Bob Homans November 6
20221107
Ukraine – 11/6 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
Twitter: @rhomansjr
November 6, 2022
Latest Lawrence Freedman/”War War or Jaw Jaw?” (attributed to Winston Churchill)
Freedman concludes his latest Substack post as follows –
“One might hope that the accumulation of bad news from the front might weaken Putin’s resolve and lead him to discuss peace deals in more realistic terms. An additional basis for hope might be found in the saga of the on-off grain deal. After an audacious Ukrainian attack on the Russian Navy near its port of Sevastopol a furious Putin announced that he was suspending Russia’s participation in the export of Ukrainian grain by sea to countries that could experience food shortages without it. Turkey, which had brokered the deal in the first place, insisted that the shipments would continue, at which point Putin relented. The suspension was over. There are obvious positives from this episode: the trade continues; Putin has shown that he knows how to back down, especially when the alternative is to start sinking food ships; Turkey’s President Erdoğan has demonstrated that he is always available as a mediator (he has also been active in prisoner exchanges). But there was also a severe backlash in Russia (as there had been with past prisoner exchanges) over the appearance of weakness and concessions.”
“This illustrates Putin’s problem. If, as I suspect, he fears having to order his troops to withdraw from all of Ukraine because on the anger and recriminations that would follow, then he will struggle to take the initiative even if his forces continue to be pushed back towards Russia’s true borders. If the military retreat at least he can still blame the generals and he has a ready-made excuses for Ukraine’s current strength - the range of support given by the US and its allies to Ukraine. The Russian people can appreciate that if they are really fighting all of NATO it might be tricky to prevail.”
“Letting events on the batlefield take their course carries its own dangers for Putin. The spectre of defeat will hang over the Kremlin. The decision-making process will malfunction and frustrations will grow among the elite. Potential successors will start jockeying for position. The military will get caught between their need to conserve forces while not abandoning strategic poisitions, between a system demanding success yet incapable of providing the necessary resources.”
“Faced with stark choices Moscow might suddenly discover a serious interest in negotiations. Until then, however, there is little choice but for Kyiv, with Western support, to persevere with its efforts to liberate territory until a point is reached where a Russian defeat can no longer be denied – or, to use another Churchillian phrase, to ‘keep buggering on.’ “
Prigozhin/The Wagner Group
There are two recent articles concerning The Wagner Group and Evgeny Prigozhin, the Founder of the Wagner Group and the man known as “Putin’s Chef.” The first describes a lawsuit against Wagner, and Prigozhin personally, for war crimes that Wagner committed in Ukraine. The suit was filed on behalf of several Ukrainian victims and seeks monetary damages.
The second, entitled “Mercenary Lawyers,” describes correspondence revealed in a hack between Prigozhin, his Russian law firm, and firms in both the U.S. and U.K. concerning legal action that Prigzhin’s representatives were planning to take against several western publications, and against Elliot Higgins, founder of “Bellingcat,” personally. The suits allege that these publications, and Hggins, libeled Prigozhin for stating that Prigozhin is the Founder of Wagner and controls the affairs of Wagner. Prigozhin has now effectively admitted as much, by going to Russian prisons on behalf of Wagner, to recruit prisoners to fight with Wagner in Ukraine.
News From the Battlefield
The Latest Denys describes defense lines that Russians are building on both banks of the Dnieper River in and around Kherson City. A recent post by Askold Kruschelnycky of the London Times discusses the possibility of Russia trying to set a trap, to lure Ukraine into Kherson City, to sap Ukraine’s strength not only in urban fighting but also from a Ukrainian attack across open country, in order to get to Kherson. At around 5:10 into the Latest Denys, he has a map of Ukraine showing the extent of the electricity blackouts. Yesterday, as reported in the Sitrep, Kyiv authorities said they were planning to evacuate the entire city, in the event of a total failure of the electrical grid.
