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Ukrainian troops advance in Donbas<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are gradually retaking the populated areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The Ukrainian troops have pushed out the Russian forces from Karmazynivka, Myasozhrivka and Nevske in Luhansk region, and Novosadove in Donetsk region, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in an evening report on October 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past day, Ukraine\u2019s defense forces repelled the Russian attacks in the area of Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmut, Andriyivka, Maryinka, and Pervomayske, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said. The Russian forces continue to be on the offensive on the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka axes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an extremely tense situation on the Bakhmut axis, but the Russian forces are steadily losing ground, head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a news conference on Monday, October 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation in Bakhmut and on the Bakhmut axis overall remains extremely tense. All attempts by the Russians to enter the city and break the defense of the Ukrainian troops fail. The enemy forces come under fire and lose ground every day. They take losses in personnel,\u201d Kyrylenko said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran to supply body armor, missiles to Russia, Ukraine\u2019s defense intelligence says<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Being unwilling to issue gear to newly mobilized, Russia began to use Iranian-made supplies, the Main Intelligence Department of Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defense said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing unwilling to issue domestic gear to a new wave of the draftees, Russia began to use Iranian-made gear. [Iran] will send 3,000 body armor items in the nearest time, including 1,500 vests and 1,500 Milad helmets,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s defense intelligence said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian-made supplies are stored at the depot no.1061 at the base supply center of the 3rd<\/sup> motor rifle division in Soloti\/Valuiki in Russia\u2019s Belgorod oblast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran also plans to send a new team to Russia to advise on the combat use of a new type of drones Arash-2 and Iranian-made surface-to-surface missiles, Ukraine\u2019s defense intelligence said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is on the way to Dzhankoy to train the Russians to use the Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian forces preparing to defend Kherson, not to withdraw, Ukraine\u2019s defense intelligence says<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Russian forces create the illusion that they are leaving Kherson. Instead they are sending in reinforcement and prepare for defense in the occupied city, head of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov said in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sergey Surovikin, the commander of Russia\u2019s forces in Ukraine might be preparing to curb discontent at home if the Russians lose control of Kherson, but saying that \u201cthey are fleeing Kherson\u201d would be wrong, Budanov said. \u201cThat is an information operation and manipulation in many aspects. There are certain facts. They remove Promsvyazbank and other financial structures that the Russians installed there.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey take away cash, servers, move out the occupation authorities, people who can\u2019t move without assistance, and heavily wounded. Those who can walk are discharged from hospitals. They are holding the massive information campaign to say \u2018we care about the people\u2019 etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are creating the illusion that everything is lost. At the same time they are bringing in more troops and preparing the streets for defense,\u201d Budanov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podcast Explaining Ukraine. Dostoevsky, crime, justice, and Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, with Fiction\/Non\/Fiction podcast<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This episode of the Explaining Ukraine podcast is made in partnership with Fiction\/Non\/Fiction podcast. With this podcast\u2019s hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell we discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the lens of Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s Crime and Punishment. We talk about how Russian literature and Russian culture have separated crime from punishment, creating a society that distrusts laws and regulation, and values power and impunity. \u201cExplaining Ukraine\u201d hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, and chief editor of UkraineWorld.org, and Tetyana Ogarkova, who heads the international department of Ukraine Crisis Media Centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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