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Country-wide (shaded): Ukraine
Wider areas: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast · Odesa oblast
Also, outside this view: Abu Dhabi
11 November 2026
21 events (3 confirmed) and 33 statements.
11 November 2026 in brief
A Russian strike on a market in central Chornomorsk killed four people and injured nine, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing Odesa regional authorities, and Kharkiv's mayor said a Russian drone strike on the Saltivskyi district killed two people. [1][2] Kyiv Oblast head Tymur Tkachenko said Russian drones killed one person in Yahotyn, Smolensk governor Vasily Anokhin said drone debris killed two people in Yartsevo, and Ukrainian officials reported people injured in Russian strikes on Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi district. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said Russia attacked six major substations in four regions overnight, and Odesa Oblast head Oleh Kiper and DTEK said attacks on energy facilities on 10 and 11 November left about 135,000 consumers without power. [1][2] Leningrad governor Alexander Drozdenko said drone strikes started a fire in the Ust-Luga port zone, and the SBU said it and other Ukrainian units struck the port and the missile ship Naro-Fominsk. [1] The second day of Ukraine-US-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi ended, with Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky and Ukraine's Rustem Umerov both pointing to agreement on a prisoner exchange, and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Putin would meet US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow on 12 November. [1]
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Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky said the sides agreed in principle in Abu Dhabi on another large-scale prisoner exchange whose details would be announced soon, TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
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Statements (33)
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Government of Russia: Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky said the sides agreed in principle in Abu Dhabi on another large-scale prisoner exchange whose details would be announced soon, TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
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Government of Russia: Russia's foreign ministry said Sergei Lavrov would lead Russia's delegation at the East Asia Summit in Manila on 17 November, Interfax reported.
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Government of the United States: US envoy Jared Kushner called the second day of talks hard and substantive and said he and Steve Witkoff would go to Moscow to meet Putin and then meet Zelensky, RIA Novosti and TASS reported.
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Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its forces struck energy facilities it said supply Ukraine's defence industry overnight, among them a 330 kV substation in Kryvyi Rih and 110 kV and 330 kV substations in Mayaki and Usatove in Odesa Oblast, and a dry cargo ship it said carried weapons, TASS reported.
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Government of Poland, including the Polish Armed Forces: Poland's foreign ministry said it was checking the FSB's report of two detentions in Kaliningrad Oblast on suspicion of espionage, and foreign ministry spokesman Maciej Wewior urged caution about the FSB's statement, while Jacek Dobrzynski, spokesman for the minister coordinating the special services, called the FSB material another provocation and disinformation, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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Government of Ukraine: First Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said that as of the morning of 11 November Russian attacks had left some consumers without power in Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, Odesa and Chernihiv oblasts, worst in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa oblasts, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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Government of Russia: Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said there was a basis for further work after the Abu Dhabi talks, TASS and Interfax reported.
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Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's representatives at the trilateral talks claimed Russia had occupied parts of Donbas that are still held by Ukraine, and said Putin lives in a different reality, Ukrinform and Meduza reported.
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Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said 627 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones were intercepted overnight over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov, TASS reported.
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Government of Russia: Russia's foreign ministry said Kyiv resorts to all kinds of terrorist methods, TASS reported, and proposed bilateral non-aggression pacts with individual NATO states, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported.
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Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Abu Dhabi talks would focus on an energy ceasefire, a ceasefire in the Black Sea, a prisoner exchange and preparations for a leaders' meeting, Interfax-Ukraine reported, and said Russia was using winter as a weapon against civilians, Ukrinform reported.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said Russia lost another 2,580 personnel and two air defence systems over the past day, Ukrinform reported, and that 125 combat clashes were recorded on the front on 10 November.
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Government of Denmark: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she would not represent Europe in talks with Russia on ending the war, UNIAN and RBC-Ukraine reported.
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Ministry of Defence of Russia: General Zorin, first deputy head of the Russian General Staff's information directorate, said the agreed exchange would be the largest and could take place within two to three weeks, with more than 1,000 people from each side, TASS and Interfax reported. Zorin also said the sides had not yet agreed a specific figure, TASS reported.
