Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,359

Here is however things basal connected Friday, November 14:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a “massive” onslaught connected Kyiv aboriginal connected Friday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, with aerial defences successful enactment and a bid of explosions reported successful the capital.
• Klitschko said falling debris had struck a five-storey flat gathering successful Dniprovskyi territory connected the eastbound broadside of the Dnipro River, and a high-rise dwelling was connected occurrence successful Podil territory connected the other bank.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited troops adjacent Ukraine’s southeastern beforehand line, wherever helium warned of the request to enactment up defences aft his troops mislaid crushed successful progressively high-intensity battles acold from Russia’s main violative successful the eastbound of the country.
• President Zelenskyy said the concern adjacent the metropolis of Orikhiv successful the Zaporizhia portion was “one of the astir difficult” on a sprawling beforehand enactment and that thwarting Russian forces determination was cardinal to shielding Zaporizhzhia city.
• Ukraine’s subject said its troops deed a Russian lipid terminal successful occupied Crimea and besides an lipid depot successful the occupied Zaporizhia region.
• The Ukrainian General Staff said Russian lipid facilities and different subject targets were deed by domestically produced weapons, including the “Flamingo” ground-launched cruise missile, drone missiles, and drones.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces person captured 2 much Ukrainian settlements: Synelnykove successful the Kharkiv portion and Danylivka successful the Dnipropetrovsk region.
• Russian aerial defence units destroyed and intercepted 130 Ukrainian drones overnight implicit Russia, the state-run TASS quality bureau reports, citing regular information from the Defence Ministry successful Moscow.

Peace talks

• The Kremlin said Ukraine would person to negociate an extremity to the warfare “sooner oregon later” and predicted that Kyiv’s negotiating presumption would worsen by the day.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said helium hoped Washington would instrumentality nary actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict.
• Lavrov said United States President Donald Trump had agelong advocated dialog with Russia, had sought to afloat recognize the Russian presumption connected Ukraine and “demonstrated a committedness to uncovering a sustainable peaceful solution”.
• “We are counting connected communal consciousness and that the maintaining of that presumption volition prevail successful Washington and that they volition refrain from actions that could escalate the struggle to a caller level,” Lavrov said.

Ukraine vigor scandal

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Zelenskyy person discussed the $100m vigor corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, the German authorities said successful a statement.
• Zelenskyy pledged implicit transparency, semipermanent enactment for autarkic anticorruption authorities and further swift measures to regain the spot of the Ukrainian people, European partners and planetary donors, the connection said.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko besides announced an audit of each state-owned companies, including successful the vigor sector, pursuing the ungraded that has led to the suspension of 2 furniture ministers.
• The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it is lending 22.3m euros ($26m) to a Ukrainian vigor steadfast arsenic portion of a pipeline of deals, signalling its ongoing enactment for the assemblage contempt the corruption scandal.
• The EBRD currency volition spell to backstage Ukrainian vigor institution Power One to concern caller gas-piston powerfulness plants and artillery vigor retention systems, the lender said successful a statement.

Aid to Ukraine

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) volition soon statesman a unit ngo to Ukraine to sermon its financing needs and a imaginable caller lending programme, IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack said.
• Ukraine is successful talks with the IMF astir a caller four-year lending programme for the state that would regenerate its existent four-year $15.5bn programme. Ukraine has already received $10.6bn of that amount.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament that the European Union could either get the wealth needed to screen Kyiv’s fiscal needs successful 2026 and 2027 against the collateral of its semipermanent budget, oregon each EU state could get connected its ain and widen a assistance to Ukraine.
• A 3rd enactment was a connection from the Commission to organise a indebtedness that would efficaciously go a grant, connected the ground of the Russian cardinal slope assets frozen successful the EU. European concern ministers agreed that backing Ukraine with a reparations indebtedness based connected immobilised Russian assets would beryllium the astir “effective” of the 3 options being considered.
• Europe’s apical improvement banks and Ukrainian vigor steadfast Naftogaz signed a woody to supply an EU assistance of 127 cardinal euros ($127m) successful further backing to the firm, connected apical of a 300 cardinal euro indebtedness ($349bn) it outlined past period to unafraid Ukraine’s earthy state supply, amid the ongoing attacks connected Ukraine’s infrastructure by Russia.
• Nordic and Baltic countries volition unneurotic lend $500m to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List arms initiative, their defence ministers said successful a associated statement.

Russian sanctions

• About 1.4 cardinal barrels per time of Russian oil, oregon astir a 3rd of the country’s seaborne exporting potential, stay successful tankers arsenic unloading slows owed to US sanctions against vigor firms Rosneft and Lukoil, according to US fiscal services steadfast JPMorgan.
• Bulgaria’s parliament has overruled a statesmanlike veto connected authorities allowing the authorities to instrumentality power of Lukoil’s lipid refinery and merchantability it to shield the plus from looming US sanctions.
• Bulgarian President Rumen Radev had attempted to veto a determination by lawmakers giving a government-appointed commercialized manager powers to oversee the continued cognition of Lukoil’s refinery successful Bulgaria beyond November 21, erstwhile the US sanctions are owed to instrumentality effect, and to merchantability the institution if needed.
• Russia’s Port Alliance group, which operates a web of oversea cargo terminals, said overseas hackers had targeted its systems implicit 3 days successful a distributed denial of work (DDoS) onslaught and an attempted hack.
• The radical said captious elements of its integer infrastructure had been targeted with the purpose of disrupting export shipments of ember and mineral fertilisers astatine its oversea terminals successful the Baltic, Black Sea, Far East and Arctic regions. The onslaught was successfully repelled, and operations remained unaffected, Port Alliance said.