Strike on Odesa and details of Zelenskyy's 'internal' plan: November 18 highlights

Russia hits residential buildings in Odesa

The Russian military launched an Iskander missile at Odesa. Although the anti-aircraft defense shot down the weapon, it fell into the residential sector.

As a result of the Russian attack, 10 people were killed, and another 43 were injured.

Zelenskyy's "internal" plan involves changing approaches to mobilization

Ukrainska Pravda found out that the internal stability plan of Ukraine, which was previously announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, contains provisions on changing approaches to mobilization and recruiting. The plan may be presented already on November 19.

The Ministry of Defense wants to move away from "busification"

The Ministry of Defense has proposals for reforming the mobilization system, which will be discussed by the government.

"Now, for us, the protection of our country is an important priority, so we plan to move away from these painful issues for the population (‘busification’ – a method of military conscription where men of mobilization age are forcibly gathered and transported to enlistment offices, often without prior notice or proper legal procedures — ed.)," Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated.

Zelenskyy signed the bill on improving the work of medical commissions into law

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law on improving the procedures for medical and social expert commissions (MSEC).

And later, the Verkhovna Rada is waiting for a vote on the government law on the liquidation of MSECs.

Russia rejected the freezing of the war in Ukraine, which Erdogan will allegedly propose

The spokesman of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia does not accept the option of ending the war against Ukraine by freezing the front line.

Earlier, Bloomberg, citing sources, wrote that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to put forward a proposal to freeze the Russo-Ukrainian war at the meeting of the G20 leaders in Rio de Janeiro on November 18.

Borrell confirmed that the US allowed Ukraine to use missiles with a range of up to 300 km to strike Russia

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, confirmed that the United States allowed Ukraine to fire missiles with a range of up to 300 km on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Meanwhile, RBC-Ukraine, citing a source, claims that Britain and France have allowed Ukraine to use long-range Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles against targets in Kursk Oblast.

At the same time, Washington, London or Paris have not officially confirmed that they have changed their policy on long-range strikes.

The occupation authorities of Zaporizhzhia Oblast announced the first sending of local young men to "term service"

Yevgeny Balitsky, Moscow’s puppet governor in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, said that local young men were sent for "term service" to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the first time. He claims that no "conscripts" will be sent to the war zone.

Ukraine scaled up the production of Neptune missiles and improved them for long-range strikes

Mass production of R-360 Neptune cruise missiles with improvements for hitting targets at longer distances was scaled up in Ukraine.

In general, Ukraine is increasing the production of missiles. The first 100 missiles have already been produced this year.

Other news

• Strike on Sumy: the death toll has risen to 11, with over 80 wounded.
• An employee of Ukrzaliznytsia state rail company watched Russian TV series in the waiting room for the military. She will be checked.
• Israel offered to give Ukraine Russian weapons captured from Hamas or Hezbollah.
• An employee of Ivano-Frankivsk Medical University, who gave a lecture in Russian, resigned.
• Germany will hand Ukraine "mini-Taurus" drones with artificial intelligence.