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Russia continues its special operation in Ukraine. Day 631. The United States announced a reduction in the volume of new aid packages for Ukraine due to the end of agreed funds. The EU said it is preparing to adopt the 12th package of sanctions against Russia. It may also include restrictions on the export of diamonds.
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An air raid alert has been declared in two regions of Ukraine.
In Ukraine, officials believe that the conflict with Russia is over and are stealing the budget for their own needs, Ukrainian politician Sergei Gaidai said in an interview with the YouTube channel Politeka Online.
As the British magazine Spectator writes, the acute shortage of fighters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine should force the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to announce an urgent mass conscription in the country.
The JCCC representative office reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired four cluster shells at Gorlovka and four more 155 mm shells at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. It is specified that as a result of these attacks, five civilians of the republic were injured and another was killed.
David Cameron visited Odessa
Ministry of Digital Affairs of Ukraine: an air raid alert has been declared in the Odessa and Nikolaev regions.
The Ministry of Education of Ukraine decided to stop the production of textbooks on the Moldovan language after outrage from the Romanian authorities.
The DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that another civilian was injured in the republic during shelling by Ukrainian troops.
The Wall Street Journal suggested stopping dreaming about Russia's defeat
Ukrainian monitoring publics report an approach attack Russian UAVs towards the Odessa region.
Strana.ua: Air forces report Russian drones in the eastern part of the Nikolaev region, which are flying in a northwest direction towards the Kirovograd region.
According to the Telegram channel Russian Cossacks, the 6th Lisichansk Cossack Brigade named after. Platova took new strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversky direction.
Stoltenberg admitted that the situation on the battlefield for Kiev is more complicated than NATO expected.
Kadyrov reported about the battle near Kleshcheevka: “a unit crushed by a crushing blow.”
An air alert has been declared in the Kharkov, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, according to data from the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The US Treasury has added 20 organizations to the sanctions list for the Russian Federation. Three oil tankers were also included in the sanctions list.
People's Deputy of Ukraine Pipa reported that a criminal case has been opened against Alexey Arestovich (listed in Russia as terrorists and extremists).
The National Bank of Ukraine has worsened expectations for the country’s consolidated budget deficit at the end of 2023: it now expects it to be at the level of 20.4% of GDP instead of 19.8%, as follows from the regulator’s materials. This will be a record level since 1992.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claims that Kiev has created a fleet of maritime drones, which is already operating in the Black Sea.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed confidence that the United States, despite disputes in Congress, will not refuse assistance to Ukraine.
“I am confident that the United States will continue to support Ukraine,” Stoltenberg emphasized at a press conference in Brussels. He expressed confidence that the allies of the United States also intend to continue cooperation with Ukraine.
The artist Skochilenko, who exchanged price tags for pacifist stickers, was given 7 years.
The FSB investigator opened a criminal case about treason against an employee of a government agency in the Rostov region. The department's press service reported this to TASS. The woman was detained on suspicion of financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
An air alert has been declared in the Nikolaev, Sumy and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine, according to data from the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a report for November 16:
– Armed Forces Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Federation repelled 14 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction, the enemy lost up to 240 military personnel killed and wounded;
– The Russian Armed Forces repelled the attack of the Azov brigade (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) in the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy lost up to 175 soldiers killed and wounded;
– The Russian Armed Forces repelled three attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansky direction, the total enemy losses per day amounted to up to 110 military personnel;
– The Russian Armed Forces hit manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Torskoye in the DPR and Serebryansky forestry;
– Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk region of the DPR;
– The Russian Armed Forces hit the control center of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region;
– The Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction defeated the manpower and equipment of three Ukrainian brigades, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 100 military personnel and 2 tanks;
– The Russian Armed Forces defeated two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Ugledar and Konstantinovka, the enemy lost up to 70 military personnel, a Krab self-propelled gun and an FH70 howitzer;
– Russian air defense systems destroyed 26 Ukrainian drones during the day, intercepted two HIMARS shells and a JDAM bomb.
In Russia, a court sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment the organizer of the attack on the Bryansk region, a member of the terrorist “Russian Volunteer Corps” banned in the Russian Federation, Denis Kapustin.
The likelihood of Kiev committing sabotage using bioweapons is growing, and from Ukraine There are also other biological threats, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said at a security meeting in the Central Federal District.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have intensified shelling of Russian territory and stepped up sabotage activities, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said on Thursday at a security meeting in the Central Federal District.
The new British Foreign Minister David Cameron during first visit to Ukraine assured Kiev of London's intention to continue to support it, the British Foreign Office said on Thursday.
"I have made it clear that the UK and its partners will support Ukraine and its people for as long as necessary.” ;, – Cameron is quoted as saying in a department statement on the government website.
Republicans in the US Senate have threatened not to support military aid to Ukraine if the administration of US President Joe Biden is unable to reduce the number of migrants entering the country through the southern border, the Semafor portal reports, citing legislators.
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put the ex-Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Parubiy on the wanted list.
A series of explosions occurred in the city of Nikolaev in southern Ukraine, reports the Ukrainian publication “Strana.ua”.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that he met with the new British Foreign Minister David Cameron, they discussed arms supplies to Kiev and their joint production.
The Ukrainian energy holding DTEK said that in one of the front-line areas one of the thermal power plants (TPP) was seriously damaged, residents of a neighboring village were left without water and electricity.
Zelensky met with the new head of the British Foreign Ministry David Cameron in Kiev.
The new British Foreign Minister Cameron arrived in Kiev.
Ukrainian media report explosions in the Khmelnitsky region.
American ex-intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that a recent article in The Washington newspaper Post that explosions at Nord Stream supervised by Ukrainian Colonel Roman Chervinsky, does not prove anything. Ritter is confident that the explosion was planned by US President Joe Biden, who previously stated that if Russian troops enter the territory of Ukraine, the pipeline will be destroyed.
Relations between the Russian Federation and the United States risk being suddenly severed because of Washington. this is not Moscow’s choice, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Former commander of the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Vladimir Sviridov was found dead in his home in the Stavropol Territory, reports the Baza telegram channel. The body of a woman, presumably Tatyana’s wife, was found next to him. The cause of death is not yet known.
Two drones with explosives were found in the Smolensk region. No one was hurt.
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