[Aljazeera] This past week, Ukrainian and Russian officials have made several public statements in an apparent willingness to re-engage in dialogue, blaming one another for stalling a possible negotiated solution after nearly nine months of fighting.
But experts have said the prospect of meaningful talks remains distant. Ukraine, they say, will seek to achieve more battlefield gains before heading to the negotiating table, while Russia hopes the impact of winter on Ukraine’s allies will fracture international support for Kyiv and weaken its resolve.
[Espresso UA] Military serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Kyrylo Sazonov [journalist, miltary spokesman?]
told Espreso TV that many Russian soldiers still remain on the right bank of the Dnipro River
"10,000 Russian soldiers remain on the right bank of the Dnipro River. Near Kherson, in the Kherson region, on the banks. Some are shooting back, some are trying to break through and get to the left bank in any way they can, some are disguising themselves as civilians, some will surrender. We still have a lot of work to do. We must clear the right bank of them, it will take some time," Sazonov noted.
According to him, the military leadership of the Russian Federation managed to evacuate many Russian soldiers from the Kherson region in advance.
"Some equipment they relocated, some they lost over the last two weeks. But they relocated the personnel to the Kherson region. They evacuated attack units from there and deployed the recently mobilized to take their place," explained Sazonov.
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From the Pravda line: On October 31, the occupiers announced the evacuation of settlements in a 15-kilometer zone on the left bank of the Dnieper, in particular from the Kakhovsky district.
My understanding is the Rus are evacuating *all* civilians from the zone to get them out of range of Ukr artillery.
Or to start the process of getting them out of Ukraine altogether... and into exile in Russia, where they’ll contribute to Russia’s population numbers instead of Ukraine’s? We’ve had reports of that kind of thing before.
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[Korrespondent] 23:24 Arakhamia believes that the opportunity for negotiations with the Russian Federation may appear in the second half of 2023: "Honestly, I think that it will be when the electoral cycles start working both in Russia and in the United States, that is, it is somewhere then in the second half of next year, when the presidential race in the United States will already start. And besides, Putin will have elections in 24. And everyone will need to demonstrate something politically. I don’t think that Putin is able to demonstrate what - some military successes, so they will probably try on the diplomatic front to somehow demonstrate something to their people.
23:16 On Sunday, November 13, from 00:00 to 24:00, scheduled power outages will operate in Kiev, Kiev, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava and Donetsk regions. In other regions of Ukraine, shutdowns are not predicted, Ukrenergo reported.
23:12 Ex-commander of US troops in Europe, Ben Hodges, said that already in January, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will de-occupy Melitopol and Mariupol. According to him, the liberation of Kherson will allow the Ukrainian military to strike from HIMARS at the Russians who are on the outskirts of the Crimea. "Then the decisive phase of the campaign begins... the liberation of Crimea," he added.
21:39 The Russians fired from the MLRS Grad Gornostaevka of the Kakhovka district, the head of the Kherson Regional Military District, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said. According to him, the occupiers purposefully hit civilian infrastructure. As a result of shelling, two people were killed and about ten houses were damaged. Yanushevich noted that by using such methods, the Russians want to persuade the residents of Gornostaevka to "evacuate". The Russian military themselves are hiding in the basements of local residents.
20:32 Zelensky called the situation in the Donetsk region "hell": "There are extremely fierce battles every day. But our units defend themselves bravely, withstand the terrible pressure of the occupiers, maintain our defense lines. This is very important. Thanks to the strong defense there, in the Donetsk region, we "we can carry out offensive operations in other directions. I thank all our soldiers who defend Ukraine in these especially cruel battles. Pavlovka, Marinka, Pervomaiskoye, Avdiivka..."
20:23 Zelensky said in a video message that as of this evening , the defense forces have established control in more than 60 settlements of the Kherson region , the police have begun stabilization measures. Stabilization measures are also continuing in Kherson itself. Everywhere on the liberated territory, explosives technicians have a lot of work: almost 2,000 explosive objects have already been seized - mines, trip wires, unexploded ordnance.
