Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 23. November 2022:

Nachgetragen fürs Archiv: Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 23. November 2022:

• Bei erneuten russischen Luftangriffen wurde die Infrastruktur in mehreren ukrainischen Städten schwer beschädigt. Aus der Übersicht von tagesschau.de:

Bei russischen Raketenangriffen sind nach ukrainischen Angaben mehrere Menschen getötet und viele verletzt worden. Im gesamten Land wurde Luftalarm ausgelöst, in mehreren Regionen fiel der Strom aus. Auch die Republik Moldau ist betroffen. (…)
In Kiew wurden der dortigen Militärverwaltung zufolge drei Menschen getötet und sechs weitere verletzt. (…)
In der Hauptstadt Kiew sei durch den russischen Beschuss auch ein Objekt der kritischen Infrastruktur beschädigt worden, teilte Bürgermeister Vitali Klitschko mit. Um welches Gebäude es sich handelte, war zunächst unklar.
Kurzzeitig fiel das Antennenfernsehen aus und es gab stärkere Schwankungen im ohnehin angeschlagenen Stromnetz. Wenig später teilte Klitschko mit, dass in der gesamten Metropole mit ihren drei Millionen Einwohnern die Wasserversorgung ausgefallen sei.

• Großbritannien will erstmals Hubschrauber in die Ukraine schicken, berichten britische Medien:

The UK is sending helicopters to Ukraine for the first time, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced, in an escalation of support for Kyiv’s resistance against Vladimir Putin.
Three Sea King helicopters will be provided, with the first already in Ukraine, according to PA Media. They are the first piloted aircraft to be sent by the UK since the Russian invasion began in February.

Die USA kündigten auch weitere Waffenlieferungen an:

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $400 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twenty-sixth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
Capabilities in this package include:
– Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
– 150 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
– Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
– 200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
– 10,000 120mm mortar rounds;
 High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
– 150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
– Over 100 light tactical vehicles;
– Over 20,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
– Over 200 generators;
– Spare parts for 105mm Howitzers and other equipment.

• Das britische Intel Update:

