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[LB] Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, Khmelnytskyi were also attacked.
by Iryna Lysohor
In the Khmelnytskyi region, air defense was working yesterday during the morning air alert. As a result of the downing of one of the air targets, debris damaged a truck. The driver received minor injuries. In addition, there is damage from debris on the territory of food warehouses. Damages are being assessed, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
There were three shellings (15 explosions) on Chernihivska during the day. The enemy fired mortars in the Novgorod-Siverskyi and Koryukivskyi districts. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
At night , along Sumy , the Russians launched a mortar attack on the Yunakiv community. Three explosions were recorded. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 10 shelling of the border territories and settlements of the Sumy region. 70 explosions were recorded. The communities of Krasnopilsk, Myropilsk, Velikopysarivsk, Esmansk, and Druzhbivsk came under fire. No consequences.
During the day, the enemy fired 58 rounds (347 shells) at Khersonska , including five rounds (43 shells) at Kherson. The Rashists targeted the districts of 22 settlements of the region; administrative buildings and a store in the Kherson district; a medical institution, a shop, gas stations and a car wash in Kherson. Yesterday, the enemy hit the Ship district of Kherson. As a result of another shelling, two people from Kherson were injured. A 68-year-old man received non-life-threatening injuries. He was in the building at the time of the enemy attack. A 54-year-old woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The victims are being assisted. Also yesterday, the Russian army massively struck Bilozerka. Two people died, three others were injured. Residential buildings and a grocery store were damaged by enemy fire. A critical infrastructure facility was also destroyed. Currently, Bilozerka and the surrounding villages are without electricity. As a result of massive artillery shelling of Kherson yesterday, three were killed and six were wounded. The enemy hit the residential quarters of the Central and Dniprovsky districts of the city. Houses, cars, a gas station and a car wash were damaged. The youngest injured is a 15-year-old child. She came under fire together with her relative, 52 years old. Both victims were hospitalized. Due to Russian shelling, Kherson has been partially cut off. Some areas of the city remained without electricity. During the day in the region: six people died, another 10 were injured. Later, OVA clarified that two wounded people died in the hospital, another woman died as a result of night attacks.
In Luhansk yesterday, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to storm our positions in Bilogorivka. The Russians are not successful in the Serebrian Forest either, so they almost always carry out air raids there. During the day, the enemy fired 137 rounds (531 shells).
In Kharkivska , the enemy shelled Kupyansk-Vuzlovy during the night, a farm building of 50 square meters was on fire. There are no casualties. The enemy also shelled Kupyansk, three private houses and two farm buildings were damaged. Yesterday, the enemy struck a KAB attack on Borova. The buildings of the State Fire and Rescue Department and two cars were damaged.
In Zaporizhzhia there were 118 strikes per day - the Rashists opened fire on 21 settlements. 96 artillery shells hit the territory of Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Novoandriyivka, Shcherbaki, Lugivskyi, Kamianskyi, Pyatikhatok, Lobkovo, Plavniv, Primorskyi and other towns and villages in the line of fire. The enemy carried out three missile strikes on Robotyn and Novodarivka, 14 attacks from a drone on Gulyaipol, Malya Tokmachka, Poltavak, Charivny, Levadny, Lugivskyi, Maly Shcherbaky and Stepovoy, as well as five attacks from rocket systems of volley fire on Robotyn, Malya Tokmachka, Novodarivtsi and Temyrivtsi. 24 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities. Civilians were not injured.
In Dnipropetrovsk, more than 15 enemy shells flew into the Nikopol district yesterday. The aggressor launched two shellings - hitting Nikopol itself and the Marganets community with heavy artillery. The power line was damaged. At night, the Russian army again attacked the area. The enemy first aimed at the district center from the artillery. Then - from one of the villages of the Marganets community. There were no deaths or injuries.
In Donetsk, eight settlements were under the fire of last-day raids: Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, Antonivka, Orlivka, Solovyove. A residential building, a heating network, a transformer, a 35 kW power network, a warehouse, a shop were damaged. In one day in Donetsk region: two wounded.
In the Odesa region, the enemy attacked with ten Shahed type UAVs at night. As a result of combat work, nine enemy attack UAVs were destroyed within several regions, including Odesa.
In Mykolayivska , forces and means of air defense destroyed an attack UAV of the Shahed-136/131 type at night. Yesterday, enemy shelling was recorded on the open territory of the villages of Solonchaky and Dmytrivka of the Kutsurub community. There are no casualties. Ochakiv was also under artillery fire yesterday. No casualties.
We will remind you that the Defense Forces are continuing their assault south of Bakhmut , inflicting losses on the enemy, and are entrenched at the achieved boundaries. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy carried out assaults in the Ivanivskyi, Klishchiivka and Andriivka areas, where Ukrainian soldiers repelled 18 attacks.
During the past day, 72 combat clashes took place at the front. In total, the enemy carried out 12 missile and 47 air strikes, carried out 38 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
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[Korrespondent] 22:13 A drone tried to attack an aircraft factory in Russian Smolensk, reports the Baza telegram channel. According to him, this morning the drone was suppressed by electronic warfare forces and fell onto the territory of the Smolensk Aviation Plant, after which it pierced the roof of the workshop and exploded. A fire started, which was quickly extinguished; no one was injured.
21:44 Hungary has completely blocked the discussion of new EU sanctions against Russia, said European editor of Radio Liberty Rikard Jozwiak. Today, the first debate took place between EU ambassadors on a new package of sanctions, which, according to the journalist, could become “the weakest.”
21:35 Ukraine has begun negotiations on bilateral security guarantees with Germany - this is the sixth country with which such negotiations are underway, the Presidential Office reported.
20:52 The Ukrainian delegation led by the head of the Presidential Office Andrey Ermak visited the United States this week. The trip took place against the backdrop of blocking aid to Kyiv in Congress and discussions about further support in the European Union. To find out whether the government delegation managed to agree on something, see the article Ukrainians in the USA .
20:21 The Office of the President clarified that a two-day conference of the Ukrainian and American defense industrial base will take place on December 6-7.
19:37 In December, a special conference of Ukrainian and American industry, officials and other government figures will be held - all those who organize defense for Ukraine, Zelensky said in an evening video message. “We are preparing a rather powerful event - in development of the Defense Industries Forum, which took place in September. Now - a forum in Washington and corresponding work with weapons both in Ukraine and in America,” the president added.
19:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the southwest of the Black Sea, seven unmanned boats and a high-speed boat with a landing force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine heading towards Crimea were discovered and allegedly destroyed.
19:00 Serbia would like to take part in the restoration of Ukraine after the end of the war, said the country's Minister of Construction Goran Vesic.
18:12 President of the European Council Charles Michel will arrive in Kiev early next week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, writes Rolitico.
17:26 The Netherlands has allocated an additional 2 billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine for 2024, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said.
17:19 Zelensky signed a law on the redirection of “military” personal income tax.
16:43 The advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank is hampered not only by the fortified Russian defense, but also by the weather, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. She explained that bad weather complicates both physical advance and aerial reconnaissance. At the same time, Gumenyuk added that the enemy now also does not have the opportunity to use tactical aviation as powerfully as they did before, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces are using the current period to consolidate their successes as much as possible.
16:02 According to the BBC, almost 20 thousand men left Ukraine to avoid military service from the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion until August 31, 2023. Journalists requested information about illegal border crossings in Romania, Moldova, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. In total, Ukrainian border guards detained more than 21 thousand people; the vast majority tried to cross the border on foot or by swimming.
15:58 The Defense Council of the Kherson region decided to ban the military from visiting Kherson if they do not carry out combat missions on the territory of the Kherson community. The exception is military personnel who live in the city, are on a business trip, on vacation, or undergoing treatment, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
In addition, the sale of alcohol is prohibited in 13 communities (in Stanislavskaya, Belozerskaya, Kherson, Chernobaevskaya, Muzykovskaya, Daryevskaya, Tyaginskaya, Berislavskaya, Borozenskaya, Milovskaya, Novoaleksandrovskaya communities, as well as in the villages of Novonikolaevka, Cheresnevoye, Kostyrka, Novovoznesenskoye, Novovasilyevka of the Velikoaleksandrovskaya community) . Restrictions do not apply to Kherson, Zelenovka, Stepanovka and Chernobaevka.
15:46 Zelensky instructed the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff and the Cabinet of Ministers to “propose a solution so that the sorties of Dagger carriers do not paralyze the country for hours.” He announced this following a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Participants discussed support for the Defense Forces next year, implementation of current contracts, systematization of international technical assistance, increasing production volumes at domestic defense industry enterprises, and prospects for the missile program.
15:17 Finland announced the provision of another package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 100 million euros. Its contents are not disclosed. This is already the 20th package from Finland, the total amount is 1.5 billion euros.
14:34 Zelensky showed a photo of the Ukrainian military from the Left Bank of the Kherson region:
13:45 According to confirmed data, there are now 4,337 Ukrainian citizens in Russian captivity - 3,574 military and 763 civilians, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
13:39 Consolidating units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in positions on the left bank of the Kherson region may force the Russian Federation to regroup, said the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Evgeniy Erin: “The occupiers will try to carry out some kind of regrouping. They have built a multi-echelon defense system, and as I understand it, they prepared for such scenarios and assumed that they would have to retreat from the left bank."
13:16 The defense forces are carrying out sabotage, raid and reconnaissance actions on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson direction, the General Staff reported. Logistics routes for supplying ammunition and food to Russians are being identified, and the locations of personnel and equipment are being scouted. “Heavy fighting is going on. One of the main goals of this work is to push the enemy as far as possible from the right bank in order to protect the civilian population from constant Russian shelling,” reports the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, the Defense Forces inflict significant losses on the enemy.
12:40 In the last few weeks, air raids in Ukraine, which are announced due to takeoffs of potential Kinzhal MiG-31 missile carriers, last from three to four hours. Find out what the reasons are and what to do about it in the material Terror with Anxiety .
12:32 British intelligence predicts that Russia may move the A-50 aircraft closer to the front line, as it is likely "concerned about the prospect of deploying combat aircraft provided by the West in Ukraine." Most likely, the Russian Federation began to use this early air warning aircraft for the first time. It is necessary to detect targets over Ukraine for the S-400 long-range air defense system. Also, the Russian Federation may take a greater risk and transfer the aircraft closer to the front line, analysts say.
12:13 The Russian army fired at a house in Veletensky, Belozersk community, Kherson region, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. Over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, six people were killed, ten more were injured, including one child. Today it became known that two of the wounded died in hospital. Another person was killed as a result of overnight shelling.
11:51 Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, has lost power as a result of enemy shelling, which damaged the air line, the Ministry of Energy reported. In total, 122 settlements remain without electricity in the region. In Kherson, as a result of the shelling, more than 28 thousand consumers were cut off from power, and in the region - almost 3,000 consumers.
11:27 The Russians have intensified attacks on Avdeevka and are trying to seize the industrial zone, said the head of the Avdeevka GVA Vitaly Barabash: “It’s very hot in our direction. The enemy is pressing and, in addition to trying to encircle, for several days in a row he’s been trying to storm the industrial zone, throwing equipment there, and personnel, and a lot."
11:19 Russia wants to organize a new “Maidan” in Ukraine and remove Zelensky. Zelensky himself reported this to Western media. According to him, this is information from Ukrainian intelligence, which is also confirmed by Ukraine’s partners. This plan in the Kremlin is called “Maidan-3” - it is to sow a split in Ukrainian society, creating chaos, and ultimately remove Zelensky.
Zelensky also once again emphasized that Ukraine will not agree to a frozen conflict and is preparing for winter battles at the front.
11:08 Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces directed artillery fire and hit the Russian Urals with FPV drones, which was carrying Iranian shells for Grads. According to intelligence data, it was possible to destroy 55 Iranian-made missiles and damage the Grad system itself.
10:43 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles were allegedly destroyed over the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea . “Governor” of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev claims that air targets were allegedly shot down in the waters above the Northern Pier.
10:11 During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army “became famous” for its cruelty. The Russian military commits atrocities against not only Ukrainians, but also their fellow soldiers. Over the past week, military propaganda pages have been filled with videos of soldiers being abused. The main reason for sadism in the Russian army is massive drug use. Read more in the article Russian SOLDIERS .
09:28 The supply of 155-mm artillery shells to Ukraine has decreased since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas, Zelensky told Western journalists, AFP reports. At the same time, he clarified that deliveries did not stop completely, but slowed down.
