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- On Monday, the presidents of Ukraine and France, Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, signed a declaration of intent that includes the purchase of 100 Rafale fighter jets for Ukraine from the French company Dassault over the next decade.
- According to Reuters, the American company Chevron is negotiating to acquire part of the foreign assets of "Lukoil," which the Russian company is forced to sell due to U.S. sanctions imposed against it.
- The situation in the oil market has worsened following the imposition of sanctions against "Rosneft" and "Lukoil": Bloomberg reports a decline in demand and prices for oil from Russia. On November 13, the price of Urals oil in Novorossiysk fell to $36.61 per barrel, the lowest level since March 2023.
- After a nighttime drone attack on Ukraine, which resulted in a fire on a liquefied gas vessel, the authorities of Romania decided to evacuate the population of a border village.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reported a sabotage on the railway line used for delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The Polish prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the sabotage on railway line number 7, qualifying it as "a terrorist act organized by foreign intelligence."
- In the center of Balakliia, in the Kharkiv region, two missile strikes occurred, resulting in three deaths and 15 injuries, according to local authorities.
- In Nikopol, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people died as a result of artillery shelling.
- A fire broke out in a shopping center in the Belgorod region of Russia following a drone attack. Two people, including an emergency services employee, were injured in the Korochansky district as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones.
- Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and economist Sergey Guriev have been added to the "list of terrorists and extremists."
- Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State, has become an advisor to the Ukrainian company Fire Point, which manufactures Flamingo missiles.
