[MAIL] Another top executive at Russia's second largest oil company has died mysteriously - the third tycoon at Lukoil to perish under suspicious circumstances within a year and a half.
Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of the Lukoil board of directors, died 'suddenly', with Russian state media reporting the 'preliminary' conclusion of doctors was that he suffered 'acute heart failure'. In the end, it's always heart failure
His death follows that of Ravil Maganov, 67, at Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin clinic, in September last year.
Officially, Maganov had been in hospital for a long-standing heart problem and fell from a sixth-floor window, dying on the spot.
On the same morning, Vladimir Putin - who had earlier decorated Maganov with a top honour - swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after 'taking advice from shamans'.
One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom, triggering a heart attack.
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He died in a clinic, because they couldn't get him to a balcony.
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becoming very, very rich is an idiot savant trait?
Focussed attention on the work, and maybe a few other areas, but idiot savant is not a bad description. Which is how Elon Musk can be so keen on free speech over here, while completely undismayed by doing whatever is necessary to keep China onboard over there.
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As if anyone needed another reason NOT to visit NYC, D.C. LA, Atlanta, or Chicago. The post-conflict, interim government (PCIG) will last many years. Rural armed survivors will be very difficult to root out. The PCIG may have to allow former States to remain autonomous. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas quickly come to mind.
Perhaps an American 'Philippe Petain' will surface, and a Vichy-America will come about. Or are we already there ?
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No point in arguing with a diehard purist, dear Seeking Cure. Whatever the subject, they deem it worthwhile to pay the extra 80% for that last 20% of improvement (or 95% and 5%, if that happens to be the case). Let us be grateful we live in a free, capitalist country, where we both may and can choose whichever makes us happier.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:29 Zelensky in an evening video message addressed all Ukrainians in Crimea and other “for now” occupied areas of the south and east: “Dear Ukrainians! You all feel that the Russian presence on our land is not forever. I know this. Ukraine will return its territory, our people. We will not leave anyone to the occupiers. And we are working by all means to ensure that this war ends in the defeat of the occupiers."
20:00 The Russians fired artillery at the village. Podol of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkov region, two people died, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
19:08 During the day, the enemy attacked Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region twice, first with a kamikaze drone, then with heavy artillery. One person was injured, a hotel, a veterinary clinic, and a power line were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
19:03 Stoltenberg again called on NATO member countries to immediately increase the production of weapons and ammunition, since active military assistance to Ukraine has significantly depleted the Alliance's reserves: “Our security depends on technological advantages and our defense industry. Therefore, it is important that large companies like within the Alliance and beyond. Increasing production is necessary both to meet Ukraine's needs and for our own defense. However, as Russia once again prepares to use winter as a weapon in war, speed and volume of production will matter ".
18:50 Zelensky said that he met with Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and thanked him for the already 12 packages of military assistance.
18:36 Participants in the Second Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform adopted a joint declaration in which they expressed their intention to tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation, condemned the fake “elections” in the occupied Ukrainian territories, and also emphasized that “the restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, including "de-occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as ensuring the state sovereignty of Ukraine is a fundamental prerequisite for ending the war and establishing lasting peace in the region."
16:55 Germany is preparing a winter aid package for Ukraine worth 1.4 billion euros, the main task of which is to create a “protective shield” for energy and other infrastructure, Scholz said. He clarified that the package, among other things, will include Patriot, Iris-T6, Gepard air defense systems, etc. In total, since the beginning of a full-scale war, Germany has provided almost 24 billion euros in assistance to Ukraine. The Chancellor also noted that last week a support package for the energy system in the amount of 80 million euros was approved.
16:52 Russian troops are trying to capture the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovoy in the Kharkov region, where an important railway junction is located, said Denis Yaroslavsky, commander of the intelligence unit of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “The enemy is trying to attack us around the clock. He is trying to recapture Kupyansk-Uzlovoy. This is truly a strategic railway junction, which he is trying to grab hold of, and defeats the crossings, all objects that can cut us off from Kupyansk-Uzlovoy,” he said.
According to Yaroslavsky, Russia is suffering heavy losses, but continues to actively storm with the aim of encircling Kupyansk: “We do not feel that the enemy is getting smaller. We know that he is trying to carry out repeated assault operations in the near future. The situation is very difficult.”
