Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:22 The Russians fired mortars at a village in the border Semenovskaya community of the Chernihiv region, one person was wounded, the National Police reported.
20:25 Zelensky reported on the results of the second international summit Grain from Ukraine held in Kiev that the humanitarian initiative Grain from Ukraine has continued, more than $100 million has already been accumulated for its purpose.
18:19 The European Commission announced that it will allocate 50 million euros to repair Ukrainian ports damaged by Russian attacks. This should make it easier to export grain to international markets.
15:42 Zelensky said that during a meeting with Swiss President Alain Berset, they discussed issues of humanitarian demining, the use of frozen income from Russian assets, the Peace Formula, and the restoration of infrastructure facilities.
In addition, speakers and representatives of the parliaments of Belgium, Ireland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Estonia are visiting Kiev today. During the meeting, possible ways to strengthen international support for Ukraine and the effectiveness of the humanitarian initiative Grain from Ukraine were discussed in detail, Zelensky said.
15:26 Ukraine has agreed with its partners to receive warships to ensure the safety of ships in the grain corridor in the Black Sea, Zelensky said at the Grain from Ukraine conference: “We have agreed with our partners and will accompany ships at sea to ensure their safety. We already have "There are specific agreements on the receipt of ships. This is a matter of the near future."
In addition, according to the president, the Odessa region will be protected by additional air defense systems: “Very specific systems, a very specific request has already been sent to partners, and I can say that it has already been agreed upon. Soon this region will be protected by very powerful air defense systems. Not only ships are important to us , but also the people who live there."
14:17 The Russians cover Shahed drones with carbon fiber or repaint them black to make it harder for Ukrainian air defense to detect them, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. According to him, the Russians have previously improved Iranian UAVs using composite materials for the reflective surface. Now they use carbon, which is an absorbent material for radar signals, and paint them black.
12:34 66 Russian drones were destroyed over the Kiev region at night - this is a record number for the region, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. For example, this New Year, the Russians attacked the capital with 45 drones, he added.
11:55 Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said that Russia lost 76 passenger ships due to sanctions against the aviation industry.
11:48 President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics, who is on a visit to Ukraine, showed how he hid in a shelter during a massive drone attack on the capital. “November 25, 05:10 am, Kyiv,” he wrote.
11:11 According to updated information, 74 out of 75 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs were destroyed by air defense at night , the Air Force command reported.
10:06 As a result of the night attack, the main overhead power lines and distribution lines of regional power companies in the central region were damaged, Ukrenergo reported. “This means that the reliability of power supply in the region is reduced,” the company clarified. Emergency restoration work has already begun. During the period of restoration work, there may be restrictions on energy supply in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
09:42 In the Kiev region, during a night attack as a result of falling debris, a fire occurred at the enterprise, it has already been extinguished. Three private houses and one multi-storey building were also damaged, the OVA reported. There were no hits on critical infrastructure, and no people were injured.
09:38 As a result of the night attack in Kiev, five people were injured, including an 11-year-old child, KGVA reported.
09:31 Swiss President Alain Berset arrived in Kyiv. He said that the purpose of the trip was to participate in the international summit on food security and meet with Zelensky.
09:19 Zelensky commented on the night attack: “More than 70 “martyrs” on the night of the day of remembrance of the victims of the Holodomor-genocide. Conscious terror. It was at this time. The Russian leadership is proud that it can kill. Our soldiers shot down most of the drones. Unfortunately, not all. But we continue to strengthen our air defense and shoot down more. And we continue to work to unite the world in defense against Russian terror. The terrorist state must lose and answer for what it has done."
09:10 At night, air defense destroyed 71 of 75 Shahed-type attack drones , the Air Force command reported. This is a record number of UAVs that the Russian Federation launched into Ukraine. The drones were launched from two directions - Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk region. The main direction of attack is the city of Kyiv. Air defense operated in at least six regions of Ukraine: Kyiv, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Kirovograd. The vast majority of air targets were shot down in the Kyiv region.
