Day dawns in Europe and a 1033rd day of armed conflict begins in Ukraine after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
Overnight, Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone attack hit an oil depot near the Russian city of Orel, causing a fire.
This Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a cancer treatment center was targeted by a Russian missile attack in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, claims to have recaptured a village in eastern Ukraine.
We take stock of the events that have marked recent hours.
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Oncology center targeted by Russians in Kherson
The Kherson regional military administration in southern Ukraine reported that two strikes destroyed a cancer treatment center in the city of Kherson on Friday evening. According to Ukrainian authorities, two guided aerial missile strikes hit the oncology facility.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said no deaths were reported. However, he denounced a targeted attack by Russia.
The Russians could not ignore that this was a valuable medical facility for the people of Kherson. This deliberate strike is therefore nothing less than a heinous act of cruelty against civilians
he declared in his daily address, published on his social networks and on the presidency website.
Numerous Russian drone attacks during the night from Friday to Saturday
There were also Russian strikes on Kharkiv, on Nikopol, on the Donetsk region. This is pure terror, deliberately carried out by Russia
he continued.
On his social networks, the Ukrainian president accused Russia of having carried out, in total, more than 110 drone strikes
against Ukraine on the night of Friday to Saturday. Apartment buildings in Kharkiv and Zaporizhia
were targeted and ballistic missiles targeted kyiv earlier and shelling hit Sumy, Kryvyi Rih as well as the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions
.
Russian oil depot hit by Ukrainian drones in Orel
Ukrainian drones hit an oil depot located in Orel, a Russian city located near the border with Ukraine, during the night from Saturday to Sunday. According to the governor of the Oryol region, Andrey Klychkov, the attack started a fire.
The Telegram Astra channel, for its part, indicated that several explosions were heard around the city shortly after midnight.
The regional governor indicates that no injuries or deaths have been reported.
Russia claims to have captured new Ukrainian village
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed this Saturday, November 21, the capture of a new village near the key town of Kurakhove, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. In a statement, the ministry said that Russian armed forces captured the village of Kostiantynopolske, located eight kilometers from the Kurakhove reservoir.
Ukraine has not yet commented on this Russian assertion.
Names of 84,761 Russian war dead identified
An investigation by BBC Russia and Mediazona reveals that the names of 84,761 Russian soldiers who died during the war in Ukraine could be identified.
In an update, the two media outlets indicate that 2,711 additional soldiers have been identified this month, since their last publication.
The journalists point out that the number of soldiers killed is probably much higher, since their information comes only from public sources. 2024 would be, according to the two media, the deadliest year of the conflict.
