Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
Best I can figure is that someone on korrespondent.net forgot to link the latest to its front page. But they're back.
[Korrespondent] 13.43 Soldier Natalia Grabarchuk destroyed an enemy cruise missile from an Igla MANPADS during her first combat launch. As noted by the General Staff, she had mastered various types of portable anti-aircraft missile systems five months before.
13.04 F-16 pilots shot down about ten Russian air targets on Sunday, November 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported.
Over the course of a week, the aggressor used nearly 140 missiles of various types, more than 900 guided aerial bombs and more than 600 attack drones.
12:22 On the night of November 17, the Russians carried out a massive combined attack on facilities in the energy sector of Ukraine, using 120 missiles of various types and 90 attack UAVs.
Ukrainian air defenders destroyed 102 enemy missiles, including Tsirkon and eight Kinzhal, as well as 42 UAVs.
11.17 The head of the Odessa regional administration, Oleg Kiper, said that two people were killed as a result of the Russian attack on the region. A 17-year-old young man was also wounded.
10.49 As a result of the enemy attack, the energy infrastructure of the Odessa region was damaged. There are interruptions in the supply of heat, water and electricity in the region.
10.30 In Nikopol, a 58-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman were killed as a result of enemy shelling, and five more local residents were injured.
10.13 Russian troops attacked Lviv region with cruise missiles. As a result of falling debris in Chervonograd district, a woman died.
9.56 During Sunday's massive combined attack on all regions of Ukraine, the enemy used about 120 missiles and 90 drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Air defense forces destroyed more than 140 Russian air targets.
9.53 On November 17, two railway workers were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region due to massive enemy shelling. In addition, several railway sections in the south, west and northeast of Ukraine were without power.
8.07 As a result of the Russian attack on the civilian infrastructure of Nikolaev, two civilians were killed and six more were injured.
8.04 The large-scale attack by the Russian Federation on Sunday is the response of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to those who recently called and visited him, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said on the social network X.
7.52 From February 24, 2022 to November 17, 2024, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 720,880 people (+1,640 per day), the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
7.45 As a result of a combined missile and drone strike on Kiev, a fire broke out on the roof of a five-story residential building in the Pechersk district. One victim was identified.
7:30 In the morning, Russian troops launched a massive air attack on Ukraine using drones and missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force and monitoring channels report.
According to media reports, explosions were heard in Zaporozhye, Odessa, Dnepr, Krivoy Rog, Pavlograd, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Cherkasy, Khmelnytsky and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense again failed to post a summary on its website. These are the summaries from the Russian Ministry of Justice.
[NewsFront] 21:43 From 16.40 to 18.00 Moscow time stopped attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region and two UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Bryansk region by air defense systems on duty.
20:31 Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov:
Four drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces inflicted strikes on our territory. Preliminary, no one was hurt.
– In the village of Maysky in the Belgorod region, as a result of a drone attack, the glazing of a social facility was damaged.
- Two kamikaze drones struck the village of Gruzskoye in the Borisovsky district. Windows were broken in one private home, the facade, outbuilding and fence were damaged. A passenger car and a power line were also damaged. One of the streets remains temporarily without power.
– Another drone attacked the village of Biryuch in the Valuysky District again, as a result of which a passenger car was damaged.
19:44 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC for November 17 as of 16:00 entered information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- A man born in 1983 was injured on Paul Robson Street.
Information has been received about damage as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- the gas pipeline was damaged, and the heat supply infrastructure of the boiler house of the State Unitary Enterprise of the DPR "Donbassteploenergo" was also disrupted.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
19:25 Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia excited criminal case on the fact of the terrorist attack committed by Ukrainian armed groups against civilians in the Kursk region
On November 17, 2024, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other Ukrainian paramilitary groups and members of mercenary formations, using an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with an explosive device, carried out an attack in the village of Bolshoe Soldatskoe, Bolshesoldatsky district, Kursk region, on an official vehicle of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which there was a police officer, as well as two employees of the Narodnaya Gazeta.
– As a result of these criminal actions, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper died, and her colleague and a police officer were injured.
Military investigators have qualified the criminal actions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as other Ukrainian paramilitary groups and members of mercenary formations, under paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
18:52 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
At about 17:30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
17:51 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Around 14:20 Moscow Time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region by air defense systems on duty.
17:02 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
– Katerinovka settlement – Gorlovka settlement (Nikitovsky district): 2 shells of 155 mm caliber.
16:35 Ukrainian sniper-occupier Yuriy Senchuk has been eliminated in the border area of Kursk region —photo.