The president also said that the occupiers had destroyed all critical infrastructure before fleeing from Kherson - communications, supplies of water, heat and electricity.
“If Russia can’t have it, can’t nobody have it.”
Zelensky urged residents of the liberated settlements to be very careful and not try to independently check any buildings and objects abandoned by the occupiers.
19:41 Tonight, the Russians fired a projectile at Zaporozhye from the Iskander-K missile system. The rocket was stuffed with 54 cluster charges. They did not explode and fell in the Shevchenko district of the city near six residential buildings, the President's Office reported. These cluster shells can detonate at any moment, so the issue of evacuating the residents of the houses is now being decided so that the bomb experts can neutralize them.
19:23 In a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, Putin discussed building up cooperation "in the political, trade and economic fields, including the transport and logistics sector." The parties agreed that contacts between the Russian and Iranian departments would be intensified, the Kremlin said.
19:01 Timing and content of any negotiations remains a decision of Ukraine, and the United States does not intend to put pressure on it, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit. Blinken reaffirmed "the United States' unwavering commitment to helping Ukraine mitigate the effects of Russia's ongoing attacks on critical infrastructure." The parties also confirmed their support for the extension of the grain agreement.
18:49 The Russians are improving the fortification equipment of the defense lines on the left bank of the Dnieper, at the same time they continue offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff said in the evening summary.
Meanwhile, in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, since November 11, the issuance of documents from the "DNR" and "LNR", including those on participation in hostilities, has been suspended. The command of the 1st and 2nd army corps of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces was given an order on the centralized transfer of cash settlements with personnel to financial institutions and bank cards of the Russian Federation. The servicemen of these units were offered to continue their service on a contract basis under Russian law. At the same time, they express concerns about the annulment of documents and benefits assigned by fake republics in case of refusal of a new contract.
In the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region, the moral and psychological state and discipline of Russian soldiers are deteriorating. A "dry law" was introduced in Genichesk, and the occupying authorities confiscated and removed alcoholic beverages from warehouses, shops, restaurants and other places of public catering.
18:26 In Kherson, a curfew is introduced from 17:00 to 8:00. The entry and exit from the city is also limited, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
17:48 Great Britain donated 12,000 sleeping sets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine; 7000 sets for normal cold weather; 150 heated tents; 25,000 kits for extreme cold weather by mid-December, the General Staff said.
17:27 During the air raid in the Zaporozhye region, air defense forces went off, said the secretary of the Zaporozhye City Council Anatoly Kurtev.
17:20 The head of the regional military administration Yaroslav Yanushevich, the National Police and the Security Service are already working in Kherson and the region, the Office of the President reported.
17:03 Employees of the "administration" of the occupied Kakhovka district are leaving the 15-kilometer zone on the left bank of the Dnieper, said the "head of the district administration" Pavel Filipchuk. According to him, they are moving "to a safer territory", from where they will exercise "leadership of the district."
16:55 Erdogan said that the West is "attacking" Russia: "We are going through an unusual process. Russia is not an ordinary state, it is a powerful state. Of course, the West, especially America, attacks Russia almost limitlessly. Against the backdrop of all this, of course , Russia is resisting."
“And if sometimes Russia resists before any attack, it’s just that playing chess increases Russian intelligence, donchaknow. Turkey does the same, a custom after centuries of ruling our own empire.”
16:47 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar told who is liberating Ukrainian territories in the south: Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, Brigadier General Andriy Hrytskov, Brigadier General Mykhailo Drapaty, Brigadier General Andriy Hnatov.
16:41 On the Kinburn Spit, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pushing back the enemy, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said: "The enemy remains there ... We continue to push the enemy back. Combat work is underway, and if we set a goal to liberate the entire Nikolaev region, then it will be liberated."
