Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,368

Here’s wherever things basal connected Sunday, November 23.

Trump’s plan

• Officials from Ukraine, the United States, and the European Union are acceptable to clasp talks successful Geneva to sermon US President Donald Trump’s projected 28-point plan for ending the warfare with Russia.
• Trump, who initially demanded Ukraine judge his program by Thursday, told reporters connected Saturday that the connection was not his last offer. “We’d similar to get to peace. One mode oregon another, we’ll get it ended,” helium said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Saturday that helium has signed a decree approving the creation of Kyiv’s delegation to the talks.
• “Our representatives cognize however to support Ukraine’s nationalist interests and precisely what indispensable beryllium done to forestall Russia from launching a 3rd invasion,” helium wrote successful a societal media post, adding that Russia’s “crimes” should not beryllium “rewarded”.
• European and Western leaders welcomed Trump’s program successful a connection connected Saturday, but said the draught requires “additional work”.
• They besides pushed backmost against immoderate of its elements, including the ceding of territory to Russia and limits connected the size of the Ukrainian military. “We are wide connected the rule that borders indispensable not beryllium changed by force,” they said.

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stressed the request for Ukraine to beryllium progressive successful immoderate solution of the struggle and to determine its ain fate. “Wars cannot beryllium ended by large powers implicit the heads of the countries affected,” helium told reporters.
• The leaders of 8 Nordic-Baltic countries released a abstracted statement, reaffirming their committedness to enactment Ukraine, including by continuing to limb its military. “We have, from the outset of Russia’s warfare of aggression, stood by Ukraine’s side, and we volition proceed to bash so,” they said.
• In Washington, DC, Trump’s proposal continued to look absorption from Democrats and immoderate Republican hawks successful Congress. Senator Angus King called it 1 of the worst “geopolitical mistakes” helium has ever seen.

Fighting

• Russian forces launched much than 60 strikes connected the Nikopol territory of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and wounding 5 others, according to section officials.
• Another Russian onslaught connected a store successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia wounded 5 people, portion Russian shelling killed 3 people, including 2 women successful Kherson, officials said.
• The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said it ended its hunt and rescue cognition pursuing the deadly Russian rocket attack successful Ternopil successful the westbound of the state connected November 19.
• The last decease toll of that onslaught was 33, including six children, according to the agency. Ninety-four others were besides wounded.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces captured 2 villages successful eastbound Ukraine – Zvanivka successful Donetsk and Nove Zaporizhzhia successful the Zaporizhia region.
• The assertion came arsenic Ukraine’s Kyiv Independent reported that Russian forces look to person captured much than 15 villages successful Zaporizhia. It cited the Finnish open-intelligence collective, the Black Bird Group.
• The months-long conflict for the municipality of Pokrovsk successful Donetsk besides continued, with Russia’s TASS quality bureau reporting that Russian troops person “encircled Ukrainian units” successful respective neighbourhoods there.
• For its part, the Ukrainian subject said Russian attempts to scope the town’s centre were unsuccessful and that its forces were holding designed lines successful bluish Pokrovsk.