Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,363

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, November 18:

Fighting

• A Russian rocket onslaught connected the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Balakliia killed 3 radical and wounded 10, including 3 children, a determination subject authoritative successful the Kharkiv portion said connected Telegram connected Monday.
• At slightest 2 radical were killed and 3 were injured successful Russian shelling of the Nikopol territory successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Vladyslav Haivanenko, the acting caput of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, wrote connected Facebook.
• Russian troops captured 3 villages crossed 3 Ukrainian regions, the RIA quality bureau cited the Russian Ministry of Defence arsenic saying connected Monday. The villages are Hai successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, Platonivka successful the Donetsk portion and Dvorichanske successful the Kharkiv region.
• Russia’s aerial defence forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA reported connected Monday, citing the Defence Ministry’s regular data.
• A Russian onslaught connected Ukraine’s confederate portion of Odesa sparked fires astatine vigor and larboard infrastructure facilities, Ukraine’s exigency services said connected Monday.
• The onslaught damaged larboard instrumentality and respective civilian vessels, including 1 carrying liquefied earthy gas, and forced Romania to evacuate a borderline village, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote connected X.
• A 68-year-old antheral has died aft helium was injured successful a Russian drone onslaught successful Ukraine’s Kherson region, the caput of the determination administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, wrote connected Telegram.
• Two Ukrainian atomic powerfulness plants person been moving astatine reduced capableness for 10 days aft a subject onslaught damaged an electrical substation needed for atomic safety, International Atomic Energy Agency main Rafael Grossi said successful a statement.
• The Kremlin said connected Monday that Russia’s larboard of Novorossiysk resumed export activities aft a Ukrainian onslaught caused a two-day suspension of its lipid loadings.

A firefighter stands astatine the tract of flat buildings deed by Russian rocket strikes successful the municipality of Balakliia successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv portion connected November 17, 2025 [Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters]

Military aid

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a woody with French President Emmanuel Macron astatine France’s Velizy-Villacoublay Air Base for Ukraine to get up to 100 French-made Rafale warplanes implicit the adjacent 10 years.
• Macron said France’s obstruction transport shaper Alstom and Ukrainian Railways person signed a 475-million-euro ($551m) declaration connected delivering 55 electrical locomotives to Ukraine, according to the Interfax quality agency.

Regional security

• Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said connected Monday that 1 confirmed and 1 apt enactment of sabotage occurred connected Polish railways aft an detonation damaged a Polish railway way connected a way to Ukraine implicit the weekend.
• Polish Special Services Minister Tomasz Siemoniak added during the aforesaid quality league that chances are precise precocious that the radical who conducted the sabotage were acting connected orders of overseas quality services. He appeared to beryllium pointing fingers astatine Russia though helium did not sanction the country.

Politics and diplomacy

• During a associated quality league successful Paris, Macron said helium was assured Zelenskyy could amended Ukraine’s anticorruption way grounds and institute reforms to wide its way to European Union membership.
• German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil told Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng during a authorities sojourn to Beijing connected Monday that the 2 countries “should enactment unneurotic to decorativeness the warfare successful Ukraine” and “China tin play a cardinal role”.
• He responded by saying, “China volition proceed to play a constructive relation successful the governmental colony of the Ukraine crisis.”
• The Kremlin said connected Monday that determination was an ongoing speech astir a imaginable prisoner-of-war speech with Ukraine but declined to supply details.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said connected Monday that Russia hoped for different acme betwixt President Vladimir Putin and United States President Donald Trump soon.
• Peskov added that Moscow took a precise antagonistic presumption of a measure that Trump said Republicans successful the US were moving connected that would enforce sanctions connected immoderate state doing concern with Russia.
• Russia’s fiscal watchdog added erstwhile Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and starring economist Sergei Guriev – some critics of Russia’s penetration of Ukraine – to its database of “extremists and terrorists”, its website showed connected Monday.

Economy

• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said successful a missive to EU members connected Monday that the bloc had 3 options oregon a operation of them to assistance Ukraine conscionable its financing needs: “Support … financed by subordinate states via grants, a constricted recourse indebtedness funded by the national borrowing connected the fiscal markets oregon a constricted recourse indebtedness linked to the currency balances of immobilised assets”.
• The Chevron lipid institution is studying options to bargain planetary assets of sanctioned Russian lipid steadfast Lukoil aft the US Department of the Treasury gave clearance to imaginable buyers to speech to Lukoil astir overseas assets, 5 sources acquainted with the process told the Reuters quality agency.