Vladimir Putin says Ukraine is being unrealistic if it does not accept the US plan to end the war, declaring: Ukraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. The positive response from the Russian president adds weight to the views of European and Ukrainian officials that the deal amounts to a capitulation.
A Russian drone has hit a NATO flagged ship carrying liquefied natural gas in the port of Odessa on Monday. A Turkish flagged tanker was hit by a Russian drone in Odessa which comes one day after the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a deal with the US to import the gas. The MT Orinda was struck by the drone whilst they were offloading the liquefied petroleum gas at Izmail port.
A Ukrainian military official early on November 17 said three people were killed and at least 10 injured in a Russian strike on the eastern city of Balakliya, an important railroad junction in the Kharkiv region. Vitaliy Karabanov, head of Balakliya's military administration, said the attack struck the city center and injured at least three children. Nine people were hospitalized, while emergency crews were at the site, he added.
Because without the pressure coming from the United States government I'm speaking 2022 the Europeans would not take that hard line, what they have today, on the war So the pressure was coming from the United States to be more pro-war in Europe. We have to restore something which was ruined and created from here, Orban concluded. That was an enormous mistake, what we have done the Western world several years ago, and we have to stop it.
For Ukraine, the logic of this war has never changed: make Russia pay dearly for every metre. Force them to bleed for ground, and in Pokrovsk, that strategy is paying dividends. Before Russia's full-scale invasion, Pokrovsk was a town of 80,000, a logistics hub and administrative centre in western Donetsk. Now it's a shattered shell. What remains is not a city, but a position: roads, supply routes, and terrain that shape the wider fight.
"in the dead of night, in fair weather or foul, to go to dangerous places to find those who would do our nation harm, and deliver justice on behalf of the American people in close and brutal combat if necessary," Hegseth said. "In this profession," he went on, "you feel comfortable inside the violence so that our citizens can live peacefully. Lethality is our calling card, and victory our only acceptable end state."
Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed that its forces captured the village of Pleshchiivka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine on the latest claim of territorial gain by Moscow. The Russian Defence Ministry had earlier announced the capture of one village in the Dnipropetrovsk region and two in the northeastern Kharkiv region, closer to the Russian border.
Russian could strike deep into Europe, Poland's foreign minister warned in London as he unveiled a Russian-flown Shahed-136 drone downed in Ukraine. Radoslaw Sikorski said it would be irresponsible not to build defences such as a drone wall on Europe's eastern flank and said he hoped the US would supply long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for strikes into Russia. Sikorski urged Europe to also plan to support Ukraine for three more years.
In a short, six-minute speech from the White House on Friday, the US first lady explained she has developed an open channel of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and they have been discussing the return of the children. list of 3 itemsend of list My representative has been working directly with President Putin's team to ensure the safe reunification of children with their families between Russia and Ukraine, she said.
"us as the European Union to talk directly to Putin. This was not supported by some countries, primarily the Baltic states. Poland was also against it as they were afraid that we did not have a common policy towards Russia."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces have captured almost 5,000 square kilometres (1,930sq miles) of Ukrainian territory so far this year, and Moscow retains the strategic initiative on the battlefield. Russian troops have captured the Ukrainian villages of Novovasylivka in the southeastern Zaporizhia region and Fedorivka in the eastern Donetsk region, Russia's defence ministry said. Russian air defence units destroyed 184 Ukrainian drones in recent attacks, the RIA Novosti state-owned news agency reports. Russia's air defence units also intercepted and destroyed a drone flying towards Moscow city, said Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of the Russian capital.