In addition, an X-59 guided aircraft missile was destroyed in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
08:39 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 25:
personnel - about 323,760 (+860) people,
tanks - 5502 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 10,263 (+7) units,
artillery systems - 7851 (+18),
MLRS - 905 (+1),
air defense systems - 596 (+1),
aircraft - 323 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5808 (+8),
cruise missiles - 1565 (+1),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,259 (+29),
special equipment - 1112 (+4).
08:26 After the shelling in Kiev, 77 residential buildings and 120 institutions remained without electricity, the Ministry of Energy reported.
07:50 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 Novokalinovo, Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka, Severny and Pervomaisky, Donetsk region) and 15 attacks in Kupyansky (in the areas of Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region).
In the Liman direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Serebryansky forestry area of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - near Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the areas of Marinka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region, on Zaporozhye - near Rabotino and Novopokrovka, Zaporozhye region. The enemy did not conduct offensive actions in the Shakhtarsky direction.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue their offensive 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.
07:32 At night, the Russians attacked Kiev with drones, the city military administration reports. Debris fell in several areas of the capital, including Solomensky, Goloseevsky, Dneprovsky, Pechersky. In the Solomensky district, two people were injured, including a child - they had an acute reaction, not stress, doctors provided assistance on the spot.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
During active actions in Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled two attacks of AFU assault groups.
AFU 14th Mechanised and 57th Mechanised Infantry Brigades' units have been hit east of Sinkovka (Kharkov region). The enemy's losses amounted to 110 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, as well as one 152mm D-20 and one 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In Krasny Liman direction, coordinated actions of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery repelled one attack launched by assault groups of the 5th National Guard Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces near Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the AFU 47th Mechanised Brigade close to Petrovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy lost up to 55 Ukrainian troops and two pickup trucks.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted losses on clusters of manpower of AFU 22nd, 28th Mechanised Brigades to Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, Razdolovka, Bogdanovka, Krasnoye, and Vasyukovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy in this direction lost up to 290 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, three motor vehicles, 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers, as well as one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces utilising results of aviation and artillery strikes repelled one enemy attack near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region), as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 128th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Nikolskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 150 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, as well as one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled two attacks of the AFU 117th Mechanised Brigade north of Novoprokopovka (Zaporozhye region), and inflicted fire damage on AFU 33rd, 65th Mechanised Brigades' manpower and hardware close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
More than 40 Ukrainian personnel, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one 130mm M-46 gun were neutralised.
In Kherson direction, up to 35 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded and two motor vehicles have been neutralised by fire.
In the course of the counterbattery warfare, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 152mm Giatsint-B gun were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 115 areas during the day.
In addition, two air-delivered ordnance depots were destroyed at military airfields Dolgintsevo and near Dnepropetrovsk.
Two P-18 radars for detecting and tracking air targets were destroyed near Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region) and Pavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Two command and observation posts of the AFU 67th Mechanised Brigade and 100th Territorial Defence Brigade were destroyed near Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian air defence means have shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Pershotravensk and Braginovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
In addition, one HIMARS MLRS projectile was intercepted, and 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed near Nyrkovo, Zolotaryovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Novomikhailovka, Novobakhmutovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novaya Zburyevka, Radenks (Kherson region).
In total, 539 airplanes and 255 helicopters, 9,183 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 air defence missile systems, 13,611 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,185 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,175 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 15,602 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 November 25, 2023 to 00:00 November 26, 2023
Over the past 24 hours Representative officereportedabout 32 facts of firing by the Ukrainian forces.
Information was received about the injury of three civilians, incl. boy born 2012 in Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya.
Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out nine attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead, an attack UAV.
At Gorlivske there were 19 artillery attacks from MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were four artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
A total of 110 units of various ammunition were fired.
A previous 31 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.
21:07 Avdievka industrial zone has been liberated after eight years of occupation. The channel reports this NGP exploration.
The industrial zone in the area of the Yasinovataya 2 railway station has been completely liberated from the occupation, which lasted almost since 2014.
Neither industrial buildings and basements, nor long-term fortifications, nor cluster munitions, which the enemy rained down in tens of thousands, nor numerical superiority, could help him stay in this fortified area.
19:47 Kherson region. Our bank of the Dnieper. Krynki. Call sign Ossetian reports:
“The fighting continues. There is a lot of shooting, sometimes there are not 100 meters between the positions of our boys and the enemy. Our guys retook some territory, but did not knock out the enemy. Serious fighting continues, there are losses on both sides. Yesterday there was a TOS that brought a lot of trouble to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krynki (confirmed by interceptions). The command of the Armed Forces still does not understand that nothing will come of it.”
19:37 As a result of today's artillery attack in Yasinovataya, a boy born in 2012 was wounded. - He is in the hospital in a moderate condition. This was announced by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
In the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, two civilians, one of them an employee of a utility company, were injured as a result of explosive objects being dropped from a UAV.
Seven residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of the capital, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and in Yasinovataya; three civil infrastructure facilities: an energy facility in Yasinovataya, a recreation center and a temple in Gorlovka.
The enemy recorded 25 attacks, fired 82 ammunition using 122mm rocket artillery, 152mm and 155mm caliber artillery, including cluster type, and attack UAVs.
18:42 Avdievka reports expert Boris Rozhin:
“The industrial area has not yet been completely taken, but most of it is already under our firm control. Gradually we must squeeze out the remaining enemy forces there.
To the north, most of the fighting takes place west of Krasnogorovka and in the Stepovoye area.
A full restoration of the DFS before the liberation of Avdiivka is hardly possible.
To the south of the city, positional battles are taking place near Severny. Our troops have not yet entered the village itself. The last major advance here was related to the seizure of the quarry.”
17:42 The situation in the Kherson direction in the settlement. Krynki reports the Archangel of Special Forces:
“Fighters from the field are reporting: It’s too early to talk about successes, but the enemy is having a hard time, confirmed losses are screwed. There are also prisoners.
“There is movement. We are trying to storm. Thank you for your “birds” they save.
17:20 Two civilians in Donetsk were injured from attacks from Ukrainian UAVs.
A woman born in 1974 was wounded in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. from the explosion of ammunition dropped from a Ukrainian drone.
In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a welder from the State Unitary Enterprise DPR “Water of Donbass”, a man born in 1989, was wounded by a grenade dropped from a Ukrainian UAV.
16:45 Personnel combat work of the Orlan-10 UAV crews and 152mm Msta-B howitzers of the Tula paratroopers in the Artemovsk direction.
The crew of the Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle discovered an ammunition warehouse and a command and observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
After receiving data from air reconnaissance equipment, the paratroopers took up a firing position and prepared the Msta-B howitzer for use.
As a result of joint work, the detected targets were destroyed.
15:46 Kherson region. Our bank of the Dnieper
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are doing very poorly in Krynki. The ammo is running out, the barrels are jammed. Forest plantations to the south of the road are ours according to preliminary data.
15:05 Yasinovatsky Lane at the entrance to Avdievka has almost completely come under the control of the Russian Army, and the remainder of the street is being cleared.
14:42 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
Air defense systems shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
The Russian Armed Forces repelled an attack by an assault group of a brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy lost up to 55 military personnel;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two warehouses of aviation weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the military airfields of Dolgintsevo and in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy lost more than 40 military personnel and two tanks.
13:55 The morning in Donetsk began with attacks of UAV - two victims are in the hospital.
As a result of the Ukrainian drone attack, two people were injured at once: a boy and a girl. Local residents who witnessed the APU crime loaded the wounded into a car and took them to the hospital themselves.
