Here are the key events from day 1,353 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Saturday, November 8:Fighting
Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskii said Kyiv’s troops were stepping up assaults on Russian forces around the eastern Ukrainian town of Dobropillia to ease pressure on the embattled hub of Pokrovsk.
Ukrainian forces carried out a long-range drone strike on a petrochemical plant in Russia’s Bashkortostan region. Kyiv’s military intelligence agency said the attack on the Sterlitamak plant sparked a fire in part of the facility that produces an additive for aviation fuel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is massing troops near the city of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian energy provider DTEK has returned electricity to 170,000 households in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, after overnight Russian drone strikes on energy infrastructure. The company said 373 settlements had been left without power, but utility workers had returned electricity to all critical infrastructure and most residential consumers.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces have taken control of the village of Uspenivka in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region.
More than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Kyiv’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said. He said Russia was enticing Africans to sign contracts he described as “equivalent to … a death sentence”, and urged African governments to warn their citizens.
Sanctions Advertisement
The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from sanctions connected to Russian energy, the White House and Hungary have said, after President Donald Trump heaped praise on Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a White House meeting that glossed o …
