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Russo-Ukraine War - 22 November 2022 - Day 272

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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 18 November 2022, multiple Russian and Ukrainian media outlets reported that an attack took place at an oil terminal in Novorssiysk port on Russia's Black Sea coast. A major base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet (BSF) is close to the oil terminal.

The BSF relocated many of its submarine operations to Novorssiysk after its Sevastopol base in occupied Crimea was struck by Ukraine over the summer. Russian commanders will likely be concerned about threats to the Novorssiysk-based amphibious landing ship flotilla. These vessels are relatively vulnerable without escorts and have assumed a more important role in supplying Russian forces in Ukraine since the Kerch Bridge was damaged in October.

Full details of this incident are yet to emerge. However, any demonstration of a Ukrainian capability to threaten Novorssiysk would highly likely represent a further strategic challenge for the BSF. It would also further undermine Russia's already reduced maritime influence in the Black Sea.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russian Federation continues its armed aggression against Ukraine. The Russian occupiers are trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, are concentrating their efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine, carrying out engineering equipment of the defence line, continuing to conduct offensive actions in certain areas, conducting aerial reconnaissance. In order to equip and replenish the losses of its units, Russia moves personnel and military equipment to the areas of hostilities.

Over the course of a day, Russian forces launched about 15 MLRS attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of Russian offensive groups have been detected.

The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, providing it with infrastructure, territory and airspace. There is still a threat of Russian forces launching missile and air strikes, including using strike UAVs from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.

In the Siverskyi direction, Russian forces fired from MLRS in the area of ​​the settlement of Kustyne, Sumy oblast.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction, in the border areas of the Belgorod region, Russia continues to hold groups of troops for demonstration actions. The Russian occupiers periodically shell the positions of Ukrainian troops, as well as the settlements of the Kharkiv oblast near the state border of Ukraine.
On the Kupyansk and Lyman directions, Russia is conducting defense and shelling from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery, in particular, the areas of the settlements of Kyslivka, Krokhmalne, Berestove in the Kharkiv oblast, as well as Makiivka and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk oblast.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, Russia is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations. Fired tanks and artillery of various types in the areas of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Zelenopillya, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, and Nevelske settlements.
In the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia directions, Russia fired at the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine from tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery. Areas of about 10 settlements were affected by the Russian forces' artillery fire. In particular, Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia oblast.
In the Kryvyi Rih and Kherson directions, Russia is conducting positional defense, improving fortification equipment and logistical support of advanced units, and does not stop artillery shelling of the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the right bank of the Dnipro River. It used barrel and jet artillery for shelling the settlements of Maryivka in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, as well as Tokarivka, Antonivka, Dniprovske in the Kherson oblast, and the city of Kherson.

In the city of Yenakieve, in Donetsk oblast, the training of those forcibly mobilized from the territory of the temporarily occupied region to the ranks of the Russian occupation forces continues. A special feature is the placement of so-called instructors in the premises of the local polytechnic school, where students study at the same time.

Separate units from the territory of the chechen republic and from the private military company "wagner" were moved to the temporarily occupied town of Debaltseve in Donetsk oblast in order to increase the grouping of troops.

In addition, the regrouping of individual units of the occupiers in the area of ​​the settlement of Molochansk, Zaporizhzhia region, was revealed. According to available information, individual positions have been released and individual roadblocks have been removed. During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 2 strikes on areas where the Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.

Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian Ministry of Defense in a daily briefing reported that during the day the Russian Armed Forces continued offensive operations in the Donetsk direction, while simultaneously repelling counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 6 armored fighting vehicles, 5 enemy vehicles were destroyed.

In the South-Donetsk direction, a mechanized company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit by fire in the Vodiane area (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR). 3 sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the Pavlovka area. Enemy losses amounted to more than 50 people killed and wounded, 3 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and 2 armored vehicles.

In the Kupyansk direction, a motorized infantry company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit, which was advanced for an attack in the Novoselovsky area (Lugansk People's Republic, LPR). Enemy losses amounted to more than 50 servicemen killed and wounded, a tank, 3 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 vehicles.

An attempt by a motorized infantry company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced by foreign mercenaries, to attack from the Stelmahovka region (LPR) was thwarted in the Krasno-Limansky direction. Enemy losses amounted to 40 military personnel and mercenaries. 3 armored vehicles and 3 pickups were destroyed.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 11 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, 63 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 136 districts. In the region of Kramatorsk (DPR), 2 Ukrainian self-propelled firing systems of the Buk-M1 air defense system and an ammunition depot were destroyed.

During the counter-battery fight in the Kharkiv region, a battery of M777 artillery systems was suppressed. In the DPR, a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar was destroyed. In the LPR, 2 mortar platoons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

Air defense systems shot down 6 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

Zaporozhye region

From June to the present, more than 10 Ukrainian agents who collected information about the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant have been detained. This was announced by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Ukraine continues provocations at the ZNPP. Only in the previous day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 8 shells at the station. The shelling was carried out from positions in the Dnepropetrovsk region, which were suppressed by return fire from the RF Armed Forces.
Kherson region

The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson are hiding in residential areas, using "Mariupol technology" and hiding behind civilians. This was stated by a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, a freelance adviser to the acting governor of the Kherson region Alexander Malkevich.

In Kherson, the department of the Security Service of Ukraine and the national police resumed its work. According to the Rybar Telegram channel, employees are carrying out "filtration measures", checking houses in the city for the presence of pro-Russian citizens and military personnel of the RF Armed Forces.

Belgorod region

The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the village of Shebekino, 2 missiles hit the veterans' hospital. Two people were killed in the attack, according to local authorities. Serious damage to the hospital building was also recorded.

DNR

From the beginning of the day on November 22, Ukrainian armed formations opened fire on Donetsk, as well as on the settlements of Yasinovataya, Makeevka, Yelenovka, Gorlovka, Yakovlevka, Mineralnoe, and Zaitsevo. In Donetsk, as a result of shelling, 2 civilians were injured.

The offensive of the allied forces in Maryinka continues. According to available information, 2 out of 3 supply roads for the local grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been cut.

Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin announced the advance of the allied forces in the Pavlovsk and Ugledar directions. According to him, the offensive continues in these areas, which has shown some success.

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From the beginning of the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on Melovatka. The school building came under fire and was seriously damaged.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Lugansk People's Republic is preparing measures to support demobilized students, said the head of the department, Ivan Kusov. So, all students who returned from service, who previously studied on a contract basis, will be transferred to free education.