Victory Chronicles-DAY 1359

Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out a large-scale overnight strike on Nov. 13, striking dozens of targets in Russia and occupied Ukrainian territories with domestically produced Flamingo cruise missiles, as well as Bars and Liutyi missiles, along with drones, the General Staff said.

The attacks targeted multiple military and logistical sites, including the Morskoy oil terminal and a helicopter parking area at the Kirovske airfield in the occupied Crimean Peninsula, as well as a Russian air defense radar station near Yevpatoria there.

In the occupied part of southern Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian forces struck an oil depot near Berdyansk and command posts of Russia’s 5th Combined Arms Army and 127th Motorized Rifle Division. Additional targets inside Russia were also hit, though the extent of the damage is still being assessed.

The General Staff said Ukraine continues to carry out “systematic fire strikes” on facilities supporting the Russian military’s operations and supply chain, aiming to weaken Moscow’s offensive and industrial capabilities.

Ukraine identifies about 400 sites in Russia holding abducted Ukrainian children. Ukraine has located roughly 400 sites across Russia where about 19,500 Ukrainian children are being held after being forcibly taken from their homes, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Nov. 13.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has managed to return more than 1,600 children, Zelenskyy said, calling the search for the rest “a long and difficult process.”

Ukrainian officials estimate that Russia has deported between 20,000 and 35,000 Ukrainian children to its territory or to occupied areas.

Colombian volunteers train with Ukraine’s Magura Brigade, army releases photos. Ukraine’s Ground Forces released pictures on Nov. 13 that show Colombians training with the 47th Magura Mechanized Brigade that is part of a growing initiative to bring foreign volunteers into the ranks of the Ukrainian army, known as the International Legion.

“The project to integrate foreign volunteers into the 47th Magura Brigade is constantly expanding,” the military said, noting that Colombia is among several countries contributing recruits through official government programs that allow expedited enlistment in Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Photos showed Colombian soldiers undergoing live-fire and tactical training, including dismounting from M113 armored personnel carriers, practicing trench assaults and completing combat coordination drills.

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Ukrainian border guards destroy Russian D-20 howitzer with precision drone strike. Ukrainian border guards from the “Steel Border” rapid response unit used a fiber-optic–guided drone to destroy a camouflaged Russian D-20 howitzer deep behind enemy lines in the northern Slobozhanskyi sector in the region of Kharkiv, the State Border Guard Service said Nov. 13.

Operators from the “Aquila” drone swarm of the 15th Mobile Border Detachment located the artillery piece more than 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the front line. Despite dense forest cover, the drone maneuvered between trees and scored a direct hit.

Key Takeaways

1. The situation in the Hulyaipole in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia is deteriorating, although Russian forces will probably spend considerable time setting conditions for efforts to seize the settlement.
2. Russian forces will likely attempt to isolate and encircle Hulyaipole from the northeast in accordance with a new campaign design that aims to degrade Ukrainian defenses to enable advances through infiltration tactics.
3. Elements of three Russian combined arms armies (CAAs) are currently arrayed to either conduct or support offensive operations against Hulyaipole.
4. Ukrainian forces will need to defend against Russian operational-level command and control nodeand tactical-level interdiction to counter this new Russian campaign design.
5.  Russian forces will likely collapse the pocket around Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, but the significance of seizing these towns will depend on the circumstances and conduct of the Ukrainian withdrawal.
6. Russian milbloggers are mounting a concerted informational campaign prematurely calling the fall of Pokrovsk, likely to influence the information space.
7. The Russian military command continues efforts to consolidate and integrate drone units into conventional military structures, but the position of the Rubikon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies relative to the new Unmanned Systems Forces remains unclear.
8. The Kremlin is conducting multiple information operations against the Baltic states as it did to justify the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, likely as part of Phase Zero conditions-setting for a possible attack on the Baltic states at some point in the future. ISW is not currently forecasting an imminent Russian attack on the Baltics.
9. Officials reported aerial incursions in French and Lithuanian airspace.
10. Russian forces advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area and near Pokrovsk.

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