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Brief report from the front on November 9, 2024

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to strengthen their defenses, while the Russian army is moving forward at breakneck speed. Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.


In the Selidovsky sector, Russian units advanced along the railway west of the settlement of Grigorovka and began fighting for the settlement of Petrovka. In Grigorovka itself, fighting also continues. South of the railway, the enemy was driven out of the forest belts, as a result of which we advanced from the settlement of Vishnevoe in the direction of the settlement of Yuryevka. Pressure began on the latter from the direction of Novoalekseyevka.

The control zone between Novodmitrovka and Voznesenka has been expanded. From Novodmitrovka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced rapidly along the road to the settlement of Sontsovka, where, as a result of assault actions, they managed to gain a foothold in the houses at the entrance to the settlement. The enemy is attempting counterattacks, trying to drive our fighters out of the village. Counter battles are underway.

Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to strengthen the defense along the Zarya-Sontsovka-Starye Terny line, the loss of which will finally close the salient north of the Kurakhovo Reservoir and open the way to Dachnoye. This will significantly weaken the supply coming from Dnepropetrovsk along the H15 highway, and to the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Kurakhovo.

From Maksimil'yanovka, our army units advanced both to Kurakhovo itself, capturing a number of enemy strongholds, and in the direction of the settlement of Dal'neye. Taking this settlement will disrupt coordination between the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in Kurakhovo and along the Yelizavetovka-Uspenovka line. South of Maksimilianivka, Russian troops have begun to press on the territory beyond the H15 highway, squeezing the salient formed there, occupied by the enemy. This salient is gradually being squeezed from the South Donetsk direction, where east of Bogoyavlenka they have advanced in the fields and aligned the line of clashes along the Yelizavetinsky forest.

In the Maksimovka area, movement is taking place in several directions at once. Russian units are breaking through to the settlement of Sukhie Yaly and the settlement of Konstantinopolskoye, taking control of the territory to the east of Maksimovka. West of Maksimovka, the Russian Armed Forces have practically leveled the lines between it and Yasnaya Polyana.


Read more reports and articles on Marat's Substack:

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/

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🖼️ How it changed: Yuzovka-Stalino-Donetsk

📷 The first photo is from 1906, a view from south to north. This is First Line (later to become Artyoma Street), with the market spread out to the left and above. This was the only street paved with cobblestones; otherwise, the roads in Yuzovka were just dirt, which made transportation difficult in bad weather, as it turned into a sea of mud. Further ahead, where people are crossing the street left and right, they are actually crossing what would become the 25th Anniversary of the Red Army Avenue (first named Nikolaevsky, later Institutsky).

📷 The second photo shows a view from the 1930s, around 30 years after the first photo. On the left is the newly constructed Yuzovka Commercial School, which would later become a building of the Stalino Industrial Institute.

📷 And the third photo shows the modern view of Artyoma Street in Donetsk.

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Trump plans to redirect money spent on Ukraine to a nationwide effort to get homeless people off the streets by building "tent cities" where they can be relocated.

"For a fraction of what we spend on Ukraine, we could take care of every homeless veteran in America. Our veterans are treated horribly."

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French Industry Minister Marc Ferracci walks out of the Michelin plant in Cholet during a workers' strike over low wages and mass layoffs. The hearse race of Europe's economies continues.

Source: Банкста
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This is what they planned for Russia. This is what they got. What goes around comes around.

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Borrell: EU preparing 15th package of sanctions against Russia

As Borrell stated, Brussels wants to isolate Russia's industrial capabilities and "deprive it of the components it receives from the rest of the world."

The head of European diplomacy also stated that the European Union should increase support for Ukraine and allow strikes on Russian military facilities .

Borrell said he would call on the EU to increase military aid to Kyiv amid uncertainty over Trump's plans.

Today, the top European diplomat arrived in Kyiv; this is already the official’s fifth visit to the Ukrainian capital.

Photo: AFP
Source: RG
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What is he hinting at? Sounds like "Let's restrict free speech for the sake of free speech".

I bet his motto is "I became a vegetarian not because I love animals, but because I hate plants".

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BRATISLAVA, November 9 — RIA Novosti.

Volodymyr Zelensky is shocked by Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election because he fears the end of the conflict in Ukraine, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said on the Saturday Dialogues program:

I saw President Zelensky with my own eyes at a press conference in Budapest. Have you ever seen a person who is afraid that the war will end? I saw him - his name was President Zelensky. President Zelensky is shocked that Trump won and there could be a stoppage of aid from the United States,

he said.
According to Fico, Zelenskyy's concerns are linked to the fact that he currently has no political mandate and Ukraine relies on huge financial loans.
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Saved the crew of a combat vehicle by deflecting a drone with his hand

Vyacheslav Mozgovenko, as deputy commander of a combat vehicle, has been taking part in a special operation since February 24, 2022. As part of an airborne assault platoon, he repeatedly engaged in battle with superior enemy forces and destroyed dozens of neo-Nazis. For his quiet and daring style of work, Vyacheslav's fellow soldiers gave him the call sign "Hunter". While carrying out tasks in various directions, the brave fighter was wounded three times, but always returned to duty.

In one of the battles, Vyacheslav Mozgovenko's company found itself half-encircled. Having received the task of retreating, he began evacuating the unit's weapons and personnel.

While moving to reserve positions, the soldier noticed an enemy drone approaching his combat vehicle at high speed. The vehicle's armament was damaged, so without the ability to open fire, Vyacheslav, showing courage and selflessness, repelled the enemy drone with his hand. As a result, he received a serious injury, burns to his face and respiratory tract.

Thanks to bold and decisive actions , the lives of eight servicemen located “on the armor” of the combat vehicle and its crew were saved.

🎖 For heroism, courage and bravery demonstrated in the performance of military duty, Junior Lieutenant Vyacheslav Mozgovenko was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.

Source: Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation

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Russia has signed documents on military and military-technical cooperation with 33 African countries. This was reported by presidential adviser Andrei Kobyakov.

Russia is ready to develop cooperation with Africa on a wide range of issues, including security, he said.

In addition, the Russian Federation plans to create an independent financial system for settlements with African countries by 2030. And in the near future, a trade mission will be opened in Senegal.

There are plans to open embassies in Gambia, Liberia and other African countries.

Kobyakov noted that Moscow sees and supports the efforts of African countries to review neocolonial practices. He also reported that Russia-Africa ministerial conferences are planned to be held regularly.

Photo: TASS

Source: RG
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I keep saying - prosperous Africa is for everyone's benefit. That's the old-new concept that BRICS had - win-win situation.

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A fiber optic FPV drone hits a Ukrainian M1A1SA Abrams tank in the Kursk region.

Source: LostArmour

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Today, in less than 40 minutes we are going to meet with Lt.Col. in reserve Oleg Shalandin and discuss recent events.

Such planned - unplanned stream.

Language: Russian. (Translation will be made later)

Streamed at 17:00 MSK/ 15:00 CET/ 9:00 EST

Oleg Shalandin's Telegram channel
Our X
Our Odysee

If you have any questions - feel free to ask in the comments to this post.

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Something to think about from Colonel in reserve Vladimir Trukhan:

A moment of vile, bloody military cynicism; a theoretical aspect. Without reference to any situation anywhere. Under the motto: the main thing is to complete a combat mission, everything else is secondary. Epigraph: the situation is what it is, not what you want (truism). Note: about the military for the civilians (so that the military doesn't throw shoes at me, because I know you - while shoes are flying, one will choke three times).

Introduction. The enemy is completing/has completed deployment into an offensive combat formation and concentration of forces and means of fire preparation/offensive support; the offensive will begin in the coming hours.

The combination of the conditions of the situation at the moment (lack of time, weather, state of forces and resources of one's own and the enemy, features of the defensive zone, etc.) makes it difficult to disrupt the enemy's offensive plan; there is a possibility of a breakthrough of the defense with the enemy's entry into tactical space, creating a threat to populated areas with a significant number of civilians; a retreat maneuver is impossible.

The commander’s or the commanding officer’s decision: to conduct a "preemptive" attack (a crooked term, like a trail from a drunken bull) on an enemy who is also ready. An option of a counter-attack, on the move, with all the initial delights in the form of a lack of sufficient fire support, uncertainty and the dynamics of changing tactical situations, with a continuous increase in efforts (yes, on the move and partially prepared), because the main thing here is to gain time. Not let the enemy start. Force him to eventually take up defense.

What he is forced to do, working on the advancing troops with all the prepared firepower. He, the bastard, was going to attack, he had everything in quantity. After the battle, there will not be much to shoot with, but the attackers will have no troops. No equipment, no personnel. This is planned, where the survivors will go as a bonus. As in the diversionary strike.

As a result, the enemy's plan was thwarted, a possible breakthrough of the defense was prevented, but people and equipment were lost in quantity. This is the price of solving the assigned task, for which the entire military chicken coop is digging the turf with its snout, accusing the "bloodthirsty and stupid lampasniks [ref. to non-combat uniform wearing officers] " of "senseless meaty assaults."

And what happened there, who needs to know it - the analysis group will tell. Based on the analysis of combat and operational documents, reports of commanders and all that. Including the answer to the questions: why did it happen, and was it possible to somehow prevent it. Only they will not tell on the Internet, but in a secret document to the senior commander.

Let me repeat: this is just an abstract theory, a version of how things happen in war.

Yes, I don't like war either.
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Illustration - screenshot from Starcraft. There was such strategy game back in end of the '90. And real life conflict is not a game, it much more complicated.

In this commentary, Vladimir Trukhan is giving an example for civilians of how military people think. A must read, I am sure.