16:37 Law enforcement officers are carrying out stabilization measures in Kherson - about 200 police officers work there. Checkpoints have been set up around and on the territory of Kherson, said the head of the National Police, Ihor Klymenko. According to him, the main threat is mass mining. Ten groups of explosives technicians are working on the detection and disposal of explosive ordnance. One of the police sappers was injured during the demining of one of the administrative buildings of Kherson.
Local residents are asked to be as careful as possible, and those who left are asked not to rush to return until stabilization measures are completed.
16:29 Britain and the EU have agreed to boycott Lavrov's speeches at the G20 summit and will urge allies to join them, writes The Telegraph, citing sources in London and Brussels. They will also do their best to avoid meetings with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry and refuse the traditional group photo.
16:07 The situation in Kherson is close to a humanitarian catastrophe, Roman Golovnya, an adviser to the mayor, said: “Now there is a critical lack of water in the city, water supply is practically absent. There are not enough medicines, there is not enough bread, because it is not baked, there is no electricity. And, accordingly, problems with food.
Nevertheless, according to him, the problems will be resolved soon, humanitarian cargo is being formed - in particular, from Nikolaev, and some cars with it have already arrived in Kherson. According to Golovnya's estimates, no more than 80,000 people are left in the city, out of a pre-war population of 320,000.
15:24 According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, this summer Russia and Iran signed a contract for the supply of about 1,750 unmanned aerial vehicles of two types - Shahed and Mohajer. The first batch of such UAVs that arrived in Russia was about 350 units, the second - about 250 units, said the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Vadym Skibitsky. Also, according to him, the military intelligence of Ukraine confirmed information about the preparation of a draft agreement on the supply of Iranian ballistic missiles.
"We understand the threat of the use of ballistic missiles against our state, therefore, today the position of our diplomacy, military intelligence and other structures is very active, which are working hard to prove to the world community how dangerous Iran's arms supplies to Russia are. There are practical results - after the demonstration of real evidence Iran changed its position and stopped denying its involvement in the supply of arms to Russia. Active work in this area continues," Skibitsky said.
15:06 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said after consultations with the UN in Geneva that Moscow has not yet made a decision to extend the product deal. According to him, when making a decision, the Russian Federation will take into account the implementation of the memorandum with the UN, as well as "the terrorist attacks committed by Kyiv." At the same time, Moscow is not satisfied with how the agreement with the UN on fertilizers is being implemented: up to 280,000 tons of Russian mineral fertilizers are under arrest in European ports.
13:45 The United States hopes to start negotiations on Ukraine in the future, but Zelensky should determine their terms, US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said: "Our president just said that this war must be ended by reaching an agreement, but we want it was President Zelensky's prerogative to determine the conditions under which he would sit down at the negotiating table, including respect for borders and recognition of responsibility for what he had done. Moscow could have ended the conflict tomorrow if it wanted."
Smith noted that NATO and the United States are in daily contact with the military command of Ukraine: "We share a military strategy, but in the end they themselves must determine what to do, taking into account the tasks on the battlefield. I do not see much disagreement on this issue between the United States and Ukraine".
13:11 Erdogan said that he would call Zelensky in the coming days to discuss possible negotiations with Russia. According to him, Putin's position is not enough, so he wants to hear Ukraine's position on negotiations with Russia mediated by Turkey. In addition, Erdogan intends to discuss the expansion of the grain corridor.
12:56 Russian retreat from Kherson marks another strategic setback for Moscow, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said: "In February, Russia was unable to take any of its main targets, except for Kherson. Now that it has also been surrendered, ordinary Russians must ask themselves Why was all this necessary?
The Minister added that the Russian army suffered huge losses due to its illegal invasion and achieved only international isolation and humiliation: “Ukraine will continue to pressure. The UK and the international community will continue to support it, and although the withdrawal of troops is welcome, no one is going to underestimate the continuing threat from Russian Federation".
12:19 The Border Committee of Belarus complains that the Ukrainian military continues to mine the territories adjacent to the border with Belarus. According to the Belarusian department, in addition to destroying access roads and infrastructure facilities near checkpoints, mines are being set up on the adjacent side on the green border.
