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21 November 2024
4 events recorded (1 confirmed), and 2 statements counted apart.
November 2024 in brief
UNHCR said nearly 4 million people remained displaced inside Ukraine and 6.7 million abroad as the war neared 1,000 days, and that attacks had destroyed 65 percent of Ukraine's energy generation capacity. [1] Russia fired about 120 missiles and 90 drones at the power system in the largest attack in months, killing at least seven people, Ukrainian officials said, and a second mass strike later in the month left more than one million people without electricity in western Ukraine. [1][2] Regional authorities said a ballistic missile on an apartment block in Sumy killed 11 people, including two children, and the Odesa governor said a strike on Odesa killed 10, seven of them police officers. [1][2] After reports that Washington had eased limits, Russia said Ukraine fired six US-made ATACMS at Bryansk Oblast, and Bloomberg reported Ukraine used British Storm Shadow missiles in Kursk Oblast for the first time. [1][2] Russia then struck Dnipro with a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that Putin called Oreshnik, saying it was a response to Ukraine's use of US and British weapons, and he signed an updated nuclear doctrine. [1] A Ukrainian official said North Korean troops in Kursk Oblast had come under fire for the first time, a claim the Kyiv Independent could not verify. [1] In Europe, the Leiden dataset recorded undersea cable cuts in the Baltic linked to the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 and interference in Romania's presidential election in favour of a candidate opposed to aid for Ukraine. [1][2]
Said
In a televised address, President Putin said Russia had used a new medium-range missile, Oreshnik, in combat against a target in Dnipro in response to Ukraine's use of US and British long-range weapons, said the conflict had taken on a global character, and said Russia considered it had the right to strike military facilities of countries whose weapons were used against it.
Government of Russia
21 Nov · to a mixed audience
Reported by ABC News (Australia)
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Said
Government of Russia: In a televised address, President Putin said Russia had used a new medium-range missile, Oreshnik, in combat against a target in Dnipro in response to Ukraine's use of US and British long-range weapons, said the conflict had taken on a global character, and said Russia considered it had the right to strike military facilities of countries whose weapons were used against it.
Said
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from Astrakhan Oblast at Dnipro; President Zelensky said its speed and altitude matched an ICBM.