Rescue efforts are ongoing in the city of Sumy, where Russians have just targeted residential high-rise buildings with ballistic missiles.
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) 17 novembre 2024
There are dead and wounded, among them, children. pic.twitter.com/ECn8VihJYd
Rescue efforts are ongoing in the city of Sumy, where Russians have just targeted residential high-rise buildings with ballistic missiles. There are dead and wounded, among them, children.
“Even if limited to the Kursk region, ATACMS missiles put at risk high value Russian systems, assembly areas, logistics, command and control,” said @KofmanMichael
. “They may enable Ukraine to hold on to Kursk for longer and raise the costs to North Korea for its involvement in
Former US ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Biden's ATACMS decision makes “Ukraine stronger and increases the odds of a just end to the war”. “The decision may also unlock British and French missiles. Possibly even German,” he added.
Updated: The move by Biden comes in response to the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, and after a barrage of new strikes on Ukrainian cities from Russia at the weekend.
14/ The soldier's account is consistent with the many complaints from local people about their properties being systematically looted. It's also reminiscent of the mass looting that Russian forces engaged in at the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
12/ "We went and opened a new house and took a new one. If the carpet got dirty, there was no way to wash it, we threw it away, took another one. Satellite dishes were removed, and we adjusted them so that the commander could watch TV.
11/ "It was he who gave the order to break into the apartment and the bed was brought out for him, right? And then, it turns out, we go around begging. What can I say to that? Everything was taken out for immediate use, what happened next I don't know. We used it, threw it away.
8/ "For example, you had to break into an apartment to find slippers or blankets there to make your own beds. And then it turned out that you had to take out a bed for the commander or a nightstand. We took out the equipment that was needed: somewhere a laptop, elsewhere a TV.
3/ A Russian contract soldier who has been fighting in the Kursk region with the 155th Marine Brigade has been speaking with the independent Russian outlet The Insider. He was sent there after being wounded in a 'meat assault' which left only 7 survivors out of 100 men.
1/ Widespread looting of Russian civilian homes and businesses by Russian troops in the Kursk region is being directed by Russian officers for their personal profit, according to a Russian marine who has fought in the area. ⬇️https://t.co/OovdmSvaFo
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 17 novembre 2024
1/ Widespread looting of Russian civilian homes and businesses by Russian troops in the Kursk region is being directed by Russian officers for their personal profit, according to a Russian marine who has fought in the area.
