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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:23 The next target of the Russian army may be Zaporozhye, writes The Economist, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. He also suggests that Russia may have already recaptured up to half of the territory occupied by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region in August 2024. Read more in the article Forecasts of the course of the war .
22:19 The US has information about the arrival of 3,000 North Korean troops in Russia, said John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications for the White House National Security Council: "North Korea has sent at least 3,000 soldiers to eastern Russia. We estimate that these soldiers arrived by ship from North Korea to Vladivostok, then to various training units in eastern Russia, where they are currently undergoing training." At the same time, Kirby clarified that the US does not have information about whether these soldiers from the DPRK will participate in the war in Ukraine.
21:24 Biden announced a $20 billion loan to Ukraine using Russian assets: "As part of the G7 package, the United States is announcing today that we will provide Ukraine with a $20 billion loan, which will be repaid through interest earned on frozen Russian sovereign assets. That means Ukraine can get the help it needs now without burdening taxpayers."
20:47 The number of people wounded as a result of today's Russian shelling of the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region has increased to four, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
18:26 The EU Council has finally approved a mechanism for providing Ukraine with a loan of up to 35 billion euros from excess profits from frozen Russian assets, the Hungarian presidency reported.
18:13 Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called reports about sending North Korean troops to Russia "fake news and hype." She claims that "Russian cooperation with the DPRK in the military and other spheres, firstly, complies with international law and does not violate it. Secondly, it does not cause any harm or damage to South Korea." Zakharova also threatened Seoul with consequences in the event of "entering the Ukrainian conflict."
In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated that inviting Ukraine to NATO cannot be the subject of negotiations with Russia "either today or in the future."
17:57 The Foreign Ministry, commenting on the BRICS summit, stated that Russia failed to "export" its neo-imperialist views on changing the world legal order and global security architecture due to aggression against Ukraine to the meeting participants. "Moscow's attempts to impose the idea of an allegedly alternative position of the so-called Global South regarding Russian aggression against Ukraine have suffered another fiasco," the department stated.
17:22 The intensity of enemy shelling has decreased in the Kramatorsk, Toretsk and Seversk directions - the Russians have probably taken a tactical pause, said Anastasia Bobovnikova, spokesperson for the Luhansk operational-tactical group. "We attribute this to the fact that the enemy has most likely taken a tactical pause to bring in, perhaps, some reinforcements of manpower," she noted. According to Bobovnikova, the enemy can also use the pause to replenish ammunition, weapons and transfer equipment.
17:14 As a result of Russian shelling of the city of Kurakhovo in Donetsk Oblast, the community center housing the office of the Maryinka District Organization of the Ukrainian Red Cross was destroyed. The organization's technical and material assets were destroyed, but employees and volunteers were not harmed. "We categorically condemn the violation of international humanitarian law, the shelling of civilian objects and humanitarian organizations," the Ukrainian Red Cross said in a statement.
16:35 The German Foreign Ministry reported that it had summoned North Korea's chargé d'affaires amid reports of North Korean troops being drawn into Russia's war against Ukraine. The ministry stressed that such support for Russia by Pyongyang "directly threatens Germany's security" and is a "serious violation of international law."
16:08 In their final declaration, the BRICS countries called for the situation in Ukraine to be resolved through "negotiations and diplomacy." "We emphasize that all states must act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interrelatedness. We note with satisfaction the relevant offers of mediation and good offices aimed at ensuring a peaceful settlement of the conflict through dialogue and diplomacy," the document says.
15:54 North Korea has sent 3,000 of its troops to Russia to take part in the war against Ukraine, while Pyongyang has promised to provide about 10,000 troops in total, with deployment expected to be completed by December, Reuters reports, citing South Korean intelligence. One South Korean official also said that North Korean authorities are resettling and isolating the families of selected soldiers "in order to effectively control them and thoroughly combat rumors." He also said that Russia has recruited "a large number" of translators for North Korean soldiers and is training them to operate military equipment, including drones.
15:30 Russians used a drone to strike a car that was moving between the villages of Stepnogorsk and Primorskoye in the Vasilievsky district of the Zaporizhia region; two people were killed, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
15:19 US Ambassador to NATO Julian Smith said that the Alliance is not currently ready to offer Ukraine either membership or an invitation. At the same time, she added that "the intention of the US is to continue to bring Ukrainians closer to NATO."
15:13 Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during the BRICS summit in Russia, called for preventing the escalation and spread of the war in Ukraine: "The conflict in Ukraine is dragging on... Therefore, we must firmly adhere to three principles: not allowing the expansion of the geography of military actions, not allowing escalation, and not allowing provocations that increase tensions." He also stressed the need for "a speedy de-escalation of the Ukrainian conflict" and called for "abandoning the policy of adding fuel to the fire."