16:07 Bild writes that it has familiarized itself with the recordings of conversations between the former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and the general director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center Dmitry Baranov. They discussed the possibility of hitting a major city in Ukraine with a space rocket filled with explosives. According to the German publication, the plan was brought to Putin on January 16, but how he reacted to it is unknown.
Rogozin and Baranov discussed the technical details of a possible strike on Ukraine with a launch vehicle, which is used to fly into space, but with explosives on board. Baranov told Rogozin that he would need about six months to prepare such an operation. At the same time, the interlocutors discussed the risk that the rocket could explode when heated or fall into the territory of the Russian Federation itself. And the error during impact can range from 50 to 100 km.
15:46 Ukraine has converted American AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles for Western fighters into surface-to-air missiles, writes the Financial Times. "These missiles didn't work. We fixed them. We found a way to launch them from the ground. This is a kind of homemade air defense," the publication quotes a senior Ukrainian official. According to him, this is one of a number of similar initiatives in which old materials that the US military considers redundant are being turned into actual weapons.
15:02 Scholz promised that Israeli support will not interfere with assistance to Ukraine: “We support Ukraine economically, with humanitarian aid, as well as with weapons. This support will in no way be affected by the fact that since the terrible morning hours of October 7 we have been turned aside Israel and the Middle East with the greatest compassion and concern."
14:23 A report on preparations for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is expected on November 8, reports Reuters. The document will outline an assessment of Ukraine's progress in meeting accession conditions. Its publication should be a key step in deciding whether to begin accession negotiations with Kiev.
14:07 The EU is preparing the 12th package of sanctions, which will allow the use of frozen Russian assets to restore the infrastructure of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen said.
13:38 The Ukrainian Defense Industry company and the German defense concern Rheinmetall have created a joint venture, Shmygal said. The joint venture will service and repair equipment supplied to Ukraine by its partners. The company will also localize the production of leading equipment from Rheinmetall AG.
12:44 The Russians hit Zaporozhye with two missiles (previously ballistic) from the south. One of the missiles hit the territory of the enterprise, the location of the second hit is being determined. As a result of the strike, buildings on the territory of the enterprise were damaged, there was no information about casualties, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
12:17 The Crimean bridge will be destroyed when the situation requires it, Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk said in an interview with Ukrinform: “There is no point in destroying the bridge to raise the mood. When it is necessary to cut off the logistical tails of Crimea and make it an island, this will definitely be done ... Of course, we very often measure a counteroffensive in square kilometers, but this is not entirely correct, because any such operations are multi-component, multi-layered, there are many elements that must be carried out in the appropriate sequence."
12:06 As of now, Ukraine has not yet established full fire control over Crimea, but this is only a matter of time, Zelensky said in a video message at the second parliamentary summit of the Crimean Platform, which is taking place in Prague. According to the president, Ukrainian troops have already made some progress - in particular, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is no longer able to operate in the western part of the Black Sea and is “gradually fleeing Crimea.” Zelensky called it a “historic achievement.”
Another success of Ukraine is that for Russians there is now not a single safe base and not a single reliable logistics route in Crimea and on the occupied parts of the Black Sea and Azov coasts, the head of state noted. The third result, he said, is that pro-Ukrainian sentiment in Crimea is becoming more open, and the fourth is that Ukraine has been able to return the Black Sea to the role of an artery on which global food stability depends.
11:54 Elon Musk said that military conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine could escalate into World War III, so it is better for the United States to improve relations with Russia and persuade Ukraine to a ceasefire. He also believes that “US policy is forcing the Russian Federation to enter into an alliance with Iran and China,” and an alliance of Russia, China and Iran can defeat the West in a global conflict.
10:51 The Russian Army struck Kazatsky, Kherson region, wounding two people, the OVA reported. In addition, as a result of night shelling, the hospital building in Belozerka was damaged.
10:45 In the morning, the Russians attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region with a missile - it was destroyed over the Kamensky district, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. The air force clarified that it was an X-59 missile. In addition, the enemy shelled the Sinelnikovsky district - an infrastructure facility and several private houses were damaged, but no people were injured.
