As the Russo-Ukrainian War enters its 271st day, we take a look at the key developments.
Here’s the situation as of Monday, November 21:
fighting
- Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address that Russian forces bombarded Ukrainian positions with artillery fire, and the eastern region alone launched nearly 400 strikes.
- Zelensky added that Ukrainian forces in the south were “continuously and calculatedly destroying the potential of the occupiers”.
- Oleh Zhdanov, a Kyiv-based military analyst, said offensive battles are taking place on the front lines of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
- Ukrainian forces are heading towards Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and others. Zhdanov said that Russian forces are regrouping in the direction of Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk.
- Kirillo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Zelensky administration, said Russian forces had fired at a residential building in the Kherson region. There may be people under the rubble. Tymoshenko said emergency services were working at the scene.
- Whoever fired artillery at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is “playing with fire” as his team prepares to inspect it for damage, the head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency has warned.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency said more than a dozen explosions rocked the nuclear plant late on Saturday and Sunday.
Kherson
- Hundreds of Kherson residents flocked to buy groceries at the first Ukrainian supermarket to open since pro-Kyiv forces retook the city earlier this month.
- The city of Kherson is still without electricity, running water or heating.
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