15:49 Governor of Zaporizhia region Yevgeny Balitsky:
Armed Forces of Ukraine committed artillery shelling of the village of Velyka Znamenka in the Kamensko-Dneprovsky municipal district. As a result of the attack, the expansion tank and radiator of the power transformer were punctured. The regular power supply was disrupted, 73 subscribers are without power. Repair work is underway, by the end of the day the power supply should be fully restored.
– In the village of Nelgovka in the Primorsky district, as a result of the fall of an enemy UAV, a power line was broken; emergency services and repair crews are working on the scene.
15:17 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Around 12.50 Moscow Time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
14:21 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Around 11:30 Moscow Time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
13:59 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
– Katerinovka settlement – Gorlovka settlement (Nikitovsky district): 2 shells of 155 mm caliber.
13:27 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
12:55 Gorlovka under fire: gas pipeline is broken, there is no power in some places, a woman was injured
Armed Forces of Ukraine lead shelling of Gorlovka, 8 155mm shells have already been fired. As a result, houses in the settlement of the N. A. Izotov mine in the Nikitovsky district have been damaged, the heat supply infrastructure has been disrupted, and a gas pipeline has been cut.
- The microdistrict "Kvartal 245" is partially without power. The enemy is currently shelling "Komsomolets".
– In addition, a local resident was injured in the village of Novgorodskoye.
12:29 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
– Katerinovka settlement – Gorlovka settlement (Nikitovsky district): 3 shells of 155 mm caliber.
11:56 “I don’t let homeless people, drunks, or TCC in”:
Zaporizhzhya minibus drivers put TCC employees are put on the same level as drunks and homeless people.
11:22 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
– 6 shells in the village of Novaya Kakhovka;
– 5 shells to the settlement of Tavriysk;
– 4 shells in the village of Dnepryany;
– 5 shells to the village of Korsunka;
– 3 shells to the settlement of Velikiye Kopani;
– 6 shells in the village of Gornostaevka;
– 4 shells to the settlement of Kairy;
- 2 shells in the village of Zavodovka.
As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, one civilian was injured in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, and an apartment building and a private residential building were damaged. In the settlement of Velyki Kopani, as a result of shelling of a residential sector, a civilian was killed.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Proletarka, Novaya Mayachka, Novaya Kakhovka, Aleshky, Kakhovka, and Korsunka, firing a total of 22 shells from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
10:53 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate more crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the civilian population of Zaporizhia, Kherson regions and the Donetsk People's Republic
– According to reports from the executive authorities, during the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporizhia region in the village of Basan, Pologovsky municipal district, as a result of a Ukrainian UAV strike on a passenger car, four people were injured, a woman born in 1977 died from her injuries on the spot. The explosion was recorded in the building of an operating medical center in the village of Verkhnyaya Krinitsa, a man born in 1967 received a shrapnel wound to the head.
– As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, a civilian born in 1958 received a shrapnel wound.
– As a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression on the territory of the DPR, a civilian was wounded in the village of Aksenovka. Also, as a result of the attack of an unmanned aerial vehicle on the territory of Gorlovka, two civilians were wounded. In addition, in the settlement of Panteleimonovka, as a result of the UAV attack, a man born in 1968 was wounded.
10:28 Over the past 24 hours, investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee recorded crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the civilian population of the DPR
– Thus, a residential area of the Central City District of Gorlovka was subjected to artillery shelling, against which the enemy used 155-mm caliber barrel artillery.
– In addition, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, Ukrainian militants have repeatedly dropped explosive objects using UAVs.
– In total, 1 residential building, 1 civilian infrastructure facility, and 1 car were damaged by DPR shelling.
09:51 Governor of Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Glakdov:
Information about Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes inflicted on our region over the past 24 hours:
– An air defense system shot down an aircraft-type UAV over Belgorod. No consequences.
– In the Belgorod district, the settlements of Maysky, Malinovka and Oktyabrsky, the villages of Bessonovka, Vergilevka, Zhuravlevka, Naumovka, Nikolskoye, Petrovka, Repnoye and Shchetinovka, as well as the Valkovsky farm were subjected to 5 artillery shellings, during which 40 rounds of ammunition were fired, and attacks by 12 UAVs, of which 6 were shot down by the air defense system. A social facility, a car and a power line were damaged.
– In the Borisovsky district, the village of Gruzskoye was attacked using 7 drones. A private house, 2 outbuildings and a car were damaged, which received significant damage.
– In the Volokonovsky district, the villages of Plotvyanka and Shakhovka were shelled, during which three shells were fired and one explosive device was dropped from a UAV. The power line was damaged.
