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Ukraine Invasion Day 254: UNHCR, "the humanitarian response looks like a drop in the ocean of needs" [1]
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Date: 2022-11-03
Refugees have been displaced at massive numbers unlike the trope about US combat troops on the ground. “We’ve been very clear there are no combat forces in Ukraine, no U.S. forces conducting combat operations in Ukraine, these are personnel that are assigned to conduct security cooperation and assistance as part of the defense attaché office.” Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder
According to Russian propaganda, this is what Tinder will look like this winter in EU: freezing women chasing after Russians who can afford electricity, heat and hot water. pic.twitter.com/YWFqts5wwd
“Absolutely all the property in our city, which belonged to the municipal enterprises that provided essential services for our city, has been plundered,” said Halyna Luhova, the head of Ukrainian regional administration.
The Kherson occupation government has moved to the city of Skadovsk, about 50 miles to the southeast, firmly in Russian-held territory. Ukrainians say that Russia’s civilian administrators and troops have stripped the city of all of its ambulances, fire engines and medical supplies, and much of the furniture, artworks, appliances and religious icons. They even took the bones of Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin , the 18th-century commander who helped Catherine the Great conquer southern Ukraine.
The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that it had inspected three Ukrainian facilities and found no evidence of illegal nuclear activity, refuting Russian claims that Ukraine was using the sites to prepare a radioactive “dirty bomb.” Ukrainian and Western officials have rejected those accusations, which were unaccompanied by any evidence, suggesting that the Kremlin could be using the charge as a pretext to escalate the war.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that Ukraine represents the world’s “fastest and largest displacement witnessed in decades.” He added that “the destruction caused by strikes at civilian infrastructure , which is happening as we speak, is quickly making the humanitarian response look like a drop in the ocean of needs.”
The apparent use of remote-controlled boats to attack the Russian naval fleet off the Crimean port city of Sevastopol suggests an expansion in Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities after months of military aid from Western nations.
With powerful Western weapons and deadly homemade drones, Ukraine now has an artillery advantage in the Kherson region. The work of reconnaissance teams penetrating enemy lines has also proven key
As President Vladimir V. Putin makes public threats and Russian generals hold private discussions , U.S. officials say they do not believe that Moscow has decided to detonate a tactical nuclear device in Ukraine,
Russia rejoined an agreement allowing the shipment of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, one of the few areas of cooperation amid the war, easing uncertainty over the fate of a deal seen as
"Tonight, about 4.5 million consumers have been temporarily disconnected from energy consumption," President Zelensky said in his nightly address on Thursday.
The Ukrainian government has been forced to urge the population to try and use energy sparingly as a result.
In just the last month, a third of the country's power stations have reportedly been destroyed, according to President Zelensky.
After suffering a series of painful defeats on the battlefield, Russia has stepped up attacks in recent weeks on electricity infrastructure in cities away from the front lines.
The strikes come as officials say Russian troops are likely to withdraw from the key southern city of Kherson.
In recent weeks, Russia has carried out large-scale missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian power facilities.
Mr Zelensky said 4.5 million people were without power following Russian attacks on its energy network.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Kremlin of resorting to "energy terrorism" as Russian troops make few gains on the battlefield.
Russia has tripled the intensity of attacks on certain sectors of the front - Zaluzhny "The enemy has tripled the intensity of hostilities in certain sectors of the front - up to 80 attacks daily. Thanks to the courage of our soldiers, we are holding the line," Zaluzhny said. pic.twitter.com/vlygtHFI5e
x The MFA of Ukraine strongly condemns the RF for conducting deportation of the Ukrainian citizens living in the temporarily occupied territories of the #Kherson & #Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.
Such actions by Russia grossly violate international law.
https://t.co/b4Vfc6EVgo pic.twitter.com/MozjQwOiq7 — MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) November 3, 2022
What happened that day (in March) in Bucha was what Russian soldiers on intercepted phone conversations called “zachistka” — cleansing. The Russians hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify potential threats. Those who didn’t pass this filtration, including volunteer fighters and civilians suspected of assisting Ukrainian troops, were tortured and executed, surveillance video, audio intercepts and interviews show.
The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” obtained surveillance camera footage from Bucha that shows, for the first time, what a cleansing operation in Ukraine looks like. This was organized brutality that would be repeated at scale in Russian-occupied territories across Ukraine — a strategy to neutralize resistance and terrorize locals into submission that Russian troops have used in past conflicts, notably Chechnya.
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x "Despite Russia’s conventional losses in Ukraine, its nuclear arsenal is a logical offset to its conventional vulnerability and poses a credible threat," argue @AKendallTaylor and @KofmanMichael. Read more from @ForeignAffairs:
https://t.co/cm4FLVbxup — CNAS (@CNASdc) November 1, 2022
x The All-Ukrainian #Agrarian Council presented an interactive map of the destruction of the #agricultural sector of #Ukraine, which was developed with the support of the USAID Agrarian and Rural Development Program
https://t.co/dqFWaKgkSG — ProAgro Group (@proagro_ic) November 3, 2022
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