WAR IN UKRAINE: November 21, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 271
The Polish side currently cannot say with certainty where the rocket that fell in Przewodów and killed two people on November 15 was fired from, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Poland continues to gather evidence, "the investigation will take some time," he said - Suspilne
More than a dozen powerful explosions have been recorded near a huge Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in south Ukraine since Saturday evening. The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, made an urgent appeal for a stop to the fighting at the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's biggest. “Whoever is behind this, it must stop immediately," he said. "You're playing with fire!" - BBC
WSJ: Russia to intensify attacks in eastern Ukraine after withdrawal from Kherson. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Russia’s retreat from Kherson, a “major blow for Moscow,” has freed around 20,000 troops to be redeployed to eastern Ukraine. Russian military leaders will be “under pressure to deliver results in Donbas after giving up Kherson,” WSJ reported, citing military analysts. Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces have been on the offensive near the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast - Kyiv Independent
Governor: Ukraine restores cellular service in Kherson Oblast. Kherson Oblast Governor Yaroslav Yanushevych said on Nov. 20 that 52 cellular base stations and three cellular communication towers have been restored in liberated parts of Kherson Oblast - Kyiv Independent
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance needs to reinvigorate its military capacity in order to support Ukraine for the "long haul." In an interview with CBC, Stoltenberg said the alliance had depleted much of its own supplies of weapons and ammunition and would need to work with industry to "ramp up production" in order to continue its support of Ukraine. He also told CBC that alliance states needed to be ready to pay some price, in the form of higher energy costs and other economic fallout, in order to bolster Ukraine's defence.
Liberating the Luhansk region won't be quick, as the Russian army has strengthened itself in this direction due to unrecognized "Luhansk People's Republic" created back in 2014, - Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson of Eastern grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Yulia Prokhorova, the Russian social media blogger who insulted Ukrainian refugees, was deported from Germany. Prokhorova has been living in Germany for about three years and has been running patriotic blogs on YouTube and Telegram, in which she talks about a nuclear strike on Kyiv. While in Austria on vacation at the beginning of August, she chased two Ukrainian women in Salzburg shouting “Glory to Russia,” “Russia will win,” and “Fuck your Ukraine - The Insider
Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki has traveled to Finland for a meeting with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. Marin stated “we should have listened to Poland about Russia”. Morawiecki said “we must hit Russia harder than it would expect”
The number of arson attacks against government building have increased significantly after the partial mobilization law was signed by Putin.
Required reading…
A Facebook post by the editor of Ukrainska Pravda, Sevgil Musaieva
I am ashamed to admit it, but this great war became for me a moment of truth in self-reflection.
I was a victim of bullying at school for a long time.
And when I was 10 years old, my classmate beat me very badly. The most terrible were his words at the end, when I was lying on the floor in tears: "This is so that you, dirty Tatarva, will never reproduce."
I don't know what the parents had to put into the child to be able to say such things at the age of 10.
But now, looking back, I understand that this was the quintessence of everything that the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians had to face on their land. It was a struggle for survival and subjectivity.
Of course, I did not understand many things at the age of 10. But this injury made me stronger. She gave me the strength to protect the most important thing in myself, which was so disliked by the conventional Russian boy Danylov - a Crimean Tatar woman and a woman.
In 2016, I suddenly found out that the same Danylo, who so brutally beat me then, was fighting in Donetsk on the side of the separatists. And I thought that this war started for me back then, in 1997.
It is very difficult to overcome the victim in yourself. You need to break everything inside and give it time to grow.
I know that today many Ukrainians are going through this difficult path. And I know how painful it can be at times.
I took the stage at the Washington Post's Global Women Summit on Tuesday, exactly 10 minutes after another missile attack on all of Ukraine.
Everything inside me was tearing up with pain. But I said that after the liberation of Kherson, millions of Ukrainians believed in the liberation of Crimea. And for me, this is the main dream now.
Yes, I am speaking from the country where missiles are currently flying, which has so many wounds that still need healing, and some, unfortunately, will never heal. But the forces that help me do this now are the fact that I am a woman and a Crimean Tatar.
And my country is incredibly beautiful, strong and freed from the traumas of the past.
Because she defeated the victim in herself.