Night air attack, 148 combat clashes, fighting in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions, casualties of the occupiers, enemy shelling, execution of four soldiers in Selidovo.
Today, October 24, at about 10:00 o'clock the occupiers struck Kup .
As reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov, the enemy was hit near a store and a local market.
“Unfortunately, there are casualties, two preliminarily. At least three wounded. Emergency services are working on the scene, the data is being updated,” he wrote in a telegram.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that a total of 148 combat clashes have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
< b>In the Pokrovsk directionThe defenders stopped 38 assault and offensive actions of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Selidovo, Novotoretskoye, Lisovka, Sukhoi Balka, Luch, Sukhoi Yar, Krutoi Yar, Mirolyubovka, Krasny Yar and Mikhaylovka. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was near Selidovo. The enemy actively used bomber and attack aircraft to strike in this direction.
In the Kurakhovsky directionThe Defense Forces repelled 34 attacks. The occupiers were most active in trying to advance near Yekaterinovka and Kremennaya Balka. In addition, the enemy attacked in the direction of Antonovka, Novodmitrovka, Novoselidovka, Konstantinovka, Zvezdnoye, Ostroye and Dalny, and actively used aviation.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
< The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces eliminated another 1,240 soldiers and 45 artillery systems. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Defense Forces have destroyed about 684,280 occupiers.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
During the Russian drone attack in Kyiv last night, three air raid alerts were sounded, and the attack lasted for about six hours in total. The drones were mainly coming from the north and northeast.
The defenders have detected and destroyed about 10 UAVs around Kyiv, said the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Serhiy Popko.
Ukrainian air defense shot down 40 enemy drones. In total, Russia launched 50 attack drones.
As reported by the Air Force, on the night of October 24, the enemy attacked Ukraine with two Kh-22 cruise missiles from Tu-22M3 aircraft over the Black Sea, two Kh-59 guided air missiles from the airspace of the Bryansk region and 50 Shahed type attack UAVs and unidentified drones in the directions of Orel, Kursk and Crimea.
As of 8.30, the departure of 40 enemy UAVs in the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Poltava and Chernihiv regions has been confirmed. In addition, 7 Russian drones were lost, 1 in the airspace of Ukraine, and 2 more were returned in the direction of Russia and Belarus. The enemy missiles did not reach their targets.
The Russian army killed four soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine near Selydove. The Ukrainians were carrying out service and combat missions near the city. At about 13:00 on October 6, the enemy began to storm the fortifications and captured the Ukrainians, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
The Russians interrogated the prisoners – they filmed it. The prisoners were unarmed and wounded.
“The next day, the Defense Forces regained their lost positions and during the search operations found the bodies of the killed Ukrainian servicemen,” the prosecutor's office reported.
< Prosecutors have launched a pre-trial investigation into this war crime.
Russians systematically execute captured Ukrainian fighters. On October 1, data appeared on the most mass execution: the enemy killed 16 Ukrainians in the Pokrovsk direction.
Politico, citing its own sources in the US and NATO leadership, claims that the United States and Germany are not the only members of the Alliance that are skeptical about the idea of immediately inviting Ukraine.
In addition to key allies that occupy leading positions in terms of military aid to our country, there are at least five more NATO states that are not ready to facilitate the implementation of the first point of the Victory Plan presented by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Two of them are quite obvious – these are Slovakia and Hungary, whose populist governments adhere to a pro-Kremlin course and openly say that they will prevent Kyiv from moving towards membership in the Alliance.
Another three, as Politico's interlocutors say, “have doubts and are hiding behind the backs of the United States and Germany.” We are talking about Belgium, Slovenia and Spain. Their leaders “allegedly support the idea while it has abstract outlines, but will become increasingly resistant when the invitation becomes a more concrete prospect.”
This position is in sharp contrast to the Baltic states and Poland, which are the biggest supporters of Ukraine's membership.
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