Loss of Kherson to prevent Russia from creating land corridor to Odesa - British intelligence
The loss of Kherson’s west bank is likely to prevent Russia from achieving its strategic plan to create a land bridge reaching Odesa.
10 November 2022
The loss of Kherson’s west bank is likely to prevent Russia from achieving its strategic plan to create a land bridge reaching Odesa.
On November 9, Russian forces killed three civilians in Donetsk region.
Russian troops shelled Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, targeting three communities - Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka and Nikopol.
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, focusing efforts on attempts to disrupt the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the enemy does not bring gifts, "gestures of goodwill," Ukrainians fight their way up.
The Ukrainian military in the south of the country struck two strongholds of the Russian occupiers, a column of enemy equipment and an ammunition depot.
France plans to transfer six more Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. Military aid is expected to arrive in the coming weeks.
The United Kingdom has announced the provision of approximately 1,000 additional surface to air missiles to Ukraine for the protection of its critical infrastructure that is being continually targeted by Russia.
09 November 2022
The Netherlands plans to send 50 to 100 military personnel as part of the EU mission to train the Ukrainian military.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine is currently sufficiently stuffed, but in the event of a change in the situation on the front line, an additional mobilization effort may be launched.
The statement voiced by the Russian command on the pullback of their forces from Kherson in southern Ukraine may be part of a psychological operation to create a false impression about their true intentions.
Russian forces shelled the Kryvyi Rih district, presumably with Smerch or Tornado S rockets.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree on the establishment of four military administrations in the Kherson region.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace in the south-eastern town of Lydd where Ukrainian troops are being trained by British, Canadian and Lithuanian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held another meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has said that it is still too early to talk about a Russian troop pullout from the southern city of Kherson amid reports that a respective decision has been made.
Since Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones were first used in the war against Ukraine, Russia has launched more than 400 kamikaze drones on the country's infrastructure.
The commander of Russian forces in the Kherson region, Sergei Surovikin, at a meeting with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu proposed that the Russian army leave the right-bank part of the Kherson region, where the city of Kherson is located.
Russian forces have shelled the Marhanets community in the Nikopol district with Grad multiple rocket launchers, killing one person.
Finland has sent an additional batch of civilian material assistance to Ukraine.
Ukraine has received another batch of military equipment and ammunition from Germany.
Ukraine is suffering enormous military and civilian losses, defending the eastern frontier of NATO, while NATO members debate how much aid to provide to Kyiv.
Last night the missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine completed about 130 fire missions, having struck enemy personnel and military equipment clusters.
In the temporarily captured city of Kherson, Russian flags have been taken down from several buildings in the city center.
Russian invaders have blown up bridges on the right bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region.
Nine civilians were killed and 24 others injured in Ukraine on November 8 as a result of Russia's armed aggression, according to figures from regional military administrations.
Ukraine's air defense forces of the Air Command East destroyed five hostile kamikaze drones early on November 9.
Eastern European countries are preparing to reopen reception centers and are restocking food supplies in anticipation of a possible fresh surge in Ukrainian refugees as winter looms and Russia targets Ukraine's power grid and heating plants.
Russian efforts to repair the Crimean Bridge continue but it is unlikely to be fully operational until at least September 2023.
The Russian military shelled Zaporizhzhia region more than 80 times on Tuesday, November 8.