As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its 271st day, we take a look at the main developments.
Here is the situation as it stands on Monday, November 21:
fighting
- Russian forces pounded Ukrainian positions with artillery fire and launched almost 400 strikes in the eastern region alone, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address.
- Zelenskyy added that Ukrainian troops in the south were “constantly and very calculatedly destroying the potential of the occupiers.”
- Oleh Zhdanov, a Kyiv-based military analyst, said offensive battles were taking place on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka fronts in the Donetsk region.
- Ukrainian forces are being moved to Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, among others. Russian troops are regrouping in the direction of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk and Luhansk, Zhdanov said.
- Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Zelenskyy’s administration, said Russian forces fired on a residential building in the Kherson region. “There may be people under the rubble. Emergency services are working at the scene,” Tymoshenko said.
- The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has warned that whoever fired artillery at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was “playing with fire” as his team prepared to inspect it for damage.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency said more than a dozen explosions rocked the nuclear plant on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
Kherson
- Hundreds of Kherson residents gathered to buy groceries at the first Ukrainian supermarket to open since the city was retaken by pro-Kyiv forces earlier this month.
- The city of Kherson remains without electricity, running water or heating.