15:07 The GUR I Want to Live project recorded a video in Korean in which it called on the DPRK military to surrender. The video shows a new camp for holding prisoners of war from North Korea. "The first North Korean occupiers will arrive here soon," the video says.
15:04 All children have been evacuated from Mirnohrad in Donetsk Oblast, and 59 children remain in Pokrovsk, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. He also said that thanks to the support of international partners, the situation with water supply in the north of the oblast, where the Russians are actively destroying water infrastructure, has been improved.
14:27 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that North Korean troops are in Russia: "There is evidence that there are North Korean troops in Russia. What exactly are they doing there? We have to figure that out. That's something we have to figure out."
13:39 Russians have attacked one of the energy facilities in the Belopolsky district of the Sumy region, more than 21 thousand consumers have been de-energized. Power engineers have reconnected them to backup lines, Sumyoblenergo reported. In total, as of 12:00, more than 8,000 consumers in the region have been de-energized as a result of Russian attacks. The Sumy district, as well as the Glukhovskaya, Belopolskaya, Seredino-Budskaya, Putivlskaya, Velikopisarevskaya and Konotop communities are suffering the most from the shelling.
13:14 The agreement between Russia and North Korea contained a secret clause on sending North Korean troops to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing a former Russian intelligence officer. He said that under the agreement, Pyongyang would be able to send about 1,000 of its soldiers to Ukraine at first, and more later. Most of them are currently far from the front line, but the Russians are teaching them logistics and modern drone warfare tactics.
The newspaper writes that such cooperation is beneficial to the DPRK, because the experience of a real war will be useful in the event of a new conflict with South Korea. And a clash between the DPRK and South Korea is beneficial to Putin, analysts believe, because due to a new conflict Ukraine will receive less support.
12:57 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said after a visit to Kiev that the US is not giving Ukraine permission to strike Russia with ATACMS missiles, since Russia has allegedly already moved the aircraft it uses to launch guided air bombs beyond the ATACMS range by 300 km from the Ukrainian border. According to the US Secretary of Defense, the Ukrainians "are capable of continuing to strike at long range, and they will."
12:09 France will send Ukraine the first batch of three Mirage 2000-5 aircraft early next year, La Tribune reports. The aircraft will be armed with Scalp cruise missiles and AASM bombs for air-to-ground combat missions.
11:58 Lithuania will invest 10 million euros in the production of the Palyanitsa drone missile, the Defense Ministry reported. The financing will be based on the "Danish model", i.e. through direct investment in the Ukrainian manufacturer.
11:26 BBC-Ukraine writes, citing sources, that Zelensky ordered another plan to be developed by the end of the year - about what Ukraine itself, not its allies, should do. It concerns the military-industrial complex, defense, economics, social policy, etc. "The goal is to do everything possible to maintain unity and achieve results in various areas of the country's development," the publication's source said.
10:42 In Cherkassy district, Russians attacked infrastructure facilities at night, said the head of the OVA Igor Taburets. In particular, as a result of the attack, the building of the bus station in Cherkassy and the administrative building of a private enterprise were damaged. The fire was quickly extinguished, no one was hurt.
10:23 The SBU and the National Police detained two agents of the Russian GRU who were preparing a terrorist attack in Kiev. They were supposed to prepare homemade explosives and detonate them in one of the crowded places of the capital. The goal of the Russians was the maximum number of deaths among the civilian population of Kiev in order to spread panic.
The traitors turned out to be a 20-year-old resident of Zaporizhia and her 26-year-old partner. Before committing the terrorist act, the perpetrators had to carry out a "control" task - to set fire to several units of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia region. They were caught red-handed when they tried to set fire to an infantry fighting vehicle. The perpetrators are in custody without the right to post bail, they face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
09:50 Britain is providing an additional $155 million for naval support for Ukraine, the country's government said. London is also seeking partners to jointly finance the delivery of naval drones and surveillance radars to protect the grain corridor.
09:37 At night, Russians attacked the village of Lesnoye in the Kharkiv district, three people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, the day before, one person died in the village of Kucherovka in the Kupyansk district and one was injured in Kupyansk.
09:11 Air defense destroyed 57 out of 81 enemy drones (Shahed and unspecified types) in the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Cherkasy, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions at night, the Air Force reported. Another 15 Russian drones were lost, up to nine remain in Ukrainian airspace. In addition, at night, the Russian Federation attacked the Odessa region with a Kh-31P guided air missile.
