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Russian occupier Tekhov Aivengo was killed during the fighting for the village of Pyatykhatky

During the fighting for the village of Pyatykhatky in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, a deputy battalion commander from South Ossetia and several hundred other Russian troops were killed, Russian propagandist Telegram channels reported on June 18.

The deputy commander killed was said to be from the Storm Ossetiabattalion, and was named Tekhov Aivengo.

He was allegedly surrounded along with his battalion, and about 300Russian soldiers were killed.

The propagandists write that this unit had allegedly "decided to stand tothe end."

On June 19, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyarconfirmed that the Ukrainian military had liberated the village ofPyatykhatky in Zaporizhzhya Oblast.

Read also: Ukrainian military shows liberated Blahodatne in Donetsk Oblast video

In total, during the two weeks of the offensive in the Berdyansk andMelitopol sectors of the front, the Tavria grouping units have de-occupiedeight settlements:

Novodarivka,

Levadne,

Storozheve,

Makarivka,

Blahodatne,

Lobkove,

Neskuchne,

Pyatykhatky.

Read also: Details of the storming and successful liberation of Neskuchne - an interview with a soldier

Units in the Tauride sector advanced into enemy territory up to 7kilometers. The area liberated on the southern front amounts to 113square kilometers.

On June 15, Malyar reported that the offensive continues in severaldirections as the Ukrainian Armed Forces are gradually but surelyadvancing and inflicting significant losses on the enemy.

General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, saidUkraine's counter-offensive to retake Russian-held territory would bedifficult and involve fierce fighting.

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Deputy commander and entire battalion of Russian troops from South Ossetia killed in south Ukraine - Yahoo News

In some of the most intense footage we have seen since Russia began its all-out invasion of Ukraine 16 months ago, a team from the Ukrainian 73rd Naval Special Operations Center (NSOC) is seen wiping out Russian troops in a trench somewhere on the southern front of the ongoing counteroffensive.

The video shows combat strikingly reminiscent of the brutal close-quarters fighting that took place in the trenches of France during WWI. The video looks more like a scene from 1917 then from a modern battlefield. In this 1-minute-57-second video segment, the Ukrainian special operators - roughly equivalent to U.S. Navy SEALs - enter the trench and one by one kill Russian troops as they snake through the labyrinth of tight, blind corners.

Editor's note: the video in this below contains extremely graphic scenes of combat. Viewer discretion is highly advised:

The video, taken by one of the operators wearing a helmet-mounted camera, begins with the 73rd NSOC team approaching the deeply dug trench complex and opening fire while turning left at the entrance. As the team continues a short distance down the trench, a Russian soldier appears from around the corner and is immediately shot dead. He slumps to the ground face down and is shot a few more times to ensure he is no longer a threat.

About 69 seconds into the video, two more Russian soldiers approach the Ukrainians from another section of trench and are also quickly gunned down. Some 10 seconds later, a Ukrainian operator is seen tossing a grenade into the trench network. About 10 seconds after that, another grenade is tossed.

At about 87 seconds into the video, there is a right orange-yellow flash, followed by the sounds of shouting and more gunfire, though what happens next is unclear.

In a post on its Telegram channel Monday where the video first appeared, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) claimed the team entered the trench from the rear, surprised its occupants, and killed 10 Russians.

"In the south, during the mission, the operators of the special purpose marine center were able to enter the rear of the enemy," the SSO said on its Telegram channel. "A combat group of SSO soldiers caught the enemy by surprise. Recovering from the surprise, some enemy soldiers tried to resist. But, as you can see from the video shot by one of our soldiers - in vain."

The graphic video underlines the chaotic and brutal nature of warfare the claustrophobic horror of fighting in trenches and the sudden immediacy of death. Though technology has changed greatly since the "Great War" - allowing us rapid access to such scenes, for one - the human element of combat and the horrors that go along with it remains the same.

Yuriy Butusov, editor of the Ukrainian CENSOR.net news outlet who has seen plenty of combat footage, was particularly moved by what he saw in this video.

One of the most stunning close-quarters battles captured on video in the history of modern wars, he said.

Contact the author: howard@thewarzone.com

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Horrors Of Trench Warfare Captured In Viral Ukrainian Special Ops Footage - The War Zone

Nows your chance to get a look at the refreshed Black Lives Matter mural in Hartford.

Artists unveiled it on Sunday during the citys Juneteenth celebration.

And it comes a week after hateful symbols were drawn on it leading to local and state outrage.

At a festive Juneteenth celebration in Hartford, people danced, learned about history and took in the just finished Black Lives Matter mural on Trinity Street.

Its beautiful. Look at the artistry. This is gorgeous, said Kate Cullen of Hartford.

Lashawn Robinson-Nuhu painted the B in Black.

From my letter I want people to take away art, culture, family and religion, said Robinson-Nuhu.

There are 16 letters with different designs, with an overall message.

I want them to know Hartford is a diverse community. We accept everyone, said Janice Castle, Hartford Director of Community Engagement.

This unveiling comes one week after hateful symbols were found on the mural.

Hartford Police say surveillance video captured the suspect, Scott Franklin, who is accused of drawing a Swastika and white supremacy message.

