“Dead civilians found” – “Ukraine at War” update October 28

Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday that Ukraine was investigating reports that Russian soldiers shot at civilians in the frontline town of Selidovo, near the key Donetsk city of Pokrovsk, citing local prosecutors.

A social media post by the Ukrainian army’s “Ghost of Khortytsia” unit showed how Russian troops opened fire on a civilian’s car. Drone footage shows a man running around a car, and the caption states that the car came under “enemy fire.” Meanwhile, the second video shows how two soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), accompanied by one of the passengers in the car, drag the wounded man away from the scene.

“During the attack, there were two citizens in the car, one of whom was wounded,” the AFP agency quoted the Prosecutor General’s Office as saying.

Further in the video you can see how Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen drag the victim away from the line of fire and provide first aid to the wounded man.

The same source further stated that Moscow forces shot and killed two women in the city and that “dead civilians were found” in areas captured by Kremlin forces. According to military bloggers, the Russian army “has been closing in on the eastern mining town of Selidovo for weeks and is now on its outskirts.”

According to AFP, Moscow has previously been accused of shooting at and executing civilians in parts of Ukraine they captured and controlled after the February 2022 invasion, noting an April 2022 event in which “the bodies of dozens of civilians, some with their hands tied, , were found in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha after a month-long occupation by Russian troops.”

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HUR published a video that allegedly shows North Korean troops being transferred to the Kursk region in a civilian truck

Ukrayinska Pravda on Sunday highlighted a Facebook video from the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR), which allegedly shows the Kremlin transporting North Korean military reinforcements to the front lines in KamAZ trucks with civilian license plates.

HUR reported that on Sunday, October 27, local police stopped a Russian truck with civilian license plates loaded with North Korean soldiers on the Kursk-Voronezh highway, without the necessary documentation to prove that the contents of the vehicle were intended for military operations.

“In radio communications intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence, officers of the 810th Guards Marine Brigade of the Russian occupation forces, which was supposed to receive North Korean reinforcements, tried to determine whether the stopped truck was on their books and why the driver did not have the necessary documents,” Ukrayinska Pravda reports. .

Meanwhile, President Vladimir Zelensky said in an overnight video message that he had received a briefing on the ongoing offensive on positions in the Russian region of Kursk and that everything was going according to plan.

After BRICS summit in Russia, Pretoria insists South Africa follows ‘non-alignment’ policy

South Africa, now Africa’s third-largest army but still the continent’s largest economy with a GDP of about $403 billion, on Sunday tried to declare its neutrality in the Russian-led war against Ukraine, even after its president joined Russia. leader Vladimir Putin at the summit of the BRICS countries in Kazan last week, a group of which South Africa is a founding party.

“In declaring President Putin and the people of Russia ‘valued friends and allies,’ President Ramaphosa did not view any particular country or bloc of countries as an enemy,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said on Sunday, seeking to clarify comments he made during during a summit earlier this week, insisting he was not favoring Russia over Ukraine.

Since the apartheid era, the Kremlin has supported the liberation struggles of the country’s African National Congress, just as Moscow’s spy agencies relied on the covert support of African Americans in the United States at the height of the Cold War and apartheid in the 1980s.

“It is through the policy of non-alignment that South Africa has been able to engage constructively with both Russia and Ukraine,” the statement said.

At the summit, Ramaphosa made comments about being an ally of Russia, leading to a split in his own government, AFP reported, with the Democratic Alliance, the former opposition party now a partner in the fragile coalition, saying he could not count Russia or Putin as your ally.

On Monday, South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola will receive his Ukrainian counterpart Andrei Sibiga. Their talks will include the abolition of visas for South African officials visiting Ukraine.

“This will allow South African officials to travel to Ukraine to attend peace formula meetings without visa logistics barriers,” the Pretoria Foreign Office said.