US Presidential Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg plans to leave the Donald Trump administration in January 2026, when his term expires, Reuters reported on November 19, citing sources. The Special Presidential Envoy is a temporary position that can be held for no more than 360 days. At the same time, the US Senate can extend the term of office of the special envoy. One of the Reuters sources said the retired general never intended to remain in the administration for long.

The Italian Court of Cassation, the country's highest court, decided to extradite to Germany Ukrainian citizen Sergei Kuznetsov, suspected of involvement in explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline system in 2022. This was stated by Kuznetsov’s lawyer Nicola Canestrini, La Repubblica reported on November 19. Kuznetsov was detained in Italy in August at the request of Germany. Soon, Italian courts supported his extradition to the German authorities, but the Ukrainian’s defense challenged this.

What is known about the new US peace plan Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty Images View of Pokrovsk, damaged by shelling and fighting, a city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which Russian troops have been trying to capture for several months.

Duduzila Zuma-Sambudla , the daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, recruited men from South Africa and Botswana to join the Russian army in the war against Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on November 19, citing sources. According to the agency, Duduzila Zuma, a member of the South African parliament, recruited about 20 young men who went to Russia in July.

“I'll be waiting for you. May I go?" - “I allow” Kristina Kormilitsyna / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / IMAGO / SNA / Scanpix / LETA Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of Sberbank, where the 10th International AI Journey Conference (“Journey into the World of Artificial Intelligence”) was held on November 19. During the visit, Putin met and talked with a humanoid robot named Green, created on the basis of the Gigachat neural network.

Daria Serenko from Feminist Anti-War Resistance conducted the first interview that answers these questions In November 2023, a court in St. Petersburg sentenced artist Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in prison on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. They began to persecute her shortly after the start of the great war between Russia and Ukraine.

Representatives of the US authorities made it clear to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that Kyiv must accept the plan developed by Washington to end the war with Russia, Reuters reports, citing sources. According to them, the framework agreement to end the conflict assumes that Ukraine will give up some territories and some types of weapons. US proposals, say the agency's interlocutors, include, among other things, reducing the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The United States has not contacted Russia through official channels regarding any agreements on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS against the backdrop of information appearing in Western media about the impending peace agreement and the negotiations ongoing in connection with this. There are official channels, which are known in the United States of America, for resolving relevant issues, discussing them, and for negotiation processes.

The Mozhaisk City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced businessman Vasily Boyko-Veliky in the case of organizing a criminal community, the regional prosecutor's office reported. The court found Boyko-Veliky, as well as seven other defendants in the case, guilty under Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code. The businessman's accomplices received sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years in prison.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 59-year-old Alexander Neustroev to four and a half years of strict regime in the case of justifying terrorism, Mediazona reports. Neustroev has already been convicted in another case and is in a penal colony. The reason for the new case was his statements in the smoking room, in which he, in the presence of eight other prisoners, spoke approvingly of the murder of Daria Dugina and the “military correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky.

Fight map for November 19 The complete encirclement of the Ukrainian group in Mirnograd near Pokrovsk never took place. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not yet been able to secure this city: they have not been able to break through a reliable corridor to its garrison. And the Ukrainian command is in no hurry to withdraw the almost encircled forces. Russian troops continue to accumulate in Pokrovsk itself.

Russian attack on a city in western Ukraine. 26 people were killed, including three children. Photos On the night of November 19, the Russian army launched a combined strike on Ukraine using 48 missiles and more than 470 drones. The western regions of the country also came under attack.

We have studied the video of the missile attack. Here's a short summary of it On the night of November 19, the Russian Armed Forces carried out another massive air attack on Ukrainian regions using drones and cruise missiles. Residents of the city of Ternopil faced the most devastating consequences of the strike. There, Russian missiles and drones partially destroyed two multi-story residential buildings.

Rosfinmonitoring included the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov in the list of “extremists and terrorists,” according to the department’s website. The register also included virologist Konstantin Chumakov and historian Yuri Pivovarov. All of them have an asterisk next to their names in the register - this means that a case has been opened against them under the “terrorist” article.

State Duma deputies adopted in the second and third reading amendments to the federal law “On Education” concerning vocational education. According to the bill, ninth-grade graduates will receive the right to free training “in blue-collar professions and employee positions” if they fail to pass the main state exam (OGE) to advance to the 10th grade.