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 “huge” assault on Kyiv early on Friday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated, with air defences in motion and a sequence of explosions reported within the capital.
• Klitschko stated falling particles had struck a five-storey condominium constructing in Dniprovskyi district on the east aspect of the Dnipro River, and a high-rise dwelling was on hearth in Podil district on the alternative 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 primary offensive within the east of the nation.
• President Zelenskyy stated the scenario close to town of Orikhiv within the Zaporizhia area was “one of the vital troublesome” alongside a sprawling entrance line and that thwarting Russian forces there was key to shielding Zaporizhzhia metropolis.
• Ukraine’s army stated its troops hit a Russian oil terminal in occupied Crimea and in addition an oil depot within the occupied Zaporizhia area.
• The Ukrainian Normal Workers stated Russian oil amenities and different army 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 stated 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 stories, citing day by day knowledge from the Defence Ministry in Moscow.

Peace talks

• The Kremlin stated Ukraine must negotiate an finish to the battle “in the end” and predicted that Kyiv’s negotiating place would worsen by the day.
• Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine battle.
• Lavrov stated 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 widespread sense and that the sustaining of that place will prevail in Washington and that they may chorus from actions that would escalate the battle to a brand new degree,” Lavrov stated.

Ukraine vitality scandal

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Zelenskyy have mentioned the $100m energy corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, the German authorities stated in a press release.
• Zelenskyy pledged full transparency, long-term assist for impartial anticorruption authorities and additional swift measures to regain the belief of the Ukrainian individuals, European companions and worldwide donors, the assertion stated.
• 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) stated it’s lending 22.3m euros ($26m) to a Ukrainian vitality agency as a part of a pipeline of offers, signalling its ongoing assist 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 vegetation and battery vitality storage programs, the lender stated in a press release.

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 stated.
• Ukraine is in talks with the IMF a couple of new four-year lending programme for the nation that will exchange its present four-year $15.5bn programme. Ukraine has already obtained $10.6bn of that quantity.
• European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen advised the European Parliament that the European Union might both borrow the cash wanted to cowl Kyiv’s monetary wants in 2026 and 2027 towards the collateral of its long-term finances, or every EU nation might borrow by itself and lengthen a grant to Ukraine.
• A 3rd possibility was a proposal from the Fee to organise a mortgage that will successfully turn out to be a grant, on the idea of the Russian central financial institution belongings frozen within the EU. European finance ministers agreed that funding Ukraine with a reparations mortgage based mostly on immobilised Russian belongings can be probably the most “efficient” of the three choices being thought of.
• Europe’s prime improvement banks and Ukrainian vitality agency Naftogaz signed a deal to offer an EU grant of 127 million euros ($127m) in further funding to the agency, on prime 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 Checklist arms initiative, their defence ministers stated in a joint assertion.

Russian sanctions

• About 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil, or nearly a 3rd of the nation’s seaborne exporting potential, stay in tankers as unloading slows as a consequence of US sanctions towards vitality companies Rosneft and Lukoil, based on 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 protect 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, stated overseas hackers had focused its programs over three days in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault and an tried hack.
• The group stated crucial parts of its digital infrastructure had been focused with the goal 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 stated.