Russia-Ukraine war: List of secret occasions, day 1,001

These were the secret advancements on the 1,001st day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

FILE PHOTO: A serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a 2s5 — A soldier of 24th Mechanized Brigade fires a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian soldiers near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk area, Ukraine, on November 18 [Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters]

Published On 21 Nov 2024

Here is the scenario on Thursday, November 21:

Fighting and weapons

Ukraine supposedly fired 12 British Storm Shadow cruise rockets – the newest Western weapon it hasactually been allowed to usage on Russian targets – into Russia’s Kursk area, according to pro-Russian Telegram channels.
The Ukrainian military stated a Russian command post hasactually been “successfully struck” in the town of Gubkin in Russia’s Belgorod area, about 168km (105 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
Russian forces haveactually taken control of the settlement of Illinka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk area, according to the nation’s Defence Ministry.
Russia has staged “a enormous information-psychological attack” by positioning as Ukrainian intelligence and dispersing a phony caution about an impending enormous air attack, Kyiv has declared, stating the message “contains grammatical mistakes common of Russian details and mental operations”.
The United States has resumed its embassy in Kyiv after it was shut on Wednesday due to what it called the risk of a substantial air attack.
Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, has stated Russia will penalize any NATO states that assistance Ukraine strike deep into Russia with long-range Western weapons.
Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasactually revealed opposition to the UnitedStates’s choice to enable Ukraine to usage long-range rockets to attack inside Russia, stating it will evenmore irritate the dispute.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s choice to lower his nation’s limit for a nuclear strike as simply “rhetoric”, stating France is “not frightened”.
The Netherlands has handed the last 2 of 18 guaranteed F-16 fighter jets to a training center in Romania, where Ukrainian pilots and ground personnel are being taught to fly and keep the airplanes, the Dutch Defence Ministry has stated.
The Pentagon has revealed $275m in military help to Ukraine, inc