Four tank attacks and four air strikes were carried out around the Lysychansk refinery last night. On the night of August 17, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Odesa region. As a result of the impact of two rockets, destruction and fires broke out at one of the recreation centers and in several private buildings nearby. The official also reported that the Ukrainian side still has not received official lists of the dead and wounded in Olenivka. At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian offensives in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka directions and near Vugledar, the General Staff reports. Also, the Russian army again shelled the Kryvorizky and Nikopol districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda has launched a series of visits to southern European countries to persuade them to support Ukraine’s EU candidate status. Russia stole about 600,000 tons from Ukrainian agricultural enterprises. The products were first exported to the occupied Crimea, and then to international ports, the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council said. In the Kharkiv region, a TV tower was damaged due to the shelling, as Suspilne was told by Broadcasting, Radiocommunications and Television Concern. The US military has developed a plan to train Ukrainians to work with modern HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, which are provided to Ukraine by the USA. The so-called “DPR” sentenced to death three foreign military volunteers — British citizens Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Brahim Saadun.
- During the past day, 11 people suffered injuries because of the shelling of Mykolaiv Oblast, reported the head of the Mykolaiv regional council Hanna Zamazieieva.
- Shortly before Biden’s visit, “basic communication with the Russians to ensure the avoidance of conflict” took place, AR writes about this with reference to the White House.
- Since the beginning of the agreement in August, Ukraine has exported more than 11 million tons of agricultural products to 38 countries around the world.
- In the morning, the Russian Federation launched a massive attack on Ukrainian cities from the Black Sea.
The Council of the European Union approved the fifth package of military aid to Ukraine in the amount of €500 million. On July 22, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN signed an agreement in Istanbul that concerns the unblocking of ports and the export of Ukrainian grain. At the same time, it can be extended in the future, if the war does not end by then. Ukraine will not have to deal with the demining of Ukrainian ports — it is expected that ships will be able to pass through safe corridors. Ukraine is ready to start exporting grain in a few days, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said. The Russian army mines the roads and banks of the Ingulets River – a tributary of the Dnipro – in the southern areas bordering Snigurivka in Mykolaiv Oblast and Zelenodolsk in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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There, the president presented state awards to military personnel. In the de-occupied territories of Ukraine, the prosecutor’s office discovered 54 torture chambers and recorded 5,079 cases of torture, the Human Rights Center ZMINA reported. Ukraine will return the temporarily occupied Crimea by a combination of military force and diplomacy, the head of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense Kyrylo Budanov said. Since the beginning of autumn, the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine have destroyed bond market holidays 2020 420 Russian missiles and drones, the Ukrainian General Staff reported. More than 27,000 infrastructure objects were damaged or destroyed in Kyiv region due to the war. Almost 24,000 are in the residential sector, Kyiv authorities reported.
Despite this, he noted that Ukraine did not receive some of the help it requested. In particular, it is about some types of missiles and aircraft, so as not to be drawn into “the third world war by directly engaging in hostilities”. In the Kherson region, the Russian military is moving to the left bank, but they are leaving enough forces on the right bank, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares. During the night from November 9 to 10 in Kherson, the movement of Russian military equipment was observed in the direction of Antonivka, where the crossings of the Russian troops are located. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation have committed more than 43,000 crimes in Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported. Almost 32,000 of them qualify as violations of the laws and customs of war.
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Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 17 strikes during the day. The troops of the Russian Federation are trying to contain the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and periodically go on the offensive. In Donbas, the Ukrainian military repelled more than 30 Russian attacks. The armed forces of Ukraine struck dozens of positions of Russian troops, the Ukrainian General Staff reports.
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Russia attacked three districts in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during the night. The regional administration has published photos of the destruction. The government of Estonia allocated 5.1 million euros to educational institutions to support the education of Ukrainian children, the press service of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine reported. Estonia has received more than 13 thousand Ukrainians under the age of 19, and more than 4.8 thousand Ukrainian children and youth are registered in the country’s education system at all educational levels.
A group of Ukrainian servicemen arrived in Belgium as part of a training mission of the European Union, the Minister of Defense of the country Lyudivin Dedonder reported. 18 prosecutors and police officers of Ukraine started a training course on war crimes investigation in Paris, the representative of the Embassy of Ukraine in France Kostyantyn Albazov said. The US government has signed a defense contract worth more than $500 million for the production of artillery ammunition for the Ukrainian army. The contract is financed by the Pentagon’s Ukraine Security Promotion Initiative. Law enforcement officers are investigating 67,000 war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, and there are already 25 verdicts against Russian war criminals, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, said. There are 4.6 million Ukrainians in Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyridenko said.
- The group was operating in Shchurovka (Sloviansk direction) and in the areas of Soledar, Vershyna, and Semyhiria on the way to Bakhmut.
- Also, the Ukrainian military stopped the attacks of the Russian army in the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions — in the areas of Bakhmut, Zaytsevo, and Vershyn.
- This is stated in the report of the UN Monitoring Mission on Human Rights in Ukraine.
- The Russians have stopped the water supply in Mariupol and will not be able to start the heating season, because almost all boiler houses in the city are damaged, and some have been destroyed, the Mariupol City Council reported.
- 75% of last year’s area were sown, and now preparations for harvest have begun.
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The armed forces of Ukraine can return Crimea by the end of December, and the war with Russia will end by spring. Such a forecast was voiced by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Volodymyr Gavrylov, in an interview with Sky News. Russian troops fired at the point of delivery of humanitarian aid in Bilozerka, Kherson region, and five people were wounded, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, adviser to the head of the President’s Office. As of the morning of November 22, Russia lost about 85,000 of its servicemen in the war against Ukraine, and approximately 400 people were lost in one day.
In the capital, he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and said he saw Ukraine’s ability to oust the Russian occupiers from Donbas. This was announced by the head of the President’s Office Andrii Yermak. He was the author of the “Recruit UA” program, also known as the former head of the “Army FM” and the Military Television of Ukraine. WhiteBIT, the largest European cryptocurrency exchange, transferred seven sets of special equipment to Ukraine to assist Ukrainians in emergencies abroad. There may not be enough warehouses in Ukraine to store the harvest this fall due to the war. 15 million tons are in danger, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
Most often, people are involved in clearing rubble and restoring residential buildings and premises damaged as a result of hostilities. In Russia, they are preparing for a new wave of mobilization, the military commissars will pay attention to the residents of the central regions, in particular, Moscow and the Moscow region, the Ukrainian General Staff reports. According to Ukrainian intelligence, groups of military commissar employees are arriving at Moscow enterprises to carry out agitation. In Germany, a new spring aid package for Ukraine worth over 1 billion euros was announced, said the Minister of Defense of Germany, Boris Pistorius.
In order to quickly seize the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Russia began sending undercover agents to Ukraine long before the full-scale invasion. They were supposed to establish contact with the officials responsible for the security of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and ensure the absence of armed resistance after the arrival of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain with reference to intelligence.