10:16 Ermak said that the production of FPV kamikaze drones has “significantly increased” in Ukraine. “When the numbers are announced, many will be pleasantly surprised,” noted the head of the OP.
09:13 On the evening of October 23, the enemy fired at the village of Borovaya, Izyum district, Kharkov region. A two-story residential building was damaged and four people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy also shelled settlements in the Kharkov, Chuguevsky, Kupyansky and Izyumsky districts.
08:59 At night, Russian troops fired at the Belozersk community of the Kherson region. One of the shells hit a private house, injuring three people, including a small child, the prosecutor's office said. According to the OVA, over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, two people were killed and 14 were injured, including one child.
08:56 The Black Sea Fleet stated that at night in the northern part of the Black Sea, three unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Navy were discovered by technical surveillance equipment, and they were allegedly destroyed. “Governor” of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that the Black Sea Fleet is carrying out “measures to combat underwater sabotage forces and means using rocket bombing and grenade launching.”
08:47 At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with six Shahed-type attack UAVs from the southern direction (Chauda, Crimea). All of them were shot down within the Khmelnitsky, Vinnitsa and Nikolaev regions, the Air Force command reported.
08:21 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 24:
personnel - about 295,510 (+810) people,
tanks - 5105 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 9669 (+16),
artillery systems - 7081 (+24),
MLRS - 828 (+3),
air defense systems - 552 (+1),
aircraft - 320 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5363 (+18),
cruise missiles - 1537 (+1),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9447 (+28),
special equipment - 1006 (+8).
07:36 In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy is not abandoning attempts to encircle Avdeevka, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding the line, the General Staff said in its morning report . Over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have repelled more than ten enemy attacks in this direction in the Keramik, Stepnoy, Avdeevka, and Tonenky districts of the Donetsk region.
In total, 55 military clashes took place at the front over the past 24 hours. In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Ivanovka area of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - near Nadezhda, Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - in the Bogdanovka, Khromovo, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Pobeda districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky and Zaporozhye - near Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region and southeast of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol direction, had partial success south of Rabotino, and are also conducting assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
00:43 Ukraine and Israel have different defense needs, so the United States is able to simultaneously provide weapons to both countries, said Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder. According to him, in reality there are not many positions in needs that coincide. At the same time, Ryder added that both countries need 155 mm shells. “Yes, 155 mm shells are a sphere common to both. But speaking in general, this is only one small sphere. And we don’t yet think that any problems will arise,” the general noted.
Ryder emphasized that the United States, as well as allied countries, are increasing production of 155 mm shells, “so we are confident that we can meet all needs.”
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[Korrespondent] On Tuesday, October 24, the Russian military shelled the village of Podoli, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region. Two people died, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported.
It is noted that the shelling occurred around 16:40.
"As a result of the missile strike, a private house and cars were damaged. Two civilians, 50 and 57 years old, were killed," the statement said.
The necessary specialized services worked at the site of the enemy attack.
Settlements in the Kharkov region find themselves under enemy fire almost every day. In particular, in the village of Podol at the end of September, the Russians fired at a cafe , as a result of which two people were killed and one was injured.
And on Monday it was reported that Russian troops dropped bombs on two villages in the Kharkov region. As a result of the attack, numerous damages to houses and infrastructure were recorded, and a woman was injured.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled eight attacks of the AFU 14th, 32nd mechanised brigades, 68th Jaeger Brigade, and 101st Territorial Defence Brigade near Ivanovka, Sinkovka, and Sergeevka (Kharkov region).
The enemy lost up to 60 Ukrainian troops and two pickup trucks.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopters, artillery repelled eleven attacks by assault groups of AFU 21st, 31st, and 63rd Mechanised Brigades close to Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
In addition, strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the AFU 12th Special Forces Brigade near Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 125 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware near Kleshcheyevka and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 235 Ukrainian personnel, two armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles have been neutralised.
In counter-battery warfare one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, three Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one 152mm Msta-b howitzer, and one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were destroyed.