11:41 Russia may launch a massive missile attack on Ukraine during the G20 summit on November 15-16, Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat warned: “Even so, events are coming, and the G20 summit. provocations" . At the same time, he noted that although Russia continues to stockpile weapons, including missiles, they have still significantly depleted their stocks.
10:54 Germany has allocated 1 billion euros to Ukraine to protect against cyber attacks and collect evidence of war crimes, writes Reuters.
10:52 The Russians have completely destroyed the energy system of Kherson, said Dmitry Sakharuk, executive director of DTEK: "The entire energy system has been destroyed in Kherson. There are not exactly schedules, there is no electricity at all." He recalled that after the de-occupation of the Kyiv region, the renewal of the energy system took 30 days. According to him, it is expected that the same amount of work will continue in the liberated part of the Kherson region.
10:43 After the liberation of Kherson, Mariupol turns into the main military and logistics hub and rear base of the occupiers, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city. So, according to him, over the past two days in Mariupol, the presence of both the Russian military and the military from the "DPR" has rapidly increased. If before that they were moving past the city, now they are arriving and stopping in Mariupol. They will be quartered again in empty houses and apartments of Mariupol residents.
Another increase in the movement of military convoys with both equipment and ammunition is also recorded. At least twice a day, truck columns of 40-60 vehicles move from the direction of Mangush to the exit in the direction of Volnovakha/Donetsk. The amount of equipment that remains in the city is also increasing. Partially it is parked right in residential areas, not far from their own accommodation.
10:24 Ukrenergo announced additional emergency outages of consumers in Kiev, Kiev, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Poltava and Donetsk regions. In all other regions of Ukraine, outages are not predicted.
10:03 British intelligence believes that the Russians could announce an evacuation from Kherson in order to withdraw the military from the city under the guise of civilians. In all likelihood, the withdrawal process began as early as October 22, when representatives of the occupation administration in Kherson called on civilians to leave the city. At the same time, there is a real possibility that Russian military equipment and forces in civilian clothes have evacuated along with the declared 80,000 civilians in recent weeks, analysts say.
09:22 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of November 12.
personnel - about 80,210 (+810) people liquidated,
tanks - 2838 (+24),
armored combat vehicles - 5730 (+34),
artillery systems - 1829 (+12),
MLRS - 393 (+0),
air defense systems - 205 (+0),
aircraft - 278 (+0),
helicopters - 261 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1506 (+1),
cruise missiles - 399 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4279 (+20),
special equipment - 160 (+1).
08:49 In the Donetsk region over the past day as a result of enemy shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Avdeevka. In addition, law enforcement officers found the bodies of five killed by the Russians during the occupation - four in Yampol and one in Yarovaya. Four more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:21 The liberation of Kherson is an "outstanding victory" for Kiev, says US national security adviser Jake Sullivan: "It looks like the Russians did pull back the troops. And it looks like the Ukrainians just won an outstanding victory when the only regional capital captured by Russia in this war, is now again under the Ukrainian flag."
07:45 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Masyutovka and Orlyanka, Kharkiv region; Novoselovskoye, Myasozharovka, Makeevka and Belogorovka in the Lugansk region and Soledar, Bakhmut, Krasnogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Pervomayskoye, Nevelskoye, Maryinka and Pavlovka in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report .
07:23 After release from the Russian occupiers in Snigirevka of the Nikolaev area torture room where Russians mocked civilians was found out.
05:34 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that PMC Wagner continues to form parallel military structures in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, despite the absence of a threat of a ground invasion of Ukrainian troops into the territory of the Russian Federation.
