Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,375

Here’s wherever things basal connected Sunday, November 30.

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 11, including a child, connected the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, determination Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said connected Sunday.
• Russian attacks connected Ukraine overnight connected Saturday killed six people and wounded dozens of others crossed the country, and cut power to 400,000 households successful Kyiv.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched astir 36 missiles and astir 600 drones successful the attack, and exigency services said astatine slightest 2 of the six deaths and 38 injuries were reported successful the capital.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence confirmed launching the “massive” attack, claiming the strikes were aimed astatine Ukrainian military-industrial and vigor facilities, successful effect to what it called “terrorist attacks”.
• The ministry said connected Saturday evening that it had changeable down 158 Ukrainian drones and 2 long-range missiles implicit the past day, portion the Russian authorities TASS quality bureau reported that Ukrainian drone attacks had wounded 1 idiosyncratic successful Russia’s Belgorod portion and 5 successful the Volgograd region.
• TASS besides reported that the decease toll from a Ukrainian onslaught connected Rostov connected November 25 has risen to 4 aft an aged pistillate wounded successful the onslaught died of her injuries successful hospital.
• Ukrainian naval drones deed 2 sanctioned tankers successful the Black Sea connected Friday arsenic the vessels were heading to a Russian larboard to load up with lipid destined for overseas markets, the Reuters quality bureau and the Kyiv Independent reported, citing Ukrainian quality officials.
• The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which handles much than 1 percent of planetary oil, said connected Saturday that it halted operations aft a mooring astatine Russia’s Black Sea terminal was importantly damaged by a Ukrainian naval drone attack. The institution chiefly transports vigor from Kazakhstan, which denounced the onslaught arsenic unacceptable.
• Ukraine’s subject said it had deed Russia’s Afipsky lipid refinery successful Russia’s Krasnodar portion overnight connected Saturday, arsenic good arsenic the Beriev subject aviation works successful the Rostov region, adding that it had recorded explosions and a occurrence astatine the refinery.
• Officials successful Moldova said Russian drones had entered the country’s airspace, posing a menace to aviation, successful the 3rd specified incidental successful 9 days.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy said that a Ukrainian delegation headed by the country’s Security Council secretary, Rustem Umerov, was connected its mode to the United States to proceed talks to extremity Russia’s astir four-year-old war.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are scheduled to conscionable Ukrainian officials successful Florida for talks, a elder US authoritative told Reuters quality agency.
• Zelenskyy is acceptable to clasp a gathering with French President Emmanuel Macron successful Paris connected Monday to sermon “the conditions of a conscionable and durable peace” and the US bid plan, pursuing talks successful Geneva, according to the French presidency.
• Zelenskyy’s erstwhile main of staff, Andriy Yermak, who resigned connected Friday amid a corruption probe, said helium volition beryllium going to service connected the beforehand lines of the warfare and that helium is an “honest and decent person”.
• South African constabulary said they arrested 4 men en way to Russia who are suspected of having been recruited to combat successful the subject there. The men were stopped astatine the boarding gross successful Johannesburg, constabulary said, weeks aft reports that 17 South African men were stuck in Ukraine after being lured into joining mercenary forces with the committedness of lucrative contracts.
• Prosecutors successful Poland person charged 2 Ukrainians and 3 Belarusians with moving for a overseas quality service, amid heightened tensions with Russia. The prosecutor’s bureau did not accidental which state was involved, but since Russia’s 2022 full-scale penetration of Ukraine, Warsaw has regularly accused Moscow of attempts astatine sabotage and conducting “hybrid warfare”.
• Poland besides announced that it volition boost railway information successful the state aft the recent sabotage it blamed connected Russia. Poland, a NATO and EU member, has go the main hub for transporting Western subject and humanitarian enactment to Ukraine arsenic it fights disconnected an penetration launched by Russia successful 2022.

Censorship

• Russia said connected Friday that it was considering banning the fashionable messaging work WhatsApp, accusing it of failing to forestall crime, and urged its tens of millions of users to power to home alternatives. US exertion elephantine Meta, which owns WhatsApp, said Russia was trying to prohibition the exertion due to the fact that it “defies authorities attempts to interruption people’s close to unafraid communication”.

Human rights

• The radical Human Rights Watch (HRW) promised not to halt investigating Russia oregon the actions of its subject successful Ukraine, contempt Moscow declaring it an “undesirable” organisation. Tanya Lokshina, elder subordinate manager of the group’s Europe and Central Asia division, told the AFP quality bureau that HRW was “not surprised” by the designation, which efficaciously criminalises it successful Russia.