(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Ukraine Invasion Day 626: RU losses continue [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-11-10 "Russia lost 68 armored vehicles in Ukraine over the last four days, including eight tanks. Even by the apocalyptic standards of Russia’s 21-month wider war on Ukraine, it’s a staggering blow. Ukraine’s losses in the same period are a tenth of Russia’s." ⚡️Destroyed by a 🇷🇺Russian BTR-82A near the settlement of Krynka, Kherson region. Work of the "🇺🇦Birds of Magyar" unit pic.twitter.com/21wJQxRLDt ⚡🇺🇦💪💥As a result of the attack in #Kerch , both #Russian ships sank: the “shark” - immediately, the “chamois” - still unsuccessfully fought for survivability, but also sank. #Ukraine️ #UkraineWar #Ukraina #UkraineWillWin #UkraineRussiaWar #ukrainecounteroffensive #Russia pic.twitter.com/4Uv7wgTC1r Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) stated that Ukrainian surface attack drones sank two Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) small landing ships in occupied Crimea on November 10. The GUR published satellite imagery and reported that the Ukrainian surface attack drone strike on Uzka Bay near Chornomorsk, occupied Crimea sunk one Project 1176 Akula-class small landing ship and one Project 11770 Serna-class small landing ship.[1] The GUR reported that the Serna-class ship was carrying a crew and was loaded with armored vehicles, including BTR-82 armored personnel carriers, and that Russian forces previously used Serna-class ships to provide cover for Russian BSF ships during raids when Russian forces lacked naval air-defense equipment.[2] The Ukrainian military said the boats were crewed, and loaded with armoured vehicles . “Boats like this are quite a significant loss,” Andriy Ryzhenko, a military analyst and reserve officer, told Radio NV. “They allowed for the transport of a tactical landing force and equipment relatively inconspicuously.” Ukrainian naval drones sank two small Russian landing boats in Crimea, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said on Friday. The attack, which could not be independently verified, sank an Akula class vessel and a Serna class vessel. Russia is under no obligation to say where a Ukrainian volunteer soldier convicted and jailed for trying to kill two civilians is being held, the Kremlin said . Human rights groups have demanded that Russia provide information on Maksym Butkevych, whose family and lawyers say they have been unable to establish his whereabouts since August. Butkevych was arrested last year, when his unit was captured on the frontline, and sentenced in March to 13 years in prison. A French court rejected an appeal from the Ukrainian government and ruled that Ukrainian billionaire Kostyantyn Zhevago should not be extradited over accusations of embezzlement, a court spokesperson said . Zhevago, who controls London-listed iron pellet producer Ferrexpo, was arrested at a French ski resort in December 2022 at the request of Ukraine, which wants him for alleged embezzlement involving a now-collapsed bank. Zhevago has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff said he hoped a conference on joint Ukrainian-US weapons production would be held in December in the US , Kyiv’s most important supplier of military assistance. “There was a very important agreement between President Zelenskiy and President Biden,” Andriy Yermak said of the Ukrainian and US leaders. “Next month, I hope, a conference will be held in the United States dedicated to joint [weapons] production of Ukraine and the United States.” Russian artillery and drone attacks on Friday killed three people and damaged an unspecified infrastructure facility, power lines and a gas pipeline in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions of Ukraine, local officials said . Both regions have come under regular shelling by Russian troops in occupied territory on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian and Russian officials said they had agreed to send a Ukrainian teenager taken to Russia amid the war last year back to his home country , in accordance with his wishes. Bohdan Yermokhin, a 17-year-old whose parents died years ago, would be reunited with a cousin “in a third country” on his 18th birthday later this month, with a view to then return to Ukraine, Russian children’s rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said in a statement on Friday. Hungary’s prime minister said he did not support moving forward on negotiations on Ukraine’s future membership of the EU , signalling again that his country could pose a major roadblock to Kyiv’s ambitions to join the bloc, which must decide unanimously on the admittance of new countries. “The clear Hungarian position is that the negotiations must not begin,” Viktor Orbán said. A European Union plan to spend up to €20bn ($21.4bn) on military aid for Ukraine is meeting resistance from EU countries and may not survive in its current form, diplomats have said , according to Reuters. Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, proposed in July that the bloc create a fund with up to €5bn a year over four years as part of broader western security commitments to bolster Ukraine. But as EU defence ministers prepare to discuss the plan in Brussels on Tuesday, diplomats say multiple countries – including EU heavyweight Germany – have voiced reservations about committing such large sums years in advance. Russia’s military said its forces had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to forge a bridgehead on the eastern bank of the River Dnipro and on nearby islands in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine , killing about 500 Ukrainian soldiers in the past week. “On 9 November, personnel from a motorised rifle company in the Russian military grouping ‘Dnipro’ under the command of Senior Lieutenant Zolto Arsalanov destroyed servicemen from a unit of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Infantry brigade as they were trying to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnipro River,” the defence ministry statement said. The claim could not be independently verified. Military analyst Serhiy Zgurets, writing on the website of Espreso TV, said Russian forces sought to exploit Ukraine’s focus on Avdiivka by attempting to retake areas they had lost near Bakhmut to the north-east. Russian forces seized Bakhmut in May, but Ukrainian troops have since retaken nearby villages. ⚡️ WAR IN #UKRAINE - NOV 10 ■ Strikes & combat engagements down between days ■ Troop & equipment losses below 7-day average ■ Oryx: +57 🇷🇺 +21 🇺🇦 visually confirmed equipment losses See dashboard for further analysis 📈 https://t.co/epVXEVinBu pic.twitter.com/MVkhA054Nv Russian T-80BVM sporting a massive cope cage, as well as a significant amount of add on armor. Belongs to the 29th CAA, operating outside of Vuhledar. pic.twitter.com/dRPud6TMv8 Russian Subordinate Main Effort #1 – Luhansk Oblast (Russian objective: Capture the remainder of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into eastern Kharkiv Oblast and northern Donetsk Oblast) Russian forces continued offensive operations on the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line on November 10 and recently made marginal confirmed advances. Geolocated footage published on November 7 and 9 shows that Russian forces marginally advanced southwest of Petropavlivka (7km east of Kupyansk).[39] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks near Synkivka (8km northeast of Kupyansk), Ivanivka (20km southeast of Kupyansk), and Stelmakhivka (15km northwest of Svatove), and northeast of Petropavlivka in the Kupyansk direction, as well as near Novoyehorivka (16km southwest of Svatove) and the Serebryanske forest area (11km southwest of Kreminna) in the Lyman direction.[40] Ukrainian Ground Forces Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Fityo stated that Russian forces have slightly increased their focus on assault operations in the Kupyansk direction and are beginning to use more vehicles in ground assaults.[41] Russian Subordinate Main Effort #2 – Donetsk Oblast (Russian objective: Capture the entirety of Donetsk Oblast, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas) Ukrainian forces continued offensive operations on Bakhmut’s southern flank on November 10 and made confirmed marginal advances. … The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces continued assault operations in the Bakhmut direction.[44] Russian forces continued to attack Ukrainian positions on Bakhmut’s northern and southern flanks on November 10 and made confirmed territorial gains. Geolocated footage published on November 10 shows that Russian forces marginally advanced in the forested area north of Klishchiivka.[45] … The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assaults near Bohdanivka (5km northwest of Bakhmut), Ivanivske (6km west of Bakhmut), Klishchiivka, and Andriivka.[50] The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that elements of the Russian 331st Guards Airborne Regiment (98th Guards Airborne Division) continue to operate in the Bakhmut direction.[51] Russian forces conducted offensive operations around Avdiivka on November 10 but did not make confirmed advances. … The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assaults east and southeast of Novokalynove (7km north of Avdiivka); near Stepove, Avdiivka, Sieverne, and Pervomaiske (11km southwest of Avdiivka); and south of Tonenke.[56] Ukrainian Tavriisk Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Oleksandr Shtupun stated that Russian forces’ most important target is the Avdiivka Coke Plant because capturing the plant would allow Russian forces to establish defensive positions in an industrial area instead of in forested terrain.[57] The governor of Kherson region has beseeched civilians in this southern area of Ukraine to leave. He has offered free travel and help with accommodation. As well as shells to dodge, there has been a flood, unleashed apparently by the Russians, when the Kakhovka dam was destroyed in June. And yet at the city’s market, almost a year since Ukraine’s liberation of the area, residents were stocking up for another week on the frontline, Tom Burgis reported. The Dnipro river cuts the region in two. The eastern side is still occupied by the Russians. Freedom has returned to the western side – where Kherson city abuts the bank – but not peace. In the year since Ukrainian troops reached the centre of Kherson, the hundreds of shells, bombs, mortars, missiles and drones that the Russians fire across the river every day have killed 397 and injured 2,057, according to the local authorities, equivalent to about a quarter of the civilian death toll from murder, shelling and mines during the occupation. One aerial assault struck near the shop opposite Victoria’s market stall a few weeks ago. It sold milk, cheese and sausages to a loyal clientele. The shopkeeper had stepped out for a cigarette. That’s what saved her. www.theguardian.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/10/2204973/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-626-RU-losses-continue?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/