White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the package includes “significant air defense contributions,” such as missiles for Hawk air defense systems as well as US Avenger air defense systems equipped with Stinger missiles. According to the Pentagon statement, the package will also include additional munitions for High Mobility Artillery Missile Systems (HIMARS) and other weapons systems, 100 high mobility wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs), 400 grenade launchers, demolition equipment for clearing obstacles and cold weather. protective equipment. Sullivan also said the United States has detected some signs that Russian forces may be planning to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson. He said that the Russian withdrawal from some areas in Ukraine does not mean that the war in Ukraine is over. Sullivan added that Washington was not pressuring Ukraine to engage in diplomacy with Russia over the war. Here are the other main headlines from the war in Ukraine on Thursday, November 10:
US revokes Russia’s market economy status
The United States will no longer treat Russia as a market economy country, the Commerce Department said, revoking the status granted two decades ago that limited the calculation of anti-dumping duties on Russian products. The move comes after Western nations imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February, while authorities in Moscow sought to prop up its economy and the ruble. “This decision enables the United States to apply the full force of (anti-dumping) law to address the market distortions caused by the Russian government’s increasing interference in its economy,” the department said in a statement. Determining market economy status is based on an assessment of criteria such as currency convertibility, state control of the means of production, and the foreign investment climate. “Trade found a widespread setback in these areas, particularly after the invasion of Ukraine,” the ministry said.
41 settlements were liberated in southern Ukraine — Zelenskyy
Ukrainian forces have liberated 41 settlements as they advance into the country’s south, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address overnight. “Today we have good news from the south,” he said. “But while we are happy, we must remember now and forever what this movement means – every step of our defense forces represents … lives given for the freedom of Ukrainians.” Zelensky also said that Ukrainians must go all the way “on the battlefield and in diplomacy” to return Ukrainian flags throughout Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have pushed towards Kherson after Russia ordered one of the most significant retreats of the war. A forced withdrawal from Kherson, the only provincial capital Moscow had captured since the invasion of Ukraine, would mark one of Russia’s worst setbacks of the war.
Kyiv says Russia plans to “destroy” Kherson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted with skepticism to Moscow’s announcement that Russian troops would withdraw from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. In a rare move, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised briefing on Wednesday that troops should leave the western bank of the Dnieper River where Kherson is located. “Units of Russian troops are maneuvering to a prepared position on the left bank of the Dnipro River, according to the approved plan,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The leader of the Russian constituent republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said he considers the withdrawal of Russian troops to be the right decision. But Zelensky disputed the announcement, saying: “The enemy does not bring us gifts, does not make ‘goodwill gestures.’ Zelensky added in his nightly speech that any gains for Ukraine would only come “at the expense of the ‘lives lost by our heroes.’ “[Russia] wants to turn Kherson into a “city of death”. [The Russian] military mines everything they can: apartments, sewers. The artillery on the left bank plans to turn the city into ruins,” Zelenskyy adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Thursday. A British Defense Service briefing on Thursday said Russian forces “were under pressure from Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s supply routes”. According to the update, the withdrawal will likely take days, as Russian forces destroyed bridges and “laid mines” to stop the advance of Ukrainian troops. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office said he spoke to Zelensky on Thursday and agreed it was right to express caution about Russia’s withdrawal “until the Ukrainian flag is raised over the city”. DW’s Kyiv correspondent Nick Connolly said the Russian televised announcement was inconsistent with Moscow’s previous withdrawals from occupied Ukrainian territories. “This is definitely a break in strategy. Also, the whole talk of wanting to save the lives of Russian soldiers … is also not something that really meshes with what Russia has been doing elsewhere,” Connolly said, adding that this has lead Ukrainians to believe that the announcement is “a trap.”
Can we believe the announcement of withdrawal of the Russian peninsula?
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Spain to send two more air defense systems to Ukraine
Spain is to send two more HAWK surface-to-air missile launchers to Ukraine on top of the four it has already sent to counter a Russian invasion, the Spanish government said. “Two additional launchers will be sent” at NATO’s request, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said. Madrid earlier this month said it was sending anti-missile and air defense systems, including four HAWK missile launchers and an Aspide surface-to-air missile system. “We are firmly committed to Ukraine because we understand that it is exercising its legitimate right to self-defense,” Robles said. Her ministry said 64 members of the Ukrainian military would train in the central Spanish city of Toledo starting next week in detonating explosives, clearing minefields and shooting. Another twenty-one Ukrainian soldiers are being trained to operate 105/14 howitzers in the southern city of Almeria, he added, and another 19 have learned how to use the Aspide air defense system. The ministry says Spain is to train around 400 Ukrainian soldiers every two months.
The EU will not recognize Russian passports from occupied Ukraine
The European Union has said it will not recognize Russian passports issued in regions of Ukraine annexed by Moscow. The move, which also covers two regions of Georgia controlled by the Kremlin, means that Russian travel documents issued to residents of those regions cannot be used to obtain visas or enter the Schengen zone.” This decision is a response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack against Ukraine and Russia’s practice of issuing Russian international passports to residents of the occupied territories,” the European Council said in a statement. The move still needs to be formally signed off by the European Parliament and EU member states. In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed four regions of Ukraine in a unilateral declaration widely rejected by the international community. Moscow also annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014.
Putin will not attend the G20 summit in Bali
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to Bali to attend the G20 summit next week, but Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be there, officials said. Putin had long left his participation in the November 15 and 16 meeting open. Indonesian President Joko Widodo had invited him to the summit of the 20 major industrialized countries despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine and international condemnation. “The Russian foreign minister will come in person,” said Jodi Mahardi, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Investment Ministry, which is in charge of coordinating the summit. The Kremlin later confirmed this. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some Western countries had called for Russia’s expulsion from the G20. Zelensky is likely to attend the Bali summit via video link, presidential spokesman Serhiy Nykyforov said.
NATO: Russia “is under a lot of pressure”
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said he was waiting to see how Russia’s withdrawal from Kherson goes and that, if confirmed, it would be “another victory for Ukraine.” “We have to see how the situation on the ground develops in the coming days. But what is clear is that Russia is under a lot of pressure,” he told reporters in Rome after a meeting with new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He added that NATO would support Ukraine “for as long as it takes.” “The unprecedented support provided by NATO allies, including Italy, is making a difference on the battlefield every day and remains vital to Ukrainian progress,” he said. Meloni, for her part, said her government is committed to defending “the territorial integrity, sovereignty and freedom of Ukraine.”
The Russian withdrawal shows that Ukraine’s strategy is working
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Top US general estimates 100,000 Russian casualties
Top US General Mark Milley said more than 100,000 Russian servicemen had been killed or wounded in Ukraine.
“The same thing probably on the Ukrainian side,” Milley said in remarks in New York.
He also said there is a possibility that negotiations could end the war as military victory may not be possible for either side.
“There must be a mutual recognition that military victory is probably in the true sense of the word, perhaps not achieved through military…
