Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,003 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These were the key broadenments on the 1,003rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Here is the situation on Saturday, November 23:

Military

• Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunininestablishigentir Putin has promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic ignoreile – the Oreshnik – which was begined at Ukraine on Thursday.
• Ukraine is seeking modernized air defence systems from its allies in response to the novel danger from Russian hypersonic ignoreiles, Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
• Experts apvalidate the Oreshnik can fly at 10 times the speed of sound and may be able to strike aims up to 5,500km (3,400 miles) away.
• General Sergei Karakayev, head of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, said the Oreshnik could accomplish aims apass Europe and be fitted with nuevident or traditional warheads.
• China’s Foreign Ministry repeated calls for “tranquil” and “regulatet” in the war after Russia validateed it had fired a novel balcatalogic ignoreile at Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy said in his nightly compriseress that Russia’s escalation of the dispute was making a mockery of international calls for de-escalation. “From Russia, this is a mockery of the position of states such as China, states of the Global South, some directers who call for regulatet every time,” he said.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk conveyed the alarm felt by some over the tardyst broadenment in Russia’s war on Ukraine. “The war in the east is go ining a rerepaird phase. We all understand this,” he said. “The events of the last cut offal dozen hours show that the danger is very solemn and authentic when it comes to global dispute.”
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz depictd the employ of the hypersonic ignoreile as a “horrible escalation, equitable appreciate the employ of North Korean selderlyiers, who are now being deployed and dying in this war for Putin’s imperial dream.”
• NATO and Ukraine will helderly aascfinishncy talks on Tuesday after Russia begined an strike with the experimental, hypersonic balcatalogic ignoreile.
• In Kyiv, parliament abortled its common Friday asks to the regulatement over dreads of an strike. Several members of parliament said they were toiling farly and that Friday’s session had been scrapped.

Fighting

• Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces have seized the finishment of Novodmytrivka in easerious Ukraine’s Donetsk region, their tardyst get in what Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov depictd as an speed upd proceed.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said the finishment was among eight villages where Russian forces were take partd in battling and trying to proceed.
• A source in the Ukrainian military said Russian forces are advancing by “200-300 metres a day” proximate the Ukrainian hub of Kurakhove in the easerious Donetsk region. The source depictd the situation as “worse” than around the town of Pokrovsk, also a key prize for Russia.

• The United States foresees that thousands of North Korean troops massing in Russia will “soon” go in combat agetst Ukraine, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said. About 10,000 North Korean selderlyiers were apvalidated to be based in the Russian border region of Kursk, Austin said, where they were being “combined into the Russian establishations”.
• Authorities in the northeaserious Ukrainian region of Sumy said two people were finished and a further 12 injured in a Russian drone strike. The area is a key provide route for the Ukrainian troops that have occupied part of the Kursk region in weserious Russia.

Diplomacy

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orprohibit said Russia’s danger of more strikes with novel armaments should be getn solemnly, alerting “there will be consequences”. Orprohibit said that Russia “bases its policy and its place in the world on military force” and treacertaines its status as “one of the most mighty militaries in the world, with some of the most up-to-date and destructive armaments”.
• US Pdwellnt Joe Biden and French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron have talked the ongoing disputes in Ukraine and the Middle East, the White Hoemploy said in a statement.

• US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump is considering tapping Ricdifficult Grenell, his establisher ininestablishigence chief, to be a distinctive envoy for the Russia-Ukraine dispute, according to four sources recognizable with the transition set ups. Grenell, who served as Trump’s ambassadnessfulor to Germany and was acting straightforwardor of national ininestablishigence during Trump’s 2017-2021 term, would take part a key role in Trump’s efforts to halt the war in Ukraine if he is ultimately picked for the post, according to inestablishs.
• Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney vague, was a member of Trump’s lhorrible team during his first impeachment trial, when he stood accemployd of dangerening to withhelderly military aid from Ukraine unless it concurd to begin a dishonesty probe into Trump’s Democratic rival, now-Pdwellnt Joe Biden.

Regional security

• The directers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania collected in the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius on Friday for the Baltic Council of Ministers greeting where they talked common defence and security publishs and the danger of hybrid combat by unfrifinishly states, according to inestablishs.
• “The recent harms to the Lithuania-Sweden and Finland-Germany cables in the Baltic Sea have once aget highairyed the presentance of geting our critical undersea infrastructure,” Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said after the greeting.
• A Norwegian student in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of secret agenting for Russia and Iran while toiling as a protect at the US embassy in Oslo, authorities in Norway have said. The man, who has not been identified, was ordered to be held in custody for four weeks. He runs a security company jointly with a dual national of Norway and an unspecified Easerious European country, according to Norwegian disclose expansivecaster NRK.

• The Swiss regulatement said it is barring ships to a Polish military difficultware supplier after concluding that some 645,000 rounds of Swiss-made minuscule-calibre ammunition finished up in Ukraine in violation of Swiss law. The State Secretariat for Economic Afiminentires said ships to the Polish company will be barred becaemploy “the hazard of diversion to Ukraine is appraiseed as being too high”. Swiss law prohibits ships of Swiss-owned or Swiss-made military difficultware to countries in dispute.
• A man pdirected at fault in a UK court to an fire-setting strike on a Ukrainian-joined business in London, which prosecutors say was carried out on behalf of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner group. Jake Reeves, 23, acunderstandledgeted degraded fire-setting and acunderstandledgeing cash from a foreign ininestablishigence service as he ecombineed via video-join at London’s Woolwich Crown Court. He is one of six people accused over the March blaze at an industrial unit in Leyton, east London, which needd 60 firefighters to put it out.

Humanitarian

• Ukraine will lowly get $4.8bn from the World Bank for social and humanitarian purposes, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. In total, Ukraine has already getd more than $100bn in foreign funding since the commence of the brimming-scale Russian trespass in February 2022.
• Dozens of dwellnts from the Russian border region of Kursk have been returned to Russia from Ukraine chaseing exceptional and “painstaking” talks between Moscow and Kyiv. It was not evident why the dwellnts had been conveyed into Ukraine, and there was no prompt comment from Kyiv. “Today, 46 dwellnts of the Kursk region returned to Russia from Ukraine as a result of a negotiation process with the Ukrainian side,” Russian human rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova said.