08:56 The defense forces carried out a series of successful operations on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson direction and secured several bridgeheads , the Marine Corps command reports.
08:24 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 17:
personnel - about 316,760 (+1140) people,
tanks - 5415 (+27),
armored combat vehicles - 10,132 (+11),
artillery systems - 7712 (+29),
MLRS - 895 (+3),
air defense systems - 585 (+0),
aircraft - 323 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5709 (+20),
cruise missiles - 1563 (+0),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,077 (+17),
special equipment - 1086 (+2).
07:46 At night, air defense destroyed nine out of ten Shahed-type attack UAVs with which Russia attacked from the direction of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the Air Force command reported. The drones were shot down within the Nikolaev, Odessa, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky regions. In addition, the enemy used several S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles in the Donetsk direction, initially without losses.
07:20 Over the past 24 hours, 72 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Petropavlovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - near Belogorovka, Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - near Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky - east of Stepnoy, Avdeevka and Pervomaisky, Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - near Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Rabotino district and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol direction and assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
03:38 Partisans from the Atesh movement claim that at night they successfully carried out reconnaissance operations on the territory of one of the units of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Feodosia. In particular, they were able to record the exact locations of car boxes, ammunition depots, barracks and headquarters of military unit 80393. The information received has already been transferred to “competent structures” that will “demilitarize” this military unit, the group reports.
02:20 More than 2,400 children from Ukraine from six to 17 years old have been taken to Belarus since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, writes Reuters, citing a Yale University study. Children were regularly transported from at least 17 cities in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine. Thus, more than 2,000 children were taken to the Dubrava children's center in the Minsk region of the Republic of Belarus, and another 392 children were taken to 12 other institutions.
According to the study, the process of deportation of Ukrainian children is coordinated between Putin and Lukashenko. Upon arrival in Belarus, the children underwent military training and were subjected to re-education. Taking children under 18 years of age across borders without parental or guardian consent is prohibited under international humanitarian law.
Pogroms in eastern Europe usually take place with the knowledge of the local constabulary and populace.
[KavkazUzel] A foreigner who fled the country is suspected of setting fire to a Yerevan synagogue.
Of course. It couldn’t possibly be a local who was so hateful.
The criminal case is being investigated by the National Security Service of Armenia under articles of destruction of property and incitement of ethnic and religious hatred, Sledkom reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, early in the morning of November 15, unknown persons set fire to the synagogue; the video was distributed on social networks. The attempt to set fire to a synagogue in Yerevan is not political, but staged and demonstrative in nature, in order to falsely accuse Armenians of anti-Semitism, says the country's chief rabbi Gershon-Meir Burshtein. He noted that the primary source of the video is the ASALA_Young telegram channel, noting that the use of the name ASALA, which at one time acted against the organizers of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
By October 3, the only functioning synagogue in Yerevan, Mordechai HaNavi, was attacked. The organizations ASALA_Young and Young Freedom Fighters of Armenia (YFFA) took responsibility for the desecration of the synagogue. (In the 1980s, ASALA was included in the list of terrorist organizations by the US State Department, but was subsequently removed from it. It was active until the early 1990s, and by the end of the decade it actually ceased to exist as an organization - note from the "Caucasian Knot" ) .
The Jewish community of Yerevan called the attack on the Mordechai HaNavi synagogue in early October a provocation, and a short time later asked the special services to strengthen security for the synagogue, however, now in connection with Hamas’ calls for pogroms around the world. Whose interests were pursued by the authors of the anti-Semitic provocation in Armenia and what is the mutual influence of the conflicts in the Middle East and the South Caucasus, is described in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “ Who needs an attack on the synagogue in Yerevan.”
Criminal proceedings have been launched into the fact that a foreigner set fire to the doors of a Yerevan synagogue and incited ethnic hatred. Law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of Armenia “Damage or destruction of property” (provides for three to six years in prison), the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported today on its official Facebook page*.
"Investigators found that the suspect does not live on the territory of Armenia and is not its citizen, and left Armenia after committing the crime. The suspect recorded his actions on video. The investigation found that the suspect posted and distributed the video on Azerbaijani Telegram channels and social network X with aiming to incite racial, ethnic and religious hatred. It was decided to initiate a second proceeding under Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Armenia “Destruction or damage to cultural property with the aim of inciting interethnic, racial and religious hatred” (provides for six to 12 years of imprisonment),” - the message says.
Both cases were combined into one proceeding and transferred to the investigative department of the National Security Service for further investigation, Sledkom noted.
Armenian Ombudsman Anahit Manasyan called any encroachment on the destruction of places of worship and religious centers unacceptable and reprehensible. “This act should receive an appropriate assessment from law enforcement officers. It is very important to provide guarantees for the protection and safety of representatives of national minorities,” says a message published on the official page of the Ombudsman’s office on Facebook.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In the period from 11 to 17 November 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted 24 group strikes with high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on Liman operational-tactical group and Khortitsa operational-strategic group of force's forward command posts and accommodation points for Ukrainian officers, as well as temporary deployment areas of Azov and Right Sector nationalists formations' militants.
In addition, artillery arsenals, depots of weapons, military equipment, fuels and lubricants, airfield infrastructure, as well as a training center for snipers and engineers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully hit.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces repelled 26 enemy attacks and improved the situation along the front line.
Air strikes and artillery fire defeated manpower and hardware of AFU 30th, 54th, 57th, and 67th mechanised brigades near Sinkovka, Timkovka, Zagoruikovka (Kharkov region).
The enemy losses totalled over 575 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, two tanks, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, and 13 field artillery guns.
In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, repelled 23 attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 24th and 47th mechanised brigades, 12th Special Forces Brigade, as well as the 15th Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine.
The enemy losses were more than 1,100 servicemen, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns.
In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces repelled 33 enemy attacks and inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware near Mariynka, Kurdyumovka, Razdolovka, Andreevka, and Kleshcheyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were more than 1,810 servicemen killed and wounded, two tanks, 24 motor vehicles, and 22 field artillery guns.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces captured more favorable positions and repelled two attacks of AFU 79th air assault, 128 territorial defence brigades' assault groups near Novomikhailovka and Nikolskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Air strikes and artillery fire defeated AFU 72nd mechanised, 58th mechanised infantry, 102nd and 127th territorial defence brigades close to Ugledar, Staromayorskoye, and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Over the week, the enemy has lost more than 745 militants, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, 15 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns, as well as one Grad MLRS.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces repelled three attacks of the AFU units near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 33rd, 117th, and 118 mechanised brigades near Uspenovka and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were more than 425 servicemen, two tanks, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, and seven field artillery guns.
