As of November 21, 130 combat encounters have occurred on the frontline since the start of the day, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As in previous months, the most fighting is reported on the Pokrovsk direction in the Donetsk region.

"In this direction, Russian occupiers attempted 41 times since the beginning of the day to push our troops from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Novoekonomichne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Novomykolaivka, Dachne, Filia, and towards the settlements of Novo Shakhove, Myrnohrad, Hryshyne, and Novopavlivka. Our defense forces have successfully repelled 30 attacks," the report states.

Fighting also continued in the Northern Slobozhansky, Kursk, Southern Slobozhansky, Kupiansk, Lyman, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka, Oleksandrivka, Huliaipole, and Orikhiv directions.