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Ukraine Invasion Day 267: energy facilities continue to be targeted [1]
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Date: 2022-11-16
Demining operations continue in Kherson as the disinformation campaign escalated regarding the Ukraine S-300 that landed in Poland.
Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems that Western officials predict could shape warfare for generations to come.
Many analysts and diplomats have suggested there could be a pause in major combat over the winter . But after pushing the Russians out of Kherson,
On Nov. 11, Ukrainian soldiers swept into the southern city of Kherson , seizing a major prize from the retreating Russian army and dealing a bitter blow to President Vladimir V. Putin . Days after the liberation,
A blast that killed two people in Poland near its border with Ukraine was most likely an accident caused by a Ukrainian defense missile , Poland’s president and NATO said. The explosion heightened anxieties on a day of broad Russian strikes in Ukraine.
Russian sources and proxy officials are flagrantly touting the forced adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families. Prominent Russian milbloggers began circulating a multi-part documentary series on November 9 featuring several Ukrainian children from Donbas after being adopted into Russian families.[1] The documentary series claims that Russian officials have evacuated over 150,000 children from Donbas in 2022 alone.[2] It is unclear exactly how Russian sources are calculating this figure, and Ukrainian officials previously estimated this number to be 6,000 to 8,000.[3] Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov additionally stated he is working with Russian Federation Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova to bring “difficult teenagers” from various Russian regions and occupied Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts to Chechnya to engage in “preventative work” and “military-patriotic education.”[4] Lvova-Belova has continually advocated for deportations and adoptions of Ukrainian children and herself adopted a child from Mariupol.[5] Forced adoption programs and the deportation of children under the guise of vacation and rehabilitation schemes likely form the backbone of a massive Russian depopulation campaign that may amount to a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and constitute a wider ethnic cleansing effort, as ISW has previously reported.[6]
Ukrainian sources continued to clarify the damage caused by the massive November 15 Russian missile strike across Ukraine. The Ukrainian General Staff stated on November 16 that Russian forces launched over 90 Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles and 11 drones over the course of November 15 and targeted critical infrastructure in a number of oblasts.[7] Ukrainian Air Force Command reported that Ukrainian air defense and ground forces shot down 75 missiles and 10 Shahed-136 drones.[8] US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin noted on November 16 that the US-provided National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) had a 100% success rate in intercepting Russian missiles.[9] As ISW previously reported, Russian forces likely used a substantial portion of their high-precision weapon systems in the November 15 attack.[10]
The Russian information space largely followed the official Kremlin framing of the missile strike on Polish territory as a Western provocation. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) stated on November 16 that Ukrainian and other foreign officials' statements about Russian missiles in connection with the strike on Polish territory constitute a “deliberate provocation with the aim of escalating the situation.”[11] Russian Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev accused the West of moving closer to world war by waging a hybrid attack against Russia following the strike on Polish territory.[12] Russian milbloggers widely accused Western and Ukrainian officials of trying to falsely blame Russia for the strike in order to justify increased support to Ukraine and further escalation in Eastern Europe.[13] Some Russian sources also asserted that Ukrainian and Western officials were trying to use the incident to either pressure Russia to end its coordinated missile campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure or to justify sending “better” air defenses to Ukraine.[14] The Russian milbloggers’ support of the Kremlin framing of the strike as a Western provocation is to be expected of a Russian information space that widely views the conflict in Ukraine as a Western operation aimed at degrading Russia as a regional and global power.
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x 🔎Ukrainian investigators have found evidence of hundreds of war crimes within days of liberating the city of Kherson on November 11.
https://t.co/RgnlgsSyff#ukrainecounteroffensive #Kherson #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/QUkGS5Q9x5 — Institute for War & Peace Reporting (@IWPR) November 16, 2022
Before retreating, Russian occupiers planted mines in the building of the Main Department of the National Police of Kherson Oblast so that it had to be blown up.
Source: Ihor Klymenko, Head of the National Police, on Facebook
Quote: "It used to be one of the buildings of the Main Police Department of Kherson Oblast. And today [16 November – ed.] it is a pile of stones.
Russian occupiers concealed explosives on police station grounds. It was impossible to avoid the explosion. Thanks to the ingenuity and skill of our bomb disposal experts, no one was injured. This is the most important thing. And we will rebuild the walls."
Details: Klymenko said that since the beginning of the liberation, police bomb disposal teams have already inspected over 400 hectares of the liberated territories of Kherson Oblast.
The bomb disposal experts have defused over 4,000 explosive items.
