Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,371 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key events from the 1,371st day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

This is the situation as of Wednesday, November 26.

fighting

• Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kiev killed seven people and injured 21, the state emergency service said in a post on Facebook on Tuesday. Officials said emergency services also pulled at least 18 people from the debris.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the missile and drone attacks on Kiev and surrounding areas “resulted in widespread damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure”.
• According to Russia’s TASS state news agency, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that Russian forces launched a “large-scale attack” targeting military installations in Ukraine, including “defense industry facilities, energy facilities and drone storage sites.”
• At least nine people were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike over Russia’s Krasnodar region, TASS reported, citing the regional task force.
• A Ukrainian strike in the Russian-held region of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region left about 40,000 people without electricity, Yevgeny Balitsky, a Moscow official in the region, said in a post on Telegram.
• Ukrainian battlefield analysis site DeepState said Russian forces have advanced in the east of the country near the city of Siversk and the villages of Novoselivka, Zatyshya, Novoikonomichne and Myrolyubievka.
• Russian forces shot down four long-range missiles and 419 drones launched by Ukrainian forces in a 24-hour period, TASS reported, citing Russia’s Defense Ministry.

peace plan

• United States President Donald Trump said that “tremendous progress” has been made in talks on a peace plan, with “only a few remaining points of disagreement” remaining.
• In a post on his Truth social platform, Trump said he had instructed his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and his Army Secretary, Dan Driscoll, at the same time as Ukrainian officials, “in hopes of finalizing this peace plan”.
• Trump later on Tuesday walked back his previous deadline to agree to a US-backed peace plan for Ukraine, saying, “My deadline is when this is over.”
• President Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, later said he had spoken by phone with Driscoll and expected him to visit Kiev this week, adding: “We are ready to continue working as quickly as possible to finalize the necessary steps to end the bloodshed.”
• In his nightly address, Zelensky said he hoped to “continue active cooperation with the US side and President Trump”, adding that “much depends on the United States because it is America’s strength that Russia takes most seriously”.
• The latest update on peace talks came as representatives of the US, Ukraine and European countries met in Geneva to continue talks on ending the war.
• The United Kingdom, France and Germany issued a joint statement after the meeting, saying that “meaningful progress” had been made and that they had agreed to launch a “plan on security guarantees” for their forces. However, he also reiterated that any resolution to the war must preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and its long-term security.
• He also confirmed that long-term financing would be made available for Ukraine, including the use of frozen Russian assets for reconstruction.
• Ukraine’s Deputy Presidential Premier Ihor Zhovkva met with European Commission’s Gert Jan Koopman to discuss progress on EU membership. The proposed peace plan reportedly leaves the door open for Ukraine to join the EU, but not NATO.