Here are the key events from day 1,357 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 12 Nov 202512 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Wednesday, November 12:Fighting
Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said the army’s situation has “significantly worsened” in parts of the southeastern Zaporizhia region amid fierce fighting with Russian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X that he had received an update from Syrskii, which conveyed that the situation” remains difficult” in the Zaporizhia region, as well as in the direction of the embattled city of Pokrovsk.
Zaporizhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said that a Russian drone attack killed a 56-year-old man in the Polohivskyi district.
Also in Zaporizhia, the Kushuhum Village Council announced in a post on the Telegram messaging app that families with children must begin mandatory evacuations from the area.
Ukraine’s Southern Defence Forces said in a post on Facebook that they had to withdraw from positions near the settlements of Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnyche, Uspenivka, and Novomykolaivka in the Zaporizhia region.
Ukraine’s General Staff claimed that explosions and fire were recorded after Ukrainian forces hit the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery in Russia’s Orenburg region.
A Ukrainian mine explosion killed one person in the village of Bahatyr in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said, while persistent Ukrainian drone attacks have forced people to flee the area, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed that its forces seized the eastern part of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, according to TASS.
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Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, has arrived in Turkiye’s Istanbul, where he said in a post on Facebook that he is working “to unblock” the process of exchanging captives with Moscow and ensuring the implementation of the agreement that has already been reached with Russia.
The state environmental inspectorate in Ukraine’s Sumy region announced in a …
