The 267th day of the Ukrainian war. Latest information [papildināts 21:47]

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

21:47. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has welcomed a decision by the Dutch court to sentence two Russian nationals and one Ukrainian national to life imprisonment in the case of the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in Donbass in 2014, killing 298 people. “Important Hague court decision. First verdicts for those responsible for MH17 downing,” Zelensky tweeted.

21:00. Ukrainian investigators have arrived in Poland at the site where the missile fell on Tuesday, a source in the Ukrainian president’s office confirmed to CNN. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi called on Wednesday for a team of Ukrainian investigators to join the investigation by Polish and US experts.

8:23 PM. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Thursday that the United States is sharing intelligence with Ukraine and all partners – the US, NATO, Poland and Ukraine – have pledged to follow the facts during the investigation into the Missile crash in Poland. “We have been in regular contact with our Ukrainian partners. We share the information we have,” Blinken said at a news conference in Bangkok. He noted that an investigation is ongoing, but the United States “has seen nothing to the contrary so far [Polijas] to President Andrzej Duda’s preliminary assessment that it was likely the result of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile”.

7:33 pm. The Kremlin announced on Thursday that civilians in Ukraine are suffering power outages not because of Russian missiles but because Kiev refuses to enter into talks with Moscow.

7:00 pm. Russia launched 18 cruise missiles against Ukraine this morning, said Yuriy Ikhnats, representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He disclosed that ten S-300 anti-aircraft missiles were also fired at Ukraine, which were fired at towns near the front lines. People died in the attack. “This time, the enemy targeted gas production facilities and defense companies in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In addition, missiles hit the northern and central regions. Six Shahed drones launched by the territory of Belarus and the Kalibr missiles were also fired from the Black Sea “and anti-aircraft missiles from fighters,” Ikhnat said, adding that two guided missiles were destroyed.

6pm. Poland is ready to give Ukraine access to the site where a missile landed this week in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, said Jakub Kumoch, foreign affairs adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda. A team of Polish and American investigators is currently working on the site of the missile crash, the adviser told TVN24.

17:10. The possible invasion of Ukraine from Belarus is one of the trump cards of the Russian regime, Leonids Kalniņš, commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces (NBS), admitted on Thursday on the Latvian radio’s “Krustpunkt” program. Despite the liberation of Kherson, a war of positions has now begun. On the one hand, Ukrainians have a great willingness not to give up even an inch of their land, but on the other hand, there is a country with enormous resources, which has not yet run out of ammunition, stocks of weapons and reserves of movable property. One of the most dangerous situations could be if the Belarusian front is exposed. Despite the fact that in the first phase of hostilities Ukraine repelled attacks in several directions, this is a rather dangerous direction, and “it is one of the trump cards that is held in Russia’s nitrogen,” said the commander of the NBS extension. Currently, more and more military personnel, trained and supplied with weapons, are said to be arriving in Belarus. “This one is taking a big risk,” added Kalniņš.

4:02pm. Ukraine has invited Lithuania to participate in the investigation into the missile crash in Poland, and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis supports the idea.

3:06pm. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that neither the United States nor Russia intend to use nuclear weapons, a confidence he expressed in light of a meeting between US and Russian intelligence chiefs held at ground zero in Turkey. “Let me say this: According to the information I received from my intelligence chief, neither side will be using nuclear weapons at this time,” Erdogan told reporters in Indonesia, where he was attending the G20 summit.

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. On Thursday morning, according to Ukrainian officials and media, Russia again struck Ukraine with missiles, declaring an air alert in all regions of Ukraine. 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 rocket 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.

In 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