Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,004

Here is nan business connected Sunday, November 24:

Diplomacy

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives successful Italy, earlier nan G7 overseas ministers gathering connected Monday, to talk nan wars successful Ukraine and nan Middle East.
• Western friends should not put immoderate limits connected support for Ukraine and “not group and definitive reddish lines”, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has told nan BBC.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will talk nan latest developments successful nan Russia-Ukraine warfare pinch NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte connected Monday during his sojourn to Ankara, a Turkish charismatic has said.
• Addressing nan Third Food Security Summit successful Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed assurance that his state has a bully chance of ending nan warfare pinch Russia by 2025, The Kyiv Independent has reported.
• During nan aforesaid event, Zelenskyy said Russia has damaged 321 larboard infrastructure accommodation and 20 overseas merchant ships since July 2023, nan news outlet added.
• Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has emphasised nan value of US support for Ukraine during nan Halifax International Security Forum, arguing that Ukraine’s occurrence against Russia would service “as nan astir effective deterrent to early aggression”.

Fighting

• Ukraine has mislaid much than 40 percent of nan territory successful Russia’s Kursk region that it quickly seized successful a astonishment incursion successful August arsenic Russian forces person mounted waves of counterassaults, a elder Ukrainian subject root told nan Reuters news agency.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a rule connected indebtedness forgiveness of up to 10 cardinal roubles ($95,869) for caller service recruits signing up to conflict successful Ukraine, a Russian authorities website showed.
• Independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, successful collaboration pinch BBC Russia, has released a study pinch nan names of 79,819 Russian soldiers killed since nan commencement of nan war.
• Explosions were heard successful Kyiv, Reuters and section media successful nan Ukrainian superior reported, successful what sounded for illustration aerial defence units successful operation.
• The Ukrainian capital, its surrounding region and astir of northeast Ukraine were nether aerial ambush alerts since astir 01:00 GMT.
• Russia’s aerial defence systems destroyed 34 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 27 complete nan Kursk region bordering Ukraine, Russia’s Defence Ministry has said connected Telegram.
• The Kursk politician has said Russian aerial defence units had destroyed 2 “Ukrainian missiles” overnight complete nan region.
• Putin claimed that nan wide deployment of nan Oreshnik intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) could rival nan destructive powerfulness of atomic weapons, highlighting its precision and strategical potential.

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Al Jazeera and news agencies