Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,349

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, November 4:

Fighting

• Russia said connected Monday that its troops had precocious successful the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk, an important transport and logistics hub that they person been trying to seizure for much than a year, but Ukraine said its forces were holding on.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that Pokrovsk remained nether terrible pressure, though Russian troops had made nary gains successful the past day.
• He besides said that Russia was massing troops by the adjacent municipality of Dobropillia, wherever Kyiv’s forces precocious earlier this twelvemonth successful a palmy counteroffensive. He described the concern successful Dobropillia arsenic complicated.
• Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps said that Ukrainian forces had thwarted a Russian effort to chopped disconnected a proviso way to Pokrovsk from Rodynske, to the north.
• Elsewhere, Russia said its troops had besides attacked Ukrainian forces adjacent different eastbound city, Kupiansk, and dislodged them from 4 fortified positions successful the concern portion connected the near slope of the Oskol River. Zelenskyy said that up to 60 Russian soldiers remained successful Kupiansk, and that Ukrainian forces were trying to wide them.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces had carried retired dense overnight strikes connected a Ukrainian subject airfield, a subject instrumentality repair basal and military-industrial facilities, arsenic good arsenic state infrastructure facilities that supported them.
• Ukraine’s subject said it deed an lipid refinery successful Russia’s Saratov region, adding that a palmy onslaught and resulting occurrence had been recorded connected 1 of the refining facilities.
• Ukraine besides said that it had deed Russian subject logistical facilities successful the Russian-occupied Ukrainian portion of Luhansk.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy announced that Kyiv volition acceptable up offices for arms exports and associated weapons accumulation successful Berlin and Copenhagen this year.

• Zelenskyy added that Ukraine plans to motorboat wide accumulation of its domestically produced missiles – the Flamingo and Ruta – by the extremity of this year.
• He besides said that a Ukrainian delegation would sojourn Washington, DC, adjacent week for further talks connected a US-Ukraine drone deal, which Kyiv hopes volition bolster ties with the medication of US President Donald Trump.

Politics and diplomacy

• The European Commission (EC) said successful a draught substance that Ukraine is showing “remarkable commitment” to joining the European Union, but indispensable reverse caller antagonistic trends successful the combat against corruption and accelerate regularisation of instrumentality reforms, according to the Reuters quality agency.
• The bureau reported that the EC besides said that Kyiv needed to marque much advancement connected judicial independence, warring organised transgression and respecting civilian society.
• Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin departed for a two-day sojourn to China, which the Kremlin said is important and includes planned talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Economy

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine inactive needs to rise $750m to unafraid state imports for the upcoming winter. The authorities wants to summation earthy state imports by astir 30 percent aft Russia sharply intensified its attacks connected Ukraine’s vigor assemblage successful caller weeks, focusing connected state facilities.