WAR IN UKRAINE: December 11, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 291
A fresh wave of Russian strikes on the southern port city of Odesa has caused serious damage to critical infrastructure. Iranian-made drones were used to hit 2 energy facilities, which officials said could take months to repair the damage. "After the night strike by Iranian drones, Odesa and other cities and villages of the region are in the dark; 1.5M+ people are without electricity. Only critical infrastructure is connected. Russian terrorists used 15 Shaheds against Odesa. 10 were destroyed,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. as of Sunday morning, 43/140 boiler houses do not work. Where there is no water, delivery will occur. Yesterday, 15,000 people visited the "points of indestructibility". The main task now is to keep critical infrastructure operational
Odesa port - the anchor of the Black Sea Grain Initiative - is not operational after the latest Russian attack on the region’s energy system, Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky has said, but added that grains traders were not expected to suspend exports. Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, two other ports authorised to export grains from Ukraine under a deal between Russia and Ukraine, were partially operating. “Chornomorsk port is now operating at about 80 percent of capacity,” Solsky told Reuters in a phone call.
Ukrainian forces have struck a headquarters of Russia's Wagner mercenary group in eastern Ukraine, Luhansk's Ukrainian governor has said. Serhiy Haidai said a hotel where the group was based in Kadiivka, Luhansk region, was hit. He added there were major Russian losses. In the Kadiivka strike, Mr Haidai said Russia had suffered "significant losses" and he expected "at least 50%" of the surviving forces to die due to a lack of medical treatment” - BBC
Yevgeny Balitsky, Russia’s acting governor of Zaporizhzhia, said the missile attack on Melitopol had “completely destroyed” a recreation center where “people, civilians, and [military] base personnel were having dinner on Saturday night.” The strikes were acknowledged by Ivan Fedorov, Ukraine’s former administrator of Melitopol city, who said they had targeted Russian military bases. Federov last month said Russia had turned Melitopol into “one giant military base.” “The Russian military is settling in local houses they seized, schools and kindergartens. Military equipment is stationed in residential areas,” Federov said in November - CNN