08:35 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:22 Three people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on October 22: two in Aleksandro-Kalinovo and one in Reznikovka. Another seven people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
07:54 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 23:
personnel - about 683,040 (+1460) people,
tanks - 9088 (+9),
combat armored vehicles - 18,229 (+30),
artillery systems - 19,674 (+51),
MLRS - 1234 (+0),
air defense systems - 981 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 329 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,489 (+85),
cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,217 (+106),
special equipment - 3509 (+10).
01:52 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kazan, Russia, on Tuesday, October 22, on the day the three-day BRICS summit began, Voice of America reports. Putin's meeting with Guterres is scheduled for the last day of the summit. Xi Jinping, with whom Putin has already met and discussed, in particular, the war in Ukraine, also arrived at the summit. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also present at the summit and once again called for a peaceful end to the war.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is outraged by the UN Secretary General's visit to Russia. The department recalled that Guterres had previously rejected Kyiv's invitation to the first Global Peace Summit in Switzerland. The Foreign Ministry stressed that this only harms the UN's reputation.
00:49 Zelensky said that a mutual cessation of strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine and Russia could be a step toward ending the hot phase of the war, the Financial Times reports. According to him, any negotiations do not exclude defensive and offensive actions, but the adoption of political decisions leads to the end of the hot phase.
According to the president, the end of attacks on the energy sector will lead to a "lowering of the temperature," as will the end of Russian attacks on the grain corridor, Ukrainian ports and ships.
00:20 Turkey has secretly banned the export of American military goods to Russia following a warning from the United States, the Financial Times reports, citing sources. According to them, Ankara has adjusted its customs systems in recent weeks to block the export of more than 40 categories of American-made goods that Washington and its allies consider vital to Russia's war in Ukraine.
"Turkey's electronic customs system no longer allows exporters to continue sending to Russia batches of so-called battlefield goods that were previously allowed for export," the newspaper's source said.
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[Korrespondent] Russian attacks on Zaporozhye continue.
Russia may have already recaptured up to half of the territory occupied by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region in August 2024, Western journalists claim.
The next target of the army of the aggressor country Russia may be an attack on Zaporizhia, The Economist reports, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. He also suggests that Russia may have already recaptured up to half of the territory occupied by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region in August 2024. RUSSIA'S PLANS
As The Economist reports, Russia is currently trying to encircle Pokrovsk, an important logistics hub in the Donetsk region, and continues to try to advance further south after taking control of the heights around Vuhledar.
As The Economist notes, the Ukrainian authorities' concerns are by no means limited to the shaky front lines. Western support, already lackluster, now looks even more shaky than before.
THE TRUMP FACTOR
The election of the Donald is a factor in many calculations at the moment.
This week, the G7 countries finalized details of a $50 billion loan to be repaid using interest from frozen Russian assets, with a final agreement expected in the next few days.
But if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the US presidential election, two weeks away, much of Washington's direct military aid to Kyiv could be cut off. A victory for Democrat Kamala Harris would also offer no guarantee for Ukraine. The German government, Ukraine's second-largest sponsor, has already signaled that aid will be cut. France has done the same.
THE SHELLING HAS BECOME MORE FREQUENT
In recent weeks, Russia has increasingly shelled Zaporozhye. On October 21, a strike injured 14 people and destroyed a kindergarten.
On October 19, Russian occupiers launched two KAB strikes on the center of Zaporozhye.
Spokesmen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have repeatedly stated about the occupiers' activity in the Zaporizhia region. The representative of the 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Pelykh states about the accumulation of Russian equipment in the area of Robotino. He believes that the Russians' target is the city of Zaporizhia. At the same time, there has been no significant transfer of human resources to the Zaporizhia direction.
"It looks like this Robotinsky protrusion is an eyesore for them. And they would definitely like to cut it off or go further, because their plans include capturing Zaporizhia," Pelykh said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
HOW WILL UKRAINE RESPOND?
In addition to the so-called "victory plan" that he previously presented to Western partners, President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing another plan. This time, it is intended for Ukraine itself.
According to the BBC, Zelensky has ordered proposals to be developed for a so-called internal action plan that would help the country survive the war. The plan is planned to be presented by the end of the year.
We are talking about a document that will concern internal decisions in many areas - the military-industrial complex, defense, economics, social policy and others.
According to Zelensky, the action plan will include steps that Ukraine itself must take in the context of a war with Russia.
