{"id":83155,"date":"2023-11-20T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-635-russia-ukraine-war-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:24:41","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-635-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-635-russia-ukraine-war-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News<\/h2>\n<p>Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\"><em>As the war enters its 635th day, these are the main developments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Here is the situation on Monday, November 20, 2023.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fighting\">Fighting<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>The Ukrainian army said it has pushed Russian forces back as far as 8km (5 miles) from the banks of Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region. Ukrainian and Russian forces have been entrenched on opposite sides of the Dnipro for more than a year after Russia withdrew its troops from the western bank last November. Ukraine said last week it had made a breakthrough. \u201cPreliminary figures vary from 3 to 8 kilometres (2 to 5 miles), depending on the specifics, geography and landscape of the left bank,\u201d army spokeswoman Natalia Gumenyuk told Ukrainian television when asked how much progress Kyiv had made. She added that there remained a \u201clot of work to do\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The United Kingdom\u2019s defence ministry said that there were \u201cfew immediate prospects of major changes in the front line,\u201d saying neither Russia nor Ukraine had made meaningful progress on the battlefield. In a statement, it said that intense fighting was concentrated near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, Avdiivka in the Dontesk region, and on the left bank of the Dnipro River.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Russia launched several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv for the second successive night, triggering air raid warnings. Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said its air defence systems destroyed 15 of the 20 Shahed kamikaze drones targeting the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy regions. There were no initial reports of \u201ccritical damage\u201d or casualties. On Saturday, Russian drone attacks caused power outages in more than 400 towns and villages in the south, southeast and north of Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Five people, including a three-year-old girl who was outside with her grandmother, were injured in Russian artillery shelling of Kherson, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. One person was killed by shelling in the northeastern Sumy region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2499796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2499796\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2499796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin (right) finally returned home after being taken by Russia last year [Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Photo]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded swift changes in the operations of Ukraine\u2019s military as he met Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. Zelenskyy said \u201cpriorities were set\u201d noting there was \u201clittle time left to wait for results\u201d.\u00a0Zelenskyy said he had also replaced Major-General Tetiana Ostashchenko as commander of the Armed Forces Medical Forces, saying the armed forces needed a \u201cfundamentally new level of medical support\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"politics-and-diplomacy\">Politics and diplomacy<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Bohdan Yermokhin, an orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol during the war and prevented from leaving in March, has returned to Ukraine. Yermokhin, now 18, told the Reuters news agency his return was a \u201cvery pleasant gift\u201d. Ukraine estimates about 20,000 children have been taken illegally by Russia. Zelenskyy welcomed Yermokhin\u2019s return and thanked Ukrainian officials, international organisations, and particularly UNICEF, and authorities in Qatar for help in mediation.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on 37 Russian groups and 108 people including two former Ukrainian top officials now in Russia for their alleged involvement \u201cin the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territory\u201d and individuals who \u201cin various ways help Russian terror against Ukraine\u201d.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Pro-war Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who is in custody awaiting trial for inciting extremism, said he wanted to run for president. Also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, the former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer has repeatedly said Russia will face a revolution and even a civil war unless President Vladimir Putin\u2019s military top brass fight the war in Ukraine more effectively. Girkin helped Russia to annex Crimea in 2014 and then to organise pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/11\/20\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-635?traffic_source=rss\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News\" href=\"\/\">Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 635 | Russia-Ukraine war News As the war enters its 635th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, November 20, 2023. Fighting The Ukrainian army said it has pushed Russian forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estaql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}