13:40 Situation in the Artyomovsky direction
To date, the artillery units of the 137th Motorized Rifle Regiment continue to successfully hold the defense in the Artemovsk direction, reports the Paratrooper’s Diary.
With the help of the 120mm Nona self-propelled artillery mount, which is a unique and highly effective means of defeating enemy forces, we destroy a concentration of enemy forces.
Fire from a 120mm gun was fired at the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel detected by reconnaissance drones . All the rounds reached their target, significantly worsening the enemy's situation.
In anti-drone warfare, electromagnetic guns have proven their effectiveness. The operator of such a device was able to easily land a reconnaissance drone, thereby throwing enemy spotters off the scent.
13:34 One person died, there were wounded as a result of enemy artillery attack on the left bank of the Kherson region - Alekseenko
13:17 Kupyansk direction:
Our artillerymen worked on the enemy with cannon artillery and MLRS, writes Frontline Bird.
Aerial reconnaissance successfully identified enemy targets in the morning. Having transmitted the information to the command post, the guys got down to business.
12:27 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:
In the Krasnolimansky direction, the actions of units of the Center group of troops, artillery fire, and air strikes hit 200 enemy targets, including four command and observation posts, five areas where Ukrainian Armed Forces’ equipment accumulated in the areas of Serebryanka, Yampolovka, Chervonaya Dibrova, Torskoye and Kirovsk.
In the area of Serebryansky and Lesnichestvo, the personnel and equipment of the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade were hit by fire.
Air defense systems shot down an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle in the area of the village of Kremennaya, Lugansk People's Republic.
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 100 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and two pickup trucks.
11:37 Now in Avdievka there is a “hodgepodge”. You can see blue, green and yellow tape on the positions. How write eyewitnesses there is a lot of confusion on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were cases when one unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces “formed five hundred”, withdrew from its position and left. Ours took up the position, and after a while other Ukrainian fighters arrived, who were sent to the position instead of the escaped unit and who were not aware that the position had already been occupied by us. As a result, they are killed and captured.
11:20 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled 10 attacks by assault groups of the 5th Assault Brigade in the Kleshcheevka area.
The enemy's manpower and equipment were defeated in the areas of Andreevka, Artemovskoye, Razdolovka, Kurdyumovka and Vasyukovka.
During the counterbattery fight, a control center for unmanned aerial vehicles and two mortars were destroyed.
Six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.
The enemy lost up to 490 military personnel, a pickup truck and a truck in killed and wounded in this direction.
10:50 The Ukrainian Armed Forces no longer control the industrial zone in Avdievka
How report Military correspondents, at the Avdievka coke plant there are territories occupied by the Russian Armed Forces. The information has not yet been confirmed.
In general, regarding the situation in the Avdeevsky direction, it is reported that on the northern flank our troops are knocking out the enemy’s materiel and manpower. Our infantry occupied a number of positions in the Stepovoye area, which remains in the gray zone.
For the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the situation in the Stepovoe-Berdychi region is getting worse every day. The Russian Armed Forces focused on destroying enemy forces, forcing them to hold on to their positions, which are under constant fire, and mercilessly wasting their reserves.
10:37 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Novye Lagerya 10 rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan eight rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki 24 rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Sagi nine rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Proletarka, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 38 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
10:05 Frontline summary on the morning of November 25, 2023:
In the Kherson-Crimean direction there were dense shooting battles in the forest plantations near Krynoki. The Russian Armed Forces attacked. Russian artillery and aviation hit the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village itself. Ukrainian positions in Kherson, Antonovka, Prydneprovsky, Novotyaginka, Tyaginka, Lvov, Olgovka and Kozatsky are under attack. Russian - in Gola Pristan, Aleshki, Poima, Peschanovka, Podstepnoye, Kudasov, Kazachi Lagerya and Korsunka.
On the Donetsk front, Ukrainian troops bend, but do not break. The assault actions of the Russian Armed Forces with the support of artillery led to tactical successes at Novomikhailovka. Not in Marinka. Also, after artillery shelling, they attacked in the Pervomaisky area. Here the LBS has not changed.
