Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 270

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Sunday, November 20:

Preventing

• Russia has reached settlement with Iran to start manufacturing a whole lot of unmanned weaponised plane on Russian soil, The Washington Publish reported.
• Ukrainian electrical energy provides are underneath management regardless of Russian assaults on power-generating infrastructure and there’s no must panic, the power ministry mentioned.
• 5 folks have been wounded in a Russian air strike on a humanitarian station the place bread was being distributed within the city of Bilozerka, simply west of Kherson metropolis, a senior aide to the presidency mentioned.

• Russia’s surge in missile strikes in Ukraine is partly designed to exhaust Kyiv’s provides of air defences and at last obtain dominance of the skies, a senior US navy official mentioned.
• About 60 Russian troopers have been killed in a long-range Ukrainian artillery assault final week, Kyiv mentioned, the second time in 4 days that Ukraine claimed to have inflicted important casualties in a single incident.
• At the least 437 Ukrainian youngsters have been killed on account of Russia’s invasion, in accordance with Ukraine’s prosecutor common’s workplace.
• Russia urged worldwide organisations to sentence the alleged execution of 11 Russian prisoners of struggle by Ukrainian troopers.
• Ukraine’s navy mentioned it was checking the authenticity of footage that Moscow described as surrendering Russian troopers being executed after movies circulated on Russian social media exhibiting the our bodies of Russian troops.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly video tackle that power provide issues within the nation have been worst in and round Kyiv, in addition to in six different areas, including work was persevering with “to stabilise the state of affairs”.

Kherson area

• Ukraine will quickly start evacuating individuals who need to depart the not too long ago liberated southern metropolis of Kherson and the encircling areas, a senior official introduced, citing harm achieved by Russian forces.
• The primary practice from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, arrived in Kherson every week after Russian troops pulled out from the southern metropolis.
• A whole bunch of individuals have been detained or went lacking in Kherson area whereas it was underneath Russian management, and dozens could have been tortured, Yale College researchers concluded in a report. Russia has denied its forces have dedicated abuses.

Diplomacy

• The West’s makes an attempt to influence Ukraine to barter with Moscow, after a collection of main navy victories by Kyiv, are “weird” and quantity to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian president mentioned.
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has supplied a preview of “a doable world of tyranny and turmoil”, US Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin mentioned.