“The goal is to do everything possible to maintain unity and achieve results in various areas of the country’s development,” explained a source in Zelensky’s team.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces in Kharkov direction engaged formation of the 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade and the 92nd Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Liptsy, Kotovka, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).The AFU losses amounted to up to 100 troops, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 44th, 60th Mechanised brigades, 74th, 77th Airmobile brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 125th and 103rd Territorial Defence brigades close to Bogouslavka, Lozovaya, Zeleny Gai, Novoplatonovka, Podliman, Pershotravnevoye (Kharkov region), Terny (Donetsk People's Republic), and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
Six counter-attacks launched by units of AFU 14th, 63rd Mechanised brigades, 1st National Guards Brigade, and 119th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 510 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, one 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, two UK-made 105mm L-119 guns, two U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, Anklav-N and Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations.
The Yug Group of Forces liberated Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of the offensive actions.Units of AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, 23rd, 54th, 60th Mechanised brigades, 5th and 79th Air Assault brigades, 81st and 46th Airmobile brigades, and 37th Naval Infantry Brigade were hit close to Semyonovka, Zvanovka, Vasyukovka, Seversk, Slavyansk, Chasov Yar, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counterattacks launched by formations of AFU 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 800 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, ten motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun. Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations and five field ammunition depots were eliminated.
The Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Nikolayevka (Donetsk People's Republic) and continued advancing into the depths of the enemy's defence.Formations of AFU 24th, 32nd Mechanised brigades, 38th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 12th National Guard Brigade were hit near Leninskoye, Dimitrov, Dzerzhinsk, Sukhoy Yar, Kurakhovka, and Shcherbinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Thirteen counter-attacks launched by AFU 23rd, 93rd, 100th Mechanised brigades, 68th, 152nd Jaeger brigades, 5th Assault Brigade, 49th and 425 Assault battalions, 37th Naval Infantry Brigade, and Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 450 troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, seven armoured fighting vehicles, including U.S.-made Kozak and HMMWV, two pickup trucks, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun. One unmanned aerial vehicles depot has been neutralised.
The Vostok Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 46th Airmobile Brigade, 110th and 113rd Territorial Defence brigades near Dobrovolye, Alekseyevka, Novoukrainka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 115 troops, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, three U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzer.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of AFU 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, 121st, 124th, and 126th Territorial Defence brigades close to Ponyatovka, Zolotaya Balka, Kamyshany(Kherson region), and Kherson.The AFU losses amounted to up to 90 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun. Two ammunition depots were wiped out.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, fuel facilities, storage facilities for uncrewed surface vehicles, assembly facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles, clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 141 areas.
The Black Sea Fleet's naval aircraft have destroyed four AFU uncrewed surface vehicles in the north-western part of the Black Sea.
Air defence facilities shot down 14 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 78 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 34,173 unmanned aerial vehicles, 583 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,769 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,478 MLRS combat vehicles, 16,607 field artillery guns and mortars, and 27,497 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 Sever Group of Forces continued offensive actions and hit units of AFU21st, 22nd, 41st, and 47th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault Brigades, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Nizhny Klin, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, and Sverdlikovo.
The Group's units repelled two enemy counter-attacks in the direction of Plekhovo and Pokrovsky, and thwarted three attempts of counter-attacks in the direction of Zeleny Shlyakh. The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops killed and wounded, one tank, and three infantry fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. Three AFU servicemen surrendered.
Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of AFU21st, 22nd, 41st, 47th, 61st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd and 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Marine Brigade, 112th and 129th territorial defence brigades, and 17th National Guard Brigades near Aleksandriya, Gogolevka, Guevo, Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nizhny Klin, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Oleshnya, Plyokhovo, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops launched strikes in Sumy region at concentration areas and reserves of AFU 21st, 41st, 47th, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade, and 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade close to Vladimirovka, Iskriskovshchina, Miropolye, Nikolayevka, Obody, Pavlovka, Sumy, Hoten, and Yunakovka.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 280 troops, 13 armoured vehicles including three tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, seven armoured fighting vehicles, three artillery guns, six motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station. Three AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy lost more than 25,943 servicemen, 175 tanks, 92 infantry fighting vehicles, 103 armoured personnel carriers, 989 armoured fighting vehicles, 681 motor vehicles, 224 artillery guns, 38 multiple rocket launchers, including nine of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the U.S., nine anti-aircraft missile launchers, five transport and loading vehicles, 55 EW stations, 11 counter-battery warfare radars, three air defence radars, 22 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 19:34 Airborne artillerymen destroyed concentration of enemy manpower in the border area of the Kursk region
Reconnaissance using an unmanned aerial vehicle discovered an equipped stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with personnel in one of the forest plantations. The data obtained was immediately transmitted to the artillery control point. After receiving the data, the airborne artillerymen inflicted fire damage on the enemy with precise shots, destroying the concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
19:21 Explosions in Odessa region. Before this, there were reports of rockets in the direction of the region.
