As of 16:00 on November 21, there have been 130 reported combat encounters on the frontline, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As in previous months, the most intense fighting is recorded in the Pokrovsk direction in the Donetsk region.

“In the Pokrovsk direction, since the start of the day, Russian occupiers have made 41 attempts to push our forces from their positions near the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Novoekonomichne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Dachne, Filiia, and towards the settlements of Nova Shakhove, Myrnohrad, Hryshyne, and Novopavlivka. Our defense forces are holding back the pressure and have already repelled 30 attacks,” the report states.

Fighting has also continued in the Northeastern Slobozhansky, Kursk, Southern Slobozhansky, Kupiansk, Lyman, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Oleksandrivka, Huliaipole, and Orikhiv directions.