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  • The situation in Kharkiv region: numerous destructions and victims

    The situation in Kharkiv region: numerous destructions and victims

    The situation in Kharkiv region: numerous destructions and victims

    The shelling in Kharkiv region damaged residential buildings, shops and cars. Two people were killed, several people were wounded, and 53 people were evacuated.

    Residential buildings, shops, cars and civilians were damaged in the Kharkiv region as a result of shelling. Two people were killed and several people of different ages were wounded.

    This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv RMA, Oleh Syniehubov, according to UNN.

    Details

    Kharkiv.

    As a result of the shelling (22:17), the windows of a shop and two apartment buildings were damaged, a woman of 64 years old was wounded.

    Chuhuiv district, Chuhuiv TG.

    During the repeated shelling, on November 10, two apartments caught fire and a 4-storey residential building was damaged. A 36-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were injured.

    The fragments of the downed drone hit the roof of the entrance of a 4-storey residential building, damaging the windows and 5 cars.

    Izyum district, Borivska TG, Borova village – a hit to a vehicle damaged the store.

    Kupiansk district, Kupiansk TG, Kupiansk.

    The shelling damaged two multi-storey buildings and two private houses, wounding three men aged 35, 49 and 61.

    Private households, apartment buildings, and outbuildings were also damaged; 40 garages were destroyed. A man and a woman were killed.

    Kharkiv district, Dergachivska TG, Prudyanka village. The shelling damaged 5 private houses and a car, a 60-year-old man was injured.

    In the Kharkiv sector, the enemy attacked twice near Vovchansk.

    Nine combat engagements were registered in the Kupyansk sector over the last day.

    Defense forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kucherivka, Kruhlyakivka and Lozove. 53 people were evacuated from the Kupyansk and Borivske directions over the day.

    Recall

    Russian military attacked Sloboda district of Kharkiv with a Grom-E1 missile and bomb hybrid.

  • Moscow mayor claims drone attack: airport operational safety procedure introduced at two airports

    Moscow mayor claims drone attack: airport operational safety procedure introduced at two airports

    On the morning of 10 November, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that four drones had attacked the Russian capital.

    Source: Sobyanin on Telegram; Russian Telegram channel Shot

    Details: The Moscow mayor claimed that in the Ramenskoye urban district, Russian air defence units had repelled an attack by two drones heading for Moscow.

    A few minutes later, he added that two more drones had been shot down.

    Meanwhile, Russian media reported that a Kovyor (Carpet) plan had been introduced at Moscow's Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports, meaning that they were closed and planes were being diverted to other airports, due to the threat of a drone attack.

    Several flights to Moscow are currently in the waiting area, and several more have been delayed.

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  • A murderer who committed a crime 50 years ago was found in the United States with the help of genetic genealogy

    A murderer who committed a crime 50 years ago was found in the United States with the help of genetic genealogy

    A murderer who committed a crime 50 years ago was found in the United States with the help of genetic genealogy

    An 84-year-old man was arrested in Wisconsin for a murder committed in 1974. The suspect was found thanks to genetic genealogy, which was used for the first time in this case.

    Investigators in Wisconsin have used genetic genealogy to solve a 50-year-old murder and charge an 84-year-old suspect. This was reported by CNN, according to UNN.

    Details

    It is noted that 25-year-old Mary Schleiss was found dead at an intersection in the village of Spring Brook, Wisconsin, on February 15, 1974. The investigation revealed that she was killed on the way to Chicago, where she was hitchhiking.

    Although the murder was committed 50 years ago, investigators have only now been able to charge the alleged killer, Minnesota resident John Miller, now 84 years old.

    According to the county sheriff, the suspect was taken into custody on November 7 after he admitted to being involved in Schleiss' murder. Miller is currently under arrest in Steele County, Minnesota, where he is awaiting extradition to Wisconsin.

    This is a great victory for us. This is the first time we have used genetic genealogy to investigate a case,

    The sheriff said.

