What Others Write About Russia – November 16, 2026

In brief

• The Slovak portal HNonline.sk reports that from 1 January next year the EU wants to ban imports of Russian liquefied gas, and to end pipeline gas deliveries by 30 September 2027. According to the portal, these deadlines could be postponed at most until November, and only if filling storage facilities, currently at about 72.4 percent, were at risk.
• The Ukrainian agency Ukrinform warns residents of Kherson about a possible Russian mining of parts of the city, including Ivan Vazov Street.
• According to NV and TSN, a Russian attack in Vinnytsia Oblast hit a critical industrial infrastructure facility; no information has yet been received on the extent of the damage or casualties, and work is hampered by the threat of further strikes.
• Ukrainska Pravda reports that on the night of 16 November Russian authorities reported drone attacks on Moscow, citing a figure of 82 drones, while Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin did not report any effects of the attack.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky, according to TSN, announced together with the EU an urgent winter aid package (generators, charging stations, buses, materials for rebuilding bridges) following attacks that left hundreds of thousands of people without power in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.

Slovak press

According to the Slovak portal HNonline.sk, from 1 January next year a complete ban on EU imports of Russian liquefied natural gas is to take effect, and deliveries of pipeline gas from Russia are to end by 30 September 2027. The portal notes that these deadlines could be postponed, but at most until November and only if filling European storage facilities, which are currently about 72.4 percent full, were at risk. As HNonline.sk reports, the EU did not reach its own target of 90 percent storage filling by 1 November, and even the lowered threshold of 80 percent has not been achieved this year (Ruský plyn má z EÚ zmiznúť, zákaz však má slabé miesto: V zmesi ho možno odhaliť len ťažko – HNonline.sk)).

Ukrainian press

Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news portal, warns residents of Kherson that Russian forces may have mined part of the city. According to the publisher, explosive charges may have been placed on Ivan Vazov Street. (Residents warned of possible Russian mining of area in Kherson – Ukrinform)

Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news agency, reports that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) officially confirmed that the Russian U20 national team will not take part in the upcoming World Junior Championship, which Canada will host from 26 December to 5 January. (Russia barred from IIHF World Junior Championship – Ukrinform)

According to Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news service, a Russian drone hit a children's educational facility in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv. Ukrinform reports this information without details about the effects of the strike. (Russian drone hits children's educational facility in Kharkiv – Ukrinform)

Ukrainian NV reports that in Vinnytsia Oblast, as a result of a Russian attack, a critical industrial infrastructure facility was hit. According to NV, the head of the regional military administration, Zabolotna, provided this information on the night of 16 November, adding that work to remove the effects of the strike is hampered by the threat of further attacks. NV notes that, at this time, no information has been received on the extent of the damage or any casualties. (В Винницкой области российские войска попали в объект критической промышленности – NV) TSN writes similarly, adding that there were no casualties in the attack and that the burden of clean-up work is hampered by the threat of further strikes (Росія атакувала Вінниччину: є влучання в об'єкт критичної промисловості – TSN).

Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian news portal, reports that from the evening of 15 November and through the night of 16 November Russian authorities reported drone attacks on Moscow. According to Ukrainska Pravda, Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin, citing the Telegram channel Astra, first reported 15 allegedly downed drones, then another 32, and from the evening the total number of drones was said to be 82. Ukrainska Pravda notes that Sobyanin did not report any effects of the attack, and the governor of Yaroslavl Oblast, Mikhail Yevrayev, spoke of closing traffic in the direction of Moscow. (Російська влада заявила про атаку дронів на Москву – Українська правда)

According to the Ukrainian service TSN, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky announced on his Telegram channel that Ukraine, together with the European Union, is preparing an urgent winter aid package following Russian attacks on energy and transport infrastructure. The package is to include generators, charging stations, buses, and materials for rebuilding bridges and organizing river crossings over the Dnipro, and the parties are to agree on its final shape in the near future. TSN reports that after the latest Russian strike on power lines and substations in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity, and the prime minister announced a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels (ЄС готує екстрений зимовий пакет для України: яку допомогу отримають міста – TSN). The Slovak portal HNonline.sk, meanwhile, reports that the EU wants to completely ban imports of Russian liquefied gas from 1 January next year, and to end pipeline gas deliveries by 30 September 2027, which may affect energy reserves whose filling in the EU is still insufficient.

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