Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Forces reported a combined strike using about 476 attack drones and 48 missiles targeting multiple regions, with the heaviest impacts in Ternopil, Kharkiv and the Lviv direction.
- In Ternopil, officials confirmed 26 dead, including children, and 93 wounded as more than 230 rescuers with 50 vehicles continue round-the-clock searches, with reports of 26 people still unaccounted for.
- Kharkiv authorities said roughly 40,000 customers remained without electricity and at least 54 buildings were damaged, with municipal crews working to restore services and secure shattered windows.
- The General Staff logged 193 combat engagements on Nov. 19, including 55 Russian attempts to advance on the Pokrovsk front, as Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky emphasized safeguarding Ukrainian supply lines and disrupting Russian logistics, citing heavy Russian losses there.
- Vice Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba approved the forced evacuation of 105 children with families from two Zaporizhzhia villages, prosecutors charged a Russian serviceman over the organized deportation of 15 Mykolaiv children, and international reports on a U.S. peace draft drew no public comment from Kyiv or Washington as Zelenskyy held talks in Turkey.