Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine calls on Russia to withdraw this Christmas; new batch of Iranian drones reportedly launched - CNBC

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Kherson, Ukraine November 14, 2022.

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Convicted Russian arms trader Viktor Bout said helium shook hands with U.S. hoops prima Brittney Griner erstwhile they were exchanged arsenic portion of a precocious illustration U.S.-Russia captive swap past week.

Speaking to Russian media, Bout said they exchanged pleasantries and shook hands connected the airdrome tarmac successful Abu Dhabi wherever the speech process took place.

"When we were passing by, I wished her bully luck; she wished maine bully luck successful crook and past extended her hand. I shook hands with her. This looked decent," Bout said successful an interrogation with the KP-Petersburg news outlet.

Video footage released of the swap shows respective men accompanying Griner, who had been imprisoned successful Russia earlier this twelvemonth connected cause charges, arsenic she walks toward Bout, who was besides accompanied by a man, connected the tarmac of Abu Dhabi airport.

Bout embraces 1 of the men and shakes the manus of an different but there's a leap chopped successful the video arsenic Griner and Bout — erstwhile nicknamed the "Merchant of Death" by a British authoritative who was commenting connected Bout's arms dealing operations — attack each other.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian President Vladimir Putin's yearly property league quality was canceled connected Monday, and Britain's Ministry of Defense said that's apt due to the fact that of the Kremlin's concerns implicit rising anti-war sentiment successful Russia.

"The property league has go a important fixture successful Putin's calendar of nationalist engagement and has often been utilized arsenic an accidental to show the expected integrity of Putin," the ministry said connected Twitter.

"Although questions are astir surely usually vetted successful advance, the cancellation is apt owed to expanding concerns astir the prevalence of anti-war feeling successful Russia."

"Kremlin officials are astir surely highly delicate astir the anticipation that immoderate lawsuit attended by Putin could beryllium hijacked by unsanctioned treatment astir the 'special subject operation'," the ministry added.

The Kremlin confirmed connected Monday that Putin volition not clasp his accepted end-of-year property league without citing a crushed for the cancellation. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said the property league wouldn't beryllium held earlier the New Year but that the president would effort to find an accidental to talk to the media.

It's the archetypal clip successful 10 years that Putin volition not clasp the property conference. The yearly nationalist phone-in, successful which Putin answers a wide scope of (likely vetted) questions from the public, did not instrumentality spot this twelvemonth either.

Russian forces person experienced a bid of setbacks successful the warfare successful Ukraine, with grumblings of discontent increasing successful Russia, peculiarly pursuing the wide mobilization of reservists.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called connected Russian forces to retreat from Ukraine this Christmas arsenic helium addressed leaders of the Group of Seven connected Monday.

"Very soon we'll person holidays celebrated by billions of people. Christmas - according to the Gregorian calendar oregon the New Year and Christmas - according to the Julian calendar. This is the clip for mean radical to deliberation astir peace, not aggression. I suggest Russia to astatine slightest effort to beryllium that it is susceptible of abandoning the aggression," Zelenskyy said successful his address to G-7 leaders who met virtually Monday. 

"The occupier indispensable leave. It volition surely happen. I spot nary crushed wherefore Russia should not bash it present – astatine Christmas. The reply from Moscow volition amusement what they truly privation – further confrontation with the satellite oregon yet [a] cessation of the aggression. The 1 who brought the warfare upon america has to instrumentality it away," Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy suggested a "Global Peace Formula" acme should beryllium convened astatine which Ukraine's proposals could beryllium discussed.

"It would beryllium close to commencement the withdrawal of Russian troops from the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine this Christmas. If Russia withdraws its troops from Ukraine, it volition guarantee a lasting cessation of hostilities," helium added.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian forces person begun to motorboat a caller batch of Iranian drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force's spokesperson, who said the motorboat constituent has shifted to the eastbound broadside of the Sea of Azov.

"It is hard to talk astir the volumes. But what is known for definite is that they person already started utilizing them. They began to motorboat them from the eastbound portion of the Sea of Azov," Yuriy Ihnat, the spokesperson for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said during a nationwide telethon reported by quality bureau Ukrinform precocious Monday.

Ihnat said drones had already been downed successful the confederate regions of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa. Russia has been accused of utilizing Iranian-made "Shahed" drones to onslaught aggregate targets successful Ukraine, peculiarly vigor infrastructure, for months.

Although it has not officially admitted utilizing them, Iran has admitted to supplying Russia with drones and determination person been reports that Russia was awaiting a caller batch of the unmanned aerial vehicles.

Ihnat explained that the displacement successful the motorboat constituent of the drones was related to a displacement successful the presumption of the beforehand enactment successful Ukraine.

"The conflict enactment has shifted. Therefore, the force tin somewhat propulsion backmost the motorboat point. For Shahed [drones], region is not specified a problem. After all, they simply moved those motorboat sites, fearing that our defence forces could get them," Ihnat said, adding that the anticipation of caller rocket attacks remains.

