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The Kyiv Independent: Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack on Kyiv overnight on Nov. 13-14, battering the capital with hundreds of drones and multiple missiles. At least person was killed in the attack and at least 25 have been injured, officials reported.
Reuters: A Ukrainian drone attack early on Friday damaged a ship in port, apartment buildings and an oil depot in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, injuring three crew members of the vessel, Russian officials said.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian city of Saratov overnight on Nov. 14, striking the local oil refinery, residents claimed. If confirmed, this would mark the fourth time Ukraine has hit the Saratov oil refinery in fall 2025.
Reuters: The United States Coast Guard detected a Russian military ship on October 29 approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Oahu, near U.S. territorial waters, it said on Thursday in a statement.
ISW: Russian forces continue efforts to complete the encirclement of Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad (east of Pokrovsk) by advancing through Rodynske, northeast of Pokrovsk, but the settlement remains contested.
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The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit Greece over the weekend to sign an agreement in the energy sector, a source close to the Presidential Office told the Kyiv Independent on Nov. 13.
Kyiv Post: Ukrainian forces have destroyed a storage and maintenance site for Russian Orion strike and reconnaissance drones in occupied Crimea, near the settlement of Kirovske, according to the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi.
Reuters: U.S. private equity giant Carlyle is exploring options to buy foreign assets from Russian oil major Lukoil.
Ukrainska Pravda: Ukraine will carry out an audit of all state-owned companies, including those in the energy sector.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Commission on Wednesday delivered another tranche of short-term financial relief to Kyiv as talks over a much larger reparations loan based on frozen Russian assets remain mired in political deadlock.
Reuters: A Russian Su-30 fighter aircraft crashed on a training flight in the northwestern region of Karelia, killing the two-member crew, news agencies quoted the Russian Defence Ministry as saying.
Business Insider: Russia has begun using long-range, jam-proof drones controlled by fiber-optic cables to threaten Ukraine's logistics. Mykhailo Fedorov, the first deputy prime minister of Ukraine and its minister of digital transformation, said that Russia is now fielding fiber-optic drones with a range of 50 kilometers (31 miles).
Reuters: Around 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil, or almost a third of the country's seaborne exporting potential, remain in tankers as unloading slows due to U.S. sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, JPMorgan said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine carried out a series of long-range strikes on Russian military infrastructure in occupied Crimea, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and on Russian territory overnight on Nov. 13, using several types of domestically produced long-range weapons, including Flamingo and Bars missiles, Ukraine’s General Staff reported.
Reuters: Europe's top development banks and Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz signed a deal on Thursday to provide hundreds of millions of euros to secure Ukraine's natural gas supply amid the ongoing attacks on its infrastructure by Russia.
Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden announced on 13 November 2025 that they will fund a USD 500 million package of defence materiel for Ukraine sourced from the United States, under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List initiative of NATO and the United States.
Reuters: Italy's UniCredit is trying to comply with international sanctions in relation to its Russian unit while also avoiding moves that could prompt Moscow to seize the business, CEO Andrea Orcel said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia has not taken control of Pokrovsk, but the area remains Russia’s primary offensive focus, with the highest number of daily assaults and a significant concentration of Russian forces, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Nov. 13.
Reuters: The Bulgarian parliament on Thursday overruled a presidential veto on legislation allowing the government to take control of Lukoil's oil refinery and sell it to shield the asset from looming U.S. sanctions.
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on Nov. 13 to impose sanctions against his close associate Timur Mindich and businessman Oleksandr Tsukerman.
Reuters: European Union finance ministers agreed on Thursday that 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.
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