Russia shoots down 36 Ukrainian demonstrations… and Lukashenko: “The war has reached a stalemate.”

Russia and Ukraine

The governor of the Russian province of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced today, Sunday, that Ukrainian forces fired 18 shells at cities in the province in the last 24 hours, underlining that there were no casualties or damage.

Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel: “In the Belgorod region, the village of Shitinovka was shelled with 16 artillery shells, and one artillery shell was fired at the village of Nekhotievka, and there were no casualties or damage in any of the cities of the country. region.”

Gladkov added that yesterday, Saturday, the Ukrainian armed forces fired a mortar shell on the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka and continued: “There were no consequences.”

Before that, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces had shot down 36 Ukrainian drones on the night of Saturday to Sunday over the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.

The ministry said on Telegram: “On the night of October 29, the Kiev regime’s attempts to carry out a terrorist attack using drones against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation were foiled.”

He added: “In-service air defense systems destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and the northwestern part of the Crimean peninsula.”

There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian authorities.

Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory have increased in recent months as part of the slow counterattack that Kiev began in early June.

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Negotiate to end the conflict

For his part, Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russia and Ukraine are locked in a stalemate on the war front with each other, adding that the two sides must sit down and negotiate an end to the conflict. conflict.

“There are enough problems on both sides and, in general, the situation is now in a serious stalemate. No one can do anything to significantly strengthen or develop their position,” Lukashenko said, adding: “They are there face to face deal with death, people holed up….” “They die.”

The White House said Russian forces continued their incursion this week near the destroyed town of Avdiivka in Donetsk and suffered heavy casualties, but the broad front in Ukraine did not move significantly last year despite violent counterattack launched from Kiev months ago.

Lukashenko, who presented his country’s territory as a springboard for a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, said Ukraine’s demands for Russia to withdraw from its territory must be resolved at the table of negotiations “so that no one dies”.

The agreement has become a necessity

“We need to sit at the negotiating table and reach an agreement,” Lukashenko said in a question-and-answer video published on the website of the official Belta news agency.

“As I said once, no preconditions are necessary. The important thing is to give the ‘stop’ order,” he added.

Yesterday, Saturday, during a meeting with more than 60 national security advisers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that his ten-point peace plan, which includes calls to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity, is the only way to end the war.

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