Major Russian oil firm in crisis before start of Trump sanctions - Lukoil is attempting to sell off its foreign assets ahead of the 21 November sanctions deadline

The wall is intended to protect cities and key infrastructure from Russian glide bombs and Shahed-type drones.

Funding Ukraine with a reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets would be the most "effective" of three options being considered by the European Union to help Kyiv, the head of the bloc's executive Commission said on Thursday.

Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.

Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine's military intelligence said Saturday, as Russia kept up a sustained campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to November 13, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,155,360 people, including 1,180 people over the past day. — Ukrinform.

Moscow said on Wednesday that about 3% of Russia's total grain harvest will come from its "new territories" in Ukraine this year, the same as last year's figure despite a drought there and in adjoining regions during the summer.

Ukraine's top military commander says he has visited troops holding the front line in the key eastern city of Pokrovsk, which is besieged by a bigger Russian force, to coordinate operations in person.

The video, likened to a scene from "Mad Max," was geolocated by NBC News to Pokrovsk, where fierce battles have been taking place as Russia pushes to capture the city.

Ukrainian forces withdrew from the village of Rivnopillia in northeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast late on Nov. 11, Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces reported.

A Russian drone has hit a tower block in eastern Ukraine, killing three people and injuring 12, according to Ukrainian authorities.