If it keeps them busy and out of Russia, not to mention annoying Russian locals instead of Ukrainian locals with their jailbird habits, go for it.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are completing the liberation of the right bank of the Kherson region. Satellite imagery confirms that Russian troops destroyed the Antonovsky and railway bridges, as well as the bridge over the Novaya Kakhovka dam, the Daryevsky bridge in a last-ditch attempt to block the advance of Ukrainian troops towards the central part of the region. Geolocation satellite imagery also indicates that Russian troops have prepared the first and second lines of defense south of the Dnieper River and are likely to continue to reinforce positions on the left bank in the coming days.
ISW assesses the entire western part of the Kherson region as liberated, based on the fact that the Russians have lost the ability to hold the territory on the right bank of the Dnieper.
02:17 The invaders decided to make Genichesk the "temporary administrative capital" of the Kherson region, said Alexander Fomin, a representative of the "administration" of the region.
01:22 The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the liberated territories of the south discovered Russian tanks, artillery and other equipment that the occupiers failed to transport across the Dnieper during the retreat, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk: "The equipment is there, it is dispersed. They tried to evacuate the bulk and even moved by those alternative crossings that are not provided for this. Our units have recorded abandoned artillery installations, and tanks, and armored vehicles. From the fields we collect what we have, what is suitable - we will definitely return it as shells in the opposite direction."
Gumenyuk added that the Russians left a lot of mined territories and traps, so it is still dangerous to return to the de-occupied territories.
01:01 British street artist Banksy left graffiti on the ruins of a destroyed house in Borodyanka, Kiev region.
00:14 The Russians have planned the evacuation of collaborators with their families from Novaya Kakhovka on November 12th. They will be taken out of the city in the direction of the Arabat Spit, reports the Center for National Resistance under the MTR of Ukraine.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:29 Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Artyomovsk, Druzhkovka, Dnepropetrovsk - these are all cities in which explosions are now heard at military facilities and energy facilities. 21:27 In Kherson, a curfew will be in effect from 17:00 to 8:00.
18:05 The guys from the artillery brigade, which is stationed in Kakhovka, are destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine who are trying for the second day to approach the shore and pull up the ART, keep up the good work!
It is impossible for the Ukrainians to pull up the artillery, it is necessary to jam them!
Archangel of the Special Forces.
14:49 Our special services in the Kherson region identified and detained an agent of the Ukrainian special services, who conducted reconnaissance and transmitted data to the enemy about the whereabouts of our troops. He did this through the "chat bot", and geolocation. Also in the testimony appears a certain serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Kranitsky Vladimir Fedorovich, to whom the data was transmitted. Now the guy will only see the sky through the bars, at best.
Every resident must understand that there is a war going on and this is not some kind of game. Everything is very serious. And for such actions, the demand will also be very serious. No one gets off on camera with remorse.
12:48 Cleansing of Pavlovka by marines from the 155th Brigade -video.
12:48 Two tanks T-64BV and a BMP-1 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroyed in the Nikolaev region -a photo.
11:24 Emergency power outages introduced in Kyiv and the region - Ukrenergo.
10:30 On the night of November 11-12, in the southern sector of the front, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the positions of Ukrainian militants in Dudchany, Gavrilovka, Zolotoy Balka, Mikhailovka and Novoaleksandrovka on the right bank of the Dnieper.
10:25 Denazified this week (according to confirmed data), foreign mercenaries:
Call sign “Dobure” (Japan), call sign “Trent” (USA), Simon Lingard (Great Britain), Joseph Hildebrand (Canada), Taras Kuzmin (Argentina).
08:25 Parts of the 1st Army Corps took Experience in the Donetsk direction last night.
08:16 "Solntsepeki" burn out the Ukrainians. The result of a sunstroke on the fortifications of the nationalists was recorded by an objective control camera. Upon entering a building, a thermoboric projectile sprays and then ignites an explosive mixture.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:14 In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, units of foreign mercenaries counterattacked in the direction of the settlement. Stepnoe, Vladimirovka and Pavlovka DPR tried to stop the advance of Russian troops. As a result of the fire damage of artillery and army aviation, more than 85 militants, seven armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed. 21:12 While we are advancing on Pavlovka and Ugledar, crests do not stop trying to take Makiivka (which is near Krasny Liman). Moreover, they have been attacking it almost continuously for three weeks now. They attack all the time unsuccessfully, suffer heavy losses. Yesterday and this morning, three major attacks were repelled, the crest climbed ahead - Older than Eda.
