NOV 20, 2022
The Ukrainian president says shelling was ‘extremely high’ in the east, especially in the Donetsk region. Separately, Kyiv says it will begin a “voluntary evacuation” of the recently recaptured southern city of Kherson.
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“There have been almost 400 shelling occasions in the east since the beginning of the day,” he
said in his nightly address, without elaborating.
He said the fiercest fighting was in the Donetsk region. That’s the area that Mr. Zelensky described last week as a “hell” because of Russian attacks, drawing attention to one of the war’s most entrenched battlegrounds even as the country
celebrated the recapture of the southern city of Kherson.
The Kremlin announced in April that its military priority was to capture all of Donetsk and the neighboring region of Luhansk, which together are known as the Donbas. By July it could claim to have captured the last city in Luhansk.
A rout of Russian forces in September in parts of the Kharkiv region, which borders the Luhansk region, raised the prospect that Ukrainian forces might advance quickly in Donetsk. But military analysts say that Donetsk presents a stiff challenge, in part because a section of it was seized in 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists who have had years to dig defensive positions.
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Russian and Ukrainian officials blamed each other on Sunday for recent shelling at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Follow here for live news updates.
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Nearly 45,000 criminal cases opened against Russian military since Feb. 24, Ukrainian national police say
Ukraine's national police said Sunday that 44,662 criminal cases have been opened since Feb. 24 involving what it called "crimes committed by the Russian military."
The charges include "violation of laws and customs of war," the "encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine," as well as "treason" and "subversion," officials said in a statement.
To date, a total of "47 places where the Russians illegally detained and tortured Ukrainian citizens" have been discovered in the de-occupied regions of Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv, according to the statement.
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