Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,373 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Printed On 28 Nov 2025
Right here’s the place issues stand on Friday, November 28.
Combating
- Russian forces have “fully surrounded” the embattled Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk and management 70 % of it, Russian President Vladimir Putin has mentioned.
- Putin additionally mentioned that after Ukrainian troops withdraw from their positions in key areas, then the combating will cease. But when they don’t, then Russian forces will obtain their targets by power.
- The Russian president added that the tempo of Russia’s advance in all instructions on the entrance line was “noticeably rising”.
- Oleksandr Syrskii, Ukraine’s high commander, painted a unique image, saying on social media that Ukrainian troops had been blocking makes an attempt by Russian forces to stage new assaults on Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad. Syrskii additionally mentioned that Russia had been compelled to convey reserve forces into the battle.
- Russia’s air defences shot down 118 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with 52 over Russia’s Belgorod area bordering Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence in Moscow mentioned.
Peace course of
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Ukrainian delegations will meet with these from the US this week to work out a components mentioned at talks in Geneva to convey peace and supply safety ensures for Kyiv.
- Putin mentioned that the draft peace proposals mentioned by the US and Ukraine might turn into the idea of future agreements to finish Moscow’s warfare on Ukraine, but when not, that Russia would battle on.
- Putin additionally referred to as the Ukrainian management illegitimate and mentioned it was mindless to signal any peace paperwork with them.
- The Russian president mentioned the Ukrainian management misplaced legitimacy after refusing to carry elections when Zelenskyy’s elected time period expired. Kyiv says it can’t maintain elections whereas below martial regulation and defending its territory in opposition to Russian assaults.
- Zelenskyy won’t agree to surrender land to Russia in trade for peace, the Ukrainian president’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, informed the US journal The Atlantic.
- “So long as Zelenskyy is president, nobody ought to depend on us giving up territory. He won’t signal away territory,” Yermak mentioned.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz mentioned that even after a peace settlement with Russia, Ukraine will want robust armed forces and safety ensures, whereas no territorial concessions needs to be compelled on the nation.
- “We view the efforts of the US authorities to discover a answer right here very positively. Nevertheless, we additionally say that the safety pursuits of Europeans and likewise the safety pursuits of Ukraine should be safeguarded,” Merz mentioned.
- Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned Ukraine’s membership in NATO stays unacceptable to Moscow.
- “For us, the menace remains to be the growth of NATO,” she informed reporters. “NATO’s want to drag Ukraine into its orbit stays a menace to us.”
Sanctions
- The UK issued a short lived licence permitting firms to proceed doing enterprise with Lukoil Worldwide, a subsidiary of Russia’s sanctioned Lukoil, which is predicated in Austria. The licence, efficient till February 26, permits funds and different transactions below sure circumstances, together with that funds as a consequence of Lukoil stay frozen.
- Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever mentioned the European Union’s plan to make use of frozen Russian state property to assist Ukraine keep solvent might endanger the possibilities for a possible peace deal to finish the practically four-year warfare.
- “Unexpectedly transferring ahead on the proposed reparations mortgage scheme would have, as a collateral injury, that we as EU are successfully stopping reaching an eventual peace deal,” De Wever mentioned in a letter to European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, seen by the Monetary Occasions.
- Putin mentioned Russia is getting ready a bundle of retaliatory measures in response to potential seizures of Russian property in Europe. He warned that any transfer to confiscate Russian property can be “a theft of property” and hurt the worldwide monetary system.
Regional safety
- A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the sabotage of the Nord Stream fuel pipeline in 2022 has arrived in Germany after Italy’s high courtroom permitted his extradition final week, German federal prosecutors mentioned. The explosions that destroyed the pipeline within the Baltic Sea three years in the past largely severed Russian fuel transit to Europe.
- Hungarian President Viktor Orban mentioned he plans to carry talks on Friday to make sure that Hungary will get satisfactory Russian crude and fuel provides, which might additionally permit it to offer crude to neighbouring Serbia.
- Russia mentioned it’s going to shut the Polish consulate in Irkutsk on the finish of December in retaliation for Warsaw’s resolution to shut the Russian consulate in Gdansk.
Russian politics
- A Russian navy courtroom sentenced eight males to life in jail over their purported position in a lethal Ukrainian truck bomb attack on the bridge that hyperlinks southern Russia to Crimea.
- The eight males, convicted on terrorism expenses, have been accused of being a part of an organised felony group that helped Ukraine perform the bombing.
- Ukraine’s SBU home intelligence company claimed duty for the assault, which in October 2022 ripped via a part of the 19km (11.8-mile) bridge, killing 5 folks and damaging what was a key provide route for Russian forces combating in Ukraine.
