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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
21:39 Ukraine risks being unwittingly drawn into peace negotiations with Russia if its allies do not supply it with weapons and ammunition, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. “The Ukraine we know, and the Ukraine we will help as long as we breathe, will never negotiate with terrorists. But the reality may be just like this,” the minister warned.
19:08 The SBU has new important results in countering enemy operations and collaborators, Zelensky said in an evening video message. He also commented on the introduction of new sanctions: “This is synchronization with partners... Ukraine supplements international sanctions mechanisms with its sanctions. And we are working to ensure that partner sanctions are extended to those against whom the corresponding decisions of Ukraine have already been taken.”
18:55 The Russian special services may be behind the blockade of the Ukrainian border by Polish carriers, writes Guildhall. Read more in the Russian Trace material .
18:06 In Kherson, two children were injured as a result of Russian shelling - a 15-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
17:57 Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions against 147 citizens of Russia and other states associated with Russian aggressors.
17:53 In Belgorod on November 16, the car in which the deputy head of the occupation administration of the Kharkov region, Alexander Slisarenko, was traveling was blown up. He died from his injuries. Ukrainian media report, citing sources, that this was a special operation by the SBU.
17:21 Ukraine has not yet used the American Abrams tanks, which arrived in September, and is unlikely to do so until the spring, writes Business Insider. Analysts explain this by difficult weather conditions, as well as the fact that now the “front is stable” and Ukraine is keeping these vehicles in reserve.
16:56 A new fact of the monstrous abduction of Ukrainian children by Russians has surfaced. From an investigation by BBC journalists, it became known that the wife of the leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, took a ten-month-old Ukrainian girl from occupied Kherson in 2022, after which they adopted her and changed her name. The actions of the deputy and his wife can be qualified as a war crime and genocide. Read more in the article Fact for The Hague?
16:20 Germany's planned increase in financial assistance to Ukraine from 4 to 8 billion euros next year “as of now is not yet guaranteed,” said the head of the Bundestag Defense Committee Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. She explained this by the budget crisis in the country.
15:38 The European Commission has approved a €900 million advance to Hungary from the frozen recovery fund - this is how the EU is trying to overcome Budapest’s veto on aid to Ukraine, writes Reuters. Previously, the European Commission excluded Hungary from the economic stimulus program to overcome the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic due to corruption and problems with democracy. After this, Hungary actually vetoed the EU’s decision to provide economic assistance to Ukraine worth 50 billion euros until 2027 and to begin negotiations with Kiev on joining the European Union. EU finance ministers will discuss the European Commission's proposal for money for Budapest on December 8.
15:35 The Ministry of Defense has accelerated the supply of new types of weapons to the army - without waiting for approval for operation and with testing already on the battlefield, deliveries can be reduced to 20 days.
15:21 The number of wounded in Chernobaevka has increased to five, the prosecutor’s office reported.
14:44 The Russians fired at Chernobaevka, Kherson region, according to preliminary data - with cluster munitions. Currently, three dead and four injured are known, the President's Office said.
13:58 In Berislav, Kherson region, a cyclist riding along the street was killed as a result of an attack from an enemy drone, said the head of the OBA, Alexander Prokudin. In addition, one person was injured in Antonovka. Over the past 24 hours in the region, one person was killed and another was injured as a result of Russian shelling.
13:43 During the occupation of the Kiev region, the Russians tortured or inflicted bodily harm on 1,139 Ukrainians, the regional prosecutor's office reported. In total, since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory of the Kyiv region, prosecutors have investigated 12,456 criminal offenses classified as war crimes. Such crimes include, in particular, cruel treatment of the civilian population, forced labor, and plunder of national treasures in temporarily occupied territory.
Of the total, 61 criminal offenses were investigated for torture or other inhuman treatment, 615 for bodily harm, in which 1,139 people were injured, and 188 criminal offenses for unlawful deprivation of liberty. The total number of civilians illegally abducted, deprived of liberty, removed or held extrajudicially by representatives of the Russian Federation is 203 people. During this time, prosecutors informed 78 individuals of suspicion of committing war crimes.
12:59 The Russians have begun the third wave of active operations as part of the offensive in the Avdeevsky direction, said the commander of the operational-strategic group of troops of Tavria, Alexander Tarnavsky. At the same time, according to him, the enemy’s losses in manpower and armored vehicles are growing.
12:18 Europol has created a new task force (OTF) to assist in the investigation of crimes by Russians in Ukraine. Team members will collect and analyze open source intelligence (OSINT). Such information can help investigators verify and record war crimes. The group is headed by the international crime units of the Dutch and German police.
Now 14 countries have already agreed to provide the task force with special OSINT capabilities: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Norway, Great Britain, USA.
11:43 Crimean public pages write that in Novofedorivka, near the military airfield, explosions are heard and machine gun fire is heard.
11:40 The head of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, and his wife adopted a girl from Kherson and changed her name, reports the opposition Russian publication Important Stories with reference to the document. Ten-month-old Margarita Prokopenko was taken to the Russian Federation from an orphanage in Kherson a year ago, during the retreat of the Russian army. In Russia, her name and citizenship were changed, after which she became Russian Marina Mironova.
Together with Margarita, two-year-old Ilya Vashchenko was taken from Kherson; his fate is completely unknown. It is only known that he received a new birth certificate and is in the Moscow region. Officially, the children were taken to Moscow for “examination, determination of further treatment tactics and rehabilitation.” The publication's source reports that Margarita's biological mother was deprived of parental rights and her father died, but she has other relatives. This is the first documented case of adoption of a Ukrainian child by a Russian politician of this rank.
11:28 The newly elected President of Argentina, Javier Miley, invited Zelensky to hold a peace conference on Ukraine in his country with the participation of Latin American countries, Miley’s foreign policy adviser Diana Mondino said following telephone conversations between the two presidents.
10:51 Ukrainian coal enterprises began to hire women to solve the personnel shortage during the war. Read more in the material Shortage of men .
10:09 In Crimea, as a result of an attack by Ukrainian naval drones, the commander of a Black Sea Fleet boat, Denis Nikitin, was killed, reports the Black Sea Cossack District. The report said he died "saving his ship from being hit by a drone." We are talking about an attack on a ship of the Serna project, which the Main Intelligence Directorate reported on November 10.
09:17 Boris Maksudov, a correspondent for the propaganda TV channel Russia 24, died in the Zaporozhye region after yesterday’s drone strike, Russian media report.
09:08 In the Netherlands, the far-right Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, who is called the “Dutch Trump,” confidently wins the parliamentary elections. He, in particular, opposes the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
08:52 The civil aviation sector in Russia is on the verge of collapse, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense said following the analysis of a large volume of closed official documents of the Federal Air Transport Agency, which were obtained as a result of a successful special operation in cyberspace. Among the documents obtained as a result of hacking the data system are daily reports from the Federal Air Transport Agency throughout the Russian Federation for more than a year and a half.
Thus, in the first nine months of 2023, 150 cases of technical malfunctions of aircraft were documented in the Russian Federation, and 50 such incidents for the same period in 2022. The most problematic areas of Russian aviation remain engines and landing gear, as well as other important elements of the hydraulic system, flaps and software. An acute shortage of spare parts has led to so-called aircraft cannibalism - when some aircraft are dismantled to repair others. By mid-2023, more than 35% of aircraft in the Russian Federation were allowed to be donated.
This state of affairs in Russian aviation is a direct consequence of sanctions, the most painful of which for Russia was the ban on the supply of aircraft and spare parts for them; complete refusal of technical maintenance and service provision; refusal to update software; detention of Russian aircraft abroad; restriction of access to meteorological information for air navigation.
08:26 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 23:
personnel - about 321,800 (+1130) people,
tanks - 5466 (+20),
armored combat vehicles - 10,224 (+36),
artillery systems - 7802 (+33),
MLRS - 902 (+3),
air defense systems - 591 (+2),
aircraft - 323 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5799 (+15),
cruise missiles - 1564 (+0),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,198 (+39),
special equipment - 1107 (+2).
07:40 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility in the Krivoy Rog region, no people were injured, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Sergei Lysak.
07:18 Over the past 24 hours, 74 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, the Defense Forces repelled 30 enemy attacks in the Avdeevsky direction (east of Novobakhmutovka, north of Lastochkino, Avdeevka and Pervomaisky of the Donetsk region), another 18 attacks in Maryinsky (in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region). The enemy did not conduct offensive actions in the Liman and Bakhmut directions.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled attacks by the Russian army in the Sinkovka areas, northeast of Petropavlovka and Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Shakhtarsky - near Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Rabotino district of the Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol direction and south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and in the Kherson direction they hold their positions on the left bank of the Dnieper.
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