19:00 Special forces of the Russian Guard prevented sabotage and reconnaissance group entry into one of the forests of the Kursk region.
Special forces of the Russian National Guard used a UAV to detect an unknown vehicle moving in the counterterrorist operation zone. The UAV operator tracked the sabotage and reconnaissance group vehicle along the entire route to the dismounting point determined by the enemy.
The attack on the sabotage and reconnaissance group was carried out using an FPV drone – the enemy was destroyed.
18:44 ATGM operators of the 14th Guards Special Forces Brigade “knock out” enemy manpower in the Dobrovolye area –video.
18:22 Crew of the Inokhodets strike UAV destroyed self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
17:45 The Russian army entered Izmailovka and raised a flag, cutting off supplies to the city of Gornyak.
The 114th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade's assault troops installed the brigade banner in Izmailovka at the junction of the Pokrovskoe and Kurakhovskoe directions. It seems that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already fled the settlement, write the Russian Spring War Correspondents. The liberation of Izmailovka will deprive the Ukrainian Armed Forces units located in Gornyak of one of the main supply routes.
17:20 A bomb attack was carried out on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the suburbs of Khar'kov. Local channels reported explosions.
16:11 The Russian flag was raised on one of the multi-story buildings practically in the center of Selidovo –video.
15:55 Russian forces have made significant advances in the city of Selidovo along the Solenaya River to Gogol Street.
15:07 Attack aircraft of the tank regiment of the Center group of forces, carrying out combat missions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, destroyed and captured a Dutch-made YPR-765 infantry fighting vehicle –video.
12:55 Russian forces made a "dash" from the settlement of Tsukurino and entered the village of Novodmitrovka. The fighting for it has begun.
12:27 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' line of defense in Chasov Yar has collapsed. Russian troops have captured the entire line of trenches along the canal on both sides and have also occupied the Oktyabrsky microdistrict of the city.
12:22 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 23, 2024):
Units of the North group of forces in the Khar'kov direction inflicted defeat on formations of the 57th Motorized Infantry and 92nd Airborne Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Liptsy, Kotovka and Volchansk in the Khar'kov region.
Units of the West group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 44th, 60th Mechanized, 74th, 77th Airmobile, 3rd Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 125th and 103rd Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Boguslavka, Lozovaya, Zeleny Hai, Novoplatonovka, Podliman, Pershotravneve in the Khar'kov region, Terny in the Donetsk People's Republic and Chervona Dibrova in the Luhansk People's Republic. Six counterattacks of assault groups of the 14th, 63rd Mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 1st National Guard Brigade and the 119th Territorial Defense brigade were repelled.
Fighters of the "Southern" group of forces, as a result of active offensive actions, liberated the village of Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic. They defeated the formations of the 10th mountain assault, 23rd, 54th, 60th Mechanized, 5th and 79th Airborne Assault, 81st and 46th Airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade in the areas of the villages of Semenovka, Zvanovka, Vasyukovka, Seversk, Dachnoye, Slavyansk, Chasov Yar and Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People's Republic. They repelled two counterattacks by units of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Servicemen of the "Center" group of forces liberated the settlement of Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People's Republic and continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 24th, 32nd Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 38th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 12th National Guard Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Leninskoye, Dimitrov, Dzerzhinsk, Sukhoi Yar, Kurakhovka and Shcherbinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. Thirteen counterattacks by the 23rd, 93rd, 100th Mechanized, 68th, 152nd Jaeger, 5th Assault brigades, 49th and 425th Assault battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 37th Naval Infantry brigade and the "Lyut" assault brigade of the national police of Ukraine were repelled.
Units of the "East" force group improved their position along the front line, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 58th Motorized Infantry, 72nd Mechanized, 46th Airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 110th and 113th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Dobrovolye, Alekseyevka, Novoukrainka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka of the Zaporizhia region.
The Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the formations of the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, the 121st, 124th and 126th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Ponyatovka, Zolotaya Balka, Kamyshany in the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, fuel depots, unmanned boat storage areas, unmanned aerial vehicle assembly shops, and concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in the 141st district.
Naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed four unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
Air defense systems shot down 14 US-made HIMARS rockets and 78 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
11:55 The Russian army entered Selidovo from the northern side.
11:07 In the Kupyansk direction, servicemen from the "West" troop group liquidated British self-propelled artillery unit AS-90 Braveheart.
11:02 In the Krasno-Limansky direction of the Russian Armed Forces occupy important strongholds in the Serebryanskoye forest. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are setting up crossings northwest of Serebryanka to allow units of the 119th Territoril Defense Brigade and the 53rd Separate Brigade to retreat to the right bank of the river due to the threat of being surrounded.
