Once again, throughout the night, the Nikopol district, in the area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was under Russian bombs.
Damaged gas pipelines and electricity networks.
No injuries but dozens of buildings hit including homes and farm buildings.
And once again the reading of Moscow's strategy in Ukraine starts from the ground:
the Russians are waiting for the frost to strike the hardest blow to the country
, according to the head of the presidential office in Kiev Mykhailo Podolyak.
"It seems to me that now Russia's tactics have changed a little: they are waiting for the temperature to drop to minus ten degrees and only then they want to deal the hardest blow to Ukraine. They want to freeze us," Podolyak said.
While in Kherson the nightmare seems endless: the region was
bombed 28 times in 24 hours
and even the cancer center ended up under Russian fire.
And the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, relaunched on Twitter the images of the international airport destroyed by the Russian army while the evacuation plan, already scheduled until December 5, was relaunched for the residents of Kherson who are still on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
However, the fighters of the special unit "Karlson"
raised the Ukrainian flag on the left bank of the Kherson region
.
This was announced late in the evening by the Ukrainian armed forces, as reported by Ukrinform, after the November 15 army of Kiev had liberated the city of Kherson on the right bank of the Dnipro.
The flag of Ukraine was hung on a crane tower.
British intelligence is taking a step forward, according to which the Russian army's plan at the moment is to
encircle the city of Bakhmut
, in Donetsk Oblast, continuing to invest a large part of the overall military effort and power of fire along a sector of about 15 kilometers of the front line.
In recent days, Russia has probably made little progress on the southern axis, where it is trying to consolidate limited bridgeheads west of the marshland around the Bakhmutka River and has given priority to Bakhmut.
And according to the London 007 report, the capture of Bakhmut has become a symbolic and political goal for Moscow.
But from Kiev Podolyak replies:
"The Kremlin is eliminating thousands of its conscripts, prisoners, mercenaries and soldiers near" Bakhmut
"which has no strategic importance. They do it only to show that they are still able to do something" but " they won't make it: forget Bakhmut and start preparing for the court in Yalta".
Meanwhile, while
the Kremlin announces the possibility of a visit "in due time" by Vladimir Putin
, satellite images relaunched by the BBC show that Moscow is consolidating its military presence, particularly
in Mariupol
, the port city captured in recent months, where he is building
a new large military base
.
The photos show a new U-shaped complex near the city center: on the roof the red, white and blue star of the Russian army with the inscription "from the Russian army to the people of Mariupol".
Moscow's forces besieged the city for nearly three months at the start of the war and left the city largely in ruins.
Ukrainian officials estimate that up to 90% of the infrastructure has been destroyed by Russian bombing and new satellite images suggest that Moscow has begun demolishing many of the residential buildings left unusable and beyond repair.
The Ukrainian city is strategically important to Moscow, being part of its "land bridge" linking Russia to annexed Crimea.