Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 986

Here is the concern connected Thursday, November 7:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught severely damaged an flat successful Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi territory aboriginal connected Thursday. No injuries person been reported.
• Air defence units destroyed 38 of 63 Russian drones launched overnight, Ukraine’s aerial unit said connected Wednesday.
• Russian forces person captured 2 much settlements successful eastbound Ukraine, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced, naming them arsenic the villages of Maksymivka, conscionable northbound of the municipality of Vuhledar, and Antonivka, adjacent the municipality of Kurakhove, further north.
• Ukraine reported warring astir some villages successful the eastbound assemblage of the 1,000-kilometre (600-mile) beforehand line, saying its forces repelled 2 attacks adjacent Maksymivka and a colony adjacent Vuhledar successful the Donetsk portion and did not admit that either had fallen.
• The General Staff of Ukraine’s subject besides reported a “tense” concern astir Kurakhove, with 39 Russian attacks connected Ukrainian positions.

North Korean soldiers successful Ukraine

• The precocious location of Russia’s parliament has voted successful favour of ratifying a pact betwixt Russia and North Korea which includes a communal defence clause.
• South Korea is not ruling retired supplying Ukraine with weapons, pursuing North Korea’s deployment of troops to enactment Russia, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has said. North Korea’s engagement successful the warfare presents a menace to the South arsenic Pyongyang gets combat acquisition and is rewarded with delicate subject exertion transfers, Yoon said.
• Yoon besides held a telephone with United States President-elect Donald Trump and discussed forging person ties with the US crossed each areas of information and economics, and shared his concerns implicit North Korea’s deployment of troops backing Russia.

International diplomacy

• The Kremlin has reacted cautiously aft Trump was elected US president, saying the US is inactive a hostile authorities and that lone clip volition archer if his rhetoric connected ending the Ukraine warfare volition construe into reality.
• “Let america not hide that we are talking astir an unfriendly country, which is some straight and indirectly progressive successful a warfare against our authorities [in Ukraine],” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, adding that helium was not alert of immoderate plans by President Vladimir Putin to congratulate Trump.
• In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed Trump’s “absolutely convincing” predetermination victory. Zelenskyy said helium spoke with Trump pursuing his victory, successful a telephone successful which the brace agreed to “maintain adjacent dialog and beforehand our cooperation”. He besides heralded Trump’s “commitment to the ‘peace done strength’ attack successful planetary affairs”.
• The White House is reportedly readying to unreserved billions of dollars successful information assistance to Ukraine earlier President Joe Biden leaves office, arsenic concerns stay implicit Trump’s committedness to Kyiv aft helium antecedently criticised the standard of US subject and fiscal support.
• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said a Trump triumph is astir apt atrocious quality for Ukraine but said it was unclear however acold helium would beryllium capable to chopped US financing for the war.

Russian affairs

• Prominent Russian nationalist and erstwhile militia commander, Igor Girkin, who accused Putin and the service of failures successful the Ukraine war, has mislaid his Supreme Court entreaty against a four-year jailhouse word for inciting extremism.
• Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow is acceptable to support supplying state to Europe via Ukraine erstwhile the existent transit woody expires astatine the extremity of the year, but this should beryllium agreed by Kyiv and the European countries involved.

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