Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,373 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Revealed On 28 Nov 2025
Right here’s the place issues stand on Friday, November 28.
Combating
- Russian forces have “utterly 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 preventing 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 rising”.
- Oleksandr Syrskii, Ukraine’s high commander, painted a special 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 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 mentioned.
Peace course of
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned 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 mentioned that the draft peace proposals mentioned by the US and Ukraine may develop 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 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 not maintain elections whereas underneath martial regulation and defending its territory in opposition to Russian assaults.
- Zelenskyy won’t agree to surrender land to Russia in alternate for peace, the Ukrainian president’s chief of workers, Andriy Yermak, instructed 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 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 must be compelled on the nation.
- “We view the efforts of the US authorities to discover a resolution right here very positively. Nevertheless, we additionally say that the safety pursuits of Europeans and in addition the safety pursuits of Ukraine have to be safeguarded,” Merz mentioned.
- Russian Ministry of International Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned Ukraine’s membership in NATO stays unacceptable to Moscow.
- “For us, the menace continues to be the enlargement of NATO,” she instructed reporters. “NATO’s need 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 relies in Austria. The licence, efficient till February 26, permits funds and different transactions underneath sure situations, together with that funds on account of Lukoil stay frozen.
- Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever mentioned the European Union’s plan to make use of frozen Russian state belongings to assist Ukraine keep solvent may endanger the probabilities for a possible peace deal to finish the practically four-year warfare.
- “Unexpectedly shifting 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 mentioned in a letter to European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, seen by the Monetary Instances.
- Putin mentioned Russia is making ready a bundle 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 gasoline pipeline in 2022 has arrived in Germany after Italy’s high court docket authorized 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 gasoline transit to Europe.
- Hungarian President Viktor Orban mentioned he plans to carry talks on Friday to make sure that Hungary will get enough Russian crude and gasoline provides, which might additionally enable it to supply crude to neighbouring Serbia.
- Russia mentioned it should shut the Polish consulate in Irkutsk on the finish of December in retaliation for Warsaw’s determination to shut the Russian consulate in Gdansk.
Russian politics
- A Russian navy court docket 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 fees, 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 preventing in Ukraine.