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x A two-story police station, nicknamed ‘The Hole,’ in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson, was the most notorious of several sites where people were interrogated and tortured during Russia's nine-month occupation
https://t.co/qnFhN4OOWr — Reuters (@Reuters) November 16, 2022
Russian Subordinate Main Effort—Donetsk Oblast (Russian objective: Capture the entirety of Donetsk Oblast, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas)
Russian forces continued ground assaults near Bakhmut and Avdiivka on November 16. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground attacks northeast of Bakhmut near Bilohorivka and Vesele, and south of Bakhmut near Kurdiumivka.[34] A Russian source posted footage of Wagner Group forces attacking fortified Ukrainian positions on the southeastern outskirts of Bakhmut.[35] The Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) People’s Militia posted footage of LNR aviation striking Ukrainian positions northeast of Bakhmut near Soledar and northeast of Soledar near Spirne.[36] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that half of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) 1st Horlivka Battalion were dead or wounded following the battle for Mayorsk (south of Bakhmut) and suffered low morale, prompting DNR leadership to disband the unit.[37] Russian sources notably claimed that Russian troops took control of Mayorsk on November 13, and the Ukrainian General Staff statement suggests that the cost of doing so was steep, which is consistent with ISW’s assessment that Russian forces will continue costly operations for small and operationally insignificant settlements.[38] The Ukrainian General Staff also reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assaults near Avdiivka, north of Avdiivka near Novokalynove, west of Avdiivka near Pervomaiske, and south of Avdiivka near Vodyane.[39] Russian sources claimed that Russian forces made marginal gains toward Nevelske, Vodyane, and Pervomaiske.[40] The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that Russian forces repelled Ukrainian counterattacks near Kurdyumivka, near Avdiivka, west of Avdiivka near Hryhorivka, and in western Donetsk Oblast near Staromykhailivka.[41]
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x 200 teens from Russia and the annexed Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine are in Chechnya for "military-patriotic training." Their past troubles with juvenile justice appear to have made them easy prey for Russia's military recruitment efforts.
https://t.co/MplnMpMgGt — Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 16, 2022
x Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament joined their 🇺🇦🇱🇻🇪🇪🇵🇱+PACE colleagues and recognized the current russian regime as a terrorist one.
Step by step.
Truth will win.
Peace in Europe will be restored.
russian war criminals will be punished.
🇺🇦🤝🇨🇿 pic.twitter.com/ufmph4ploj — Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) November 16, 2022
x #Ukraine: A rare Russian BMP-1AM "Basurmanin" modernized IFV was captured by the Ukrainian army in #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/FmEzbdjGZ3 — 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 16, 2022
x Israeli Ministry of Defense tells me the ministry is checking the report. 'from initial investigation they've conducted the reported Israeli lens is not a regulated arms export component and neither is it a dual-use item according to Israeli law and International agreements' — avi scharf (@avischarf) November 16, 2022
x "You are doomed, aggressor,
As the Witch presaged you"
Meet a junior sergeant callsign "Witch" from the 241 Kyiv TDF Brigade. During the defense of Bakhmut, the platoon under her leadership repulsed six enemy infantry attacks in just one night. pic.twitter.com/Pc5BD1KNqn — Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces (@TDF_UA) November 16, 2022
Eastern Ukraine: (Eastern Kharkiv Oblast-Western Luhansk Oblast)
Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in the directions of Svatove and Kreminna on November 16. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that Russian airstrikes prevented Ukrainian forces from conducting assaults within 20km northwest of Svatove near Berestove and Kolisnyvka in Kharkiv Oblast and Novoselivske, Luhansk Oblast.[23] Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations 14km northwest of Svatove near Kuzemivka, with one milblogger claiming that Ukrainian forces attempted to cut off a section of the road and railway in the area.[24] A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces are conducting reconnaissance-in-force operations along the Pischane-Stelmakhivka line northwest of Svatove.[25] The Russian MoD also claimed that Russian artillery units repelled Ukrainian assaults towards Russian positions near Kolomyichykha, Luhansk Oblast (10km west of Svatove).[26] Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces are continuing attempts to cut off a part of the Svatove-Kreminna highway and that Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are operating within 6km northwest of Kreminna near Chervonopopivka.[27] A Russian milblogger also claimed that fighting is ongoing within 12km south of Kreminna in Bilohorivka.[28] A BARS-13 (Russian Combat Reserve) source cited a Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) People’s Militia officer who claimed that Ukrainian forces launched an offensive along the entire line from Popasna, Luhansk Oblast to Kharkiv Oblast and are accumulating tank groups near the line of contact.[29] A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces are accumulating along the Orlianka-Zatishne-Svatove line northwest of Svatove in preparation for a future large offensive, although ISW offers no assessment about claims regarding future Ukrainian operations.[30]
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x ⚡️ Politico: EU sees Hungary's blockage of 18 billion euros for Ukraine as 'blackmail.' — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) November 11, 2022
x German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Hungary "shouldn't play poker" in this situation, which concerns "saving lives."
Baerbock said the aid package must be approved quickly as "winter is just around the corner." — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) November 11, 2022
x Hey @mariatad, here's your video [ai] translated from Italian as requested by @Tiga_nonymous.
Follow @altryne to get more free transcriptions.
https://t.co/r7iPOjqnLn pic.twitter.com/67PB7GWtDv — VidTranslator - targum.video AI bot (@vidtranslator) November 16, 2022
x Sweden is significantly increasing our support to Ukraine’s freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Today we announced the largest 🇸🇪 military and humanitarian support packages to 🇺🇦 to date, including ground based air defence system. — SwedishPM (@SwedishPM) November 16, 2022
x 30 km to Kherson, 261 km to Melitopol. Posad-Pokrovske is totally demolished. pic.twitter.com/AftZoZCeYo — Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) November 16, 2022
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