Since September, Russia has likely launched hundreds of Iranian-manufactured uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) against Ukraine. These have been a mixture of one way attack (OWA) UAVs and more traditional reusable armed systems.
Russia has largely used these weapons against tactical military targets and the Ukrainian electricity grid.
However, recently Russian commanders likely also wanted Iranian-sourced UAVs to prioritise medical facilities as targets of opportunity, and strike them with guided munitions if identified.
Russia likely conceived of the UAV campaign to make up for its severe shortage of cruise missiles, but the approach has had limited success. Most UAVs launched have been neutralised.
No OWA UAVs strikes have been publicly reported since around 17 November 2022. Russia has likely very nearly exhausted its current stock, but will probably seek resupply.
Russia can probably procure UAVs from overseas more rapidly than it can manufacture new cruise missiles domestically.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of UAF on the russian invasion as of 06.00, November 23, 2022
The two hundred seventy-third (273) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk oblast and Spirne, Berestove, Bakhmut, Kurdyumivka, Pivnichne, Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske, Nevelske and Maryinka in the Donetsk oblast.
Over the past day, the enemy launched 5 rocket attacks on settlements of the Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts, carried out about 45 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and towns and villages.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation has not changed significantly, and no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.
In the Siverskyi region, in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the enemy continues to conduct demonstration and provocative actions. The enemy fired from rocket and barrel artillery in the areas of the settlements of Semenivka in the Chernihiv oblast and Novovasylivka, Kustyne, Druzhba, Vilna Sloboda and Shalygine in the Sumy oblast.
In the Slobozhansky direction, in the border areas of the Belgorod region, the enemy is holding a group of troops to carry out demonstration actions. The positions of our troops are periodically shelled with mortars and barrel artillery. The areas of the settlements of Strilech, Hlyboke, Krasne, Izbytske and Ohirtseve of the Kharkiv oblast were shelled. The enemy made an attempt to infiltrate a subversive and intelligence group in the area of Starytsa settlement. The subversive reconnaissance groups were neutralized by the fire of our units. The enemy retreated.
In the Kupyansk and Lyman directions, the occupiers are conducting defense, carrying out shelling from tanks and artillery, in particular in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Tabaivka, Krokhmalne, Berestove and Vyshneve in the Kharkiv oblast and Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Yampolivka and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk oblast.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations. The areas of the settlements of Spirne, Vyimka, Berestove, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Andriyivka, Zelenopillya, Kurdyumivka, Yakovlivka, Klishchiivka, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Nevelske and Maryinka were shelled from tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery.
The enemy is on the defensive in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Shelling of the positions of the Defence Forces and the areas of the settlements of Vuhledar, Prechystivka, Shakhtarske, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Novopil in Donetsk oblast and Zeleny Hay, Dorozhnyanka, Temyrivka, Poltavka, Chervone and Orihiv in the Zaporizhzhia oblast was recorded.
In the Kryvyi Rih and Kherson directions, the enemy is conducting positional defense, improving the fortification equipment of the positions, and does not stop the artillery shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements on the right bank of the Dnipro River. Used barrel and rocket artillery for shelling the settlements of Maryivka, Dnipropetrovsk oblast; Dudchany, Kachkarivka, Novotyahynka, Tokarivka, Poniativka, Antonivka and Dniprovske of the Kherson oblast and the city of Kherson.
Additional equipment of defensive lines by the enemy is being observed along the section of the Kakhovka – Melitopol highway in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
In the city of Sevastopol, on the basis of one of the educational institutions, the training of operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of both russian and iranian production continues. The term of training of these specialists is up to three weeks. Currently, about 30 servicemen are being trained.
The occupying forces continue to suffer losses. So, in the village of Kalanchak of the Kherson oblast, the local hospital does not have enough beds to accommodate the wounded invaders. About 40 wounded occupiers were brought to the settlement of Velyki Kopani during the previous day.
According to detailed information, on November 21 of this year, in the Zaporizhzhia oblast, the destruction of the enemy S-300 anti-aircraft missile complex and 5 units of military equipment of various types in the area of the settlement of Polohy was confirmed. In addition, 40 servicemen were injured. A checkpoint of the occupiers was destroyed near Vesele, Zaporizhzhia oblast, and 15 servicemen were wounded with various degrees of severity. In Melitopol, the enemy lost up to 30 people wounded.
During the past day, the Ukrainian aviation made 3 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the occupiers, and soldiers of missile forces and artillery hit the enemy’s control post.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (23 November 2022)
Russian Federation Armed Forces continue the special military operation.
In Donetsk direction, units of Russian army continued their intense operation.
More than 60 Ukrainian servicemen and 5 armoured fighting vehicles have been eliminated.
In South Donetsk direction, artillery fire and decisive actions by Russian troops have repulsed an attack by the AFU with up to a company’s tactical group forces towards Pavlovka.
In addition, as a result of a pre-emptive fire attack, enemy reserves advancing from Ugledar have been destroyed. A sabotage and reconnaissance group of the AFU has been destroyed near Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region). The enemy’s losses amounted to more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 3 armoured vehicles, a MT-LB and 4 pick-up trucks.
In Kupyansk direction, an attempt to launch an attack by an AFU mechanised infantry company near Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic) has been thwarted by artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems.
In Donetsk direction, as a result of Russian artillery fire more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles and one mortar have been destroyed.
In Krasniy Liman direction, an attempt to move the AFU company tactical group to attack the Chervonopopvka (Lugansk People’s Republic) has been disrupted by pre-emptive fire.
Up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 mortar crews and 2 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised the AFU 128th Mountain Assault Brigade’s command post deployed near Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region), as well as 72 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 144 areas.
1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed near Nikolayevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
2 AFU artillery-missile armament and munitions depots have been destroyed near Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region), and Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Air defence forces shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of the gas condensate fields in the Black Sea and near Sevastopol.
In total, 333 airplanes and 177 helicopters, 2,554 unmanned aerial vehicles, 390 air defence missile systems, 6,782 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 901 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,615 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,329 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00, on November 23, 2022
The two-hundred-seventy-third (273) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
During the day, the russian occupiers inflicted a massive strikes on the objects of the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. According to preliminary information, up to 65 Kh-101 cruise missiles were used, 51 of which were shot down by the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Residential buildings and Combined Heat and Power (CHPs), Thermal Power S tations (TPPs) and substations in the city of Kyiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were hit. The information is being clarified.
In addition, this night the enemy launched 2 missile strikes on the Zaporizhzhia oblast and launched 5 MLRS attacks on the positions of our troops.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation has not changed significantly, and no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.
On the Siverskyi direction, the enemy shelled the area of ​​the settlement of Kustyne, Sumy oblast, with rocket salvo systems.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction in the border areas of the Belgorod region, the enemy continues to hold units of his troops for demonstration actions. Periodically shelling the positions of our troops, as well as settlements in the Kharkiv oblast near the state border of Ukraine.
The enemy is defending in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions. Fires from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery, in particular, in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Krokhmalne and Berestove in the Kharkiv oblast and Makiivka and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk oblast.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations. Fired tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery at objects in the areas of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Zelenopillya, Avdiyivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske and Nevelske settlements.
The enemy is on the defensive in the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia directions. Areas of about 10 settlements were affected by the enemy’s artillery fire.
The occupiers are conducting a positional defense in the Kryvyi Rih and Kherson directions. Barrel and rocket artillery were used to shell the settlements of Maryivka in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast and Kherson, Tokarivka, Antonivka and Dniprovske in the Kherson oblast.
The enemy continues to suffer losses. So, over the past few days, more than 30 seriously wounded servicemen from the northwestern outskirts of the city.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast, the occupiers continue to forcibly resettle pro-Ukrainian residents. So, under the pretext of counter-subversive actions, during the past week, about 20 local farmers were taken from the settlements of Denezhnykovo and Shtormove in the Luhansk oblast.
It has been confirmed that the Defense Forces destroyed the enemy’s manpower and military equipment in the previous days. Thus, in the Luhansk oblast, an ammunition depot was hit, about 50 occupants were killed and up to 50 were wounded. In the Zaporizhzhia oblast, the enemy lost up to 15 people killed and up to 20 wounded.
During the current day, our aviation made 4 strikes: 3 – on areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy and 1 – on the position of an anti-aircraft missile complex. Soldiers of rocket troops and artillery, at the same time, struck the area of ​​concentration of personnel and anti-tank missiles of the enemy and the position of the air defense system of the occupiers.