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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) made use of information shared by Russians on social media in its preparations for attacks on the Crimean Bridge.

Source: a film produced by 1+1, Crimean Bridge Encore: SSU

Quote from counterintelligence officer Yenot: "During our preparations for the operation, most of the information we obtained came from open sources.

One of the sources of such information was a video recording made by a Russian woman who was relaxing on a yacht near the Crimean Bridge - she filmed the internal structures of the bridges arch. This information gave us an idea of the point where the bridge had to be attacked in order to cause maximum damage."

A screenshot from Crimean Bridge Encore: SSU, a film by 1+1

Quote from counterintelligence officer Khrom: "Every Russian with a smartphone is our best friend, comrade and client. We can observe a lot of sites inside Russia itself and in the occupied territories. We hope theyll keep on filming, photographing and sharing."

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Ukraine attacked Russian military targets with about 35 drones overnight on Nov. 26 in response to Russia's mass Shahed attack against Ukraine a day earlier, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a military intelligence source.

Ukraine's drones were aimed at targets in Moscow and its region, as well as in Tula and Smolensk. Russia claimed that it had shot down 24 Ukrainian drones.

According to Ukrainska Pravda's source, the attack is a signal to Russia that its strikes against civilians in Ukraine will be met with consequences.

"The war must be fought with the military in the war zones. Strikes on civilians and outside the war zone will not go unanswered," source said as cited by the media.

On the morning of Nov. 25, Russia struck Ukraine with 75 Shahed kamikaze drones, mainly targeting Kyiv. Ukrainian air defense reported bringing down 74 of them.

As a result of the six-hour attack, at least two people were injured and several residential and non-residential buildings were damaged across the capital.

Shaheds are an Iranian design cheap, simple, long-range kamikaze drones, which have steadily replaced missiles in Russia's mass strikes, especially after thousands of advanced missiles had been fired.

Both Russia and Ukraine produce and field their own takes on the design.

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Ukrainian forces have gained control of the Dnipro left banks floodplain in Kherson Oblast, forcing the Russians to build new defensive lines on hills farther from the river, former Aidar Battalion company commander Yevhen Dykyi told Radio NV.

"In fact, the Dnipro floodplain is effectively under Ukrainian control. And now the Russians are trying to prevent any further steps. They have essentially ceded the floodplain to us, but they are trying to dig in and fortify themselves where the terrain begins to rise. Although it's not accurate to call them hills, there is a slight elevation compared to the mostly flat terrain. At the moment, they are trying to dig in, fortify themselves, and establish some sort of defensive line along this elevation," Dykyi said, noting that the Russians have nothing similar to the so-called Surovikin defensive line.

Read also: Russian forces forced to relocate amidst Kherson setbacks General Staff

"They built the Surovikin line for nine months, and now no one is giving them that much time, not even close. That's why, if we use World War II comparisons from time to time, we can say that our Normandy landing has already happened, and now, let's say, our Ardennes is ahead of us. That is, to break through from the beaches, so to speak, from Normandy, in our case, from the Dnipro River floodplain, to break through into a wide operational space."

There have been reports of successes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and advancements on the left bank of the Kherson region since mid-October. There were also reports of a breakthrough across the Dnipro into the occupied region near the villages of the Oleshkivska community.

Read also: Video captures drone attack on Russian military unit in Dzhankoy, temporarily occupied Crimea

Judging by the reaction of Russian "war correspondents," this operation could be more significant than previous similar raids by the AFU, the Institute for the Study of War said.

Analysts reported progress toward the village of Krynka in late October, and on Nov. 10 there were signs of a likely expansion of the foothold and the cutting of a key road from Nova Kakhovka to Oleshky.

Ukrainian forces have successfully deployed three brigades on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast as the broader southern counteroffensive culminated, The Guardian reported on Nov. 16, citing unnamed Western officials.

The marine infantry officially confirmed on Nov. 17 that Ukrainian fighters had secured several beachheads on the occupied left bank of the Dnipro. More than a thousand occupiers and dozens of pieces of equipment were destroyed during the operation.

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Davyd Arakhamiia, leader of the Servant of the People faction who led the Ukrainian delegation at "peace" talks with the Russians in Belarus and Trkiye in 2022, said that the Russian delegation promised Kyiv peace in exchange for refusing to join NATO, but the Ukrainians did not believe them.

Source: Davyd Arakhamiia in an interview with Nataliia Moseichuk

Details: Journalist Moseichuk noted that at a meeting with an African delegation, Vladimir Putin showed a supposedly ready-made draft peace agreement with Ukraine agreed during the negotiations in Belarus, which was allegedly initiated in Istanbul (Trkiye).

