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share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Here is how things stand on Saturday, November 22:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fighting\">Fighting<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said approximately 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped by Russian forces on the eastern bank of the Oskil River, in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Kharkiv region. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian military.<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said its troops captured the settlements of Yampil, Stavky, Novoselivka and Maslyakivka in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, as well as the village of Radisne in neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian Defence Ministry said 33 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over five Russian regions, as well as Crimea and the Black Sea, overnight.<\/li>\n<li>At least eight Russian airports were forced to suspend operations during the nighttime attack, according to Russia\u2019s aviation watchdog.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine said its forces were holding defensive lines in the northern part of the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk and were blocking attempts by Russian troops to advance further.<\/li>\n<li>Moscow\u2019s forces have fought towards Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian military, for months to try to capture the town, which Russian media has dubbed the \u201cgateway\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s industrial Donbas region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"peace-plan\">Peace plan<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has until this coming Thursday to approve a United States-backed peace plan with Russia, President Donald Trump has said.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking in the Oval Office after a meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, Trump said: \u201cWe have a way of getting peace, or we think we have a way of getting to peace. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] is going to have to approve it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>President Zelenskyy pledged to work fast and constructively with Washington on the peace plan, but said he would not betray his country\u2019s national interest.<\/li>\n<li>In a video statement, Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to remain united in what he described as one of the most difficult moments in their country\u2019s history, adding that he expected more political pressure over the next week.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy also said after an hour-long phone call with US Vice President JD Vance that Ukraine would work with Washington, and Europe at an advisory level, towards a peace plan.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy said he then spoke with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte about the \u201cavailable diplomatic options\u201d to end his country\u2019s war with Russia, including the \u201cplan proposed by the American side\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow had still not officially received any peace plan from the US, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.<\/li>\n<li>Russian President Vladimir Putin told senior officials at a meeting of Russia\u2019s Security Council that the US proposal could be the basis for a resolution of the conflict, but if Kyiv turned down the plan, then Russian forces would advance further.<\/li>\n<li>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine must ensure Kyiv\u2019s future security, following a phone call between Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Zelenskyy.<\/li>\n<li>Starmer\u2019s office said the leaders \u201cunderlined their support for President Trump\u2019s drive for peace and agreed that any solution must fully involve Ukraine, preserve its sovereignty, and ensure its future security\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The European Union and Ukraine want peace, but they will not give in to aggression from Russia, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis is a very dangerous moment for all,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cWe all want this war to end, but how it ends matters. Russia has no legal right whatsoever to any concessions from the country it invaded; ultimately, the terms of any agreement are for Ukraine to decide.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"sanctions\">Sanctions<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>The US has issued a Russia-related general licence allowing certain transactions with the Paks II civil nuclear power plant project in Hungary, according to the Department of the Treasury.<\/li>\n<li>The licence allows transactions linked to the nuclear power plant project involving some Russian banks, including Gazprombank, VTB Bank and the Russian central bank.<\/li>\n<li>Finnish fuel station chain Teboil, which is owned by Russia\u2019s Lukoil, has filed for corporate restructuring, news agency STT reported, becoming the first international business owned by the major Russian oil firm to say it would close down as a result of the sanctions imposed by the US on Lukoil last month.<\/li>\n<li>Lithuanian state-owned railway group LTG said it will halt shipments of oil cargoes by Lukoil to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad due to the US sanctions.<\/li>\n<li>Located on the Baltic Sea coast, Kaliningrad receives many of its supplies from Russia via rail transit through NATO member state Lithuania, but can also get direct shipments from its own country via the coast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"corruption\">Corruption<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s government plans to appoint a new supervisory board at Energoatom, the state nuclear company at the heart of a corruption scandal, by the end of this year, Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine has been rocked by a scandal over an alleged $100m kickback scheme involving senior officials in the energy sector and a former business associate of Zelenskyy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"economy\">Economy<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukraine will sharply increase gas imports via the southern Trans-Balkan route linking it with Greece as it battles to replace supplies lost due to Russian attacks, import data from transit operators showed.<\/li>\n<li>Russian drone and missile attacks on the country\u2019s energy infrastructure have deprived Kyiv of at least half of its own gas production in recent months, forcing it to import an additional four billion cubic metres of gas over the winter heating season to make up the difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"regional-security\">Regional security<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said sabotage acts inspired and organised by Russia are aimed at destabilising and weakening Poland and bear the hallmarks of \u201cstate terrorism\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Last weekend, an explosion damaged railway tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route, which connects the Polish capital with the Ukrainian border, something Tusk described as an \u201cunprecedented act of sabotage\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Gill, a British former member of the European Parliament and ex-leader of the populist Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed for more than 10 years after admitting taking about 40,000 British pounds ($52,344) in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches and statements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the key events from day 1,367 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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