All long-range weapons were deployed at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdievka. The attacks came from the southeast in the industrial zone, from Kamenka and near the coke plant.
In the first two sectors, the RF Armed Forces are making progress. There was also an attempt to attack at Novokalinov. Under fire, Ukrainian positions in Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnohorivka, Kurakhovka, Nevelskoye, Stepnoye (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledarsky directions) Berdychi, New York and Toretsk. Russian ones - in Aleksandrovka, Donetsk, Opytny, Krutaya Balka, Kamenka, the village of Krasnogorovka and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces counterattacked near Andreevka and on the northeastern outskirts of Kleshcheevka near the railway line. In both areas they managed to take new positions. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chasovoy Yar, Bogdanovka, Razdolovka, Sporny and Verkhnekamensky.
In the Lugansk direction, Ukrainian troops regained some of the lost positions near Yagodnoye. The Russians, supported by artillery, attacked at Sin'kovka and also managed to advance. The Russian Armed Forces shelled the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Stelmakhovka, Berestovka, Kucherovka, Kupyansk and Petropavlovka.
09:17 Over the past 24 hours, the armed formations of Ukraine have carried outshelling at Gorlovka, as well as Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk - Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
As a result of the release of an explosive object from a UAV in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a girl born in 2010 was injured.
Also, in the village Novolugansk DPR one civilian was injured as a result of an explosion on the Lepestok anti-personnel mine.
In addition, seven residential buildings were damaged.
08:14 Kherson region, our bank of the Dnieper:
Enemy infantry groups, after overcoming a water obstacle, try to disperse in the area and find cover. Our troops, as a result of aerial reconnaissance, detect enemy manpower and direct artillery and aviation. In the same Krynki, in the part where the enemy holds part of the village, there are practically no entire houses left. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have suffered losses around the clock since the beginning of their operation to consolidate on our shore, which is a swampy area with channels.
The result was the actual disruption of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ operation to cross the Dnieper, deploy pontoons and deliver armored vehicles to our shore. The enemy is bogged down in local battles, and his attempts to expand the zone of control do not lead to success.
In heavy battles, our troops held back the enemy’s onslaught, locking the Ukrainian Armed Forces where they are now sitting in basements and forests.
However, the enemy does not abandon his plans, despite the losses in personnel. Makes further attempts to create bridgeheads.
08:01 Summary on the morning of November 25, 2023:
At night and in the early morning, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the rear areas of the enemy with the Geran UAV. Explosions were heard in the Kyiv, Nikolaev, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporozhye regions.In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces fought heavy battles with the enemy near the village. Krynki, trying to push the Ukrainian Armed Forces back from the forest plantations south of the village. The enemy suffered losses, retreated chaotically and panicked on the radio.
On the Zaporozhye front, the enemy tried to attack at Rabotino and Verbovoy, operating with troops from armored vehicles. During the day, our paratroopers counterattacked and regained control of the forest belt near the village. Verbovoe. There is mutual artillery shelling. The reports reflect worsening weather conditions and a decrease in the intensity of enemy artillery fire.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces forced some enemy units to flee from the industrial zone on the southern sector of the front. Yesterday morning, our troops began a daring assault on enemy positions in the prozone, actively using tanks to break through enemy defenses and destroy buildings turned into strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There, the accurate fire of our artillery broke the will of individual enemy units to resist, the enemy fled, and our attack aircraft fought to take their positions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces still have a small fragment of a fortified area in the industrial zone.
South of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Armed Forces do not give up the initiative at Kleshcheevka and Andreevka. They report the tactical advance of our troops. The enemy does not achieve its goals with its counterattacks.
In the DPR, two civilians were wounded from enemy fire, incl. girl born 2010.