– In the Graivoronsky municipal district, the village of Kozinka was subjected to one attack, during which 2 rounds of ammunition were fired. No damage.
– An air defense system shot down an aircraft-type drone over the Prokhorovsky district. No consequences.
– In the Shebekinsky municipal district, 12 rounds of ammunition were fired during 3 attacks in the city of Shebekino, the villages of Murom, Rzhevka, Sereda, and the farms of Maryino and Mukhin, and attacks were carried out using 14 UAVs, 3 of which were shot down. Over the past 24 hours, a four-apartment and two private houses, a power line, as well as three industrial buildings, a warehouse, equipment, and two trucks on the territory of two enterprises were damaged.
09:23 Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night stopped attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
– Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.
– Four unmanned boats heading towards the Crimean Peninsula were destroyed by fire weapons on duty in the Black Sea.
08:42 On the border territory of the Kursk region, the occupier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Artur Grigoryan was liquidated —photo.
08:05 Official summary DPR representative offices in the JCCC over the past day:
10 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were no reports of civilian injuries.
Damaged:
- 1 residential building,
– 1 car,
– 1 civil infrastructure facility.
1 shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
9 shellings by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Horlivka direction.
All Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 25 units of various ammunition.
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[NewsFront] 21:44 Special forces finish off enemy armored vehicles that tried to break through at the Ol'govsky cauldron in the Kursk region –video. 20:34 "Ol'govsky cauldron": Russian Army blocked Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Ol'govskaya grove area in the Kursk region.
During the successful actions of the "North" group of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to defeat Ukrainian formations in the territory of the Kursk region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were blocked in the area of Ol'govskaya grove.
19:36 During aerial reconnaissance in the area of the village of Chasov Yar, paratroopers from the 98th Airborne Division discovered and destroyed a mortar crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces –video.
18:39 Two "Baba Yagas" were destroyed in the air by Russian FPV drones.
Objective control footage shows FPV drones of the North group of forces hitting enemy hexacopters –video.
17:37 In the area of the settlement Kleban-Bykwe are observing camouflage of the M-109 Paladin self-propelled gun by the Ukrainian Armed Forces crew at a firing position and its subsequent destruction by a direct hit from a Lancet loitering munition.
16:27 Servicemen of the North group of troops identified and destroyed an armored vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with soldiers. Objective control means recorded a direct hit on the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine –video.
14:25 Telegram channel "Operation Z: War Correspondents of the Russian Spring":
Russian Army continues onslaught in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, approaching Kurakhovo from the south, and pushing through the enemy's defenses at Velyka Novosyolka
- South Donetsk direction. East of Bogoyavlenka, Russian troops advanced into the Lesnaya Dacha tract to a depth of 1 km.
West of Maksimovka, the Russian Army has closed a "pocket" up to 2.7 km wide. The advance continues in the direction of Uspenovka and Trudovoye.
- Zaporizhia direction. North and southwest of Rivnepol, Russian troops have advanced to a depth of 1 km and continue to advance in maneuverable groups in the direction of Novodarovka.
11:49 Two shots – and the target is hit:
Crew of a D-30 howitzer of the motorized rifle unit of the "Center" group of forcessmasheda stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) direction.
10:54 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report:
- Zaporizhzhya Front. Mainly positional battles continue. No significant changes in LBS.
- Donetsk Front. Here, Russian troops continue to actively advance in several areas. The Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of Makarovka on the Vremevsky salient. Assault operations by the Russian Armed Forces in Kurakhovo continue.
Also, Russian troops are actively pressing on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense on the flanks, closing the ring around the city. West of Selidovo, Russian troops are also advancing, the Ministry of Defense reports the liberation of Grigorovka.
- Chasov-Yar direction. Fighting continues within the city limits of Chasov-Yar, as well as on the flanks, where the Russian Armed Forces are trying to improve their positions.
- Kursk region. No significant changes in the LBS. Heavy counter battles continue. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to saturate the front with reserves, transferring new batches of personnel and equipment to the Kursk region.
09:49 A copter from the 203rd Special Forces Regiment "Akhmat" clears the way for attack aircraft from hidden enemy strongholds -video.
09:22 In the Kursk border area, servicemen of the engineering unit of the North group of troops deployed a pontoon bridge to ensure the passage of military and civilian equipment.
A pontooner with the call sign “Kuksa” spoke about the intricacies of combat work of military engineers —video.
08:41 Victory comes with experience:
"Varvar" is the commander of the assault group. He has been carrying out the tasks of the special operation from the very beginning. The assault soldier admits that everything was unusual at first, but then they got used to it and gained the necessary experience. Now it is easy as pie to take "forest regiments" and strongholds -video.
