Enemy drones damage energy facilities in southern Odesa region, including solar power plant
Russian troops attacked energy facilities in the southern Odesa region overnight. A solar power plant was damaged.
16 November 2025
Russian troops attacked energy facilities in the southern Odesa region overnight. A solar power plant was damaged.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced new agreements with partners, in particular regarding gas supplies to Ukraine to compensate for losses in Ukrainian production due to Russian strikes.
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.
In Ukraine, in October 2025, the number of participants in the non-bank financial market decreased by four companies to 787 institutions; the number of banks remained unchanged at 60.
Over the course of 24 hours, the occupiers carried out 769 strikes on 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and another was wounded as a result of the enemy attack on the Zaporizhzhia region.
The corruption scandal in Ukraine may affect the level of economic support, but will not affect military aid, according to Adrian Karatnytskyi, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and former president of Freedom House.
On Saturday, two lionesses escaped from a zoo in Khmelnytskyi. The staff managed to return one of them, while the other was quickly found by the police.
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.
On the night of November 15, Natalia Khodymchuk, the wife of the first victim of the Chornobyl disaster, Valerii Khodemchuk, died after sustaining severe injuries in a Russian attack on Kyiv.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that further elements of the winter support package will be introduced.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has issued a “verdict” against 53-year-old serviceman of a Ukrainian tank brigade Vitalii Zaluzhnyi sentencing him to six years in a general-regime penal colony.
15 November 2025
Belgium strongly condemns the wave of Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine, which must be clearly defined as war crimes.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation continues to work on anti-corruption projects that are important for the state, such as: e-Excise, e-Notary, e-Court, digitization of the gambling business. The first results of these projects are expected as early as 2026.
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.
Russian troops shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region with FPV drones, guided aerial bombs, and artillery throughout the day, injuring five people.
The Germans are determined to continue supporting Ukraine, but this support could be more effective if the German army itself were reformed.
As a result of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, the parties agreed to activate the Istanbul agreements and release 1,200 Ukrainian prisoners.
Russian military struck fishermen on the coast of the Dnipro River in the village of Bilenke Pershe, Zaporizhzhia district, with an FPV drone, killing one fisherman and injuring another.
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.
Russian troops shelled the village of Komyshany near Kherson, seriously injuring a local resident.
In Chernihiv region, energy workers have reduced the number of electricity consumers left without power after a Russian strike from 332,000 to 173,500.
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.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev to define the course of action for rebooting the management bodies of state-owned enterprises in the energy sector.
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.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have struck the Ryazan Oil Refinery, a Nebo-U radar station, a military train, and several clusters of Russian personnel.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine have blown up the road from Selydove to Pokrovsk.
A strike by Russian forces has caused significant damage to a key energy infrastructure facility in the Nizhyn district, resulting in the loss of power to a large part of the Chernihiv region.