Ukraine’s Armed Forces strike Russian air defence systems and destroy 2 ammunition storage points in Ukraine’s south

While defending the southern line of contact, the Ukrainian military have performed 11 strikes from the sky on Russian air defence positions. Ukrainian forces have carried out 290 firing missions, destroying Russians ammunition storage points and equipment and killing Russian soldiers.

Source: Operational Command Pivden (South) on Facebook

Quote: "The Russians were continuously shelling the settlements adjacent to the demarcation line, in particular those liberated in Beryslav district of Kherson Oblast, as well as the rear settlements, from Dnipropetrovsk to Odesa oblasts.

Enemy Su-30 aircraft, arriving from the direction of the Black Sea, launched a Kh-31 anti-ship missile at the coast of Odesa Oblast. [Ukraine’s] Air defence forces destroyed the missile over the sea."

Details: The Russians hit Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets hromadas in Nikopol district with multiple-launch rocket systems and heavy artillery during the afternoon of 8 November. [Hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.] Several outbuildings were damaged. There are no casualties.

Russian forces attacked Ukrainian military positions with army aircraft 4 times; in response the Russians received 11 strikes on their air defence systems and clusters of manpower and equipment.

Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery completed 290 firing missions. Confirmed Russian losses in these operations are as follows:

• 55 military personnel,
• 4 tanks,
• a Tor-M2 (9K332) short-range surface-to-air missile system,
• an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer,
• 2 mortars,
• 9 armoured vehicles.

Also, two Russian ammunition storage points near the town of Snihurivka and the village of Kostromka were destroyed. The remaining Russian losses are being ascertained.

"The occupiers continue to loot and destroy civilian infrastructure in settlements from which locals have been evacuated.

The Russians are testing the carrying capacity of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam by moving trucks carrying looted property - household appliances and construction materials - across it. They are also appropriating artworks and historical artefacts," Operational Command Pivden reports.

Russian occupiers are confirmed to have blown up power lines and equipment at a solar power plant near the city of Beryslav.

In addition to creating unbearable living conditions for the local population, Russian occupiers are intensifying police terror by hunting down activists from the resistance forces. They are also trying to disrupt local people’s access to information and dismantling mobile phone towers.

Meanwhile, the Russian flotilla in the waters of the Black Sea consists of eight vessels; they are sheltering along the southern coast of Crimea. Cruise missile carriers are stationed at their base points, with none being recorded on combat duty.

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