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[Regnum] A network of cybercriminals, which included scammers from Ukraine, was identified in the European Union. This confirms that Ukrainian banditry is fueled by European taxes, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on November 25 in her Telegram channel.
Recently, Europol reported the arrest in Ukraine and the Czech Republic of members of a phishing gang that defrauded Czech citizens of 8 million euros alone. The total damage in EU countries is estimated at tens of millions of euros.
“This is exactly what EU taxpayers’ money goes towards – sponsoring all types of banditry in Ukraine – when their regimes transfer billions to Zelensky,” Zakharova emphasized.
She noted that the attackers were not “Russian hackers,” but Ukrainian scammers who called people on behalf of bank security services. They did the same thing to their material “benefactors” that they have practiced in recent years in Russia.
Zakharova added that anti-drug units participated in the raids that took place in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, which means that cybercrime also has a drug component. She recalled that she had previously pointed out the connection between the Ukrainian special services and drug crimes.
As reported by IA Regnum , the FSB previously warned that telephone scammers who call residents of Russia from Ukraine began to introduce themselves as intelligence officers and persuade citizens to commit terrorist attacks. In June of this year, five local residents were detained in Moscow for aiding Ukrainian telephone scammers.
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[RIA] If Russia wins in Ukraine (and the Zeit authors even call our retention of control over the already annexed territories a victory), then this will become “the end of the liberal and the beginning of the authoritarian world order.” But these are general words, and Nico Lange (former employee of the Ministry of Defense) and Carlo Masala (professor at the Munich University of the Bundeswehr) want to really scare their fellow citizens. Not only by saying that “life in Germany will become less safe, poorer and lonely”, but also by describing what will follow the defeat of Ukraine.
That is, “new Russian aggression”:
"Sirens are wailing. Cell phone warning tones are sounding thousands of times. Air raid alert in Munich , Frankfurt and Berlin . Cruise missiles and swarms of drones are penetrating German airspace. German soldiers have been putting out fires in the Baltics for days. In response to Russia's attack there, NATO filed a case for Article Five assistance. Russia responded with missiles. Some states are withdrawing from NATO and the EU, and a hard core in the north and east is putting up fierce resistance. Germany is torn. Heated protests in many German cities lead to violent riots, and police have to intervene decisively. Extremist and populist parties are benefiting enormously from this situation, not least because global trade and the economy are collapsing."
Apparently fearing that not all Germans will be greatly frightened by such prospects, the authors move to a global scale:
"In the Indo-Pacific, China has been attacking Taiwan for weeks. Meanwhile, the United Nations is deciding against Germany as many states in Africa, Latin America and Asia vote with Russia and China in the General Assembly.
Does this sound exaggerated? No! If Vladimir Putin wins his war of aggression, this scenario is realistic."
They began to scare Europeans with Russia’s attack on the Baltic states —and the Eastern European NATO countries in general—after 2014. Since last year, allegations about the “Russian threat to Europe” began to be heard on a daily basis. Moreover, sometimes they even say that Russia has already attacked Europe , because “Ukraine is Europe”; it just needs to be accepted into the European Union. But now Zeit, of course, has taken its intimidation of the Germans to new heights. Moreover, this publication is not accidental. On the eve of its appearance, new “defense policy guidelines” were announced, which spoke of “an immediate threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Germany” and a focus on “security from the Russian Federation.”
After the publication of the article in Zeit, a report by two experts from the Center for Security and Defense appeared on the website of the German Foreign Policy Council (DGAP), which directly states that within five to nine years, “Germany and NATO must enable their armed forces to deter and the need to fight against Russia."
Why this escalation? Are the Germans really being prepared for war with Russia, that is, the Atlantic elites (including in Germany) themselves believed in their own propaganda about the Russian threat to Europe? No, fanning Russophobia has two specific goals.
First. Even though Atlantic solidarity is on the rise, European Atlanticists are not even sure about the immediate future. If Trump wins in the United States in a year and at the same time the West continues to lose in the battle for Ukraine, then NATO will really begin to feel feverish. In these conditions, the Atlanticists will need to shift the main burden of supporting Ukraine to Europe - and here Germany is a key link. The Germans will not be able to provide a lot of weapons and ammunition (they simply don’t have them), but the value of their financial and political assistance, given Germany’s weight in the EU, will greatly increase. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the degree of anxiety in the German public atmosphere.
The second goal is to stop the growth of the influence of non-systemic opposition forces, which not only denounce the ruling elites, but also oppose the conflict with Russia and are critical of “Atlantic solidarity,” that is, the subordination of German interests to Anglo-Saxon ones, namely: “Alternatives for Germany” and the new “ Union of Sarah Wagenknecht ." But will it be possible to force the Germans to rally around the systemic parties with the help of the “Russian threat”?
No, because the process of destruction of the current party system has already gone very far. In January, the Waagentnecht party will be officially created, and the German party-political machine will no longer tolerate two strong non-systemic parties. The ratings of the ruling coalition continue to decline: in total, the three parties already have only 35 percent, that is, a little more than a third (the opposition CDU has 31 percent).
The Free Democrats have failed especially badly - they are teetering on the brink of five percent, that is, they may not get into the next Bundestag . Against this background, the voices of those in the FDP are increasingly louder and call to leave the ruling coalition in order to save the party. There is also talk about creating a grand coalition - from the SPD and the CDU, but this option will be saved for a last resort.
Early elections to the Bundestag cannot be ruled out, although so far only the AfD is calling for them, which maintains its position as the second party in the country with a rating of 22 percent. By the way, there are slightly more satisfied with the work of Chancellor Scholz: only 24, that is, every fourth. And when politicians are rated on a scale from minus five to plus five, Scholz goes to minus 0.4. All the key ministers, from Bärbock to Linder, and the leader of the opposition CDU, Merz, are in the red. Of the systemic politicians, only Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (the main star of the SPD) and Bavarian Prime Minister Soeder are in the black. If this is not a crisis of confidence in systemic politicians, then what is it?
Moreover, there are still two years until the next elections to the Bundestag. But the chances that the ruling coalition will survive to see them are less and less. And the foreign policy course of the Scholz cabinet in a variety of directions - from Ukrainian to the Middle East - further undermines the position of the coalition.
Simply replacing the chancellor or changing the coalition will not correct the situation, but in just over six months there will be elections to the European Parliament , which will be another blow to the German party system. The main problem of which is the decline in voter confidence. And it will not be solved by trying to intimidate them with the catastrophic consequences of Russia’s victory in Ukraine - the Germans are increasingly worried about Germany’s defeat. And not at all from Putin, but from the lack of independence of their own elites.
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[Regnum] The Lithuanian authorities will allocate an additional €2 million to ensure supplies of Ukrainian grain, head of the government of the Baltic republic Ingrida Simonyte announced on November 25 at a press conference in Kiev.
“Lithuania joined this initiative last year, and today we are allocating an additional €2 million, which will go to Ukraine by the end of this year,” she said.
The Prime Minister added that the Lithuanian government is working on alternative export routes and new corridors. There is an intention to increase the transit capabilities of Lithuanian ports for exports from Ukraine, this will make it possible to create another corridor through the Baltic Sea for the export of Ukrainian products, Simonyte concluded.
As Regnum reported , Lithuania previously proposed using Baltic ports to export grain from Ukraine, which could become an alternative to other channels. In addition to Lithuania, other Baltic republics wanted to organize the transportation of Ukrainian grain through ports. Vilnius considered that the transit of Ukrainian grain through the Baltic ports could become permanent, but additional investments in the Lithuanian transport infrastructure are needed.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky , said on November 25 that Ukraine had agreed with its allies to provide Kiev with warships to escort cargo ships in the “grain corridor” in the Black Sea. Also, Ukraine, according to him, will receive additional air defense systems for the Odessa region.
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