Throughout the front from Vuhledar to Svatovo, the classic positional warfare, in which 500 meters of enemy territory captured, can be considered a success.
20:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 12, additional information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk city (Kuibyshevsky district):
- shrapnel damage was received by a high-pressure gas pipeline Ø 529 mm along the street. Slepneva, 82; fire was detected.
n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district):
- st. Belyaeva, 7 - a private residential building; the car was also damaged;
- per. Zvezdny, 2 - a private residential building;
Eight transformer substations are de-energized, without power supply to 834 subscribers of the village sh-ty im. Rumyantsev.
18:25 In Nova Kakhovka, there is a person who died as a result of today's shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Three more civilians were wounded.
18:07 Now we can state that the enemy’s third line of defense in the Avdiivka areabroken through.
The settlement Opytnoe, liberated by the forces of the DPR army on the evening of November 11, played a crucial role in the defensive chain of nationalists near Donetsk. Enemy artillery daily attacked Donetsk from this settlement. Now, the artillery barrels of the militants will be forced to roll back.
The 2nd motorized rifle battalion of the 1st Guards Slavic Brigade carried out a daring counterattack on the attacking formations of the Ukrainians and wedged on their shoulders between the settlements of Vodyanoye and Opytnoye, which actually blocked the latter
Cut off from supplies, the militants were forced to flee, leaving weapons, ammunition, communications equipment and the bodies of their dead. The result - the enemy lost one of the key heights in the Donetsk direction. It became much more difficult for the militants to observe the actions of our forces after the loss of Experienced.
16:37 At 16:05 from n. five shells of 155mm caliber were fired in the direction of the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts in the settlement of Netaylovo. It is reported by the SCCC.
16:36 APU trying to disrupt departure of people from New Kakhovka. The Nationalists began shelling when people gathered in the city center.
12:47 A broken column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Snegirevka.
12:17 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on November 12, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk city (Kuibyshevsky district):
- as a result of a PFM mine explosion, a man born in 1960 was injured.
As of 12:00 on November 12, 86 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. four children, on mines PFM "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
Additional information has been received about damage caused by the shelling of cities by VFU
n.p. Dokuchaevsk: - st. Partizanskaya, 1, 2 - private residential buildings; the car was also damaged.
11:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv district): three shells fired with a caliber of 155mm.
11:04 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
10:53 Soldiers of the 11th Regiment of the NM DPR continue the assault on Pervomaisky - video.
The servicemen, overcoming the resistance of the enemy, move forward freeing the settlement. May Day. One of the fighters shows the destruction inflicted by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the recently liberated village of Peski, which is under constant enemy artillery fire.
10:52 Footage of the consequences of the shelling of the center of Gorlovka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video.
According to the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko, as a result of the blows, the roof of the Shakhtar Palace of Culture, an apartment building, a shop, a currency exchange office and the building of the Gorlovsky motor transport technical school were damaged.
10:32 Rybar: chronicle of the special military operation: November 11, 2022 events
Russian troops completed the withdrawal of troops to prepared defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnieper.
Assault detachments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched another offensive against the strongholds of the RF Armed Forces in Kuzemovka.
Having fallen under the massive fire of Russian artillery, the enemy was forced to retreat to their original positions with losses.
The enemy, supported by artillery, attempted a counteroffensive in the directions of Zaitsevo and Otradovka.
The units of the RF Armed Forces repelled the attack and pushed the Ukrainian formations back to their starting lines with return fire.
Soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion "Sparta" complete the cleansing of the village of Experience.
The capture of the settlement will allow expanding the security zone in the north-west of Donetsk and reaching the flank of the Avdiivka grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy from barrel and rocket artillery fired at the settlements of the Donetsk agglomeration.
Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Donetsk, Gorlovka, Makeevka and Yasynuvata were under attack.
Ukrainian formations made an attempt on the life of the Deputy Minister for Culture of the Zaporozhye region A. Boyko in Melitopol.
Ukrainian formations fired at the suburb of Nova Kakhovka, residential buildings were damaged.
Despite the increased shelling, the Kakhovskaya HPP continues its work.
10:31 First-person tank battle: fighters of the 11th regiment of the NM DPR smash the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video.
Photographed on November 10 in Pervomaisky: an offensive is now underway in this direction. The settlement is one of those from where Ukrainian artillery periodically surrounds Donetsk.
10:29 APU fired from MLRS HIMARS Stakhanov in the LPR at night
Two rockets were fired at the settlement, information about the victims and damage is being specified, according to the representative office of the JCCC in the LPR.
10:06 Appeared on frames undermining the bridge across the Dnieper Kakhovskaya HPP.
09:34 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district): two shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
09:27 Ukrainian militants fired on the Central City district of Gorlovka! Shells hit the building of the Shakhtar Palace of Culture.
09:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
09:08 During the day, twp civilians were wounded on the territory of the DPR, - Headquarters of the TerO DPR.
08:11 AFU shelled the suburb of Nova Kakhovka, residential buildings were damaged.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
Commentary unless otherwise noted is from Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Voenkor Vadlen Tatarsky talks about how and in what way it is possible to improve the tactics of military operations at the front
Following commentary by Russian military correspondent Vadlen Tatarsky
1. Subunits are assigned limited tasks: to capture a settlement or enemy stronghold. Often one has to observe such a picture: there is a battle for a strong point, and in positions nearby there is silence and calmness. Because of such things, it is not difficult for the enemy to understand what our plan is and to concentrate all firepower on repelling the attack.
A similar situation is repeated at higher levels, brigades or divisions. While one brigade is trying to advance, the neighboring one is resting. There is absolutely no interaction with neighbors, especially if the units are from different armies or districts.
It happens that different military units storm one section of the front, but there is no direct connection between them. Constant attacks, in order to improve the tactical situation or simply report success, lead to a waste of resources, but not to defeat the enemy or break through the front. The enemy, giving away a piece of the field or a mowed green, prepared a new line of defense in the rear during this time. For a normal defeat of the enemy, a breakthrough of the front to the entire depth of his defense is needed.
2. Due to the lack of a sufficient number of Orlans and other aircraft-type UAVs, counter-battery combat is completely absent. "Lancets" are a good thing, but they cannot stay in the air for a long time - you need "Eagles" that would detect targets. Our troops simply do not see what is happening behind enemy lines. Just having enough UAVs that can stay in the air more than a drone and fly 20 km, you can organize an effective counter-battery fight.
3. It is necessary to saturate our troops with 82mm mortars or SPG-9 recoiless rifles. Often, barrel artillery and 120mm mortars are used for harassing fire on approaches to a strong point, a small group of infantry, and even a single fighter. Repeatedly had to watch
4. Battalion-level intelligence is simply not there. Enemy firing points are not detected, as a result of which it is impossible to inflict pinpoint damage.
5. Weak interaction between infantry and vehicles. The front is full of absurd cases when, sparing the technique, the fighters were sent to storm without armor cover.
6. The shortage of experienced squad-platoon commanders leads to the fact that even motivated infantry cannot properly organize the interaction between individual fighters on the battlefield.
Khodakovsky about the maneuver of the Russian Defense Ministry Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
According to the commander who participated in the liberation of Pavlovka, the enemy spent much less effort and money on the "capture" of Kherson than we did on the capture of this village
He writes , “If we disregard emotions and speak rationally, then what do I understand? It is clear that a large enemy grouping will be released from under Kherson.
