[GEO.TV] A storm has toppled one of Central Asia's oldest Lenin statues and smashed it beyond repair, a local official in Kazakhstan said Friday.
"On the night of 7 to 8 November, the Lenin monument was destroyed by gusts of wind that toppled a nearby fir tree," a cultural official in the ex-Soviet country's Pavlodar region told AFP.
"As it fell from its pedestal, the statue was smashed into a thousand pieces and cannot be restored," said the official, Medet Alpysbaiuly.
The monument was unveiled on July 1, 1928. It was the only one in Kazakhstan to have Lenin's name written in the Kazakh language using Arabic characters, before the country switched to a Latin-based alphabet and then Cyrillic letters.
The statue was smashed on the symbolic date of November 7, the 107th anniversary of the 1917 revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power under Lenin's leadership.
Unlike some other ex-Soviet countries such as Ukraine and the Baltic states, the Central Asian states have not carried out a policy of large-scale de-Sovietisation and removal of statues from the era and retain close ties with Moscow.
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...You could also place this one under Signs, Portents, And The Weather.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 19:00 In the morning, the Russian army shelled settlements in the Kherson community with artillery, killing one person, the prosecutor's office reported. In addition, one person was killed near Stanislav - Russian military personnel hit a civilian car with an FPV drone. Another person was killed and one was wounded in Berislav as a result of explosives being dropped from drones.
18:52 Russians shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day: the enemy attacked Nikopol, Marganets, Mirovskaya and Pokrovskaya communities with kamikaze drones, artillery, Grad MLRS, and UAVs. One person was injured, infrastructure, an industrial enterprise, and a social institution were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
18:44 Russians launched a ballistic attack on critical infrastructure of the Sumy community, OVA reported.
18:15 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported that he held a meeting with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova in Belarus, during which they exchanged lists of prisoners of war visited by both sides. Ukraine and the Russian Federation also exchanged letters, in particular, launched a new format: they handed over letters from Ukrainian relatives to Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
17:36 Erdogan said the war in Ukraine could "easily end" if the Trump administration takes up the issue. He added that Turkey plans to continue focusing on finding a peaceful solution: "We are a country that has managed to bring both sides to the table. We have done it many times and we can do it again. This war must end now. We have focused our efforts on achieving peace and we will continue to do so."
There he goes again, throwing around the weight Turkey doesn’t have, pretending as hard as he can that the neo-Ottoman sultanate really is a thing instead of a pathetic pretense held together by charitable donations from the Gulf and a dwindling number of totalitarian confiscations at home.
16:28 During a drone attack in Kiev on November 7, the apartment building where Estonian Ambassador Anneli Kolk lives was damaged, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said. According to him, the diplomat was not harmed. "No one will be safe in Ukraine until Russia stops its aggression. Ukraine needs more air defense to protect its residents. We must not get used to this," the Estonian Foreign Minister emphasized.
14:47 Ukraine has returned the bodies of 563 dead soldiers, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported. In particular, it was possible to repatriate 320 bodies of those killed in the Donetsk direction and 89 fallen soldiers from the Bakhmut direction. It was also possible to return 154 bodies from morgues in the Russian Federation.
14:33 The European Union has extended the training mission for Ukrainian troops for two years and allocated almost 409 million euros for it, the EU Council reported. The mission, called EUMAM Ukraine, has already trained 63,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and will complete training for another 15,000 in the coming months.
13:52 Soldiers from the DPRK probably entered their first battle in the Kursk region yesterday, Forbes writes. According to the publication, on November 7, Russian marines of the 810th brigade, supported by North Korean reinforcements, attacked the left flank of the Kursk salient, which ended in a "bloodbath for the Russians." At least 14 armored personnel carriers went into the attack, ten were destroyed or damaged and abandoned. Forbes believes that the Russians want to quickly retake the Kursk region before a possible freeze along the front line under Trump, and therefore the assaults will continue.
13:19 The death toll from yesterday's Russian attack on Zaporizhia has risen to ten - another body has been pulled out from under the rubble of a destroyed house. 41 people have been injured, more than 130 houses have been destroyed, said OVA head Ivan Fedorov.
11:24 Ukraine will receive air defense missiles from the Estonian defense company Frankenburg Technologies for testing. The first samples for testing will arrive in the coming months, the Defense Ministry reported. The missiles are designed primarily to counter UAVs and are capable of shooting down targets at an altitude of up to 2 km.
