Luhansk Oblast Governor: Russian forces shell main pipeline, Sievierodonetsk left without gas.

"Several enemy infantrymen tried to penetrate and gain a foothold at one of the agricultural facilities," the 7th Corps said. "The enemy was destroyed."

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said both suspects crossed into Belarus shortly after the explosion.

On Nov. 11, Chernyshov was charged with illicit enrichment as part of a large-scale corruption case involving state nuclear power company Energoatom.

At the time of the attack, around 11 p.m., there were no employees or other workers at the site.

"We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The United States Congress will renew its efforts to move forward in an attempt to pass a Russia sanctions bill into law, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham announced on Nov. 17.

A seventeen-year-old girl was killed and nine others were injured in an overnight Russian missile attack on the city of Berestyn in Kharkiv Oblast on Nov. 18, regional authorities said.

Purported videos posted on social media appear to show a large explosion and subsequent fire emanating from the Zuivska Thermal Power Plant in the occupied community of Zuhres in Donetsk Oblast, following a projectile strike on the target.

Russia has begun preparing for war with Poland as Moscow continues to escale its cyberattack and acts of sabotage on Polish soil, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula said on Nov. 17.

Based on International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates, the EU expects that if the Russia-Ukraine war ends in 2026, Kyiv will face a financial gap of 135.7 billion euros ($157 billion) in the 2026-2027 period.

"The discussions will cover the authorities’ economic policy objectives (...) and structural policies to strengthen governance, combat corruption, and enhance growth," Priscilla Toffano, the IMF's representative in Ukraine, said in a press release.

Sternenko's warning comes as Russian troops pierce through Ukrainian defenses on multiple hot spot sectors of the war.