Ukrainian forces strike enemy base in Kinburn Spit
Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, with Russian forces facing stiff resistance. Moscow continues to attack civilian infrastructure, and millions of Ukrainians are left in the cold and darkness in severe blackouts as temperatures plummet.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said early on November 19 that the Russian military launched 10 of his airstrikes and 10 of his missile attacks the day before, and against civilian infrastructure he launched 42 rockets. It said it carried out the attack and caused damage in the southern city of Zaporizhia.
“The enemy continues to attack critical infrastructure and civilian housing in violation of international humanitarian law and the laws and customs of war. A civilian infrastructure target in Zaporizhia was hit by a missile.”
The Zaporizhzhya region, home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has been under Russian occupation since Moscow launched a unilateral invasion of Ukraine in February.
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The secretary of the Zaporizhia regional council said people could be under the rubble of an infrastructure facility hit by a Russian missile late on November 18.
Secretary Anatoly Kultev said via Telegram that five “incoming” explosions had been recorded and rescuers were on the scene.
An enemy attack caused a fire. Now there may be people under the rubble,” he said, adding: “At that time, ordinary peaceful people who were just doing their jobs and posing no threat to the Kremlin’s minions.” .
Ukrainian forces successfully repelled six Russian attacks in Donbass, but Kyiv’s air force launched seven strikes in areas where Russian personnel are concentrated in the east, the General Staff said. .
Russia is “conducting offensive actions in the direction of Bakhmut, Avdievka and Novopavlikh,” he said, adding that Ukrainian forces repulsed a series of Donetsk offensives, mainly in the areas of Bilohorievka, Zelenopil and Kryshtyyvka.
Ukrainian forces also attacked and destroyed a key military base on the Kinburn Spit, which borders the Black Sea’s Kinburn Peninsula, the military said.
The Kinburn Spit was first occupied by Russia in June, and remains one of the last occupied territories in southern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military said the sand was “a focal point for the enemy’s vitality, weapons and equipment.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video speech on the evening of November 18 that “brutal fighting” continued in the east, but hoped for “future success” in some areas. suggested.
He said, “Everywhere we hold [our] positions.”
RFE/RL is unable to confirm reports of battlefield success in areas of intense combat.
“The fighting in the Donetsk region continues to be very intense,” Zelensky said, adding that “the fighting never stopped. There was never a lull.”
He didn’t elaborate on the reference to “future success” expected in some areas of the battlefield.
The Ukrainian military recently reported slower growth than in the past two months, with some 10 million Ukrainians forced out of the country as temperatures plummeted with the onset of the cold season following Russian missile attacks on power infrastructure across the country. Electricity and natural gas are no longer available.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmykhal said on November 18 that nearly 50% of his energy infrastructure in the country had been disabled by the Russian strike.
“Almost half of our energy system is out of order,” Shmyhal said.
Officials say repair teams are doing their best to restore power, but landmines, further attacks, and other obstacles are slowing their progress.
Ukrainian forces strike enemy base in Kinburn Spit
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