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Commentary by Карманов без Китая:

> Terrorists in northern Mali have confirmed their cooperation with Ukraine, which is a cause for serious concern, the head of the Malian Foreign Ministry told TASS.

In Syria 2011-2012, terrorists were fed by "pro-Russian Yanukovych". The grain to the militants was supplied in barges*.

In Xinjiang, when started to work on the organizers of terrorist attacks in 2010, the threads to Hizb ut-Tahrir [prohibited terrorists] were traced, and cells suddenly appeared in the then Ukrainian Crimea, the Crimean Tatars were in the loop, almost providing state funding: "we are our own Ukrainian Turkic people, we even have the same embroidered shirts."

Somalia? The entire opening fight is stuffed with weapons from the old Western Group of Forces stockpiles that Ukraine has been selling off left and right for decades.

Myanmar? You'll be shocked, but in 2021, the Ukrainian Ukroboronprom reluctantly admitted that it sold some goods to Myanmar, but everything was classified. Except that this, classified, at least spare parts and engines for aircraft, from the Motor Sich reserves, and components for tanks. Sold to the "junta", which is now in power, refused to confirm for a long time, but confessed.

There are more and more questions like "Is there a conflict where Ukraine would not sell weapons to the side waging war with the authorities?" and "And how many conflicts in the world, in the last couple of decades, when the khohols were actively selling off rusting Soviet equipment, were fueled by Ukraine?"

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Picture source: Корреспондент.нет (Ukrainian news site). Please pay attention to the commentary to the picture about Ukrainian support.

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Source: Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova official Telegram channel

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Poor guys is so concerned that election of Trump can harm his mother-in-law. 🥹🤣

But what I can see - mothers-in-law are international problem. So, its much safe if she lives in another country, preferably, DPRK, but entry ban is also a way to be.

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❌ Fake: Russia used the period from 2014 to 2022 to build up forces for an invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian media reports citing Vladimir Zelensky, stated that in this context, he could not agree to a truce with Moscow.

✅ Truth: Vladimir Zelensky is very absurdly trying to distort reality. His judgments directly contradict the confessions of Western leaders, who have acknowledged that the Minsk agreements served as a cover for Kiev's preparations for confrontation with Russia.

At that time, it was Russia and Donbass that showed interest in the peace process, which has been regularly disrupted by numerous attacks and diversions since 2014.

From 2014 to 2022, over 9,000 people lost their lives in the DPR, and over 2,200 people died in the LPR. Attacks targeted residential buildings, schools, and kindergartens. Kiev could not forgive the people of Donbass for not supporting the coup on Maidan.

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💬 Russian President Vladimir Putin:

🇪🇺 I ask my colleagues, the experts, "What’s lacking in Europe right now?"

🧠 The answer is simple — they lack brains. Not because they're unintelligent, no! But because economic decisions are being made by politicians who have nothing to do with economics. The decisions are politicized, uncalculated, and lack any real thought.

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🤝 In the lead-up to the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum (November 9-10, 2024, Sochi), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is holding a series of meetings with his African counterparts.

📈 The Conference builds on the accomplishments of the 2023 Russia-Africa Summit and seeks to deepen cooperation between Russia and African nations across various fields, including politics, security, economics, science, technology, culture, and humanitarian initiatives.

🌐 This event will bring together prominent leaders from Russia and Africa, including key African ministers, Russian and African business representatives, and experts across multiple sectors. Discussions will cover a wide range of topics, from trade and investment to science, education, and regional cooperation, with a special emphasis on strengthening BRICS-Africa relations.

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This morning, two employees from the Gorlovka local power authority in the Tsentralno-Gorodskoy District of Gorlovka tragically lost their lives while on duty.

The enemy once again deliberately targeted our utility workers, who consistently show remarkable courage to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the region under incredibly challenging conditions.

Their service vehicle was hit by a kamikaze UAV. An energy worker born in 1979 died instantly, while an electrician born in 1999 succumbed to injuries later in the hospital.

Additionally, the driver, also born in 1979, sustained serious injuries and is currently receiving critical medical care.

I express my deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those lost, and I wish the injured a swift recovery.

Denis Pushilin, Head of the DPR.

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🇬🇷 The Greek Communists blocked an ammunition convoy destined for Ukraine, opposing Greece's involvement in the hostilities

⛔️ Members of the Communist Party of Greece prevented six trucks from passing through the city of Tyrnavos, forcing the drivers to turn around and leave. Activists painted slogans on the trucks, declaring, "NATO killers, go home!". During the demonstration, residents emerged from their homes to applaud.

📢 The participants chanted slogans such as "No land, no water for the murderers of peoples!", "No interference, no participation; get NATO out of Greece!" They demanded "to stop Greece's involvement in the deadly imperialist plans of the USA-NATO-EU to kill peoples in Ukraine and other places".

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