Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,367

Listed here are the important thing occasions from day 1,367 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.

Printed On 22 Nov 2025

Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, November 22:

Preventing

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned roughly 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped by Russian forces on the japanese financial institution of the Oskil River, in Ukraine’s japanese Kharkiv area. There was no rapid remark from the Ukrainian navy.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its troops captured the settlements of Yampil, Stavky, Novoselivka and Maslyakivka in japanese Ukraine’s Donetsk area, in addition to the village of Radisne in neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk area.
The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned 33 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and destroyed over 5 Russian areas, in addition to Crimea and the Black Sea, in a single day.
Not less than eight Russian airports had been pressured to droop operations through the nighttime assault, in response to Russia’s aviation watchdog.
Ukraine mentioned its forces had been holding defensive traces within the northern a part of the embattled japanese metropolis of Pokrovsk and had been blocking makes an attempt by Russian troops to advance additional.
Moscow’s forces have fought in direction of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian navy, for months to attempt to seize the city, which Russian media has dubbed the “gateway” to Ukraine’s industrial Donbas area.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has till this coming Thursday to approve a United States-backed peace plan with Russia, President Donald Trump has mentioned.
Talking within the Oval Workplace after a gathering with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, Trump mentioned: “We’ve got a method of getting peace, or we predict we’ve a method of attending to peace. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] goes to need to approve it.”
President Zelenskyy pledged to work quick and constructively with Washington on the peace plan, however mentioned he wouldn’t betray his nation’s nationwide curiosity.
In a video assertion, Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to stay united in what he described as some of the troublesome moments of their nation’s historical past, including that he anticipated extra political strain over the following week.
Zelenskyy additionally mentioned after an hour-long telephone name with US Vice President JD Vance that Ukraine would work with Washington, and Europe at an advisory degree, in direction of a peace plan.
Zelenskyy mentioned he then spoke with NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte concerning the “out there diplomatic choices” to finish his nation’s warfare with Russia, together with the “plan proposed by the American aspect”.

Russia’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned that Moscow had nonetheless not formally obtained any peace plan from the US, Russian state information company RIA Novosti reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed senior officers at a gathering of Russia’s Safety Council that the US proposal might be the idea for a decision of the battle, but when Kyiv turned down the plan, then Russian forces would advance additional.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer mentioned any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine should guarantee Kyiv’s future safety, following a telephone name between Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Zelenskyy.
Starmer’s workplace mentioned the leaders “underlined their help for President Trump’s drive for peace and agreed that any resolution should totally contain Ukraine, protect its sovereignty, and guarantee its future safety”.
The European Union and Ukraine need peace, however they won’t give in to aggression from Russia, the EU’s overseas coverage chief Kaja Kallas has mentioned.
“This can be a very harmful second for all,” Kallas mentioned. “All of us need this warfare to finish, however the way it ends issues. Russia has no authorized proper by any means to any concessions from the nation it invaded; in the end, the phrases of any settlement are for Ukraine to resolve.”

The US has issued a Russia-related common licence permitting sure transactions with the Paks II civil nuclear energy plant venture in Hungary, in response to the Division of the Treasury.
The licence permits transactions linked to the nuclear energy plant venture involving some Russian banks, together with Gazprombank, VTB Financial institution and the Russian central financial institution.
Finnish gasoline station chain Teboil, which is owned by Russia’s Lukoil, has filed for company restructuring, information company STT reported, changing into the primary worldwide enterprise owned by the most important Russian oil agency to say it will shut down on account of the sanctions imposed by the US on Lukoil final month.
Lithuanian state-owned railway group LTG mentioned it’s going to halt shipments of oil cargoes by Lukoil to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad as a result of US sanctions.
Situated on the Baltic Beach, Kaliningrad receives a lot of its provides from Russia by way of rail transit by means of NATO member state Lithuania, however can even get direct shipments from its personal nation by way of the coast.

Ukraine’s authorities plans to nominate a brand new supervisory board at Energoatom, the state nuclear firm on the coronary heart of a corruption scandal, by the tip of this 12 months, Financial system Minister Oleksii Sobolev mentioned.
Ukraine has been rocked by a scandal over an alleged $100m kickback scheme involving senior officers within the power sector and a former enterprise affiliate of Zelenskyy.

Ukraine will sharply improve fuel imports by way of the southern Trans-Balkan route linking it with Greece because it battles to exchange provides misplaced as a consequence of Russian assaults, import knowledge from transit operators confirmed.
Russian drone and missile assaults on the nation’s power infrastructure have disadvantaged Kyiv of no less than half of its personal fuel manufacturing in current months, forcing it to import an extra 4 billion cubic metres of fuel over the winter heating season to make up the distinction.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk mentioned sabotage acts impressed and organised by Russia are geared toward destabilising and weakening Poland and bear the hallmarks of “state terrorism”.
Final weekend, an explosion damaged railway tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route, which connects the Polish capital with the Ukrainian border, one thing Tusk described as an “unprecedented act of sabotage”.
Nathan Gill, a British former member of the European Parliament and ex-leader of the populist Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed for greater than 10 years after admitting taking about 40,000 British kilos ($52,344) in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches and statements.