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2024-10-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: October 28, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:39 Norway will provide a new aid package to Ukraine worth 500 million euros, the country's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced. He specified that 350 million of this amount is military aid.
21:04 Croatia will transfer 60 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine under an agreement with Germany, the country's Defense Ministry reported. According to the memorandum, Croatia expressed its readiness to supply 30 M-84 tanks and 30 M-80 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as spare parts and ammunition for them in exchange for financial resources for the purchase of up to 50 Leopard 2A8 tanks.
20:25 North Korean troops are "very likely" moving toward Kursk, said Pentagon Deputy Spokesperson Sabrina Singh. She stressed that there would be no new restrictions on Ukraine's use of American weapons against North Korean troops if they were drawn into the war.
"We estimate that approximately 10,000 are moving to eastern Russia to study and strengthen Russian forces. We are increasingly concerned about Russia's intention to use these soldiers in combat or to support combat operations against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region, close to the border with Ukraine," Singh said.
In turn, Biden said that the participation of North Korean troops in the war against Ukraine is "very dangerous."
18:33 Syrsky reported that he worked in units and divisions participating in the defense operation in the Zaporizhia region, met with brigade commanders. According to the commander-in-chief, there are military actions of varying intensity in this direction, the main task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to strengthen the defense in the most difficult sections of the front and ensure maximum stability of the defense line.
18:16 The Cabinet of Ministers approved changes to strengthen military registration and monitoring of violations of the law. As reported by the Ministry of Defense, now the TCC, the SBU, intelligence agencies and the National Police will exchange data through an electronic system - this will allow law enforcement officers to quickly and effectively receive information about violators and deliver them to the TCC or the relevant agencies.
18:09 Syrsky ordered to strengthen medical services providing medical care to wounded soldiers in the combat zone with professional medical personnel, in particular, stabilization points of military units and subdivisions. For this, medical personnel from healthcare institutions (hospital link) of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be involved, the General Staff reported. The department emphasized that military doctors are not "transferred to the infantry" - they will continue to work in their immediate specialty.
17:37 Swiss President Viola Amherd supported lifting the ban on re-export of weapons to Ukraine. According to her, the embargo harms Switzerland's industry and security.
16:55 Japan will provide Ukraine with $3 billion as part of a G7 loan totaling up to $50 billion, which will be repaid using revenue from frozen Russian assets, Nikkei reports. Japan will monitor the use of these funds to avoid spending them on military purposes.
16:12 North Korea has supplied Russia with weapons worth $5.5 billion, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom reports. For comparison, the DPRK's entire production volume is estimated at $23.7 billion - that is, the country has made a significant profit from the war in Ukraine. Experts predict that this income could increase by hundreds of millions of dollars if North Korean troops take direct part in the war. At the same time, trade in other goods between the countries has also increased significantly: up to $52.9 million in the first half of 2024, compared to $34.4 million last year.
15:31 Zelensky said that he arrived in Iceland for the first time on a working visit, during which he will take part in the fourth Ukraine-Northern Europe summit and hold bilateral talks with its participants: the prime ministers of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. It is planned to discuss the "victory plan", financing of Ukrainian production of weapons and long-range vehicles, maritime security, defense support, training and equipping of Ukrainian soldiers, etc.
15:14 Partisans together with the GUR blew up a bridge in occupied Berdyansk, Ukrainian media write, citing sources. The destruction of the bridge completely paralyzed the railway communication with Berdyansk and, as a result, made it impossible to deliver fuel and lubricants, weapons and ammunition to the occupation forces.
14:26 If elected US President, Trump intends to "move at breakneck speed" to stop the war in Ukraine along the front lines, but he will leave the provision of security guarantees for Kiev to Europe, the Financial Times writes, citing sources. According to them, Trump will not invite Ukraine to NATO in the short term, but will instead propose concluding agreements like Minsk-3 with "enforcement mechanisms and consequences for violating the agreement." At the same time, European troops, not NATO forces or UN peacekeepers, will have to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
"America will insist on two things. We will have no men or women in the enforcement mechanism. We are not paying for this. Europe is paying for this," the newspaper's source said. Trump's allies say that "Ukraine is losing the war, and therefore seeking a settlement is morally right." According to the FT, Trump is influenced by three groups, two of which "are united in wanting to leave Ukraine to Europe." The third wants "the projection of American power around the world."
13:42 North Korean troops have already been deployed for combat operations in the Kursk region, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. According to him, on the morning of October 28, the South Korean delegation informed NATO, as well as Japan, Australia and New Zealand, that its intelligence services were aware of the presence of North Korean troops in Russia and their involvement in the war in Ukraine.
"Today I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean units have been sent to the Kursk region. This deployment of North Korean troops, firstly, signifies a significant escalation in the involvement of the DPRK in Russia's criminal war. Secondly, it is another violation of the UN Security Council resolution. Thirdly, it is a dangerous expansion of the Russian war," Rutte said. He called on Moscow and Pyongyang to immediately stop these actions, which threaten both Pacific and Euro-Atlantic security.
"But at the same time, the involvement of North Korean troops in the Kursk region is a sign of Putin's growing desperation... He cannot support an offensive against Ukraine without support from abroad. NATO allies will continue to support a free and independent Ukraine, because Ukraine's security is our security," the Secretary General assured.