10:58 On Thursday, November 7, Russians attacked the regional oncology dispensary in Zaporizhia. According to the head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov, 17 patients were evacuated to other hospitals in the city. At least eight hospital medics were injured, two of them are in serious condition. An enemy KAB exploded near one of the medics. As of November 8, 15 victims of the attack remain in medical institutions, including a five-year-old child in critical condition. Today, a Day of Mourning has been declared in Zaporizhia. The death toll has risen to nine, including a one-year-old child.
09:53 In Saratov, after a drone attack, a fire broke out in the area of the local oil refinery, local publics write. Residents of Engels in the Saratov region also report that a siren was turned on in the city. Governor Roman Busargin reported that a drone was destroyed over Saratov at night, and part of the debris fell in the industrial zone of the Zavodskoy district. The Saratov Oil Refinery is also located in this area. The Russian Defense Ministry reported 17 drones shot down or intercepted overnight: six over the Voronezh region, six more over the Saratov region, four over the Belgorod region, and one over the Bryansk region.
09:27 Air defense destroyed 62 of 92 Russian UAVs (Shahed and unspecified type) and all four Kh-59/69 guided air missiles at night, the Air Force reported. In addition, the enemy struck with an Iskander-M ballistic missile at night. Air targets were shot down in Odessa, Nikolaev, Kiev, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zhitomir, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytsky and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Another 26 enemy drones were lost, one remains in Ukrainian airspace.
09:02 At night, Russians shelled Kharkiv with KABs. In Saltovsky district, a bomb hit a 12-story residential building, injuring 25 people, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In Shevchenkivsky district, three administrative buildings, six residential buildings, eight administrative buildings, three shopping pavilions and four metro station exits were damaged. In addition, the day before, one person was injured as a result of shelling from an MLRS in the village of Kazachya Lopan, Kharkiv district.
08:44 At night, Russians launched a massive drone attack on the Odessa region - one person was killed, nine were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. Private residential buildings and an educational institution were damaged. In Odessa, as a result of falling debris, two gas pipes were depressurized and ignited.
08:27 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and three were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 8:
personnel - about 705,880 (+1,580) people,
tanks - 9233 (+9),
combat armored vehicles - 18,661 (+49),
artillery systems - 20,226 (+32),
MLRS - 1245 (+0),
air defense systems - 996 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 329 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 18,526 (+118),
cruise missiles - 2631 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 28,495 (+84),
special equipment - 3602 (+6).
07:38 Russia attacked the Kiev region with missiles, four people were injured as a result of falling debris, said the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko.
07:09 In Zaporozhye, the number of people killed as a result of yesterday's Russian attack has risen to eight, 42 people were injured, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
01:24 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Novoalekseevka in the Selidovo urban community of the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region, and has also advanced near Novodmitrovka, Novoaleksendrivka and Maksimovka.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces Contain Russian Attacks in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
The fiercest battles are taking place in the Kurakhovsky direction. Currently, Ukrainian troops are repelling 18 assaults.
Since the beginning of the current day, 114 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Russian troops are particularly active in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00 on Friday, November 8.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians twice stormed the Volchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy actively advanced nine times in the areas of Kondrashovka, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoye, Lozovoye and Berestovoye. All enemy attacks were repelled.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out nine assaults near Grekovka, Zarechny, Terny, Torskoye and Grigoryevka. Eight combat clashes ended without success for the enemy, and another one is ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled an attack near the settlement of Belogorovka. Another clash continues.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Russians are storming near Bondarnoye. The situation there is under control.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy concentrated its offensive efforts in the areas of Toretsk and Shcherbinovka. Four combat clashes occurred, which were successfully repelled.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers have already carried out 24 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Novotoretskoye, Luch, Lisovka, Kruty Yar, Selidovo, Vishnevoye and Mlechnoye. The defense forces have repelled 19 assaults. The remaining clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the enemy organized 32 assaults near Ilyinka, Berestki, Novoselidovka, Novodmitrovka, Voznesenka, Maksimovka, Antonovka and Yekaterinovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 18 attacks. Fierce fighting is underway.
In the Vremivsky direction, the enemy has attacked six times near Bogoyavlenka. Two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, the occupiers attacked near Novoandreyevka.
