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infrastructure. The impacts damaged warehouses, special unloading equipment, and railcars loaded with grain. Rockets also hit the center of Odessa and an industrial building. The blast wave damaged several high-rise residential buildings and a museum in the historic part of the city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. As a result of the Russian night attack on Odesa, eight residents were injured. Ukrainian defenders destroyed 15 drones and an X-59 missile. Also, on November 5, the enemy dropped 87 bombs on populated areas in the Kherson region - the largest such attack to date. The Zaporizhzhia region was hit 159 times, and 23 populated areas came under fire.
Ukraine sank two Russian small amphibious craft in Crimea. According to Ukrainian intelligence, these are boats that are used to disembark advanced groups of marines or evacuate. Tor-M2 air defense systems were also placed on the vessels. Ukraine destroyed two boats: the Akula and Serna. The ships were carrying crew and loaded with armored vehicles, including the BTR-82.
Over 2,400 children have been deported from Ukraine to Belarus. At least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been transported to 13 facilities in Belarus following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to researchers from Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL).
Zelensky: Ukraine is working on boosting air defense throughout periphery regions. Ukraine is building its air defenses in periphery oblasts such as Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Nov. 16. "Not everything can be told publicly now. But what is absolutely certain is that Ukraine is constantly getting stronger. Our air defense capabilities are increasing. Of course, this is not yet a hundred percent protection.”
Military intelligence denies Russia's claim that Ukrainian pilot defected. Earlier the same day, Russian state-run news agency TASS claimed that a Ukrainian Ka-52 helicopter pilot named Oleksiy Voyevoda supposedly flew over into Russian territory.
According to the UN, since the full-scale war with the Russian Federation began, at least 10,000 civilians have died, more than 560 of which were children, and more than 18,500 cases of civilian injuries have been recorded.
Russian commander who ordered killing of civilians in Bucha identified. Lieutenant Colonel Dosyagaev, a commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 104th Regiment of the 76th Airborne Assault Division of the Russian Airborne Forces, was deployed in Bucha at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
● Weapons
The EU and NATO are mobilizing the defense industry to provide Ukraine with the means to defeat Russia. At the beginning of the war, the EU had to adapt its defense industry to wartime conditions. Europe will increase its military aid to Ukraine to 480,000 shells by the end of the year, and next year, it will increase its ammunition production capacity to one million shells per year, said EC President Ursula von der Leyen. "Russia fires 10 million projectiles a year. Ukraine uses 10,000 drones a month. This means the European defense industry must also mobilize," von der Leyen stressed. At the
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