Its really unfortunate someone would see something so beautiful and want to deface it. However this is how Hartford celebrates our diversity. This is how we want to celebrate Juneteenth by reflecting on its history and meaning and gathering together as a community, said Karen Taylor, Hartford Director of Equity & Opportunity.

The graffiti was quickly painted over with a heart.

It appeared on the E in Lives which was designed by Latoya Delaire.

It just stands for rising together as a community and love, said Delaire.

Part of the takeaway that were all better together.

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Black Lives Matter mural in Hartford unveiled following hateful vandalism - NBC Connecticut

The caskets of Bohdan Didukh and Oleh Didukh, Ukrainian soldiers who shared a last name but were unrelated, are carried out of Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church for their joint funeral on Monday.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times

LVIV, Ukraine As the bodies of fallen soldiers steadily fill up a hillside at a military cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, the old unmarked graves of those killed in past wars are being exhumed to make way for a seemingly endless stream of dead since Russias invasion of Ukraine.

On Monday afternoon, half a dozen gravediggers took a break in the shade, waiting for the latest coffin they would inter at the Lychakiv Cemetery. Smoking cigarettes and shielding themselves from the sun, they lamented the devastation that Russia had wrought. They said they were bracing for more deaths as fighting grows more intense during Ukraines counteroffensive.

On a sloping hillside, two men who died hundreds of miles apart were buried next to each other. Bohdan Didukh, 34, was killed by a mine last week on the front lines of the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine, where the first stages of Ukraines counteroffensive have begun. Three days later, Oleh Didukh, 52, died of a heart attack while serving in an air defense unit in the relative safety of the countrys west.

On Monday, they were honored side by side in a joint funeral in Lviv. Both of their families were overcome with grief as the soil shoveled on top of the two coffins landed with a succession of thuds. The men, who shared the same last name but never knew each other in life, were united in death in the service of their country.

One of the hard realities of Russias war in Ukraine is that even in a city far from active fighting, such as Lviv, soldiers killed on the front lines over the course of the 15-month-long conflict are returned to their hometowns, sometimes in groups, and laid to rest at the same time. It is seen as an efficient way to get through so many funerals when the dead keep coming.

At the funeral service for the two men in a Greek Catholic church in central Lviv, incense filling the air, the priest said that he had assumed the pair were father and son because of their names and ages. Though their families were not related, they were joined by their pain, he said.

Funerals for fallen soldiers have taken on a grim routine in Lviv. After the church ceremony, the coffins were loaded into vans and driven to the central square where a single trumpeter played. Then the cortege made its way to the graveyard.

Along the route to the cemetery, residents paused to pay their respects. A young girl stood next to her father, a small brown shopping bag in her hand, staring straight ahead as the coffins passed by. Some bystanders fell to their knees.

At the cemetery, Olena Didukh, the wife of Bohdan Didukh, fainted momentarily, overwhelmed by grief and the afternoon sun. Her sister steadied her, wrapping her arm around her back.

Kateryna Havrylenko, 50, who works for the city maintaining the graves, loaded soil onto a wheelbarrow. There are funerals here nearly every day, she said.

With the counteroffensive, many young men and women will be killed, she said. Words cannot express how difficult it is. Very, very difficult. Even though they are strangers, they are someones children, just like I have a child.

At the top of the hillside, city officials have begun exhuming the unmarked graves of soldiers who were buried as long ago as during World War I, young men who died at the start of the last century making way for those who have fallen in this war.

At the start of the war with Russia last year, there was just a small cluster of freshly dug graves on a hillside in one part of the cemetery. Now, nearly 500 soldiers have been buried here in plots filling half the hillside, she said, and more will come.

It is just so hard to think last summer, there were so few. And now there are so many. With a faraway look, she added: And until the war ends, how many more will there be?

Daria Mitiuk contributed reporting.

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A Black Lives Matter mural painted on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York City, in June 2020. (John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand Americans views of the Black Lives Matter movement, videos of police violence against Black people and the treatment of Black people in the United States 10 years after the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on Twitter.

This analysis is based on a survey of 5,073 U.S. adults conducted April 10-16, 2023. Everyone who took part is a member of the Centers American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. Address-based sampling ensures that nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATPs methodology. Read more about the questions used for this report and the reports methodology.

References to White, Black and Asian adults include those who are not Hispanic and identify as only one race. Hispanics are of any race.

All references to party affiliation include those who lean toward that party. Republicans include those who identify as Republicans and independents who say they lean toward the Republican Party. Democrats include those who identify as Democrats and independents who say they lean toward the Democratic Party.

Ten years after the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on Twitter, about half of U.S. adults (51%) say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Three years ago, following the murder of George Floyd, two-thirds expressed support for the movement.

In assessing the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, 32% say its been highly effective at bringing attention to racism against Black people. Smaller shares say the same about increasing police accountability (14%), improving the lives of Black people (8%) and improving race relations (7%). Overall, 31% of Americans say they understand the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement extremely or very well.

Views of the Black Lives Matter movement vary by:

The nationally representative survey of 5,073 U.S. adults was conducted April 10-16, 2023, using the CentersAmerican Trends Panel.

Additional key findings from the survey:

Like views of the Black Lives Matter movement, attitudes about videos of police violence against Black people being widely shared and the treatment of Black people in the U.S. often vary by race, ethnicity and partisanship.

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Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement Has Dropped Considerably From Its Peak in 2020 - Pew Research Center