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29 November 2025
Parliament must not allow the vote on the state budget to be disrupted, as the country's defense capability depends on it. The document can be amended later, but refusing to vote now is unacceptable.
On November 28, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and five settlements across the region, killing two people and injuring two others.
On November 28, a toral of 311 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline.
FPV-drone operators of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed a Russian shelter and firing position on the southern front.
FPV-drone operators of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed a Russian shelter and firing position on the southern front.
28 November 2025
The Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Halyna Hryhorenko as Ukraine's first deputy culture minister.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is considering Pavlo Palisa as a candidate for the position of the new head of his office.
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, who had earlier submitted his resignation.
Russian forces have made no progress in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors despite active attempts to carry out assault operations and use artillery strikes.
In November 2025, in the area of the village of Hnativka in the Pokrovsk district, Russians shot a Ukrainian defender who had been captured and was unable to resist.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said that the United States has provided Russia with the key parameters of a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which was coordinated in Geneva.
China supports negotiations and any other efforts aimed at establishing peace in Ukraine, and is interacting with all parties, including Ukraine and Russia, to bring the war to a swift end.
Pressure for Ukraine to surrender hasn’t worked out
Based on the evidence gathered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a Russian FSB agent who attempted to get a job at the Defense Work Department of the Sumy Regional Military Administration (RMA) was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
27 November 2025
Russia is not seeking territory but the subjugation of Ukraine. Therefore, strengthening defense is the main task for both Ukraine and its partners, as outcomes in diplomacy depend on strength on the battlefield.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal received a briefing from the commander of the 34th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade and visited the command post of the 39th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade of the 30th Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Navy.
At the end of the week, the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations will continue working on aligning the points developed after meetings in Geneva in order to move toward peace and security guarantees.
President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braze, the Order of Merit, II degree.
The Russian army in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad sectors was forced to deploy its operational reserve, while Ukrainian forces are blocking attempts to storm the cities with small infantry groups.
The European Parliament has called on the European Union to take a leading role in shaping a future peace agreement for Ukraine, ensuring long-term security guarantees, a reparations mechanism based on frozen Russian assets, and full respect for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Ukraine is seeing attempts by certain countries to remove Russian oligarchs from the European Union's sanctions lists and will work to prevent this.
Russian announcements about the capture of Kupiansk proved premature, and the situation in the city has become a dead end for them.
The foreign ministers of the EU countries, during an informal videoconference on Wednesday, discussed strengthening pressure on Russia and increasing assistance to Ukraine, emphasizing that the first step toward ending the war must be an immediate ceasefire.
Fighters with the Ukrainian Navy's 38th Separate Marine Brigade named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny used drones to repel another assault by Russian invaders in the Myrnohrad sector.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has intercepted a conversation in which a Russian soldier reports to his commander that personnel under his command in the Donetsk sector are abandoning frontline positions and retreating to the rear.
26 November 2025
There were 216 combat engagements on the front, 92 of them in the Lyman and Pokrovsk sectors, where fighting continues.
No recognition of occupied territories can be permitted, because if such a “mine” were included in an agreement, the legitimacy of the document would be immediately undermined.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a Staff meeting to discuss key issues related to strengthening air defense and the distribution of personnel among combat brigades.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban plans to visit Moscow on November 28 and meet with Vladimir Putin.
As many as 144 combat engagements have taken place on the front lines since midnight. Fighting continues on seven frontline axes, with the enemy applying the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors and increasing its activity near Kostiantynivka.