Because the battle enters its 636th day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the scenario on Tuesday, November 21, 2023.
Preventing
- Ukraine stated combating intensified across the Russian-occupied japanese city of Bakhmut. Volodymyr Fityo, a spokesperson for Ukrainian floor forces, stated Russia was focusing its assaults on Klishchiivka, a close-by village that was retaken by Ukrainian forces in September. “Eleven assaults have been repelled prior to now 24 hours,” he stated. “The enemy is attempting to dislodge our males from defensive positions round Klishchiivka.” Russia’s defence ministry stated it had overwhelmed again greater than 30 Ukrainian assaults in and round Bakhmut prior to now week.
- Ukrainian authorities stated three folks have been killed and one injured in Russian shelling within the southern Kherson and the central Dnipropetrovsk areas. Some energy traces and a gasoline pipeline have been additionally broken.
- Ukrainian police stated a soldier and a girl died when a grenade exploded in a Kyiv house. The reason for the blast, which injured a second man, was not instantly clear.
- America State Division stated it was barring Russian Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov and Russian Guard Corporal Daniil Frolkin from getting into the US over their alleged involvement in human rights violations within the Ukrainian city of Andriivka.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine fired its two high cyber-defence officers – Yury Shchyhol, head of the State Particular Communications Service of Ukraine, and his deputy Victor Zhora – amid an ongoing investigation into corruption over software program purchases.
- Fox Corp Chief Govt Lachlan Murdoch travelled to Kyiv the place he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine stated the assembly was a “crucial sign” of help at a time when the Israel-Gaza battle has diverted world consideration from the battle in Ukraine. Zelenskyy stated Fox Information journalist Benjamin Corridor, who was badly wounded masking the battle final yr, and Jerome Starkey, a journalist with the UK tabloid The Solar have been additionally on the assembly.
- In an interview with The Solar that was additionally revealed within the UK’s Occasions newspaper, which is a part of the identical media group, Zelenskyy accused Russia of attempting to stoke pressure from the Balkans to the Center East. “Ukraine in the present day [is] within the centre of those world dangers of this Third World Conflict,” Zelenskyy stated. Urging Ukraine’s allies to take care of their army help, he acknowledged the shortage of progress on some components of the battlefield, however famous successes within the Black Sea. “We actually deployed a part of the Russian fleet,” he advised the paper. “We did it.”
- Russia positioned Ukrainian singer Jamala, who received the 2016 Eurovision Music Contest, on its wished listing. The impartial Russian information website Mediazona stated Jamala, whose actual identify is Susana Jamaladinova, had been charged beneath a regulation that bans spreading pretend details about the Russian army and the battle in Ukraine. Jamala, a Crimean Tatar, has lengthy been a critic of Russia and advised Zelenskyy final yr that her precedence was to “remind that foreigners got here to my home to kill and mutilate life, to destroy and rewrite my tradition”. She responded to the Russian arrest warrant on Instagram with a facepalm emoji.
- A Japanese delegation led by senior business and overseas ministry officers and together with enterprise representatives visited Ukraine for talks forward of subsequent yr’s Ukraine Restoration Convention, which will probably be hosted by Japan.
Weapons
- US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced go to to Kyiv and unveiled an extra $100m package deal to supply artillery munitions, interceptors for air defence and anti-tank weaponry. Austin promised Zelenskyy that US help can be for the “lengthy haul”. He additionally met with Defence Minister Rustem Umerov.