Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,359 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Listed here are the important thing occasions from day 1,359 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Friday, November 14:

Combating

• Russian forces launched a “large” assault on Kyiv early on Friday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned, with air defences in motion and a sequence of explosions reported within the capital.
• Klitschko mentioned falling particles had struck a five-storey residence constructing in Dniprovskyi district on the east facet of the Dnipro River, and a high-rise dwelling was on fireplace in Podil district on the other financial institution.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited troops close to Ukraine’s southeastern entrance line, the place he warned of the necessity to shore up defences after his troops misplaced floor in more and more high-intensity battles removed from Russia’s predominant offensive within the east of the nation.
• President Zelenskyy mentioned the state of affairs close to town of Orikhiv within the Zaporizhia area was “probably the most troublesome” alongside a sprawling entrance line and that thwarting Russian forces there was key to shielding Zaporizhzhia metropolis.
• Ukraine’s navy mentioned its troops hit a Russian oil terminal in occupied Crimea and in addition an oil depot within the occupied Zaporizhia area.
• The Ukrainian Common Employees mentioned Russian oil services and different navy targets have been hit by domestically produced weapons, together with the “Flamingo” ground-launched cruise missile, drone missiles, and drones.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its forces have captured two extra Ukrainian settlements: Synelnykove within the Kharkiv area and Danylivka within the Dnipropetrovsk area.
• Russian air defence models destroyed and intercepted 130 Ukrainian drones in a single day over Russia, the state-run TASS information company studies, citing day by day knowledge from the Defence Ministry in Moscow.

Peace talks

• The Kremlin mentioned Ukraine must negotiate an finish to the battle “eventually” and predicted that Kyiv’s negotiating place would worsen by the day.
• Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov has mentioned he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine battle.
• Lavrov mentioned United States President Donald Trump had lengthy advocated dialogue with Russia, had sought to totally perceive the Russian place on Ukraine and “demonstrated a dedication to discovering a sustainable peaceable answer”.
• “We’re relying on frequent sense and that the sustaining of that place will prevail in Washington and that they are going to chorus from actions that would escalate the battle to a brand new degree,” Lavrov mentioned.

Ukraine vitality scandal

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Zelenskyy have mentioned the $100m energy corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, the German authorities mentioned in an announcement.
• Zelenskyy pledged full transparency, long-term help for impartial anticorruption authorities and additional swift measures to regain the belief of the Ukrainian folks, European companions and worldwide donors, the assertion mentioned.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko additionally introduced an audit of all state-owned corporations, together with within the vitality sector, following the scandal that has led to the suspension of two cupboard ministers.
• The European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Growth (EBRD) mentioned it’s lending 22.3m euros ($26m) to a Ukrainian vitality agency as a part of a pipeline of offers, signalling its ongoing help for the sector regardless of the corruption scandal.
• The EBRD money will go to non-public Ukrainian vitality firm Energy One to finance new gas-piston energy crops and battery vitality storage programs, the lender mentioned in an announcement.

Support to Ukraine

• The Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) will quickly start a workers mission to Ukraine to debate its financing wants and a possible new lending programme, IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack mentioned.
• Ukraine is in talks with the IMF a couple of new four-year lending programme for the nation that will change its present four-year $15.5bn programme. Ukraine has already obtained $10.6bn of that quantity.
• European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen informed the European Parliament that the European Union may both borrow the cash wanted to cowl Kyiv’s monetary wants in 2026 and 2027 in opposition to the collateral of its long-term funds, or every EU nation may borrow by itself and prolong a grant to Ukraine.
• A 3rd choice was a proposal from the Fee to organise a mortgage that will successfully change into a grant, on the premise of the Russian central financial institution property frozen within the EU. European finance ministers agreed that funding Ukraine with a reparations mortgage primarily based on immobilised Russian property can be probably the most “efficient” of the three choices being thought-about.
• Europe’s high growth banks and Ukrainian vitality agency Naftogaz signed a deal to offer an EU grant of 127 million euros ($127m) in extra funding to the agency, on high of a 300 billion euro mortgage ($349bn) it outlined final month to safe Ukraine’s pure fuel provide, amid the continued assaults on Ukraine’s infrastructure by Russia.
• Nordic and Baltic international locations will collectively contribute $500m to the Prioritised Ukraine Necessities Record arms initiative, their defence ministers mentioned in a joint assertion.

Russian sanctions

• About 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil, or virtually a 3rd of the nation’s seaborne exporting potential, stay in tankers as unloading slows as a consequence of US sanctions in opposition to vitality corporations Rosneft and Lukoil, in accordance with US monetary providers agency JPMorgan.
• Bulgaria’s parliament has overruled a presidential veto on laws permitting the federal government to take management of Lukoil’s oil refinery and promote it to defend the asset from looming US sanctions.
• Bulgarian President Rumen Radev had tried to veto a transfer by lawmakers giving a government-appointed business supervisor powers to supervise the continued operation of Lukoil’s refinery in Bulgaria past November 21, when the US sanctions are as a consequence of take impact, and to promote the corporate if wanted.
• Russia’s Port Alliance group, which operates a community of sea cargo terminals, mentioned international hackers had focused its programs over three days in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault and an tried hack.
• The group mentioned crucial components of its digital infrastructure had been focused with the intention of disrupting export shipments of coal and mineral fertilisers at its sea terminals within the Baltic, Black Sea, Far East and Arctic areas. The assault was efficiently repelled, and operations remained unaffected, Port Alliance mentioned.