13:10 The Wall Street Journal writes that the North Korean troops that will be sent to the front lines of Russia and Ukraine are not elite representatives of Kim Jong-un's army. Intelligence and video footage indicate that the soldiers include many teenagers and young men who are likely just starting their service. They look short and thin, which indicates a problem with malnutrition in the DPRK.
Moreover, these soldiers were trained in the mountains of South Korea, focusing on special forces tasks, which is not quite suitable for warfare in the flatlands of Ukraine. Their equipment is outdated, and the soldiers themselves may never have left the country. South Korean Defense Minister Kim En Hyun called them "mercenaries with cannon fodder."
12:03 The Russian army struck Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region with a kamikaze drone, wounding two children aged 12 and 13, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
11:39 Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada bills on extending mobilization and martial law for another 90 days - until February 7, 2025.
11:34 Due to the consequences of the night enemy attacks, emergency shutdowns have been introduced in certain areas of the Sumy and Poltava regions, Ukrenergo reported.
11:30 Air defense destroyed 66 out of 100 enemy UAVs (Shahed type and unspecified type) in Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, and Cherkasy regions at night. Most of the enemy drones were shot down in Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Khmelnytskyi regions, the Air Force reported. In addition, 24 drones were lost in location, four flew away in the direction of the Russian Federation and Belarus. Several UAV hits on civilian infrastructure were recorded.
11:21 Zaporizhia Oblast must become a fortress, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the efforts of the military and local authorities are currently aimed at creating the second and third lines of defense, and defense structures are regularly improved to respond to new threats. In particular, anti-drone nets are installed for this purpose.
"The second line is already 99.9% complete, the third line will be completed in the coming weeks. Next, the defense of the cities is being built, and it will be completed within the timeframe set by the General Staff," noted the head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA.
11:08 Zelensky said in an interview with The Times of India that the third point of the "victory plan" on containing Russia does not involve the use of missiles. According to him, it is about a package of long-range weapons that Ukraine will not use if Russia stops its aggression. "This package should be in Ukraine. This is a preventive weapon, that is, a warning to Russia: stop killing people! And this point is addressed to the countries that have these weapons," the president explained.
The "victory plan" itself, according to Zelensky, is not the topic of negotiations with Moscow: "This is a plan to strengthen Ukraine now and today. Strengthening before we have diplomatic negotiating formats. That is why we are addressing this plan to countries that are ready to strengthen Ukraine. This is a very specific request."
The head of state also stressed that the first point of the plan is not NATO membership, but an invitation to the Alliance, so that in the future no one can change their position and everything is legally approved. Zelensky recalled that Ukraine cannot become a NATO member during the war and does not want to involve other countries in the war.
10:54 Zelensky said in an interview with The Times of India that India could become a place for peace talks. He also believes that India is capable of influencing the end of the war: "This is the great value of India, a population of one and a half billion, which has real influence. Blocking the Russian economy, blocking cheap energy resources, blocking the military-industrial complex from the Russian Federation will give a shorter term to their war against us."
The president also noted that the G20 countries could quickly stop the war: "The entire war always depends on food for war - and this is economics, this is exclusively money. Therefore, 20 large economies can easily put Putin in his place."
As for the BRICS summit, Zelensky believes that it failed: "We did not see many of the leaders that Russia was counting on. This suggests that there is no union in BRICS. Putin himself is dividing BRICS with his war policy. I believe that he really wants to polarize the world and divide it into the "so-called West" and "BRICS+."
The President added that those who were at the BRICS summit and "spoke about their neutrality, spoke about wanting to help resolve this conflict, look more pro-Russian." According to him, neutrality in this war is support for the Russian side, since it helps Moscow exclusively. "There can be no neutrality between the aggressor and the victim," Zelensky emphasized.
10:22 The Russians are trying to increase the pace of their offensive in the Liman area of Donetsk Oblast and have transferred additional assault units of the 283rd and 488th motorized rifle regiments of the Russian Armed Forces there, Ukrainian military intelligence reported. The defense forces have inflicted serious losses on the newly introduced Russian troops, and individual assault groups have lost their combat capability.
09:14 At night and the previous evening, the enemy shelled Kharkiv with KABs, 13 people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. One of the shells hit a nine-story residential building, partially destroying the walls on the ninth floor. 21 private houses were also damaged. In addition, at night, the Russians shelled Chuguev, eight people were injured, including five children.
08:51 In Donetsk region on October 27, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was wounded in Uspenovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:13 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 28:
- personnel - about 690,720 (+1680) people,
- tanks - 9120 (+7),
- combat armored vehicles - 18,395 (+40),
- artillery systems - 19,872 (+51),
- MLRS - 1240 (+0),
- air defense systems - 984 (+0),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 329 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,867 (+68),
- cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,660 (+100),
- special equipment - 3556 (+14).
07:57 On the evening of October 27, Russian troops fired artillery at residential buildings in the Central District of Kherson - two people were killed and two more were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. In total, over the previous day, five people were killed in the region as a result of Russian shelling, 13 were wounded, including one child.
07:28 Russians have used drones to strike critical energy infrastructure facilities in the Konotop district of Sumy Oblast, the OVA reported. One person was wounded in the Seredino-Buda community as a result of enemy shelling.
01:46 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Gornyak in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region, and has also advanced into Selydove, Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, near Shakhtarskoye in Donetsk region and Novoalekseevka in Kherson region.
01:33 A fire broke out at the Anninsky distillery in the Voronezh region after a drone attack, Russian publics write. According to local residents, drones also attacked a distillery in the village of Krasnoye.
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