🇻🇪The Venezuelan Defense Minister stated that Venezuela "will not negotiate, will not surrender, and will ultimately win".
This is a standard practice for them. They shell a place and wait until the emergence services arrive. As they use drones for the attack and clearly see who they shell, there is no question that this is a deliberate practice. I've posted about some of the attacks:
Ukraine shelled a shopping center in Donetsk. When the rescuers arrived, the site was shelled again
In the DPR, four firefighters were injured by Ukrainian kamikaze drone
Ukraine repeatedly shelled Donetsk's center, killing civilians and emergency services workers.
In the city of Yasinovataya (DPR), the whole family - a teenage girl born in 2012, a woman born in 1986 and a man born in 1971 were killed as a result of overnight shelling using HIMARS 227mm rocket artillery.
HIMARS rockets that Ukraine used for this terror were made in 2024.
11 residential buildings were damaged. One residential building was completely destroyed.
An obligatory reminder that USA is directly involved
Source: DPR officials, this link has more photos and information.
Video footage from the site of the tragedy
Also today, a person was killed in shelling in Aleshky (Russia's Kherson region).
In Novaya Zburyevka, Golopristansky District, a Ukrainian drone dropped three shells on an ambulance responding to a patient's call. Fortunately, the medical workers and the driver were unharmed. The vehicle can be repaired.
Last night, a Ukrainian drone strike on the village of Zhelezny Port in the Golopristan district (Russia's Kherson region) killed a married couple: a 66-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, who were staying at a temporary accommodation center for evacuees, where civilians forced to leave frontline areas lived. They had been evacuated earlier and hoped to wait out the dangerous period in a safe location. However, the drones struck their home.
Ukraine also launched several more strikes on residential areas, damaging local homes.
Yesterday, October 17, three people, including a 10-year-old child, were killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling of houses in Aleshki (also Russia's Kherson region). Six people were wounded.
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have struck the Aleshki District more than 700 times.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck stores, a market, trucks and cars near a fruit and vegetable sales area, and a security booth. Communication towers, residential buildings, and an abandoned school building were damaged.
In Golaya Pristan, a 49-year-old woman died from a direct shell hit. In Bekhtery, a 51-year-old woman's foot was severed after a mine dropped by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants exploded. The victim was rushed to Skadovsk.
In Novaya Mayachka, a drone struck a grocery store. Two civilians, a woman born in 1973 and a man born in 1966, suffered back and leg injuries and were hospitalized.
Source: Bloknot Herson media and Governor of the Kherson region
кросс-пост из: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8853824
Water sources that comes from the occupied territories of Donbass have always been a point that Ukraine used to threaten the People's Republics. When Mariupol became Russian in 2020 Ukraine cut off the water supply for the republics, leaving millions of people with no water.
The water source from the "old" Russia was build, but it doesn't cover even 1/3 of the demand. The water pipes were build in USSR and haven't been changed since, what result in them often breaking down, losing already faint water stream.
There were little snow this winter and our summer is hot with no rains, which worsened already horrible situation, closing to catastrophe.
Right now, water is given once in three days for a few hours. But it doesn't mean that for this little time you can enjoy the hot shower. Water pressure is not enough to be used in the majority of multi-store buildings. People are gathering around the water taps on the outside of the buildings, waiting in the queues for horrible quality water, so they can fill the bottles and bring them to their flats. It's difficult and dangerous as the shelling never stops, but it's also impossible for the elderly and disabled. There are volunteers to help them, but who's going to gather water for volunteers?
Now, even those water taps have no water. The water trucks are running around the cities, but there is not enough of them. Drives are refusing to go to curtains districts because it's too dangers. Ukrainian drones are hunting the water supply workers, killing and wounding them *. So some district are left with no water. At all.
It's impossible to wash the cloth in the washing machine, washing the dishes or having a shower becomes an exhausting chore.
Amid the current news, Ukraine worsened the shelling of DPR and LPR. We have dead and wounded. How to treat people when you have no water? How do we clean their wounds?
This is unhuman cruelty. It's a catastrophe.
Water sources that comes from the occupied territories of Donbass have always been a point that Ukraine used to threaten the People's Republics. When Mariupol became Russian in 2020 Ukraine cut off the water supply for the republics, leaving millions of people with no water.
The water source from the "old" Russia was build, but it doesn't cover even 1/3 of the demand. The water pipes were build in USSR and haven't been changed since, what result in them often breaking down, losing already faint water stream.
There were little snow this winter and our summer is hot with no rains, which worsened already horrible situation, closing to catastrophe.
Right now, water is given once in three days for a few hours. But it doesn't mean that for this little time you can enjoy the hot shower. Water pressure is not enough to be used in the majority of multi-store buildings. People are gathering around the water taps on the outside of the buildings, waiting in the queues for horrible quality water, so they can fill the bottles and bring them to their flats. It's difficult and dangerous as the shelling never stops, but it's also impossible for the elderly and disabled. There are volunteers to help them, but who's going to gather water for volunteers?
Now, even those water taps have no water. The water trucks are running around the cities, but there is not enough of them. Drives are refusing to go to curtains districts because it's too dangers. Ukrainian drones are hunting the water supply workers, killing and wounding them *. So some district are left with no water. At all.
It's impossible to wash the cloth in the washing machine, washing the dishes or having a shower becomes an exhausting chore.
Amid the current news, Ukraine worsened the shelling of DPR and LPR. We have dead and wounded. How to treat people when you have no water? How do we clean their wounds?
