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The Russian military has repelled 14 Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction in the past 24 hours, where Kiev lost up to 240 soldiers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

Residents of the besieged front-line Donbas town of Avdiivka are being deliberately targeted in their own homes, Vitaliy Barabash, head of the local military administration, told the Espreso TV channel on Nov. 15.

A top Ukrainian official said its troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson, an important advance in bridging one of Russia's most significant strategic barriers in the war. “Against all odds, Ukraine’s defense forces have gained a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper,” Yermak told the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, in a speech Monday. Ever since Russian forces left the city of Kherson and th...

Russia has persisted in suffering losses in its war of aggression against Ukraine as the Ukrainian Defence Forces have killed 820 Russian soldiers and destroyed 58 artillery systems, 15 tanks and 1 aircraft over the past 24 hours.

Russian forces have likely been trying to regain the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine by launching several simultaneous offensives in the east. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: Military analysts believe it remains unclear whether Russian troops will manage to fully regain the initiative, considering that Ukrainian forces persist in pressing on critical frontline areas.

Russia, for the first time, admitted on Nov. 15 that Ukrainian soldiers established positions on the occupied Dnipro River's east-bank side of Kherson Oblast.

The Russian military has launched heavy attacks on Klishchiyivka, near Bakhmut, having deployed numerous reserves to the area, Andriy Babychev, a fighter with the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Brigade, said on Ukrainian national television on Nov. 14.

Western training for Ukrainian troops began to adjust after criticism that it does not reflect the real situation on Ukraine's battlefield, Politico reported on Nov. 13, citing examples from a French training ground.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denounced Russia's plans to create a naval base in Abkhazia, a Russian-occupied territory of Georgia, in comments before the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Nov. 14, as cited by the Georgian media outlet Civil.Ge.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated in an interview with Heilbronner Stimme on Nov. 12 that he would hold talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader withdrew his troops from Ukraine.