In Kherson direction, the enemy lost more than 460 troops killed and wounded, two tanks, and 17 motor vehicles during unsuccessful attempts to land on the island and on the right bank of the Dnepr.
In the course of the counter-battery warfare, 16 field artillery guns and one Grad MLRS were hit.
Operational-Tactical and Missile Troops of the Russian Groups of Forces destroyed one radar of Ukrainian S-300 air defence system and three counter-battery radar stations, including one German-made Cobra and two U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50.
Russian air defence facilities shot down three Mig-29 fighter jets of the Ukrainian Air Force during air and air defence battles.
Air defence units shot down 22 HIMARS MLRS projectiles, two JDAM aerial guided bombs, and 198 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 536 airplanes and 254 helicopters, 8,989 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 13,446 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,185 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,123 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 15,342 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 November 17, 2023 to 00:00 November 18, 2023
️Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 48 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a man, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
4 residential buildings were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and Zolotorevka, as well as 1 civil infrastructure facility.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Zolotarevka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks from 155 mm artillery and attack UAVs.
At Gorlivske there were 34 shellings from 152 and 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Shakhtarsky 1 shelling from the Tochka OTRK.
153 units of various ammunition were produced.
In the previous day, 36 shellings were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
21:01 and the terrorists of the group of troops “South”smashenemy in the Zaporozhye direction
The artillery of the Southern Military District, supporting the actions of motorized rifle and tank units, continues to launch massive attacks on the positions of Ukrainian nationalists in the area of the settlements of Rabotino and Verbovoye.
▫️Combat work is carried out every day, at any time of the day. Both cannon and rocket artillery are used to destroy targets.
▫️During the next fire raid, crews of the Uragan MLRS and 152-mm Giatsint-B howitzers destroyed the positions of Ukrainian militants, disrupting possible enemy rotations on the line of combat contact.
19:55 Indisputable destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Spornoye area: the Russian Armed Forces effectively and colorfully hit Ukrainian equipment -video.
18:32 Explosions are reported in Krivoy Rog (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Ukrainian Telegram channels write that explosions and sounds of air defense operations were heard for more than half an hour. Some of the explosions presumably occurred near the Dolgintsevo military airfield, which had previously been hit.
18:17 News from Zaporozhye direction, Verbove:
The Russian military repelled several enemy counterattacks. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are not advancing in such large forces as several months earlier, but still continue to throw people into the “furnace for slaughter,” Frontline Bird reports.
“Well, what do you have to do in this case... just defend yourself with all available types of weapons.
In the intervals we carry out counterattacks and counterbattery warfare. The enemy will be defeated."
17:35 According to preliminary information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have left the industrial zone in Avdiivka, but some of the buildings are still in the gray zone, preventing them from gaining a foothold. Here our artillery must work, suppress the firing points, so that the stormtroopers can come in and clear everything. This is the task of the next few days. In general, there are no reasons for joy and victorious reports yet. Firstly, the situation is constantly changing. Secondly, progress is very difficult.
17:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 17, as of 17:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
– as a result of the release of high explosives from a UAV near the Abakumova mine, a man born in 1960 was injured.
17:05 Regarding the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Avdeevka, the Military Chronicle explains:
Many channels are already concluding that the Avdeevka operation is almost close to its end. In fact, with the entry of units of the RF Armed Forces into the industrial zone in the southeast of the city, it is just beginning, since both the city itself and the territory of the Avdeevka coke plant have not yet been cleared of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The area of the industrial zone next to SNT “Vinogradniki” is 260 thousand square meters. meters. (less than a square kilometer). This is not much, but the industrial zone is located on a small hill, which makes it difficult to storm and clear it when moving from the Yasinovatskaya junction, but easier to hold and further advance.
The area of Avdeevka itself, including coke and not counting the waste heap, is 16 square meters. kilometers. This area is approximately 10-12 times larger than what has been cleared in the industrial zone at the moment. Despite the fact that the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces inside city blocks can hardly be called good, these fortifications have been preparing for battle for many years and the work of clearing them will definitely not be easy.
In parallel, powerful combat work is underway to destroy the arriving reinforcements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and disrupt the supply lines that have been working here without problems for the last few years. All actions of the Russian Armed Forces around Avdeevka are interconnected and directly affect the weakening of the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine both in this area and far beyond its borders. However, the most active phase of hostilities, including the clearing of positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Tsarskaya Okhota area, the coking plant and other areas, will apparently begin a little later.
16:32 Avdeevskoe direction. District Step:
The front bird reports that Russian units have advanced forward to a distance of up to one kilometer, having previously suppressed enemy firing positions.
The troops worked with MLRS and mortars. T-90M and T-72B3 tanks are covering our assault groups.
16:20 Brief summary of the situation at the front from NGP intelligence:
Kupyansk direction: fighting is going on in the area of the settlements of Sinkovka, Timkovka, Ivanovka, the enemy attempted to attack our positions in the Sinkovka area, was unsuccessful, suffered losses and retreated.
Artemovsk direction: The Russian Armed Forces continue to expand the bridgehead in the area of the settlement of Kleshcheevka, battles for control of the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Andreevka continue, and our forces have also advanced towards Bogdanovka.
Avdeevskoye direction: fighting is going on to the north near the railway, the Russian Armed Forces have significantly approached the settlement of Novokalinovo, a number of positions have been taken to the west of the waste heap, in the AKHZ area.
On the southern flank, in the area of the industrial zone, our forces are consolidating their positions and preparing for further work.
Fighting continues in the area of Severnoye, control over this area will make it possible to close the pincers around Avdeevka even more tightly.
Zaporozhye direction: in the area of Verbovoye, the enemy made another attempt to break through our defensive line, but was unsuccessful.
Kherson direction: in the area of the settlement of Krynki, the enemy continues to concentrate a significant amount of manpower, while the situation for the enemy here has become somewhat more complicated; after a series of air strikes, the enemy infantry suffered significant losses, but the latter still has enough infantry, there is something to make up for the losses. Continuing the practice of such strikes will certainly affect the enemy's combat capability in the area in the future.