According to Putin, there were 18 articles in the so-called agreement On the Permanent Neutrality of Ukraine and Security Guarantees, where "everything is spelled out, from military equipment to personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," and allegedly the document was signed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation.

Arakhamiia stressed: "For some reason, Putin did not publish this document. Why do you think? If he had such a document, he would have made it public."

Quote: "They really hoped almost to the last moment that they would force us to sign such an agreement so that we would take neutrality. It was the most important thing for them. They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, as Finland once did, neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO.

In fact, this was the key point. Everything else was simply rhetoric and political seasoning about denazification, the Russian-speaking population and blah-blah-blah."

When asked why Ukraine did not agree to this point, Arakhamia replied that there was no confidence in the Russians, because they were ready to promise anything.

Quote: "First, in order to agree to this point, it is necessary to change the Constitution. Our path to NATO is written in the Constitution.

Secondly, there was no confidence in the Russians that they would do it. This could only be done if there were security guarantees. We could not sign something, step away, everyone would relax there, and then they would [invade] even more prepared because they have, in fact, gone in unprepared for such a resistance. Therefore, we could only explore this route when there is absolute certainty that this will not happen again. There is no such certainty.

Moreover, when we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let's just fight."

Details: At the same time, Arakhamiia denied that the Ukrainian delegation was ready to sign such a document, and that Johnson forced Kyivs hand.

According to Arakhamiia, the delegation did not even have the legal right to sign anything this could only theoretically happen at a meeting of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin.

Arakhamiia added that Western partners knew about the negotiations and saw drafts of documents, but did not attempt to make a decision for Ukraine, but rather gave advice.

"They actually advised us not to go into ephemeral security guarantees [with the Russians ed.], which could not have been given at that time at all," said Arakhamiia, who headed the negotiating delegation.

In his opinion, the delegation achieved the priority tasks "by 8 points out of 10," because the Russians still "left" (retreated from Kyiv), and then everything turned into a purely military direction.

Arakhamiia admitted that there was a moment when he believed in the possibility of encirclement of the capital.

Background: After Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine tried to negotiate peace. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeatedly called on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to discuss all pressing issues during a personal meeting, which Putin ignored. In the end, Zelenskyy stated that Putin's statements about wanting peace were not sincere, and approved the decision of the National Security Council on the impossibility of conducting negotiations with him.

Read more on the topic:From Zelenskyy's "surrender" to Putin's surrender: how the negotiations with Russia are going

Read more on the topic:Before and after the counteroffensive: Are there perspectives in peace negotiations with Russia?

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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin planned to divide Ukraine into three parts, historian and Ukrainian Catholic University professor, Yaroslav Hrytsak, told NV Radio.

"The first part was that the entire so-called Novorossiya, the Russian-speaking part of [Ukraine], would be annexed to Russia. Relatively speaking, Kharkiv-Uman, the southeast, will be annexed by Russia as Novorossiya," he said, adding that Putin was not and is not interested in western Ukraine.

"He considers it a toxic territory, so 'let it go wherever it wants, even to hell.'

"The remaining territories were supposed to create "a kind of Ukrainian version of Belarus Malorossia (Little Russia ed.), where Kyiv will have its own president" with "a more human face than Yanukovych (Ukraines fugitive ex-president ed.)," but much more loyal and manageable.

"Agrarian, without big industry, without western territories. And completely under control. A kind of puppet state. A puppet state under the Kremlin leadership," Hrytsak said, describing Putin's planfor this part of the country.

Malorussia would act as a buffer state between the newly-annexed Novorossia and the trouble-making Western Ukraine, according to Putins pre-war plans.

One of the options was to give western Ukraine to Poland.

"Peter the Great fought the Great Northern War for 21 years. It seems that he fought with Sweden,reclaimed something... He did not reclaim anything: he returned (the territory) back (to Russia)". It is Russias destiny to return and strengthen, Putin said on Jun. 9, comparing himself to the Russian tsar.

Read also: Putins speech at virtual G20 full of false narratives, event ignored by Biden and Xi

"Ukraine, in fact, never had a stable tradition of its true statehood;" it emerged "as a result of Bolshevik policy," and therefore "today it can be fully called Vladimir Ilyich Lenins Ukraine,"Putin said, in his own interpretation of history, as he spouted his false narratives two days after the full-scale invasion.

The Russian dictator blamed Gorbachev (the Soviet Unions final leader ed.) for "the collapse of historical Russia, called the USSR."

"Modern Ukraine," Putin wrote in an article published on the Kremlin website in July 2021, "is entirely the brainchild of the Soviet era ... created at the expense of historical Russia.

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