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2024-10-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: October 25, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:36 Russians attacked Kiev with drones, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Solomensky district and apartments on the 17th, 18th and 19th floors of a 25-story apartment building were partially damaged, the State Emergency Service reported. Residents of the building are being evacuated, information about the victims is being clarified, said the head of the Kyiv City State Emergency Service Sergey Popko. In addition, debris fell in an open area in the Shevchenkivsky district, according to preliminary data, without casualties.
21:17 Zelensky said in an evening video address that civil society will be involved in working on an internal "victory plan." The president also said that he had instructed the development of a technological headquarters format: "The highest priority is drones, of course. Including drones that can shoot down "shahids" and other attack drones." In addition, Zelensky instructed the Main Intelligence Directorate, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, "to especially address the issue of releasing civilians from Russian captivity - the results are currently insufficient."
18:08 Scholz called on India to help in the political settlement of the war in Ukraine: "Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine affects Germany and India in many ways. No one can turn a blind eye to this conflict. That is why I insistently advocate that India should advocate for a lasting and just peace."
17:10 North Korea will soon send a second group of its soldiers to Russia for the war against Ukraine, Bloomberg writes, citing South Korean intelligence. Moscow plans to supply the North Koreans with weapons and combat uniforms, as well as fake IDs so that they appear to be residents of Russia's eastern regions.
16:49 Deputy Foreign Minister of North Korea Kim Jong-gyu stated that "if" the DPRK decided to send its military to Russia, it would comply with international law. At the same time, he noted that the DPRK Foreign Ministry has no direct relation to the activities of the country's Defense Ministry, and stated that he does not feel the need "to confirm anything separately."
16:27 Russia produces only 30% of the ammunition it uses in the war against Ukraine, with North Korea supplying another 60% and Iran supplying 10%, Bloomberg writes. According to the agency, North Korea has already supplied Russia with 8 million 122mm and 152mm artillery shells, about 100 Hwasong-11 missiles and Bulsae-4 ATGMs.
16:21 Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Ukraine had asked for weapons that Warsaw had bought from South Korea, but he had refused: "There is no scenario in which we would hand over to anyone weapons that we recently bought for billions of zlotys from the pockets of our taxpayers. These weapons must serve the security and defense of the Republic of Poland."
16:15 About 2,000 soldiers from the DPRK are already heading to the west of Russia to the border with Ukraine after completing training in the Far East, the Japanese agency Kyodo reports, citing a source among the Ukrainian military. According to him, the advance group consists of about ten officers.
14:56 Agence France-Presse writes that Zelensky refused to allow UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to visit Ukraine after his participation in the BRICS summit in Russia.
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.
14:09 Peskov called the Wall Street Journal's information about contacts between Putin and Musk false. The Kremlin spokesman said that Putin and Musk called each other only once, before the invasion of Ukraine, their conversation was "introductory in nature", they talked about the future and technologies. After that, there were no contacts. Peskov believes that this is a "plant" related to the US elections.
14:01 On the night of October 25, the Defense Forces hit an enemy Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system and destroyed the 9S36 radar target illumination and missile guidance station of the Buk-M2 air defense missile system. The targets were located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region, several dozen kilometers from the line of combat, the General Staff reported.
13:22 Ukraine, through the mediation of Qatar, received from the Russian side lists of missing servicemen, as well as letters from Ukrainian prisoners of war to their relatives, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported. The parties also discussed the possibility of accelerating the process of exchanging prisoners of war and providing assistance to civilians who find themselves in difficult life situations, in particular assistance in restoring personal documents.
13:03 The first North Korean troops will be used by Russia in combat zones as early as October 27-28, Zelensky said, citing intelligence data. "This is an obvious escalatory step by Russia, which is significant, unlike all the disinformation that has been heard in Kazan these days. The actual involvement of North Korea in combat operations should be met not with closed eyes and confused comments, but with tangible pressure on both Moscow and Pyongyang for the sake of compliance with the UN Charter and punishment for escalation," the head of state emphasized.
The president also said that he had heard Syrsky's report on the situation at the front, with special attention to the Pokrovsky, Kurakhovsky and Limansky directions. "It's tough in Donetsk, but our combat brigades are holding their positions and doing everything possible to destroy the occupier," Zelensky added.