15:30 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the military defense in Ukraine
(for the period from November 11 to November 17, 2023):
During the period from November 11 to 17 this year. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 24 group strikes with high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which forward command posts and locations of the command staff of the Liman operational-tactical group, the Khortitsa operational-strategic group of troops, as well as points of temporary deployment of militants were hit national formations “Azov” and “Right Sector” (terrorist and extremist organizations banned on the territory of the Russian Federation).
In addition, artillery arsenals, warehouses for weapons, military equipment and fuels and lubricants, airfield infrastructure, as well as a training center for snipers and engineering staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully hit.
In the Kupyansk direction, enemy losses amounted to over 575 military personnel killed and wounded, two tanks, 10 armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles, as well as 13 field artillery guns.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, enemy losses during the week in this direction amounted to more than 1,100 military personnel, eight armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles and five field artillery guns.
In the Donetsk direction, enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 1,810 military personnel killed and wounded, two tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, 24 vehicles and 22 field artillery guns.
In the South Donetsk direction, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to over 745 military personnel, 12 armored combat vehicles, 15 vehicles, 20 field artillery pieces, as well as a Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
In the Zaporozhye direction, enemy losses in a week amounted to more than 425 military personnel, two tanks, nine armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles and seven field artillery guns.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy on the right bank of the Dnieper and during attempts to land on the islands lost more than 460 military personnel killed and wounded, two tanks, and 17 vehicles. In addition, during the counter-battery fight, 16 field artillery guns and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle were hit.
Over the past week, operational-tactical aviation and missile forces of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed: a radar station of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as three counter-battery radar stations, including: one supplied to Ukraine by the Federal Republic of Germany - “Cobra” and two US-made AN/TPQ-50.
During air and anti-aircraft battles, three Mig-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were shot down. In addition, air defense systems destroyed 22 HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, two JDAM guided aerial bombs and 198 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
14:27 Kupyansky sectionsituationas of 14.00 November 17, 2023:
Positional battles are still going on near Kupyansk. Russian troops, after advancing to the Timkovka tract, consolidated not far from its surroundings. The combined assault groups of the 41st and 54th infantry brigades hold their lines, despite the losses.
There were no active clashes in the Sinkovka-Liman direction - only isolated shooting battles. Thanks to the disabling of most of the crossings through Oskol, the group’s supplies go all the way through Borovaya, which increases the logistics leverage.
At the same time, the enemy reserves at Kupyansk are present in sufficient quantities to continue the defense of the fortified area. But even this plays into the hands of our troops, since the Ukrainian command is forced to keep forces in the area instead of strengthening other directions.
At the same time, at the Kupyansk-Dvurechnaya line, an armored unit from an unidentified brigade was transferred. If tanks have been deployed to Oskol, then most likely they will be used from closed firing positions to attack the line of contact.
And to the west of Dvurechnaya there is a HIMARS MLRS position area. Given the appearance of long-range MLRS in the area, intense attacks on Russian troops and logistics routes deep in the front should be expected in the coming days.
13:25 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian landing force in the Kherson direction. According to “Come and See”, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to gain a foothold in the bridgehead in the Antonovsky Bridge area.
“The Ukrainian landing force in the Antonovsky Bridge area was destroyed,” the source said.
At the same time, according to him, the fighting in Krynki continues. Part of the settlement remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
13:05 Situation in the Kupyansky direction as of 11/17/2023 – analysis from @Multi_XAM and @z_arhiv:
The Kupyansk direction is again in the spotlight. The bridge crossings across Oskol are out of action, the enemy is experiencing difficulties in terms of withdrawing equipment for restoration, transferring reserves, evacuating 200/300s, and supplying ammunition. The supply shoulder is increasing due to the need to make a detour through the Borovaya area, 32 km south of the Kupyanskaya agglomeration. Therefore, the enemy brought up to 3 units of the M142 HIMARS MLRS to the right bank of Kupyansk to launch strikes from remote firing positions. The answer to the question of why the Russian Armed Forces delayed striking the crossings is becoming more and more obvious. And most military experts agree that the calculation was that in August-September the enemy would pull equipment and personnel onto the left bank (in the area of the industrial zone and Kupyansk-Uzlovoy), and then conditions would naturally be created for isolating them by cutting off supply channels troops. The enemy's main reserves are now concentrated in the area of Nechvolodovka and Blagodatovka, west and southwest of Kupyansk, respectively. Areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are periodically attacked with the use of long-range guns, MLRS and aviation of the RF Armed Forces. And if the enemy manages to accumulate forces in the Borovaya area, then individually the Kupyansk group is currently at an extremely disadvantageous position.
In fact, the main operational task in this direction has been solved - significant enemy forces have been pinned down, which a little earlier the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to transfer to Zaporozhye. In the Sinkovka - Petropavlovka - Stepovaya Novoselovka - Kislovka zone, units of the 14, 41, 44, 67, 88, 115 separate mechanized and 57 motorized infantry brigades, 9, 20 and 70 separate rifle battalions, 101 and 103 separate defense brigades, and the national battalion "Freikorps" are concentrated , “ARTAN” battalion, “KRAKEN” sabotage and reconnaissance battalion (organizations recognized as extremist and banned in Russia), Special Forces (operational subordination to the GUR MOU), 4 separate tank and 95 separate air assault brigades.
Enemy activity is recorded, especially in the area of responsibility of the KRAKEN battalion, which is carrying out daring actions in the direction of the settlement. Ivanovka - Yagodnoe. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to snarl at attempts to advance our forces in the Sinkovki sector, holding the line. The enemy’s forces are not running out, but there is no need to talk about carrying out any large-scale operations here. The main threat is created to the southwest from Borovaya in the direction of Kuzemovka - at the junction of the 6th combined arms and 1st tank armies of the Russian Armed Forces.
The enemy is forced to hold impressive forces on the left bank of Oskol, unable to leave this area due to the threat of losing Kupyansk. The very fact of the presence of a large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area in conditions of disrupted supply creates the preconditions for conducting maneuvers with a wide coverage. Delivery to enemy units from Kupyansk is carried out by passenger cars and trucks; even the movement of large-capacity trucks is limited here. The main fortifications and supports of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the left bank are located in plantings (minus the wetlands), which are now almost completely exposed. The decision to partially evacuate military command and control bodies from Kupyansk in enemy units was perceived as preparation for the surrender of the city, despite the fact that the General Staff did not give the command to withdraw from forward positions. By analogy with Avdeevka. Against this background, the personnel are demoralized. So far, only such units as “Freikorps” and “KRAKEN” have shown resistance, and only because they are subordinate to the command of the Special Forces and in the event of a threat of a breakthrough by the Russian Armed Forces, they will be immediately withdrawn from the affected area.
