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16 November 2025
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November 2025 in brief
Russian missiles hit two apartment blocks in Ternopil on 19 November, killing at least 38 civilians including eight children, HRMMU verified, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he was appalled by the casualties. [1] A strike on Ukraine's grid on 8 November knocked out all of state generator Centrenergo's working thermal capacity, the company said, and an attack on 25 November killed at least eight people, mainly in Kyiv, according to authorities cited by HRMMU. [1][2] IOM said on 12 November that 3.7 million people were internally displaced in Ukraine and that more than 1.3 million displaced renters were using savings to pay rent. [1] Russian commanders told Vladimir Putin on 20 November that they had captured Kupiansk, and Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said the situation had significantly worsened on the Huliaipole and Oleksandrivka axes, where Ukrainian troops withdrew from two villages. [1][2] A Russian drone set a gas tanker ablaze at Izmail port on 17 November, leading Romania to evacuate a village across the Danube, and naval drones hit two sanctioned tankers off Turkey on 28 November and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal at Novorossiysk a day later, which Kazakhstan protested. [1][2] The US presented Ukraine with a 28-point peace plan on 20 November and talks in Geneva on 23 November drafted an updated framework, and on 28 November Zelensky's chief of staff and lead negotiator Andriy Yermak resigned after anti-corruption searches. [1][2][3] In Poland, an explosion damaged the Warsaw to Lublin railway line near Mika on 15 November, an incident the Leiden dataset codes as sabotage. [1]