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Russo-Ukraine War - 06 November 2022 - Day 256

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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 on 03 November 2022, Major General Alexander Linkov was reportedly appointed acting commander of Russia's Central Military District. Linkov replaces Colonel General Alexander Lapin who was purportedly removed from office at the end of October 2022.

If confirmed, this follows a series of dismissals of senior Russian military commanders since the onset of the invasion in February 2022. The Commanders of the Eastern, Southern, and Western Military Districts were replaced earlier this year.

Lapin has been widely criticised for poor performance on the battlefield in Ukraine by both Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin. These dismissals represent a pattern of blame against senior Russian military commanders for failures to achieve Russian objectives on the battlefield. This is in part likely an attempt to insulate and deflect blame from Russian senior leadership at home.

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 3 missile and 3 air strikes, carried out more than 5 MLRS. Areas of 7 settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolaiv and Sumy regions suffered enemy attacks.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, accepts and hosts russian servicemen, and provides training grounds. There is still a threat of the enemy launching strikes and using attack UAVs from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.

The enemy shelled in such directions:

in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Vorozhba, Seredyna Buda and Bunyakyne settlements of the Sumy oblast;
on the Kupyansk and Lyman directions - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Nevske, Bilohorivka and Ploshanka;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Andriivka and Opytne settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks and the entire range of artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, Opytne and Pervomaiske settlements;
on the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia directions - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Vodyane, Vuhledar, Vremivka, Pavlivka, Novomykhailivka and Hulyaipole settlements;

In the South Buh region, more than 30 settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire. In particular, Pravdyne, Shevchenkove, Kobzartsi, Bilohirka, Mala Seideminukha, Nova Kamianka, Velyka Oleksandrivka and Novokyivka. In addition, Russian forces continued to conduct aerial reconnaissance, actively using UAVs. Made more than 65 flies.

The Russian occupying forces continue to grossly violate the laws and customs of warfare against the civilian population. In the Kherson region, private boats are being destroyed en masse on the banks of the Dnipro. Engines and other property from watercraft are appropriated by the occupiers. After the sinking of civilian ships, part of the fuel got into the river delta and directly threatens the ecosystem of the Nizhnyodniprovskyi National Nature Park.

Forced evacuation of the population from temporarily occupied territories continues. In the settlement of Beryslav, local residents were ordered to leave by November 10. The main reason given by Russian forces is the possible destruction by the Defense Forces of Ukraine of the Kakhovskaya HPP dam.

According to the updated information, the defeat of the Russian forces in the previous days in the Kherson region was confirmed. Thus, in the settlement of Kakhovka, an attack was made on a building where up to 200 enemy soldiers were stationed. Russia carefully hides the consequences of the attack, strict administrative and police measures are being taken in the city. A large column of military equipment was destroyed in the area of ​​the settlement of Radensk.
Russian forces' losses are specified.

During the current day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the enemy 18 times. 17 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as the position of the Russian occupiers' air defense equipment, were affected. Air defense units shot down 3 UAVs.

Soldiers of the Ukrainian missile forces and artillery struck 2 control points, 10 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 electronic warfare stations and a number of other important Russian military objects during the day.

Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian Ministry of Defense in a daily briefing reported that during the day Ukrainian troops tried to advance in the Kupyansky direction in the Novoselovsky area (Lugansk People's Republic, LPR), but were stopped by army aviation strikes, heavy flamethrower systems, artillery fire and active actions of the RF Armed Forces.

In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack Russian positions in the Kotlyarovka area (Kharkiv region). The attack was thwarted, up to 200 Ukrainian fighters, 8 tanks, 9 combat armored vehicles, 8 pickups were destroyed.

In the Limansky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine unsuccessfully attacked in the direction of Ploschanka, Artemovka, Stelmakhivka (LPR) and Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR). Russian artillery and army aviation strikes destroyed up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen and nationalists, 2 tanks, 4 armored combat vehicles, a Grad multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), a self-propelled artillery mount and 12 vehicles. In the Liman region (DPR), up to 100 militants of national formations and foreign mercenaries, as well as 10 armored fighting vehicles, were destroyed by a precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of Pavlovka, Novomikhailovka and Vremevka (DPR). Up to 70 Ukrainian fighters, a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, 4 pickup trucks and 2 M777 howitzers were destroyed.

In the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine twice attacked the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Sablukovka and Pyatikhatki (Kherson region), but were thrown back to their original positions. More than 50 militants, 8 armored fighting vehicles and 10 vehicles were destroyed. Also, 2 self-propelled artillery mounts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the Novopetrivka area.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command post of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Prechistovka region (DPR), 67 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 184 districts. An ammunition depot of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the city of Zaporozhye. In the area of ​​Krasnoarmeysk (DNR), an attack was made on the armory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - 120 HIMARS MLRS shells, 250 Smerch MLRS shells and 2 transport-loading vehicles were destroyed.

Fighter aircraft over the island of Dzharylgach (Kherson region) shot down a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Another 16 UAVs were destroyed by air defense (air defense) in the DPR, Kherson and Nikolaev regions. 8 rockets, anti-radar missile HARM and ballistic missile "Tochka-U" were intercepted in the LPR, DPR and Kherson region.

Also, the Ministry of Defense said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 15 large-caliber shells at Energodar (Zaporozhye region) and the adjacent territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The shelling was carried out from the settlements of Vyshetarasovka and Kapulovka (Dnipropetrovsk region), 2 vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian howitzer "Msta-B" were destroyed by return fire.

Kherson region

Ukrainian troops attacked the locks of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station using the HIMARS MLRS. Local authorities reported that the rocket hit the dam lock did not provoke critical damage.

In the afternoon there was an undermining of the Berislav-Kakhovka power line, 10 settlements of the Kherson region were left without electricity. In addition, the authorities reported the cessation of water supply in Kherson and a number of districts.

About a thousand people were deported from Novaya Kakhovka in an organized manner. According to Ruslan Agaev, a representative of the administration of the Novokakhovka urban district, the evacuation is carried out without days off. People are taken by bus to the Crimea, and from there by railway transport to the Krasnodar Territory.

A train with 200 people with limited mobility evacuated from the Kherson region arrived in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the region.

Ukrainian troops are pulling a large number of tanks and armored vehicles to the Kherson direction, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the regional administration.

Zaporozhye region

Fortified areas are being created in the north of the Zaporozhye region in case of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which may begin before November 8. This was announced by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration.

Zaporozhye NPP is again connected to the energy system of Ukraine. According to Volodymyr Rogov, Kyiv said it had repaired a previously damaged power line, although "there was nothing to repair there."

DNR

During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Makeevka, Gorlovka, Golmovsky, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Staromikhaylovka, Mineralnoe, Yakovlevka, Vladimirovka.

As a result of the shelling in Donetsk, a civilian was killed, and two were also reported wounded in Makeevka and Vladimirovka. Another resident of Makiivka was injured when he was blown up by a mine "Petal". Numerous damages to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure have been recorded: a boarding school came under fire in the capital of the DPR, a fire started at the ventilation shaft of the Zasyadko mine, and a pumping station and a boiler house were de-energized in Yasinovataya.

Acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that attempts at the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are successfully repelled in the north of the republic. On the Avdiivka and Ugledarsky directions, the advance of the allied troops is fixed, which are improving their positions.

LC

Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops have shelled the settlements of Alchevsk, Stakhanov, Melovatka and Svatovo, using HIMARS MLRS. As a result of the attack, a civilian in Stakhanov was killed, 2 residential buildings were also destroyed and 16 were damaged, a school, a swimming pool, a power line, a gas pipeline and a water supply system were damaged.

The People's Front handed over off-road vehicles to the People's Militia of the LPR.

More than 20 pipelines in the water supply system have been restored on the territory of the LPR. According to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, another 14 waterways will be put into operation before the end of the year.