12:25StatementHead of the press center of the “West” group:
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, units of the West group of troops, using the results of air and artillery strikes, repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 30th and 67th mechanized brigades in the Sinkovka and Zagoruykovka areas.
The crews of operational-tactical aviation aircraft carried out missile and bomb attacks on temporary deployment points and platoon strongholds of the 43rd mechanized and 25th airborne brigades in the areas of Stepova Novoselovka and Berestovoy.
In addition, crews of heavy flamethrower systems struck concentrations of manpower in the shelters of the 54th mechanized and 68th Jaeger brigades in the Zagoruykovka and Sergeevka areas.
During the counter-battery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed three mortar crews and an ammunition supply point in the Nevsky area.
The enemy's total losses amounted to up to a company of manpower, a T-64 tank, two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and two unmanned aerial vehicles.
11:35 Update on Avdiivka:
South-west of Avdeevka: no changes, fighting continues north of Vodyanoye and Opytny, ours took a landing 1.5 km from high-rise buildings in Avdeevka. Perhaps things have changed recently, but there are no messages yet.
South-east of Avdeevka:
– In the area of the Tsarskaya Okhota, ours retreated to the line of the DKAD
– There has been an increase in activity in the area of Promka and Vineyards (dachas). The exact configuration of the front here is unknown, but there is a visual reference indicating that Promka is bypassing from the north. Most likely, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon leave this line of defense, which drank a lot of the blood of the DPR NM in 2016-2017.
Northern flank:
– Advancement continues towards the Zarya dachas at the railway junction in front of Ocheretino. According to Ukrainian sources, they are 1.5 km away. Also, advancement in this area means actions against Novokalinovo - the heights to the south of it are being occupied.
– At the same time, the Avdeevka-Ocheretino railway line is expanding both to the north, towards Ocheretino, and to the south, to the Khimik railway station.
– Petrovskoe (Stepnoe) – gray zone. The struggle for the nearest landings and the northern flank continues.
– Water treatment plants - so far there are no visual references to their taking.
– AKHZ - thanks to the increased railway line to the south, ours are getting closer and closer to the plant’s refractory warehouse.
10:30 The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region at night.
At 00:10 Moscow time, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants launched a rocket attack with cluster munitions on the private sector of the city of Tokmak. There is no information about casualties or damage at the moment. The information is being clarified.
09:57 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:
according to n.p. Krynki 22 shells;
according to n.p. Cossack Camps 10 shells;
according to n.p. Peschanivka 7 shells;
according to n.p. Alyosha 11 shells;
according to n.p. Korsunka 9 shells;
in Novaya Mayachka settlement 9 shells;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Podstepnoye, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Krynki, firing a total of 28 shells from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined
09:18 Zaporozhye front, area west of Rabotino, news from the front:
“In the morning - another daily attack: 4 units of enemy equipment. Two are already on fire. The enemy infantry rushes about and dies.”
08:50 NATO M777 howitzer destroyed by Russian FPV drone operators –video.
08:15 Frontlinesummaryon the morning of November 17, 2023:
In the Kherson-Crimean direction there are oncoming battles near Poima, Peschanivka and Krynok. Neither side has an advantage. Concentration of Ukrainian troops in the Gola Prystan area. Long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces worked on Ukrainian units in Veletinsky, Belozerka, Kamyshany, Kherson, Antonovka, Sadovoy, Tyaginka and Lvov. The opposite story is in Golaya Pristan, Kardashinka, Alyoshki, Poima, Peschanovka, Podstepnoye and Korsunka.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces counterattacked from the west towards Rabotino and from Verbovoy. No success. Under attack are the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kamensky, Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Ugledarsky and Donetsk directions), Pavlovka, Malye Shcherbaki, Novodanilovka, Charovny and Gulyaypole. At the last of the listed settlements, intensification of ground offensive actions by the Russian Armed Forces is possible. Ukrainian artillery worked on Russian positions in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Rivne, Ilchenkovo, Novoprokopovka, Verbovoy and Novofedorivka.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, carried out offensive operations at Novomikhailovka, in Marinka, at Pervomaisky, from the Yasinovatskaya fork to Avdeevka and at Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledarsky directions). In the last two of the listed areas they were successful. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ekaterinivka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye, Netaylov, Tonenkoye, Lastochkino, Berdychi, Keramika and Sukhaya Balka. In reality, Russian troops are striking very powerfully throughout the entire LBS. The Ukrainians responded to the Russian Armed Forces in Staromikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Opytnoye and the village of Krasnogorovka.
08:05 Russian military personnel of the Vostok groupdestroyedfive Ukrainian mortar crews in the South Donetsk direction, including a roaming mortar based on HUMVEE. This was reported by the head of the group’s press center, Oleg Chekhov.
08:01 During the day, 5 civilians were injured from shelling in Donetsk. One woman from 1963 died.
Civilians suffered from shelling of residential areas of Donetsk from the cannon artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Over the past 24 hours, more than 130 rounds of ammunition were fired at civilian targets of the DPR. The greatest activity of the Nazis was noted in the Gorlovka direction.
08:00Summaryon the morning of November 17, 2023:
At night, strikes by the Geranium UAV continued against targets behind enemy lines. Explosions occurred at the Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, and in the Khmelnitsky and Dnepropetrovsk regions. In the morning, our drones were spotted by the enemy as they approached the Kyiv region.
In the Kherson direction, in the evening, massive attacks on the Ukrainian Armed Forces began, the main efforts were concentrated on the enemy shore. Enemy forces are covered by artillery fire near the railway station in Kherson. An enemy column concentrated at one of the city gas stations was also destroyed. During the day, several enemy boats carrying landing forces were destroyed. Front-line soldiers on the ground deny yesterday's reports about “enemy pontoons”.
