Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,357

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, November 12:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s apical subject commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said the army’s concern has “significantly worsened” successful parts of the southeastern Zaporizhia portion amid fierce warring with Russian forces.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X that helium had received an update from Syrskii, which conveyed that the situation” remains difficult” successful the Zaporizhia region, arsenic good arsenic successful the absorption of the embattled metropolis of Pokrovsk.
• Zaporizhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said that a Russian drone onslaught killed a 56-year-old antheral successful the Polohivskyi district.
• Also successful Zaporizhia, the Kushuhum Village Council announced successful a station connected the Telegram messaging app that families with children indispensable statesman mandatory evacuations from the area.
• Ukraine’s Southern Defence Forces said successful a station connected Facebook that they had to retreat from positions adjacent the settlements of Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnyche, Uspenivka, and Novomykolaivka successful the Zaporizhia region.
• Ukraine’s General Staff claimed that explosions and occurrence were recorded aft Ukrainian forces deed the Orsknefteorgsintez lipid refinery successful Russia’s Orenburg region.
• A Ukrainian excavation detonation killed 1 idiosyncratic successful the colony of Bahatyr successful the Russian-occupied Ukrainian portion of Donetsk, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said, portion persistent Ukrainian drone attacks person forced radical to fly the area, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reports.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed that its forces seized the eastbound portion of Kupiansk successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, according to TASS.

Diplomacy

• Rustem Umerov, the caput of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, has arrived successful Turkiye’s Istanbul, wherever helium said successful a station connected Facebook that helium is moving “to unblock” the process of exchanging captives with Moscow and ensuring the implementation of the statement that has already been reached with Russia.
• The authorities biology inspectorate successful Ukraine’s Sumy portion announced successful a station connected Telegram that it has launched a suit implicit biology damages, including the demolition of wood areas, against Russian forces that spearheaded the penetration of the portion successful 2022.
• Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that 30 Japanese people, including a overseas ministry official, were present barred from entering Russia successful effect to sanctions introduced by Tokyo against Moscow.

Regional security

• The FSB, Russia’s home quality agency, claimed that Russia thwarted a Ukrainian-United Kingdom program to hijack a MiG-31 pitchy equipped with a hypersonic rocket and to usage it to transportation retired a mendacious emblem onslaught connected a large NATO airbase.

Energy

• Romanian Minister of Energy Bogdan Ivan said his state indispensable instrumentality power of the section Romanian institution of Russia’s Lukoil, arsenic Western sanctions person prompted a wave of akin moves crossed Europe.
• Ukrainian authorities person charged 7 radical successful narration to an alleged $100m kickback strategy involving elder vigor officials, a time aft launching a probe into Ukraine’s authorities atomic bureau Energoatom.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said the authorities had dismissed Energoatom’s supervisory committee and that an urgent audit of the bureau would beryllium conducted, “including its procurement activities”.

• A erstwhile lawman premier curate was among the suspects successful the Energoatom probe, Ukraine’s anticorruption bureau said, alleging it had recorded a full of $1.2m being transferred to the official, whom it did not sanction successful enactment with Ukrainian law.

Military aid

• Denmark’s Ministry of Defence announced 1.4 cardinal kroner ($217m) worthy of subject assistance to Ukraine, including for the acquisition of US weapons.