Level of nuclear threat from Russia assessed as low - Ukraine’s defense intel
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry (HUR) sees as low the current level of threat of Russia's using a tactical nuclear weapon.
22 November 2024
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry (HUR) sees as low the current level of threat of Russia's using a tactical nuclear weapon.
The use of a ballistic missile by Putin against Ukraine is nothing but an act of desperation and an attempt to activate a deterrence mechanism aimed at Ukraine's Western partners.
On the eastern front, the Russian forces are attacking in waves using assault groups.
On November 21, Russia launched a ballistic missile at Dnipro, likely from the Kedr missile system.
In Donetsk region, Russian shelling of the outskirts of Kramatorsk, specifically the village of Krasnotorka, resulted in one fatality and two injuries.
Neither the Oreshnik ballistic missile strike nor Vladimir Putin's November 21 statement represent a significant inflection in Russian strike capabilities or likeliness to use a nuclear weapon.
Ukrainian border guards have thwarted the largest enemy assault in recent times in the Siversk sector - more than 20 units of enemy equipment and nearly 100 infantrymen.
One person was killed and two others were wounded as a result of Russian attacks in the Kherson region on November 21.
Over the past 24 hours, 190 combat engagements have been recorded along the front lines, 48 of them in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to November 22, 2024 amount to nearly 728,300 invaders, including another 1,050 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
On November 21, Russian invaders killed one resident and injured seven more in the Donetsk region.
As a result of the Russian attack on a residential neighborhood in Sumy on November 22, at least two people were killed and 12 more sustained injuries of varying severity
At least two civilians were killed in Sumy during a Russian strike overnight Friday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has commented on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's statement about the use of a medium-range ballistic missile during Russia’s attack on Dnipro, calling his speech another evidence and de facto admission of guilt in the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
21 November 2024
The United States assessed the latest Russian missile strike on the city of Dnipro as a medium-range ballistic missile launch and noted that the United States had helped Ukraine, its allies and partners prepare.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has reacted to Vladimir Putin's latest statement. The head of the Ukrainian state noted that by admitting the use of a new ballistic missile on the city of Dnipro, Putin has expanded the scale of the war for the second time this year and violated the UN Charter.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, three people were injured in Dnipro and 31 more in Kryvyi Rih as a result of Russian strikes on Thursday.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Russian army had fired a new medium-range ballistic missile, codenamed Oreshnik, at the city of Dnipro, allegedly in response to the use of U.S. and British long-range missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Russian military dropped two guided aerial bombs on Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, injuring at least six people, according to preliminary information.
The Dzhmil (Bumblebee) 78th Separate Airborne Assault Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces and the Raid 413th Battalion of Unmanned Systems hit the command post of Russian troops near Maryino, Kursk region.
Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhnyi believes that after Russia directly involved Russia's autocratic allies in the war against Ukraine, it can be considered that World War 3 has already begun in 2024.
Since the beginning of the day, November 21, as many as 114 combat encounters have occurred on the frontlines, with fighting still ongoing in eight sectors of the front. The Russian forces are most actively attacking in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove sectors.
Over 1,000 days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian land forces have dramatically changed from those that initially invaded Ukraine: personnel losses have amounted to over 700,000 killed and wounded.
The structure of the basic general military training course for mobilized personnel comprises four key stages.
Rescue operations at the site of the Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih have been completed.
Ukraine is awaiting expert conclusions on the type of missile used in the strike on Dnipro, but the attack itself proves that Russia does not seek peace and is making every effort to escalate the war.
Andrii Kovalenko, Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, stated that Vladimir Putin attempted to raise the stakes by using an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that expert evaluations are underway regarding a new Russian missile. All the parameters match those of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The number of those injured in the Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih has increased to 17 people, 10 of whom are in hospitals.
Drones attacked Akhtubinsk in Russia’s Astrakhan region on Thursday morning.