Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in 1996 following the Soviet Union's collapse
But Kyiv could still manufacture rudimentary nuclear weapons using plutonium
A briefing paper prepared for Ukraine's Defence Ministry said Kyiv could develop small dirty bombs within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid.
Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has significant expertise on how to build the weapons.
Ukraine does not have the time or resources to run the facilities required to enrich uranium needed for high-yield nuclear weapons amid the ongoing war.
But Oleksii Yizhak, head of department at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the paper, said Kyiv could extract plutonium from its spent fuel rods at nuclear power plants to create a significant arsenal of dirty warheads.
'The amount of material is sufficient for hundreds of warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons,' Yizhak concluded.
'That would be enough to destroy an entire Russian airbase or concentrated military, industrial or logistics installations.'
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Two-necked Muscovite "eagle," beet red,
"If you mess with this mother,
Retarded kid brother
Ukraine will get bullet in head!"
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[Korrespondent] To regain control over the Kursk region, Putin sent 50,000 soldiers from Russia and North Korea.
Russians are trying to storm Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, but this ends in heavy losses for them. Vladimir Putin gave the order to regain control of the Kursk region by January 20, the day of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, The Telegraph writes. According to the publication, Putin sent 50,000 soldiers from Russia and North Korea to regain control of the Kursk region. HUGE LOSSES
DeepState project analysts reported that on Monday, November 11, Russians made multiple attempts to "drop into" the village of Novoivanovka in the Kursk region or its outskirts. The enemy used almost thirty units of military equipment and lost at least 18 of them. Analysts also reported that the number of killed or wounded soldiers of the aggressor country could reach 300 people. The survivors "dug into the plantings or fled."
"It was truly a black day for the Russian occupiers, who tried to storm in five or six waves. That is, they tried to fly in on equipment, with paratroopers, and storm populated areas. However, ten armored vehicles were destroyed by soldiers of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade," said Anastasia Blishchik, press officer of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade, adding that three enemy armored personnel carriers were blown up by mines, and other equipment was destroyed using FPV drones and Stugna ATGMs.
The rest of the armored vehicles were destroyed by the adjacent brigades, with which the fighters of the 47th separate mechanized brigade are stationed in the same direction. According to Blishchik, the enemy also suffered losses in manpower. Those Russians who survived "ran away and hid in the plantings."
“That is, such a failed assault by Russian occupiers took place,” the press officer emphasized.
FOR THE SAKE OF NEGOTIATIONS
British military intelligence assesses that Russia is likely to step up attacks using kamikaze drones on Ukrainian positions in the coming days, using new launch sites located near the border.
Around 12,000 North Korean conscripts will also presumably take part in the battles for the Kursk region under a military agreement between Russia and the DPRK concluded this year.
Ukrainian analysts say the Kremlin could use a major counteroffensive in the Kursk region to intensify attacks and advance toward the Sumy region.
Russia has now regained control over about half of the territory captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the operation that began in August.
Western diplomats have expressed concern that Putin will try to complete the territorial takeover before Trump's inauguration to strengthen Russia's hand in future peace talks.
While razing their own settlements to the ground and killing their own citizens, the Russians dropped 3,243 guided aerial bombs and 356 unguided aerial missiles on their own soil.
The operation of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region has lasted 100 days. During this time, the enemy has shelled its own territory 11,578 times. This was reported by the operational command North on Wednesday, November 13.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces specified that while razing their own settlements to the ground and killing their own citizens, the Russians dropped 3,243 guided air bombs and 356 unguided air missiles on their own soil.
"Today marks 100 days since the Ukrainian Defense Forces began the Kursk operation. During this time, the enemy shelled its own territory 11,578 times (51,456 explosions). While razing their own settlements to the ground and killing their own citizens, they dropped 3,245 unguided rockets, 2,462 explosive devices from UAVs, and used 2,175 FPV drones on their own land," the statement added.
In turn, Ukrainian soldiers burned dozens of armored vehicles and destroyed hundreds of enemies in the Kursk direction.
Let us recall that earlier the General Staff reported on the progress of the fighting in Kursk region.
It also became known that the Defense Forces repelled an intensive assault by Russian troops in the Kursk region, resulting in the destruction of an entire battalion of the enemy.
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[Korrespondent] The occupiers are making their main efforts in the areas of Antonovka and Novoselidovka - 10 assaults are continuing there.
