Enemy attacks Zaporizhzhia, casualties reported
The enemy is attacking Zaporizhzhia, explosions have been heard in the city, and there are casualties.
20 November 2025
The enemy is attacking Zaporizhzhia, explosions have been heard in the city, and there are casualties.
Rescuers recovered the body of another victim from the rubble of a building on Stus Street in Ternopil.
The first residents of the temporarily occupied Luhansk region mobilized by the Russians are deserting near Pokrovsk.
Russian combined strikes on Lviv on Thursday night destroyed one of the warehouses with medical aid intended for hundreds of civilian medical facilities, which was collected and transferred to Ukraine by the American charity organization Nova Ukraine.
In Ternopil, as a result of massive shelling by Russia on November 19, 21-year-old student of the Ivan Puliuia Ternopil National Technical University Andriy Veger was killed.
The number of casualties from the Russian strike on Ternopil has risen to 27.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the current situation in areas of active hostilities during a meeting with the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer.
Evacuation of local residents is currently taking place from several frontline communities in Zaporizhzhia region. The most difficult situation is in Huliaipole, but currently there is no “large-scale evacuation” from the region — these are dozens, not hundreds, of people.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 112 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is currently ongoing on five fronts, with the enemy remaining most active in Pokrovsk.
Search and rescue operations continue for a second day in Ternopil at the site of the Russian missile strike.
A man was killed in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region as a result of a Russian air strike on November 18.
Russian troops shelled the village of Molodizhne in the Kherson region, injuring a 58-year-old woman.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the effect of Ukrainian strikes on Russia does not have the same time constraints that the Russians currently have.
Rescuers in the Lviv region extinguished a fire at a warehouse that broke out as a result of a Russian strike on November 19.
Europe did not seriously prepare for war on its territory, while Russia did.
Russian troops attacked Kramatorsk with drones at night, damaging five private houses, a shop, and a non-residential building.
Russian troops are attacking Chernihiv; explosions are heard outside the city.
In Ternopil, people bring flowers and candles to a building on Stus Street that was destroyed by a Russian attack.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that, following the strike on Ternopil, the whereabouts of 22 people are currently unknown, and the search for them is ongoing.
Over the past day, Russian troops shelled three districts of the Chernihiv region with strike drones, FPV drones, mortars, and artillery, resulting in damage to buildings, transport, and housing.
Regional authorities in Russia have confirmed the effectiveness of UAV attacks in the Ryazan region, where an oil refinery is on fire, and in the Kursk region, where 16,000 users were left without power after strikes on substations.
Russian invaders struck six settlements in the Kharkiv region yesterday.
A man was injured in Sloviansk as a result of an attack by Russian UAVs.
Ukraine’s air defense forces have intercepted 106 out of 136 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of November 19.
On November 19, 2025, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 200 combat clashes with Russian invaders on the frontlines.
Search and rescue operation is ongoing in Ternopil at the site of a Russian missile strike on November 19.
Russia’s total combat losses in its war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to November 20, 2025, amount to approximately 1,162,120 personnel, including 890 over the past day.
Russia plans to fully occupy the Donetsk region in the spring of 2026, but the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kyrylo Budanov, believes that this plan is unrealistic.
Russian forces attacked the Semenivka and Koriukivka communities in the Chernihiv region with drones, resulting in a burned-down locomotive and damage to houses, vehicles, and farm buildings.
Carbon monoxide levels exceeded safe limits on two streets in Lviv due to the Russian attack.