[YouTube] In Ukraine, 31-year-old female sniper Evgenia Emerald tells Newsy’s Jason Bellini the story of the best and worst day of her life. Both happened on the front.
[YouTube] While much of the narrative around the early stages of Russia's 2022 invasion center on the battle for Kyiv and the reverses Russia suffered there, in the South, the Russian invasion was altogether more successful in its opening moves.
Advancing from Crimea, the Russians rapidly secured a number of critical positions in the South of the country, including a regional capital on the right bank of the Dnipro, the city of Kherson.
The fighting to take back Kherson would be some of the hardest for Ukrainian forces. They would face a number of high quality Russian units who were heavily dug in, and they would do it over unfavourable ground.
The fighting would take months and claim many lines before the final Russian withdrawal in November.
This is the story of that campaign - from the city's fall to its liberation, along with some of the lessons and observations that we can (with admittedly low confidence levels) make using the data available so far.
Caveats:
Data quality and certainty will always vary video to video. In the case of this video, the topic in question is battlefield movements and the conduct of operations. As such, there is a considerably lower level of confidence than there are over major economic patterns for example.
I expect that at least some of this analysis will be refuted or augmented by later discoveries or data releases - at which point I will prepare an update. But given the implications of this campaign, I thought it best to try and tell the story now, with the best information we currently have available.
#1
"The fighting to take back Kherson would be some of the hardest for Ukrainian forces."
In a different metaverse, maybe. One side quit. That's not hard fought. The spoils of victory: The gains in Kherson are such that Ukraine has conscripted the males of the city and have ordered the city's evacuation.
Maybe the better decision was the housing voucher Russia was offering...
The end of this narrative arc we see both sides have deemed the City of Kherson as not being strategically important enough at this time in the war to garrison and occupy it.
#2
In a different metaverse, maybe. One side quit. That's not hard fought.
You need to take a better look at the data from both sides. This was a modern WWI style slug. Lots of artillery with attacks over very flat and open terrain. The Ukrainians took pretty heavy losses compared to their other attacks. What they did is make the Russians use their artillery at such a rate they couldn't replace it over the damaged bridges fast enough. Food, replacements and ammo were all being rapidly drained from the constant attacks by Ukraine until the Russians had to pull back and quit before they ran out of everything.
Russia has continued to launch attacks on Ukraine’s electric infrastructure, endangering civilians who live far from the front lines.
This map made with @bradyafr shows the location of many electric infrastructure sites put at risk or damaged by Russia’s invasion. pic.twitter.com/19F63awGKx
#2
See, the rule is that once a country is deemed corrupt, or its president wears a tee shirt, an invading power has the right to kill every man, woman, and child in that country. So we're all good with this. As one of us put it, "to the victor belong the spoils." The Russian version of that map can be seen here, along with commentary. /sarc
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#3
^ Nice. SOTD candidate
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#4
Yeah, well, we all have our pet peeves, and genocide is one of mine.
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[Korrespondent] 21:49 Belarus has strengthened the presence of the police on the border with Ukraine, the country's Interior Ministry said. The department claims that "a lot of information is being received about threats of attempts to commit terrorist acts on the territory of Belarus by fugitive oppositionists."
21:42 Zelensky said that stabilization blackouts are operating in 15 regions this evening. Most of all - Vinnitsa region, Sumy region, Poltava region, Khmelnytsky region, Frankivsk region, Kiev region and the capital.
21:36 Zelensky, in an evening video message, spoke about the situation at the front: "The toughest battles are still in the Donetsk region. Luhansk region - we are moving little by little and with battles. As of this time, there have already been almost 400 shellings in the east since the beginning of the day. South - we hold the defense and consistently, very calculatedly destroy the potential of the occupiers."
20:53 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said that the Russians from the scandalous video, who were allegedly "just like that" shot by the Ukrainian military in the Luhansk region, committed a war crime - they opened fire to kill the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He stressed that in this case, persons from among the Russian military cannot be considered prisoners of war, but are those who fight and commit treachery. "Return fire is not a war crime. On the contrary, those who want to use the protection of international law to kill should be punished," the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights stressed.
