Overview
- Ukrainian troops report maintaining positions in central Pokrovsk after clearing the railway station, a pedagogical college and Sobornyi Square, with small‑arms battles ongoing and search‑and‑strike teams operating inside the city.
- Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces say mid‑range loitering munitions destroyed key Russian positions and facilities in and around Pokrovsk, including sites in Shakhove, Sontsivka, Dokuchaievsk and Rybynske, as Ukrainian units cite hundreds of Russian casualties there since early November.
- Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones hit the Shatura heat and power station east of Moscow, igniting transformer fires, triggering backup power and mobile heating units, and briefly disrupting services and flights, with air defenses claiming dozens of shootdowns.
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported large overnight drone waves on consecutive nights, including 89 of 104 downed in one attack and 69 of 98 in another, yet strikes still injured civilians and damaged homes and infrastructure in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and the Nikopol district.
- The Ternopil rescue operation concluded with the confirmed death toll raised to 34 after the Nov. 19 strike, as forensic teams continue work and officials assess munitions that also caused lethal fires in a second residential high‑rise.