10:52 In Uman, Cherkasy region, at about 7:30 am, powerful explosions were heard in the area of the military airfield.
Ukrainian Telegram channels reported that more than ten ambulances and fire trucks were immediately dispatched to the scene. The airfield is home to a Ukrainian Air Force base, from where combat sorties are carried out.
10:45 Vrem'evsky direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces near the settlement of Staromayorskoye –map.
10:20 Crews of 152mm 2S19 Msta-S guns of the Dnepr force groupare being destroyedarmored vehicles, fortified positions and boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction.
09:56 Artillerymen of the "North-V" brigade of the volunteer corps, operating as part of the "Southern" group of Russian troops,destroyed an ammunition depot near Chasovy Yar in Donbass.
09:15 Crews of 122mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzers "Gvozdika" of the "North" group of forces performing fire missions torn off delivery of ammunition and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk direction.
08:59 Half of Chasov Yar has been recaptured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The industrial zone with the fireproof plant and the western outskirts remain –map.
08:11 Russian special forces unit destroyed a kamikaze drone "Cube" a howitzer and an armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Svatovsky direction.
08:09 Su-34 crew destroyed personnel and a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
08:07 A pinpoint strike by an FPV drone on a Ukrainian militants’ repeater tower near Ugledar –video.
08:05 During the liberation of Mykhailivka, there were discovered British mercenaries, said the battalion's deputy commander for military-political work, Captain Igor Krasilnikov.
08:04 Russian forces have pushed Ukrainian Armed Forces units back 10 kilometers from Stelmakhovka to the LPR, thereby creating a gray zone near the settlement, military expert Andrei Marochko reported.
08:00 Footage of liberation of the settlement of Mikhailovka in the DPR.
The entry into the village was carried out in small groups, moving from cover to cover and using camouflaged dugouts in forest belts. The actions of the attack aircraft were adjusted by unmanned aerial vehicle crews in cooperation with artillery crews, aviation and other units. The attack aircraft received powerful fire support from FPV drone crews, which drove the enemy out of fortifications.
[NDTV World] A pro-Russia Telegram account has posted a photo showing the Russian and North Korean flags side by side on a Ukrainian battlefield, indicating that North Korea has likely sent troops to support Russia in its prolonged war with Ukraine.
The image, shared by a blogger named @rvvoenkor_bot on Monday, showed the two flags raised together over a mine in Pokrovsk, one of the strongholds on Ukraine's eastern front, Yonhap news agency reported.
The blogger said that the North Korean flag has recently been raised on a hill at the mine near the city, which is one of the suspected locations where North Korean soldiers are believed to be stationed.
On Friday, South Korea's National Intelligence Service announced that North Korea had decided to send approximately 12,000 special forces to support Russia in its prolonged war with Ukraine, with about 1,500 already deployed to Russia's Far East.
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Pokrovsk is a busy place these days. Seems like a bad idea to send the new guys into heated battle before you get them integrated.
If I were playing, I'd use the Norks in Kursk. As a blocking force, they complicate life for the Ukrainians, and it gives the NKor guys a chance to practice both defense and offense.
As a bonus, since Kursk is Russia, you get to claim there are no North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Alexander Rokhlin
Lyrical.
[REGNUM] Every city has something attractive and repulsive. Donetsk in this sense is a typical magnet with non-converging poles.
The workers' town is grimy, smoky, smoke-filled, with the sun shining through the dust, scattered chaotically in all directions across the steppe. From the very beginning, no one thought of doing urban development here: streets, blocks, the magistrate and the market... Khuzovka did not worry about the harmony of its architectural forms. The shaft of the mine and the waste heap are the defining points.
The genius loci, to which those same streets, quarters, magistrate and market were crowded, stuck to each other and grew in different directions. It could not become, like Moscow, radial-ring or, like St. Petersburg, square-angular. Donetsk is defiantly irregular, woven from knots - paths and stitches between mines and settlements.
Sit and knit: cast on loops, spin around waste heaps, dive into beams, hang necklaces of stakes.
But most of all it resembles... an apiary city. Where in a blooming garden, among apricot, cherry, sour cherry and mulberry trees, under an unbearably generous sun, with a high and shamelessly blue sky, stand in the most whimsical order hives - mines. Mining bees are busy day and night in the hives with the non-stop work of life: they smoke, hum, dig, build, destroy, plug, bring and carry away. Because a golden coal is also black honey.
A long beginning, and a simple story. But personally very dear to me. And the context is fundamentally important.
