Izium

And of course, the neo-Nazis of Desherga Rusich asked rhetorically, does anyone actually bear responsibility for such reports, or for the loss of personnel or equipment, or is the legal framework simply absent or non-functional? And then another Z-patriot, Oleg Tsarev, supplied the archive.

Autumn 2022, the withdrawal from Balaklia and Izium was called a regrouping.

August 2024, Ukrainian forces entered Kursk Oblast, and the next day Gerasimov reported the advance into Russia halted.

Five days later, the acting governor said that they were 12 kilometers deep and 40 wide, and clearing the region took nine months.

Because, well, this time we have some special news about this too.

See, Colonel General Alexander Lapin.

Presided over the 2022 Izium-Iliman collapse, was publicly attacked by Kadyrov for it, was associated with the Siversky-Donets crossing disaster, was blamed for the Kurs border failure in 2024 and was dismissed in 2025.

A Ukrainian court sentenced him to life in June this year.

But I was just made kind of a loop.

Dnipro, Izium, Pavlograd, Kharkiv.

You know, Kharkiv is only 30 kilometers from the Russian border.

The second largest city in Ukraine, a very major city.

Ukrainian forces also said they stopped a Russian attempt to move around Dobropilya toward Druzhkivka and struck a warehouse and control points used by Russia's Rubicon drone unit.

In Kharkiv region, guided bombs hit Izium and injured seven people.

A Russian attack also hit a foreign cargo ship in Odesa region, killing its captain.

In Donetsk region, a Russian strike on Oleksandrivka killed five people, with seven still reported under rubble later in the day.

And then once they're there, they're going to be in those positions for, you know, a When I first came over there, good units would tell you they had people in frontline positions for several days.

I'd heard that firsthand from soldiers in Izium one or two trips in.

Nowadays, I would say anecdotally, good units might be able to get their men and sometimes women out of the frontline in 60 days would be maybe a good unit could – maybe not promised, but could try to make that the SOP.

Bad units might have, or I say bad units, bad units are people in a tough spot in the front or people without adequate supporting arms might have frontline soldiers in there for 90, 120 days plus.

So by population, I mean in just the urban districts of Taiz, there are allegedly up to 1 million people living there, which is huge.

I mean, if you just think about it, throughout all of the Russian liberation efforts, that would mean that Taiz is larger than Mariupol, Kherson, Taretsk, Pokrovsk, Konstantinovka, Avdeevka, Bakhmut, Izium, et cetera.

More than all of these cities and towns combined, Taiz is still larger than that.

And what you see on the maps as they're being updated sort of live day to day as the Yemeni cities take these over, you know, these hillside positions surrounding the urban landscape.

For them, it's not a business deal.

It's having to relive Bucha in any territory they seed or Izium or Mariupol.

make this real for us?

Yeah, I mean, I think that people who are not familiar with the way that Russia wages war close up, and I've experienced firsthand how they wage war.

By the afternoon, officials said 12 people had been injured and one seriously wounded man died in hospital.

In Izyum, Kharkiv region, Russian strikes killed a 26-year-old man and injured at least 15 people, including four children.

On the front, Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps reported an offensive near Lyman in northern Donetsk region.

Commander Andriy Beletsky said Ukrainian forces had cleared about 75 square kilometers and retaken another 10, including the village of Seredny.

[upbeat music] In Ukraine, a Russian attack on a farm warehouse killed three people in the northern Chernihiv region yesterday, according to the police.

Deaths were also reported from Russian attacks on the capital, Kyiv, in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, and in the northeastern town of Izium.

[upbeat music] In Romania, there were clashes between protesting farmers and police yesterday.

The farmers are protesting the extension of a ban on exporting live sheep imposed by the European Union because of cases of a highly contagious disease, the ruminant plague.

They were-- Essentially they saw the oncoming Houthis who were approaching the, this town of Mecca, M- Mokah, I suppose, or Al-Mukha as they call it, uh, in Yemenis, and which is a port city, and they simply withdrew from it.

So similar to what we saw from the Russian armed forces, from the Assad Syrian armed forces in Syria, but also how the Russians withdrew from, you know, Kherson, for example, or Izyum in late 2022.

So in fact, although there was a siege which lasted rou- roughly a week, um, at some point, I believe, the National Resis- Resistance Front, basically the official Yemenis groups which are defending the government, which again is rec- recognized internationally, basically said, "Look, we're not going to hold this port city.

We're just gonna have to let the Houthis take the port city itself, obtain more control over the Bab el-Mandeb Straits, but we simply, if we stay here and we remain besieged, we will lose." And so roughly the siege ended after about six and a half days or so, and the Houthis entered into the city, and notice how there was almost no purging.