Russian troops attack 19 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, damaging infrastructure.

Russian troops launched 116 strikes against 19 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast over the past day, Governor Yurii Malashko reported on Nov.

5. According to him, the settlements were attacked by Russian artillery, drones, and aircraft. No casualties were reported, Malashko said.

However, local authorities received 18 reports of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities being damaged following the attacks. He did not provide details on what infrastructure sites were damaged.   Malashko reported on Nov.

4 that nine people - four men and five women - were injured in a Russian missile strike on the village of Zairchne. On the same day, the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a source in the Interior Ministry, that Russian forces could have killed more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers who were gathered in a front-line village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast for an award ceremony. The soldiers of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade were attending the ceremony on Nov.

3 to receive honors on Missile Forces and Artillery Day, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

Southern counteroffensive runs out of steam as West scrambles to deliver aid As fall weather arrives, observers are looking at the status of Ukraine's three-pronged counteroffensive, which continues to move very slowly. Ukrainian forces have yet to fully break through Russia's defensive lines and fight to their target cities -- Tokmak, Berdiansk, and Vasylivka.

Their tempo i...

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Daria Shulzhenko is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She has been a lifestyle reporter at the Kyiv Post until November 2021. She graduated from Kyiv International University with a bachelor's in linguistics, specializing in translation from English and German languages.

She has previously worked as a freelance writer and researcher.