Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,358

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, November 13:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched 645 attacks connected Ukraine’s Zaporizhia portion successful the past day, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic successful the Polohivskyi district, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• A Russian drone onslaught connected a railway installation killed a information defender successful Ukraine’s Kherson region, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote successful a station connected Facebook.
• Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk portion with drone attacks, sidesplitting a 47-year-old antheral successful the Vasylkivska assemblage of the Synelnyky district, the region’s subject medication said successful a station connected Telegram.
• A pistillate was killed successful Ukrainian shelling connected Vodyane village, successful a Russian-occupied country of Zaporizhia, Russia’s TASS authorities quality bureau has reported, citing Russian-appointed section officials.

Ceasefire

• Group of Seven (G7) overseas ministers, including United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, met successful Canada’s Niagara portion connected Wednesday to sermon ways to summation unit connected Russia to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.
• European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas told the Reuters quality bureau connected the sidelines of the gathering that the talks focused connected putting much unit connected Russia “in bid to marque them person peace”.
• “[The US] person had engagements [with Russia] and we person each welcomed their engagements … But to beryllium very, precise frank … their appraisal is that Russia has nary mode changed its goals truthful it’s not genuine astir the bid talks,” Kallas said.

• Russia is acceptable to resume ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine successful Istanbul, but “the shot is successful Ukraine’s court”, Russian Foreign Ministry authoritative Alexei Polishchuk told TASS.
• TASS besides published remarks from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that it said the Italian paper Corriere della Sera had declined to people pursuing an interview. They included claims from Lavrov astir the fig of bodies of slain soldiers exchanged with Ukraine nether erstwhile agreements and the behaviour of Russian forces.

Sanctions

• Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand announced further sanctions against Moscow connected Wednesday, targeting Russia’s drone programme, liquefied earthy state entities and vessels from Russia’s shadiness fleet, among others, according to a statement.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha praised Washington for caller vigor sanctions imposed connected Russian lipid companies past month, aft helium met with the G7 overseas ministers successful Niagara connected Wednesday.
• “We request to proceed to summation the outgo of warfare for Putin and his regime, forcing Russia to extremity the war,” Sybiha wrote connected X.

Corruption

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the dismissal of 2 furniture ministers connected Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100m corruption strategy involving atomic bureau Energoatom and different authorities enterprises.
• Zelenskyy, whose erstwhile concern subordinate from his drama vocation is among the suspects, said successful a video code that corruption successful the vigor assemblage – weakened by regular Russian aerial strikes connected infrastructure – was “absolutely unacceptable”.
• EU overseas argumentation main Kallas, speaking astatine the G7 gathering successful Canada, told Reuters the corruption ungraded was “extremely unfortunate” and said that Ukrainian authorities were “acting precise forcefully”.

Regional developments

• The Moldova Metropolis, Moldova’s largest Orthodox church, has rejected being labelled a “Russian church”.
• “The Orthodox Church of Moldova is not a ‘Russian church’ but alternatively a religion of the full radical surviving successful Moldova, made up of believers of antithetic nationalist groups,” the Moldova Metropolis said aft a synod. “It is escaped and autarkic successful its operations,” it added.