The 267th day of the Ukrainian war. Latest information [papildināts 14:08]

Live broadcast text – short and concise about the most important thing in the Russian war in Ukraine on November 16th. Ukraine heroically defended its land from the invasion of the aggressor for nine months

2:08 pm. The so-called grain deal, which allows the export of foodstuffs from three Ukrainian seaports, has been extended for four months, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov announced on Thursday. The guarantors of the implementation of the initiative will continue to be the UN and Turkey, he added. Ukraine has officially approached its partners under the initiative with a proposal to extend the deadline by at least another year and also start exporting from the port of Mykolaiv.

1:00 pm. Casualties of Russian troops in Ukraine reached 83,110 soldiers on Thursday morning, according to the Ukrainian Army General Staff. 400 invaders were destroyed during the day.

11:45am. Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 4 percent in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, so the country’s economy hit by Western sanctions has entered a period of recession, according to reports. preliminary estimates of the state statistics office “Rosstat”. Also in the second quarter, the Russian economy contracted by 4% year-on-year. A recession is defined as an economic downturn for at least two consecutive quarters.

11:08. Russia struck Ukraine again with missiles on Thursday morning, declaring an air alert in all regions of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials and media. In Dnipro, the electricity supply was cut off in different parts of the city after a rocket attack. Rockets hit two infrastructure objects, one person was injured. In the Odessa region, the target of the rocket attack was an infrastructure object. Air defense is active in the Kiev, Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv and Lviv regions.

10am. In the course of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has lost several hundred spies abroad, according to Ken McCallum, director general of the British counterintelligence service MI5. In the course of the war, Russia’s overseas spy network was dealt the hardest blow in recent history, the head of MI5 said, warning that Britain should be preparing for Russian aggression for several more years, reports the BBC. More than 600 Russian embassies have been expelled around the world, of which at least 400 were likely spies, McCallum explained in an annual report on the threat to Britain.

9:00 am. The US military chief of staff admitted on Wednesday that he tried to reach the Russian chief of staff by telephone after Tuesday’s missile explosion in Poland, but failed.

08:15. Four days of mourning have been declared in the Polish municipality where a rocket landed on Tuesday, killing two, Polish Radio reported

07:44. Representatives of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have found 63 bodies of victims of torture of the Russian occupiers in the Kherson region, announced the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Deniss Monastirskis. 11 places of deprivation of liberty were identified and torture took place in four of them. Monastirsky also announced that a search for collaborators had begun and 16 checkpoints had been set up around Kherson.

07:18. At least six countries have pledged additional military assistance to Ukraine by participating in the seventh session of the Contact Group on Ukrainian Defense Issues, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Wednesday.

01:12 The liberation of Russian-occupied Crimea by military methods is unlikely, according to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Miley.

At a joint press conference with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, he shared his vision of Russia’s strategy at this stage of the war.

“Russia has decided to use the time at its disposal to reorganize its forces. At the same time, they are waging a terror campaign, causing maximum suffering to the peaceful Ukrainian people in order to undermine the fighting spirit of Ukrainians,” he said . he said she.

According to Mili, the likelihood of Ukraine liberating Crimea by military means is still low.

“The likelihood of a military victory for Ukraine forcing the Russians out, even from Crimea. (..) The possibility that this could happen soon, from a military point of view, is low,” added the US general, indicating the fact that Russia maintains “significant combat forces” in Ukraine”.

“A political solution with the departure of the Russians is possible [no Krimas]. It’s possible,” Milly added.

00:10 President Volodymyr Zelensky confident Ukraine will win war with Russia if it survives winter as aggressor runs out of weapons