Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,361

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, November 16:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian subject said it struck Russia’s Ryazan lipid refinery, located astir 200km (125 miles) southeast of Moscow, arsenic “part of efforts to trim the enemy’s quality to motorboat rocket and weaponry strikes”.
• The Ukrainian subject said the onslaught caused aggregate explosions and a ample occurrence astatine the site.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces person taken power of the colony of Yablukove successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region.
• The Ukrainian subject confirmed withdrawing from the colony of Novovasylivske successful Zaporizhia, saying the retreat was indispensable successful bid to relocate to “more favourable antiaircraft positions”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the widow of the archetypal unfortunate of the 1986 catastrophe astatine the Chornobyl powerfulness works was among respective radical killed successful a barrage of Russian strikes connected the superior of Kyiv successful caller days. He said Nataliia Khodemchuk’s decease was the effect of “a caller calamity caused erstwhile again by the Kremlin”.
• Russia’s RIA Novosti quality bureau reported that conditions are unchangeable astatine the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works successful Ukraine aft an outer powerfulness enactment was switched disconnected arsenic a precautionary measurement connected Friday.
• The Russian state-run TASS quality bureau reported that Ukrainian forces person launched a drone onslaught connected residential buildings successful the Russian metropolis of Volgograd, damaging “the facades and glazing of flat buildings and the surrounding area”.
• The Russian Defence Ministry said it changeable down 8 Ukrainian drones successful the people of 4 hours implicit the regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, arsenic good arsenic Russian-occupied Crimea, according to TASS.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia and Ukraine person agreed to determination guardant with a captive speech that volition spot the merchandise of astir 1,200 Ukrainians, according to a Ukrainian official. The announcement came aft respective days of talks overseen by Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates, rejuvenating an exchange process laid retired during erstwhile negotiations successful Istanbul.
• President Zelenskyy promised a “reboot” of state-owned vigor companies, including reforms to basal retired corruption, arsenic his authorities continues to grapple with a large ungraded successful which investigators said $100m was embezzled from powerfulness firms.
• Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed a measure providing societal assistance for Ukrainian refugees, but stated it was the “last time” helium would bash truthful until caller solutions to the contented were found. The Polish person has argued that the proviso of assistance to Ukrainian refugees, astir 1 cardinal of whom are surviving successful Poland, is “unfair to Poles”. The ineligible presumption of Ukrainian refugees successful Poland is acceptable to expire successful March.
• Serbian officials said that the United States volition not easiness sanctions connected the Serbian lipid firm NIS unless it changes the company’s majority-Russian ownership share, contempt pleas for leniency from Belgrade. Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said that the US “clearly and unequivocally” demanded changes to Russian ownership, giving Serbia until February 13 to find a solution.

Military aid

• Zelenskyy called for further aerial defence resources, pursuing a question of Russian strikes connected Kyiv that killed astatine slightest 7 radical and injured dozens more. The Ukrainian person said that the attacks underscore the request for much assistance and “greater resolve” from allies pursuing the strikes, which struck flat buildings crossed the superior metropolis connected Friday.