In the Dnieper direction, the invaders carried out one unsuccessful assault.
Let us recall that on November 7, the losses of Russian troops reached 1,580 people. The total losses of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war have already crossed the line of 700 thousand soldiers killed and wounded.
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[EngMilRu] From 2 to 8 November, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have carried out 38 group strikes by high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, which the Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, power industry facilities that used to support the AFU, the infrastructure of military airfields, manufacturing shops and storage areas for uncrewed surface vehicles and attack drones, arsenals, ammunition and POL depots.
In addition, AFU temporary deployment areas, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries as well as armoured vehicles, have been hit at a railway transport loading station.
Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to eliminate AFU formations in Kursk region.
Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, six mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one special operations brigade, one marine brigade, four territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops have inflicted fire damage on units of AFU one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade.
Over the past week, the enemy losses were over 2,020 troops, nine tanks, 20 infantry fighting vehicles, including six U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 34 other armoured fighting vehicles, 66 motor vehicles, and 21 field artillery guns.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have liberated Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov region).
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, six mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, and airmobile brigade of the AFU, and four territorial defence brigades.
In addition, 32 counter-attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 3,160 troops, three tanks, seven U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and five other armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, 23 field artillery guns, including 13 NATO-made ones. Four electronic warfare stations and 19 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Antonovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have launched strikes on seven mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, two airmobile brigades, one air assault brigade, one artillery brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade.
Eleven counterattacks launched by AFU assault detachments have been thwarted.
The AFU losses were more than 4,420 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 38 motor vehicles, 21 field artillery guns, including 12 Western-made ones, 10 electronic warfare stations, and eight field ammunition depots.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depths of enemy defences and liberated Kurakhovka, Vishnevoye, and Kremennaya Balka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of six mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade, one airborne brigade of the AFU, two naval infantry brigades, five territorial defence brigades, two national guard brigades, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine.
In addition, 61 counter-attacks have been repelled.
Over the past week, the AFU losses were over 3,440 troops, two tanks, 27 armoured fighting vehicles, including five U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, 31 field artillery guns, and 23 motor vehicles.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have liberated Maksimovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have inflicted fire damage on two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one infantry brigade of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade.
The AFU losses were up to 820 troops, three tanks, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, 34 motor vehicles, and nine 155mm NATO-made self-propelled artillery systems.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 470 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, eight field artillery guns, three electronic warfare stations, and six field ammunition depots.
Air defence facilities have shot down the Ukrainian Air Force's MiG-29 aircraft, eight ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, 11 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, 17 French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, and 290 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 47 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 648 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 35,409 unmanned aerial vehicles, 585 anti-aircraft missile systems, 19,141 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,486 MLRS combat vehicles, 17,488 field artillery guns and mortars, and 28,100 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.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces continued offensive actions, inflicted fire damage on units of 21st, 22nd, 41st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd and 95th Air Assault brigades, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Daryino, Leonidovo, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka, and Plyokhovo.
The Group's units repelled 11 enemy counterattacks in the direction of Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevo-Daryino, and Novoivanovka. Moreover, an attempt of the AFU to break through the stater border of the Russian Federation close to Novy Put was thwarted.
The AFU losses were up to 80 people killed and wounded, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, four armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles. Two AFU servicemen surrendered.
Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 22nd, 41st, 47th, and 61st Mechanised brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, 80th and 95th Air Assault brigades, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade as well as the 1st Special Operations Brigade, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU, and the 17th National Guard Brigade of Ukraine near Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Kolmakov, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoye, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Sverdlikovo, Plyokhovo, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, and Yuzhny.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes on concentration areas in Sumy region and reserves of 21st, 22nd, 47th, 115th Mechanised brigades, the 95th Air Assault Brigade, the 1st Special Operations Brigade, and the 129th Territorial Defence Brigade of the AFU near Basovka, Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Pavlovka, and Rechki.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were more than 300 troops, four tanks, six infantry fighting vehicles, six armoured fighting vehicles, two mortars, and 11 motor vehicles. Two AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 30,500 troops, 189 tanks, 121 infantry fighting vehicles, 107 armoured personnel carriers, 1,094 armoured fighting vehicles, 829 motor vehicles, 262 artillery guns, 40 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 11 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 59 EW stations, 12 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 26 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08.11.2024 to 00:00 09.11.2024.
A total of 19 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of three civilians killed and two injured.
DAMAGED:
One residential building
Four civil infrastructure facilities
One artillery attack in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 18 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 65 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:00 Job of FPV drones "Boomerang" on enemy Leopard 2A5 and BMP-2.
19:49 Calculation of the 122mm howitzer D-30 destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kurakhovsky direction. After the operators of a Russian reconnaissance UAV detected a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, the target coordinates were immediately transmitted to the artillery control point.
18:55 Pokrovsk direction: maintaining the initiative of the RF Armed Forces and systematic deepening into the enemy’s defenses:
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian units are confidently developing their offensive, strengthening control over key sections of the front and suppressing the enemy’s defensive positions.
Novoalekseevka and its environs: Russian forces have consolidated their positions at new lines, continuing to push through the positions of the 15th Bronze Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Yuryevka from several flanks. An advance of up to 400 meters has been recorded in some areas, which allows them to maintain the tactical initiative in this area.
Grigoryevka area: under the cover of artillery, assault units of the Russian Armed Forces are destroying fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, steadily advancing and expanding the zone of control.
Vishnevoe-Lysovka-Promin line: Russian assault groups continue systematic offensive actions, deepening control in the directions of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and Mirnograd (Dimitrov), which is recorded by local advances in certain areas.
18:41 Russian artillerymen with a precise strikedestroyedcombat vehicle of the MLRS "Olkha" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:20 Explosions were heard in Sumy.
17:52 Servicemen of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS crew of the Center group of forces struck an area of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
16:29 The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the Orekhov direction of the Zaporizhzhya Front. This was reported by Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects and Support for Veterans of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
15:54 The Ukrainian Armed Forces leave the village of Voznesenka in the north of Kurakhovo and go along the railway tracks to Berestki. Stari Terny and Berestki are the last lines of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, separating Russian troops from the closure of Kurakhovo from the north.
15:37 The crew of the 152mm D-20 gun of the 38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade fired a precise shot that struck enemy mortar in the Polog direction.
15:25 Crew of the Mi-28NM helicopter destroyed personnel and a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
14:56 Destruction of the armored all-terrain vehicle BvS10 by fpv-drones "VT-40" in the Pokrovsky direction -video.
14:40 The Military Chronicle channel reported changes in the Zaporizhzhya direction:
"Some Western analysts claim that Russian troops have launched a "silent offensive" in the Zaporizhia region. There have been no multi-kilometer thrusts through Rabotino yet, but they have managed to "bite off" about two kilometers from the Nesteryanka side. The problem for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is that these two kilometers were advanced toward Orekhovo. In fact, this is where the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive began a year ago."
14:26 Units of the Sever group are advancing in the Kursk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
The Russian Armed Forces prevented an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through the state border near Novy Put, the enemy lost up to 80 people, two surrendered. In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 300 soldiers and four tanks in 24 hours.
14:11 The Russian Armed Forces are breaking through the flanks in the Kurakhovsky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have enough forces and resources, stated retired Colonel of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Zhdanov.
13:54 Soldiers of the motorized rifle division of the 3rd Army Corps of the "Southern" group of troops took control of a section of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal near Konstantinovka, the division reported.
13:27 The situation in the Kurakhovsky direction is analyzed by "Donbass Partizan":
In the Kurakhovsky direction, Russian units continue offensive operations, systematically pushing back enemy units and creating visible conditions for the tactical encirclement of the Kurakhovsky group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Northern flank: The Russian Armed Forces are actively storming enemy positions in Solntsevka, having also achieved a significant expansion of the control zone in the areas of Ilyinka, Novoselidovka and Voznesenka. The defense of the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is under pressure in the Berestki area and along the northern shore of the Kurakhovskoye Reservoir, where Russian forces are developing an offensive in the direction of Starye Terny. At this time, the enemy is trying to organize a defensive line Zorya-Solntsevka-Starye Terny.
In the Shakhtyorskoye area, south of Yasnaya Polyana, the enemy launched a counterattack, temporarily holding back the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Razliv. However, Russian units took the initiative, expanding their zone of control from Urozhaynoye to Velikaya Novoselovka.
On the southern line Yasnaya Polyana-Trudovoye-Konstantinovka: Russian forces are conducting systematic assault operations in the areas of Katerynivka, Antonivka and Yelizovetivka, knocking out the remnants of Ukrainian forces and advancing up to 600 meters in some areas.