    He added that for decades, detectives from various law enforcement departments had been investigating Schleiss's murder, receiving various clues and evidence, conducting interrogations, but were unable to identify the culprit. It wasn't until they began working with a group of genetic genealogy experts at Ramapo College in New Jersey that they were able to track Miller down with genetic evidence.

    The sheriff also said that they encountered unforeseen circumstances with Miller's pedigree, as he was adopted.

    The newspaper notes that Miller took the murder charges against him in stride.

    I think it should even be a relief for him after 50 years of living with this,

    – The sheriff said.

    He also added that many of the detectives and ex-sheriffs who investigated the case have already died.

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  • Guardiola, Man City slammed for ‘abject’ Brighton display as Redknapp hits out at pair of ‘strangers’

    Guardiola, Man City slammed for ‘abject’ Brighton display as Redknapp hits out at pair of ‘strangers’

    Guardiola Man City

    Jamie Redknapp claims Manchester City produced “one of the worst halves of football I’ve seen from a Pep Guardiola side” against Brighton as they fell to their fourth consecutive defeat in all competitions.

    It’s the first time City have lost four on the bounce since a run in 2006 under Stuart Pearce and having been on the verge of crisis after being thumped by Sporting in the Champions League, they’re now very much in one.

    Erling Haaland gave City the lead in the first half after some excellent work from Mateo Kovacic to set him up, and Guardiola’s side had the better of the first period against their passive opponents.

    READ MORE: Man City in crisis with no clear escape and Pep Guardiola doesn’t need this sh*t

    But Brighton woke up after the break, creating the most big chances (8) a Guardiola City team has ever faced in the Premier League, and were more than deserving winners in the end.

    Joao Pedro drew the Seagulls level after some shocking defending from City and then fellow substitute Matt O’Riley – in his first ever Premier League appearance – put Brighton ahead five minutes later.

    It’s a result that pushes Brighton into the top four and one that allows Liverpool – who play Aston Villa in the later kick-off – the chance to go five points clear at the top of the table.

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    Redknapp didn’t hold back in his assessment of City’s “abject” display at the Amex.

    “Four bad results,” said Redknapp on Sky Sports. “I thought second half, and I’ve watched a lot of Manchester City, I’ve admired him for so long but that’s one of the worst halves of football I’ve seen from a Pep Guardiola side.

    “They were abject, they didn’t defend they didn’t’ win individual battles they didn’t pass the ball forwards.

    “They were excellent first half, Steph [Houghton] mentioned it at half-time they should’ve been 3-0 up.

    “The second half when he made the subs, there was only one team going to win it. When the game starts to run away from you you’re looking at characters.

    “Who is going to dig in who is going to get on the ball when you need him most? There was nobody to do it.

    “The two centre backs are not a regular partnership and you could see it they looked like a bunch of strangers.

    “The goals they were really poor from Manchester City’s point of view.”

  • Video shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv says

    Video shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv says

    Video shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv says

    Editor's note: This article has been updated to include additional details about the reported execution.

    A video circulating online shows the latest instance of Russian forces executing a Ukrainian soldier, Ukraine's Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Nov. 9.

    "The occupiers have no limit to cynicism and cruelty," he said in a post on Telegram.

    "The Russians shot an apparently wounded, unarmed Ukrainian soldier. They captured it on a video that is spreading online."

    The video appears to show an unarmed Ukrainian soldiers being executed at close range with an automatic weapons while lying on the ground, the Prosecutor General's Office said. The soldier was captured immediately prior to his execution.

    The Prosecutor General's Office sad it was opening an investigation into the suspected war crime under the country's criminal code.

    Lubinets said he would be writing a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the U.N.

    "This is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war," he added.

    Finishing off the defenseless: How the Russians execute Ukrainian soldiersWarning: This article contains graphic photos and descriptions of graphic scenes. A decomposed human hand with the remains of flesh, bleak and brown save for one splash of color — two thin blue-yellow rubber bracelets. The colors of the Ukrainian national flag. The hand was from a body of the hund…Video shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv saysThe Kyiv IndependentKamila HrabchukVideo shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv says

    Lubinets did not specify when or where the video was taken.