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Government of Lithuania: Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre, said claims that Lithuania lets Ukrainian drones use its airspace to fly toward Russia were completely false and that Russia was exploiting the drone incidents of the night of 10 to 11 November to spread disinformation, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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Government of Russia: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Putin's talks with Witkoff and Kushner would take place soon, TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
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Government of Ukraine: Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, described the Abu Dhabi talks of 10 and 11 November as difficult and said a significant result had been achieved on a prisoner exchange, and that Ukraine's priorities were unchanged: a ceasefire, a security architecture and prisoner exchanges, Interfax-Ukraine and RBC-Ukraine reported.
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Security Service of Ukraine (SBU): The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that on the night of 11 November it and other units of Ukraine's Defence Forces struck port and oil-refining infrastructure at Ust-Luga and the Buyan-M missile ship Naro-Fominsk, a carrier of Kalibr missiles, causing a fire and an oil spill, Interfax-Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda and UNIAN reported. Suspilne reported that Ukraine's General Staff and the SBU announced the strikes.
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Government of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was open to contacts with Europeans, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and that Putin had not yet received a full report from the Russian delegation on the trilateral talks, TASS reported.
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Government of the United States: US envoy Jared Kushner said Europe should name one person to speak for it at the Ukraine negotiating table, and that this would be a greater achievement than Russia agreeing to European participation, TASS and Interfax-Ukraine reported.
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Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's defence ministry said Russian losses in Ukraine since the start of November had exceeded 26,000, more than 2,000 a day, RBC-Ukraine reported.
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Government of Ukraine: Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, said the parties outlined their positions in Abu Dhabi and significant differences remained, and named an agreement on a prisoner exchange as the main outcome of the talks, Interfax-Ukraine and RBC-Ukraine reported.
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Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's foreign ministry rejected Russian claims that Ukraine deliberately steers drones into the airspace of the Baltic states and said course changes were caused by Russian electronic warfare, Interfax-Ukraine reported, after Estonian reports of a drone incursion.
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Government of Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said all parties assessed the meetings in the UAE positively, that only Zelensky was 'playing his own games', and that Putin would decide the next steps after the US envoys briefed him, TASS reported.
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Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine expected US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to share Russia's answer on a prisoner exchange and on a possible trilateral leaders' meeting after their Moscow visit, that Ukraine could not agree to leave Donbas to end the war, and that there was a window of opportunity for a result before 2027, Interfax-Ukraine, RBC-Ukraine and Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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Government of Russia: Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky said after the Abu Dhabi talks that the parties had moved closer to peace and that Russia would be satisfied only once its objectives were achieved and peace accords signed, TASS reported.
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European Union (High Representative and EEAS): EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said more than 20,500 Ukrainian children had been deported by Russia, of whom 2,790 had been returned home as of November, and that the evidence of Russia's organised campaign pointed to a crime against humanity, Interfax-Ukraine and Suspilne reported.
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Government of Russia: Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the OSCE was becoming complicit in what she called the Kyiv regime's information campaign, TASS reported.
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Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after talks with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda a decision was taken for Lithuania to hand Ukraine needed energy equipment, Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrainska Pravda reported.
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Government of Russia: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Putin would meet US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow on the morning of 12 November and that a meeting between Putin and Trump at the APEC summit was being planned, TASS and Meduza reported.
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said Ukrainian forces neutralised 3,068 of the 3,519 Shahed, Gerbera and Parodiya attack drones Russia launched between 1 and 10 November, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
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Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's Battlegroups East, North and West said their units eliminated more than 215, more than 305 and more than 210 Ukrainian personnel respectively over the past day and destroyed 100, 310 and 167 Ukrainian drones, and Battlegroup South said Ukrainian forces lost up to 190 personnel in its area and that it took out 197 Ukrainian drones, TASS reported.
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Group of Seven (G7): G7 foreign ministers said in a joint statement reported on 11 November that they discussed further supplies of air defence systems and long-range weapons to Ukraine, and that the G7 would step up financial and material support for Ukraine to meet its winter needs, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
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