963 days ago the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian troops tried unsuccessfully to push Ukrainian forces from their positions in the Kursk Oblast in western Russia. Ukrainians destroyed a fuel and lubricant warehouse in the Luhansk Oblast. The Institute for War Studies warns about thousands of North Korean soldiers training in Russia. Here's what happened in and around Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
> The army struck a fuel and lubricant warehouse in the Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast in the east of the country on Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported. Ukraine. There was a fire on the premises. “The base stored oil and petroleum products, which were supplied in particular to the needs of the Russian army,” emphasized the Ukrainian staff.
> Russian troops tried unsuccessfully to push Ukrainian forces from their positions in the Kursk Oblast in the west Russia – announced the president of Ukraine on Saturday Volodymyr Zelensky.
The president also emphasized that last week brought new arrangements for Ukraine regarding weapons, including their supplies and production. “Every foreign visit is always a conversation about investments in Ukrainian industry,” he added. In recent days, Zelensky was in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
> Thousands of North Korean soldiers are undergoing training in Russia and it is likely that these troops will be deployed to Ukraine, writes the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on Saturday. About participation in war in Ukraine soldiers from North Korea was previously reported by the Washington Post, citing officials from South Korea and Ukraine.
Ukraine, Kharkiv region. SZU drone unitKharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, 12/10/2024. Soldiers of the drone unit (“aeogroup”) of the 154th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in positions near the front in the Kharkiv region. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is underway.PAP/Mykola Kalyeniak
> Two civilians were killed and 10 people were injured on Saturday in Russian shelling of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the regional prosecutor's office reported. Near the city of Volnovakha, a drone hit a passenger car. Its 19-year-old driver died. The second fatality, an 84-year-old woman, died as a result of the Russian army's attack on the town of Kurachivka in the Pokrovsky region.
Earlier, over the last 24 hours, three civilians were killed and several others were injured in Russian attacks in Ukraine, according to information published by local authorities of Ukrainian oblasts.
> On Saturday morning, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that during the last 24 hours of the war in Ukraine, Russia lost 1,290 soldiers killed or wounded, and 350 pieces of weapons, including: nine tanks, 27 armored vehicles, 59 artillery systems, 110 drones and 115 other vehicles.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in the period since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 are estimated as follows: over 667,000. soldiers, almost 9 thousand tanks and 18 thousand armored vehicles, over 19 thousand artillery systems, 17 thousand drones, 28 ships and 26.5 thousand vehicles.
Main photo source: PAP/Mykola Kalyeniak