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The latest news about Russia and Ukraine, hand-picked for you every weekday morning (09:30 GMT+3).
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🇷🇸 #Serbia is preparing an amendment to the draft budget law that would enable it to take ownership of its Russian-owned, U.S.-sanctioned oil refiner NIS, the parliament speaker told Euronews Serbia on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

#russia
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Kremlin said on Wednesday that their... oh, I mean Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and a host of other key U.S. officials would come to Moscow next week for talks on a possible peace plan for Ukraine.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

#usa #russia
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 European countries are working on an emergency plan B to stop #Ukraine running out of money early next year in case they cannot reach a deal on raiding Russia’s frozen assets to fund Kyiv’s war effort.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

#europe
Europeans sketch out plan B in race to raid Russian assets for Ukraine
Officials are looking at an EU bridging loan to help Kyiv stay afloat if they can’t agree on using Moscow’s frozen state assets in time.
www.politico.eu
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The U.S.-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in #Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, Reuters reports.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

#usa #russia
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 'Unidentified' drones struck the Russian city of Cheboksary in the Chuvashia Republic in the early hours of Nov. 26, with Russian Telegram channels suggesting that a local military-linked facility may have been targeted again.

kyivindependent.com/drones-strik...

#russia #ukraine
Drones strike Russia’s Cheboksary, reports say electronic warfare plant hit again
VNIIR-Progress is a Russian state institute involved in designing electronic warfare systems, including the Kometa antenna used to interfere with satellite, radio, and radar signals.
kyivindependent.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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🇺🇸 US trumpets #Ukraine talks progress – but source reveals significant obstacles

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www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/e...

#usa #russia
Washington trumpets Ukraine talks progress – but source reveals significant obstacles | CNN
Despite “a few remaining points of disagreement,” President Trump heralded his team’s “tremendous progress” made towards ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia late on Tuesday, triggering fires, injuring 12 people and badly damaging buildings and vehicles, the regional governor said.

www.reuters.com/world/russia...

#russia #ukraine
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian authorities must consolidate the Russian language and identity in parts of #Ukraine 'incorporated' into the country since Moscow's 2022 invasion, according to a document signed by Putin and published on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

#russia #russianwarcrimes
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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💬 #Trump on Tuesday backed away from a Thursday deadline for #Ukraine to agree to a U.S.-backed peace plan and shrugged off a report that his negotiator Witkoff coached the Russians on how to approach him on the topic.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

#usa #russia
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces are employing their new offensive template in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area, setting conditions for a future dedicated effort to seize Kostyantynivka and threaten the Ukrainian Fortress Belt from the south.
understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 25, 2025
The Trump administration continues efforts to negotiate a peace deal to end Russia's war against Ukraine on Nov. 25, 2025.
understandingwar.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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🇫🇷 French authorities have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for #Russia and acting to promote its war propaganda, prosecutors said Tuesday.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/26/3...

#France
3 Arrested in Paris Suspected of Spying and Acting for Russia - The Moscow Times
French authorities have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for Russia and acting to promote its war propaganda, prosecutors said Tuesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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🇺🇲 🇺🇦 In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, US Army Sec. Driscoll delivered a grim assessment

He told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the battlefield and would suffer an imminent defeat against Russian forces, NBC News reports
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
U.S. Army secretary warned Ukraine of imminent defeat while pushing initial peace plan
The meeting last week was just the latest example of a long-running rift inside the Trump administration over how to end the war in Ukraine.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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🇷🇺 🇺🇲 Hackers working for Russian intelligence attacked an American engineering company this fall, investigators at a U.S. cybersecurity company said Tuesday — seemingly because that firm had worked for a U.S. municipality with a sister city in #Ukraine

apnews.com/article/russ...

#Russia #USA
Russian hackers target US engineering firm because of work done for Ukrainian sister city
Hackers working for Russian intelligence attacked an American engineering company this fall, seemingly because that firm had worked for a U.S. municipality with a sister city in Ukraine.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian Il-76 heavy transport aircraft as well as an experimental A-60 airborne laser platform, according to Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, on Nov. 25.

kyivindependent.com/ukraine-repo...

#russia
Ukraine reportedly destroys 2 Russian aircraft, including rare A-60 laser platform
Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian Il-76 heavy transport aircraft as well as an experimental A-60 airborne laser complex, according to Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems...
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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⚡️ US envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Putin should raise it with #Trump

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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In a new joint investigation into the Russian Red Cross, we found that the organization has become even more deeply entangled in Russia’s military and propaganda apparatus while continuing to receive millions of euros in international funding.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
New investigation reveals the Russian Red Cross is expanding operations in occupied Ukraine as its international funding grows — Meduza
In 2024, Meduza published a joint investigation as part of the Kremlin Leaks project that revealed the activities of the Russian Red Cross (RRC) in Ukraine’s occupied territories. Among other…
meduza.io
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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💬 #Trump said Tuesday "his plan" to end the war in #Ukraine has been "fine-tuned" and he’s sending envoy Witkoff to meet with Putin and Driscoll to meet with Ukrainian officials 🤦‍♂️

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apnews.com/article/russ...

#usa #russia
Trump says he's sending his envoys to see Putin and Ukrainians after fine-tuning plan to end war
President Donald Trump says his plan to end the war in Ukraine has been "fine-tuned." He said Tuesday that he is sending envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with the Russian president and Army Secretary Dan D...
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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💬 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to meet #Trump "as soon as possible" — possibly over Thanksgiving — to finalize a joint U.S.-Ukrainian agreement on the terms for ending the war, Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak told Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...

#Ukraine #USA
Zelensky ready to meet Trump over Thanksgiving to finalize deal, top aide tells Axios
U.S. and Ukrainian officials have agreed in principle on most aspects of the plan.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🇷🇺🛢️ New Dallas investigation: Oilfield services giant SLB (ex-Schlumberger) is still working with Rosneft, even after the latest U.S. sanctions.

dallas-park.com/oilfield-ser...

#Russia
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🇷🇺🛢️📉 Leonid Fedun, a co-founder of Lukoil, has sold his roughly $7 billion stake in the Russian company, Reuters reports, completing a 30-year ride that made Lukoil a global force but lately saw it shrinking fast under sanctions.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

#Russia
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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💬 Soldiers from France, the U.K., or Turkey could be sent to #Ukraine as part of the "reassurance force" on the "day the peace is signed," French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with French radio RTL published on Nov. 25.

kyivindependent.com/peacekeepers...
French, UK, Turkish troops could be deployed in Ukraine right after peace deal, Macron says
Forces operating under the "Coalition of the Willing" would be deployed to rear locations, such as Kyiv or Odesa, to provide security and training, Macron said.
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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🇬🇧 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday told a Coalition of the Willing meeting that London was "ready to move" with the European Union on providing financial support to #Ukraine based on the value of "immobilised" assets.

www.reuters.com/business/fin...

#Britain #Europe #Russia
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🇺🇦 A peace plan discussed and approved by Ukrainian and U.S. officials would limit Ukraine's peacetime military to 800,000 service members, the Financial Times reported on Nov. 25, citing unnamed Ukrainian officials.

kyivindependent.com/kyiv-us-agre...
Ukraine agrees to cap its army at 800,000 in revised US peace plan, FT reports
A Ukrainian army of this size would still remain the second-largest European force after Russia and put it close to its current wartime strength of about 900,000 service members.
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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🇺🇦 #Ukraine says Russia's frozen assets should not be used as a bargaining chip in peace talks, and is pressing Brussels to finalize a loan backed by the funds.

kyivindependent.com/ukraine-reje...
Ukraine rejects using Russian assets as bargaining chip in peace talks
"Keeping the assets permanently 'on ice' or turning them into a bargaining chip between Russia and another power only prolongs the conflict," Iryna Mudra, deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's...
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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💬 A US official said Tuesday Ukraine's govt had "agreed to a peace deal" brokered by the Trump admin.

The American official and Ukraine's natsec adviser Rustem Umerov said a common understanding on a proposal had been reached, with details still to be worked out.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only "minor details" to settle, official says, but no word from Russia
A push by the Trump administration to end Russia's war on Ukraine appears to make headway, with Kyiv saying Zelenskyy could visit D.C. within days to finalize a deal.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM