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Russo-Ukraine War - 13 November 2022 - Day 263

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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 9 November 2022, Education Minister Sergey Kravstov stated that military training will return to Russian schools, beginning in September 2023. This reprises a Soviet-era programme where students had mandatory military training, a programme which ended in 1993. This training included contingencies for a chemical or nuclear attack, first aid and experience handling and firing Kalashnikov rifles.

Russian officials attempted to revive this training in 2014 following Russia's invasion of Crimea. It was hoped that the initiative would improve the quality of conscripts. Eight years later, little has changed, and the quality of Russian conscripts remains poor, with low morale and limited training.

A training programme is currently being drafted and will be completed by the end of 2022. It will then undergo an approvals process. The Russian MOD supports this process, stating that no less than 140 hours per academic year should be devoted to this training.

This training likely intends to prepare students with military skills as they approach conscription age and to increase the take-up for mobilisation and conscription drives. This initiative is also likely to be part of a wider project to instil an ideology of patriotism and trust in public institutions in the Russian population.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is concentrating its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, continuing to equip defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnieper. At the same time, it conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions. In order to replenish losses, Russia continues to train mobilized personnel in military educational institutions, training centers and further transfer these persons to the areas of battles.

During the current 24 hours, the Russian occupiers launched one missile and 6 air strikes, carried out more than 14 MLRS attacks.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. In the military commissariats of the Brest region, in the period from November 7 to 11, measures were taken to clarify the personal data of men of conscription age. There is still a threat of Russian forces launching missile and air strikes, in particular with the use of attack UAVs from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.

The enemy shelled in such other directions:

in the Slobozhanskyi direction - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Strilecha, Starytsa, Buhruvatka, Ohirtseve, Riznykove, Vilkhuvatka, Kolodyazne, Bolohivka and Fyholivka;
in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Krokhmalne, Berestovka, Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Terny and Zarichne;
in the Bakhmut direction - from the entire range of artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Verkhnyokamianske, Spirne, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Zelenopillia, Kurdyumivka, Ozaryanivka, Zalizne and New York;
in the Avdiivka direction - from artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Vesely, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka;
in the Novopavlivka direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Paraskoviivka, Vuhledar, Bohoyavlenka, Pavlivka, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Temyrivka, Novopil, Olhivske and Poltavka;
in the Zaporizhzhia direction - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka and Mali Shcherbaky.

On the Tavriysk direction, the areas of Vishchetarasivka, Mylove, Zolota Balka, Mykhailivka and Shevchenkivka were hit by artillery fire. The village of Dobra Nadiya, Dnipropetrovsk region, was directly damaged by fire.
Stabilization measures are ongoing in the liberated settlements of the Kherson region.

There is an increase in the group of Russian occupation troops in the Melitopol region of the Zaporizhzhia region. Fortifications and defensive buildings are being built around the perimeter of the city. Civilians are prohibited from approaching the airfield area. Columns are arriving to the city from the side of Tokmak.

In the temporarily occupied by Russia population centers of Kakhovka, Tavriysk and Nova Kakhovka of the Kherson region, a decrease in the number of enemy personnel is observed. There is a minimal number of Russian occupiers in the cities, patrols move through the streets.

During the day, the Ukrainian aviation made 16 strikes against the enemy. 10 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 positions of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, were affected. Ukrainian units of missile troops and artillery hit the command post and 10 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment in a day.

Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian Ministry of Defense, in a daily briefing, confirmed reports of the complete liberation of Mayorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

The Defense Ministry also reported that during the day attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the Kupyansky, Limansky and South Donetsk directions. Ukrainian troops in total lost at least 240 military personnel, as well as a large amount of equipment.

High-precision air-launched missiles in Dubievka (Cherkasy region) destroyed an arsenal with aviation weapons of the Ukrainian Air Force.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 62 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, manpower and equipment in 183 districts. In addition, an AN / TPQ-50 US-made counter-battery radar was destroyed in the Avdiivka (DPR) area, and a S-300 anti-aircraft missile system radar was destroyed in the Novotroitsky area.

During the counter-battery fight in the Zaporozhye region, 3 M777 artillery systems and up to 30 foreign instructors and mercenaries were destroyed.

The Russian Aerospace Forces in the Dnepropetrovsk region shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air. Air defense systems destroyed 6 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Kharkiv region in a day. 13 multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS) shells were intercepted, including 10 HIMARS shells and 3 Alder shells in the LPR and Kherson region.

Zaporozhye region

In the village of Mikhailovka, Vasilyevsky district, a cache was found with 20 kilograms of explosives. He was found in a private house, which for several years was not residential, and its owner was a participant in the hostilities in the Donbass.

Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that the transfer of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine numbering up to 40 thousand people from the Kherson direction to the line of contact in the Zaporozhye region will take up to 2 weeks. After that, the official believes, the transition of Ukrainian troops to active operations may follow.

Allied troops, Rogov noted, are strengthening defense in the areas of possible attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the official, the Ukrainian command is studying various options for an attack on Berdyansk in order to access the sea.

Kherson region

On the night of November 13, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Novaya Kakhovka and the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to local authorities, due to constant attacks, the station received tremendous damage. The head of the administration of Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, does not exclude the possibility of mothballing the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station due to regular shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, Ukrainian troops attacked the city of Alyoshki on the left bank of the Dnieper. The city administration reported that shooting from small arms was heard in the territory of the settlement.

The administration of the Kherson region denied recent reports about the transfer of the capital of the region to Genichesk. The authorities reported that Genichesk has become a point where a number of administrative departments and structures are temporarily located.

LDNR

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the demobilization of students from the Donbass republics who had previously been called up for military service.

In the DPR, since the beginning of the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on Donetsk, as well as on the settlements of Gorlovka, Makeevka, Panteleymonovka, Yakovlevka, and Kashtanovoe. In Gorlovka, damage was recorded to residential buildings, as well as to the buildings of the Center for Technical Creativity and a motel.

Russian units continue to clean up the northern outskirts of Pavlovka from the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Rybar Telegram channel reports. To the north of the settlement, Ukrainian engineering and sapper groups are installing minefields. The RF Armed Forces, meanwhile, delivered a massive blow to strongholds in Vugledar.

The cleansing of the surroundings of the settlement Opytnoe continues. There are clashes in Pervomaisky, Vodyany and in the Nevelskoye area.

In the LPR, since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops have shelled the settlements of Rubizhne and Nizhnyaya Duvanka. During the attacks, an artillery gun with a caliber of 155 mm and the Grad MLRS were used. Damage to residential developments as a result of impacts is reported.

The ex-ambassador of the LPR in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not abandoning attempts to break through the defenses in the north of the republic, but they are being rebuffed by the allied forces.

At the same time, heavy fighting is going on in the Kremennaya area. According to the author of the Older Edda Telegram channel, Ukrainian troops are attempting to attack with large forces in the vicinity of Makiivka.