Russian missile defense systems shot down three Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea near Crimea and two more over the Bryansk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

Ukrainian military personnel from Zaporizhzhia are loading the “Mini Grad” rocket salvo fire system.Photo: AA/ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 631, LIVETEXT:

07:26 Russia has deployed another strategic nuclear missile equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, which it says is its answer to US anti-missile defenses, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, as quoted by news.ro.

00:36 On November 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced that he held a number of meetings with the head of the SBU and was informed by him about people who deliberately incite enmity within the country, Ukrainian Pravda writes.

“I want to note the meeting with representatives of the law enforcement sector, including the head of the SBU. It was about countering collaborationists and protecting Ukrainians from those who deliberately incite enmity in our country.”

00:16 Rosenergoatom reported that turbine blades broke at the plant where the Russian state-owned company installed two reactors of the type it is building in Turkey and plans to build in Hungary, Reuters reports.

A brief summary of recent events:

  • The European Commission proposed to ban the import of diamonds and liquefied petroleum gas from Russia, as well as to strengthen price restrictions on Russian oil as part of new sanctions against Moscow.
  • Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the European Union’s 12th package of sanctions against Russia is part of a “hybrid war” being waged by the West and is turning the EU bloc into a “useful idiot” for the US.
  • Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine’s entry into the NATO military alliance is unacceptable to Russia in any form, even in part, Reuters reports. “Regardless of whether, partially or in any form, Ukraine’s accession to NATO is unacceptable for Russia,” the press secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told reporters.
  • Hungary on Wednesday asked for a review of the European Union’s policy on Ukraine, disagreeing with Germany, Lithuania, Finland and Ireland, which support Kyiv’s rapid rapprochement with the EU bloc and the provision of additional aid amid the Russian invasion.
  • Kyiv troops managed to secure positions on the Russian-controlled east bank of the Dnieper in the south of the country, the head of the Moscow-installed occupation authority admitted on Wednesday.
  • This happened after Ukrainian forces secured a bridgehead in the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper
  • Ukrainian troops open a new front in Crimea, as Russian troops unleash “hellfire” on them.
  • Some oil products contracted by the US Department of Defense through suppliers in Greece and Turkey may be of Russian origin despite Western sanctions, an investigation by The Washington Post (WP) has revealed.

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Wednesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro