Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,352

Here is however things basal connected Friday, November 7:

Fighting

• Ukraine attacked Russia with astatine slightest 75 drones connected Thursday, sparking a occurrence successful an concern country successful the confederate metropolis of Volgograd, which killed astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and halted dozens of flights crossed the country, Russian officials said.
• Russian lipid steadfast Lukoil’s refinery successful Volgograd has besides halted operations aft it was struck by Ukrainian drones, the Reuters quality bureau reports, citing 3 sources acquainted with the matter.
• The sources said Lukoil’s superior processing unit, CDU-5, with a regular capableness of 9,100 metric tonnes, oregon 66,700 barrels per time – a 5th of the plant’s full capableness – and different with a capableness of 11,000 tonnes per time were damaged during the attack.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces person precocious successful the battered Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk and were warring house-to-house battles successful a bid to eject Ukrainian troops.
• Russia said it captured 64 buildings successful Pokrovsk implicit the past 24 hours and repelled Ukrainian attacks from Hryshyne to the west.
• Moscow says taking Pokrovsk would springiness it a level to thrust northbound towards the 2 biggest remaining Ukrainian-controlled cities successful the Donetsk region, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
• South Africa’s authorities said it received distress calls from 17 citizens who had joined mercenary forces successful the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The men are betwixt the ages of 20 and 39 years and are trapped successful Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas region. It is unclear who they were warring for.

Military aid

• Ukraine is engaged successful “positive” talks connected the acquisition of Tomahawk missiles and different long-range weaponry with the United States, Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington, Olha Stefanishyna, told Bloomberg News.
• Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson said Sweden and Ukraine person signed a missive of intent that includes establishing a associated hub successful Ukraine “where Swedish unit volition beryllium moving connected defence innovation”.
• Ukraine has besides asked Sweden to commencement grooming Ukrainian pilots connected Swedish Gripen combatant jets arsenic soon arsenic possible, Kyiv’s Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

Sanctions

• Swiss commodity trader Gunvor said it has withdrawn its connection to bargain the overseas assets of sanctioned Russian vigor institution Lukoil aft the US Treasury called the steadfast Russia’s “puppet” and signalled Washington’s absorption to the deal.
• The US Treasury said successful a station connected X that President Donald Trump “has been wide that the warfare indispensable extremity immediately. As agelong arsenic [Russian President Vladimir] Putin continues the senseless killings, the Kremlin’s puppet, Gunvor, volition ne'er get a licence to run and profit”.
• Lukoil has started diverting Caspian lipid flows from the Azeri superior of Baku to the Russian larboard of Makhachkala successful effect to Western sanctions, Reuters reports, citing 2 manufacture sources. One of the sources said a tanker, Lady Leila, nether the Russian flag, arrived precocious connected Thursday astatine Makhachkala with a cargo of 5,000 metric tonnes of crude lipid from Lukoil’s Korchagin oilfield successful the Caspian Sea.

Regional security

• Flights person resumed astatine Sweden’s second-largest airport, Gothenburg-Landvetter, aft a drone incidental prompted a sabotage probe and halted aerial traffic. It was the latest successful a bid of incidents European officials person said are portion of hybrid warfare being waged by Russia connected European countries.
• Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken said his state volition enactment to amended surveillance of its airspace pursuing repeated sightings of drones implicit its airports and subject bases successful caller months.
• NATO countries person been connected precocious alert successful caller weeks aft drone sightings and different aerial incursions, including astatine airports successful Copenhagen, Munich and successful the Baltic region. Some 20 Russian drones besides entered Polish airspace successful September. Moscow has denied immoderate transportation with the incidents.
• Poland volition rotation retired a caller subject grooming programme this period arsenic portion of a broader program to bid astir 400,000 radical successful 2026, the Defence Ministry said. Galvanised by Russia’s penetration of Ukraine, Poland present spends much of its gross home merchandise (GDP) connected defence than immoderate different NATO member.

Russian affairs

• The Russian authorities has agreed to signifier successful a planned lowering of its value-added taxation thresholds for tiny businesses from 2026 alternatively than enforce it successful 1 go, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said aft a backlash from concern owners implicit the measurement intended to money Moscow’s warfare successful Ukraine.
• Two lawmakers from Germany’s biggest absorption party, the far-right Alternative for Germany, volition question to Russia adjacent week for a BRICS summit. The enactment is nether occurrence from opponents implicit its ties to the Kremlin and accusations – powerfully denied – that it could beryllium passing connected delicate subject information.

War crimes

• A Ukrainian tribunal has sentenced a Russian worker to beingness successful situation aft uncovering him blameworthy of sidesplitting a Ukrainian captive of war, the archetypal clip Kyiv has jailed a fishy connected specified charges.
• The tribunal successful the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia recovered Dmitry Kurashov blameworthy of shooting dormant Vitalii Hodniuk, a Ukrainian worker who had surrendered successful January 2024 erstwhile his dugout was captured by Russian forces.

Russian worker Dmytro Kurashov, who is accused of committing a warfare transgression by executing a Ukrainian serviceman who had surrendered during combat, attends a tribunal proceeding successful Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, connected November 6, 2025 [Inna Varenytsia/Reuters]