Weekly Ukraine war summary: Ukraine hit with ICBM, Russia suffers ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes, fighting goes on in Toretsk and Kurakhove

In addition, the AFU Air Force reported (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) the launch of 507 Russian UAVs, including Shahed-type drones. Of these, 274 were shot down and another 203 were “radar-lost” — meaning they crashed under the influence of electronic warfare tools or turned out to be decoys.

In addition, Russia launched 138 missiles of various types, including Oreshnik, at Ukrainian territory. Of those, 120 were launched on Nov. 17, when the Russian Armed Forces launched the largest combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure since mid-August 2024. The attack claimed five lives while reducing output from Ukrainian nuclear power plants, causing more blackouts. Ukrainian air defense forces managed to shoot down 110 missiles, with 102 downed on Nov. 17.

The Russian Armed Forces also carried out the following strikes on Ukrainian cities:

On Nov. 18, a ballistic missile hit a nine-story building in Sumy, killing 11 people, including two children, and wounding 68; in Odesa, ten people were killed and 39 wounded when a downed ballistic missile from an Iskander missile launcher crashed in a residential neighborhood.
On Nov. 19, two Shahed UAVs hit a five-story dormitory in Hlukhiv, Sumy Region, killing at least 12 people, including a child. Thirteen people were injured, including three children; another 10 were injured in a raid on Kharkiv.
On Nov. 21, a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih injured 32 people; six people were injured in an airstrike on Kostyantynivka involving two FAB bombs.
On May 22, two people were killed and 12 injured in Sumy as a result of an attack with Shaheds with shrapnel warheads.

In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) the interception of 193 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs and four sea drones. In addition to the missile attacks listed above, Ukrainian forces struck the following known targets this past week:

The Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant (Kupol) in Udmurtia, where a worker at the UAV production shop was lightly wounded.
A group of Russian Armed Forces personnel in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia.
The command post of the North Grouping of Forces in Russia's Belgorod Region.
Mayonnaise, yogurt, and cheese factories in Belgorod and Voronezh regions; the facilities were presumably involved in the production of UAVs and explosives, and the company owning one of the factories is also known to produce cargo drones (1, 2).
An oil depot in the Samara Region.
A weapons depot in the Novgorod Region.

Losses

The BBC Russian Service and Mediazona, together with a team of volunteers, have updated the Russian side's war casualty counts based on open-source reports. Data is available for a total of 79,819 dead, with another 2,676 names added to the list between Nov. 8 and Nov. 22.

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