Air defense forces destroy 95 of 115 Russian drones
Air defense forces destroyed 95 of the 115 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine on the evening of November 20.
21 November 2025
Air defense forces destroyed 95 of the 115 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine on the evening of November 20.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 173 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian troops, 59 of them in the Pokrovsk direction. Intense fighting is ongoing in the Sloviansk, Kostiantynivka, Oleksandrivka, and Huliaipole directions.
The number of people killed as a result of the Russian strike on Ternopil has risen to 28, including three children, 94 people were injured, among them 18 children, 16 still missing.
Total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to November 21, 2025, amount to approximately 1,163,170 personnel, including 1,050 over the past day.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 45-year-old resident of the city of Synelnykove was detained for selling fake documents to conscripted men for UAH 100,000 to obtain a mobilization deferment and illegally cross the border.
Police explosive technicians have defused the explosive warhead of a Russian UAV that fell during the massive attack on November 19 near the epicenters of explosions in Ternopil.
20 November 2025
Rescuers recovered the body of another victim from the rubble of a building on Stus Street in Ternopil.
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.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the teams of Ukraine and the United States will work on the provisions of the plan to end the war.
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.
The Government of the United Kingdom, amid reports that the United States and Russia are developing a plan to end the war in Ukraine, has stated that the Ukrainian people must decide their own future.
Search and rescue operations continue for a second day in Ternopil at the site of the Russian missile strike.
Search and rescue operations continue for a second day in Ternopil at the site of the Russian missile strike.
Search and rescue operations continue for a second day in Ternopil at the site of the Russian missile strike.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko met with US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll.
Rescuers in the Lviv region extinguished a fire at a warehouse that broke out as a result of a Russian strike on November 19.
As of the morning of November 20, drone strikes on energy facilities in several regions have resulted in power outages, including in the Dnipropetrovsk region. All regions of Ukraine are currently operating under scheduled hourly power cuts, ranging from 2.5 to 4 stages.
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.
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.
19 November 2025
In Ternopil, there are reports of 26 people missing, including three children, in a building destroyed by a Russian missile strike.
In Dnipro, a building where food was stored caught fire as a result of an attack by Russian drones.
On the morning of November 19, soldiers from the 143rd Joint Training Center “Podillia” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Support Forces destroyed a Russian Kalibr cruise missile in the Khmelnytskyi region.
In Ternopil, the death toll from the Russian missile strike on November 19 has risen to 26 people.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, during a meeting with a U.S. delegation led by U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, briefed them on the frontline situation and discussed strengthening Ukraine’s capabilities in air defense, Deep Strike operations, drone systems, and training of Defense Forces personnel.
In Ternopil, rescue operations continue after Russia’s overnight missile strike, assistance is being provided to the injured. People remain trapped under the rubble.