In a video published by the Security Service, Viktor Medvedchuk asks Russian President Vladimir Putin to take him to Russia in return for a safe passage for residents of besieged Mariupol and the Ukrainian soldiers defending the city. Putin’s ally Medvedchuk was captured on April 12 after he escaped from house arrest in late February.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said both suspects crossed into Belarus shortly after the explosion.
"We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"Several enemy infantrymen tried to penetrate and gain a foothold at one of the agricultural facilities," the 7th Corps said. "The enemy was destroyed."
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.
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.
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