Military action in Donetsk region, 151 combat clashes, enemy shelling, new Republican leader in the US Senate. How will the 994th day of full-scale war be remembered?
Shelling of Nikopol region
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on November 13, 151 combat clashes have occurred.
The Defense Forces continue to courageously defend Ukraine. The largest number of battles are in the Kurakhovsky and Pokrovsky directions.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of November 13 are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that today, starting from 14:30, Russian occupiers attempted to break through our defenses in the Kupyansk direction.
The enemy's assault groups attacked the positions of the Ukrainian defenders in four waves. In total, the enemy used about 15 units of equipment: tanks, combat armored vehicles and a UR-77 mine clearing unit. >”It should be noted that some of the Russian soldiers were dressed in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This violates the laws and rules of warfare and is a war crime,” the General Staff noted.
“With skillful and decisive actions, our defenders stopped the enemy, destroyed all of its armored vehicles and eliminated a significant portion of its manpower. It is worth noting the professionalism and coordination of our infantry, tank crews, artillerymen and UAV operators,” the military added.
On Wednesday, November 13, the Russian army launched massive strikes on communities in the Donetsk region. As a result of the strikes, two people were killed and seven were wounded, said Vadim Filashkin, head of the Donetsk OVA.
In the village of Shevchenko, Komarskaya community, Russians killed a 32-year-old woman and wounded a 36-year-old woman, damaged an administrative building and a car.
A 63-year-old man died in Novotroitsk Pokrovsky society, two more people were wounded.< /p>
“The Russians are deliberately hitting civilians,” Filashkin notes.
More information in the news.
The Ministry of Finance and the World Bank signed agreements for 750 million dollars >.
Ukraine will receive 400 million dollars by the end of the year. Details in the news.
Today's explosion in Sevastopol of the car of the head of the headquarters of the 41st brigade of missile ships and boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Valery Trankovsky, was a successful special operation of the SBU, an informed source in the SBU told LB.ua.
As a result of the explosion, the Russian captain's legs were torn off, he died from blood loss.
According to the source, Trankovsky is a war criminal who gave orders to launch cruise missiles from the Black Sea at civilian targets in Ukraine.
In particular, he shelled Vinnytsia with Kalibrams in July 2022. Then 29 civilians were killed. Trankovsky also repeatedly shelled Odessa and other civilian cities, which killed many civilians. He was a completely legitimate target from the point of view of the laws and customs of war, the sources say.
Russian websites write that Trankovsky was followed for about a week, and the improvised explosive device was detonated remotely.
More information in the news. Newly elected US President Donald Trump will soon appoint a special representative for Ukraine, who should lead negotiations to end the war with Russia.
Fox News reports this, citing its sources.
“You're going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of authority, who's going to be tasked with finding a solution, finding a peaceful resolution,” one of the sources said.
The job is not expected to be paid. The publication recalled that Kurt Volker served as the special envoy to the Ukraine talks on a voluntary basis from 2017 to 2019.
Senator John Thune of South Dakota has become the new Senate Majority Leader, The Hill reports.
Since 2019, Thune has served as the party's representative in the Senate, holding the second position in the Republican Party's leadership in the Senate and effectively leading the work after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion in a fall in 2023.
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