If you treat bees politely and attentively, life at the apiary has all the properties of paradise. And if, like me, you casually hitch a ride to one flighty gray-eyed bee in a skirt, promise her a field of daisies, then you will receive a free and eternal ticket to enter the apiary with all the honey preferences in the form of lard, fish, yellow cherries, 12 stakes for personal use and the smell of a beetle as pheromones that do not allow you to come to your senses.
So I lived for twenty years straight, receiving handfuls of happiness from the city at any time of the year. Until the war came.
And the honey ran out.
In March 2014, I found myself on the bank of the river that flows around Staromikhailovka from the north. On the left is the Kirovsky district, right on the horizon are the Chelyuskintsev and Petrovka mines, on the right is Krasnogorovka.
In Kyiv, the Maidan had already won. The country had a new government. The new one was already clicking its teeth, demanding, to put it mildly, attention. In Donetsk, all the streets seemed electrified, waiting to see what the Kyiv events would mean for the East. But here, on the shore of the pond with bare apricot plantations behind it, it was still completely quiet.
That's the thing, this silence tasted different, not like usual. Uncomfortable, tasteless, prickly silence. As if a person you're used to communicating warmly with suddenly stopped talking without explanation. You're left wondering: what happened? What's wrong with you or him?
Then what began began. In no nightmare could I have imagined that my pond and that "bank" near Staromikhailovka, where I last watched a film about spring in the Donetsk steppe, would become a front line and a deadly dangerous place. And the earth already then, in March 2014, felt what awaited it.
Seven hundred kilometers to the west, the square above the Dnieper shook, blood was spilled, and here, either through the air or underground, a wave came and covered. Open the gates, Donbass: now we will pour grief and misfortune on you in full measure, shaken up, pressed.
But I didn't understand. I got used to treating everything like Winnie the Pooh, whom all the bees love and give him their honey for free.
Arriving during the war, I recognized and did not recognize my Khuzovka. The streets were the same, the people were the same, the mines were the same, the buzzing machine was the same, but there was no honey. The city had stopped sharing its warmth, joy, heavenly and delicious life with me as before. The city had withdrawn into itself, behind its inner walls. It was besieged, it had no time to lavish honeyed tenderness.
It remains the same today. A city that does not live in its full width, depth and height, but only in small dashes.
And suddenly, unexpectedly, I found out where Khuzovka keeps her precious residual honey. And I tasted it...
Now, finally, the story itself. My wife had only one relative left in the city, an 87-year-old aunt. The aunt needed to pay her apartment bill. She was used to doing this only through a face-to-face meeting with the cashier at the window. The aunt did not accept any "innovations" in the form of payment by phone, QR code, or through a personal account. Only through a live teller at the window! And so that a receipt with a stamp on payment was immediately issued in person.
At the department, my aunt and I trotted to the machine that issued a ticket for the electronic queue. Our number was 70. And everything would have been fine, if I hadn’t noticed the helpful electronic note at the bottom of the ticket in small handwriting: “There are 32 clients in front of you.”
That's when I felt sick. I hadn't expected such a trick at all. The bank branch's operations room was quite crowded, but not exactly overcrowded. There were even some free chairs. Two female employees were handling the actual banking operations at separate tables. And there was only one window for utility bills. That's where all 32 of us plus one client were standing.
Here I began to guess that I had unexpectedly gone back in time, about forty years, to the lean, lean post-Soviet times, when I last physically stood in a real queue with some papers. I had nowhere to go, I couldn’t leave my aunt, offers for instant payment via phone were not accepted, we couldn’t come another day.
A vicious circle.
There was only one salvation - in humbly accepting the situation. I humbly sat down on a chair in the corner and humbly immersed myself in reading The Brothers Karamazov, agreeing to sit there until the second coming or until my aunt's patience ran out. Which would happen first?
The line behaved very decently. No one was arguing, complaining, seething, trying to push their way to the front. It was all ordinary, run-of-the-mill. The faces of the visitors matched the occasion - they were as dull as Lenten pancakes.
Almost two hours passed like this. I did not get out of Skotoprigonyevsk Fyodor Mikhailovich, until suddenly I heard a stir in the hall, similar to the beginning of a scandal. The beginning was connected with the appearance of a very old granny. However, she came here on her own two feet - and alone. The granny loudly addressed the queue with a question: how should she understand what was happening? And why was it necessary to complicate the process so much, when previously there was only one account book, etc., etc.
She spoke excessively loudly, was obviously hard of hearing and, what was most surprising, unusually expressively, using old participial and adverbial participial phrases. It was as if a very old fairy, responsible for the Russian language textbook for princes of the blood, had come to the bank.
The queue tried to explain something to the fairy, including about the electronic queue. She listened without interrupting, but apparently did not find satisfaction in the answer. This went on for some time, dying down and emerging again. Now one, now another voice from the queue tried to tell the woman that her electronic number would be announced by an electronic announcer.
