Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,367

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, November 22:

Fighting

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said astir 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped by Russian forces connected the eastbound slope of the Oskil River, successful Ukraine’s eastbound Kharkiv region. There was nary contiguous remark from the Ukrainian military.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops captured the settlements of Yampil, Stavky, Novoselivka and Maslyakivka successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region, arsenic good arsenic the colony of Radisne successful neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region.
• The Russian Defence Ministry said 33 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed implicit 5 Russian regions, arsenic good arsenic Crimea and the Black Sea, overnight.
• At slightest 8 Russian airports were forced to suspend operations during the nighttime attack, according to Russia’s aviation watchdog.
• Ukraine said its forces were holding antiaircraft lines successful the bluish portion of the embattled eastbound metropolis of Pokrovsk and were blocking attempts by Russian troops to beforehand further.
• Moscow’s forces person fought towards Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian military, for months to effort to seizure the town, which Russian media has dubbed the “gateway” to Ukraine’s concern Donbas region.

Peace plan

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has until this coming Thursday to o.k. a United States-backed bid program with Russia, President Donald Trump has said.
• Speaking successful the Oval Office aft a gathering with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani connected Friday, Trump said: “We person a mode of getting peace, oregon we deliberation we person a mode of getting to peace. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] is going to person to o.k. it.”
• President Zelenskyy pledged to enactment accelerated and constructively with Washington connected the bid plan, but said helium would not betray his country’s nationalist interest.
• In a video statement, Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to stay agreed successful what helium described arsenic 1 of the astir hard moments successful their country’s history, adding that helium expected much governmental unit implicit the adjacent week.
• Zelenskyy besides said aft an hour-long telephone telephone with US Vice President JD Vance that Ukraine would enactment with Washington, and Europe astatine an advisory level, towards a bid plan.
• Zelenskyy said helium past spoke with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte astir the “available diplomatic options” to extremity his country’s warfare with Russia, including the “plan projected by the American side”.

• Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow had inactive not officially received immoderate bid program from the US, Russian authorities quality bureau RIA Novosti reported.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin told elder officials astatine a gathering of Russia’s Security Council that the US connection could beryllium the ground for a solution of the conflict, but if Kyiv turned down the plan, past Russian forces would beforehand further.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said immoderate bid woody betwixt Russia and Ukraine indispensable guarantee Kyiv’s aboriginal security, pursuing a telephone telephone betwixt Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Zelenskyy.
• Starmer’s bureau said the leaders “underlined their enactment for President Trump’s thrust for bid and agreed that immoderate solution indispensable afloat impact Ukraine, sphere its sovereignty, and guarantee its aboriginal security”.
• The European Union and Ukraine privation peace, but they volition not springiness successful to aggression from Russia, the EU’s overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas has said.
• “This is simply a precise unsafe infinitesimal for all,” Kallas said. “We each privation this warfare to end, but however it ends matters. Russia has nary ineligible close whatsoever to immoderate concessions from the state it invaded; ultimately, the presumption of immoderate statement are for Ukraine to decide.”

Sanctions

• The US has issued a Russia-related wide licence allowing definite transactions with the Paks II civilian atomic powerfulness works task successful Hungary, according to the Department of the Treasury.
• The licence allows transactions linked to the atomic powerfulness works task involving immoderate Russian banks, including Gazprombank, VTB Bank and the Russian cardinal bank.
• Finnish substance presumption concatenation Teboil, which is owned by Russia’s Lukoil, has filed for firm restructuring, quality bureau STT reported, becoming the archetypal planetary concern owned by the large Russian lipid steadfast to accidental it would adjacent down arsenic a effect of the sanctions imposed by the US connected Lukoil past month.
• Lithuanian state-owned railway radical LTG said it volition halt shipments of lipid cargoes by Lukoil to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad owed to the US sanctions.
• Located connected the Baltic Sea coast, Kaliningrad receives galore of its supplies from Russia via obstruction transit done NATO subordinate authorities Lithuania, but tin besides get nonstop shipments from its ain state via the coast.

Corruption

• Ukraine’s authorities plans to name a caller supervisory committee astatine Energoatom, the authorities atomic institution astatine the bosom of a corruption scandal, by the extremity of this year, Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev said.
• Ukraine has been rocked by a ungraded implicit an alleged $100m kickback strategy involving elder officials successful the vigor assemblage and a erstwhile concern subordinate of Zelenskyy.

Economy

• Ukraine volition sharply summation state imports via the confederate Trans-Balkan way linking it with Greece arsenic it battles to regenerate supplies mislaid owed to Russian attacks, import information from transit operators showed.
• Russian drone and rocket attacks connected the country’s vigor infrastructure person deprived Kyiv of astatine slightest fractional of its ain state accumulation successful caller months, forcing it to import an further 4 cardinal cubic metres of state implicit the wintertime heating play to marque up the difference.

Regional security

• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said sabotage acts inspired and organised by Russia are aimed astatine destabilising and weakening Poland and carnivore the hallmarks of “state terrorism”.
• Last weekend, an explosion damaged railway tracks connected the Warsaw-Lublin route, which connects the Polish superior with the Ukrainian border, thing Tusk described arsenic an “unprecedented enactment of sabotage”.
• Nathan Gill, a British erstwhile subordinate of the European Parliament and ex-leader of the populist Reform UK successful Wales, has been jailed for much than 10 years aft admitting taking astir 40,000 British pounds ($52,344) successful bribes to marque pro-Russian speeches and statements.