Category: World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has congratulated his US counterpart Donald Trump on the American vacation of Thanksgiving.

Supply: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) on 27 November, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "Wishing a cheerful and blessed Thanksgiving to US President Donald Trump, First Woman Melania Trump and all the American individuals."

Particulars: He thanked the USA for "all of the help, which has saved so many lives in Ukraine and helps us defend our independence every day".

"We’re very glad that our relationship is constructive and stay up for additional constructive progress in diplomacy – to lastly finish for good Russia's warfare towards our individuals," the Ukrainian president famous.

Zelenskyy additionally stated he hopes for a simply peace and harassed that assured safety could be a shared achievement for Ukraine and the USA.

Background:

• On 25 November, Trump stated he has instructed Particular Envoy Witkoff and US Military Secretary Dan Driscoll to finalise the phrases of the "peace deal" between Russia and Ukraine. Witkoff will journey to Moscow, and if the method reaches the ultimate stage, Trump will meet with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy.
• On 27 November, Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha stated {that a} assembly between the Ukrainian and US negotiating groups on resolving the Russo-Ukrainian warfare is anticipated within the close to future.

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Ukraine's International Minister Andrii Sybiha has revealed the variety of drones provided by Latvia this 12 months below the Drone Functionality Coalition, whereas his Latvian counterpart Baiba Braže introduced that her nation is ready to allocate funds to assist this initiative in 2026.

Supply: Sybiha throughout a joint press convention with Braže, who’s on a go to to Kyiv, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Sybiha disclosed that Latvia has provided Ukraine with 12,000 unmanned aerial autos below the Drone Functionality Coalition for the reason that starting of 2025.

"We’ve got mentioned rising manufacturing and deliveries for 2026," he famous.

Braže, in flip, introduced that Latvia will allocate further funding to assist the drone coalition.

"Subsequent 12 months, we’ll allocate €15 million to make sure ample functionality in addition to to guarantee that the newest scientific and revolutionary analysis is applied on the battlefield and allows Ukraine to defend itself," she harassed.

Braže additionally famous that Latvia has allotted an extra €5 million to supply different capabilities and further sources for the rehabilitation of Ukrainian service members within the nation.

It must be famous that the member nations of the coalition are Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia (co-coordinator), Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK (co-coordinator).

Background:

• In March, the Drone Functionality Coalition allotted €20 million to obtain tactical-level reconnaissance drones for Ukraine.
• Following a request from Ukraine, Norway has agreed to allocate a bigger share of its funding for this 12 months's assist in the direction of the manufacturing of Ukrainian drones.
• In June, the UK reported that it’s investing a file £350 million (US$472 million) this 12 months to extend the availability of drones to Ukraine from 10,000 in 2024 to 100,000 in 2025.
• In October, it was reported that the UK had provided Ukraine with greater than 85,000 drones within the first six months of 2025.

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Delegations from the Ukrainian and UK defence ministries have signed a licensing settlement to launch manufacturing of the Ukrainian-designed Octopus interceptor drone.

Supply: Ukraine's Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal

Particulars: Shmyhal stated the settlement is an important subsequent step, enabling the manufacture of Ukrainian-designed interceptors, which have proved efficient in opposition to Shahed drones, in the UK.

Quote: "Mass manufacturing of the interceptors is deliberate, doubtlessly reaching a number of thousand models monthly. The drones manufactured shall be transferred to Ukraine to strengthen the safety of our sky."

Background:

• It was earlier reported that the Octopus interceptor drone has gone into mass manufacturing in Ukraine. The know-how has been transferred to a few preliminary producers, with one other eleven getting ready manufacturing traces. Shmyhal stated Octopus is solely Ukrainian, developed by the Armed Forces to intercept Shahed-type drones that Russia makes use of in its every day assaults on Ukraine, and has been proved in fight. It operates at evening, below jamming and at low altitudes.
• On the finish of October, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered the drones in London.

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Russian drones attacked Odesa Oblast on the night time of 26-27 November, inflicting a hearth and partial harm to civilian infrastructure.

