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War
The thousand seventy -ninth days. Six months of the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region. Thousands of Russians remain in the occupation. Putin discusses the celebration of the millennium of Kursk
Russia
Six months ago, the Armed Forces began surgery in the Kursk region. Thousands of people remain in the occupied territories. The authorities of the Russian Federation, it seems, does not care about them
Ukrainian troops invaded the territory of the Kursk region on the night of August 6. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the authorities of the region for several days argued that the situation was under control and that the Armed Forces "did not advance by a meter." Only on August 9, the Russian military department for the first time admitted that the battles are already underway on the outskirts of Sudzhi - a city with a five thousandth population 10 kilometers from the border. A federal emergency regime was announced in the Kursk region. Including, due to the soothing statements of the authorities, many residents did not evacuate in the early days of the Armed Forces of Ukraine-and eventually found themselves in the occupation.
By mid -August, more than 1100 square kilometers of Russian territory were under the control of the Armed Forces. In the following months, the army of the Russian Federation, having transferred the forces from Ukraine to the Kursk region, began a counterattack. Now, under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about 500 square kilometers remain.
How many people remained in the occupation?
On the territories captured by the Armed Forces, all this time remain local residents who could not be evacuated at the very beginning of the Ukrainian offensive. According to their relatives, we are talking about about three thousand people. In the Armed Forces of Ukraine in mid -January, the number of inhabitants in the territory controlled by him in two thousand people was estimated.
Relatives of people who remain in the occupation accuse the Russian authorities of inaction. In Moscow, they never publicly announced neither negotiations with the Ukrainian side on the organization of the humanitarian corridor, or even the intention to conduct such negotiations.
Only once - in November - Ombudsman, Tatyana Moskalkova, said that according to the results of negotiations on the territory controlled by Russia, 46 residents of the occupied part of the region returned. In early January, Moskalkova published a list of residents who disappeared in border areas-but he was sharply criticized by their relatives due to a huge number of inaccuracies and repetitions. Only at the end of January, after almost three weeks, the acting governor Alexander Khinshtein promised to make a new list.
How many people died?
In mid -January, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces said that 112 civilians were killed from the beginning of the occupation. Of these, at least 40 elderly people died of heart attacks, “without surviving stress due to intense missile attacks”, 36 more, as stated in the Armed Forces, died as a result of Russian shelling, the causes of the death of the rest were not specified.
On February 1, as a result of an air strike, a boarding school was destroyed in Sudge, where dozens of civilians took refuge. Four people, according to the occupying authorities, died, several more were seriously injured. The Ukrainian and Russian military has liable for the attack on each other.
On January 19, Russian state media reported that in the village of Russian Porechnoy, which a few days before the RF Armed Forces were released, the bodies of civilians, who were allegedly killed by military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were discovered. Videos were published from the scene shot by the Russian military - however, it is impossible to draw objective conclusions on these personnel about the causes of death or about the personalities of these people.
A few days later, the IC of the Russian Federation showed the personnel interrogation of the prisoner Ukrainian military, who stated that he committed murders and rape in the occupied territory. Since then, the authorities have not been provided in favor of their version of the Russian Federation-but at the same time they accused the world community of "deafness". In Ukraine, the situation was called the “continuation of the misinformation campaign” of Russian propaganda.
What is happening now?
On February 5, the Kremlin announced a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Alexander Khinshtein. They discussed monetary compensations for the loss of property and the “restoration of infrastructure in the Borderlands”, as well as the celebration of the millennium of Kursk, which was preparing in 2032. Not a word was said about the fate of the citizens of Russia and the prospects of their evacuation.
On the morning of February 6, several Russian wire-tanned telegram channels reported that the Armed Forces began a new offensive in the Kursk region. “So far, the blow is limited, reminds of an attempt to occur the APU in the area of the Berdin farm a month ago,” the military informant channel wrote.
According to telegram channels, 350-400 Ukrainian military and about 50 units moved in the direction of the Belovsky district, which is located south of the Sudzhansky district controlled by the Armed Forces. The battles were reported near the village of Ulanok (10 kilometers southeast of Sudzhi). The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the official report stated that "as of 14:00 attacks of the armed groups of Ukraine are reflected, settlements are under the control of Russian troops."
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War through the eyes of readers "Medusa"
Max, Ukraine. No, I do not think [that every Russian is responsible for the war, regardless of views]. It is probably ridiculous to blame the hypothetical designer from St. Petersburg, innocently drinking a smoothie on the Neva embankment, that exactly the same hypothetical hard worker from the hinterland, due to forced circumstances, became a contractor, in February 2022 killed an absolutely non -hypothetical resident of the Kyiv region, who unequivocally She did not carry any threat to him personally or the “Russian world” as a whole.
What can Russians do to normalize relations with Ukrainians? And what can our hypothetical designer from St. Petersburg do, having finished his smoothie, for that non -hypothetical girl who remained an orphan? There are questions that there are no answers, but there is a desire to live so that it is not ashamed and not scary to die.
No, there is no total hatred to you [Russians]. Probably, in 10 or 15 years, if I saw that somewhere in the river on vacation in peacetime, our hypothetical hard worker sinks from the hinterland, and had the opportunity to save him, I would save, because it was not for me to decide who to live, And who to die. But if our hypothetical designer would be hooked on my bar and suggest a drink and talk heart to heart, I would apologize and refused.
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