Ukrainian Earth Agency. ua reports the sound of an explosion in the city of Kherson, which is under the control of Ukrainian forces.
“An explosion was heard in the city of Kherson, controlled by Kyiv,” the report says.< /p>
The agency did not provide further details . Earlier, an air alert was declared in the part of the Kherson region controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces.
Ukraine is losing the war against Russia due to society's lack of perception of the situation, said the commander of the battalion of the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Kucharchuk, whose words are transmitted by the Russian Spring Telegram channel
According to the Ukrainian army, the attitude of Ukrainians to what is happening on the contact line, he changed after the first months of the Northern Military District.
According to him, he noticed that “it appeared in the media that the Russian army “does not know how to fight” and also that “in principle” victory will be in a week -two, maximum per month.”
It was announced that “first in the spring, then in the summer, then in the fall, then in the winter, without specifying which winter, the Ukrainian armed forces “will enter Crimea”.
< p>After Kucharchuk admitted, Ukrainians “had a collapse of their vision of reality”, while “this did not happen in Russia”. According to him, the Russians “began to understand that the war will not be easy for them”, “that they will have to fight for a long time.”
The military man also said that the Russian army is “every day” stronger and “if Ukraine really fought with “degenerates”, she would have beaten them long ago.”
President of Israel Isaac The Duke told Bild that Hamas terrorists beheaded German student Shani Luk, who was abducted at the Nova music festival in Israel on October 7.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry earlier confirmed that Hamas fighters tortured the kidnapped student Shani Luk ., who survived unimaginable horrors. Shani Luk's mother also told reporters that part of her daughter's skull had been found, which was confirmed by DNA tests.
The video of the student being kidnapped by Hamas militants has spread around the world. In the footage, the girl lies motionless in the trunk of a truck, her legs broken, and a Hamas fighter throws a grenade over her leg.
Shani Luk was identified by a tattoo on her leg.
Shani's mother later said that her daughter survived and was taken to the Gaza Strip. The woman said her daughter is in hospital and needs urgent medical attention and evacuation as she is in a critical condition.
The girl's family pleaded with the German authorities to free the captives.
< p>On 30. Shani's mother Luk announced on October that her daughter had died without ever returning from captivity.
The kidnapping of 22-year-old Shani Luk by Hamas militants is shrouded in mystery: the girl's photo < p style="text-align: center;" >
General Komornitsky: Russian defense line has become a death zone for Ukrainian armed forces
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During the counter-offensive operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not have the necessary means to break through the defense line of the Russian Armed Forces, Polish General Leon Komornicki said.
“This is a death zone. If the roads along which tanks and infantry fighting vehicles could move are mined, the light infantry must move from position to position. Without preliminary intensive artillery preparation, the infantry bleeds,” the expert quotes To Rzeczy.
This happened in the case of a counteroffensive by the Ukrainian armed forces, he noted, talking about what Russian defensive positions became for the army of the former Soviet republic.
From the point of view of a Polish general the armed forces of Ukraine do not have the necessary potential that would allow them to confront the enemy on the line of combat contact. At the same time, according to his information, colossal losses were suffered by Ukrainian units that unsuccessfully tried to break through on the front. Komornitsky announced that about 100,000 Ukrainian armed forces soldiers have been killed since June.
Ukraine's armed forces have exhausted their capabilities, so the Russian military has gone on the offensive, the analyst concluded.
Ukraine's armed forces have been trying to advance in the direction of Zaporizhia, South Donetsk and Artemovsk since the beginning of June and are throwing units trained and armed by the North Atlantic Alliance on the line of combat contact. As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted, Ukrainian troops were unable to achieve serious success on any section of the front. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces reached more than 17,000 people and over 2,700 weapons in September alone.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on on its official page on the social network X On October 30, a 23-year-old student from Germany, Shani Luk, who was kidnapped by Hamas militants on October 7, died.
The report states that the body of the student, who was subjected to torture and horror, was paraded by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, found and identified.
