Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,361 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,361 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, November 16:

Preventing

• The Ukrainian army stated it struck Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery, situated about 200km (125 miles) southeast of Moscow, as “a part of efforts to cut back the enemy’s capability to launch missile and bomb strikes”.
• The Ukrainian army stated the strike precipitated a number of explosions and a big hearth on the website.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence stated its forces have taken management of the village of Yablukove in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area.
• The Ukrainian army confirmed withdrawing from the village of Novovasylivske in Zaporizhia, saying the retreat was mandatory as a way to relocate to “extra beneficial defensive positions”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the widow of the primary sufferer of the 1986 catastrophe on the Chornobyl energy plant was amongst a number of folks killed in a barrage of Russian strikes on the capital of Kyiv in latest days. He stated Nataliia Khodemchuk’s dying was the results of “a brand new tragedy precipitated as soon as once more by the Kremlin”.
• Russia’s RIA Novosti information company reported that circumstances are steady on the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in Ukraine after an exterior energy line was switched off as a precautionary measure on Friday.
• The Russian state-run TASS information company reported that Ukrainian forces have launched a drone assault on residential buildings within the Russian metropolis of Volgograd, damaging “the facades and glazing of residence buildings and the encircling space”.
• The Russian Defence Ministry stated it shot down eight Ukrainian drones in the midst of 4 hours over the areas of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, in addition to Russian-occupied Crimea, based on TASS.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia and Ukraine have agreed to maneuver ahead with a prisoner trade that can see the discharge of about 1,200 Ukrainians, based on a Ukrainian official. The announcement got here after a number of days of talks overseen by Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates, rejuvenating an exchange process laid out throughout earlier negotiations in Istanbul.
• President Zelenskyy promised a “reboot” of state-owned power corporations, together with reforms to root out corruption, as his authorities continues to grapple with a serious scandal through which investigators stated $100m was embezzled from energy companies.
• Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed a invoice offering social help for Ukrainian refugees, however acknowledged it was the “final time” he would achieve this till new options to the problem have been discovered. The Polish chief has argued that the availability of help to Ukrainian refugees, about a million of whom reside in Poland, is “unfair to Poles”. The authorized standing of Ukrainian refugees in Poland is ready to run out in March.
• Serbian officers stated that the USA won’t ease sanctions on the Serbian oil firm NIS except it adjustments the corporate’s majority-Russian possession share, regardless of pleas for leniency from Belgrade. Power Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic stated that the US “clearly and unequivocally” demanded adjustments to Russian possession, giving Serbia till February 13 to discover a answer.

Army support

• Zelenskyy referred to as for extra air defence assets, following a wave of Russian strikes on Kyiv that killed not less than seven folks and injured dozens extra. The Ukrainian chief stated that the assaults underscore the necessity for extra help and “larger resolve” from allies following the strikes, which struck residence buildings throughout the capital metropolis on Friday.