Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,364

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, November 19:

Fighting

• Russian drones struck 2 cardinal districts – Slobidskyi and Osnovyansk – successful Ukraine’s 2nd largest metropolis Kharkiv, injuring 5 radical successful an flat gathering and triggering a fire, authorities said.
• Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 22 residents had been evacuated from 1 conception of the damaged flat gathering portion different drone struck an country extracurricular a aesculapian facility, injuring a doc and damaging the gathering and adjacent cars.
• The Kharkiv region’s governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said 11 drones were deployed successful the onslaught and 7 radical were injured successful total.
• Russia’s civilian aviation authorization said it was temporarily halting flights astatine Krasnodar International Airport successful confederate Russia connected Wednesday morning, saying lone that it was for formation safety.
• Russian aerial defences changeable down 4 Ukrainian drones en way to Moscow connected Tuesday, the city’s politician said. Moscow’s 2 largest airports, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo, stopped each aerial postulation for a clip earlier aboriginal reopening, Russia’s aviation watchdog said.
• Ukrainian drone attacks person caused extended harm to the powerfulness grid successful the Russian-occupied portion of the Donetsk region. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-appointed caput of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said astir 65 percent of consumers were without powerfulness successful the region.
• Ukraine attacked 2 thermal powerfulness stations successful Russian-occupied Donetsk, according to a Telegram station by the commandant of Ukraine’s drone forces. Major Robert Brovdi said the Starobeshivska and Zuivska powerfulness plants had been deed by his forces.
• Ukraine said it attacked subject targets successful Russia with United States-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a “significant development”. The subject said successful a connection that the “use of long-range onslaught capabilities, including systems specified arsenic ATACMS, volition continue”.
• Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov conducted a regular inspection of troops warring successful eastbound Ukraine, his ministry’s outlet, Zvezda, reported. Video posted by Zvezda showed Belousov presenting awards to subject servicemen.

Military aid

• The Trump medication has approved a $105m arms merchantability to Ukraine to assistance it support existing Patriot rocket aerial defence systems. The merchantability includes upgrading from M901 to M903 launchers, which tin occurrence much missiles astatine once.
• Spain volition supply Ukraine with a caller subject assistance bundle worthy 615 cardinal euros ($710m), Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced connected Tuesday.
• “Your combat is ours,” Sanchez said alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “neoimperialism” seeks to “weaken the European task and everything it stands for”.

Regional security

• The United Kingdom lacks a program to support itself from subject attack, members of parliament warned portion astatine slightest 13 sites crossed the UK person been identified for caller factories to marque munitions and subject explosives, according to a report.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities person identified 2 Ukrainian nationals who had collaborated with Russia for “a agelong time” and were liable for an detonation connected a Polish railway way to Ukraine.
• “The astir important accusation is that … we person identified the radical liable for the acts of sabotage,” Tusk told lawmakers. “In some cases, we are definite that the effort to stroke up the rails and the railway infrastructure usurpation were intentional and their purpose was to origin a railway postulation catastrophe,” helium said.

• The Kremlin accused Poland of succumbing to Russophobia aft Warsaw blamed the detonation connected a railway way to Ukraine connected 2 Ukrainian citizens who it said were recruited by Russian intelligence.
• Soldiers from crossed the NATO confederation practised counterdrone skills successful Poland connected Tuesday with troops from the US, UK and Romania joining their Polish counterparts astatine the exercises successful Nowa Deba successful Poland’s southeast corner.
• The European Commission volition suggest a caller inaugural to assistance velocity up the improvement and acquisition of innovative defence technologies, according to a draught papers seen by the Reuters quality agency.

US soldiers transportation an AS3 interceptor, portion of the US-made, AI-powered counterdrone strategy MEROPS, during a presumption successful Nowa Deba, Poland [Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

Ceasefire

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine volition effort to “reactivate” the diplomatic process to extremity the warfare with Russia. Zelenskyy aboriginal announced helium planned to spell to Turkiye connected Wednesday to effort to revive talks with Russia connected however to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.
• No face-to-face talks person taken spot betwixt Kyiv and Moscow since they met successful Istanbul successful July.
• Steve Witkoff, a US peculiar envoy, is expected to articulation the talks with Zelenskyy successful Turkiye, different Ukrainian authoritative progressive successful the meeting’s preparations told the AFP quality agency.
• Ukraine plans to assertion $43bn successful clime compensation from Russia to assistance money a planet-friendly rebuild aft the war, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economy, Environment and Agriculture Pavlo Kartashov announced astatine the UN clime league successful Brazil.
• “We successful Ukraine look brutality directly, but the clime shockwaves of this aggression volition beryllium felt good beyond our borders and into the future,” Kartashov said.

Politics and diplomacy

• One of Ukraine’s main absorption parties physically blocked lawmakers from holding a ballot successful parliament connected Tuesday to disregard 2 ministers implicit a corruption investigation, demanding the removal of the full furniture instead.
• Zelenskyy made a one-day sojourn connected Tuesday to Spain and took the accidental to presumption Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a coating that depicts the horrors of warfare and specifically the bombardment of civilian targets successful Spain by fascist German and Italian forces.

Economy

• Russian authorities conglomerate Rostec said its defence exports person fallen by fractional since 2022 arsenic home orders became a precedence during the warfare successful Ukraine. Until 2022, Russia held 2nd spot successful the satellite aft the US successful defence exports, but the volumes dropped “due to the information that we person had to proviso astir of our accumulation to our army”, Rostec main Sergey Chemezov told reporters.
• Russian lawmakers endorsed caller taxation hikes connected Tuesday arsenic Moscow looks for caller gross sources to boost its system during its astir four-year warfare with Ukraine. Legislators successful the little location of parliament, the State Duma, approved the cardinal 2nd speechmaking of a measure to rise the value-added taxation from 20 percent to 22 percent.

Sanctions

• US lipid steadfast Exxon Mobil has joined rival Chevron Corp successful considering options to bargain parts of sanctioned Russian lipid steadfast Lukoil’s planetary assets, sources acquainted with the substance told the Reuters quality agency.
• Exxon is considering options for Lukoil assets successful Kazakhstan, wherever some the US and the Russian steadfast person stakes successful the Karachaganak and Tengiz fields, the sources said. Chevron, different spouse successful these assets, is besides studying options to buy.