“Reporting From Ukraine” covers fighting in Donetsk, where Ukrainians have gained ground both near Lysychansk and, to the south, in Bakhmut. These are areas where the Wagner Group is particularly active, and Russian casualties have mounted, mostly recent conscripts and prisoners.
Ukrainian advances will likely slow down due to increasingly bad weather but, in terms of logistics and the preparedness of Ukrainian troops to deal with bad weather, both Generals Fall and Winter appear to be fighting on the side of Ukraine.
11/6 Sitrep
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon November 5 to 12:00 noon November 6, 2022
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military Administration SBU = Security Service of Ukraine
INTERNATIONAL
November 6
11:52 a.m.: Recent developments in Kosovo "jeopardize years of hard work" as part of a dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the EU high representative for foreign affairs Josep Borrell said.
· The withdrawal of Kosovo Serbs from all institutions of power in Pristina "is not a solution to the current differences and may lead to further escalation of the situation on the ground."
11:42 Japan Today: Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Japan Rishi Sunak and Fumio Kishida agreed to strengthen support for Ukraine and maintain sanctions against Russia during a telephone conversation.
· According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Sunak and Kishida confirmed that Japan and Britain would accelerate negotiations on a speedy agreement that would strengthen interoperability and cooperation between their armed forces.
· The signing of an agreement on the creation of a joint development of the fighter will also be accelerated.
10:58 Sky News: Britain's new prime minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak could not object to media questions that the Indian company in which his wife has a stake still has an office in Moscow and is working with Russia's Alfa Bank.
· "I'm an elected politician and I'm here to talk about what I'm responsible for. My wife is not," Rishi Sunak replied.
10:44: The Washington Post reports that U.S. warplanes are heading toward Iran.
· This is the US response to the plans of Iran, which is preparing to attack Saudi Arabia - the US partner in the Middle East.
09:08 Reuters: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in an open letter called on the new owner of the Twitter company, Elon Musk, to ensure that human rights are respected on the social network.
· Twitter Inc laid off half of its workforce on Friday, and tweets from social media employees said the human rights team was among the victims, which Türk called not an "encouraging start."
2022 Washington Post: The Biden administration privately asks the Ukrainian leadership to show openness to negotiations with Russia.
· The request is aimed at ensuring the preservation of Ukrainian support from other countries that face "voters' fears about delaying the war in Ukraine for years."
08:00 Institute for the Study of War: Iran began to use Russia's dependence on the supply of kamikaze drones in exchange for assistance in the implementation of the nuclear program.
November 5
23:46 Yle: Temporary protection for Ukrainians in Finland should automatically be extended for another year. New documents do not need to be drawn up.
· In Finland, on the basis of temporary protection, approximately 41 thousand people who left Ukraine because of the war received residence permits. By the end of the year, it is expected that their estimated number will increase and in total will be 48 thousand people.
23:14: U.S. submarine Rhode Island arrives in Gibraltar for a scheduled visit. This is reported by the US Navy
· "The USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740) has arrived in Gibraltar for a scheduled port visit on November 1, 2022," the statement said.
21:17 Assistant Secretary of State: The United States and allies are preparing new sanctions against Iran for Russian arms supplies.
· "We will do everything we can to prevent Iran from supplying weapons to Russia."
20:02 Balkan Observer: Kosovo Serbs, in protest against Pristina's decision to replace Serbian car numbers, have decided to withdraw from all Kosovo institutions.
· As a result of the decision, the Serbs leave all the authorities of Kosovo - the parliament, government, judiciary, police, as well as four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.
17:01: Beer under the brand name "Azovstal" and with a Ukrainian trident on the label produces a brewery in the American city of Noble (Indiana). This was announced in a comment to the media by the mayor of Zhytomyr Sergey Sukhomlin.
16:30 Habertürk - NATO Secretary General: Despite Russia's return to the "grain deal", the risks of closing the grain export corridor remain.
· "As long as the war continues, such risks persist. To combat hunger, it is necessary to deliver grain from Ukraine to world markets. The grain agreement on this is extremely important," Stoltenberg said.
