This was reported in Telegram by the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin “On January 18, Russians killed one resident of Donetsk region - in Mykolaivka,” Filashkin wrote the Russian military has killed 2,930 people in Donetsk region and wounded 6,591 This number of Russian casualties in Donetsk region does not include Mariupol and Volnovakha As reported, over the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 351 attacks on 13 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 Russian forces executed 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Pokrovske direction marking the largest execution since the start of the war This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets The Office of the Prosecutor General noted that on October 1 information surfaced online about the possible execution of 16 Ukrainian soldiers by Russian forces Unconfirmed reports suggest the war crime occurred near the villages of Mykolaivka and Sukhyi Yar in the Pokrovske district A released video shows Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers emerging from a wooded area under Russian control Survivors showing signs of life were then shot at close range These actions violate the Geneva Conventions and are classified as a serious international crime "This is the largest known case of the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the front line It is further evidence that the killing and torture of prisoners is not an isolated incident but a deliberate policy of Russia's military and political leadership," said Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin An investigation has been launched into violations of the laws and customs of war Authorities are currently verifying the video and conducting investigations to determine the full circumstances of the crime Lubinets stated that letters have been sent to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding this Russian war crime "The systemic nature of crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war must be stopped and those responsible must be held accountable," he added the execution of Ukrainian prisoners by Russian troops is not rare similar brutal videos have appeared regularly online 130 combat engagements have occurred at the frontline since the start of the day The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled over 20 attempts by Russian forces to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions in the Kursk region according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The General Staff reported that Russian forces carried out 51 airstrikes today and conducted nearly 3,500 shelling incidents targeting Ukrainian forces Russian forces launched five assaults on Ukrainian positions near Vovchansk The enemy dropped air bombs in the areas of Neskuchne Ukrainian defenses were attacked 11 times near Kindrashivka Petropavlivka and Lozova were struck by airstrikes Russian troops conducted 14 assaults on Ukrainian positions near Hrekivka The enemy also deployed guided bombs in the Raihorodok area Stinky and Mykolaivka were struck by guided bombs Russian forces launched eight assaults near Toretsk The enemy conducted airstrikes on Romanivka Russian forces carried out 37 assaults and offensive actions throughout the day "The enemy’s estimated losses in this direction include 328 personnel killed or wounded and one self-propelled artillery unit were damaged Stara Mykolaivka and Oleksandropil were struck by guided bombs," the General Staff reported 22 enemy attacks have been recorded so far Russian forces attempted to advance near Novoselydivka launched 15 assaults on the forward edge of Ukrainian defenses near Kostiantynopolske an enemy attempt to advance near Novoandriivka ended in failure Ukrainian forces repelled two enemy attacks without allowing the enemy to gain ground we recognize the steadfast resilience of Ukrainian troops from the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade the 126th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade Sicheslav the 71st Separate Jager Brigade of the AirAssault Troops of Ukrainian Armed Forces who continue to hold back the enemy's overwhelming forces," the General Staff stated As a reminder, Russian forces suffered 1,610 soldiers over the past day marking the 1,000th day of the full-scale war total Russia's losses have exceeded 724,000 personnel Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Russian forces have withdrawn from Mykolaivka in the southern Kherson region the Ukrainian General Staff said Monday.  "During the successful offensive of the defense forces the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka stirring panic among servicemen of other units of the Russian Armed Forces," the General Staff said in a statement on Facebook said Ukrainian forces had advanced by an average of 8-10 kilometers (5-6.2 miles) around Kherson and Zaporizhzhia More than 4,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 5,000 others injured in Ukraine since the war began on Feb The true toll is believed to be much higher Over 6.7 million people have fled to other countries while more than 7.7 million have been internally displaced 139 combat clashes were recorded on the front lines The number of enemy attacks has increased not only in the Pokrovsk direction but also in the Lyman and Toretsk directions and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out 18 strikes on areas where enemy personnel and equipment were concentrated hitting nine artillery systems and two other significant enemy targets six combat clashes occurred near the settlements of Vovchansk and Lyptsi The Defense Forces repelled assault actions near