In addition, the president commented 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."
12:50 Putin said that Moscow is "ready to seek reasonable compromises to resolve the Ukrainian crisis," but that "any outcome of the settlement must be in Russia's favor and be based on the realities on the battlefield." Putin also praised the West for changing its "rhetoric on the situation in Ukraine, and for beginning to realistically assess the situation." He added that the degree of confrontation between Russia and the West is not decreasing, and that they continue to supply weapons to Ukraine.
Putin also said that Turkish partners have repeatedly approached Russia with proposals for initiatives allegedly from the Ukrainian side, but when Russia agrees to consider such initiatives, "Kyiv refuses them, this has happened twice."
12:34 Erdogan, after visiting the BRICS summit in Russia, said that "Putin is striving for a permanent ceasefire." According to the Turkish president, this was also confirmed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Istanbul. Erdogan also said that he discussed the exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev with Putin in Kazan, and Ankara will continue diplomatic efforts.
12:25 Russians are shelling Selidovo in Donetsk Oblast with CABs, drones, and artillery, but are not destroying it completely - probably in order to use the city's infrastructure and geographic location in the future for an offensive on Pokrovsk, said Vitaly Milovidov, press officer for the 15th Brigade of the Kara-Dag National Guard.
"Selidovo is a very large city with many basements where it will be possible to quarter a huge number of personnel and hide equipment. In fact, Selidovo will improve their logistics and allow them to bring in more manpower and equipment in order to conduct further assault operations on Pokrovsk," explained Ruslan Mikula, an analyst for the Deep State monitoring project.
11:36 German defense concern Rheinmetall reported that it has transferred another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. The Marder 1A3 version supplied by Rheinmetall to Ukraine is equipped with additional laser rangefinders, which allows it to effectively and accurately hit targets. The total number of combat vehicles sent to Ukraine under the so-called "ring exchange" agreement will reach about 200 units, of which more than 100 are Marder 1A3 models.
10:38 Air defense destroyed 36 of 63 Russian UAVs (Shahed and unspecified types) in the Odessa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Lviv, Rivne and Poltava regions at night. Most of the enemy drones were shot down in the Odessa and Kyiv regions, the Air Force reported. In addition, 16 Russian drones were lost.
09:57 The Wall Street Journal writes that Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. According to sources, Putin and Musk discuss personal matters, business, and geopolitical tensions in private conversations. This worries the White House, since Musk has access to certain classified information, and the United States is heavily dependent on the space developments of SpaceX.
In addition, after 2022, Musk communicated with several Russian officials, including the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko. Also, according to the newspaper, Putin asked Musk not to activate Starlink satellite communication terminals in Taiwan in late 2023 in order to do a favor to the leader of the PRC, Xi Jinping.
09:33 The head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov called to "prepare for the worst" this winter: "We must prepare for the fact that there will be no electricity at all. Maybe they don't like it, because we operate with such categorical things. But let's prepare for the worst. It will be better - it will be super." According to Fedorov, in Zaporizhia there may not be a centralized power supply to water pumping stations, and cogeneration units will be installed at all major boiler houses of the city.
08:45 In the morning, Russian troops attacked the center of Kherson. An apartment building was hit, two people were injured, OVA reported. Over the previous day, five people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
08:16 Five people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on October 24: two in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, two in Zelenoe and one in Dachenskoye. Another person in the oblast was injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
07:52 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 25:
- personnel - about 685,910 (+1,630) people,
- tanks - 9097 (+7),
- combat armored vehicles - 18,287 (+33),
- artillery systems - 19,753 (+34),
- MLRS - 1238 (+2),
- air defense systems - 982 (+1),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 329 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,670 (+73),
- cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,365 (+79),
- special equipment - 3535 (+22).
06:46 Russia attacked Kiev with drones at night, up to 15 enemy UAVs were neutralized, said the head of the Kyiv State Air Defense Forces Sergey Popko. In the Darnitsky district of the capital, the debris of the downed drones caused a fire in an open area of trees and grass. The fire was quickly extinguished, no information about casualties was received.
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