16:21: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has shown how Canadian instructors in Operation UNIFIER - UK in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland train recruits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:52 Bild: On November 3, a new batch of Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones arrived in Moscow, according to military expert Julian Ripke.
· Bild came to this conclusion after analyzing two photos taken during the unloading of the aircraft. On the frames – the process of moving pallets with large boxes to the warehouse. The board, which landed in Vnukovo, is officially owned by the private Iranian airline Pouya Air.
15:32: The American nuclear submarine USS Rhode Island entered the Mediterranean Sea in early November, according to the US Navy.
· The boat is considered the world's largest underwater carrier of nuclear weapons. It can carry 24 intercontinental Trident II missiles (from 150 to 200 nuclear warheads), which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of 18 thousand kilometers at a speed of 29 thousand km / h.
15:22: 17 EU countries have sent 500 energy generators to Ukraine, according to the Main Directorate for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Assistance Operations.
· This was done to support the country amid regular power outages.
12:25 Delfi: Lithuanian border guards did not allow trains with Russian military symbols on the cars.
· The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said border guards ordered five cars to be unhooked and returned to the Kaliningrad region.
12:15 NATO Secretary General: Russia must understand that there will be no winners in a nuclear war.
· "Putin started this war. It was his choice. He can end this war tomorrow if he wants," Stoltenberg added.
NATIONAL
November 6
11:32 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: From December 14, it will be possible not to receive a plastic driver's license and vehicle registration certificate in Ukraine.
· Documents can be obtained electronically. Either exclusively online with registration of only an electronic version, or with the design of traditional plastic forms, for example, in the service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
10:03 Ambassador of Ukraine to Latvia: In Latvia, winter uniforms began to be sewn for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
· Riga company "PRIVA" began sewing winter military uniforms for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:14: Civilian casualties as a result of Russia's armed aggression for 05.11.2022 according to regional military administrations
· Dnipro – 1 wounded
· Donetsk – 1 killed – 3 wounded
· Zaporizhia – 1 killed – 1 wounded
· Kharkiv -1 wounded
09:17 Ministry of Justice: "Wedding boom in Ukraine - love unites Ukrainians, despite a full-scale war."
· According to the Ministry of Justice, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, about 2,500 remote marriages were registered.
08:52 Institute for the Study of War: A significant part of Wagner's forces in Ukraine are zeks, they suffer losses at the front.
· According to analysts, the PMC has lost from 800 to 1000 mercenaries in Ukraine, and in the last two months alone, more than 500 prisoners recruited to Wagner units have been eliminated.
· "Ukrainian intelligence officers also previously reported that many prisoners suffering from infectious diseases had infected Wagner troops, to which Prigozhin replied that he was not discriminating on the basis of illness."
08:00 Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights: reported on the removal by Russians of pupils of the Oleshky orphanage in the Kherson region to the clinical psychiatric hospital in the Simferopol district of Crimea.
07:24: Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
· Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repulsed Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Zybyne, Kharkiv region, Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region; Andriivka, Bakhmutske, Berestovo, Mayorsk, Makiivka, Marinka, Ozaryanivka, Opytne, Pavlivka, Yakovlivka and Yampolivka in the Donetsk and Shcherbaky regions of the Zaporizhia region.
· Over the past day, the Russians launched 4 missile and 19 air strikes, carried out more than 75 shellings from the MLRS
· More than 35 settlements of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions suffered strikes.
· From the settlement of Zavodivka, local residents are taken to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, followed by resettlement to the territory of the Russian Federation
· On November 5, Russians sent messages to subscribers of Russian mobile operators in Kherson warning of the alleged preparation of massive shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and calling for them to leave the right-bank part of the city as soon as possible. At the same time, in some settlements, Russians are destroying the towers of Ukrainian mobile operators.