Berestove and Stelmakhivka Ukrainian defenders repelled nine enemy assaults near Spirne the occupiers attacked 12 times near Chasiv Yar and Ivanivske Ukrainian defenders repelled 46 enemy assault and offensive actions toward the settlements of Vozdvyzhenka The highest concentration of enemy attacks was near Hrodivka where the enemy actively used assault and bomber aviation the Defense Forces repelled eight attacks in the direction of Krasnohorivka the enemy conducted three attacks on Ukrainian positions near Vuhledar two unsuccessful enemy attempts to capture Ukrainian positions were recorded the enemy used aviation from Russian territory to strike areas of Ukrainian settlements Recall that since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost over 599,000 troops Ukrainian defenders eliminated 1,170 Russian soldiers Additionally, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue their offensive operation in the Kursk region. During the fighting, the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) managed to capture more than a hundred Russian soldiers This marks the largest single instance of enemy capture to date This is stated in the latest report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06:00 on June 15, published on Facebook up to seven battalions of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus focus on conducting reconnaissance and equipping positions The threat of missile and air strikes from the territory of Belarus remains the enemy fired on civilian infrastructure in the area of Sopych conducted air reconnaissance near Seredyna-Buda tried to prevent further advance of the Ukrainian troops towards the state border The enemy fired on civilian infrastructure in the area of Peremoha The invaders launched an airstrike near Mospanove the enemy's main efforts are focused on continuing the offensive on Slovyansk The invaders fired artillery in the area of Shevelivka The assaults in the area of Bohorodychne and Dolyna were successfully repulsed by the Ukrainian soldiers The enemy advances in the direction of Krasnopillia the enemy cynically fired artillery on Ustynivka The occupiers did not take any active action in Lyman direction fired artillery on civilian infrastructure near Sydorove and multiple rocket launchers on the Ukrainian positions struck civilian infrastructure in Sievierodonetsk Enemy army aircraft launched a strike near Bila Hora Ukrainian soldiers successfully repel enemy attempts to assault Sievierodonetsk and Toshkivka the enemy shelled the Ukrainian positions in the area of Spirne Russians launched an air strike near Ustynivka The Armed Forces of Ukraine made the enemy offensive in the area of Mykolaivka stall Now invaders regroup to resume the offensive the enemy carried out assault operations in the area of Zolote-3 The invaders suffered losses and retreated to previously occupied positions the Ukrainian defenders repulsed the offensive near the village of Shevchenko The enemy did not conduct active hostilities in Avdiivka The civilian infrastructure in the area of Pisky The invaders also launched an airstrike near Kamyanske The invaders also launched an airstrike near Kniazivka The Russian aggressor continues to block civilian shipping in the northwestern part of the Black Sea Three Kalibr missile carriers are on alert in the Black Sea It has been barely a week since President Vladimir Putin of Russia launched an unprovoked and already it has turned out to be a bad choice He finds himself in the unexpected and uncomfortable position of having to double down or face what could be defeat It turns out the isolated Putin is something of a serial under-estimator of others In light of American political divisions that he himself helped stoke paired with an ignominious US withdrawal from Afghanistan last August Putin appears to have judged the Biden administration would be unable and unwilling to respond effectively to either his threat to invade Ukraine or an actual invasion the United States made Putin’s plans public shared intelligence with its allies and partners and built a powerful coalition to respond to Russian aggression It shipped significant military hardware to Ukraine organized and implemented unprecedented multilateral sanctions that are badly hurting Russia’s economy Turkey appears prepared to deny access to the Black Sea to Russian warships The European Union has funded the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and closed its airspace to Russian flights Even illiberal Hungary is critical of the Russian invasion Ukraine, for which Putin has made clear his utter contempt, has stood up, mounting an effective defense. President Volodymyr Zelensky has caught the imagination of the country and much of the world The Russian advance is going much more slowly than was anticipated Russian casualties are reportedly substantial Bad news for Putin is in many ways good news for the rest of us His war violates the most basic of international norms that sovereignty is to be respected and borders are not to be changed by military force Respect for this norm is the difference between world order and anarchy And order is best understood as oxygen: We don’t see it and take it for granted except when there is not enough of it at which point what is required for societies and economies to function normally disappears All of which is to say Putin’s defeat would stave off what could be a far more dangerous era of international relations and more widespread proliferation of conventional and nuclear arms would be tempted to follow suit and use force to realize their objectives Still others would conclude they had no choice but to defer to neighboring tyrants or acquire