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Inside Occupied Ukraine’s most effective resistance movements:

Acts of resistance come in many shapes and sizes.

From a colored ribbon tied to a tree or a flag raised over a remote mountain face, to a quick tip-off on an encrypted app that sets off a chain of events culminating in the destruction of a warship, everything counts.

However big or small, whether the impact is military or symbolic, the actions of Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories over almost two years of full-scale war have all worked to drive one simple message home: that Russia’s grip on parts of Ukraine is as weak as it is temporary.

Around a fifth of Ukraine is occupied by Russian forces as of January 2024, most of which lies within five regions — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts, where Moscow held sham referendums on joining Russia in autumn 2022 — and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed back in 2014.

The Kyiv Independent spoke to three individuals involved in coordinating resistance operations in Ukraine’s occupied territories: representatives of well-known movements Yellow Ribbon and Atesh, as well as a Ukrainian special forces soldier specializing in maintaining a personal network of informants in Donetsk Oblast.

Each subject pursues goals with different methods: some more symbolic, some more subtle, and some more destructive. What unites them all, together with the driven Ukrainians that they work with in the occupied territories, is an unrelenting resolve to continue to resist Russian rule despite the grave personal risk.

Within Ukraine and among its backers abroad, the arrival of 2024 and the approaching two-year anniversary of the full-scale war has brought with it a widely-held sense of anxiety. Top officials have all but admitted that no quick breakthrough to once again liberate large amounts of territory will be possible for the foreseeable future, with discussion instead shifting to defending against renewed Russian efforts to take more Ukrainian land.

But according to those helping them to resist, the will of Ukrainians under occupation to be liberated has not in any way faded, and neither have their resistance operations. --->READ MORE HERE

Photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russian forces attack on 7 fronts, most actively on Avdiivka and Marinka fronts – General Staff

Russian occupiers keep trying to advance. Over the past day alone, they attacked on 7 fronts, launched 5 missile strikes and 52 airstrikes, firing 53 times from multiple-launch rocket systems. In total, 77 combat clashes took place during the past day.

Source : General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook , information as of 06:00 on 10 January

Details : In the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group on the Kupiansk front, Ukrainian defenders repelled eight Russian attacks near the settlement of Synkivka in Kharkiv Oblast.

On the Lyman front, Ukrainian defenders repelled five Russian attacks east of Terny and Vesele in Donetsk Oblast

On the Bakhmut front , Ukrainian troops repelled three Russian attacks near Klishchiivka and Andriivka in Donetsk Oblast.

In the area of responsibility of the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group on the Avdiivka front, Ukrainian defenders are continuing to restrain the Russian forces trying to encircle Avdiivka. Ukrainian soldiers are steadfastly holding the line and inflicting significant losses on the Russians. Over the past day, Ukraine’s Defence Forces repelled 11 Russian attacks near Novobakhmutivka, Avdiivka and Sieverne and another 13 attacks near Pervomaiske and Nevelske (Donetsk Oblast).

On the Marinka front, Ukraine’s Defence Forces continued to hold back the Russians near Heorhiivka, Pobieda and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast, where they repelled 15 attacks. --->READ MORE HERE