Tit-for-tat moves this week included the use of American-made ballistic missiles to strike inside Russia, and new nuclear threats from Moscow. Neither appear to have influenced the war on the ground.

Since the beginning of the day on November 23, 224 combat engagements have occurred at the frontline in Ukraine. The enemy attacks intensively in the Pokrovsk direction, where the situation is difficult but controlled,

Ukraine did not provide any evidence that an ICBM was used in the attack on the central city of Dnipro, apparently armed with conventional warheads.