· The defeat of Russians in the previous days in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhia regions was confirmed - General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
· Thus, in the settlement of Chulanivka, Kherson region, a blow was struck at the area of concentration of the Russian unit. In the settlement of Basan, Zaporizhia region, the headquarters of one of the units of the RF Armed Forces was defeated, up to 10 units of military equipment and about fifty servicemen were destroyed. In the areas of the settlements of Polohy and Marfopil, 20 units of military equipment were destroyed and up to 80 servicemen of the Russian troops were wounded.
· The Defense Forces of Ukraine over the past day inflicted 7 strikes on the Russians, - General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
· 6 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as the position of the air defense of the Russian Federation, fell under the defeat. Ukrainian air defense units shot down 4 UAVs.
07:10 Operational Command South: The defense forces worked on the stronghold and the area of concentration of forces and means of the Russian army in the Beryslav district.
· Rocket and artillery units performed more than 140 fire missions, including in the area of concentration of Russian manpower and equipment in Heroskoye and Radensk.
· The losses of the Russian troops are 57 military, 2 tanks, 2 large-caliber howitzers, 3 units of armored vehicles and damaged the howitzer cannon and 2 cars.
November 5
21:41 press service of the NBU.: The National Bank has eased currency restrictions for volunteers who help the military.
· The National Bank has added thermal imagers and "a number of other devices" to the list of defense goods. Volunteers can pay for such goods with hryvnia cards abroad without restrictions.
20:31: The Ministry of Reintegration announced the resumption of PrivatBank's work in the liberated Lyman.
· This is the first city in the de-occupied part of the Donetsk region, where this institution returned. In the coming days, they promise to launch a branch of Privat in the villages of Veliky Burluk and Borova, Kharkiv region.
19:11 press service of ARMA: Within two months, the volume of the deposit portfolio of the Agency for Tracing and Management of Assets (ARMA) doubled to 1.4 billion in hryvnia equivalent.
· "Increasing the amount of seized funds on the deposit of the National Agency is important in view of the fact that through these funds ARMA buys military bonds and thus finances the defense needs of the state during the war," the message says.
18:19 Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on November 5:
· During the current day, the enemy inflicted 4 missile and 5 air strikes, carried out more than 20 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems.
· The enemy's strikes were carried out by areas of more than 20 settlements of Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
· As a result of the actions of the Defense Forces in the Kherson region, the area of concentration of the Russian occupation forces in the settlement of Radensk was affected. Enemy losses are being clarified.
· During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces has inflicted 3 strikes on areas of concentration of enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment.
· Air defense units shot down 1 Merlin UAV. According to the updated information, during the previous day, 2 Ka-52 Alligator helicopters were destroyed.Units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces in a day hit 9 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment and an ammunition depot of the occupiers.
17:30 Politico: The Russians have not destroyed a single HIMARS launcher in Ukraine.
15:42: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko reacted to Iran's statement about the supply of drones to Russia, but allegedly before the war.
· He stressed that the Iranian side had previously denied in every possible way the supply of weapons to Russia, which it uses in the war. And now their position has changed.
· "We will continue the most stringent measures to prevent Russia from using Iranian weapons to kill Ukrainians and destroy infrastructure.
15:12 Operational Command South: Russian troops are transferring elite units from the western bank of the Dnieper, and those units that remain are cut off the paths for retreat.
· According to her, this can be done to provoke the Armed Forces of Ukraine to a premature attack and lure Ukrainian units into street fighting.
3:04 President: United24, a fundraising platform to help Ukraine, has raised more than $217 million in 6 months of work.
· These funds were used to purchase ambulances, medical equipment, the first Armtrac 400 demining vehicle in Ukraine, thousands of drones, bulletproof vests, helmets and other ammunition for the military, he said.
14:46 Minister for Veterans Affairs: In Ukraine, after the end of the war, there will be about 4 million veterans and their families who will need benefits.
· Before the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation, this number was more than 400 thousand people. Now this figure has already doubled and amounts to 860 thousand - 1 million people.
