Wagner’s mercenaries SUPPORTED BY PUTIN deployed thermobaric weapons in the intense fighting underway in eastern Ukraine.
Footage recorded in the Bakhmut region of Donetsk Oblast appears to show the use of thermobaric weapons by Putin-backed Wagner assassins while flaming explosions can be seen.
This comes as the UN secretary-general welcomed an agreement on the Black Sea grain deal.
Earlier in the day, Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, announced that it had been reached with a 120-day extension.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly also tweeted: “Good news that the Black Sea Grain Initiative will be renewed until March. Cereals will continue to arrive from Ukraine to help feed the world. “
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Russian losses reached 83,110, to the Kyiv Independent and the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
These losses come as Russia continues to bomb Ukrainian infrastructure.
On the afternoon of Nov. 15, the Kremlin fired up to 80 missiles at the besieged country as it sought to destroy its ability to produce electric power this winter.
The International Atomic Energy Agency urged Russia to “immediately take all actions” at Ukraine’s nuclear facilities.
All 24 IAEA countries voted in favor of the resolution.
They added that two voted against, seven abstentions and two absent from the vote.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council, welcomed the extension of the Black Sea Grains Initiative.
The agreement will last for at least 120 days after all parties agree to its extension.
Michel took to Twitter to say, “I welcome the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
“With 10 million tons of grain already exported under this initiative since #Ucrania, this is good news for a world that desperately wants grain and fertilizer. “
Despite Ukraine’s recent victories, its chances of a quick army victory are slim, a senior U. S. general said.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Pentagon yesterday: “The likelihood of a Ukrainian army victory, explained as the expulsion of Russians from all of Ukraine to come with what they claim to be Crimea, the likelihood of that anytime soon is not high, militarily.
“Politically, there may be a policy where, politically, Russians withdraw. It’s possible,” he added.
Milley added that Putin’s forces had failed in “all” of their targets from Ukraine.
U. S. Ambassador U. S. Secretary of State in Ukraine Bridget Brink welcomed an agreement on the Black Sea grain deal.
She said: “The extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative will reduce costs and ensure that the Ukrainian food Ukraine desperately desires can feed the world. “
“We will continue to help Ukrainian cereals succeed in world markets, especially in countries facing severe food insecurity. “
Ukraine prolonged martial law for 3 months.
This is that the army government remains in force until at least February 19, 2023.
This is an emergency measure due to the war.
A Ukrainian sniper reportedly shot two Russian infantrymen with a single bullet while shooting five men in five minutes.
Ukrainian special forces, who posted the ordinary clip, said 3 of Putin’s henchmen were killed and two were wounded in the exchange.
The shot was reportedly taken from a distance of nearly 4,000 feet and comes just days after another Ukrainian sniper claimed to have committed the second-longest fighting homicide in history.
Ben Wallace and his New Zealand counterpart, Peeni Henare, visited the British centre for Ukrainian soldiers.
The 120 New Zealand Worker Corps has proven its capability as more than 7,400 Ukrainian infantrymen have been trained.
According to CNN, a source claimed that Ukrainian investigators reached eastern Poland via a missile.
This comes after Zelensky demanded “immediate access” to it and said he had “no doubt” that the missile that hit Poland was “not Ukrainian. “
A “curtain of barbed ropes” is falling on Europe as nations fearful of its borders oppose Putin’s “hybrid war” against the West.
Poland, Lithuania and Finland are erecting metal walls and barbed wire fences on the borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus.
EU member states Latvia and Estonia have also begun to fence off their eastern borders, which meander through the countryside.
They Vladimir Putin and his puppet dictator Alexander Lukashenko to “weaponize” migration to sow chaos in the West.
Borders totaling 2106 miles are expected to fortify through 2025 in a chilling echo of the Cold War Iron Curtain.
The European Union’s foreign policy leader said today there were no signs of peace because Russia is “not in a position to withdraw. “
Josep Borrell told Reuters news agency: “I am worried that Russia is not in a position to withdraw and as long as it does not withdraw, peace will not be possible. “
He added: “It is Russia that will have to make peace possible, the aggressor will have to withdraw if it needs a lasting peace. “
No more now of the resolution of the Dutch court in relation to the crash of the MH17 plane.
The court ruled there was “ample evidence” to show the plane shot down the missile, and said it fired from a box in eastern Ukraine in a domain controlled by the pro-Moscow Donetsk People’s Republic, which is fighting Kyivan forces.
The court ruled out “alternative scenarios” advised by the defense, adding Russia’s initial suggestion that a Ukrainian fighter jet was responsible.
Russia “still denies to this day” that it controlled the DPR at the time: defendants may simply not claim immunity from prosecution as official combatants, the judges said.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said: “It can be said that this is the most powerful signal sent to the whole world, adding to Russia itself, that each and every war crime committed by the Russians will be documented, investigated and carried out. “
“It doesn’t matter how long it takes. “
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed today’s ruling after a Dutch court ruled that MH17 was shot down with a Russian-made missile.
Zelensky tweeted: Important resolution in The Hague. First convictions for perpetrators of #MH17 demolition.
“Holding the masterminds accountable is also crucial, as the sense of impunity leads to new crimes.
“We want to dispel this illusion. Punishment for all RF atrocities then and now is inevitable. “
More than 60 bodies were found in Kherson with symptoms of “torture,” Ukraine’s interior minister said.
As Ukrainian troops retake the region, which was liberated last week after 8 months of Russian occupation, they note the horrors left by Putin’s bloody invasion.
“Now 63 bodies have been found in the Kherson region, but we must realize that the search is just beginning, so many more dungeons and burial places will be found,” Denys Monastyrsky told Interfax Ukraine news agency. .
He added: “Lately investigators are examining them and locating cases of torture. Exhumations of the bodies of those killed are also being carried out. “
Meanwhile, NATO says Russia remains “guilty” for an “accidental” missile attack that killed two other people in Poland, as it likely caused it through Ukrainian defense systems that responded to Putin’s attacks.
Russians Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy, as well as Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko, were convicted today of 298 murders.
They were convicted of the illegal MH17 crash.
The ruling passed through the District Court of The Hague at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, has claimed that neither Russia nor the United States plans to use nuclear weapons.
After an assembly in Turkey, his comments were for journalists.
Erdoğan said: “Let me say this, according to what I gained from my intelligence chief, neither side will use nuclear weapons from now on. “
On Nov. 15, Putin’s forces introduced up to 80 missiles in a single afternoon, most commonly aimed at Ukrainian infrastructure, according to the British Defense Ministry.
The data reads: “During the afternoon of November 15, Russia carried out up to 80 long-range missile strikes, most commonly opposed to the targets of electrical infrastructure in Ukraine.
“This is the largest number of moves Russia has carried out on a singles day since the first week of the invasion.
“The munitions were introduced from air, sea and land platforms. Although a large portion of the missiles were successfully intercepted, Ukraine faces a significant reduction in the strength available in its national network.
“This will have an effect on civilians’ access to communications, heating and water.
“The continuation of movements on this scale is deeply based on Russia’s traditional cruise missile stockpiles, since the degradation of Ukraine’s national infrastructure has a key component of strategic technique for the Russian campaign. “
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has shared a shocking clip of a missile landing in the city of Dnipro.
The bomb fell in the middle of a road crowded with civilians.
At least 14 other people were wounded in the attack, according to reports.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council, welcomed the extension of the Black Sea Grains Initiative.
The agreement will last for at least 120 days after all parties agree to its extension.
Michel took to Twitter to say, “I welcome the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
“With 10 million tons of grain already exported under this initiative since #Ucrania, this is good news for a world that desperately wants grain and fertilizer. “
Poland has an 8-foot barbed cordon fence along its border with Russia in the wake of terror missile bombing that triggered a NATO emergency.
Soldiers placed miles of 10-foot-wide barbed cordon fences near the village of Szyliny near Russia’s Kalinigrad enclave over fears Moscow could trigger a migration crisis wreaking havoc on the EU.
A senior Polish official said all evidence suggests the missile that hit the NATO country on Tuesday was of Ukrainian origin.
It “indicates that we are dealing with an S-300 missile introduced through Ukraine’s air defenses,” Jacek Severa, head of Poland’s National Security Office, said according to CNN.
However, President Zelensky continues to deny that the missile could be of Ukrainian origin, as he asks his experts to see the scene first.
Speaking in his video address last night, President Zelensky went on to claim that the missile that hit Poland on Tuesday was not Ukrainian, the United States and Poland recommend it.
The unwavering leader also called for Ukraine to be granted the missile site.
“That’s why we want our mavens to sign up for foreign research paintings and have access to all the knowledge they have about our partners and the site of the explosion. “
The British Ministry of Defence has once again taken a look at the battlefield in Ukraine.
The perspective on the map has been replaced in days, as Ukrainian forces push Putin’s forces back from the Dnipro River.
The Black Sea grain deal, which allows Ukraine to export grain worldwide, has been extended for 120 days, Reuters reports.
Welcoming the extension, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: “I welcome the agreement of all parties to continue the Black Sea Grain Initiative to facilitate the navigation of Ukraine’s grain, food and fertilizer exports. “
The deal expires today, and Russia fears it will reject an extension.
Despite Ukraine’s recent victories, its chances of a quick army victory are slim, a senior U. S. general said.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Pentagon yesterday: “The likelihood of a Ukrainian army victory, explained as the expulsion of Russians from all of Ukraine to come with what they claim to be Crimea, the likelihood of that anytime soon is not high, militarily.
“Politically, there may be a policy where, politically, Russians withdraw. It’s possible,” he added.
Milley added that Putin’s forces had failed in “all” of their targets from Ukraine.
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