Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 27:
Fighting
- Russian forces have captured the village of Kopanky in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence has said.
- Two civilians have died in Russian shelling in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that a rescue operation is under way and more people could be under debris.
- Ukraine has hit Russia with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), produced by the United States, twice over the last three days and Russia is preparing retaliatory measures, according to the Defence Ministry in Moscow. It said both strikes targeted Russian forces in the Kursk region, without reporting any casualties.
- Russia conducted its largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, damaging the grid in Ternopil and cutting power to about 70 percent of the region, as well as damaging residential buildings in the Kyiv region, Ukrainian officials said.
- Of 188 drones used overnight, Ukraine shot down 76 and lost track of 96.
- Russia’s air defence systems destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones overnight over seven regions, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
- Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, independent Russian news group Agentstvo reported. Russian forces captured almost 235sq kilometres (91sq miles) in Ukraine over the past week, a weekly record for 2024, it said.
- A new experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile fired by Russia at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week carried multiple warheads but no explosives, and caused limited damage, two senior Ukrainian government sources said.
