These were the key events on day 1,008 of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Thursday, November 28:
Struggle
- Russian forces have taken control of the Nova Illinka settlement near the town of Kurakhove in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
- A Russian drone strike on kyiv has injured three people, two of whom were hospitalized, officials in the Ukrainian capital said.
- Russia is pushing to put its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, part of its strategic nuclear arsenal, into combat service, according to state news agency TASS.
- Ukrainian air defenses shot down 36 of 89 Russian drones launched in strikes overnight, while Russian air defense systems destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones overnight, both sides reported.
- Ukraine should consider lowering the military service age for its soldiers from 25 to 18, an unnamed senior US administration official said, adding that kyiv is not mobilizing or training enough new soldiers to replace those lost in the camp. battle.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russia's acts of sabotage against Western targets may eventually lead NATO to invoke the mutual defense clause of the alliance's Article 5, said Bruno Kahl, head of Germany's foreign intelligence service.
- Donald Trump has chosen Keith Kellogg, a retired US lieutenant general who presented him with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve as special envoy for the conflict, the president-elect announced. Kellogg was chief of staff of the White House National Security Council during Trump's term from 2017 to 2021 and national security adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence.
- Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said he discussed joint measures to strengthen security with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol during a visit to Seoul this week, during which the kyiv delegation reportedly requested assistance military.
- Poland detained a German citizen and accused him of brokering and exporting dual-use goods to Russia that were “illegally sent to Russian military plants involved in weapons production.”
- Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that the idea supposedly floating in the West that Washington should give Ukraine nuclear weapons is “insanity” and that preventing such a scenario was one of the reasons Moscow entered Ukraine.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned the United States to stop what he called an “escalation spiral” on Ukraine, but said he would continue to inform Washington about test missile launches to avoid “dangerous mistakes.”
- Russia has said that placing US missiles in Japan would threaten Russian security and provoke Moscow to retaliate after the Kyodo news agency reported that Japan and the United States intend to draw up a joint military plan for a possible emergency in Taiwan.
- Moscow district councilor Alexei Gorinov, who is serving a seven-year sentence for criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, staged an anti-war protest from the courthouse cage at the start of a new trial against him on charges of justifying terrorism.
military aid
- US President Joe Biden's administration is preparing a $725 million arms package for Ukraine, Reuters news agency reports, citing two unnamed US officials. The package will reportedly include anti-tank weapons, including anti-tank landmines, drones, Stinger missiles, and ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS).
- The leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Sweden have said in a joint statement that they will step up their support for Ukraine and make more ammunition available to it in the coming months.
- Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, has told the United Nations Security Council that any decision by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to cut support to Ukraine would be a “death sentence” for the Ukrainian military. , while accusing kyiv of trying to drag NATO countries into direct conflict with Russia.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will sign Ukraine's 2025 budget on Thursday, a document that will call for the country's first wartime tax increases.
