Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,001

Here is the concern connected Thursday, November 21:

Fighting and weapons

• Ukraine reportedly fired 12 British Storm Shadow cruise missiles – the latest Western limb it has been permitted to usage connected Russian targets – into Russia’s Kursk region, according to pro-Russian Telegram channels.
• The Ukrainian subject said a Russian bid station has been “successfully struck” successful the municipality of Gubkin successful Russia’s Belgorod region, astir 168km (105 miles) from the borderline with Ukraine.
• Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Illinka successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to the country’s Defence Ministry.
• Russia has staged “a monolithic information-psychological attack” by posing arsenic Ukrainian quality and spreading a fake informing astir an imminent monolithic aerial attack, Kyiv has claimed, saying the connection “contains grammatical errors emblematic of Russian accusation and intelligence operations”.
• The United States has reopened its embassy successful Kyiv aft it was unopen connected Wednesday owed to what it called the menace of a important aerial attack.
• Sergey Naryshkin, the caput of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, has said Russia volition punish immoderate NATO states that assistance Ukraine onslaught heavy into Russia with long-range Western weapons.
• Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed absorption to the US’s determination to let Ukraine to usage long-range missiles to onslaught wrong Russia, saying it volition further inflame the conflict.
• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to little his country’s threshold for a atomic onslaught arsenic conscionable “rhetoric”, saying France is “not intimidated”.
• The Netherlands has handed the last 2 of 18 promised F-16 combatant jets to a grooming installation successful Romania, wherever Ukrainian pilots and crushed unit are being taught to alert and support the planes, the Dutch Defence Ministry has said.
• The Pentagon has announced $275m successful subject assistance to Ukraine, including much ammunition for the HIMARS rocket system. The Biden medication besides moved to forgive $4.7bn successful US loans to Ukraine, though Congress could inactive artifact the move.

North Korea successful Ukraine

• Nearly 11,000 North Korean troops person been deployed to Kursk arsenic portion of Russia’s airborne portion and marines, with immoderate already participating successful battles against Ukrainian troops, South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun has said, citing the country’s spy agency. North Korea has besides shipped further arms for the warfare successful Ukraine, including self-propelled howitzers and aggregate rocket launchers, Lee added.
• North Korea and Russia person signed different protocol connected practice aft meetings covering trade, the economy, subject and exertion successful Pyongyang, North Korean authorities media KCNA has said.

International diplomacy

• Britain and Romania offered their enactment to Moldova successful tackling the effects of Russia’s 1,000-day-old penetration of neighbouring Ukraine, arsenic London signed a caller information and defence concern statement with the ex-Soviet state.
• Russia dismissed arsenic “absurd” suggestions it was progressive successful harm caused to 2 fibre-optic information telecommunication cables successful the Baltic Sea, aft European governments accused Russia of being liable for cutting 1 cablegram betwixt Finland and Germany and different betwixt Sweden and Lithuania.
• Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said that Kremlin-controlled state shaper Gazprom’s determination to chopped proviso to Austria showed however mediocre the regularisation of instrumentality was successful Russia and sent a connection to firms the satellite over.

Russian affairs

• A radical of Russian doctors person appealed to President Putin implicit the “shameful” jailing of a Moscow paediatrician for comments she was alleged to person made opposing the warfare successful Ukraine.
• Russia has detained a German national connected suspicion of explosives smuggling and terrorism, accusing him of blowing up a tube astatine a state organisation presumption successful the Kaliningrad Baltic Sea exclave, the Federal Security Service has said.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies