Minimal but sustained Russian advances, at the cost of heavy casualties. In one week, from Monday November 17 to Sunday November 23, Moscow’s troops lost 7,000 people, killed or wounded, according to calculations by analyst Ragnar Gudmundsson, who compiled data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Armed Forces. The number is not extraordinary, in fact it is 3% lower than the previous week.
For several months, fighting was concentrated in Pokrovsk, in the (eastern) Donetsk region, while attacks resumed in Zaporizhia. According to the military analysis website Deepstate, which is close to the Ukrainian army, Russian troops almost captured the city center of Pokrovsk on Saturday. The city, which had a population of 60,000 before the war, is believed to be a logistics center
