Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 17.15 President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mykhailo Drapatiy as the new commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The head of state noted that the major general successfully organized the defense in the Kharkiv direction and thwarted the offensive operation of the Russian forces.
16.47 Russian troops continue their attempts to advance deep into Ukrainian territory. The Defense Forces are holding back the invaders, inflicting significant losses on them. The number of enemy attacks has increased to 123 today. This was reported in the General Staff report on Friday, November 29.
14:00 The Russian army has lost more than 80 thousand servicemen since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. This is stated in the study by Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service , which the journalists conducted together with a team of volunteers based on open sources. It is noted that as of November 29, it was possible to establish the names of 80,973 Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine. 22% of them are those who signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense after the start of the war. The first weeks of 2023 were the bloodiest, when the Russian army lost more than 700 people killed.
13.45. The bodies of 502 fallen Ukrainian soldiers have been returned to Ukraine. This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It is noted that among the returned fallen defenders of Ukraine: 397 from the Donetsk direction; 24 from the Luhansk direction; 64 from the Zaporizhia direction. 17 dead have been returned from morgues in the Russian Federation.
11:45 Soldiers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out a successful operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation behind enemy lines. This was reported on November 29 by the media, citing a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to the source, Ukrainian partisans in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region discovered the location of a Russian crew of unmanned aerial vehicles. The crew was spotted loading a vehicle with plastic boxes containing drones. The hostile target was destroyed.
11:45 Soldiers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out a successful operation behind enemy lines in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. This was reported on November 29 by the media, citing a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to the source, Ukrainian partisans in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region discovered the location of the Russian crew of unmanned systems. The crew was spotted loading a car with plastic boxes with drones. The enemy target was destroyed.
11:30 On the night of November 29, the Ukrainian Defense Forces hit an oil depot in the Rostov region of Russia and destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 air defense radar station in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that the strike was carried out on the Atlas oil depot. As a result of the strike, a fire broke out on the territory of the facility, at least two fires are recorded.
10.06 In Odessa Oblast, seven people were injured as a result of a drone attack. Houses, as well as port and transport infrastructure, were damaged. This was reported by the Odessa Oblast Prosecutor's Office. According to the Odessa Oblast police, 13 residential and summer houses, garages and other yard structures, a gas pipeline, and a car were damaged in three settlements in Odessa district.
9.45 On the night of November 29, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 132 Shahed-type attack UAVs and unidentified drones. 88 enemy drones were shot down. This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force. Enemy UAVs were shot down in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Odessa regions. 41 drones were lost, probably due to active counteraction by the Defense Forces' electronic warfare systems; one drone returned to the Russian Federation.
9.25 Ukrainian intelligence officers destroyed the Russian Zoopark radar system with FPV drones. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The system was destroyed by fighters from the Krylia unit, which is part of the Active Actions Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The cost of the destroyed radar is about one billion hryvnia.
07.44 Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on an unannounced visit.
07.29 Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation was massively attacked by drones on the night of Friday, November 29; in the northwest of the region, Russian occupiers were allegedly able to "suppress and eliminate 30 drones using electronic warfare."
04.25 The city of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region of Russia was attacked by a UAV on the night of Friday, November 29. Local residents wrote about a dozen drones, air defense work and explosions. A photo from a surveillance camera also appeared, showing thick smoke over the sea. The city has an oil refinery, which has already been attacked by Ukrainian UAVs more than once.
01.56 Near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinskaya in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, a fire broke out at an oil depot after a UAV attack. Numerous videos of fires have appeared on social networks.