On the Zaporozhye Front yesterday in the first half of the day, attacks by small enemy groups continued at Rabotino. At Verbovoy, two armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which supported the enemy infantry in the next attack, were destroyed. The attack was repulsed and four enemy servicemen were captured. As a result of counter-battery fighting, the enemy gun "Hyacinth" was destroyed. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not abandon plans to break through the defenses of our troops in this sector of the front.
In the Avdeevsky direction, heavy fighting continues in the industrial zone in the southern sector, as well as near the village. Stepovoye and near the coke plant.
In the Kursk region yesterday morning, the Sudzhansky district was shelled with rockets. Yesterday morning, two UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also destroyed on approach to Bryansk.
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[REGNUM] In Kyiv, another monument to Pushkin was demolished, and to make it even more convincing, they also doused it with paint. A certain slender member of the Rada from Sevastopol with the funny name Dmitro Belotserkovets said that Pushkin “is not part of Ukrainian culture,” and pointedly wrote the poet’s last name in small letters on Facebook (belongs to the Meta corporation, a recognized extremist organization).
Nailed Facebook with that one...
Kulturkampf, you understand.
There is, of course, nothing surprising in the demolition of the monument to Pushkin - not the first and not the last. This is even tragicomic in its own way: for naive Ukrainians, on the list for demolition, Pushkin comes separated by a comma somewhere between the monument to Shchors and Lenin. By the way, this couple may have something to dismantle for, but it certainly didn’t look right to demolish it with the whole herd amid hooting, as Ukrainian passionaries like to do. It’s generally customary for them to go out in the whole village and the reeds rustle.
This phenomenon is explained quite simply. What, in essence, distinguishes a Ukrainian from a Russian? If we discard the Ukrainian identity that has been built up on steroids in recent years, then the answer lies on the surface - place of residence. The further from the city, the more real Ukrainians there are. A Ukrainian who reaches the city turns into a Russian, like an ugly duckling into a swan. If we put the question this way, then Pushkin, who is our everything Russian, poses an existential threat to Ukrainians, although the boys are not smart enough to understand this fact. For them, he's just another tick. That's if it's tops.
How did this happen? The fact is that Ukraine has always been a donor of its elites for us. Bright minds made their way from there to the people of Moscow living rooms and St. Petersburg palaces. Until the inglorious death of the Union and even after. Imagine Peter the Great surrounded by Little Russian Cossacks - reminiscent of an English lord surrounded by natives.
Without Russia, Ukraine has no raison d'être. If it does not supply the brightest minds, then they languish in the deep Ukrainian provincialism, narcissistically fixated on itself and therefore rotting. Ukrainian provincialism is deeper than the mythical Ukrainian culture. Mythical Ukrainian culture is the subject of study by local historians. The triumph of mythical Ukrainian culture for local historians is the surrounding of the city by the village. This is Mao's cultural revolution, this is Pol Pot's repression of people with glasses.
What alternative can such a culture offer Pushkin? Can it even offer anything universally valuable to European (and world) culture, as can Russian literature based on Pushkin? Residents of Ukraine love to beat their chests about Gogol, they say, he’s our guy. Even without entering into this annoying argument with them a la “Kalashnikov stole from Schmeisser,” let’s just remember that Gogol would not have been Gogol if he had not communicated with Pushkin.
Residents of Ukraine, poorly educated by the Soviet of Deputies, like to name every second booth after Shevchenko. But where is Pushkin and where is Shevchenko? Pushkin was ahead of himself and aesthetically verified the Russian language. Shevchenko, in defiance of the aesthetically verified Russian language, decided to write mournful poems about pogroms of Jewish shopkeepers in a small-town dialect, which is generally shy in polite society. Shevchenko, therefore, in Hamburg terms can only compete with the fiend of Soviet literature named Dzhambul Dzhabayev, but not with Pushkin.
Blacks in London vandalized the Churchill monument because of the innocent murder of criminal George Floyd; Ukrainians in Kyiv demolished the Pushkin monument because of the civil war they had started. The acute resentment of Ukraine, which is trying to prove its independence and superiority to Russia, is similar to the rebellion of a spoiled teenager. He is determined, but lacks the intelligence to realize the stupidity of his rebellion. Anti-colonial discourse did a great job of helping Ukraine free itself from the gifts of the metropolis, but what did it give it in return? Moral decline.
Today's Kyiv is Constantinople, brutally raped by the Turks, remade into Istanbul with thick fingers and dirty nails, which they spat on and rubbed so that in the reflection they could see a smile full of rotten teeth. “Loop-yu-yura, hi live-e-e, ga-a-anba!” Bulgakov could have made a sequel to The Days of the Turbins based on this depressing material.
To be honest, I don’t feel sorry for them at all. They worked for this for a long time and consciously. It is unlikely that the West gave them vodka to demolish Pushkin. It was always there in them. Ukrainians without Russia reveal their qualities such as sharpness, assertiveness and irony in the form of treachery, cruelty and obscenity. Naturally, such a set of qualities will lead them in the direction we need, and Pushkin... Pushkin will return.
The main thing that we must understand now is that Russian culture and its bearers, the Russian people, are now being held hostage by terrorists hungry for Russian blood. When they fail to pin the Russian against the wall for brutal reprisal, they take it out on Pushkin. But neither he nor we are either cold or hot from this. But the Russian people need to be saved.
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[Regnum] Russia has begun free grain supplies to African countries. Journalists were told about this on November 17 during a visit to the exposition of the Ministry of Agriculture “Eat Your Own!” at the international exhibition and forum “Russia”, the head of the department Dmitry Patrushev said .
More gifting of the Ukrainian harvest without asking or getting permission? How generous Russia is, to be sure.
He added that the government has made all the necessary decisions to carry out supplies.
“The first two ships - 25 thousand tons each - in the direction of Somalia and Burkina Faso have already left Russian ports,” Patrushev said.
The minister said that the first ships will arrive at their destination ports in late November - early December. According to him, ships to the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Mali and Eritrea will be loaded with wheat in the near future and sent to these countries by the end of this year.
The total volume of supplies by the end of the year will be up to 200 thousand tons.
As Regnum reported , Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 20, during a speech at the parliamentary conference “Russia - Africa in a multipolar world,” said that Russia would be ready to supply free grain to African countries in need in a volume equal to previous supplies under the grain deal in the event of its non-renewal. He also added that Moscow conscientiously fulfills all obligations to supply food, fertilizers and fuel to African countries. Putin emphasized that Russia is ready to supply fertilizers to African countries for free, but the West does not allow this to happen.