2:36 p.m.: Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov thanked the United States for providing Ukraine with a new $400 million military assistance package.
· The United States will provide Ukraine with 45 updated T-72B tanks with improved optics, communications and reservations, as well as 1100 Phoenix Ghost tactical UAVs, 40 armored river boats, secure communication systems and surveillance systems. Funding is also allocated for the modernization of 250 M1117 armored safety vehicles.
14:16 Prosecutor General's Office: A resident of Shostka was sentenced to 15 years behind bars, who, on the instructions of a curator from the Russian Federation, collected data on the locations of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
· Following the instructions of the curator, the man sent him with the help of one of the messengers photos and videos of the places of deployment of military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations, data on the number of personnel and military equipment, - the message says.
12:55 Coordination meeting of the Government, the UN and USAID - Minister of Reintegration: "We need thousands of generators for places of compact residence of IDPs."
· "Ukraine needs a lot of generators of different capacities to equip at least 800 heating points in the frontline and newly liberated territories. And also – places of compact residence of IDPs, of which there are about 5670 in the country."
12:45 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council: "Our Oksana will spit on the graves of your men with their necks turned."
· Earlier, propagandist Simonyan wrote on social media that "the day will come when Russians again come to hospitable, cheerful, bright Kyiv, and Russian men will turn their necks, looking at the black-browed Oksana."
12:07: Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the Netherlands, the United States and the Czech Republic for providing Ukraine with 90 T-72 tanks.
13:46 SBU press service: SBU exposes a "judge" from occupied Yevpatoria who facilitated the new deportation of Crimeans to Siberia.
· In addition, the Security Service exposed another collaborator hiding in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine. It turned out to be the former deputy head of the Kherson customs, who, after the seizure of part of the region, supported the Russians.
MORDOR (Russia)
November 6
00:45: A video of the destroyed city appeared on the network. The author of the video first states that the destruction was caused by shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, in the end, he reports that the video was shot in the Russian city of Novosibirsk.
November 5
22:36 Layout: A battalion of mobilized from the Voronezh region was destroyed near Makiivka in the Svativ district of the Luhansk region.
· According to the source of the publication, the death toll may exceed 500 people.
· According to the source, local and contract workers do not want to fight, and mobilized from all over Russia are being brought to the Svatove area to close gaps in defense.
17:20: A video of the start of a fire at the Polygon café in Russia's Kostroma, where a Russian who fought in Ukraine burned 13 people, was posted on social media.
· In the footage, the cries of people are heard trying to get out of the burning building. The entire ceiling is already in smoke, part of it burns and collapses.
17:11: In Yekaterinburg, a railway train with fuel prepared for supply to the Russians in Ukraine was blown up at night.
· Responsibility was assumed by the all-people's movement of the Legion "Freedom of Russia" .
13:05 Russian Media: In the third quarter of 2022, the number of Russian visits to Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia and Abkhazia became a record over the past five years – 9.7 million citizens.
12:35 Russian Media: A nightclub called "Polygon" erupted in Russia's Kostroma, killing 15 people.
KHARKIV
November 6
09:45 Kharkiv RMA: During the day, the enemy continued shelling the territories of the Kupyansk, Kharkiv and Chuhuiv districts of Kharkiv region, adjacent to the contact line and the border with Russia.
· In Vovchansk, a 58-year-old woman who was injured the day before sought medical help.
LUHANSK
November 6
November 5
20:38 Luhansk RMA: It will take ten years to demine Luhansk region.
· He noted that, first, demining will be carried out on the main roads and critical infrastructure.
· The Armed Forces of Ukraine in Luhansk region are moving 500 meters daily.
· "There are losses, so we must not forget at what price the territories are liberated. The news is good, maybe not as fast as we would like, but at 500 meters our troops are advancing every day," he said.
16:11 Luhansk RMA: In Luhansk region, the heaviest sections of the front are the Svatovsky and Kremin directions.
· "They have already managed to pull up freshly mobilized Russians there; the number of shellings per day counts in the hundreds," Gaidai said.
· He also noted that during the day the Russians tried to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine up to 10 times.
14:28 Luhansk RMA: In the liberated villages of Svativ district of Luhansk region, SBU officers are carrying out stabilization measures. Two active assistants to the Russian occupiers have already been identified.
DONETSK
November 6
08:23 Donetsk RMA: On November 5, Russians killed 1 civilian in the Donetsk region — in Toretsk
· Another 3 people in the region were injured.
November 5
20:26 Social Networks: An explosion sounded in the temporarily occupied Donetsk.
14:53: Civilian casualties as a result of Russia's armed aggression on 04.11.2022 according to regional military administrations.
· Donetsk – 3 killed and 8 wounded
14:06 Mariupol City Council: Russians have replaced the so-called "head" of the temporarily occupied Mariupol. They became the former mayor of Irkutsk Dmitry Berdnikov.
· It is expected that other collaborators will begin to be reduced in the near future. The reason for the changes allegedly was large-scale corruption among collaborators, which surprised even the occupiers, the report said.
ZAPORIZHIA
November 6
07:55 RMA: The result of a night missile strike by Russians on Zaporozhye was the destruction of a two-story building of a commercial enterprise.
· A large-scale fire was extinguished. According to preliminary data, 1 person died.
01:28 Acting Mayor: Russian troops attacked Zaporizhia: a residential area came under fire, and a fire broke out there. The relevant services are working on site.
00:50 Social Networks: Sounds of an explosion in Zaporizhia.
November 5
20:50 IAEA press service: ZNPP was reconnected to the power grid after power was suspended after shelling by the Russian army.
· According to the agency, both external lines of 750 kV and 330 kV, which are necessary for the supply of electricity from the Ukrainian energy system, were repaired.
17:40: Footage of the aftermath of rocket attacks on Zaporizhzhia last night has emerged.
· Representatives of two destroyed enterprises told Suspilne that there were people at the enterprises during the strikes, but there were no casualties.
18:51: Russians abducted 34 children from the village of Preobrazhenka, Kherson region. They were taken to the Russian city of Anapa. This was reported by the head of the Mirnensky settlement military administration Valentina Golovata.
· Parents were promised to return the children by the end of this week, but then they again extended their stay for another week.
16:50 Mayor of Melitopol: Russians have limited residents of the occupied part of the Zaporizhia region the opportunity to receive qualified medical care.
· According to him, the occupiers provoked the evacuation of local doctors - half of the medical staff was forced to leave Melitopol.
· Instead, they brought in their "doctors" who engage in daily drunkenness. On the other hand, at night, Melitopol hospitals are "nightmares" for Kadyrovites in a state of drug intoxication.
16:40: Activists of the "Yellow Ribbon" movement, despite repression and intimidation, continue to put up pro-Ukrainian leaflets in the temporarily occupied Melitopol of Zaporizhia region and wait for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
DNIPRO
November 6
08:29: Russian troops shelled the Nikopol district 8 times. They targeted 3 communities - Nikopol, Marganets and Myrivska. They beat peaceful cities and villages of MLRS and heavy artillery.
· A 9-year-old girl who was wounded by Russians the night before is in hospital under medical supervision. There is no threat to life. Doctors assess her condition as average. The child is greatly frightened by the shelling and injury.
04:36 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Nikopol.
· The analysis of the rubble continues. Another rocket fell on land in the private sector. The blast wave and debris damaged the windows of private buildings and two cars.
November 5
22:50 Dnipro RMA: Russian troops struck the Myrivska community with heavy artillery in the evening.
· A 9-year-old girl was wounded and the child was hospitalized. An enemy shell hit a residential building, Reznichenko said.
KHERSON
November 5
23:25: Russian military looted an art museum in Kherson. This is reported by his management.
