November 10, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news - CNN

Ukraine has claimed large wins successful its confederate counteroffensive this week, but Kyiv remains concerned that retreating Russian soldiers could crook the determination superior of Kherson into a “city of death” connected their mode out.

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Hackers linked to Russia's subject were precise apt down ransomware attacks past period connected Ukrainian and Polish proscription and logistics organizations, Microsoft said Thursday. 

The revelation volition rise concerns successful Washington and European capitals that allies supporting Ukraine against Russia's penetration could look greater cyber threats from Moscow. 

Poland is simply a NATO subordinate and a cardinal conduit for supplying subject assistance to Ukraine. 

Microsoft attributed the hacks to a radical that the Justice Department alleges works connected behalf of Russia's GRU subject quality bureau and which caused powerfulness blackouts successful parts of Ukraine successful 2015 and 2016. 

One of Ukraine's main cybersecurity agencies, the State Special Communications Service, declined to comment. 

It's a uncommon nationalist illustration of an alleged Russian hack related to the warfare causing harm successful a NATO subordinate country. 

During Russia's invasion, successful February, different suspected Russian hack wiped information astatine 2 Ukrainian authorities contractors with a beingness successful Latvia and Lithuania, but that was wide seen among analysts arsenic collateral harm alternatively than deliberate. 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said a cyberattack could trigger NATO's corporate defence clause, requiring each members to support an onslaught connected different member. But that has ne'er happened, and it is unclear what precisely NATO's threshold successful cyberspace is for a response.

A NATO spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

The GRU-linked ransomware attacks awesome "increased hazard to organizations straight supplying oregon transporting humanitarian oregon subject assistance to Ukraine," researchers from Microsoft, which has worked straight with the Ukrainian authorities to respond to the hacks, said successful a statement. 

The Russian embassy successful Washington, DC, did not respond to a petition for remark connected Microsoft's statement. Moscow routinely denies conducting cyberattacks.  

Russian hacking groups person carried retired a slew of cyberattacks during the warfare connected Ukrainian authorities and firm networks successful enactment that sometimes overlaps with Russia subject strikes. But the benignant of high-impact hack that takes retired powerfulness oregon different captious networks has mostly been missing.

Russian hacking has played a peripheral, alternatively than central, relation successful the Kremlin's efforts to dismantle Ukrainian captious infrastructure, US and Ukrainian officials antecedently told CNN.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said much than 41 settlements successful confederate Ukraine person been liberated pursuing the Russian determination to retreat to the eastbound broadside of the Dnipro river.

Zelensky utilized his regular video code to congratulate respective units progressive successful the beforehand done the confederate Kherson region.

He added, "Everything that is happening present has been achieved done months of fierce struggle. Achieved by courage, symptom and losses. It is not the force that is leaving. It is Ukrainians who are chasing the occupiers astatine large cost."

Zelensky said constabulary units had moved into respective settlements successful Kherson to statesman stabilization measures, but the liberation of Ukrainian territory was conscionable the archetypal measurement successful a agelong process.

"The archetypal and basal happening is de-mining. The occupiers permission down thousands of mines and unexploded ammunition. I person often heard estimates that clearing Ukraine of Russian mines volition instrumentality decades. We cannot hold that long," the Ukrainian president said.

"The invaders excavation everything: powerfulness lines, concern enterprises, fields, forests," helium said. "At the highest of excavation contamination successful Ukraine, we had 300,000 quadrate kilometers of life-threatening territory."

Now, helium said, acknowledgment to the efforts of sappers, "there are astir 170,000 quadrate kilometers near for demining. In particular, this is successful the astir hard places - wherever the warring is inactive ongoing, wherever the force volition adhd much mines earlier its withdrawal, arsenic it is present successful Kherson."

Zelensky thanked the twelve countries assisting successful de-mining. He besides alluded to Ukraine's goals successful the conflict.

"We person to spell each the mode — connected the battlefield and successful diplomacy — truthful that our flags, Ukrainian flags, and ne'er again immoderate force tricolors are connected our full land, wrong our internationally recognized border," helium said.

Zelensky besides thanked the Netherlands and the United States for caller infusions of assistance — astir $100 cardinal from the Netherlands and a caller bundle of subject assistance from the US. "Important means of aerial defense. Just what we need, what we asked for," helium said

Officials successful the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, successful Russian-occupied eastbound Ukraine, accidental their forces person taken a colony aft fierce warring determination this week.

The Moscow-backed person Denis Pushilin said the village of Pavlivka "is astir 90% cleared."

"The emblem is already hoisted," Pushilin said. "It was fixed to america astatine large cost."

Video was besides published connected a pro-Russian Telegram transmission showing the DPR's Interior Minister, General Aleksey Dikiy, visiting the colony and awarding medals to fighters successful the Republic's militia.

Some background: The conflict for Pavlivka took connected a higher illustration earlier this week erstwhile soldiers successful 1 Russian portion wrote a missive of protest to their determination politician successful Russia, complaining astir mediocre enactment and tactics. 

