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War
One thousand three hundred fifty-four day. Russian attack on the Dnieper. Ukraine is being asked to release captured Kenyans. The commander of the "South" group of the Russian Armed Forces received a new post
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World
The President of Kenya appealed to Ukraine with a request to release captured citizens of his country. They fought on the side of Russia
Kenyan President William Ruto asked Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to release citizens of his country who fought on the side of Russia and were captured.
The corresponding request, Ruto reported on social network X, was made during his telephone conversation with Zelensky on November 6. According to Ruto, "young Kenyans were illegally recruited to fight in the war with Ukraine." The President of Ukraine, he added, “responded to the call.”
Kenyan media, including the Daily Nation, have repeatedly reported on the country's citizens who may have been tricked into joining Russia in the war. At the end of September, the names of at least four Kenyans held captive in Ukraine became known . In total, it is assumed that there may be several dozen people.
The Kenyan authorities announced at the end of October that they were negotiating with Russia on a new bilateral agreement that would provide Kenyans with the opportunity to legally work in the Russian Federation and protect them from fraudulent recruiter schemes.
Ukraine
In Dnepr, three people were killed as a result of a drone strike on a residential building
On the night of November 8, the Russian military launched a massive attack on Ukraine with drones and missiles. In Dnepr, as a result of a drone strike on a nine-story residential building, apartments from the 4th to 6th floors were damaged and a fire broke out. According to data at the time of publication, three people were killed and more than 10 were injured.
Russia
The commander of the "South" group was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Colonel General Alexander Sanchik to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense. Sanchik, RBC recalls , in November 2024 became the acting commander of the South group of troops. The “South” group is involved in hostilities in the Donetsk region.
By another presidential decree, Colonel General Andrei Bulyga was relieved of his post as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council. Bulyga, writes RBC, attended a meeting with the president in May 2025 as acting commander of the troops of the Eastern Military District.
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Anastasia. It’s scary that consciousness has already been restructured. It's a shame that the normal human reaction to murder and destruction fades into the background. It’s disgusting that you have to remind yourself that there is hell there, there are living people who are trying to survive and save their children, that you need to think about them and cannot turn away. Pain and grief settled there forever.
I feel responsibility through belonging, through citizenship, through shame and fear. The fear has remained since childhood, growing up in the Union. I probably have a complex of the Wise Baker: I have to sit quietly, and you’ll see it blows away. It won't get through. Conscience torments.
My parents' family is from near Suja. Villages, farms, towns - everything is exactly the same as on the other side of the border. The same benches at the gates, the same vegetable gardens, the same fields and temples. Demonism has triumphed, and people are infected with hatred of their former friends, neighbors, and relatives. How many families have split apart... I’m listening, and I can’t believe my ears. Sisters, brothers, parents and children are now on different ice floes, floating in the same cold of hatred and anger.
What should I do at my ant level? After all, there is one faith, one blood, and one Surzhik for everyone in this borderland. Very sad, very sad. The state and the people are not the same thing. People and people are not the same thing. I live in such a way as to help personally someone on the other side who still cannot get out, who has already buried loved ones and continues to hope every day that this darkness will end with us. This is what I can, want and will do. Silently, quietly, as long as necessary. My imagination is limited; I don’t know how to organize, collect and volunteer. I know how to support specific people with whom fate has brought me together. This helps ease their burdens and my conscience.
I go to bed not as part of the people, but as a person alone with my convictions and principles. You can’t live and do nothing when people suffer and suffer so much. I really hope that peace will come. I hardly believe that it will be soon. I pray.