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 p.c of it, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
- Putin additionally stated that when 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 aims by power.
- The Russian president added that the tempo of Russia’s advance in all instructions on the entrance line was “noticeably growing”.
- 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 stated that Russia had been pressured to carry reserve forces into the combat.
- 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 stated.
Peace course of
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Ukrainian delegations will meet with these from the USA this week to work out a components mentioned at talks in Geneva to carry peace and supply safety ensures for Kyiv.
- Putin stated 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 combat on.
- Putin additionally known as the Ukrainian management illegitimate and stated it was mindless to signal any peace paperwork with them.
- The Russian president stated 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 towards Russian assaults.
- Zelenskyy won’t agree to surrender land to Russia in trade for peace, the Ukrainian president’s chief of workers, Andriy Yermak, informed the US journal The Atlantic.
- “So long as Zelenskyy is president, nobody ought to rely on us giving up territory. He won’t signal away territory,” Yermak stated.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that even after a peace settlement with Russia, Ukraine will want robust armed forces and safety ensures, whereas no territorial concessions must be pressured on the nation.
- “We view the efforts of the US authorities to discover a resolution right here very positively. Nonetheless, we additionally say that the safety pursuits of Europeans and in addition the safety pursuits of Ukraine have to be safeguarded,” Merz stated.
- Russian Ministry of International Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Ukraine’s membership in NATO stays unacceptable to Moscow.
- “For us, the risk continues to be the growth of NATO,” she informed reporters. “NATO’s need to tug Ukraine into its orbit stays a risk to us.”
Sanctions
- The UK issued a brief licence permitting corporations to proceed doing enterprise with Lukoil Worldwide, a subsidiary of Russia’s sanctioned Lukoil, which relies in Austria. The licence, efficient till February 26, permits funds and different transactions below sure circumstances, together with that funds because of Lukoil stay frozen.
- Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever stated the European Union’s plan to make use of frozen Russian state belongings to assist Ukraine keep solvent might endanger the probabilities for a possible peace deal to finish the practically four-year warfare.
- “Rapidly transferring ahead on the proposed reparations mortgage scheme would have, as a collateral harm, that we as EU are successfully stopping reaching an eventual peace deal,” De Wever stated in a letter to European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, seen by the Monetary Occasions.
- Putin stated Russia is getting ready a package deal of retaliatory measures in response to potential seizures of Russian belongings in Europe. He warned that any transfer to confiscate Russian belongings could 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 court docket accepted his extradition final week, German federal prosecutors stated. 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 stated he plans to carry talks on Friday to make sure that Hungary will get enough Russian crude and fuel provides, which might additionally permit it to supply crude to neighbouring Serbia.
- Russia stated 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 army court docket sentenced eight males to life in jail over their purported position in a lethal Ukrainian truck bomb assault on the bridge that hyperlinks southern Russia to Crimea.
- The eight males, convicted on terrorism prices, had 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 by way of a part of the 19km (11.8-mile) bridge, killing 5 individuals and damaging what was a key provide route for Russian forces combating in Ukraine.
