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Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky claims his forces were holding their positions around Pokrovsk and Dobropillia
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Russia<\/a> has deployed about 150,000 troops to capture Pokrovsk <\/a>in the Donetsk<\/a> region, Ukrainian officials have claimed, as fighting between Kyiv and Moscow soldiers intensified.
Ukraine<\/a> and Russia issued conflicting accounts of fighting around Myrnohrad, an embattled town to the east of Pokrovsk, which Moscow’s forces have enveloped from almost all sides.
Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, told the New York Post<\/em> that Russia was concentrating some 150,000 troops on a drive to capture Pokrovsk, with mechanised groups and marine brigades part of the push.
He added that Ukrainian forces were using built-up urban areas to limit the progress of Russian troops and were also confronting Russian sabotage units.
“There are ongoing battles and fights raging on. There are fast manoeuvres carried out by the enemy all the time,” he added.
The Russian defence ministry said its forces had captured three villages along the 1,000-km front line in the past 24 hours, including two in the Zaporizhzhia region, northeast of the town of Hulyaipole.
But Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> claimed his forces were holding their positions around Pokrovsk and Dobropillia, a town to the north, where Kyiv says its troops have made gains.
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it struck Russia’s Saratov oil refinery overnight, causing explosions and a large fire in the area around the site.
A series of explosions rocked the Russian city of Saratov and ENgels early on Tuesday
“On the night of 10-11 November, units of Ukraine’s defence forces struck the Saratov Oil Refinery in Russia’s Saratov Oblast [region],\u201d Ukraine\u2019s General Staff wrote on Facebook.
\u201cA series of explosions was recorded, followed by a large fire in the target area. The results of the strikes are being confirmed.”
The General Staff said the Saratov refinery produces more than 20 types of petroleum products, supplying the needs of the Russian forces.
Kyiv\u2019s forces also hit a “Sea Oil Terminal” in Russian-occupied Crimea and a warehouse in occupied Donetsk.
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday about 300 Russian soldiers were inside the embattled town of Pokrovsk, and that Moscow had intensified efforts to get more troops in over the past few days, using dense fog for cover.
“Their goal remains unchanged – to reach the northern borders of Pokrovsk and then attempt to encircle the agglomeration,” Ukraine’s 7th paratrooper corps said on Facebook.
Fierce battles around Pokrovsk, once a key Ukrainian road and rail hub but now a ruined town, have been raging for months as Moscow grinds forward slowly in eastern Ukraine.
This is the moment a huge explosion erupted at a major oil port in Russia following a heavy Russian attack.
Russia\u2019s port town of Tuapse on the Black Sea was rocked by explosions overnight going into Monday, amid reports by local Telegram channels that Ukraine sea drones had attacked the
Footage published by major Telegram channel Astra show explosions and a resulting fire near the town\u2019s port, which is home to a major oil terminal and refinery, The Kyiv Independent<\/em> reported.
Tuapse has been the target of Ukrainian strikes as recently as 2 November, with drone attacks forcing fuel exports from the port to be halted.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for $3 million, state media reported on Tuesday.
The RIA news agency cited the FSB as saying that the hijacked jet was to be flown toward a NATO air base in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could have been shot down by air defences.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said Ukraine and Britain had planned a large-scale “provocation” using the hijacked aircraft, and that Ukrainian military intelligence had sought to recruit Russian pilots for $3 million to steal the fighter.
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Ukraine\u2019s military said on Tuesday that it had hit Russia\u2019s Saratov oil refinery.
Local governor Roman Busargin said that drones had damaged civilian infrastructure but did not confirm whether the refinery had been hit.
The refinery in Saratov is a major producer of petroleum products, essential for Putin\u2019s war effort.
Possible drone fragments were found inside Romania’s southeastern border region following Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports overnight, the Romanian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
Romanian radars detected groups of drones near the NATO country’s airspace just after midnight, prompting the ministry to issue an alert to residents of the southeastern region.
Weather conditions did not allow for fighter jets to be deployed, the defense ministry said, but military teams were able to recover possible drone fragments some three miles inside Romania’s border with Ukraine.
A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region damaged energy and transport infrastructure, injuring one person and sparking fires at multiple energy facilities, the regional governor has said.
The attack injured one person, sparked fires at various energy facilities and damaged a depot of the state-owned Ukrainian Railways.
“Critical infrastructure in the region is operating on generators, and emergency centres have been opened,” Governor Oleh Kiper said.
Romania found possible drone fragments 5km inside its border after a Russian overnight attack on Ukrainian Danube river ports, its defence ministry said.
Weather conditions did not allow the Nato state to scramble fighter jets and the population in the area was alerted to take cover, the ministry added.
Romania, which shares a 650km border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall onto its territory repeatedly and airspace breaches
Russian forces have pushed deep into the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, pushing south to capture a series of train stations, according to a Russian commander quoted by the defence ministry.
Russian forces in the Kharkiv region are now attacking Kupiansk Vuzlovyi.
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