Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,370

On Tuesday, November 25, this is how things are going.

Trump’s strategy

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that while a proposed peace plan is still being discussed with US President Donald Trump, it still contains “correct” points.
• Zelenskyy added that “there must be no missiles, no massive strikes on Ukraine and our people” if negotiations were to end the war.
• Trump also made hints about new developments in the Geneva-based talks. Is it actually possible that Russia and Ukraine’s peace talks are progressing significantly? Something positive might be happening, he wrote on Truth Social. “Don’t believe it until you see it.
• Despite Kyiv’s claims that the plan conceded too much to Moscow, a senior official told the AFP news agency that the US was pressing Ukraine to accept the deal in Geneva. The official claimed that Ukraine understood this was a possibility and that Washington did not directly threaten to stop aid if Kyiv rejected the deal.
• In response to rumors that the Ukrainian leader might travel to the US capital, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that neither Trump nor Zelenskyy will meet this week.
• According to Leavitt, there are still “a few points of disagreement” between the US and Ukraine regarding a potential deal to stop Russia’s invasion.
• Leavitt also refrained from expressing criticism that Trump is “favored by Russia” in efforts to end Ukraine, despite being “complete and total fallacy,” according to Trump’s Republican Party. She claimed that the US president had faith in the development of a strategy.
• Russia would not comment on media reports about such a serious and complex issue, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and would wait to see how the US-Ukraine peace negotiations turn out.
• However, Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide for foreign policy, claimed that Moscow was not happy with a European proposal to a US-led 28-point peace plan for Ukraine.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed there was still work to do to “justify and lasting peace” in Ukraine, but that progress was being made.
• Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, acknowledged the accomplishments made at the Geneva summit but stressed that important issues still need to be resolved.
• No deal involving Ukraine, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, should not be allowed to tarnish Poland’s and Europe’s security, but rather strengthen it.
• Johann Wadephul, the German foreign minister, described the Geneva discussions as “decisive success” for Europeans in amending Trump’s 28-point plan to end the war with Russia. According to Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, Ukraine’s borders cannot be changed by force or its military can’t be subjected to restrictions that would entice further Russian aggression.
• In a phone call, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in his statement that Ankara would support any diplomatic efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine into direct contact and achieve “just and lasting” peace.

Fighting

• As the Ukrainian air force issued a warning about missile attacks across the country on Tuesday, powerful explosions shook the country’s capital, Kyiv.
• The day after a Ukrainian attack on a power plant shut off heating in a town near the capital, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that the country’s air defenses shot down 10 drones on their way to Moscow. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, reported that emergency services were clearing up locations where drone-debris had fallen.
• A total of 50 Ukrainian drones were shot down across Crimea, Bryansk, Kaluga, and Kursk regions, according to the Defense Ministry, and over the waters of the Black Sea.

Politics

• A third Ukrainian man is being sought by Polish authorities as a result of his arrest and charge. Another two Ukrainians who had fled to Belarus had already been charged absently with the blast on the Warsaw-Lublin border’s Ukrainian border.

Energy

• According to Reuters news agency, Russia’s Black Sea port of Tuapse resumed exporting crude oil last week following a two-week suspension due to Ukrainian drone attacks, while the local oil refinery resumed processing crude, citing industry sources and data.