Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,010 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These were the key events on the 1,010th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Here is the situation for Saturday, November 30:

Fighting

• Ukraine's military chief, Oleksandr Syrskii, said he would reinforce the army in the east with stores, ammunition and equipment after visiting Pokrovsk and Kurakhove in the Donetsk region. Syrskii said Ukrainian forces continue to repel Russian advances in the east.
• Russian authorities have brought back more than 500 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war, most of whom died in the eastern Donetsk region, Kyiv said.
• A social media video released on Friday showed the Atlas Oil Depot in Russia's Rostov region engulfed in flames.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Major-General Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new head of the Ukrainian armed forces. “Ukraine's armed forces need internal reforms to fully realize the goals of our state,” Zelenskyy said.

• Ukraine lost nearly 40 percent of the territory it captured in Russia's Kursk region during a surprise attack in August, amid a heavy Russian offensive.
• Military analysts say Ukraine's military is facing manpower shortages, making it difficult to exchange troops more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away or build up troops.
• Residents of Kyiv went about their lives on Friday with torches and candles after Russia fired nearly 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine's electricity infrastructure the previous day, leaving more than a million households without power.
• The resumption of nuclear weapons tests by Moscow remains an open question given the aggressive policies of the US, the Russian embassy was quoted as saying on Saturday morning. “This is a close question,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS news agency when asked if Moscow was considering resuming the exercises.

Diplomacy

• Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and agreed to improve military cooperation between the two countries, according to Pyongyang state media.
• Kim told Belousov that Ukraine's use of long-range weapons is the result of direct military intervention by the United States and the West, and Moscow has the right to take defensive action, the country's KCNA news agency reported.
• French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to give Ukraine more support in its fight against “escalating” Russian aggression, his office said.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has reportedly urged his NATO allies to extend an invitation to Kyiv to join the Western military alliance at a meeting in Brussels next week.

• Zelenskyy said in an interview broadcast on Friday that giving Ukraine NATO membership while allowing Russia to keep the territory it had occupied could be the solution to ending the “hot phase” of the 33-month-old war.
• A spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Russia to “immediately stop all attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure”.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Russia-Ukraine war “showed the weakness of the rules-based international system”.
• The outgoing head of the European Union's foreign policy, Josep Borrell, described the situation in Ukraine as “getting worse” and said he hoped that the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, would improve it. Borrell said Ukraine can defend itself as long as its allies support it.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured Zelenskyy of the continued support of Germany in a phone call on Friday, where they agreed to stay in touch, and with the aim of looking at possible ways of peace, he said on social media X.
• Ukraine has accused Georgia of trying to “appease Moscow” after the country's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said his country would suspend EU accession talks.

Regional security

• Russia is waging an “incredibly reckless campaign” to destroy property in Europe, and is increasing its nuclear arsenal to intimidate other countries into backing Ukraine, the head of the United Kingdom's MI6 foreign intelligence agency has said.
• Poland has sent Leopard 2 battle tanks to Latvia to reinforce NATO forces there.
• German defense giant Rheinmetall and Lithuania have signed deals to start construction of a $190m ammunition factory to make ammunition in the country.
• German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius wants to order four new submarines to help meet NATO's security needs in Europe, a parliamentary budget committee source told AFP.
• Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV has warned of possible attempts by other states to influence the upcoming federal elections.

Human rights

• Russia has sentenced Alexei Gorinov, the first person convicted of speaking out against Moscow's military invasion of Ukraine, to another three years in prison in a second trial. The 63-year-old – a former Moscow city councilor – is serving a seven-year sentence following his conviction in 2022.