20:41 Yasno CEO Sergei Kovalenko said that on Sunday, November 20, the power was turned off one or two times instead of four. According to him, now the stabilization of the energy system is designed for four-hour outages - so far, such intervals are enough for repair work. If there are no new attacks on the power grid, then soon the power shortage will be evenly distributed throughout the country: there will be blackouts everywhere, but little by little. Then, in particular in Kyiv and the region, outages will be approximately halved. And vice versa - if there are new attacks, then there will be emergency shutdowns "for a very long time."
19:49 On Monday, November 21, from 00:00 to 24:00, scheduled power outages will be applied in all regions of Ukraine. As reported by Ukrenergo, consumption restrictions were somewhat relaxed over the weekend, despite a sharp drop in temperature. On Monday, additional emergency shutdowns are also not predicted.
19:45 Over the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Luhansk region and Disputed, Yakovlevka, Bakhmutskoe, Bakhmut, Experienced and Kleshchievka, Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the evening report.
According to the General Staff, aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Armed Forces fly almost daily in the airspace of Belarus. The MiG-31K aircraft, which takes off from the Machulishchi airfield, is the carrier of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles capable of hitting targets throughout Ukraine. That is why air raid alerts are so often announced in all regions of Ukraine.
19:29 The data collected by the investigation into the case of the missile crash in Polish Przewoduv does not yet allow us to determine exactly where it was fired from, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “We don’t know this yet. Let specialists, investigators work on this. investigation of experts from the Ukrainian side, as well as international, from NATO, American.
He added that the investigation has "evidence from the cameras of the border guards, but they do not show with absolute certainty where the rocket was fired from." According to him, it is necessary to continue to collect evidence, "the investigation will take some time."
19:25 A video of the detention of two Russian servicemen who refused to go to war appeared on Russian Telegram channels - the soldiers were defiantly tied up during the formation. They face up to three years in prison.
19:21 Russia fired more than 4,700 missiles at Ukraine in 270 days of a full-scale war, Zelensky said during an appeal to the international organization for cooperation of francophone countries of the world La Francophonie.
19:14 EU Ambassador to Ukraine Matti Maasikas called for a stable supply of weapons to Ukraine: "Russia needs a pause. It should not be given. In order for Ukraine to use its advantage, it needs a stable supply of Western weapons, ammunition and equipment."
18:39 Kuleba called for a complete ban on Russian propaganda: "The incitement of genocide on Russian state television is in full swing. They admit that Russia is bombing Ukraine's critical infrastructure to create unbearable living conditions for civilians, and they call for new strikes. Russian state propaganda should be completely banned in the EU and other countries."
18:25 Ukrainian reconnaissance marines managed to return to the territory controlled by Ukraine, having organized their escape from captivity , MP Igor Kopytin said.
17:47 The UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has called for an investigation into the video, which, according to Russia, testifies to the murder of Russian prisoners of war by the Ukrainian military. In turn, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said that the Ukrainian authorities would investigate this incident. However, she said it is "very unlikely" that the short edited snippets show what Moscow claims.
The vice-premier also stated that the Ukrainian military "has absolutely no interest in executing anyone" and has a direct order to take "as many prisoners of war as possible" so that they can be exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners.
17:18 Since the end of February, the United States has supplied Ukraine with more than 88,000 tons of weapons and military equipment worth $18.3 billion, the State Department said. To deliver weapons, heavy transport aircraft made 878 flights to Europe. In particular, delivered:
46 radars, 10.2 thousand assault rifles and pistols, more than 70 million cartridges for small arms,
26 patrol boats.
16:51 Yermak said that he is sure that "the campaign to return Crimea will take place."
15:19 New Zealand Defense Minister Pini Henare visited Kiev , where he met with his Ukrainian counterpart Alexei Reznikov, the press service of the New Zealand government reported. The report said the visit was "another demonstration of New Zealand's continued support for the people of Ukraine and recognition of Ukraine's courageous self-defence efforts."
Henare discussed with Reznikov the extension by New Zealand of the mission to train Ukrainian infantry in the UK until July 2023. In addition to Ukraine, Henare also visited Poland, where he met with the Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.
15:07 In the near future, a number of terrorist attacks are planned on the territory of Belarus - artificially provoked man-made disasters at critical infrastructure facilities, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. The location of the likely "incidents" is the territories adjacent to the borders of the EU countries and Ukraine, in particular the Grodno and Brest regions. One of the main targets is the Belarusian nuclear power plant Astravets.