    Earlier this week, a senior representative of the Prosecutor General's Office said Kyiv knows of 124 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) who were executed by Russian forces on the battlefield throughout the full-scale war.

    Reports of murders, torture, and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war are received regularly by Ukrainian authorities and have spiked in recent months. Most cases were recorded in embattled Donetsk Oblast.

    Speaking on national television, Denys Lysenko, the head of the department focused on war-related crimes, said that 49 criminal investigations were underway regarding the execution of Ukrainian POWs.

    The most recent cases include the killing of six captured Ukrainian soldiers near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, prosecutors reported on Nov. 5.

    "We are now analyzing all these cases, looking for patterns… We are considering all these cases comprehensively and the involvement of a particular armed unit is, of course, analyzed in each case," Lysenko said.

    According to him, prosecutors are building cases against representatives of the Russian military leadership who may be involved in organizing such executions or in failing to take measures to prevent them.

    Former Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin called the killing of Ukrainian servicemen in captivity a "deliberate policy" of Russia.

    Some 80% of the cases of executions of Ukrainian POWs were recorded in 2024, but the trend began to appear in November 2023, when "there were changes in the attitude of Russian military personnel towards our prisoners of war for the worse," said Yurii Belousov, a senior representative of the Prosecutor General's Office.

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  • In the occupied Luhansk region, students’ joining the Kremlin’s “movement of the first” will become compulsory – CNS

    In the occupied Luhansk region, students’ joining the Kremlin’s “movement of the first” will become compulsory – CNS

    In the occupied Luhansk region, students' joining the Kremlin's “movement of the first” will become compulsory - CNS

    In the occupied Luhansk region, student participation in the Kremlin's “movement of the first” has become mandatory. Previously, students outside the movement were restricted in their activities, but now everyone will be automatically included in the organization.

    In the temporarily occupied Luhansk region, Russians have made it mandatory for students of fake universities to participate in the "movement of the first". This was reported by the Center for National Resistance, UNN reports.

    Details

    It is noted that previously joining the Kremlin's youth control movement was not mandatory, although it was imposed in various ways.

    In particular, students outside the movement were deprived of participation in entertainment events and were hindered in their studies. However, even this failed to attract a large number of participants.

    From now on, all students will automatically become members of the movement, an organization responsible for providing crowd support during propaganda events,

    – the statement said.

    In TOT, occupants force children to swear allegiance to Russia – ResistanceOctober 29 2024, 11:20 PM • 100741 view

  • ATMs and Ukrposhta post offices no longer work in Kupiansk community

    ATMs and Ukrposhta post offices no longer work in Kupiansk community

    The last branch of the Ukrainian national postal service Ukrposhta has closed, and ATMs have stopped working in the Kupiansk hromada, Kharkiv Oblast, due to Russian shelling. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

    Source: Andrii Besedin, Head of Kupiansk City Military Administration, on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast, Ukrinform reports

    Quote: "Unfortunately, the Ukrposhta branch has been closed due to security measures to prevent crowds. We could no longer keep this branch open and expose employees and visitors to danger every second. ATMs have also stopped working due to the use of a large number of FPV drones targeting the cars of cash collectors."

    Details: Besedin said that the Russian army was monitoring the entrances to Kupiansk and attacking cars with FPV drones, preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid.

    The head of the hromada calls on people to evacuate.

    Besedin recalled that the dead people in the village of Kivsharivka had been trapped under the rubble for six days because the Russians were not allowing rescue workers to use special equipment and recover the bodies.

    "Three people were killed, lying under the rubble, and it is impossible to unblock their bodies," Besedin said.

    He said that 1,100 residents of the hromada remain without electricity, gas or centralised water and heat supply on the left bank of the Oskil River, where the Kupiansk hromada is located.

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  • Dutch PM won’t attend climate summit due to attack on Israeli fans

    Dutch PM won’t attend climate summit due to attack on Israeli fans

    Dutch PM won't attend climate summit due to attack on Israeli fans

    Dick Schoof refuses to participate in the climate summit due to attacks on Israeli fans in Amsterdam. Five Maccabi fans were injured after the match with Ajax.

    Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will skip the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.

    I will not be traveling to Azerbaijan next week for the UN climate conference COP29. Due to the great social impact of the events that took place last Thursday night in Amsterdam, I will stay in the Netherlands,

    – he said.

    Dutch Climate Minister Sophie Hermans will continue to attend the November 11-22 environmental meeting, while a climate ambassador will replace Schooff, the prime minister added, saying Thursday night's violence in Amsterdam will be discussed at a cabinet meeting on Monday.

    Recall

    After the match, which ended in a convincing victory for Ajax, local fans attacked groups of Israeli fans, despite the peaceful atmosphere at the stadium and the increased police presence. The attacks resulted in at least five Israelis being hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

    El Al Airlines promptly organized six additional flights to evacuate the remaining fans from Amsterdam.

  • US to deliver over 500 interceptors for Patriot, NASAMS systems to Ukraine, WSJ reports

    US to deliver over 500 interceptors for Patriot, NASAMS systems to Ukraine, WSJ reports

    US to deliver over 500 interceptors for Patriot, NASAMS systems to Ukraine, WSJ reports

    The Biden administration will rush the delivery of over 500 interceptor missiles for the Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile (NASAMS) systems to Kyiv, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Nov. 9, citing a senior administration official.

    The deliveries come as the Biden administration is planning to rush the delivery of the remaining approximately $7 billion in military aid to Ukraine ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in January 2025.

    The weapons, which are expected to arrive in the coming weeks, should meet the demand for Ukraine air defense needs for the remainder of 2024, the official said.

    No details were provided as to how many of each interceptor missile would be provided.

    Two administration officials told Politicoon Nov. 7 that the White House plans to expedite the weapons delivery amid concerns that a future Trump administration would halt weapons shipments before they reach Kyiv.

    Trump has repeatedly said that he would end the war within "24 hours" and get the U.S. "out" of Ukraine — a plan that may involve ceding Ukrainian territory and creating autonomous regions in the east, according to reporting in October.

    In June, two top advisors to Trump proposed a plan that would cease military aid to Ukraine unless it agrees to hold peace negotiations with Russia, Reuters reported, citing the advisors, retired General Keith Kellogg and Fred Fleit.

    Despite President Biden's ability to deliver existing weapons stocks through presidential drawdown authority, White House officials are concerned that the delivery of the large amount of weaponry may take months to reach Ukraine — well past Trump's inauguration into office.

    In addition to the interceptors, a Pentagon official said on Nov. 8 that the White House was preparing to send "a small number of contractors" to maintain F-16 fighter jets as well as other air defense systems. The White House previously rejected the plan as late as August but has changed course amid an increase in inoperable and unserviceable weaponry.

    "Ensuring these weapon systems remain mission capable is critical for Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression," a statement by the Pentagon read.

    Mont recently on Oct. 16, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the latest $425 million in new security assistance for Ukraine during a phone call with Zelensky.

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  • Construction of new facilities in the TOT has begun to stop – Resistance

    Construction of new facilities in the TOT has begun to stop – Resistance

    Construction of new facilities in the TOT has begun to stop - Resistance

    A construction crisis is unfolding in Russia due to the suspension of preferential mortgages and the removal of interest control. The construction of residential facilities has been halted in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

    A crisis in the construction industry is unfolding in Russia, which is already being felt in the temporarily occupied territories. This is reported by the Center for National Resistance, UNN reports.

    Due to the crisis in Russia, the government stopped preferential mortgages and removed control over interest rates. As a result, developers began to stop building projects,

    – the statement said.

    Details

    It is noted that the construction of residential buildings in the TOT of Crimea and eastern Ukraine has already been stopped. At the same time, construction workers brought to the east from other regions are not allowed to leave their resettlement areas (dormitories).

    Recall

    In 2024, Russia "nationalized" at least 1,200 properties in occupied Crimea. Most of the seized property is resort complexes and commercial real estate owned by Ukrainian businessmen.