Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 995

Here is nan business connected Saturday, November 16:

Fighting

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said aerial defences downed 15 drones successful nan Kursk region connected nan Ukrainian border.
• The ministry said 1 drone each was downed successful nan Bryansk region, besides connected nan border, and successful Lipetsk, further north, arsenic good arsenic successful nan cardinal Oryol region.
• The politician of Russia’s Belgorod region, a predominant target connected nan Ukrainian border, said a bid of attacks had smashed windows successful an flat building and caused different damage, but nary casualties were reported.
• Dozens of mourners filled a golden-domed Orthodox cathedral successful Ukrainian superior Kyiv to salary their respects to a beloved combat medic, 32-year-old Maria-Khrystyna Dvoinik, who was killed this week connected nan beforehand line.

Politics and diplomacy

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Russian President Vladimir Putin for nan first clip successful astir 2 years and urged Moscow to propulsion its forces from Ukraine and statesman talks pinch Kyiv.

• The Kremlin described nan telephone arsenic a “detailed and frank speech of views complete nan business successful Ukraine”. It said Putin told Scholz that immoderate statement to extremity nan warfare should “proceed from nan caller territorial realities and, astir importantly, reside nan guidelines causes of nan conflict”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised Scholz’s telephone telephone pinch Putin, saying it opened a “Pandora’s box” that undermined efforts to isolate nan Russian leader and extremity nan warfare successful Ukraine pinch a “fair peace”. “This is precisely what Putin has agelong wanted: it is highly important for him to weaken his isolation and to behaviour mean negotiations,” he said.
• Scholz said changes are needed to Germany’s spending headdress to respond to nan “financial emergency” of warfare successful Ukraine aft nan centre-right guidance signalled willingness to betterment nan alleged indebtedness brake.
• Zelenskyy told Ukraine’s nationalist broadcaster Suspilne that Russia’s warfare against his state will “end sooner” nether US President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration.
• Russia has informed Austria that it will suspend state deliveries via Ukraine starting connected Saturday, successful a improvement that signals a fast-approaching extremity of Moscow’s past state flows to Europe.
• Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Austria’s ample state retention accommodation are 93 percent afloat and nan state is good equipped to woody pinch Russia’s determination to extremity state deliveries.
• Ukraine is fighting to liberate each territory captured by Russia successful nan past decade, and is not shifting its attraction successful nan war, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov told a news convention successful Norway.

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Al Jazeera and news agencies