Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,351

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, November 6:

Fighting

• The Russian Ministry of Defence said encircled Ukrainian troops successful the cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk should surrender arsenic they person nary accidental to prevention themselves otherwise.
• Russia said its forces were advancing northbound wrong Pokrovsk successful a thrust to instrumentality afloat power of the Ukrainian city, but the Ukrainian service said its units were battling hard to effort to halt the Russians from gaining caller ground.
• Ukraine has acknowledged its troops look a hard concern successful the strategical eastbound city, erstwhile an important transport and logistics hub for the Ukrainian army, which Russia has been trying to seizure for much than a year.
• Russia sees Pokrovsk metropolis arsenic the gateway to its seizure of the remaining 10 percent, oregon 5,000 square-kilometres(1,930 quadrate miles), of Ukraine’s eastbound concern Donbas region, 1 of its cardinal aims successful the astir four-year-old war.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught caused insignificant harm to lipid pumping stations successful 2 districts of Russia’s Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Yevrayev, the determination governor, said.

Energy

• Ukraine has resumed state imports from a pipeline that runs crossed the Balkan peninsula to Greece, to support its heating and electrical systems moving done the wintertime aft wide harm from intensified Russian attacks connected Kyiv’s vigor infrastructure.
• Data from the Ukrainian state transit relation showed that Ukraine volition person 1.1 cardinal cubic metres (mcm) of state from the Transbalkan way connected Wednesday, aft the import of 0.78 mcm connected Tuesday. The way links Ukraine to LNG terminals successful Greece, via Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria.
• Poland is moving connected a woody to import liquefied earthy state from the United States to proviso Ukraine and Slovakia, an statement that would further tighten the European Union’s ties to US energy, the Reuters quality bureau reports, citing 2 sources acquainted with the negotiations.

Nuclear weapons

• Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his apical officials to draught proposals for a imaginable trial of atomic weapons, thing Moscow has not done since the 1991 illness of the Soviet Union.
• Putin’s bid – made successful effect to US President Donald Trump’s announcement past week that Washington would resume atomic investigating – is being seen arsenic a awesome that the 2 countries are rapidly nearing a measurement that could sharply escalate geopolitical tensions.
• The US notified Russia successful beforehand of its trial motorboat of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base successful California connected November 5, Russia’s Interfax quality bureau reported, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
• Russia-US relations person deteriorated sharply successful the past fewer weeks arsenic Trump, frustrated with a deficiency of advancement towards ending the warfare successful Ukraine, has cancelled a planned acme with Putin and imposed sanctions connected Russia for the archetypal clip since returning to the White House successful January.
• Trump said helium “may beryllium moving connected a program to denuclearise” with China and Russia, during a code astatine the American Business Forum successful Miami.

Sanctions

• Bulgaria is drafting ineligible changes that volition let it to prehend power of sanctioned Russian lipid steadfast Lukoil’s Burgas refinery and merchantability it to a caller proprietor to support the works from US sanctions, section media reported.
• Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna called connected China to halt its economical enactment of Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine and urged Beijing to articulation European and US efforts to unit President Putin into a ceasefire.
• “China says that they are not portion of this subject conflict, but I was precise wide that China has immense leverage implicit Russia, each week much and more, due to the fact that the Russian system is weak,” Tsahkna told Reuters.

Economy

• Ukraine plans to regenerate its kopek coins to shingle disconnected a lingering awesome of Moscow’s erstwhile dominance, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi said, adding that helium hoped the alteration could beryllium completed this year.
• Ukraine introduced its hryvnia currency successful 1996, 5 years aft it gained independency from the Soviet Union, minting its ain coins but retaining the erstwhile Soviet sanction kopek – kopiyka successful Ukrainian. The caller coins volition beryllium known by the humanities Ukrainian word “shah”.