Once again, the Nikopol district in the area of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was under Russian bombs all night. Damaged gas lines and power grids. No injuries but dozens of buildings, including homes and farm buildings, were hit. And once again, the reading of Moscow’s strategy in Ukraine starts from scratch: the Russians are waiting for the frost to deal the hardest blow to the country, according to the head of the Presidential Office in Kyiv Mykhailo Podolyak. “It seems to me that now Russia’s tactics have changed a little: they are waiting for the temperature to drop to minus ten degrees, and only then they want to inflict the hardest blow on Ukraine. They want to freeze us,” Podolyak said.
While in Kherson the nightmare seems endless: the region became Bombed 28 times in 24 hours and the oncology center also came under Russian fire. And Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov relaunched on Twitter the images of the international airport destroyed by the Russian army, while the evacuation plan, which is already up to the 5 Dnipro River.
The fighters of the special unit “Karlson”, on the other hand, do raised the Ukrainian flag on the left bank of the Kherson region. This was announced late in the evening by Ukrainian forces, Ukrinform reports, after the Kiev army liberated the city of Kherson on the right bank of the Dnieper on November 15. The flag of Ukraine was hung on a crane tower.
Advancing is the British secret service, according to which the plan of the Russian army is at this moment surround the city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk Oblast, and continues to invest a large part of the total military effort and firepower along an approximately 15-kilometer stretch of the front line. Russia has made little progress in recent days on the southern axis, where it is trying to consolidate limited bridgeheads west of the marshland around the Bakhmutka River and give priority to Bakhmut. And according to the London 007 Report, capturing Bakhmut has become a symbolic and political goal of Moscow.
But from Kyiv, Podolyak replies: “The Kremlin eliminates thousands of its conscripts, prisoners, mercenaries and soldiers near” Bakhmut “which has no strategic meaning. They only do it to show that they can still do something”, but “they won’t make it: forget Bakhmut and start preparing for the court in Yalta”.
Meanwhile, while the Kremlin announces the possibility of a visit by Vladimir Putin “in due course”.Satellite images newly released by the BBC show that Moscow is primarily consolidating its military presence in MariupolIn recent months he has conquered the port city in which he is building a new large military base. The photos show a new U-shaped complex near the city center: on the roof the red, white and blue star of the Russian army with the inscription “From the Russian army to the people of Mariupol”.
Moscow’s forces besieged the city for nearly three months early in the war, leaving the city largely in ruins. Ukrainian officials estimate that up to 90% of infrastructure has been destroyed by Russian bombing, and new satellite imagery suggests Moscow has begun demolishing many of the apartment buildings left unusable and beyond repair. The Ukrainian city is of strategic importance for Moscow as it is part of the “land bridge” connecting Russia with annexed Crimea.