Zelensky arrives in Greece for official visit
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has begun his visit to Greece.
16 November 2025
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has begun his visit to Greece.
Russia launched about 1,000 strike drones, nearly 980 guided aerial bombs, and 36 missiles of various types against Ukraine in one week.
In the Kherson region, Russian invaders struck private, transport, and social infrastructure over the course of 24 hours. Two people were killed and eight more were injured.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 139 Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of drones out of 176 launched by Russia against Ukraine on the evening of November 15.
A total of 176 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defence Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line over the past day, November 15.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to November 16, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,158,260 people, including 860 people over the past day.
Serhii Rebrov, head coach of the Ukrainian national football team, answered questions from journalists ahead of the 2026 World Cup qualifying match against Iceland.
The Ukrainian short film SHE has won the Best Short Film 2025 award at the Women in the World International Film Festival in London.
15 November 2025
Belgium strongly condemns the wave of Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine, which must be clearly defined as war crimes.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with key leaders in Ukraine's defense and security sector, during which he heard reports from intelligence agencies—the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine—on Russia's ability to continue the war and its plans for the coming months.
The Verkhovna Rada's Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, has appealed to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross in connection with a new case of Russian military personnel shooting Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Drones from the Alpha Special Operations Center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) destroyed four launchers of the S-400 Triumf missile system and two radars in Novorossiysk.
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has confirmed that the European Union has begun work on a new package of sanctions against Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump called Russia’s war against Ukraine a “blood bath” and stressed that it must be stopped as soon as possible.
Ukraine’s membership in the European Union would have strategic significance, but the unresolved problem of corruption may slow the country’s progress toward European integration.
Six active-duty units of the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine received an aid package from an anonymous donor in the Netherlands.
President Donald Trump has stated that he has achieved progress regarding Venezuela in the fight against narcotics amid speculation that the United States is preparing to strike targets in that country.
In Russia’s Orenburg, agents of the partisan movement ATESH and the Secret Organization of Ukrainians conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the Strela Production Association, which is a primary supplier of missile weaponry.
Russians shelled nine settlements in the Kharkiv region in 24 hours; a man was injured in the shelling of Lozova.
Over the past 24 hours, Russians have injured two residents of the Donetsk region.
Air Defense Forces destroyed two Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles and 91 drones, which the Russians used to attack Ukraine on the evening of November 14.
On November 14, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 265 combat clashes with Russian troops.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — from February 24, 2022 to November 15, 2025 — amount to approximately 1,157,400 personnel, including 1,000 eliminated over the past day.
North Korea has more than halved its supplies of artillery shells to Russia after exhausting its stockpiles. At the same time, the regime in Pyongyang has launched production of its own attack drones.
Kyiv and Warsaw have agreed to speed up preparations for the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation, which is scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2026.
In the next few days, the Ukrainian and Polish authorities will announce the venue of the next Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) to be held in 2026.
Serhii Naumenko, a resident of Kharkiv who was an artist and poet in civilian life, died on the front lines.
On Friday, November 14, Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region, injuring a civilian and damaging buildings belonging to a local enterprise, warehouse facilities, and residential houses.
At the age of 79, British writer of Ukrainian descent, Marina Lewycka, passed away. She was best known for her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which became an international bestseller and won several awards.