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LVIV, Ukraine, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian positions with artillery occurrence and successful the eastbound portion unsocial launched astir 400 strikes connected Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said successful a video address.
Russia withdrew its forces from the confederate metropolis of Kherson this period and moved immoderate of them to reenforce positions successful the eastbound Donetsk and Luhansk regions, an concern country known arsenic the Donbas.
"The fiercest battles, arsenic before, are successful the Donetsk region. Although determination were less attacks contiguous owed to worsening weather, the magnitude of Russian shelling unluckily remains highly high," Zelenskiy said.
"In the Luhansk region, we are dilatory moving guardant portion fighting. As of now, determination person been astir 400 artillery attacks successful the eastbound since the commencement of the day," helium continued.
Zelenskiy besides said troops successful the southbound were "consistently and precise calculatedly destroying the imaginable of the occupiers" but gave nary details.
Kyiv said connected Saturday that astir 60 Russian soldiers had been killed successful a long-range artillery onslaught successful the south, the 2nd clip successful 4 days that Ukraine has claimed to person inflicted large casualties successful a azygous incident.
Oleh Zhdanov, a subject expert based successful Kyiv, said that according to his information, violative battles were taking spot connected the Bakhmut and Avdiivka frontline successful the Donetsk region, among others.
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"The force is trying to interruption done our defenses, to nary avail," Zhdanov said successful a societal media video. "We combat backmost - they endure immense losses."
He said some armies are focused connected regrouping. Ukrainian forces are being moved towards Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, among others. Russian troops are regrouping to the Zaporizhzhia absorption and Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia's defence ministry said connected Sunday that up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen were killed successful the erstwhile time on the confederate Donetsk frontline and 50 others elsewhere. In total, 153 areas of attraction of Ukraine's manpower and subject instrumentality were destroyed connected Saturday.
Reuters was not capable to instantly verify neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian reports.
Russia calls its penetration successful Ukraine a "special operation" to demilitarize and "denazify" its neighbor, not a war. Kyiv and its allies accidental the penetration is an unprovoked warfare of aggression.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, lawman caput of Zelenskiy's administration, said precocious connected Sunday that Russian forces fired astatine a residential gathering successful the Kherson region, successful confederate Ukraine.
"There whitethorn beryllium radical nether the rubble. Emergency services are moving astatine the scene," Tymoshenko said connected the Telegram messaging app.
The region's precocious retaken capital, the Kherson city, remains without electricity, moving h2o oregon heating.
Additional reporting successful Ottawa by David Ljunggren and successful Melbourne by Lidia Kelly; Writing by David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sandra Maler and Diane Craft
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