Military actions in Donetsk region, 147 combat clashes, enemy shelling, execution of prisoners in Pokrovsk direction. How will the 1001st day of full-scale war be remembered. src=”https://baltimorechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/5c67c1d35300a2b65c189660cde3ca80.jpg” alt=”The main news for Wednesday, November 20: almost 150 combat impacts /p> Consequences of the shelling of the Zaporizhia region
The Russian army attacked the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region with cluster munitions. As a result of the shelling, a boy was killed, his sister and grandfather were wounded.
According to the investigation, on November 20 at 15:40, the Russian army launched an attack, probably with a Tornado-S MLRS, on the village of Pervomaryevka in the Kramatorsk district. The cluster munitions hit a residential area, where an 11-year-old boy was killed in the yard of one of the houses.
His 12-year-old sister and 63-year-old grandfather received mine and blast injuries, head, chest, arm and leg wounds. The victims were hospitalized and are receiving qualified medical care.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on November 20, 147 combat clashes had occurred.
There were 33 combat clashes in the Pokrovsk direction, another 28 in Vremivske.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of November 20 – in the news.
Russian infidels shot captured Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovsk direction. The prosecutor's office has launched an investigation, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
According to operational data, on November 10, 2024, during the assault on the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications near the village of Novodmitrovka in the Pokrovsky district, the Russian military captured two Ukrainian fighters. After that, they forced the prisoners to undress and led them through a forest plantation at gunpoint, where they shot them. Information about the killing of three more wounded defenders of Ukraine by the occupiers at this position is also being checked.
“Such actions are classified as a grave international crime and a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions. The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by SBU investigators in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the OGP added.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has returned 3,767 Ukrainians from Russian captivity, including 168 civilians, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets said at a briefing, writes “Obshchestvennoye”.
Of the 3,767 prisoners that Ukraine managed to return, 168 are civilians, the rest are prisoners of war.
More details in the news.
The Verkhovna Rada supported in general bill 12104 on granting a deferment from mobilization to those whose relatives died in the war.
The bill was supported by 304 deputies.
The Parliament also supported in the second reading bill 11410 on depriving traitors of Ukraine of state awards.
“For” – 283 deputies.
Among other things, the bill provides for the deprivation of state awards for popularizing or promoting an aggressor state or committing other illegal actions against Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine is losing the war if the United States reduces aid. He said this in an interview with Fox News.
In any case, Ukraine will continue to fight. The state has its own weapons production, but this is not enough to have an advantage. “And I think that this is not enough to survive. But if America makes such a choice, we will decide what to do,” the president said.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense stated that Russia is conducting an information and psychological attack regarding an alleged “particularly massive” missile strike on Ukraine. “Messengers and social networks allegedly on behalf of the Main Intelligence Directorate are spreading a message about the threat of an especially massive” missile and bomb strike on Ukrainian cities today. This message is fake, it contains grammatical errors typical for Russian information and psychological operations,” the statement said.
The department called on citizens to trust information only from official resources and from press secretaries of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. It should be noted that the US Embassy and several other countries today warned their citizens in Ukraine about a possible major air attack. These diplomatic institutions were closed today.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, in turn, asked its partners to respond to the possible threat of shelling from the Russian Federation without information escalation.
More details in the news.
The US Department of Defense also announced another package of military aid for Ukraine worth about $275 million.
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