nuclear weapons of their own What makes any of this all too plausible is that Putin has become a one-man band. He has dismantled most of the checks and balances within the Russian system, which is so de-institutionalized as to no longer be a system. He launched this war against Ukraine with no public support and with little or no consultation with others. It is quite possible he faces fewer constraints on his decision-making than did Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “War of Necessity, War of Choice,” “The World: A Brief Introduction,” and other books. Home Delivery Gift Subscriptions Log In Manage My Account Customer Service Delivery Issues Feedback News Tips Help & FAQs Staff List Advertise Newsletters View the ePaper Order Back Issues News in Education Search the Archives Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms of Purchase Work at Boston Globe Media Internship Program Co-op Program Do Not Sell My Personal Information Russian forces carried out 3,088 strikes on the Donetsk region This was reported by the regional police "Police recorded 3,088 enemy strikes on the front line and residential areas.. including 33 residential buildings," the statement reads It is noted that seven settlements were under fire: the cities of Kostiantynivka Kostiantynivka was attacked by Russian forces using multiple rocket launchers Smerch killing one civilian and injuring three others One apartment building and 14 private houses Myrnohrad was struck by aviation and artillery injuring two civilians and damaging apartment and private houses Russian forces destroyed an apartment building As a result of airstrike bomb hits (FAB-250) in Ivanopillia one apartment building and five private houses were damaged Russian forces struck the outskirts of Kramatorsk No information on casualties or damage has been reported yet Council members condemned the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements along the contact line in Donetsk region that lead to deaths and injuries The members of the Security Council expressed their full support of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and underlined the need for strict compliance with resolution 2202 (2015) which endorsed the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,” aimed at ending the violence in eastern regions of Ukraine “The members of the Security Council called for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime,” the statement concluded the humanitarian community and the Humanitarian Coordinator in the country also expressed grave concern by the “drastic deterioration” of the security situation in eastern Ukraine and its humanitarian consequences In a statement issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs the UN and its aid partners in the county expressed particular concern about the impact on the civilian population on both sides of the ‘contact line.’” Sustained targeting of and damages to civilian infrastructure adds to the already difficult conditions “The Government of Ukraine is doing its outmost to provide support and to coordinate humanitarian efforts.” The humanitarian community stressed that due to the shelling the Donetsk Filter Station (DFS) stopped working on yesterday leaving some 15,000 to 17,000 people in Avdiivka without water and potentially affecting up to 400,000 people served by the facility on 30 January the fourth power line to the Avdiivka coke plant was damaged by shelling and further impacting on the supply of hot water Urgent repairs are needed to restart the heating system With temperatures falling well below -10 degrees Celsius should the heating system stop working it will freeze and will require weeks to restart city water is being redistributed from Verkhniokalmiuska Filter station and other cities are surviving by using local water reservoirs designed to provide 24 hours of storage Verkhnotoretske and Kruta Balka water delivery has stopped altogether and in part of Yasynuvata water is now cut “An immediate cessation of hostilities is urgently needed to prevent further loss of lives and to enable repair teams to urgently restore critical basic services to hundreds of thousands of affected civilians living in -10 below zero temperature,” said Humanitarian Coordinator Neal Walker “Between mid-April 2014 and 30 May 2015, at least 6,417 people, including at least 626 women and girls, have been documented as killed and 15,962 as wounded in the conflict zone of eastern Ukraine,” according to the 10th report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Team in Ukraine which covers the period from 16 February to 15 May 2015 The report described the casualty figures estimated by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a conservative estimate” and that the actual numbers could be “considerably higher.” In a press release on the report Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said his Office has also documented “alarming reports of summary executions by armed groups” as well as “similar allegations against Ukrainian armed forces.” “We also have horrific accounts of torture and ill-treatment in detention both by armed groups and Ukrainian law enforcers,” he said The report also states that there has been a notable decrease in indiscriminate shelling after the adoption of the 12 February Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements nor have armed hostilities between Ukrainian armed forces and armed groups meaning that civilians continue to live in fear “Civilian casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance are still considerable,” it said The report said the vicinity of Donetsk airport and the contested village of Shyrokyne in the