Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,367 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Revealed On 22 Nov 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, November 22:
Preventing
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated roughly 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped by Russian forces on the japanese financial institution of the Oskil River, in Ukraine’s japanese Kharkiv area. There was no rapid remark from the Ukrainian army.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated its troops captured the settlements of Yampil, Stavky, Novoselivka and Maslyakivka in japanese Ukraine’s Donetsk area, in addition to the village of Radisne in neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk area.
- The Russian Defence Ministry stated 33 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and destroyed over 5 Russian areas, in addition to Crimea and the Black Sea, in a single day.
- At the very least eight Russian airports had been compelled to droop operations throughout the nighttime assault, based on Russia’s aviation watchdog.
- Ukraine stated its forces had been holding defensive traces within the northern a part of the embattled japanese metropolis of Pokrovsk and had been blocking makes an attempt by Russian troops to advance additional.
- Moscow’s forces have fought in direction of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian army, for months to attempt to seize the city, which Russian media has dubbed the “gateway” to Ukraine’s industrial Donbas area.
Peace plan
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has till this coming Thursday to approve a United States-backed peace plan with Russia, President Donald Trump has stated.
- Talking within the Oval Workplace after a gathering with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, Trump stated: “We’ve got a method of getting peace, or we predict we now have a method of attending to peace. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] goes to need to approve it.”
- President Zelenskyy pledged to work quick and constructively with Washington on the peace plan, however stated he wouldn’t betray his nation’s nationwide curiosity.
- In a video assertion, Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to stay united in what he described as probably the most troublesome moments of their nation’s historical past, including that he anticipated extra political stress over the following week.
- Zelenskyy additionally stated after an hour-long cellphone name with US Vice President JD Vance that Ukraine would work with Washington, and Europe at an advisory degree, in direction of a peace plan.
- Zelenskyy stated he then spoke with NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte in regards to the “accessible diplomatic choices” to finish his nation’s battle with Russia, together with the “plan proposed by the American facet”.
- Russia’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Moscow had nonetheless not formally obtained any peace plan from the US, Russian state information company RIA Novosti reported.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin informed senior officers at a gathering of Russia’s Safety Council that the US proposal might be the idea for a decision of the battle, but when Kyiv turned down the plan, then Russian forces would advance additional.
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine should guarantee Kyiv’s future safety, following a cellphone name between Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Zelenskyy.
- Starmer’s workplace stated the leaders “underlined their help for President Trump’s drive for peace and agreed that any resolution should absolutely contain Ukraine, protect its sovereignty, and guarantee its future safety”.
- The European Union and Ukraine need peace, however they won’t give in to aggression from Russia, the EU’s international coverage chief Kaja Kallas has stated.
- “It is a very harmful second for all,” Kallas stated. “All of us need this battle to finish, however the way it ends issues. Russia has no authorized proper by any means to any concessions from the nation it invaded; in the end, the phrases of any settlement are for Ukraine to resolve.”
Sanctions
- The US has issued a Russia-related normal licence permitting sure transactions with the Paks II civil nuclear energy plant undertaking in Hungary, based on the Division of the Treasury.
- The licence permits transactions linked to the nuclear energy plant undertaking involving some Russian banks, together with Gazprombank, VTB Financial institution and the Russian central financial institution.
- Finnish gasoline station chain Teboil, which is owned by Russia’s Lukoil, has filed for company restructuring, information company STT reported, turning into the primary worldwide enterprise owned by the key Russian oil agency to say it will shut down on account of the sanctions imposed by the US on Lukoil final month.
- Lithuanian state-owned railway group LTG stated it can halt shipments of oil cargoes by Lukoil to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad because of the US sanctions.
- Positioned on the Baltic Beach, Kaliningrad receives a lot of its provides from Russia through rail transit by NATO member state Lithuania, however may also get direct shipments from its personal nation through the coast.
Corruption
- Ukraine’s authorities plans to nominate a brand new supervisory board at Energoatom, the state nuclear firm on the coronary heart of a corruption scandal, by the tip of this 12 months, Financial system Minister Oleksii Sobolev stated.
- Ukraine has been rocked by a scandal over an alleged $100m kickback scheme involving senior officers within the power sector and a former enterprise affiliate of Zelenskyy.
Financial system
- Ukraine will sharply improve gasoline imports through the southern Trans-Balkan route linking it with Greece because it battles to switch provides misplaced attributable to Russian assaults, import information from transit operators confirmed.
- Russian drone and missile assaults on the nation’s power infrastructure have disadvantaged Kyiv of not less than half of its personal gasoline manufacturing in current months, forcing it to import an extra 4 billion cubic metres of gasoline over the winter heating season to make up the distinction.
Regional safety
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated sabotage acts impressed and organised by Russia are aimed toward destabilising and weakening Poland and bear the hallmarks of “state terrorism”.
- Final weekend, an explosion broken railway tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route, which connects the Polish capital with the Ukrainian border, one thing Tusk described as an “unprecedented act of sabotage”.
- Nathan Gill, a British former member of the European Parliament and ex-leader of the populist Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed for greater than 10 years after admitting taking about 40,000 British kilos ($52,344) in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches and statements.
