He said: “All the main authorities are concentrated there.” Henichesk, a port city on the Sea of Azov, has been occupied since February 27. It is very close to the border with the Crimea region, but at a considerable distance from the city of Kherson and the Dnipro River. Updated at 09:24 GMT Important events Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature US President Joe Biden thanked Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for his critical remarks about the war in Ukraine. Reuters reports that Biden’s comments come as he is set to meet Cambodia’s longtime leader. This satellite image from Maxar Technologies appears to show the significant damage caused to the Antonovskiy Bridge in Kherson as Russia retreated from the city. This satellite image released and collected by Maxar Technologies on November 11 shows an overview of the damaged Antonovskiy Bridge. Photo: Satellite Image ©2022 Maxar Tech/AFP/Getty Images The bridge is of great strategic importance as it is one of the few crossings over the Dnipro in the southern part of Kherson Oblast on the left bank of the river, which is still held by Russia. Lorenzo Tondo Sky’s foreign correspondent Alex Rossi and his team appear to be the first foreign journalists to reach the city of Kherson since it was retaken by Ukrainian forces, marking a “historic day” for Kyiv and perhaps the most important strategic discovery about the country since then. the beginning of the Russian invasion. Rossi was greeted by crowds of euphoric Ukrainian civilians on the outskirts of the city after the withdrawal of Russian troops. For Russia, the liberation of Kherson marked the latest and most serious of a series of battlefield defeats amid widespread images of Russian infantry scurrying to escape on a soon-to-be-destroyed pontoon across the Dnipro River in the morning fog. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had withdrawn about 30,000 troops. The retreat comes six weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “annexation” of Kherson and three other regions in a high-profile ceremony in Moscow. Updated at 10.17 GMT Turkey is committed to pursuing a peaceful dialogue between Russia and Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, according to Turkish media. “We are working on how to create a peace corridor here, like we had the grain corridor,” Erdogan reportedly told reporters on a flight from Uzbekistan. The president said he would not suggest a specific timetable for any extension of the grain corridor agreement – which expires at the end of next week – but said he wanted it to last “as long as possible”. Erdogan also praised Russia’s resistance to pressure from the United States and its allies, Reuters reports. He is quoted as saying: “Russia is not an ordinary state, it is a powerful state. Of course, the West, especially America, attacks Russia almost without limits. Against all this, of course, Russia is resisting.” Russia launched its latest invasion of Ukraine in February and claimed to have annexed four regions of occupied Ukraine into the Russian Federation. Updated at 10:18 GMT Lorenzo Tondo British graffiti artist Banksy has unveiled his latest work, in a Ukrainian building destroyed by Russian bombing. The anonymous Bristol-based artist, whose work sells for millions of pounds, posted a photo on Instagram of the artwork, a female athlete doing a handstand amid debris in Borodyanka, a town north of the capital Kiev that was hit by Russian airstrikes. bombs and then occupied. . Speculation had grown that Banksy was in the country after a series of murals appeared in its cities, including Kiev. Another mural at Borodianka, not officially confirmed by the artist, depicts a man who looks like Vladimir Putin – a known martial arts fan – being turned by a child during a judo match. Graffiti of a child throwing a man to the floor in judo clothes can be seen on a wall among destroyed buildings in Borodyanka. Photo: Ed Ram/Getty Images Another showed two children using a metal tank trap as a seesaw. Bansky posted three images of the mural on Instagram with the caption simply reading “Borodianka, Ukraine.” Russian troops, moving in from the Belarusian border 200 miles to the north, stormed the city at the start of the war in February. Borodianka, along with Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel, was one of the towns hardest hit by Russian bombing before it was liberated in April. Ukrainian investigators found dozens of mass graves where bodies of civilians, tortured and killed, had been buried. Moscow had fired cluster munitions, cluster bombs and highly powerful unguided bombs into residential areas of Borodyanka, destroying dozens of buildings. Since then, the city has been at the center of rebuilding efforts, with many towers demolished as a result of the damage caused by the fighting. Updated at 10.20 GMT Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is in Cambodia where, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, he met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Antony Blinken (L) meets Dmytro Kuleba. Photo: Cindy Liu/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 09:50 GMT
Henichesk declared the new “temporary administrative capital” of occupied Kherson
Russia’s state-run Tass news agency reports that Alexander Fomin, one of the members of the Russian administration in the occupied Kherson region, said that Henichesk has been declared the temporary administrative capital of Kherson. The area is one of the areas that the Russian Federation has claimed to have annexed. He said: “All the main authorities are concentrated there.” Henichesk, a port city on the Sea of Azov, has been occupied since February 27. It is very close to the border with the Crimea region, but at a considerable distance from the city of Kherson and the Dnipro River. Updated at 09:24 GMT Russian authorities in occupied Luhansk claim three civilians were injured by Ukrainian shelling. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports that the local administration posted on Telegram that the incident happened in the town of Kadiivka. The claims have not been independently verified. Luhansk is one of the regions of Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed. Updated at 09:24 GMT The UK Ministry of Defense has issued its intelligence briefing on how it sees the situation in Ukraine. He claims that it is possible that the Russians began their withdrawal from the city of Kherson on October 22, and that Russian forces are likely to have destroyed bridges on the Dnipro in the process. The information update states: On November 11, 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that their withdrawal from Kherson was complete. Russian forces likely destroyed road and rail bridges over the Dnipro River as part of this process. The completion of the withdrawal came just two days after it was announced. It is likely that the withdrawal process had already begun as early as October 22, 2022, when Russian-based officials in Kherson urged civilians to leave the city. There is a realistic possibility that Russian military equipment and plainclothes forces were evacuated along with the 80,000 reported civilian evacuees in recent weeks. Saying the withdrawal brings “significant reputational damage” to Russia, the update goes on to say: It is likely that Ukraine has recaptured large areas of Kherson Oblast on the west bank of the Dnipro River and that its forces are now largely in control of the city of Kherson itself. It is likely that Russia is still trying to evacuate forces from other areas of the periphery across the river to defensible positions on the east bank. Updated at 09:28 GMT Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the governor of Sumy, posted on Telegram to warn residents of the northeastern region of Ukraine that power outages today “may start a little earlier than scheduled and last longer.” He called on people to “take it with understanding. These are necessary steps to maintain balance in the power system.” Updated at 09:28 GMT Here are some images sent to us via the news from the village of Blahodatne, retaken by the Ukrainian armed forces a day ago. Teacher Yurii Nevolchuk rides a motorcycle with national flags. Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersA Ukrainian soldier transports captured anti-tank grenade launchers to a former position of Russian soldiers. Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersAntonina Ustymenko, 64, talks about the Russian occupation. Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters Updated at 09:29 GMT UN grain talks with Russia remain deadlocked United Nations leaders held talks with Russian officials about Black Sea grain and fertilizer export deals, eight days before one of the deals expired. The talks took place behind closed doors in Geneva and concluded on Friday afternoon. Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain producers and the Russian invasion had blocked 20 million tonnes of grain in its ports until the safe transit deal was agreed. On July 22, two agreements were signed mediated by the UN and Turkey. The first was to allow the export of Ukrainian grain blocked by Russia’s war in the country. the second was to allow the export of Russian food and fertilizer despite Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion. The 120-day Black Sea Grains Initiative expires on November 19, and the UN is seeking to renew it for a year. The Ukrainian foreigner…