"As a effect of the 'carefully' planned violative by the 'great commanders,' we mislaid astir 300 men, dormant and wounded, with immoderate MIA implicit the past 4 days," the missive said.

Video from the country successful caller days has shown wide destruction.

Ukraine has not acknowledged that Pavlivka is held by Russian forces, and CNN cannot independently corroborate Russia's claim.

The State Department is “aware of reports that Russia has ordered the deportation of a US citizen,” spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday, but did not connection further details.

Reuters reported Thursday that a Russian tribunal ordered that American Sarah Krivanek beryllium held for 30 days earlier being deported. She had reportedly been detained for astir 11 months connected home battle charges.

Brittney Griner arrives to a proceeding astatine the Khimki Court, extracurricular Moscow connected June 27. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday the United States “did not person a heads up” that WNBA prima Brittney Griner was being transferred to a penal colony successful Russia.

“It has unluckily go modular signifier connected the portion of the Russian Federation not to pass america up of clip erstwhile American national detainees are transferred from 1 detention halfway to another,” helium said astatine a property briefing.

“We are besides engaging to bash each that we tin to guarantee that her conditions are arsenic harmless arsenic steadfast arsenic tin beryllium during this time,” Price said. “That is thing that we bash for each detained American citizens successful Russia and truly astir the world.”

Price said that discussions with the Russians to unafraid the merchandise of Griner and Paul Whelan, different American detained successful Russia, are ongoing. He noted that “this process has not moved arsenic rapidly arsenic we would person liked.”

“The information is that the Russians person not taken an attack to day that we deliberation is sufficient,” helium said. “We person continued to property them to prosecute earnestly and successful bully religion connected the archetypal connection that we enactment forward, the alternatives we enactment forward, we person continued to look for ways to unafraid arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to merchandise of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner.”

Also connected Thursday, portion the White House would not springiness an update connected Griner’s condition, citing confidentiality, the medication said that President Joe Biden is “personally engaged” connected moving for her instrumentality to the US. 

“I person to support the confidentiality of our dealings with her household and immoderate of our consular dealings with Russian officials,” nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan said. “But I volition archer you connected a regular basis, our embassy successful Moscow is focused connected ensuring that they are connected apical of Brittney Griner’s condition, determination and however the Russian authorities is treating her.”

"We are dealing with the Russians astatine precise elder levels and our diplomats connected the crushed are moving overtime to guarantee that they are staying successful adjacent interaction with their Russian counterparts connected her case," Sullivan added.

CNN's Nikki Carvajal contributed reporting to this post.

US announces caller information assistance bundle for Ukraine, nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan said astatine a property briefing astatine the White House, connected Thursday, November 10. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

The Biden medication authorized an further $400 cardinal in security aid for Ukraine connected Thursday.

The caller bundle includes missiles for HAWK and Avenger aerial defence systems, much ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), grenade launchers, mortar and artillery rounds, and different battlefield supplies.

The bundle marks the 25th clip the US has sent information assistance to Ukraine utilizing presidential drawdown authority. The Defense Department pulls the weapons and instrumentality from US inventories to nonstop abroad, alternatively of purchasing caller weapons from manufacturers.

The caller assistance comes arsenic Ukraine claims large wins successful its confederate counteroffensive. But Kyiv remains concerned that retreating Russian soldiers could crook the determination superior of Kherson into a “city of death” connected their mode out.

CNN's Tim Lister and Mick Krever contributed to this report.

Ukraine's Stugna unpaid subject portion connected Thursday paid tribute to a British antheral who the battalion said had died warring against Russian forces alongside the Ukrainians successful occupied territories.

"A antheral of goodwill, a brave British man, Simon Lingard, died successful the Donetsk oblast. A existent warrior who near Britain successful the astir challenging clip for Ukraine and came to combat against Russian evil unneurotic with our soldiers," the battalion said successful a station on its Telegram account.

The all-volunteer infantry subject portion said they met Lingard successful the outpouring successful the Kharkiv region, but aboriginal their subject units divided up successful antithetic directions of the frontline.  

"The past clip we spoke with Simon was conscionable a fewer days earlier his death. Our fighters from the ‘Stugna’ Battalion accidentally met with him successful Zaporizhzhia and adjacent planned to enactment unneurotic again," the batallion said, adding that they volition "avenge" his death.

"Our condolences to Simon's woman and their children and to each the radical of the United Kingdom. We volition ne'er hide what Simon Lingard did for us," the portion said.  

The UK authorities said connected Wednesday that a British antheral had mislaid his beingness successful Ukraine.

In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said that it was "supporting the household of a British nationalist who has mislaid his beingness successful Ukraine," but did not uncover the person's name.

The bureau added that it was successful interaction with "the section authorities successful transportation with his death."  

In June, erstwhile British Army worker Jordan Gatley was changeable and killed portion warring successful Ukraine's Severodonetsk, CNN reported astatine the time. 

British assistance idiosyncratic Paul Urey died successful the Donetsk portion of Ukraine earlier this twelvemonth aft the Russian penetration started, CNN has reported.