Ukraine: Russians bomb and strengthen in Kherson

Russian bombings and missile attacks continue in various regions of Ukraine, especially in the east of the country, while it seems to indicate that Moscow is strengthening its position in the Kherson area, in anticipation of a possible Ukrainian offensive. “The occupiers – said President Volodymy Zelensky last night, in a televised speech – hit more than 50 settlements in our country: Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson region, Mykolaiv region, Kharkiv region, Dnipropetrovsk region … Missiles, aviation, MLRS (multiple launch missile systems) … “

The death toll from yesterday’s Russian attacks in the Donetsk region rose to three, in eastern Ukraine: the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Telegram, who wrote: “On November 7, the Russians killed three civilians in the region
of Donetsk: in Bakhmut and Krasnohorivka. Another seven people were injured in the region “. In addition, the police discovered the bodies of four civilians killed by the Russians during the occupation in Yampil.

Over a dozen apartment buildings and houses were damaged in an attack by Russian forces in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of southern Ukraine, last night. The head of the Regional Military Administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, reported on the “night terror in the Nikopol district”, where “The Russians hit two communities, Marhanets and Nikopol, with MLRS and heavy artillery. There were no casualties.” Two industrial enterprises, a hospital, a school, cars and a gas pipeline were also damaged. In addition, in the early hours of today, the Russian army launched an attack with S-300 missiles on the Zaporizhzhia region causing damage, Governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on Telegram.

According to the daily bulletin compiled by British intelligence and released by the London Ministry of Defense, Russia is fortifying its defensive lines in all areas of occupation in Ukraine. In particular, underlines the report published on Twitter, the engineers of Moscow are building defensive structures around the occupied city of Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, where two plants for the production of concrete anti-tank structures, the so-called ‘teeth of dragon ‘. The ministry recalls that on October 19, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed responsibility for the construction of a fortified ‘Wagner Line’ of defenses in the occupied Lugansk region. “This activity suggests that Russia is making a significant effort to prepare defenses deep behind the current front line – the report concludes – probably to prevent any rapid Ukrainian advance in the event of a breakthrough.”

Furthermore, according to information released by the Army General Staff of Kiev, in the Novosofiivka area, in the Kherson region, the Russian occupation army was strengthened by a unit from the Chechen Republic, which participated in the looting of the homes of the evacuated residents. And in the city of Energodar, in south-eastern Ukraine, the Russians continue to tighten administrative and counter-intelligence measures: “Occupants collect personal data of residents, check smartphones, search private residences and illegally detain Ukrainian citizens,” he says. the General Staff, adding that the destruction of Russian ammunition depots in recent days in the settlements of Horlivka in the Donetsk and Svatov region has been confirmed

Source: Ansa

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