Russia-Ukraine war: List of important events, day 1,009 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These were the key events on the 1,009th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Here is the situation on Friday, November 29:

Fighting

• Russia launched its second major attack this month on Ukraine’s power infrastructure, causing blackouts that affected at least a million people in three western regions. The attack knocked out power for 523,000 consumers in Lviv region, 215,000 in Volyn region and 280,000 in Rivne region, regional governors reported.
• Ukraine’s air force said Russia used 91 missiles and 97 drones in the attack, and 12 hit their targets, most of which were electrical and fuel facilities.
• President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had struck following Ukraine’s attack on Russian territory with US ATACMS intermediate-range missiles. He warned future targets could include “decision-making centers” in Kyiv using its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile – which Moscow says is unstoppable.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of a “terrible escalation”, saying it had used multiple-armed ballistic missiles in the attack. Zelenskyy said he was talking to Western leaders – including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – to respond to Russia’s attempt to “bring out the war”.
• US President Joe Biden called the attack on Moscow “outrageous”, and said it was “another reminder of the urgency and importance of supporting the people of Ukraine in their defense against Russian violence”.
• Russian air defense planes destroyed or downed 30 Ukrainian planes in the southern Rostov region on Friday, said Regional Governor Yuri Slyusar.
• Fragments of Russian jets crashed into buildings in two districts of Kyiv and injured one person on Thursday night, officials said.
• Explosions were heard in Odesa on Thursday morning amid reports of a cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city.

Finance, politics and communication

• President Zelenskyy signed into law Ukraine’s first wartime tax increase, and Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko said the bill was important to ensure smooth funding of Ukraine’s defense sector. The changes, which will take effect from December 1, will see the personal income tax increase from 1.5 percent to 5 percent.
• Ukraine has urged its allies to speed up military aid, saying the rapid delivery of vital military equipment is more important than drafting more men, after a senior US administration official urged Kyiv to lower the conscription age from 25 to 18.
• Ukraine is ready to host a second world summit aimed at ending Russia’s aggression “in the near future”, said the chief of staff of the Ukrainian president, Andriy Yermak. Ukraine held its first “peace summit” in Switzerland in June.
• France, under pressure over its position that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot obtain an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, has declined to say whether it would be ready to arrest President Putin under the same warrant.
• Putin said at a news conference in Kazakhstan that Russia would use “all available destructive means” against Ukraine if Kyiv were to acquire nuclear weapons, adding that he would “be watching their every move”.
• Putin added that there were no conditions for starting talks with Ukraine on a possible peaceful settlement, but the terms he set in June, including Kyiv renouncing its NATO ambitions, remained unchanged.
• Germany has promised to resupply Patriot air defense missiles to NATO ally Poland at the beginning of the new year, the German Ministry of Defense said.
• A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov, who represented critics of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, to seven years in prison after convicting him of spreading false information about the Russian army and “inciting hatred”.
• Russia and Ukraine have each agreed to return a total of nine children to be reunited with family members, in the latest exchange of aid agreed following Qatar’s mediation.