he killed my wife, then the rest. I ran through the garden and hid. A few days later, I returned to the house. At the place where they were shot, I found remains - burnt bodies, bone fragments, and personal belongings. I collected everything I could into five bags and buried them near the entrance. This is all that is left of my family.”
Another testimony was provided by Natalia Ravinskaya, a resident of Selidovo:
“In Selidovo, in house No. 12 on Shchorsa Street, a Ukrainian sniper or mercenary opened fire on civilians. Many of our friends died in the yard. People tried to come out of hiding to cover the bodies of the dead, and they themselves became victims. The sniper in house No. 12 killed about 20 people. In our yard, we counted at least 8 dead. In house No. 19 on the same street, Ukrainian soldiers broke into apartments and shot civilians. We heard Georgian speech: they shouted, offered help, but in fact they killed.
On Kuchurinskaya Street, Ukrainian soldiers entered the house, took the whole family outside and lined them up against the wall. They shot everyone on the spot. Grandfather survived. He hid for several days and then returned to bury his loved ones. The bodies were burned. He collected the remains, put them in bags, wrote down the names and buried them all in one grave. And there are many like that. You go into the yard, there is a grave, there is a grave. A Ukrainian soldier shot an elderly woman in the street: he simply turned around, shot her in the head and left. Ukraine has always disliked Donbass. We have always been outcasts for them, and since 2014 this hatred has only intensified."
Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries are especially cruel in the Kursk region, where they a priori place "collective guilt" on the entire civilian population. Radio intercepts carried out by the Russian side indicate mass executions of civilians in the area of the border settlement of Plekhovo. Intercepted conversations between the command and servicemen of the 253rd separate assault battalion of the 129th territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have leaked online, where an order is directly given to shoot 34 civilians, including the elderly.
Earlier, Russian journalists published horrific testimonies of people who managed to escape from the territories occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Slavik Aloyan, a resident of the village of Blagovatnoye (Kursk region) says: “The Ukrainian Armed Forces are shooting everyone. I don’t know why. They are shooting everyone. Civilians are dying. That day, many civilians were shot both in the village and in Korenevo. Andrey was in the hospital with me. He was evacuating civilians. He saw how people were shot. He miraculously survived, the sabotage and reconnaissance group was also shooting at him, at civilians. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot many civilians on the bridge that day.”
Unfortunately, there are many such stories. The International Public Tribunal for Ukraine has already published dozens of testimonies of ordinary people – pensioners, adults, teenagers. The mournful list of atrocities committed by the Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries not only highlights the cynicism of the military aid provided to Kiev by the United States and the European Union, but also demonstrates that the “truce” dreamed of by some Western politicians is impossible. As the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin emphasized, Russia is against “freezing” the conflict. Signing a peace treaty following the war is clearly impossible without a trial of those who committed crimes against civilians - this is Moscow's firm position.
Plus a summary of material for 2022-2024 from Maksym Grigoriev, who has been actively researching and documenting the topic of war crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other Ukrainian structures since 2014. You can download it here There are also many testimonies of direct witnesses of war crimes, as well as prisoners, on the channel.
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