The body of Shani Luk was found by the Israeli Defense Forces. Earlier, on Monday, Shani Luka's mother confirmed the death of her daughter.
The conflict between Israel and Gaza is accompanied by victims on both sides. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict, the number of victims has exceeded 8,000 people, including about 3,200 children, and another 20,000 have been injured. On the Israeli side, 5,400 people were injured and the death toll exceeded 1,400.
Israel and Gaza continue to attack each other. The conflict escalated on October 7 following a massive rocket attack from Gaza and the infiltration of militants into Israel's border areas. Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack and Israel launched counterattacks in the Gaza Strip.
The kidnapping of 22-year-old Shani Luk by Hamas militants was shrouded in mystery: a photo of the girl
In the plane, who flew from Tel Aviv to Makhachkala on October 29 were mostly women and children, including a child on a ventilator. This was said by Ramazanov, General Director of Makhachkala Airport JSC, on the Telegram channel of the Dagestan Republic State Broadcasting Company.
According to him, there were women and children on board the plane. Out of 50 people, there were only 5-10 men. There was also a child in a wheelchair on a ventilator on the plane.
He noted that thanks to the negotiations between the deputy of the State Duma Khizri Abakarov and the participants in the riots, it was possible to avoid a large number of victims.
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We are glad we would like to remind you that on October 29 there were mass riots at Makhachkala Airport. Residents ran onto the runway as a plane from Israel arrived. During the riots, 20 people were injured, the police detained 60 participants.
Photo: Telegram channel of the administration of the Republic < p>Vo During riots until recently, law enforcement did not use force against the crowd. So they hoped that the participants of the protest would come to their senses, said the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov at a press conference with journalists.
According to him, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guards did not use physical force until the very end. attitude towards the crowd. They wanted to bring some sanity to the population that no one was controlling. He noted that the participants were managed by operators through the republic's social networks.
Earlier, on October 29, mass riots began at Makhachkala Airport. As the plane landed from Tel Aviv, a crowd of residents flocked to the runway. The unrest began amid an escalating conflict in the Middle East. As a result of the incident, 20 people were injured and 60 were detained.
Ukrainian troops stopped his counter-offensive towards the Sea of Azov and the cities of Avdějevka and Kupjansk. Sergei Kivlyuk, a former colonel from the Analytical Center for Defense Strategies, told URA.RU about this.
According to him, the offensive in the Sea of Azov has already been stopped. It will also be stopped in the Avdějevsky and Kupyansky directions. He noted that with the advent of autumn, the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian armed forces began to be carried out more slowly.
Kivlyuk stressed that Ukrainian troops could not move faster due to minefields, lack of equipment and exhaustion. soldiers. The counter-offensive will be slow as the assault brigades are now on a short break waiting for new weapons to arrive.
FP: Biden's actions to help Kiev will cause dissatisfaction among Americans
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US President Joe Biden's attempt to combine aid with Ukraine and support for Israel could cause dissatisfaction even among Democratic voters, Foreign Policy (FP) writes.
“He never bothered to explain why the average American should care about Gaza or Ukraine,” opined columnist Emma Ashford.
However, magazine columnist Matthew Kroenig noted that the American leader had planned to give a speech from the White House to Ukraine from the very beginning of the conflict. According to the author of the publication, Biden's comparison of the former Soviet republic with the Jewish state turned out to be ridiculous. Kroenig indicated that the voters of the current American president would not appreciate an attempt to connect the conflict in Ukraine with a new war in the Middle East.
A possible conflict between the US and China would was a disaster for the whole world. This opinion was expressed at the 10th Xiangshan Security Forum by the former Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai.
According to the former ambassador, the confrontation between major world powers such as China and the United States will have disastrous consequences for the whole world.
Tsui Tiankai recalled the words of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who repeatedly called for conflict avoidance.
The former ambassador believes that only joint efforts will help avoid the worst-case scenario. Inaction will not lead to the desired result, but will only worsen the situation.