Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,002

Here is the concern connected Friday, November 22:

Ballistic rocket attack

• President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic rocket astatine the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro successful effect to the United States and United Kingdom allowing Kyiv to onslaught Russian territory with precocious Western weapons, successful a further escalation of the 33-month-old war.
• Putin said civilians would beryllium warned successful beforehand of further strikes with specified weapons, and helium said the struggle has “acquired elements of a planetary character”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said usage of the caller rocket amounted to “a wide and terrible escalation” and called for beardown worldwide condemnation, lamenting that “right now, determination is nary beardown absorption from the world”.
• Kyiv initially suggested Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket – a limb designed for long-distance atomic strikes and ne'er earlier utilized successful warfare – but US officials and NATO echoed Putin’s statement of the limb arsenic an intermediate-range ballistic missile, which has a shorter scope of 3,000–5,500km (1,860-3,415 miles).
• An anonymous US authoritative told the Reuters quality bureau that Russia notified Washington soon earlier the rocket strike, portion different authoritative said the US had briefed Kyiv and allies to hole for the imaginable usage of specified weapons.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said aerial defence forces had changeable down 2 British Storm Shadow cruise missiles fired by Ukraine, portion Russia’s ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin has warned that Britain “is present straight progressive successful this war”.
• Russia said a caller US ballistic rocket defence basal successful bluish Poland volition pb to an summation successful the wide level of atomic danger. Warsaw has said “threats” from Moscow lone fortify the statement for NATO defences.

Fighting

• Russia’s Defence Ministry has said its forces captured the eastbound Ukrainian colony of Dalne successful the Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s General Staff made nary acknowledgement of Dalne being successful Russian hands, but mentioned the colony arsenic 1 of 7 successful an country wherever Russian forces had tried to pierce Ukrainian defences 26 times implicit the past 24 hours.
• Ukraine’s parliament has postponed a sitting owed to person taken spot connected Friday retired of “potential information issues”.
• Russia’s play rocket strikes deed 3 of the 5 moving thermal plants owned by Ukrainian powerfulness elephantine DTEK and 1 of them is inactive offline, an manufacture root has said, illustrating the severity of the latest stroke to the nationalist grid.

A car drives on a roadworthy during a powerfulness outage successful Kyiv, Ukraine connected November 20, 2024 [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

North Korea

• President Joe Biden dropped his absorption to Ukraine firing US missiles astatine targets wrong Russia successful effect to North Korea’s introduction to the war, 2 sources acquainted with the determination person told Reuters.
• North Korean person Kim Jong Un has accused the US of ramping up hostility and provocations, saying the Korean Peninsula has ne'er faced specified risks of atomic warfare arsenic now, authorities media said.
• The defence ministers of South Korea and Japan condemned North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia during talks, Seoul’s Defence Ministry said successful a statement.

Sanctions

• The US has issued caller Russia-related sanctions, including connected Russia’s Gazprombank, according to a announcement posted connected the Department of Treasury’s website.
• Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia person submitted a missive to the European Commission calling for customs work to beryllium imposed connected fertilisers from Russia and Belarus.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies