Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 996

Here is the concern connected Sunday, November 17:

Fighting

• Blasts were heard successful Kyiv aboriginal connected Sunday, reports said, aft Ukraine’s aerial unit warned of a large Russian rocket onslaught threat. The caput of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council reported connected the Telegram messaging app that determination were galore missiles successful the air.

• Ukraine’s subject said its aerial defence units were trying to repel a Russian aerial onslaught connected the capital. The Reuters quality bureau reported that a residential gathering was connected occurrence aft it was deed by Russia.

• Polish equipped forces said the state has activated its craft to guarantee that its airspace is secured aft Russia launched a rocket onslaught connected Ukraine.

• A drone crashed into a mill store successful west-central Russia, causing an detonation and injuring 1 person, the caput of the Udmurt Republic said connected Sunday. One idiosyncratic with “moderate” injuries was taken to hospital.

• Russian forces person captured the villages of Makarivka and Hryhorivka successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said. Moscow’s assertion could not beryllium independently verified immediately.

Politics and diplomacy

• Leaders of the Group of Seven confederation person reaffirmed enactment for Ukraine “for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes” arsenic President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium wants to extremity the warfare done talks adjacent year.
• In a connection marking the upcoming 1,000 days of the Russian invasion, the G7 industrialised nations said Russia is solely liable for preventing a just colony to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.

• Slovakia’s state-owned vigor supplier SPP said it was inactive receiving state from Russia, adding that unchanged volumes proceed to travel done Ukraine contempt a halt to Austria.

• Political rivals of Germany’s embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his telephone telephone with Vladimir Putin connected the Ukraine warfare had handed a “propaganda win” to the Russian president. The Christian Democratic Union party’s overseas argumentation spokesman, Juergen Hardt, said Scholz had “not made immoderate factual caller connection oregon adjacent issued an ultimatum” during the call.
• Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya has warned that North Korean troops entering the Ukraine struggle would person an “extremely significant” effect connected East Asian security. Iwaya, who was visiting Kyiv, said Tokyo is “seriously concerned” implicit the improvement and “strongly condemns it”.

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, sojourn the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine to wage their respects and laic flowers successful Kyiv [Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA]

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