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Russian soldiers are leaving wounded behind as they desperately flee Kherson, a Ukrainian soldier has claimed. Earlier this week, Russia announced it was withdrawing from the region, including parts of the city that was the only regional capital Moscow had so far captured. A stepped-up advance by Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops has forced Moscow to retreat, and in the 24 hours since Russia began its withdrawal, Ukrainian troops have retaken more than 250 square kilometers of territory. Nikolai, a Ukrainian soldier fighting in the region, told the Telegraph that Russian troops had withdrawn to more “fortified positions”. He said: “They are withdrawing because they have losses, very heavy losses. Moreover, they don’t even take the bodies of their soldiers and leave the wounded behind.” In his afternoon speech on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid tribute to his fallen “warriors” who gave their lives to liberate 41 settlements in the south. He said: “It is not the enemy that is leaving. It is the Ukrainians who drive out the invaders at a high cost.”
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Retreating Russians leave desperate civilians in Kherson under constant shelling
With no electricity or water and endless shelling, liberated Ukrainians are not ready to celebrate Putin’s setback, Bel Trew reports from Novooleksandrivka in Kherson. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 1:00 p.m 1668170403
Ukrainian explosives experts who demined reclaimed land
Explosives experts were going to areas retaken by Russian forces to rid them of thousands of unexploded mines left behind, Butusov said. In his speech, Zelensky said 170,000 square km (66,000 square miles) remained to be demined, including places where fighting was still going on and “where the enemy will add mines before withdrawing, as is happening now with Kherson.” The Ukrainian-appointed governor of the region, Yaroslav Yanusevych, told Telegram that Russian troops “removed public equipment, destroyed power lines and wanted to leave a trap behind them.” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, said on Thursday that Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a “city of death”, mining everything from apartments to sewers and planning to bombard the city from across the river. Russia denies it deliberately targeted civilians, although its forces have pulverized Ukrainian cities in a conflict that has killed thousands and displaced millions. Russians fired rockets overnight at Mykolaiv, the nearest major Ukrainian-held city to Kherson, hitting a residential area and killing six people, Ukrainian officials said. Rescuers were digging through the wreckage of an apartment building for survivors on Friday after the Russian attack, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said. A Reuters reporter in the city heard three explosions, the first around 3 a.m. local time. The dead included a married couple whose 16-year-old daughter survived because she was sleeping in another room of their apartment, Kirill Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, told Telegram. Ukraine’s defense minister told Reuters he did not know when the war would end, but that it was clear to him how it would end. “It will be a victory for Ukraine. It (will be) when we are able to seize or liberate all Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories up to the 1991 borders, including Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk,” Reznikov said. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 12:40 p.m 1668169203
Ukraine in the “final stage” of recovering the right bank of the river in the Kherson region
Ukrainian armed forces are in the final stages of retaking the right bank of the Dnipro River in the southern Kherson region from Russian troops, a regional lawmaker said on Friday. Serhiy Khlan, deputy of the Kherson Regional Council, also told a briefing that many Russian soldiers were unable to leave the city of Kherson after months of occupation and had changed into civilian clothes. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 12:20 p.m 1668168192
UN begins talks with Russia on Black Sea grain deal
Talks between a Russian delegation and senior UN officials to address Moscow’s complaints about the Black Sea grain export initiative began in Geneva on Friday, a UN spokesman said. The negotiations come just eight days before the renewal of the agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July. The deal helped avert a global food crisis by allowing food and fertilizer to be exported from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports. Moscow has said it is ready to leave the deal, which could expire on November 19, if no progress is made on its concerns. Russia suspended its participation in late October, but resumed after four days. It said it was responding to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that it blamed on Ukraine. Kyiv has not claimed responsibility and denies using the grain program’s safe corridor for military purposes. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, who is leading talks on Ukrainian exports, and senior UN trade official Rebecca Greenspan are meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin at the UN office in Geneva, Alessandra Velucci said. representative of the United Nations in Geneva. “This discussion will hopefully build on the progress that has been made in facilitating the seamless export of food and fertilizers originating in the Russian Federation to global markets,” he told a news conference. Bellucci made no mention of whether extending the pact was on the agenda. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 12:03 p.m 1668166317
Germany to discuss Russian war crimes prosecution with G7 – Justice Minister
Justice ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations will focus on ways to prosecute suspected Russian war criminals when they meet in Berlin later this month, Germany’s justice minister said in an interview published on Friday. Searching for suspects and identifying potential war crimes requires “an effective network and international coordination,” Marco Busman told Focus magazine. He will be joined by counterparts from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States on November 28-29 for the conference in the German capital. Buschmann said Germany has a “high reputation worldwide for prosecuting war crimes because we actively apply the principle of ‘universal jurisdiction’ like almost no other country.” Under this principle, which allows courts to prosecute crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world, Germany convicted two former Syrian intelligence officers in a landmark trial against state-sponsored torture in Syria. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 11:31 am 1668164589
Russia and US to meet on new START nuclear weapons treaty in Cairo
Russia and the United States will soon meet in Cairo for talks on the New START nuclear weapons treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday. The US State Department said on Tuesday that the two sides would meet soon and discuss resuming inspections under the treaty that had been halted before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ryabkov’s comments, cited by the RIA news agency, provided the first confirmation that the talks would take place in Egypt. He said they will be held in late November-early December. New START, which went into effect in 2011, limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the United States and Russia can deploy and the development of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them. Russia in August suspended cooperation with inspections under the treaty, blaming travel restrictions imposed by Washington and its allies on Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine, but said it remained committed to complying with the treaty’s provisions. . Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 11:03 am 1668162506
Russia claims all troops have left the southern Ukrainian city
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it has completed the withdrawal of its troops from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. In a statement carried by Russia’s state news agencies, the ministry said the withdrawal was completed at 5 a.m. Friday and not a single unit of military equipment remained in the west bank. The retreat announced earlier this week marks another humiliating setback for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The areas from which the Russian army withdrew included the city of Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Moscow during the eight-month war in Ukraine. A Kremlin spokesman on Friday refused to recognize the retreat as humiliating for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 10:28 am 1668161767
Russia says it has completed the Kherson withdrawal
The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that it has completed the withdrawal of troops from the western bank of the Dnipro River in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, TASS news agency reported. (AP) Maryam Zakir-Hussain November 11, 2022 10:16 am 1668160392
Kherson’s status as ‘part of Russia’ remains unchanged, Kremlin says
The Kremlin said on Friday that the withdrawal of Russian forces from Kherson would not change the status of the region, which Moscow has declared part of Russia after it was annexed by Ukraine. Russia claimed Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions after holding referendums it called in September – votes denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive. But on Wednesday, in a major retreat, it announced that its forces would withdraw from the city of Kherson in the face of a major Ukrainian counteroffensive. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the region’s status was “fixed” and that no changes had been made…