The Russian special services are engaged in the development and implementation of the "project", and the Belarusian KGB was simply informed. Citizens of the NATO countries and Ukraine will traditionally be appointed "responsible" for the attacks, who will supposedly be dressed in Belarusian military uniforms. Currently, units of the Belarusian KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the border troops have already been put on high alert.
According to the developers of the "project", this should accelerate the involvement of the Belarusian army in the war in Ukraine on the side of the occupiers, as well as create the public opinion necessary for the Kremlin in the Belarusian society.
14:51 As a result of the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the infrastructure and equipment of the station have been damaged over the past 24 hours, the IAEA said. Powerful explosions at the plant last night and this morning disrupted a period of relative calm at the nuclear facility and further underlined the urgent need for measures to prevent a nuclear accident, said the head of the agency, Rafael Grossi.
"IAEA experts at the ZNPP reported that shelling had probably resumed both near and on the territory of Europe's largest nuclear power plant, more than a dozen explosions were heard in a short period of time in the morning local time. The IAEA team also saw some explosions from the windows," - the statement says. The IAEA team noted that some buildings, systems and equipment at the plant site were damaged at the ZNPP. There are no reports of casualties.
Grossi once again emphasized the need to create a zone of nuclear safety and security around the ZNPP as soon as possible: "I will not give up until this zone becomes a reality. As the ongoing obvious shelling shows, this is needed more than ever."
14:24 Podolyak, in an interview with AFP, called the weapons that Ukraine needs to win the war: "We need 150-200 tanks, about 300 armored vehicles, 100 artillery systems, 50-70 multiple launch rocket systems, including American HIMARS, 10-15 anti-missile systems, as well as American ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
13:03 Ukraine received two Crotale anti-aircraft systems from France to protect the sky, as well as two MLRS, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said.
11:25 In Mariupol, a new wave of "cleansing operations" began at the direction of Pushilin to suppress public discontent, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. The reason was a collective complaint, which received a great response. The essence of the problem is that the gauleiters of the Donetsk region prescribed official decisions on the provision of new housing as compensation for the lost one in such a way that it is impossible for Mariupol residents to get it. In the end, Pushilin held a meeting in Mariupol with civilian occupiers, and then with the "power bloc", where he issued an order to "suppress this disgrace."
11:12 The Russian military secretly transferred almost 100 S-300 and S-400 air defense missiles to Russia from Belarus - probably to deliver a large-scale strike on Ukraine, the Daily Mail writes citing its sources. Analysts say the missile movement is either a sign that Russia is taking precautions against a potential Ukrainian strike, or a sign that it is itself preparing to strike. Including, perhaps, a "dirty bomb".
10:28 British intelligence believes that the retreat of Russian forces from the right bank of the Kherson region was much more organized, unlike other cases of large-scale retreat, which is perhaps the merit of a better command. In particular, the amount of equipment lost during the retreat is measured in tens, not hundreds, and much of what was left behind was damaged by the Russian military to prevent the Ukrainian military from getting the equipment.
At the same time, intelligence notes, problems with adequate leadership at the lower and middle levels remain in the Russian forces, and the practice of hiding the real state of affairs continues.
09:59 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of November 20.
personnel - about 84,210 (+330) people liquidated,
tanks - 2886 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 5817 (+2),
artillery systems - 1868 (+1),
MLRS - 393 (+0),
air defense systems - 209 (+0),
aircraft - 278 (+0),
helicopters - 261 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1537 (+1),
cruise missiles - 480 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4371 (+3),
special equipment - 161 (+0).
09:11 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling of the Kupyansky district, two people were hospitalized, they are in serious condition, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
08:18 Yermak said during a speech at the International Security Forum in Halifax that Ukraine is unlikely to end the war before the end of next spring. Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Gavrilov spoke about such prospects. “It sounds like this phrase of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine is a dream. Of course, millions of Ukrainians dream that this war will end as soon as possible. However, I will be more realistic ... The war continues, and I am not ready to name the exact day and time, when we win. But it will definitely happen."
08:13 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians are strengthening their positions in the occupied territories at the expense of personnel withdrawn from the Kherson region and mobilized military personnel. Analysts suggest that Russia will also bring in additional forces in the coming weeks, given that mobilized units of the 2nd motorized rifle division of the 1st Tank Army of the Russian Federation have completed their training in the Brest region of Belarus.
08:09 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two civilians were injured - in Bakhmut and Vugledar, the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko said.
08:04 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka in the Lugansk region and Disputed, Yakovlevka, Bakhmutskoe, Bakhmut, Experienced and Kleschievka in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report.
In the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the enemy is holding his subunits. It is not ruled out that the enemy will try to commit armed provocations on the border, and attempts to infiltrate the DRG from the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus are also possible.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the command of the Russian troops plans to transfer individual units withdrawn from the Kherson region to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Mobilized, of which these formations mainly consist, are outraged by the prospects for the implementation of such plans. In the Lugansk region, the occupiers set up additional checkpoints to detect deserters.
07:46 In Nikopol, one person was wounded from Russian shelling, the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Military District, Valentin Reznichenko, said. At night, the Russians fired from MLRS and heavy artillery at four communities - Krasnogrigoryevskaya, Mirovskaya, Marganetskaya and Nikopolskaya.
07:27 On Sunday, November 20, planned outages will apply in all regions of Ukraine from 8:00 to 24:00. Additional emergency outages are not forecast, Ukrenergo said.
05:48 Ukrainian women were awarded the Senator John McCain Award for Leadership in Public Service 2022 as part of the International Security Forum in Halifax. "The women of Ukraine have volunteered to be heroines whose courage, honor and dignity have inspired the world. Therefore, I am honored to present the John McCain Public Service Award to the women of Ukraine," said Jack McCain, son of the late senator.
00:39 In the village of Mironovka, Melitopol district, they set fire to the local house of culture, on which the Russian flag was installed. According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, no one even tried to extinguish the fire.
00:14 The "authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye region have dismissed the "mayor" of Energodar, Alexander Volga, appointed by them, Russian media write.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 20:53 Destructiona large number of anti-tank mines using a drone. 19:54 Reactive denazification of enemy manpower with the help of MLRS BM-21 "Grad" -video
18:05 Subdivisions of the Far Eastern brigade of the Special Forces, together with the artillery units of the V group, are actively demilitarizing in the NVO zone -video
17:08 The T-64A tanks removed from conservation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are somewhere in the zone of the NWO —video
16:11 In the USA observed an anomalous surge in the number of fresh graves in military cemeteries.
13:59 International organizations are screaming about the nuclear threat from Russia, while Ukrainian militants are hitting the largest nuclear power plant in Europe -video
13:54 In Ukraine eliminated the creator of the "Ukrainian International Legion" French mercenary Gaston Besson.
His unit was formed from European neo-Nazis and was subordinate to terrorists from the Azov regiment. The liquidation of Gaston Besson is an important step in the denazification of Ukraine.
13:47 On the Kinburn Spit, everything is going on as usual: training for combat training of personnel; units in their places, emergency situations are not observed.
12:17 Military honors at the funeral of Polish farmers killed by Ukrainian rocket -video
09:48 A large destroyed column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction. A lot of burnt armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army, including T-72M1 tanks transferred by Poland -video
09:21 Spectacular shots of another failed Ukrainian offensive in the Svatovsky direction -video.
The day before, the fighters of the “Brave” group destroyed another armored group of Ukrainian fighters who attempted to break through the Svatovo-Kremenny defensive line. The enemy was defeated by artillery fire.
08:42 In Canada, representatives of the Antifa group wrote on the monument to Roman Shukhevych - a Nazi.
08:34 Artillery of the 4th Brigade of the LPR destroys the accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
08:26 Personnel of the training of volunteers of the assault detachment "Storm" at the training ground in the LPR -video.
08:24122mm BM-21 Grad rocket artillery crews grind Nazi NATO armored vehicles —video.
During the battles with Ukrainian militants, only this unit destroyed at least four M777 howitzers made in the USA, a Polish self-propelled gun "Crab", military equipment made in Germany, as well as a Buk air defense system and enemy MLRS /TK Zvezda/.
#1
Ex President of Russia speaks. This is all you need to know about why Russia is so cruel to others and BTW, their government treats the Russian people as if they also are cockroaches which is the fault of the slaves of Russia:
https://twitter.com/TsybulskaLiubov/status/1594574793550233600
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:54 The Ukrainian TG-channel "Cartel" reports on the Russian strikes on the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson.
“There are a lot of arrivals in Kherson now. The SBU suspects that there are many hidden Russian “spies” left in the city, as the RF Armed Forces are hitting exactly on the location of the APU equipment.
After the last arrival at the nearby houses, the windows of people already flew out.
The city has no heating, water, electricity. There is a very difficult humanitarian situation in the city,” the message says.
21:07 Ukrainian troops fired on the city of Kremennaya in the LPR in the morning with a HIMARS rocket, damage was received to residential buildings, buildings and power lines, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
19:30 Personnel attacks by the DPR forces on the Ukrainian military near Pavlovka. Video of the tactical formation of the Republic "Cascade".
19:02 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 20, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district):
- on the street. Mammadov, a woman born in 1979 was wounded.
n.p. Pavlovka (included in the zone of responsibility of the administration of Donetsk):
- men born in 1953, 1972 were injured.
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Krasnaya Gorka, 12/2 - a private residential building;
- st. Khimikov, 42 "b" - a direct hit in the metal hangar of the PrJSC "Aluminum Profile Plant" with subsequent ignition.
n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district):
- st. K. Marx, 90, 97 - private residential buildings;
- st. Kotovsky, 2, 2 "a", 9, 11, 13 - private residential buildings; the car was also damaged.
14 transformer substations are de-energized, without power supply to the village. Dugouts and part of the village. Yasinovka.
18:32 VFU attacked the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, a woman was wounded.
17:31 VFU shelled Pavlovka, wounding two people.
17:03 Artillerymen of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR destroy positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Soledar.
17:02 Aluminum profile plant in Donetsk damaged by shelling
As director of the plant Elena Vlasenko told DAN, a fire started as a result of hitting the ammunition. At the moment it is already extinguished.
16:52 Kyiv and Kuibyshev regions are under fire again. According to the JCCC, at 16:16 and 16:40, a total of seven rounds of 155mm caliber were fired from Orlovka.
16:19 Three rounds with a caliber of 152mm were sent in the direction of the Kirovsky district from Krasnogorovka. At risk
16:51 As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, an aluminum profile plant hit the hangar, followed by a fire.
In one private house in the district, the roof, facade, and glazing were damaged. An outbuilding was damaged near the house.
16:23 Petrovsky district is under fire again. According to the JCCC, at 16:10 another five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired from Krasnogorovka.
15:48 Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts were hit. According to the information of the JCCC, at 15:35 5 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired from Krasnogorovka.
15:47 Enemies fired at the Kyiv region. The JCCC reports that at 15:20 four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired from Orlovka.
14:25 The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction;
14:24 Russian troops thwarted attempts to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of three settlements in the LPR;
14:23Russian artillery rockets destroyed two HIMARS MLRS installations in the DPR with high-precision missiles.
14:22 Military experts of the DPR JCCC confirmed the shelling of the Ilovaisk Traction Substation State Enterprise infrastructure using the M142 HIMARS MLRS, and also specified the direction of firing.
The enemy fired from their positions located in the area of ??the settlement. Kurakhovo.
The area of responsibility of the 68th Separate Ranger Brigade.
The shelling by the VFU was carried out from weapons supplied by NATO countries, which continue to terrorize civilians and destroy the infrastructure of the Republic.
Damage was recorded to the State Unitary Enterprise of the DPR "Donetsk Railway" station "Ilovaysk".
13:34 According to information received, disconnected, presumably as a result of hostilities, transformer substations in the Kiev region (Vetka microdistrict) are connected to the network. The power supply has been restored.
12:55 The shelling of Donetsk continues. Under enemy fire at 12:35 were the Kyiv and Kuibyshev regions. According to the JCCC, three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
12:54 From the settlement of Krasnogorovka in the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts, Ukrainian fascists fired four rounds with a caliber of 152mm.
12:34 According to local residents, the Kirovsky district of Donetsk is under fire from Ukrainian fascists. Arrivals are heard in the microdistrict of the Lidievka mine.
The data is being specified.
12:25 "Lancets" of the DPR battalion "Cascade" destroy enemy armored vehicles
To the fighters of the combat tactical formation of the DPR with the help of @RVvoenkor readers earlier was purchased a considerable number of UAVs, which greatly helped them during the assault on Azovstal and other places, saving the lives of soldiers.
11:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine:
08.00 Flint with the use of MLRS HIMARS (1 rocket).
As a result of the shelling, one civilian, born in 1993, was killed.
Additional information is being specified.
10:56 According to information received at 10 am, the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk also came under fire from Ukrainian fascists. From the settlement of Netaylovo, three more rounds of 155mm caliber were fired at civilians.
Data on the victims and destruction are being specified.
10:23 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 November 19 to 06:00 November 20
Over the past day Representation reported about 27 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm and 152mm.
In Ilovaisk - MLRS "Himars".
On Yasinovatsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 152mm.
On Gorlovsky - artillery 155nn and 152mm.
Having fired 115 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of nine settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts), Gorlovka (Central city district), Novobakhmutovka, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Krasny Partizan, Kashtanovoe, Makeevka (Kirov district). Ilovaisk.
Over the past day, there were no reports of civilian casualties.
Damaged seven houses inKirovsk, KuibyshevandPetrovskydistricts of Donetsk, as well as one civil object infrastructure.
At previous 24 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU side in 24 hours.
10:10 The column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was covered with artillery fire on the eastern front -video.
10:02 As a result of the shelling of the village of Nizhny Olshanets, there is one victim with shrapnel wounds to the lower extremities. Ambulance crews rushed to the scene. There are damages in six private households, Governor Gladkov reports.
09:58 At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes from the MLRS on the accumulation of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ochakov area. Measures are necessary within the framework of the difficulty for the enemy of attempts to organize a landing on the Kinburn Spit.
09:44 Front-line summary for the morning of 11/21/2022 (WarGonzo).
In the Kherson direction, the Russian army strikes at the regional center. Russian artillery also works along Berislav. Antonovsky bridge behind Russia. There are blows from both sides.
Zaporozhye area. The fires of Russian troops on Ugledar. Apparently, Pavlovka has been taken. Before the Kashlygach River for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, nothing at all. As it would seem. But war is not so simple.
The Donetsk front is moving. The Russian army attacks near Novomikhailovka. They are tactically pressing under Pervomaisky and Vodyany. An attempt to pass from the southeast to Avdeevka. Fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka and Marinka under fire from Russian artillery.
09:19 ZRPK "Pantsir-S1" in battles in the special operation zone -video.
Air defense servicemen many times intercepted air targets in the area of responsibility, destroyed dozens of missiles, UAVs and other targets, preventing them from hitting military and civilian infrastructure, proving their high efficiency and level of training.
09:09 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: Lower Duvanka with the use of MLRS BM-21 "Grad" (10 rounds). Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
09:05 Four fighters under cover of a tank advance to the front line to evacuate the wounded. It is reported that there were no more than 100 meters to the enemy positions -video.
The enemy fires at the evacuation group from RPGs and mortars, all this time the tank-evacuation group-drone linkage is in interaction. In this case, one of the fighters has to climb onto the tank for more accurate coordination of the work of the crew for cover. The whole operation is completed successfully, and the group, having taken their wounded, retreats to positions.
08:52 Two destroyed ZIL-131 of the Ukrainian army, which were used to transport ammunition in the Svatovsky direction -video.
08:45 AFU fired at the city of Ilovaisk in the DPR from the HIMARS MLRS
According to the head of Ilovaisk, Ruslan Dudnikov, according to preliminary information, several transformers and a contact network were damaged.
“All necessary services are working to eliminate the last shelling. There were no casualties,” he said.
08:42 Courageous engineers are building fortifications in the NVO zone -video.
Engineering units erect mine-explosive and non-explosive barriers. Concrete structures are installed at strictly defined intervals and distances and are designed to prevent the advance of enemy armored tracked and wheeled vehicles.
08:40 The future of every Ukrainian militant who decided to continue attempts to break through the defensive lines of the “Brave” isa photo.
08:39 Summary for the morning of November 20 fromTelegram-channel "Two Majors".
The Russian Armed Forces are holding back enemy attacks in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya. Deteriorating weather conditions have an impact but the fighting. Mutual artillery shelling is going on.
In the Kherson direction, artillerymen are working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are also shelling our forces and trying to increase the density and range of fire by moving their firing points closer to the Dnieper
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrating personnel on the Orekhovo-Gulyaipole sector, transferring the released units from the Kherson region, where they are being replaced by arriving territorial defense units. According to various estimates, it is reported that the enemy has from 25,000 to 40,000 people in the Orekhovo-Gulyaipole sector. Our troops are strengthening the defense.
The enemy again shelled the Belgorod region: yesterday, Razumnoye and Shebekino were under fire
From the Bryansk region, they reported about the shelling of the village of Suzemka from the Grad MLRS.
N. p. Novoselovka (Perevalsky district), Lisichansk and Nizhnyaya Duvanka (Svatovsky district). Two civilians were killed and four injured
In the DPR, Donetsk was under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a day.
Nine vessels with grain left the ports of the Odessa region in two days.
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[Regnum] New geopolitical factors in the Transcaucasus are forcing the CSTO
... the Collective Security Treaty Organization is the post-USSR answer to NATO, consisting of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan that do Russia’s bidding just as they did in the bad old days...
to take into account new emerging realities in its activities in order to promptly adapt its organizational and management structures to the situation in order to adequately respond to threats to stability and security in its area of responsibility.
On November 23, in Yerevan, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, a summit of the heads of the CSTO member countries will be held. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Vladimir Putin will personally take part in it. It has been officially announced that one of the most important issues at the summit will be the improvement of the crisis response system. It is also planned to discuss topical issues of international and regional security and the main results of the organization's activities in the intersessional period. Documents will be signed regarding equipping the peacekeeping forces with modern weapons, military and special equipment, and the joint formation of radiation, chemical and biological protection.
In principle, there is nothing unusual in the announced agenda. And at the previous summits of the heads of the CSTO member countries, the question of a system of crisis response to global and regional challenges in the organization's area of responsibility has always been raised. And he was always attached to specific situations. In particular, earlier attention was paid to Afghanistan as the main external factor. According to the leadership of the CSTO, after the withdrawal of the international security assistance forces from this country, there was a real threat of penetration of armed gangs from there into the territory of the region. As for other problems, such as a noticeable intensification of external influence, especially from NATO countries near the borders of the CSTO countries in order to either slow down or disrupt the integration processes taking place between them, they were more perceived at the diagnostic level. Now the situation has changed. Threats and challenges began to acquire a combined hybrid character.
On the one hand, the crisis in the territory of b. The Ukrainian SSR has actually brought Russia to the level of direct military confrontation with NATO. On the other hand, there is a danger of escalation between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan. CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov at a recent meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the CIS member countries said that "the events of the current year have become a serious test for the CSTO, they showed the need to optimize the crisis response mechanism." He also informed about the packages of documents being prepared on this occasion, which will be considered at the CSTO summit in Yerevan. Their content has not yet been disclosed, although it is obvious that we are talking primarily about the legal and other mechanisms for using the CSTO peacekeeping operation in one or another of its countries. It is also clear
Of course, each of the conflicts internal to the CSTO has its own characteristics. But the most dangerous is the Azerbaijani-Armenian confrontation. And that's why. Russia still retains the ability to influence Baku and Yerevan, but the susceptibility to this influence is changing there. The first feature is that Armenia, as a member of the CSTO, and Azerbaijan, as an officially non-bloc state, together participate in various programs of the North Atlantic Alliance. The second feature is that a potentially new Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict could destabilize almost the entire Black Sea region, which includes several NATO members. At the same time, peace between Baku and Yerevan is capable of neutralizing such threats. The third feature: Russia is moving away and the Middle East, which is stormy for events, is approaching the region, which is noticeable in the growing influence of Turkey and Iran, which are themselves in a geopolitically turbulent state. Finally, the risks of an economic nature are being actualized, connected primarily with the alternative supply of energy carriers from this region to Europe.
In the "bottom line" it turns out that to exist at the junction with the CSTO, NATO and the Middle East can be a boon under some conditions, and a historical tragedy under others. If only because the state building that was carried out in the region during the existence of the Soviet Union can collapse in an instant. It is no coincidence that the projects of creating Kurdistan and Greater Azerbaijan, uniting its current territory with the Iranian part, are being actively discussed in the West. These factors force the CSTO to take into account the new emerging geopolitical realities in its activities in the Transcaucasus in order to promptly adapt its organizational and management structures to the situation in order to adequately respond to threats to stability and security in its area of responsibility. This is in general.
In particular, it is important to specifically determine the existence of an assessment of these events, to outline the forms and methods of responding to them with certain, sometimes very significant, nuances. Gone are the days of reserved official reactions or streamlined wording of official statements. Therefore, the summit of the CSTO heads of state in Yerevan may turn out to be sensational.
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