Noting that Russia had moved strategical bomber craft further inland pursuing respective explosions astatine Russian airfields past week, for which Ukraine did not assertion responsibility, Ihnat said specified question "does not mean that they are not preparing immoderate benignant of attack. Therefore, we each request to beryllium acceptable for this."

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's premier curate has appealed for Patriot rocket batteries and different high-tech aerial defence systems to antagonistic Russian attacks that knocked retired energy and h2o supplies for millions of Ukrainians, putting Europe connected alert to brace for much refugees.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told French broadcaster LCI that successful summation to making Ukrainians suffer, Russia wants to swamp Europe with a caller question of Ukrainian refugees by continuing to onslaught powerfulness stations and different infrastructure.

Poland's president said his federation already has seen an accrued request to structure refugees owed to the operation of specified attacks coupled with the freezing upwind successful Ukraine.

"The fig of refugees successful Poland has risen (recently) to immoderate 3 million. That volition astir apt besides mean an summation successful their numbers successful Germany," Polish President Andrzej Duda said pursuing talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier successful Berlin.

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The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin volition not clasp his yearly property league this year.

The quality conference, which typically past aggregate hours, is 1 of the fewer opportunities for journalists extracurricular of the Kremlin property excavation to inquire Putin questions.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed reports by Russian-state owned media that Putin volition not clasp a property league this year. Peskov declined to springiness a crushed for the cancellation. 

— Amanda Macias

Group of Seven allies convened with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and reiterated their committedness to helping the state combat Russian aggression.

In a connection released aft the meeting, G-7 leaders promised to enactment Ukraine "for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes," calling Russia's actions an "illegal, unjustifiable and unprovoked warfare of aggression." The radical further condemned actors facilitating the war.

"There tin beryllium nary impunity for warfare crimes and different atrocities," the connection read. "We volition clasp President Putin and those liable to relationship successful accordance with planetary law. We reiterate that Russia's irresponsible atomic rhetoric is unacceptable and that immoderate usage of chemical, biological, oregon atomic weapons would beryllium met with terrible consequences."

G-7 leaders vowed to person their concern ministers conscionable "shortly" to sermon however to enactment Ukraine financially into 2023. The leaders said the International Monetary Fund should beryllium a cardinal player.

The allies besides reiterated they would proceed to determination distant from purchasing Russian lipid and would spell up arsenic planned with the program to acceptable a terms headdress connected Russian lipid successful aboriginal February.

"Russia's warfare of aggression indispensable end," the connection read. "To date, we person not seen grounds that Russia is committed to sustainable bid efforts. Russia tin extremity this warfare instantly by ceasing its attacks against Ukraine and wholly and unconditionally withdrawing its forces from the territory of Ukraine."

— Emma Kinery

Nearly 8 cardinal Ukrainians have go refugees and moved to neighboring countries since Russia invaded Ukraine successful precocious February, the U.N. Refugee Agency estimates.

More than 4.8 cardinal of those radical person applied for impermanent nonmigratory presumption successful neighboring Western European countries, according to information collected by the agency.

"The escalation of struggle successful Ukraine has caused civilian casualties and demolition of civilian infrastructure, forcing radical to fly their homes seeking safety, extortion and assistance," the U.N. Refugee Agency wrote.

— Amanda Macias

Kherson city, successful the partially-liberated confederate portion of Kherson, is coming nether "massive fire," according to the caput of the determination subject medication there.

"Kherson is nether monolithic occurrence from the Russian occupiers," Yaroslav Yanushevych said connected Telegram Monday, saying Russians had attacked 2 neighborhoods successful the city. Five radical were known to person been wounded successful the attacks and 2 radical to person died, helium said.

"Emergency aesculapian assistance teams, unneurotic with the Red Cross, are heading to the Ostriv district. The fig of victims [there] is presently unknown," helium said. CNBC was incapable to verify the details wrong Yanushevych's post.

Yanushevych called connected civilians to enactment wrong sheltered areas if they perceive the sounds of explosions.

Ukraine called connected residents wrong Kherson to evacuate past period pursuing the withdrawal of Russian forces from the metropolis and the wider Kherson portion to the westbound slope of the Dnieper river, fixed that Russian forces person tended to heavy bombard the settlements from which they person retreated.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian mercenaries warring successful eastbound Ukraine suffered dense losses aft the edifice they were utilizing arsenic their office was deed by Ukrainian forces this weekend, according to an official.

There were "very significant" losses aft the impermanent location successful Kadiivka successful Luhansk was hit, the caput of the Luhansk Military Administration Serhiy Haidai said connected his Telegram relationship connected Sunday.

Haidai claimed the edifice was being utilized arsenic the office of the backstage subject force, the "Wagner Group," a state-sanctioned radical founded by an state of President Vladimir Putin.

Wagner soldiers, wide seen arsenic mercenaries, are warring alongside the regular Russian service successful Ukraine, peculiarly successful the eastbound of the country, wherever warring is aggravated arsenic Russian forces effort to inhabit much of the portion and Ukrainian forces effort to reclaim much territory.

Haidai said Russian forces are looking to mobilize each the men successful the portion and that property oregon wellness is nary obstruction to being forcibly mobilized. CNBC was incapable to instantly verify Haidai's claims.