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Russo-Ukraine War - 05 November 2022 - Day 255

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A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While GlobalSecurity.org takes utmost care to accurately report this news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.

On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

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The UK Ministry of Defence reported that Russia is probably struggling to provide military training for its current mobilisation drive and its annual autumn conscription intake. The Russian Armed Forces were already stretched providing training for the approximate 300,000 troops required for its 'partial mobilisation', announced on 21 September 2022. These issues will be compounded by the additional regular autumn annual conscription cycle, announced on 30 September 2022 and starting 01 November 2022, which is usually expected to bring in an additional 120,000 personnel.

Newly mobilised conscripts likely have minimal training or no training at all. Experienced officers and trainers have been deployed to fight in Ukraine and some have likely been killed in the conflict.

Russian forces are conducting training in Belarus due to a shortage of training staff, munitions and facilities in Russia. Deploying forces with little or no training provides little additional offensive combat capability.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain areas. Conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions. Russia is shelling units of the Defense Forces along the contact line, carrying out border fortification equipment in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. It continues to strike critical infrastructure and civilian homes in violation of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war.

During the current day, Russian forces launched 4 missile and 5 air strikes, carried out more than 20 MLRS attacks. Areas of more than 20 settlements of the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts were hit by Russia.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. According to available information, the combat readiness check of units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus has been extended until November 14 of this year. There remains the threat of air strikes, including the use of attack UAVs from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.

Russian forces shelled in other directions:
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Budarka, Hlyboke, Zolochiv, Krasne, Ohirtseve and Staritsa settlements of the Kharkiv oblast;
in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Dvorichna, Kislivka and Tabaivka settlements of the Kharkiv oblast; Makiivka, Nevske and Ploshanka in the Luhansk oblast and Torske and Yampolivka in the Donetsk oblast;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Zelenopilya, Klishchiivka, Mayorsk, Opytne, Soledar, Spirne and Yakovlivka settlements of the Donetsk region;
in the Avdiivka region - from tanks and the entire range of artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Vodyane, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk oblast;
in the Novopavlivskyi direction - from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Bohoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka, Vuhledar, Vremivka, Pavlivka, Novoukrayinka and Prechystivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast;
in the Zaporizhzhia direction - from tanks and artillery of various types, in the areas of Hulyaipilske, Dorozhnyanka, Zaliznychne, Malynivka, Novodanilivka, Uspenivka, and Shcherbaky settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region.

More than 20 settlements near the contact line were shelled in the South Buh region. Among them are Biloghirka, Davydiv Brid and Pravdyne in the Kherson oblast and Zorya, Myrne and Shyroke in the Mykolaiv oblast.

As a result of the actions of the Defense Forces in the Kherson oblast, the area of ​​concentration of the Russian occupation forces in the settlement of Radensk was affected. Russian losses of are specified.

During the current day, the aviation of the Russian forces Defense Forces made 3 strikes on the areas of concentration of Russian personnel and anti-aircraft defenses. Air defense units shot down 1 Merlin UAV. According to updated information, 2 Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters were destroyed in the previous day.

Units of missile forces and artillery of the Ukrainian Defense Forces were struck within a day 9 areas of concentration of Russian manpower, weapons and military equipment and ammunition warehouse.

Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported in a daily briefing that attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansky, Limansky, South-Donetsk and Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog directions were repelled during the day. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost in total about 400 servicemen, as well as a large amount of military equipment.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 5 command posts, including the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), units of the 60th infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region, 87 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 179 areas.

In the Kupyansk region (Kharkiv region), the SBU command post was hit. In the Zaporozhye region, a strike was made on the base for storing weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 6 depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were liquidated in the DPR, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.

In the Kherson region, a self-propelled firing system of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) and a S-300 air defense radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Nikolaev region shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force. A Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down by means of air defense (air defense) in the DPR.

Also, air defense systems destroyed 9 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), intercepted 27 shells of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) in the DPR and the Kherson region.

Zaporozhye region

Ukrainian troops attacked the villages of Lyubimovka and Vysokoye in the Mikhailovsky district. In Lyubimovka, a shell hit a church, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said. Public utilities and volunteers from among local residents have already begun to restore the building.

A monument to Lenin was erected in Melitopol, which was dismantled by the decision of the Ukrainian authorities in 2015.

Kherson region

In the morning, Ukrainian troops fired on New Kakhovka from HIMARS, air defense systems worked in the city. All missiles were intercepted.

During the day, Kherson was shelled from the American MLRS. The emergency services of the city reported that 2 rockets fell near the bus station, where citizens are being collected for evacuation.

DPR

From the beginning of the day on November 5, Ukrainian formations opened fire on Donetsk, as well as on the settlements of Gorlovka, Makeevka, Yasinovataya, and Zaitsevo.

As a result of the attacks in Gorlovka, 2 civilians were injured, and another civilian was injured when a mine "Petal" was blown up in Donetsk.

LC

From the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops opened fire on the settlements of Lisichansk, Svatovo and Kremennaya. During the shelling, HIMARS MLRS were used, as a result, 5 garages were destroyed in Svatovo and 2 cars were destroyed. In Lisichansk, the building of the former polyclinic was almost completely destroyed.

A humanitarian cargo weighing 60 tons from the Republic of Tatarstan arrived in Lisichansk. It included not only food for local residents, but also warm clothes and quadcopters for the soldiers of the allied forces.

Another large cargo arrived in Luhansk. The cars of the convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry transferred 110 tons of food products to the republic.