WAR IN UKRAINE: November 6, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 256
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Iran of "lying" and "terrorist cooperation" by supporting Russia's war in Ukraine. It comes after Iran admitted for the first time it had supplied drones to Moscow, but only before the invasion. Previously, Tehran denied the accusations, but on Saturday Iran's foreign minister said a small number of the vehicles had been sent to Moscow. "We provided a limited number of drones to Russia many months prior to the Ukraine war," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Tehran - BBC
On Saturday, Ukraine's national grid operator imposed further restrictions in some regions because electricity usage had grown compared to the same time last week.
Two days after Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the power grid following shelling, the supply has been restored, the UN's nuclear watchdog has said. After confirming the connections had been repaired and restored, Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reiterated his call for a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident, saying: "We can't afford to lose any more time. We must act before it is too late."
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has said he can’t rule out that the Ukrainian capital could be left without water and power as a result of Russia's devastating strikes on energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Russian invading forces continue to strike civilian targets in many areas of eastern Ukraine, Ukraine’s military command said on November 6.
A video on social media reportedly shows a Ukrainian paratrooper destroy a tank by single-handedly destroying it with an explosive weapon. In the footage, the Ukrainian soldier can be seen approaching the tank from behind. As the armored vehicle drives down a dirt road, the paratrooper fires, causing an explosion. The Twitter account Ukraine Weapons Tracker posted the video on Friday morning. The almost 1-minute clip currently has over 740,000 views as of early Friday evening. Watch it here
UK intelligence: Newly mobilized Russian troops arrive with ‘minimal or no training at all.' The U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence briefing on Nov. 5 that Russia is struggling to provide military training for its current mobilization drive and its annual fall conscription intake - Kyiv Independent
Since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, 2714 education institutions have suffered bombing and shelling, - and 332 of them have been destroyed completely. Russia says it is only military objects in Ukraine that are struck.
Required reading…
How to Investigate TikTok Like a Pro: Using TikTok for Ukraine Research
TikTok has emerged as a key platform on which footage of the invasion of Ukraine is shared.
This includes footage of missile strikes and their aftermath, damaged or destroyed military equipment, as well as visual evidence of suspected war crimes and other atrocities.
Misinformation and disinformation about the invasion can also be found on the platform. This includes posts by Russian state-backed media, posts of old or unrelated videos falsely claiming to show contemporary events and misleading or false claims about the details of a video -such as the location it was recorded.
In short, there is much for digital investigators to explore on TikTok.
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