This is unhuman cruelty. It's a catastrophe.
Today at around 13:00, the city of Donetsk came under attack using HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. M50A1 rockets filled with thousands of tungsten ball bearings were used. This type of rocket is primarily designed for use against personnel, and in this case, it struck civilians.
As a result of the shelling in Donetsk's Petrovsky district, near the Trudovskaya bus station, a woman born in 1994, another woman born in 1986, a man born in 1988, and another man born in 1983 tragically lost their lives. All the victims from the car were on their way to the funeral.
A woman born in 1961 sustained severe injuries. A woman born in 1958 and men born in 1961 and 1952 sustained injuries of moderate severity.
A journalist shows a shell splinter fragment which bears markings in English: 'Receiver, Made in Cedar Rapids Iowa, USA'
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In addition, as a result of drone attacks in Donetsk’s Petrovsky district, a woman born in 1976 was injured. Two more civilians were injured in Gorlovka.
Source of the English translation | DPR official report 18+
A few day ago, Ukraine used NATO weapons Storm Shadow in attack of the center of Donetsk.
After the strike on the center of Donetsk, a building collapsed. The fire from the landing site spread to the commercial premises.
A local resident was killed by shrapnel at the scene.
Israel now adds Iranian children to the long list of children it kills.
"Head of Shahid Chamran Hospital: Today we received the bodies of children aged 4, 5, and 6 years old."
There's an article about the similarities of Ukraine and Israel from a journalist who worked in both Gaza and Donbass. This was published in 2022 and it only got worse since.
Ukraine shelled only two shells of 155mm NATO caliber, but when you target the unarmed, this is enough.
Three people were killed, including two children, and eight more civilians have been injured as a result of Kiev's aggression.
In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, due to enemy artillery fire with 155mm shells on the territory of the "Sokol" market (Tekstilshchik microdistrict), two children were killed: a girl born in 2011 and a teenage boy born in 2009, as well as a man born in 1989, father of a girl. Another child, a boy born in 2013, sustained moderate injuries. His mother was also injured, as seven other civilians.
Also, public transport on a bus station nearby was damaged in a result of this attack.
Official report of DPR JCCC: https://t.me/DNR_SCKK/20187
Moreover, in the settlement Imeni Abakumova, a girl born in 2004 was injured when an explosive was dropped from a UAV by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Five children were injured in a UAV attack by the NATO backed Armed Forces of Ukraine in Shebekino, Belgorod region, the governor reported.
An explosive device was dropped from a drone into the yard of an apartment building. Five children, who were on the playground at the time of the attack, sustained various injuries. Two of them are in serious condition.
In total, today in the Belgorod region 1 civilian was killed and at least 28 wounded due to attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian soldiers are using drones against civilians very day. Just some cases: Yesterday, they dropped an explosive on a man and a kid in Staromikhailovka. Earlier, attacked a house with a drone, killing 5 civilians, two of them were kids. Video (18+)
They are from Azov, so no surprise here
Today, Ukraine shelled Lugansk (LPR) district Yubileynoe with French SCALP missiles.
LPR's leader Pasechnik showed parts of the missiles and destruction it brought to civilian infrastructure and buildings.
The explosions started a fire that engulfed one building in flames and several others were damaged.
Some missiles where shot down by air defence.
12 people are reported to be wounded.
Also, in Makeevka (DPR) 5 people, including a pregnant woman, were wounded by a 122 mm MLRS missile made in Slovakia JROF-M with a range increased to 40.2 km. Source: DPR MFA, Ria novosti
In Donetsk, an elderly woman was wounded near her home by a drone. Source: Donetsk mayor
Ukrainian soldiers also attacked a public transport with a drone. A driver was seriously wounded. Source: Donetsk mayor
The death toll from the Ukrainian attack on Tokmak has risen to 16 people, Governor Balitsky has said
The governor of Zaporozhye Oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, said that the number of dead as a result of the AFU attack on Tokmak has already reached 16 people. For bodies were lifted by rescuers from under the rubble, among them one child. One person died in hospital. Of the 20 victims, 12 people remain in serious condition - they are in hospital.
The removal of the rubble at the site of the terrorist attack continues - the search for the victims of the attack is still underway. The AFU committed the crime itself the day before yesterday - they chose a residential area of the city for it. Then it became immediately known that 10 people were killed, among whom two were children.
It's reported that Ukraine used GLSDB bombs, which are developed and used by NATO.
Ministry of emergency situation: https://t.me/mchs_official/15649 LPR leader: https://t.me/glava_lnr_info/2100 (didn't update his post), local news: https://t.me/ria_dnr/4540, etc
"Oh no, we no longer can present our point of view as a fact, people want to know more"
So, as they say, 160 missiles and hundreds of drones were launched across many cities of Ukraine and killed 20 people.
While Ukraine launched a few dozen drones and heavy MLRS killing 24* people in one area of one city.
*The number has risen, unfortunately
But "it's different/it didn't happen" when Ukraine hits maternity centers, shopping malls and kindergartens. Or drops bombs from the drones on civilians, seeing exactly who they hit.
At this moment, Ukraine is shelling ctluster munitions at the center of Donetsk. There is no military targets here, it's done simply to kill civilians. Ukraine is nothing but a terrorist state.
My heart goes to Venezuela and its people. I hope this will end in Venezuela's ultimate victory and as fast as possible. Fuck the us, 2026 should be its final year.