Moreover, an ammunition depot of the AFU 93rd Mechanised Brigade was destroyed.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, helicoptes, and artillery launched strikes at clusters of manpower of AFU 79th air assault, 72nd Mechanised, 58th Mechanised Infantry Brigades and 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Ugledar, Nikol'skoye, Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy lost up to 110 Ukrainian troops and four motor vehicles.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery hit the AFU 118th Mechanised Brigade's units close to Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 75 Ukrainian troops, one tank, and two motor vehicles were neutralised.
Also, two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, 152mm Msta-B, 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one U.S.-made M119 gun were hit during the counter-battery warfare.
In Kherson direction, up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer were neutralised by fire.
The enemy units made unsuccessful attempts to capture bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnepr and suffered significant losses, therefore AFU marine brigades' servicemen are sabotaging landing tasks.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 109 areas during the day.
Air defence facilities have shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk People's Republic) and Kanatovo (Kirovograd region).
One L-39 combat training aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near Olenovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Five JDAM guided missiles and five HIMARS projectiles have been intercepted over the past 24 hours.
In addition, 44 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were obliterated near Tokmak (Zaporozhye region), Berestovoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Zolotaryovka, Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), and Sagi (Kherson region).
In total, 511 airplanes and 253 helicopters, 8,220 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 12,890 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,169 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,865 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 14,602 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/24/2023 to 00:00 10/25/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 24 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information has been received about the death of a civilian, a man, in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.
Two civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Kuibyshevsky and Kalininsky districts of Donetsk.
Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kalininsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
Areas of five settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Golmovsky, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kalininsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Lugansk.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks from AGM-88 HARM, MLRS, and 155mm artillery.
At Gorlivske there were nine artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky there was one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 86 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 51 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
21:10 Hit from a drone on the dugout of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka area, burned out all living things inside
21:09 The Russian Su-27 did not allow the American reconnaissance UAV RQ-4B Global Howk to violate the state border over the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
19:29 The head of communications of the OBTF "Cascade" spoke about the situation on the Vremevsky ledge.
“AFU soldiers don’t want to fight!
Our “birds” constantly monitor every move of the enemy, and electronic intelligence systems hear every word: the neo-Nazis are disoriented, afraid and do not want to fight.
Every day a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrender, forced into war and not wanting to die for the sake of the criminal Kyiv regime.”
18:42 Over the last half hour, our aircraft immediately struck the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank several times.
Since the beginning of the day (from 00:00) this was already the nine series of attacks from our aviation. Apparently, the forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that are planning an attack on the left bank are being attacked.
17:25 War correspondent Evgeny Poddubny:
“The enemy continues to lose combat aircraft: over the past 24 hours, two more Ukrainian MiG-29s were shot down. Russian air defense has worked.
Losses of front-line fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have become a mass phenomenon in recent days. Mig-29 is one of the most common models of Soviet aircraft, which are owned by about 30 countries around the world. Even at the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, a number of Eastern European countries pledged to transfer their MiG-29s, which were hanging on their balance sheets, to the Kyiv regime.
Judging by the number of destroyed vehicles - and there are already nearly two dozen of them over the last week - old fighters from Europe did reach Ukraine, but turned out to be completely powerless against the Russian Aerospace Forces and anti-aircraft gunners.”
16:37 Ukrainian Telegram channels report the advance of the Russian military near Avdievka.
“The enemy advanced to the west of Krasnogorovka, coming close to the railway track (one of the routes for supplying the Avdeevsky fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - ed.). An extremely difficult situation […] The waste heap was most likely lost a couple of days ago, but we will wait for more accurate information,” the message says.
Russian military officers say that the Avdeevsky waste heap is an important strategic height. Its occupation allows you to effectively conduct reconnaissance and fire on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.
The General Staff did not comment on this information.
16:10 Ukrainian militants fired five rockets from the MLRS at the Kuybyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk - JCCC DPR.
16:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 24, as of 16:00, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
– at 5 Kolkhozny Ave., a man born in 1963 was wounded.
Additional information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Force in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
– st. Wagnera, 17 – direct hit in an apartment building.
15:37 The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to lose tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in the Zaporozhye direction due to new “mine corridors”: analysisMilitary chronicle:
The scale of mining in the rear areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction is gradually increasing. Now the Ukrainian army is faced with the problem of minefields not only when attempting to advance, but also when moving in its own rear.
Since October 10, units of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade, as well as rear units and support units of the 116th and 117th Mechanized Brigades began to lose people and equipment in previously safe rear areas. According to the Military Chronicle, they suffer losses in minefields, the installation sites of which are constantly changing.
As a result, Ukrainian troops are actively losing not only armored vehicles, but also a significant part of lightly armored and unarmored vehicles. Over 14 days, at least four such incidents were recorded: two in the area of Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka, two more to the west of the main direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack in Zaporozhye, in the area of Stepovoye and Malye Shcherbaky.
Presumably, new minefields appeared due to the increased use of remote mining engineering systems "Agriculture".
In November 2022, it became known about the expansion of production of these systems at the NPO Splav enterprise.
The installation of new minefields at the end of October showed that for Ukrainian troops the problem of overcoming such obstacles is gradually becoming a daily task and forcing them to retrain significant forces needed for ground attacks in the Rabotino - Verbovoe - Novoprokopovka, Stepovoye - Lobkovoe - Pyatikhatki sectors into demining units, as well as Kamenskoye - Zherebyanki.
Continuous minefields, the appearance of which both forward and rear units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot detect in advance, regularly appear in an area of ??54 km (from west to east) and an area of approximately 475 square m/km. The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot control such a territory with the existing forces, so the vast majority of units move along the main roads at their own peril and risk.
The new tactics for placing minefields are in some ways reminiscent of a game of thimbles: while the Ukrainian Armed Forces are waiting for new minefields to appear in one place and assign sappers to survey the territory, barriers appear in another place, and then in several more, hindering the mobility of the mechanized units of the Ukrainian army.
The precipitation that fell on the territory of the Zaporozhye region has already complicated the rotation and supply of Ukrainian units, the evacuation of damaged equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the removal of the wounded, and extensive minefields make the situation and combat environment as hostile and dangerous as possible for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
It is important to note that, along with the installation of anti-tank minefields, anti-personnel minefields are also installed. Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a number of areas, in particular in the area of the village of Rabotino, do not have the opportunity to move, carry out supplies and medical evacuation both on equipment and on foot.
13:30 Battle for Avdievka situation as of 13.00 October 24, 2023
Fighting continues around the Avdeevsky fortified area. After clearing the waste heap, Russian soldiers went on the defensive and consolidated in the occupied areas, while the enemy, on the contrary, pulled in reinforcements for a counterattack.
Due to heavy losses, at least one battalion of the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was transferred from the Orekhovsky sector to Ocheretino and Novobakhmutovka. Their forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to strike positions near the waste heap, but to no avail.
Similar enemy counterattacks came from the coke plant in Avdeevka, as well as on Opytnoye and Pervomaisky. Ukrainian formations intended to occupy the gray zone, but by artillery strikes of the Russian Armed Forces they were forced back to their starting positions.
Russian aviation and artillery continue to target enemy lines. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are growing: according to sources, during a week of active fighting, the number of killed members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine alone exceeded 1,000 people and 60 pieces of equipment.
There are losses on our side, too, but thanks to the chosen tactics of total destruction of the fortified area and subsequent clearing of the area, our command managed to reduce their number to a minimum.
12:49 It is reported that our aviation again worked on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Berislavsky district of the Kiev-occupied part of the Kherson region.
12:39 Statement Head of the press center of the "South" group
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled an enemy attack and defeated concentrations of manpower and military equipment of enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Orlovka, Bogdanovka.
The enemy lost more than 160 soldiers killed and wounded. Two armored combat vehicles and four vehicles were destroyed. An ammunition depot in the Novomikhailovka area was hit by artillery.
Fire damage was caused to the temporary deployment points of units of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade and the 38th Antiaircraft Missile Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost the 152mm towed Msta-B howitzer and 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Air defense and electronic warfare systems, as well as small arms fire, destroyed six unmanned aerial vehicles in the Sporny, Berestovy and Kirillovka areas of the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:30 Above the Avdievka waste heap now flies The Russian flag and the flag of the 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade (former Vostok brigade of the DPR), which carried out a successful assault on this ash dump. The strategic height is ours.
11:30 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in Kyiv and occupied Zaporozhye by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
11:25 Kupyansky section situation as of 11.00 October 24, 2023
Near Kupyansk, Russian troops continue their systematic assault on Ukrainian positions. Over the past few days, local attacks supported by artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have driven out the forces of the 115th Mechanized Brigade from several strong points.
Enemy losses reached significant numbers. Now the formations of the Terrestrial Defense and the 40th Artillery Brigade are mining the approaches to the forward lines in order to complicate the advance of the Russian Army.
Nevertheless, the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the command of the Kupyansk group is recognized as critical. To strengthen the forward lines in anticipation of a new phase of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces, the transfer of reinforcements began.
Unidentified units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were sent from the Soledar direction and from the Zhitomir region to Kupyansk. Also, 200 people from the 4th Brigade of the National Guard and 300 people from the 15th Border Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine occupy the lines in Dvurechnaya, Sin'kovka, Petropavlovka and Stelmakhovka.
The enemy grouping near Kupyansk has strengthened, which confirms the information about the extremely difficult situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area.
10:37 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Velikaya Lepetikha 18 rounds;
-- n.p. Knyaze-Grigorovka 10 rounds;
-- n.p. Malaya Lepetikha 16 rounds;
-- n.p. Sergeevka 17 rounds;
-- n.p. Solontsy 11 rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Sagi eight rounds;
-- n.p. Pody five rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka nine rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha eight rounds.
As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Look, two civilians are dead.
As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Peschanivka, one civilian was moderately injured.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Cossack Camps, n.p. Radensk, n.p. Podstepnoye, n.p. Korsunka, firing a total of 27 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
10:10 News from the front. Kherson direction.
“There is a breakdown in attempts to develop at least some progress from the islands to populated areas.
For two days, almost non-stop, they smashed the enemy with artillery.
The enemy is still using tactics to gain a foothold in small groups, crossing to the left bank in boats. Groups of up to 20 fighters.
The military leadership of Kyiv is well informed about the futility of developing any semblance of a serious offensive or advancing in depth, which is confirmed by our interceptions, but they continue to send suicide bombers.
These same groups were defeated by our artillery fire. In some of the 20 people, 3-4 remained capable, the rest were either liquidated or crippled (300).
The personnel who brought up the “shifts” and the BC were also cleared.
This does not mean calm and pause for some time. Thanks to widespread mobilization, the enemy still has enough human resources. He climbs, no matter what.
Yes, an ordinary Ukrainian refuses to get into the meat grinder, he sees the bodies of his brothers-in-arms who have already littered the left bank in the area of the crossings, but they don’t offer him any options, no matter how much the propaganda sounds. So far something like this..."
09:29 One civilian was killed and two were injured as a result of a Ukrainian missile hitting a residential building in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk -video.
08:17 Frontline summary on the morning of October 24, 2023:
In the Kherson-Crimean direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have brought up reserves to the islands and are trying, with artillery support, to break through to Poima and Peschanovka again. Encounter battles for the village of Krynki continue. Ukrainian positions here are under heavy fire from long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after shelling, attacked in the Kopanei area, near Novoprokopovka and intensified the pressure on Verbovoye.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery and aviation, carried out assault operations in Marinka, near Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka), on the southern approaches to Avdievka and at Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledarsky directions) .
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to gain a foothold in the Andreevka and Kleshcheevka area behind the railway line. No success. The Russian Armed Forces counterattacked from Berkhovka and managed to push back the Ukrainian positions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated one and a half kilometers.
In the Lugansk direction there are oncoming battles in the Serebryansky forest in the Dibrova area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked near Raigorodka. Some positions of the RF Armed Forces moved into the “gray zone.” Russian troops continued their assault operations near Stepnaya Novoselovka.
08:05 Volunteers of the Alania battalion successfully targeted armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
The enemy tried to advance along the line of resistance, RT military correspondent Stanislav Obishchenko reports. Soldiers from North and South Ossetia accurately worked on the enemy column with anti-tank systems, methodically disabling one vehicle after another.