Maintaining the initiative on the southern flank creates conditions for complex pressure from the defense of the Kurakhovo group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is "crumbling day after day" under the onslaught of Russian units.
12:25 In the Boguslavsky direction of the Russian Armed Forces launched an attack on Vyshneve and two counterattacks towards Pershotravneve. UAV crews and artillery destroyed up to 17 personnel and one armored fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
11:45 Russian fighters entered Sontsovka on the Kurakhovsky section, took Voznesenka. In Sontsovka, in fact, in the center of the village, there is a battle. The Russian Armed Forces are expanding the zone of control, "cutting" Sontsovka in half and towards the flanks. The museum of the great Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev on Central Street in Sontsovka is already under the control of Russian forces. The capture of this village, after which there is operational space all the way to the reservoir, will encircle Kurakhovo.
11:01 During the fighting in the Shakhtyorsk direction, the fighters of the 36th Army were busy positions from which the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Novodonetske, and captured artillery rounds were also captured.
10:54 Air strikes destroyed temporary deployment point of the enemy on the southwestern outskirts of Tern, the Ukrainian Directorate reported. Half of the settlement has already come under the control of Russian forces.
10:49 Russian Armed Forces advance in Kursk Oblast. According to Come and See, Russian troops continue to advance in Kursk Oblast.
"The offensive is being conducted in several directions. We have managed to advance in the Malaya Loknya area," a Russian soldier told the channel.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces are also advancing in the Darino area. Russian aviation is actively working on the rear and supply bases of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:44 Advancement of the Russian army on the Pokrovsk-Kurakhovo line from the end of August 2024 –map.
09:19 In Odessa, ammunition depots were hit, the detonation lasted more than two hours, the underground stated. In addition, a strike was carried out in Odessa at the location of foreign military personnel, many ambulances left for the scene.
09:10 A T-72 that had blown up on its own mine was evacuated by Russian soldiers near Pervomayskoye in the DPR. Russian Armed Forces servicemen were firing drones at the Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle, and when the tank tried to retreat, it ran into its own trap –video.
09:02 FPV drone operator destroys another Baba Yaga drone in the Zaporizhia direction –video.
08:50 Enemy reports: "Kurakhovskoye direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost Novoalekseyevka. Rearguard battles continue on the outskirts of Voznesenka, Yekaterinovka, Novoselidovka and Berestki, but these villages do not have much time left.
There is an advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the areas of Novodmitrovka, Solntsevka, and Konstantinopolskoye. The Russian Armed Forces are completing the creation of favorable conditions for themselves to further flank Kurakhovo. More settlements will be lost in this area in the near future."
08:25 On the night of November 8, Russian forces continued to strike enemy targets. Another night in a row, they were heard in Odessa and the Odessa region. Targets were attacked in the area of the airfield near Odessa. Another "arrival" - in the area of the Odessa seaport.
Explosions were heard in the Ternopil region, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have transport and logistics hubs used to deliver and distribute weapons and equipment from NATO countries. Strikes were also carried out on targets in the Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad and Zhitomir regions. Russian drones also attacked enemy targets in the Kyiv region.
08:11 Su-25 destroyed equipment and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
08:10 122mm BM-21 "Grads" of the "North" group destroyed positions and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
08:07 152mm Msta-S howitzer crews destroyed Krab self-propelled guns, tanks and shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces camouflaged in a forest belt –video.
08:05 Volunteer detachment "BARS-11" firmly holds defense in one of the areas in the Zaporizhia region, providing protection for the rear of the advanced units of the Dnepr group of troops.
08:02 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the northeast of the settlement of Nesteryanka –map.
08:00 152mm Msta-S crews of the West troop group perform fire missions destroyed camouflaged self-propelled gun "Krab", towed guns, tanks and enemy manpower in the area of the special military operation.
Western Ukraine has always been a lawless region. Not even Soviet power was present there during the days of the USSR. by Kirill Velesov
[REGNUM] For the third month, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has been sounding the alarm over the appalling situation in the educational and rehabilitation center in the Lviv region. Orphans, children of parents deprived of parental rights, and minors who were evacuated from the combat zone, in particular from the Zaporizhia region, live there.