At the Russia-Africa summit in July, the Russian leader said that Russia would supply 25-50 thousand tons of grain free of charge to countries in particular need of food, such as Burkina Faso, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and Eritrea. Patrushev said at the summit that Moscow has tripled wheat supplies to Africa .
In August, the Minister of Agriculture announced that Russia would supply Africa with up to 50 thousand tons of grain free of charge.
On September 4, Putin, following negotiations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, said that Russia would begin supplying free grain to six African countries in a couple of weeks . He clarified that Russia is ready to supply up to 1 million tons at a preferential price through Turkey to the poorest countries and is counting on the assistance of Qatar.
The grain deal between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN was in effect since July 22, 2022. The initiative was extended several times. On July 17, 2023, Russia suspended participation in the agreement due to the systematic failure of the West to comply with the terms. Moscow also took such a step because Kiev actually turned the agreements into its own commercial project, supplying rich Western countries with Ukrainian food, rather than needy states, as was originally planned.
EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on September 19 that he sees no chance that agreements with Moscow on a grain deal will be reached. In turn, Putin noted that Russia is ready to return to the Black Sea initiative, but only when there is real fulfillment of all obligations to Moscow.
Pretty good advice for Americanski as well.
[Regnum] An adult, if there are no contraindications, needs to eat soup at least two or three times a week for a healthy diet, Daria Utyumova, a therapist at the SberZdorovye medical company , told Izvestia on November 17 .
She said that properly prepared soup contains a balanced amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and other microelements that contribute to the proper functioning of the body. Cooking allows you to retain more nutrients than when frying, baking or stewing. Soups are also digested faster than other dishes, the doctor emphasized.
“Vegetable soups contain a large amount of dietary fiber. They help improve peristalsis - contraction of the gastrointestinal tract, on which our well-being depends,” said Utyumova.
The therapist also recommends draining the first broth. This is necessary to get rid of excess fat and chemicals accumulated in the animal's body due to animal feed.
As Regnum reported , on November 14, cardiologist Yuri Konev named food products that can be dangerous to the functioning of the heart . He said that excessive salt consumption has a bad effect on certain vascular diseases, and that consuming alcohol, fast food and foods with a lot of sugar is also harmful to the heart.
The journal PLOS One published a scientific article on October 30 about the health effects of adding sugar to tea or coffee. Scientists from Leiden University in the Netherlands observed almost 3 thousand people for 32 years and found that sweetened foods do not affect life expectancy. In this case, there should not be more than five grams of sugar in the cup.
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A mass poisoning of cadets occurred at the Odessa Naval Lyceum; 100 people sought medical help, of whom 76 were taken to the hospital, the Ukrainian publication “Strana․ua” reported on November 17, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
“According to preliminary data, they were poisoned by low-quality food in the canteen of the maritime lyceum,” journalists were told.
In connection with the incident, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under an article providing for violation of sanitary rules.
The publication recalled that a similar situation arose in the same lyceum in September. Then 68 cadets were hospitalized. Examinations showed that the poisoning also occurred due to poor quality food in the canteen.
As Regnum reported, in May it became known that in one of the brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 40 servicemen died from dumpling poisoning. The products were brought to the unit by a volunteer organization. After this, the Ukrainian military was prohibited from accepting humanitarian aid from unverified organizations.
[FoxNews] Moscow is trying to bribe its citizens into signing up to serve in the military as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches his forces continue to shrivel up in Ukraine the longer the conflict lasts.
"Putin has launched a full-on recruitment drive," Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author of "Putin’s Playbook," told Fox News Digital.
An analysis from The Atlantic Council found that Russian armed forces have turned to the civilian population to help fundraise for additional equipment, including drones, thermal sights, vehicles and medicine, through a group called "All for Victory," run by propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
The most surprising initiative Russian officials have pursued involves a 1 million ruble payment (around $11,000) for anyone who signs up for the "elite division." Several pro-military accounts on Telegram amplified the initiative.
The Atlantic Council noted that this followed an earlier initiative that tried to hire contractors for around 600,000 rubles (around $6,600) in October.
"Every Russian newspaper, from Izvestia to Moscow Young Communist, is carrying an announcement about an ‘elite combat division’ of contract
soldiers being recruited for the special military operation," Koffler said.
Koffler argued that "Putin is almost certainly preparing for what likely will be a very long conflict in Ukraine" with what amounts to "effectively" a "covert mobilization."
The U.K. Ministry of Defense said last month the number of Russia's total "permanent" casualties — which includes those discharged due to injury — is as high as 150,000 to 190,000 since the conflict began, with total wounded taking the number to just under 300,000, not including the Wagner Group and "prisoner battalions" that fought in Bakhmut. The ministry in February more specifically cited a figure of 40,000 to 60,000 dead.
"Idite Lesom," an anti-war initiative in the country of Georgia that seeks to help Russians dodge the military draft, reported on its Telegram channel that potential recruits in several regions, including Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and the city of Irkutsk, have received text messages advertising "contract services."
Russia over the summer tried to lure troops from neighboring Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, with payments of over 450,000 rubles (around $5,000) offered as pop-up adds on the internet, Reuters reported.
Despite Kazakhstan calling for peace and not backing Russia’s invasion, the ads urged Kazakhs to stand "shoulder to shoulder" and join the Russian military, which would provide an additional monthly salary of at least 190,000 rubles (around $2,000) a month and "undisclosed benefits."
Koffler revealed that some of these benefits include: 50% compensation for rent, including "complete renovations"; free transportation; psychological assistance; free college education; vacation time, to be used at their discretion; free gasoline; and "so on."
Lots of promises, when Russian soldiers are complaining they have neither pay nor proper uniforms.
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[Regnum] Several armed men opened fire near a bank building in the center of Moscow and stole about 300 million rubles from couriers. As RIA Novosti reported on the evening of November 17, they are looking for the robbers.
“Preliminarily, at the bank on Presnensky Val, unknown persons in a car drove up to the couriers who were carrying about 300 million rubles, opened fire, and then stole the money,” said the agency’s source.
As Regnum reported , on October 4 in Moscow, a driver was shot at and robbed after stopping at a traffic light. The incident occurred on Donetskaya Street, the criminals broke a car window and shot at the man driving, then took a bag from the car, which, according to the victim, contained money, and fled the scene.
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