Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Wednesday, November 16.
Explosion in Poland
- A missile that hit Poland killing two individuals was in all probability a Ukrainian air defence missile and there was no proof to recommend the incident was an intentional assault by Russia, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda stated.
- The Russian defence ministry denied the stories, describing them as “a deliberate provocation aimed toward escalating the state of affairs”.
- NATO known as an emergency assembly to debate the explosion and potential subsequent steps.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russia fired at the least 85 missiles on Tuesday, principally directed at vitality infrastructure, together with within the western metropolis of Lviv, near the border with Poland.
Missile assaults
- Missiles hit cities together with the capital, Kyiv, Lviv and Rivne within the west, Kharkiv within the northeast, Kryvyi Rih and Poltava within the centre, Odesa and Mykolaiv within the south, and Zhytomyr within the north, in what Ukraine stated was the heaviest wave of missile assaults in almost 9 months of battle.
- Greater than a dozen Ukrainian areas reported energy outages after missiles hit, affecting cities collectively populated by tens of millions. About half of the Kyiv area misplaced energy.
- Moldova stated it’s experiencing electrical energy outages because of Russian assaults on vitality infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine and known as on Moscow to cease its assaults, saying, “Each bomb falling on Ukraine can also be affecting Moldova and our individuals.”
Combating
- Civil servants working for the Russian-installed administration in Nova Kakhovka, the second-largest metropolis in Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, left together with 1000’s of residents due to combating.
- Russia is now engaged in a defensive operation in Ukraine following its withdrawal from Kherson metropolis, a Western official stated, after Zelenskyy promised to reclaim all of Ukraine’s occupied territory.
- Russia and Ukraine have tortured prisoners of battle throughout the battle in Ukraine, the Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights stated, citing examples of mistreatment together with beatings, the usage of electrical shocks and compelled nudity.
- The governor of the Belgorod area of southern Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated two individuals had been killed and three wounded by shelling in a city close to the border with Ukraine.
- The EU ramped up its assist to Ukraine by launching a army help mission, the place as much as 15,000 Ukrainian troopers might be skilled in several European member states.
Diplomacy
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned the wave of Russian assaults on a number of cities throughout Ukraine with Ukrainian international minister Dmytro Kuleba.
- UN Secretary Common Antonio Guterres is “very involved” on the stories of the missile explosion in Poland.
- Russia and Ukraine accused each other of extending the battle on the G20 talks in Bali, with the 2 international locations setting out their necessities for peace.
- European Union international locations ought to work collectively in replenishing their army inventories and keep away from competing with one another amid persevering with arms deliveries to Ukraine, the EU’s high diplomat stated.