The first publication on Lubinets' Telegram channel appeared at the end of September. He wrote that he had received information about violence against children in this center - sexual, physical and psychological.
“There is evidence from children that the director of the institution committed sexual acts against girls who were in the institution, publicly humiliated them, and also threatened to beat them and place them in a psychiatric hospital for ‘bad behavior’ or violating the daily routine,” Lubinets said.
In addition, he noted, the children complained that they were systematically told: "Nobody needs you", "Your parents are alcoholics", "You are sick", "Nothing good will come of you". At the same time, the employees, headed by the director, treated the children as "sick", incapacitated - "they have a diagnosis, they are inadequate", which made their further development and rehabilitation impossible.
Lubinets added that he was shocked to learn that the children themselves had contacted the National Police and the Social Service for Children several times, but no one responded to their complaints. No one, except for the center's employees: they found out about the appeals and beat the children with sticks.
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A criminal case was opened in October. But a week later, a video of new abuse and beatings of children in the same center appeared online. Lubinets responded again: he said that the children had become more careful in their statements when talking to psychologists and police officers, which meant that the center's employees had simply intimidated them.
Despite this, the children managed to tell us that violence is not the only problem with the institution. The quality of the food is disgusting, there is not enough food for everyone, and some of the children are openly exploited. One boy said that he was forced to “work part-time” in the funeral services industry – digging graves and preparing the bodies of the dead for burial.
A month passed. Already at the end of October, Lubinets wrote again that the situation remains disappointing: children are placed in isolation for “bad behavior,” and unlicensed doctors work in the center.
The key point is that many children should not be in the Lviv center at all. The minors taken from the Zaporizhia region were planned to be placed there temporarily - for 90 days, after which they were to be sent to other educational institutions and foster families. But the children have been living there for more than two years.
“ The children’s services of the Lviv and Zaporizhzhya OVA (regional military-civil administrations – ed.) do not demonstrate any interest in coordinating their actions for the benefit of children,” Lubinets stated.
On November 5, he raised the issue again, but from a different angle: according to him, the Lviv administration and the local child welfare service are not responding to calls to solve the problem. In essence, the matter has not moved forward yet.
And already on November 7, similar news came from the Ternopil region. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine launched an investigation into violent actions against children in one of the specialized educational institutions of the region. The evidence is the same: sexual and physical violence, illegal placement of a healthy child in a psychiatric institution, threats, abuse of office...
SCHOOL "LANGUAGE PATROLS"
Meanwhile, for children who have moved to the Lviv or Ternopil regions from Zaporozhye, the problems are further aggravated by language and discrimination issues.
UNICEF - the UN International Children's Fund back in 2022 persistently called on Ukraine to adhere to all rules to achieve equal rights and opportunities for displaced children. Including protecting them from discrimination and xenophobia.
In reality, everything is different. “Language patrols” on the streets of Ivano-Frankivsk did not surprise schoolchildren-displaced persons, who were forced to study in schools of Lviv region - such “patrols” appeared in some educational institutions there two years ago, noted the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
Language conflicts between settlers and local residents occurred in Volyn, Galicia and the Carpathian region.
Ternopil newspaper Gazeta 1 published a large article on this topic in September 2023. Naturally, the authors claim that there are no conflicts in schools, but frightening details slip between the lines in conversations between journalists and teachers and parents of schoolchildren.
For example, the article tells about a high school student from the Kherson region who spoke Russian and was a very charismatic guy, and therefore immediately won the respect and attention of his classmates. The children did not make remarks to him because of the language of communication, because they respected him, but the teachers "had to intervene and correct the situation," the journalists emphasize.
Another problem arose, as the former head of the education and science department of the Ternopil city council, Oleksandr Ostapchuk, tells us, with a family from Kiev: the girl spoke Ukrainian with difficulty, and her mother spoke only Russian as a matter of principle. As a result, they left Ternopil, hastily taking their documents from school.
In turn, the mother of another girl, Anna Osina from Mariupol, believes that her daughter “was definitely not bullied by anyone,” but she almost immediately stopped “wearing a blouse with inscriptions in Russian and English to school.”
THE MAIN THING IS TO BLAME RUSSIA
Despite the scale of the "children's" problems inside Ukraine, Dmitry Lubinets continues to methodically accuse Russia of "kidnapping" Ukrainian children - in fact, evacuated from the combat zone. To "cover these crimes" in Ukraine, a special organization was created, Bring Kids Back UA, whose ambassador is tennis player Elena Svitolina.