And suddenly I saw her heading straight into the lion's mouth - to the tables behind the partition, where two "free" bank employees were sitting. From our, the client's side, they looked, of course, like blatant slackers. When a line of forty people is banging on one window, and next to it two ladies in suits are chilling at their computers, you can't help but feel a sense of oppressed justice. But someone has to do the banking, and not pay for gas and electricity!
This granny was so decrepit that she moved at the speed of a snail or a toy wooden boat. Here she crossed the invisible border between the worlds: the operating room with us, the "housing and communal services worms", and the "office" of two employees, where the real, high banking life was going on: accounts, cards, deposits, loans and interest.
- I ask you to forgive me in advance! - the grandma-boat said loudly out loud, and I shuddered. - I'm going on 97 and my hearing is failing. But I have a question to which I haven't received a clear answer. I need to pay the rent for September, but with the amount of paperwork from you, I'm completely losing my head.
I closed my eyes. Firstly, I hadn't heard such Russian spoken in years. Secondly, I couldn't see the snail granny's face. But I could see the faces of the two female employees whose space the snail granny had dared to cross. These faces didn't bode well. The entire room froze, not doubting that something was about to happen.
— Woman! Take your seat. Take a paper ticket and wait your turn. According to all calculations, one window is working. Yes, only one window!
But suddenly this did not happen. One of the employees, younger, in a black jacket that did not fit over her huge chest, with a pink and round face, with traces of an unsuccessful curl in her black hair, looked at the granny and suddenly said:
- Please sit down.
The elderly fairy perched on the edge of the chair.
"It's a very inconvenient system. And who invented it? Before, I had a single book for payment, and now I have a lot of separate sheets of paper coming by mail," she said. "I find it difficult to explain to you...
"Do you have your passport with you?" asked the young employee with the unfortunate perm.
— A passport, of course. I was born on June 14, 1927. My address: Ilyicha Avenue, Building 4. You know, I remember the occupation of our Donetsk. And now I am living through the second war, — for some reason the woman gave out all the defining events of her life.
“My God!” I thought and stood up from my chair, as if trying to express respect for this enormous life lived, its fragility and the glassiness of its current situation and, undoubtedly, the preserved sense of human dignity.
The young clerk performed some operations on the computer and said:
- That's it. Your bills are paid.
- What? - the old fairy was amazed. - Paid? And the money?
- I wrote them off from your card.
- Cards? It's so simple, - the fairy began to rise slowly from her chair, like a small flag on a toy mast with a sail. - How nice it would be in the future... Thank you, dear girl, - she said, made a small bow and set off on a return snail swim to Ilyich Avenue.
“You are my dear…” I thought with bitter tenderness and gratitude specifically to the employee girl, as if she had done all this for me personally: she did not drive away the fairy, but went against the instructions, made an instant decision not to push away the old man, but to accept and do such an important, penny-worth deed for her.
But that wasn't all. A few minutes later it was my aunt's and my turn to go to the treasured window. A pretty woman in a white sweater sat behind it.
"Where is your EIRC code?" she asked. "I can't make a payment without the code."
“What other code?” I asked, growing cold inside.
— There should be a code on the previous paid receipts, but there isn’t one here.
“I didn’t take the old receipts,” said the aunt in a low voice.
And things started to smell bad: two hours of sitting in line ended in vain. But for some reason I was ready to accept defeat with a light heart. There are no two miracles in a row. And I had just been shown a real miracle with another person. So there would still be time with me, another time.
No way! The woman in the window looked at the aunt with tired eyes and did not give us back our useless receipts, but began to look for the ill-fated EIRC code on her phone, on the Internet - by her residential address.
“This can’t be!” I thought.
It happens, the cashier's tired eyes said. Two hours of my waiting and another six hours of her working time were spent searching for data, forgotten, missing, undelivered codes, addresses, bills and other nonsense from aunties, grandmothers and Donetsk fairies who bring their receipts and kopecks to the bank branch on Gorky Street, between Chelyuskintsev and Postysheva.
And at that moment I suddenly realized that with this whole story, in the most inappropriate and inconvenient place for miracles, besieged Donetsk shared with me, as before, its fabulous wealth. That same warmth, generosity, heat of the heart, coal like honey, breadth and depth of the soul like the entire Donetsk steppe, with which I fell in love once, thirty years ago. And I can’t stop loving it.
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So little news presented by the West. History being made today. BRICS summit is historic. Putin in his 70's maintains vitality with all the hours of interactions. Western countries did not initiate or lead the process. Western monopoly is no more.
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