Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 998

Here is the concern connected Tuesday, November 19:

Fighting

• A Russian rocket onslaught connected a residential neighbourhood has killed 10 radical and wounded 44 successful Ukraine’s Black Sea larboard of Odesa. Four children were among the wounded portion 3 radical are successful superior condition, according to section officials.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces took power of the colony of Novooleksiivka successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the eastbound front-line towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk arsenic Kyiv marks 1,000 days since the commencement of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
• The world’s chemic weapons watchdog said it recovered traces of teardrop state successful samples taken past period connected the beforehand enactment with Russia successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. The squad was not mandated to delegate blame, but Ukraine and the US person claimed Russia has illegally deployed teardrop state to wide trenches.
• Ukrainians successful Odesa had been without powerfulness for 24 hours arsenic of Monday greeting and further cuts were expected crossed the state aft a Russian rocket onslaught damaged vigor infrastructure.

Long-range missiles

• The United States said Russia is escalating its warfare successful Ukraine by deploying North Korean troops aft the Kremlin warned Washington it was adding “fuel to the fire” by allowing Kyiv’s forces to strike acold into Russia with US-made weapons.
• Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated that Ukraine’s usage of long-range missiles to onslaught Russian territory would people a extremist escalation of the conflict, triggering “an capable and tangible” response.
• Changes to Russia’s atomic doctrine person been drawn up and conscionable request to beryllium formalised, according to Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s property secretary.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said US President Joe Biden’s medication made a “good decision” to let Ukraine to usage US-made weapons to onslaught wrong Russia.
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot besides signalled that allowing Kyiv to onslaught subject targets wrong Russia remained an enactment for France, which has provided long-range missiles to Ukraine.
• Polish President Andrzej Duda said the determination to let Ukraine to usage US-made weapons to onslaught heavy into Russia whitethorn beryllium a decisive infinitesimal successful the war.
• A German authorities spokesperson said Berlin is sticking with its determination not to supply long-range missiles to Ukraine contempt Washington’s move.
• Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said helium powerfully opposes the US’s decision, calling it an “unprecedented escalation of tensions” aimed astatine thwarting bid negotiations.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto besides labelled the determination “astonishingly dangerous”.
• EU overseas argumentation main Josep Borrell said helium hopes the bloc tin hold to let Ukraine to usage arms to onslaught wrong Russia. He besides expressed concerns astir reports of Iran, North Korea and China producing and supplying weapons systems to Russia for its warfare successful Ukraine.

International diplomacy

• Leaders from the Group of 20 large economies, gathering successful Brazil this week, issued a associated connection highlighting the suffering caused by conflicts successful Gaza and Ukraine, reaching a constrictive statement connected Russia’s escalating warfare focused connected “human suffering” and its economical fallout.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said helium volition sermon the transportation of dual-use goods with Chinese President Xi Jinping astatine the G20, pursuing a study that a Chinese mill is producing subject drones for Russia. Scholz added helium volition besides archer Xi it is unacceptable that North Korean soldiers are being deployed to combat Ukraine.
• Speaking astatine the G20 Summit, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol urged North Korea and Russia to extremity what helium said is their amerciable subject cooperation.
• Speaking connected the sidelines of the G20 summit, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said enactment for Ukraine is “number one” connected his agenda.
• US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the US volition denote further information assistance for Ukraine successful coming days.
• Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said Scholz’s telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “strategic mistake” that weakened European unity successful the look of Moscow’s warfare against Ukraine.

A integer advertizing van, commissioned by Ukrainian campaigners, passes by Big Ben with a connection to impulse Britain to basal steadfast against Russia’s onslaught connected Ukraine, successful London, UK, November 18, 2024 [Chris Ratcliffe/Handout via Reuters]

Sanctions

• The EU widened sanctions against Iran implicit Tehran’s enactment of Russia successful its warfare against Ukraine, the European Commission said, targeting Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and its manager Mohammad Reza Khiabani, among others.
• The United Kingdom imposed sanctions against Iran’s nationalist hose and shipping bearer successful effect to Iran’s alleged transportation of ballistic missiles to Russia for usage connected the battlefield against Ukraine.

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