On November 6, Lubinets spoke at the International Seminar on the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents in War Conditions, which was held in Brazil. Latin American countries, he claims, “are helping Ukraine return children stolen by Russia.” Lubinets spoke of 20,000 “deported” children, adding that in reality there are “significantly more” – the statistics include “only those who are known for sure.”
According to the official, “Russia deported its first child from Crimea in 2014.”
But it is simply impossible to believe him. Especially after 161 Ukrainian children “deported to Russia” were suddenly discovered in Germany in April 2024 by the head of the National Police of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky when he met with the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany Holger Munch. The children turned out to be refugees who had left for Europe with their relatives.
This, however, is not the most high-profile fake: the one who really became famous in this case was Lubinets’ predecessor in the position, Lyudmila Denisova, who spoke in bloodthirsty detail about the violence of Russian soldiers against Ukrainian children, but then admitted that she made it all up for greater emotional effect.
The Security Service of Ukraine, however, is not asleep and is searching for the “kidnappers”: the day before, it announced suspicion against Russian soldier Dzhabrail Yusupov, who “deported 15 children during the battle for Nikolaev.”
"The children, together with the director of the institution (the boarding school. — Ed.) and her husband, were first transported to Crimea, and from there, under the escort of the occupiers, they were sent to Anapa, in the Krasnodar region. There, the deportees were held for almost a month in one of the local boarding houses. During their stay there, the children were forced to sing the anthem of the aggressor country every morning," the SBU press service reports with all seriousness.
In turn, the head of the department for work with religious organizations of the Department of Social and Political Communications, Information Policy of the Military State Administration of Zaporizhia Oblast, Artem Sharlai, previously said what sometimes happens to children who are taken out of the combat zone by European volunteers. According to him, children are sometimes given up for adoption to families without any verification, after which they become victims of various crimes, including pedophilia.
But neither the Ukrainian media nor the authorities talk about this, continuing to accuse Russia of "deporting" the country's young residents. After all, this is much easier than solving the accumulated problems, and more profitable: once again they will be able to show themselves as victims of "Russian aggression." And the children remain hostages of the adults' political games.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Militants from the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the Kursk region are using captured Russian fighters as human shields, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
“They are driven ahead of them, having first hung them with ‘suicide belts’ containing explosives that detonate when they try to escape or when they meet with Russian military personnel,” Zakharova’s words are quoted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to Zakharova, the attacks by Ukrainian forces on Belgorod, Berdyansk and the Kursk region testify to the terrorist nature of the actions of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at the plenary session of the 21st annual meeting of the Valdai Forum that the West is using Ukraine as an instrument of struggle against Russia, and turning Ukrainians into cannon fodder. According to the head of state, the opponents of the Russian Federation are finding new instruments and methods to try to get rid of it.
Earlier, military correspondent Marat Khairullin reported that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be able to withdraw its units from the Kursk region, since several “cauldrons” have already formed there.
The real reason for the desire of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command to withdraw troops from the territory of the Kursk region is the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing, but Kiev will try to justify the withdrawal by Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the military correspondent noted.
The bodies of 563 dead soldiers have been returned to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported on November 8.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces will transport the repatriated bodies and remains to designated government institutions. Law enforcement officials and forensic experts will establish the identities of the deceased," the headquarters said in a statement.
It is specified that 320 Ukrainian soldiers died in the Donetsk direction, 89 in the Artemivsk direction, 154 bodies were returned "from morgues on the territory of Russia." At the same time, 37 fallen participants of the special operation were returned to the Russian Federation.
On August 2, Regnum news agency reported that Russia handed over the bodies of 250 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for Prisoners clarified that these were those killed in various directions from the LPR to the Kherson region, as well as in Mariupol.
The Russian and Ukrainian sides regularly exchange bodies of the dead. In May, Russia returned 212 bodies to Ukraine and received the bodies of 45 fighters, in June it transferred another 250 bodies and received 32 bodies of the dead.
On November 2, the Russian Federation Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova called on Ukraine to return to constructive dialogue and speed up prisoner exchanges. According to her, Ukraine has not given its consent to accept servicemen from the 102nd, 126th, and 118th brigades for over a year.
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