Overview
- Adopting its 2025 enlargement package, the European Commission praised Kyiv’s completed screening and said Ukraine meets conditions to open clusters 1, 2 and 6, while warning about rising pressure on anti‑corruption institutions and civil society.
- Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said the Commission will seek a Council mandate to proceed at expert level on cluster preparations before formal political openings blocked by Hungary.
- Urban fighting continued inside Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian forces reported search‑and‑strike operations, partial pushbacks and a restored logistics corridor, as the General Staff logged 103 combat engagements on November 4.
- Facing winter energy strain, Zelensky said Ukraine still lacks about $750 million for gas imports after an EU pledge of roughly €127 million, and the government allocated 6 billion hryvnias to harden around 120 energy sites against evolving drone attacks.
- Zelensky urged an EU decision this year to use frozen Russian assets for a proposed $140 billion reparations credit, as Ukrainian services reported sustained strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure and the SBU claimed a significant share of refinery capacity is offline.