The enemy spent far less forces and means on the "capture" of Kherson than we did on the capture of the unfortunate Pavlovka, which means that the troops that have retained their combat capability will surface in the near future in some other direction (approx. - and this is about a hundred thousand of the most trained troops of the Ukrainian army, the result of a timely verified mobilization) and will create a threat to us there, and now we are pretty thin on any "there".
Of course, we also do not expect them to cross the Dnieper and will also remove part of our resource - the main thing is to properly dispose of it.
[Dawn] The United States is happy for India to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wants, including at prices above a G7-imposed price cap mechanism, if it steers clear of Western insurance, finance and maritime services bound by the cap, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday.
The cap would still drive global oil prices lower while curbing Russia’s revenues, Yellen said in an interview with Rooters on the sidelines of a conference on deepening US-Indian economic ties.
Russia will not be able to sell as much oil as it does now once the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... halts imports without resorting to the capped price or significant discounts from current prices, Yellen added.
"Russia is going to find it very difficult to continue shipping as much oil as they have done when the EU stops buying Russian oil," Yellen said.
"They’re going to be heavily in search of buyers. And many buyers are reliant on Western services." India is now Russia’s largest oil customer other than China.
Final details of the price cap to be imposed by wealthy G7 democracies and Australia are still coming together ahead of a Dec. 5 deadline.
The existence of the cap would give India, China, and other major buyers of Russian crude leverage to push down the price they pay to Moscow, Yellen said.
Russian oil "is going to be selling at bargain prices and we’re happy to have India get that bargain or Africa or China. It’s fine," Yellen added.
Yellen told Rooters that India and private Indian oil companies "can also purchase oil at any price they want as long as they don’t use these Western services and they find other services. And either way is fine."
The cap is intended to cut Russia’s oil revenues while keeping Russian crude on the market by denying insurance, maritime services and finance provided by the Western allies for tanker cargoes priced above a fixed dollar-per barrel cap.
A historical Russian Urals crude average of $63-64 a barrel could form an upper limit.
The cap is a concept promoted by the United States since the EU first laid out plans in May for an embargo on Russian oil to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
INDIA WARY
Yellen’s remarks were made after India’s foreign minister said last week that his country would continue to buy Russian crude because it benefits India.
India’s finance and energy ministries were not available for comment on Yellen’s remarks, but other officials have said they were wary of the untested price cap mechanism.
"I do not think we will follow the price cap mechanism, and we have communicated that to the countries. We believe most countries are comfortable with it and it is in no one’s case that Russian oil should go offline," one Indian government official told Rooters, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... The official added that stable supplies and prices are most important. Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil exporter, is expanding its tanker charter business to avoid its buyers having to find tankers, insurance or other services as the price cap.
Yellen said that even with Russian tankers, Chinese tankers and a "shadow" fleet of older, decommissioned tankers and re-flagged vessels, "I just think they will find it very difficult to sell all the oil that they have been selling without a reasonable price."
[YouTube] The start of the MRAPS story begins in a very unlikely place. We can trace its roots back 40 years before their eventual integration in the US Military during the South African Border War between 1966 and 1990. South Africa was fighting against an insurgency that made use of hit and run ambush style attacks using triple stacked old soviet TM-57 mines.
On October 4th 2022 The US government announced 200 MaxxPro MRAP vehicles were being sent to Ukraine as a part of a new $625 million dollar aid package. This armored truck's unique development story takes us through the biggest change in American defense equipment strategy since World War 2. The MRAP has even recently changed the appearance of the civilian police force in the United States.
The US Army estimates it will need to spend millions of dollars to destroy and get rid of 7,400 MRAPs it no longer needs. The services are getting rid of as many MRAPs as possible — even going so far as to shred thousands in Afghanistan instead of sending them home. The military is selling the shredded metal parts to local Afghans for scrap.
The International Journal of Protective Structures studied the effect of the bend radius against shaped V-hulls. They stated that previous versions of the mine resistant vehicles had too steep of an angle which raised the center of gravity and increased the chances of tipping over. So it’s always been a trade off here between drivers stability vs. protection.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