08:00 Summary on the morning of October 24, 2023:
The Geranium UAV attacked enemy targets in the Vinnitsa, Cherkasy, and Khmelnytsky regions at night. They report a raid on the airfield in Starokonstantinov.In the Kherson direction, they report a forced evacuation of the population from the coast controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Kherson to Zolotaya Balka (northeast of the region, near the Dnieper). The enemy holds part of the settlement. Krynki, transporting personnel on boats. The enemy's presence remains at the Antonovsky Bridge, at the railway bridge - the enemy's DRG was destroyed yesterday.
On the Zaporozhye Front, several units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed near Rabotino-Novoprokopovka; here the enemy attacked several times, but did not achieve success. Fighting continues near Verbovoy. The enemy is not reducing the intensity of artillery fire; all day yesterday our troops repelled the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Heavy fighting is taking place in the Avdeevsky direction. Our offensive continues. Enemy channels are forced to admit the loss of a waste heap in the North-West of Avdievka. On the southern flank, the enemy tried to attack at Opytny and Peski.
On the outer roadstead of Sevastopol, the Black Sea Fleet repelled a possible attack by enemy underwater sabotage forces and assets at night. artillery attack of the Belgorod region continues, the governor, reporting on the artillery attack over the previous day, pointed to arrivals in the Borisov district, Grayvoronsky urban district, Krasnoyaruzhsky district, Shebekinsky urban district. A Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV was shot down in the Yakovlevsky urban district. In Donetsk, a civilian was killed by Ukrainian Armed Forces fire and three civilians were injured.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A court in the DPR sentenced Ukrainian nationalist Alexey Fiklinets , who drunkenly shot a civilian in Mariupol, to 25 years in prison. This was reported on October 24 by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
According to the investigation, on the night of March 11, 2022, Fiklinets, a member of the Ukrainian nationalist unit “Azov” (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), and other militants were at combat positions equipped in residential buildings and buildings. A Fiklin resident, who was in a state of intoxication, saw a local resident in civilian clothes near the entrance of a house on Kuprin Street. The man did not pose any danger to the militants, but Fiklinets shot him several times with a machine gun, because he decided that the man was taking a pro-Russian position. The man died on the spot from his injuries.
Fiklinets fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions. The court sentenced him under articles of cruel treatment of civilians in occupied territory (356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and murder committed out of hatred by an organized group of persons (105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the verdict, the militant will spend 25 years in a maximum security colony.
As Regnum reported, in August the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Ukrainian militant Andrei Bogdan to 25 years in a maximum security colony for shooting a Russian prisoner of war. In March 2022, Bogdan detained two DPR soldiers at a gas station in Mariupol, who were traveling in a car with a civilian. The soldiers were disarmed, after which Bogdan took one of them, wounded, to the gas station building and shot him.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Russian Armed Forces planted the Russian flag over a waste heap in Avdievka, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), over which there were intense battles for several weeks.
As Izvestia reports, along with the Russian flag, the scarlet banner of the 114th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade also flaunts above the waste heap.
Creating a waste heap and calling it peace?
As Regnum reported, the development of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces near Avdievka became known in October. The Telegram channel “Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring” on October 12 reported that Russian fighters had captured a waste heap near the Avdievka Coke and Chemical Plant , which is an important dominant height.
The British magazine The Economist noted on October 15 that one of the largest offensives of the Russian army since the spring of 2022 began near Avdievka. London journalists expressed fears that Ukrainian Armed Forces units would be surrounded .
On October 20, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny reported in his Telegram channel that he visited Avdievka in the DPR, which is under the control of Kiev. He said that the Russian army continues to advance in the Kupyansk direction, so the Ukrainian military is defending itself in “extremely difficult conditions.” He also said that Russian troops are trying to encircle Avdievka and have attracted a large number of armored vehicles, as well as aviation and artillery to do this.
Avdievka is part of the Donetsk agglomeration. From this territory, Ukrainian militants are shelling the capital of the DPR.
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Avdievka is where a coke processing plant is. The waste heap is a by prpduct, and the Ukrainians (and now the Russians) have been using it for spotting artillery into Donetsk city, since it is at a height that enables that.
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