Supply: Oleh Kiper, Head of Odesa Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "The enemy as soon as once more attacked Odesa Oblast with drones in a single day. Regardless of an lively response by air defence forces… the facades and home windows of two residential buildings, an equestrian sports activities membership and a petroleum station constructing had been broken within the assault."

Particulars: Kiper added that "fires broke out in some locations", which had been promptly extinguished.

Early stories indicated that no casualties had been recorded.

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Myroslava Kopcha, alias Akira, an artist and volunteer from Ternopil Oblast, and her fellow soldier Artur Vilchynskyi, alias Promin ("Ray"), an engineer and designer, have been killed in motion whereas finishing up a fight mission to defend Ukraine's skies.

Supply: The Barakuda aerial reconnaissance unit, the place each served; Kruk, a weapon customisation producer

Quote from the Barakuda unit: "As we speak is among the darkest days for Barakuda […] Phrases fail us. Nobody is ever prepared for losses like this.

They have been radiant, real folks, true Ukrainians, who made the world round them higher even in its bleakest hours. Promin. Akira.

It’s a nice honour for us to have served alongside you in the identical ranks. We’ll proceed your work. We’ll take revenge."

Extra particulars: The Kruk firm mentioned that Artur labored as a designer and created many merchandise for the corporate. They described him as "an individual with an uncommon reward for fixing complicated issues" and "a great good friend".

Myroslava was an artist, a visionary and the creator of the corporate's visible id. She was born in Ternopil Oblast and studied in Lviv.

Her first solo exhibition occurred in August 2021. Extra lately, Myroslava held a reside artwork efficiency in Kyiv to lift funds for the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion.

Akira's good friend Katryna Shpahina mentioned that she had returned from Poland to affix the defence of her nation. She remembers her good friend as "a exceptional particular person" who created "numerous unbelievable artwork".

Quote from Katryna Shpahina: "Mira was a exceptional particular person, she beloved to attract, drink flat white espresso and Hi there Kitty. She carried herself with quiet confidence and calm. Regardless of her younger age, she was clever but unpretentious, seeing the world in a different way and uncovering magnificence wherever she seemed. She knew the right way to hear and the right way to provide consolation when issues have been hardest. She was like a ray of daylight breaking by means of a gray sky […]

Mira's expertise was extraordinary, and he or she had the braveness to show her creative visions into actuality. She didn’t shrink back from obstacles – she met them with creativity."

Extra particulars: Barakuda unit has launched a fundraising marketing campaign to assist the households of Mira and Artur.

Background: It has been reported earlier that Yaryna Mruts, a fight medic from the 210th Separate Assault Regiment, has been killed in motion.

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Three extra youngsters have been evacuated from Russian-occupied to Ukrainian-controlled territory. Two of them had seen their household dwelling hit by cluster munitions.

Supply: Convey Youngsters Again UA

Particulars: Convey Youngsters Again UA reported that the youngsters at the moment are secure.

When Russian troops arrived, regular life got here to an finish for Sasha, 15, and Veronika, 13 (names modified for security causes), as worry, searches and fixed threats grew to become a part of their on a regular basis actuality. The youngsters however continued to review on-line at a Ukrainian college.

Quote: "At some point, a cluster munition dropped from a drone hit their home. Everybody survived by what felt like a miracle, however they realised that staying meant dying."

Extra particulars: It was then that the household determined to depart Russian-occupied territory. They managed to flee regardless of being held and interrogated by Russian troopers for 5 hours at a checkpoint.

Fourteen-year-old Artem has additionally managed to flee occupation after the conflict separated him from his mom for 3 years.

Quote: "She fell unwell with Covid-19 earlier than the full-scale invasion and took her son to his grandparents' to maintain him secure. When the invasion started, the girl, who works as a police officer, needed to evacuate and was unable to take her youngster along with her."

Extra particulars: Artem remained dwelling below occupation along with his kinfolk and continued learning remotely at a Ukrainian college. After some time, the Russian occupation authorities started checking up on kids who weren’t attending native colleges that had launched the Russian curriculum. Due to this, Artem's kinfolk feared he could be taken away.

{The teenager} has now been taken out of Russian-occupied territory and reunited along with his mom.

The operation to find and evacuate the kids was carried out with the assistance of the Joint Centre of the Safety Service of Ukraine for the coordination of the seek for and launch of prisoners of conflict and individuals unlawfully disadvantaged of their liberty on account of armed aggression towards Ukraine.

Quote: "We proceed to combat for each youngster and won’t cease till all Ukrainian kids have come dwelling."

Background: Ukraine has recognized about 400 areas in Russia the place round 19,500 kidnapped Ukrainian kids are being held. Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine's Presidential Commissioner for Youngsters's Rights and Youngster Rehabilitation, has reported that Russia employs at the least six eventualities to maneuver Ukrainian kids to its territory.

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A 71-year-old girl has been injured on account of a Russian FPV drone assault on the Zaporizhzhia district.

Supply: Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Navy Administration, on social media

Particulars: Fedorov stated that Russian forces attacked the village of Novoiakovlivka with an FPV drone.

He added {that a} home was broken within the strike.

Fedorov reported that the injured girl has obtained all crucial medical remedy.

Background: Russian forces attacked town of Zaporizhzhia on the night of 25 November, damaging at the very least seven high-rise residential buildings and injuring 18 individuals.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed at a gathering of the Workers of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief that the distribution of personnel between brigades needs to be made fairer.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night deal with

Particulars: Zelenskyy stated one of many points mentioned on the Workers assembly involved the requests made by brigades throughout his latest journey to the fight zone. One in all these requests is for a fairer allocation of personnel between brigades.

Quote: "The replenishment of brigades have to be reviewed, after all. That is being raised in practically each fight brigade, and the Workers has now tasked Chief of the Normal Workers Andrii Hnatov, along with Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Presidential Workplace and a extremely skilled army officer, to work via all of this. Draft choices are anticipated to be ready for me shortly."

Background: Ukrainska Pravda has discovered that a big share of the mobilised personnel at present coaching at Ukrainian instruction centres is being assigned to assault items and the Unmanned Methods Forces.

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A lady and a six-year-old little one within the metropolis of Kherson had been killed on the night of 26 November after Russian forces dropped an explosive from a drone onto a automotive.

Supply: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Army Administration

Quote: "In Kherson's Korabelnyi district, Russian terrorists have killed a girl and a toddler. At about 19:40, the occupiers dropped an explosive from a drone onto a automotive, killing a 34-year-old Kherson resident and a six-year-old little one immediately."

Particulars: Prokudin added {that a} 50-year-old man was additionally injured. He was taken to hospital with concussion, a blast harm, a closed head harm, and shrapnel wounds to his head, neck, again and arm.

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NATO Secretary Basic Mark Rutte has mentioned that Russia has no veto energy over Ukraine's accession to the Alliance and that solely NATO member states could make choices on this subject.

Supply: Mark Rutte in an interview with El País, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Commenting on Russia's insistence that Ukraine's membership of the Alliance is unacceptable, Rutte mentioned that "Russia has no say or veto energy over who can change into a member of NATO".

Quote: "However within the Alliance, membership requires unanimity. On the summit in Washington we determined that Ukraine's path to NATO is irreversible. Nonetheless, a number of allies, together with the USA, have mentioned that they’re presently against Ukraine becoming a member of."

Extra particulars: Rutte mentioned that within the context of Trump's "peace plan", Ukraine wants "sufficiently dependable safety ensures" to make sure that Russia by no means once more makes an attempt to assault it if NATO membership "shouldn’t be an choice".

Background:

• It was reported earlier that one of many factors of the "peace plan" which the US facet has begun to advertise has envisaged Ukraine's dedication by no means to hitch the North Atlantic Alliance.
• CNN has reported that the query of Ukraine's membership of the Alliance has remained one of many points nonetheless beneath dialogue between Ukraine and the USA.

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