Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 267

Because the Russia-Ukraine warfare enters its 267th day, we check out the primary developments.

A Ukrainian serviceman offers an autograph to a resident in central Kherson [Murad Sezer/Reuters]

Right here is the scenario because it stands on Thursday, November 17.

Explosion in Poland

• Poland and NATO say a missile that crashed in Poland was in all probability a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and never a Russian assault, easing worldwide fears that the warfare might spill throughout the border.
• US President Joe Biden has disputed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s remark that the missile was not Ukrainian, saying: “That’s not the proof.”
• Ukraine is requesting “rapid entry” to the location of the explosion and says it is able to present “proof” that Russia was accountable, claiming that it has proof of a “Russian hint” to the explosion, with out giving additional particulars.
• NATO Secretary-Basic Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday mentioned the explosion was in all probability the results of Ukrainian anti-aircraft hearth, however that Russia bears “final duty” since Moscow is behind the warfare.
• The US and its allies criticised Russia within the UN Safety Council over its invasion of Ukraine and assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure which they mentioned resulted within the missile incident, dubbed “a daunting reminder of absolutely the want to forestall any additional escalation” by the UN political chief.
• The Kremlin praised Washington’s “measured” response after the incident as Biden mentioned it's “unlikely” the missile got here from Russia.

Combating

• The highest US normal mentioned Ukraine’s probabilities of any near-term, outright army victory weren't excessive, cautioning that Russia nonetheless had important fight energy inside Ukraine regardless of struggling battlefield setbacks.
• Investigators in Ukraine’s not too long ago liberated Kherson within the south have uncovered 63 our bodies bearing indicators of torture after Russian forces left the world, Ukraine’s inside minister Denys Monastyrsky mentioned, including that “search has solely simply began so many extra dungeons and burial locations will likely be uncovered”.
• Some 50 Russian troopers had been killed or wounded in a long-range Ukrainian artillery assault, the army mentioned in a uncommon occasion of Ukraine claiming to have inflicted main casualties in a single incident.
• Energy was totally restored in seven Ukrainian areas, together with the capital Kyiv, lower than 24 hours after a Russian missile barrage on vitality infrastructure throughout the nation.

Diplomacy

• Zelenskyy mentioned he met US Central Intelligence Company Director William Burns, who's within the area to debate the warfare in Ukraine. Burns additionally met Russian President Putin’s spy chief Sergey Naryshkin in Turkey this week.
• French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned G20 leaders agreed to push Russia in the direction of defusing the battle and expressed hope China might play a extra outstanding mediation function within the coming months.
• Russia hailed the G20 leaders’ declaration, which mentions the “immense human struggling” attributable to the warfare, as a “balanced textual content” that Russian diplomats labored exhausting to affect.
• A UN supply mentioned they've causes to be “cautiously optimistic” on the renewal of a Black Sea grains export settlement, which is about to roll over on Saturday until there are objections.