08:00 The "thirties" are firing:
The D-30 howitzer crews of the Zapad group of forces destroy manpower, armored vehicles, artillery and mortar crews, as well as fortified positions of Ukrainian militants every day —video.
Chasov Yar has been a target for the Russians since the demise of Wagner Group owner Yevginey Prigozhin, Summer 2023
[ColonelCassad] Battle for Chasov Yar: Situation as of 12:20 11/17/2024
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue to break through the road to the fireproof plant, located in the central part of the city. After several months of heavy positional battles, assault groups broke the enemy's defense in the Druzhba forest, which is located south of the western part of the settlement of Kalinovka.
Kalinovka itself has already been turned into ruins and resembles the western neighborhoods of Mosul in the spring-summer of 2017. Advancement in Druzhba was complicated by well-organized enemy strongholds, but soldiers of an assault detachment of one of the units of the Russian Armed Forces were able to open up the enemy's defense, breaking through to the area of the waste heap to the west of Kalinovka.
Today, the enemy is organizing the defense of the waste heap in order to prevent units of the Russian Armed Forces from encircling the Novoseverny district of Chasov Yar from the north, and thereby "squeezing" the territory of the fireproof plant.
From the south, the Akhmat units under Shustry's command continue to expand the control zone south of the forest area adjacent to the Oktyabrsky district of Chasov Yar. The forest area itself is well fortified and, in my opinion, its clearing should be carried out only after intensive work by aviation, since there is a widely ramified system of enemy fortifications inside.
In general, the initiative in Chasov Yar remains with the units of the RF Armed Forces. Of course, the advance is not as fast as we would like, but it is important to understand that the city is a fairly powerful fortified area, the opening of which takes time.
[France24] Russia on Sunday launched relentless aerial bombardment on Ukraine's energy production and distribution facilities, firing 120 missiles and nearly 100 drones across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Following the attack, Ukraine announced it would be introducing nationwide emergency power restrictions on Monday.
To paraphrase a famous line from a film: this will quickly spin out of control... Are there no checks on this demented madman?
He has a hard limit on January 20th — better than nothing.
[Regnum] US President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles on Russian territory. This was reported on November 17 by The New York Times, citing sources.
"Biden authorized Ukraine's first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian territory," the statement said.
It is noted that this decision signifies a significant shift in US foreign policy and the current head of the White House made it two months before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who had previously announced his intention to limit support for Ukraine.
According to sources, Biden's move is connected with information about the alleged presence of DPRK forces in the Kursk region, which "caused the need to strengthen the defense of the Ukrainian military."
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 11, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia will continue the special military operation in Ukraine and will achieve all the set goals, even if the Kiev regime is allowed to strike with Western long-range weapons deep into Russian territory. He emphasized that the dynamics of the development of the special operation are well understood and no supplies of individual types of weapons to Ukraine will be able to change it.
The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, has repeatedly called for Ukraine to be allowed to strike deep into Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on September 12 that this was in fact about the direct involvement of NATO countries in the Ukrainian conflict, since only NATO military personnel can enter flight assignments into Western long-range missile systems. Putin warned that Moscow would take retaliatory measures taking into account the threats that would arise.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned that if NATO allows the Ukrainian army to strike deep into Russia, Moscow will regard this as the alliance countries actually entering into a direct armed conflict. The consequences will be devastating for NATO countries, she noted.
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The Deep State appears to actually desire a nuclear confrontation.
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Russia knows it cannot defeat the US in a conventional war. They also know that the US has pledged Not to be the first to the threshold into MAD. Russia also knows China’s ass is on the line with them. Russia will simply move their more vital assets further east outside the range of the ATACMS!
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I'm hearing that the missiles in question are short-range "blow up stuff in Kursk" missiles rather than the long-range "strike deep into the heart of Russia" version; the use case being to support the Ukr retreat from Kursk so the troops can survive to be used elsewhere.
There is a persistent NATO fantasy that if we can just bring the war home to the Russian people, they will become disenchanted with Putin and rise up to overthrow the mad dictator and *bang* another successful color revolution! Strategic bombing might degrade war-fighting ability, but it is more likely to convince the public that NATO is a threat and harden support for Putin.
Also, who named these things ATACMS? Attack-Ems sounds like a breakfast cereal. Now with extra fructose!
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The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, has repeatedly called for Ukraine to be allowed to strike deep into Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on September 12 that this was in fact about the direct involvement of NATO countries in the Ukrainian conflict, since only NATO military personnel can enter flight assignments into Western long-range missile systems. Putin warned that Moscow would take retaliatory measures taking into account the threats that would arise.