Since the beginning of the day, 97 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00 on Wednesday, November 13.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, one enemy attack was repelled in the Volchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy began to storm near Lozovaya and Pervomaysky five times. Two combat clashes continue.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out five attacks in the direction of Cherneshchyna, Terny and Zarechny. Two combat clashes continue.
In the Kramatorsk direction, one armed clash continues in the Stupochki area.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy tried to improve its position in the Toretsk region three times. Our soldiers gave a worthy rebuff.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers have already carried out 24 assaults near Sukha Balka, Luch, Lysovka, Krutoy Yar, Grigorovka, Dachenskoye, Petrovka, Novoalekseyevka and Pustynka.
The hottest part of the situation is now in the Kurakhovsky direction - 32 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berestki, Ilyinka, Novoselidovka, Voznesenka, Novodmitrovka, Maksimilianovka, Dalneye, Antonovka and Yekaterinovka. The occupiers are making their main efforts in the areas of Antonovka and Novoselidovka - they have carried out 16 assaults, of which 10 are ongoing.
In the Vremivske direction, eight armed clashes occurred near the settlements of Rivne, Novopil, Trudovoe, Konstantinopolskoe and Makarovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling six attacks
In the Orekhov direction, the occupiers attacked three times in the directions of Novodanilovka and Novoandreyevka.
Four enemy assaults were successfully repelled in the Dnieper direction .
Let us recall that the losses of Russians are at a record level . In just one day on November 12, about 1,800 occupiers were "minus"
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of 113th, 120th Territorial Defence brigades, and 5th Border Detachment of the Ukrainian border police near Udy, Vilcha, Krasnokutsk, Odnorobovka, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 troops, three motor vehicles, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers. One UAV workshop was destroyed.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 28th, 43rd, 63rd Mechanised brigades of the AFU and 119th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novoplatonovka,
Zagryzovo, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region) as well as Serebryansky forest.
Seven counterattacks of AFU 14th, 53rd Mechanised brigades, and 77th Airmobile Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 500 troops, three tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two Anklav-N and Kvertus electronic warfare stations. Five ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Yug Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, hit 33rd, 54th, 56th, 81st Mechanised brigades, 46th Airmobile Brigade, 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Yantarnoye, Druzhkovka, Dyleyevka, Reznikovka, Privolye, Minkovka, Kurakhovo, Dronovka, and Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 720 troops, two tanks, eight motor vehicles, a 152mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system and a 105mm M-119 gun made by the USA, four 122mm D-30 howitzers, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations. Two ammunition depots were wiped out.
The Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depths of the enemy's defence, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 100th Mechanised Brigade, 5th Mountain Assault Brigade 142nd Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 101st Territorial Defence Brigade, 1st and 18th National Guards brigades near Andreyevka, Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Petrovka, Sukhoy Yar, and Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian units repelled ten counter-attacks of AFU 42nd, 117th Mechanised brigades, 152nd Jaeger Brigade, 49th and 425th Assault battalions, 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian National Police.
The enemy lost over 480 troops, a tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, two 152mm D-20 guns, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The Vostok Group liberated Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian units hit 33rd Mechanised Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU, 113th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Velikaya Novoselka, Temirovka, Novodonetskoye and Zelyonoye Pole of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Two counter-attacks of the assault groups of 101st and 123rd Territorial Defence brigades were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 150 troops, an armoured personnel carrier, seven motor vehicles, and a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of 31st Mechanised Brigade of AFU, 124th, 126th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades close to Pyatikhatki, Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region), Mikhaylovka, Antonovka, and Shlyakhovoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, three motor vehicles, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, and an Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, engergetic facilities used for the operation of enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 139 areas.
Air defence units shot down three French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, a U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, and 85 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 648 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 35,707 unmanned aerial vehicles, 585 anti-aircraft missile systems, 19,188 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,487 MLRS combat vehicles, 17,805 field artillery guns and mortars, and 28,216 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces continued offensive actions and inflicted losses on formations of 21st, 22nd, 41st, 47th, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 103rd, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Daryino, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka.
The Group's units repelled six enemy counterattacks in the direction of Aleksandria, Nizhniy Klin, Novaya Sorochina, and Novoivanovka. The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 people killed and wounded, a tank, two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two M-113 armoured personnel carriers, three Humvee armoured fighting vehicles, and a motor vehicle. One AFU serviceman surrendered.
Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on 21st, 22nd, 47th, and 61st Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade as well as 103rd, 112th, 118th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 17th National Guard Brigade in the areas of Aleksandria, Bogdanovka, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Zamostye, Zeleny Shlyakh, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martrynovka, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nizhni Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolskiy, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops have attacked concentration areas in the Sumy region and reserves of 41st and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 95th Air Assault brigade as well as 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 1st National Guard Brigade near Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Ivolzhanskoye, Pisevka, Khoten, Yunakovka, and Yablovka.
During the day, the AFU losses amounted to more than 450 troops, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, including two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, 33 armoured fighting vehicles as well as five artillery guns, including a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, four mortars, a French-made Crotale anti-aircraft missile system, and 49 motor vehicles.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 32,150 troops, 202 tanks, 134 infantry fighting vehicles, 112 armoured personnel carriers, 1,146 armoured fighting vehicles, 907 motor vehicles, 274 artillery guns, 40 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 12 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 62 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 27 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 11/13/2024 to 00:00 11/14/2024.
A total of 11 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
DAMAGED:
Two residential buildings,
Five civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 11 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 28 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:54 Crews of the TOS-2 "Tosochka" heavy flamethrower system of the "Vostok" force grou struck Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Shakhtarsk section of the South Donetsk direction.
20:37 The crew of the 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer of the South group of forces hit a camouflaged 82mm mortar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a crew southeast of Seversk –video.
19:45 In full combat readiness
Calculation of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed barrel artillery and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
18:54 UAV operators of the North group of forces constantly record and transmit coordinates of military facilities, command posts, dugouts, strongholds, positions, weapons and combat equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
This time, servicemen discovered a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in a wooded area in the Sumy region.
The target was quickly destroyed by an FPV strike drone –video.
17:44 Su-34 fighter-bomber escorted by Su-35S fighter struck a stronghold and concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
16:59 Stopped attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Kursk region and one over the territory of the Belgorod region.
15:53 The TOS-1A "Solntsepek" crew of the "Yug" group destroyed firing positions and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction -video.
13:44 Powerful explosions at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions
It was reconnaissance discovered accumulation of manpower, as well as weapons, military and special equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the area of the settlement of Ivolzhanskoye in the Sumy region.
The targets were hit by missile strikes during the delivery and unloading of ammunition.
11:39 Russian Army advanced near Kupyansk from the north and south.
From the south, we managed to advance 3.5 km towards the city along the Oskol River, and Kolesnikovka was almost captured – it is all in the grey zone or under Russian control.
10:29 Ka-52M crews struck personnel and armored military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
09:54 Su-34 dropped bombs with a universal planning and correction module on the enemy in the Kursk border area —video.
09:26 The enemy receives a "sun" strike
The crew of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of the "West" group of forces destroyed strongholds and shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the special military operation -video.
08:42 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 11/13/2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in the LBS, however, the RF Armed Forces continue to increase activity in several areas of the front.
- Donetsk Front. Fighting continues on the Vremevsky salient. It is too early to talk about any serious successes, but the activation of this section of the front is obvious. Active military actions continue around Kurakhovo.
The Russian Armed Forces are engaged in fierce battles from the northern and southern flanks, advancing ever closer to the city, despite serious resistance from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In fact, fighting is underway in the eastern part, where the advance of Russian troops, according to various sources, is from one to two km.
- Chasov-Yar direction. There are tactical successes of Russian troops north of Chasov-Yar, where the RF Armed Forces advanced west of the SDD canal, taking more advantageous positions for further advancement in the direction of the settlement of Konstantinovka.
- Kursk region. Counter battles continue in several areas. Russian troops are putting pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense, the latter are transferring reserves. Fierce battles are underway.
08:00 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for November 12, 2024
– Russian troops struck targets in Kyiv, Khar'kov and Cherkassy, as well as in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions of the so-called Ukraine.– In the Kursk direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces have driven the enemy out of most of Plekhovo and are expanding the zone of control north of the village.
– In the Pokrovsky direction, attack aircraft are fighting in Yuryevka, advancing from the direction of Novoalekseyevka.
– In the Kurakhovo direction, Russian troops are consolidating their positions in the urban development in Kurakhovo and are also expanding their control zone on the flanks to the north and south of the city.
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[Regnum] Experts have been saying since the very beginning of the SVO that drones have become almost a superweapon on the battlefield. But the “unmanned art” is constantly evolving: drones are becoming smarter and more maneuverable, and they have begun to be used for tasks that many could not even think of before.
Recently, one of the main problems for the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been the deadly combination from the Russian army: "reconnaissance and fire adjustment drone plus the Iskander missile system." According to Ukrainian sources, hundreds of Orlan drones are in the sky around the clock over a two-hundred-kilometer zone along the line of combat contact.
At the same time, individual drones have taken airfields, military bases, anti-aircraft defense systems and other key military infrastructure facilities under surveillance. As soon as a significant target appears in the drone's field of view, the data is transmitted to adjust the strike, which follows within 5-10 minutes.
As a result, as a result of a series of missile strikes, the bases of the few surviving Ukrainian Air Force aircraft and batteries of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems were hit.
In many ways, it was the use of missile systems in conjunction with reconnaissance drones that influenced the decision of Kyiv and its Western allies to relocate American-made F-16 fighters to airfields in the western regions of the country.
In addition, the frontline territories were left without air defense cover, which allowed Russian aviation to strike enemy positions with gliding air munitions, consistently knocking out fortified firing points and bases in industrial zones.
Remaining beyond the reach of Ukrainian air defense, the Orlan drones have become a powerful threat to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Kyiv, naturally, has tried to find its own response.
DRONES - DRONE HUNTERS
To intercept large reconnaissance drones, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to adapt small FPV drones. The mechanism of "shooting down" is extremely simple: find the enemy drone and ram it.
This method is extremely cheap. The launch of one anti-aircraft missile costs tens of times more than the destroyed target: against this background, the use of even ten FPV drones to intercept a targeting drone is much cheaper. And although this tactic has already been used by Russian operators, in particular to hunt for heavy copters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces such as the Baba Yaga, a new stage of the "drone vs. drone war" has begun in recent months.
In the "drone war", the parties are constantly looking for new ways to attack and defend, notes Denis Fedutinov , an expert in the field of UAVs and editor-in-chief of the UAV.ru portal, in a commentary to IA Regnum . According to him, one of the innovations was the use of drones as a means of kinetic destruction of enemy drones.
Moreover, the targets can be both reconnaissance and reconnaissance-strike UAVs, as well as loitering munitions. Sometimes such improvised air defense systems operate in free hunting mode.
"Hunter drones are deployed to targets using ground-based detection systems operating in tandem with them. This forces modifications to the drones that the "hunters" are working against. For example, to improve the maneuverability of drones, which makes them more difficult to hit in free control mode," says Fedutinov.
Recently, Ukrainian sources have increasingly complained that intercepting Russian surveillance drones is becoming increasingly difficult. When an FPV drone approaches, the drone begins to actively maneuver and evade the approaching interceptor.
In Ukraine, they believe that the Russians have developed software based on artificial intelligence technologies. As a result, the effectiveness of using FPV drones to intercept targeting drones has begun to decline, which again creates serious risks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
I TWIST AND TURN, I WANT TO DECEIVE
Artificial intelligence and other modern innovations are certainly fresh and effective. However, no one has cancelled old proven technologies.
Recently, footage taken by official Moldovan services appeared on the Internet. The photos show drones that flew in from Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian sources later stated that it was a Parody UAV. Essentially, it is a dummy drone, i.e. a device without a warhead. It is stated that “dummy” drones are being launched en masse to overload Ukrainian air defense and provide cover for attack drones that strike directly at targets.
According to experts, such devices have been used for quite a long time. Some air targets, which are equipped with additional equipment, operate on the same principle, including increasing their effective scattering area to the indicators of simulated targets. In other words, the operator of the anti-aircraft system will see on the radar not a small-sized "dummy", but, for example, the Geran-2 attack drone or another combat target.
“Such devices can also be used as decoys, forcing air defense systems to turn on, revealing their location, and also forcing the enemy to waste expensive ammunition,” adds Denis Fedutinov.
A similar tactic was used by the Israel Defense Forces back in 1982 in Lebanon against the Syrian air defense forces and assets stationed in the country. And subsequently it was repeatedly used around the world in various military conflicts.
However, the massive use of "decoys" simultaneously with the introduction of software for drones seriously increases the survivability of drones and, accordingly, creates a significant advantage for the Russian army. On the one hand, drones learn to independently evade pursuit, on the other, the Ukrainian air defense is constantly overloaded with false targets. And missile systems can already work on the identified firing positions.
THE SKY IS FOR THE RUSSIAN ARMY
The confrontation between drones and methods of combating them can be compared to a game of chess. Each move of the opponent is followed by a response. But in any military conflict, as in a game of chess, there comes a moment when one of the parties no longer has the opportunity to change the situation in its favor.
In the near future, the war in the air could very clearly affect the situation at the front, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky noted in a conversation with the Regnum news agency .
"One of the main tasks for drones remains the elimination of enemy air defense and clearing the sky for manned aircraft. In early autumn, Russian targeting drones demonstrated their deadly effectiveness, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to somehow neutralize this factor. But they failed to do so: in the future, we should expect new effective missile strikes, deeper and deeper into the enemy's rear," the expert predicts.
In turn, Kiev's Western allies are aware of the scale of the threat and are seeking to strengthen the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As Mikhailovsky noted, the Pentagon had previously announced the delivery of a large batch of anti-aircraft missiles for the Patriot SAM system and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine.
The US has never announced the simultaneous delivery of anti-aircraft weapons before. It is assumed that the delivery of more than 500 missiles should allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to protect airspace and mitigate the threat posed by Russian aviation. But this will not be possible, the Regnum source is sure , since the Russian Armed Forces have too great an advantage.
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[REGNUM] Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, November 13, 2024, 09:51 — IA Regnum. Federal Security Service officers have thwarted a terrorist attack planned on orders from Kiev at a substation supplying electricity to a defense plant in Nizhny Tagil. This was reported on November 13 by the FSB press service.
A Russian citizen born in 1997, who is a functionary of a pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in the country, has been detained.
“During the course of the investigation, he gave a confession,” the FSB reported.
He reported that Ukrainian curators promised to pay money for committing a terrorist attack on a substation supplying power to a defense plant and the infrastructure of Sverdlovsk railway facilities. He purchased Molotov cocktail components in Yekaterinburg for the arson.
During his arrest, items for making homemade incendiary devices were confiscated from him. Correspondence with a representative of the Ukrainian special services was found in the Russian's account.
A criminal case was opened against the detainee under Part 3 of Article 30, n. "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act"). By the court's decision, the man was taken into custody.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 12, the FSB informed about the detention of a resident of Sevastopol who tried to set fire to a section of the railway near the Balaklava thermal power plant. During interrogation, he said that he was preparing the arson on the orders of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Criminal cases were opened against the man under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempt to commit a terrorist act") and Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international or foreign organization"). By the court's decision, the Crimean was placed under arrest for two months.
[NY Post] A top Russian navy commander accused of war crimes was assassinated in a Ukraine-planted car bomb explosion in Crimea on Wednesday, sources said.
Valery Trankovsky, who headed the 41st brigade of Russia’s Black Sea missile ships, was wiped out in the targeted attack in the city of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian security source told Reuters.
The hit — carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine — was justified after Trankovsky ordered missile strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine, according to the sources.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles probes into serious crimes, called the assassination an act of terrorism but stopped short of identifying the slain serviceman.
Baza, a Telegram channel close to Russia’s security services, only identified him as "Valery T" — describing him as a "captain first rank" for the Black Sea Fleet and a former chief of staff of the missile ship brigade.
Footage and images shared on the Telegram channel showed smoke billowing from the charred wreckage in the wake of the explosion.
Trankovsky is just the latest pro-war Russian figure to be assassinated by Ukraine.
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Poland has begun building a £1.9billion 'East Shield' along its borders with Russia and Belarus, in an effort to protect NATO's eastern flank as tensions simmer amid the war in Ukraine.
The 400-mile-long construction will include anti-tank fortifications, bunkers and other obstacles built to physically defend the border and control movement at a time when US support for Europe's defence is expected to wane as Donald Trump takes office in January.
Trump, who last week won the US presidential election, has repeatedly said he would 'end' Russia's invasion of Ukraine on his first day in office, adding that he also plans on cutting aid to Kyiv, despite the US being a top financial and military backer. His team has also reportedly considered the idea of creating an 800-mile buffer zone across the front line that would be marshalled by EU and UK troops.
Anti-drone systems and state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, powered by artificial intelligence to help early threat detection, will also protect Poland from threats posed by modern warfare revealed by the conflict to the south.
What's more, the 'shield' will also include a satellite component in order to provide 'another element of safety in space,' Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, in order to ready the country for 'the wars of the future'.
The fortifications are designed to fend off potential threats from 'the enemy', Tusk said earlier this year, with the heavily militarised Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the north considered to be posing a growing threat to the West.
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