Donetsk region remain the “major flashpoints where heavy weapons were intensively used Reports of sophisticated heavy weaponry and fighters being supplied from the Russian Federation persisted,” the report notes intimidation and harassment of the local population perpetrated by the armed groups continued to be reported The [monitoring mission] received new allegations of killings as well as cases of illegal deprivation of liberty ransom demands and extortion of money on the territories controlled by the armed groups,” the report said The impact of the conflict on the economic and social rights of civilians is dramatic adding that “the interruption of access to basic services is life-threatening and can have a life-long impact on a large portion of the population hindering the post-conflict recovery of the society.” The difficult economic situation has also led to a worrying High Commissioner Zeid said “millions of ordinary women men and children in Ukraine have suffered tremendous hardship violence and have been living in fear for more than a year now” and “too many have had their homes and livelihoods destroyed and their lives torn apart He urged all parties to seek common ground to fully implement the 12 February Package of Measures and to ensure that all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law are investigated the situation in Ukraine transcended what was initially seen as an internal Ukrainian political crisis into violent clashes in parts of the country later reaching full-scale conflict in the east Despite a September 2014 cease-fire agreed in Minsk the situation in Ukraine has since continuously deteriorated with serious consequences for the country's unity the parties in Ukraine and the Trilateral Contact Group signed a “Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements.” “More than 1.3 million people are now internally displaced making it the ninth largest internally displaced population in the world and some 890,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries,” said a UN spokesperson today According to OCHA’s latest update no crossing points are available for humanitarian cargo to non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts “Access to water remains a critical issue for many civilians living along the contact line up to 1 million people being at risk of lack of access to safe water,” pointed the update from June 12 Funding for humanitarian operations remains critically low: only 31 per cent of $316 million required for 2015 is funded or pledged Several locations across the contact line continue to be theatre of fighting resulting in additional humanitarian suffering and loss of lives at least 6,500 people have been documented as killed and another 16,287 as wounded in the conflict zone of eastern Ukraine The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 123 combat engagements had taken place on the front lines since the start of the day The heaviest fighting was recorded across four different directions Russian artillery shelling affected the following settlements: Russian forces launched nine attacks on Ukrainian positions near the settlements of Ridkodub 46 clashes of varying intensity took place today Ukrainian forces are repelling enemy attacks in areas including Stara Mykolaivka as well as in the direction of Nova Poltavka the enemy attempted to break through 50 times in the areas of Kostiantynopil five of which were from multiple rocket launchers the enemy attempted to attack our positions twice near Vovchansk the enemy has been attacking Ukrainian positions near Zahryzove since the start of the day Ukrainian defenders repelled three enemy attacks near Chasiv Yar and toward Mayske and Bila Hora the enemy launched an attack on our positions near Krymske the enemy used unguided aerial rockets against Malynivka and Huliaipole Ukrainian defenders repelled two Russian attacks near Novodanylivka and Kamianske no enemy offensive operations were conducted As of today, May 2–3, the Russians have lost 1,170 soldiers in the war against Ukraine. As a result, Russian losses since the start of the full-scale invasion have exceeded 955,000 military personnel. the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 48 artillery systems and 121 units of Russian military vehicles The Jamaican government is encouraging Jamaican nationals in Russia to take precautionary measures for their safety and leave where necessary in light of the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade said that the Government was aware of eight Jamaican students "But our team has been receiving anecdotal reports of a higher number who are in Russia," she said yesterday "Although we understand all of them are well and not experiencing disruptions we take this opportunity to strongly urge Jamaicans in Russia or persons who are aware of Jamaicans living in Russia to provide the relevant contact information and location to the consular affairs department here in Jamaica and leave where possible before tension rises in that country." Johnson Smith urged nationals in Russia and other areas of Eastern Europe to "exercise prudence in their activities and to take precautionary measures for their safety" securing safe passage to alternative locations securing the necessary resources to do so and establishing relationships with family or friends that may be of assistance Johnson Smith suggested that the nationals should consider providing their contact details to the consular affairs department at: consular@mfaft.gov.jm or consularassistant@mfaft.gov.jm She said that the ministry and its embassy in Berlin continue to monitor the situation in Ukraine and Russia View the discussion thread.