· From October 31 to November 3, about 40 people who obey the occupation administration of Kherson were removed from the museum works of art and office equipment. As indicated in the museum's report, the paintings were not packed before transportation, but simply wrapped in rags.
21:54: According to preliminary information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the enemy warehouse of the BC in the temporarily occupied village of Heroyske in the Kherson region.
· Locals report that the detonation of ammunition is heard.
21:05: The Russians' preparation of defensive lines is illustrated with satellite images by Benjamin Pitte, an OSINT analyst (a specialist in analyzing publicly available materials).
· "Russia is preparing to lose the city of Kherson. Now they are preparing to defend the right bank of the river," Pitte wrote in a commentary on the pictures on his twitter.
17:50: Almost 80% of residents left the temporarily occupied Kherson, said Roman Holovnya, coordinator of the Kherson Hub headquarters, on the air.
· According to him, before the full-scale invasion of Russia there were about 320 thousand inhabitants. Now, according to surface estimates, 60-70 thousand inhabitants remain in the city.
· "It is unrealistic to bring food, any other humanitarian aid, medicines, from the controlled territory today. They blocked everything," he said.
13:26 Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in the temporarily occupied Kherson.
13:16: Activists of the "Yellow Ribbon" movement posted pro-Ukrainian leaflets in the temporarily occupied Kherson.
MYKOLAIV
November 5
18:59 Mayor: Mykolaiv was not shelled for only 44 days out of 255. During this time, Russian missiles killed almost 150 civilians.
· According to him, out of 486 thousand people who lived in the city before the start of a full-scale war, about 220-230 thousand remain there.
· As a result of rocket attacks, 698 residents of Mykolaiv were seriously injured, 10 of them children.
13:58 Mykolaiv RMA: All kamikaze drones that the Russian army launched at night at facilities in the Mykolaiv region were eliminated in the air.
· He added that currently the number of kamikaze drones used by the Russian Federation has decreased, which may indicate that the batch of UAVs of this type is running out.
ODESA
November 6
09:37: In Odessa, the monument to Catherine II was partially closed
· Earlier, the city council said that the majority of Odesa residents supported the idea of its demolition, and this issue will be considered at the next meeting of the city council.
November 5
13:25 Odesa City Council: Most of the townspeople supported the dismantling of the monument to Catherine II in Odesa.
· According to the report, the next step is to bring the issue to the next session of the city council.
KYIV
November 6
08:45 The New York Times: Kyiv authorities are preparing to evacuate about three million residents in the event of a complete power outage, citing a KCSA representative.
· This will happen if the power supply system fails if the electricity is completely turned off. If this happens, there will be no sewer or water supplies.
November 5
23:38: Klitschko spoke about the new order of blackouts in the capital
· "Unfortunately, the schedules that were developed before that no longer exist. Therefore, we are moving to another scenario to provide electricity not on schedule, but to provide it at every opportunity," he said.
· According to the mayor, the power outage is currently more rational.
· "Energy workers are looking at where they can turn on - turn on, where they can't - don't turn it on. They are trying to balance," Klitschko said.
23:03 Mayor: There will be no mass New Year's celebrations in Kyiv, but the Christmas tree is likely to be installed.
· "First of all, we start from safety. First, no one will cancel the New Year and Christmas. As for the celebration, everyone will be able to celebrate in the family, and there will be no such mass celebrations 100%."
22:22: An average of 100 heating points will be prepared in each district of Kyiv, says Roman Tkachuk, Director of the Municipal Security Department.
· Heating points are equipped with everything you need: heat, lighting, bathrooms, dining rooms, resting places, cans of warm clothes and warm blankets.
· In the houses of such social facilities there are protective structures where you can go down in case of an air alarm.
SUMY
November 6
November 5
18:00 Sumy RMA: Russians opened fire on the Mid-Buda community this afternoon with mortars.
· According to him, 9 mines exploded near the homes of civilians. According to preliminary information, 4 houses and utility buildings were damaged. There was a fire due to the shelling.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
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