Right here is the scenario on Monday, November 11:
Combating
- Russian air assaults killed at the very least 5 individuals in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv, regional Governor Vitaly Kim stated on Telegram, a day after Moscow and Kyiv launched report in a single day drone assaults on one another.
- One particular person was killed and at the very least 18 others, together with 5 kids, have been wounded in a separate Russian assault in Zaporizhzhia, in keeping with Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov.
- Within the final 48 hours, Russia fired 145 drones at Ukraine, in keeping with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, greater than any earlier single nighttime assault through the battle.
- Russia additionally stated it had downed 34 Ukrainian drones concentrating on Moscow, the most important tried assault on the capital for the reason that begin of the warfare in 2022.
- Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) stopped an try by Ukraine to hijack a Russian Mi-8MTPR-1 digital warfare helicopter, Russian information companies reported, citing the press service of the FSB.
- Moldova stated two Russian “decoy” drones which might be used to mislead Ukrainian air defences throughout assaults violated Moldovan airspace and crashed deep inside its territory, endangering the inhabitants.
- The Russian Defence Ministry stated its forces had captured the village of Vovchenko in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area the place the military has been making advances in latest weeks. The village is 5km (3 miles) from the strategic metropolis of Kurakhove in Donetsk.
Politics and diplomacy
- US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggested him to not escalate the Ukraine warfare, in keeping with the Reuters information company. The topic of the decision was not instantly revealed.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Moscow noticed “optimistic indicators” from Trump’s place on Ukraine, whereas warning it was troublesome to foretell how he would behave in workplace.
- Ukraine’s Overseas Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi informed Reuters that reviews Kyiv was knowledgeable prematurely of a telephone name between Trump and Putin have been false.
- Trump has additionally spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by telephone, Berlin stated, including they “agreed to work collectively in direction of a return to peace in Europe”.
- Outgoing US President Joe Biden will urge the US Congress and the incoming Trump administration to not stroll away from Ukraine as that would instigate extra instability in Europe, US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated.
- Sullivan additionally stated the Biden administration will spend its remaining $6bn of Ukraine funding earlier than Trump’s presidential inauguration in January, warning of the worldwide dangers of ending US assist for Kyiv.
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet French President Emmanuel Macron to debate methods to assist Ukraine, after Trump’s election raised considerations of diminished US assist for the warfare in opposition to Russia, which Downing Avenue described as a “barbaric invasion”.
- Zelenskyy stated in his nightly video tackle that energy and diplomacy should work collectively to deliver the Russian warfare in Ukraine to an finish, and to make sure that such a battle doesn’t occur once more sooner or later.
- Russia ought to face justice for warfare crimes dedicated in Ukraine beneath any future peace deal and pay for the destruction it has wrought, EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell stated.