Yet another Russian attack on Kyiv: 3 killed, 37 injured

Russia launched another devastating aerial attack on Kyiv. Ukraine's Air Force informed that Russia launched 596 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones and 36 missiles of various types overnight.fenses intercepted 558 drones and 19 missiles.

Strikes hammered residential buildings and energy infrastructure across multiple districts, killing at least three people and injuring nearly 30 others while plunging over 600,000 households into darkness. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted most threats, downing 103 drones over Russian regions alone, but debris and direct hits ignited fires in Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, forcing residents into shelters amid hours-long explosions that echoed Zelenskyy's warnings of Moscow's intent to terrorize civilians far from the front lines. The attack, one of the heaviest in recent months, coincided with fragile U.S.-brokered peace talks, underscoring Russia's apparent strategy to sow chaos as winter deepens Ukraine's vulnerabilities.

Ukrainian naval drone strike disableв 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers

Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drones struck two sanctioned Russian oil tankers, Kairos and Virat, on November 28, disabling ships linked to Russia’s shadow oil fleet, a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) source told the Kyiv Independent.

The attack targeted the tankers off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. According to the source, these vessels may have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Russia evade sanctions. Both ships were empty and heading to Novorossiysk to load cargo when they were hit.

The source said the drones “successfully completed their work,” and that the joint SBU–Navy operation dealt “a significant blow” to Russia’s oil logistics.

The vessels have long histories of sanctions evasion. Bloomberg reported Kairos was returning from delivering Urals crude to India, while Virat — sanctioned by the U.S. and EU — had been mostly idle in the western Black Sea since January.

The death toll of the recent Russian deadly strike on Ternopil rose to 35 as another victim was identified by DNA

Law enforcement officers have identified another victim of the Russian strike on Ternopil on the night of 18–19 November through DNA testing, the National Police reported. The victim is a 73-year-old man.

This raises the number of people killed in the attack to 35, including seven children. Five people, one of them a child, remain missing.

On the night of 18–19 November, Russia struck an industrial facility and two residential buildings in Ternopil, causing massive destruction and heavy civilian casualties.

Russian forces destroyed a school in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Russian forces destroyed a lyceum in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during a nighttime strike on 28–29 November, the Dnipro City Council’s Department for Humanitarian Policy reported.

The attack with a guided aerial bomb hit a local lyceum, the largest school in the Mezhova hromada. Around 450 children studied there.

“The place where children learned, discovered the world, made friends and dreamed has now been reduced to rubble,” the department said.

Ukrainian Ambassador urged Germany not to slam the U.S. peace plan

Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, urged German politicians to soften their criticism of the American plan to end the war. He appealed for ZDF’s Maybrit Illner show.

Makeiev said Ukraine needs allies who sit with us at the negotiating table, not mediators, and stressed, “I strongly urge everyone in Germany not to criticize the United States. We need their support to achieve peace.”

He also praised Germany’s role in shaping a unified European position and highlighted Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s leadership.

The U.S. peace plan has been partly revised after feedback from Ukraine and several EU states. Vladimir Putin said the updated version could be a basis for future agreements, but again demanded that Ukrainian forces withdraw from territories Russia claims.