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Situation Summary
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued attempts to encircle Avdiivka and advanced near Bakhmut and east of Lyman, near the boundary with the Luhansk region. Russian forces also continued to advance towards Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. Fighting continued east of Oleshky in the Kherson region and along the frontline in the Zaporizhia region. Meanwhile, suspected partisan groups killed six Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the Donetsk region and clashed with Russian forces near Myrne in the Zaporizhia region.
Russian shelling, missiles, and airstrikes killed over 20 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. On 30 November, a Russian missile struck a multi-story apartment building in Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region, killing four civilians and wounding five others. On 28 November, Russian shelling of Seredyna-Buda in the Sumy region killed three civilians and wounded three others. On 25 November, Holodomor Remembrance Day, Russian forces carried out their largest coordinated drone attack since the start of the war, launching around 75 drones in total. Ukraine claimed to have intercepted 74 drones, with more than 60 downed over Kyiv city and the surrounding region. The debris injured five civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure in Kyiv city.
