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Dozens of Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow region overnight into 13 November, disrupting flights at several airports after Russian air defences intercepted more than 100 drones, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. Ukrainian forces confirmed a third strike this year on Russia's Omsk oil refinery on 11 November, injuring one person, part of a wave of attacks that also hit refineries and energy sites at Ust-Luga, Kirishi, Saratov and Afipsky over the past week. In diplomacy, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on 12 November; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said afterwards that Europe would join the next round of peace talks, while Putin rejected demilitarised "grey zones" and foreign troop deployments in Ukraine.
The EU is set to add Russian oil refiners and shadow-fleet vessels to its sanctions list on 16 November, after ambassadors agreed on 11 November to blacklist 145 more individuals and entities, including 50 banks. A Kaliningrad court jailed human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler, 66, for 12 years on treason charges on 13 November, while Russia's FSB said separately it had detained two Polish nationals for espionage in Kaliningrad, a claim Poland dismissed as a provocation.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 18 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 18 verified stories on Russia in the past seven days, 2 of them still live. The most recent, updated 13 November 2026: Moscow drone attack: Sobyanin raises shot-down count to 144.
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Moscow's mayor said Russian air defences shot down 144 drones overnight, up from the 105 he initially reported, as the attack disrupted flights at the region's airports.
24 independent sources · 98% confidenceA court in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave sentenced human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler, 66, to 12 years in prison for treason, a rights group said.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceEU foreign ministers are expected to approve new sanctions on Russian oil refiners and shadow-fleet vessels on Monday, a senior commissioner said.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceZelensky said Europe will join the next round of talks after Putin rejected foreign troops in Ukraine and agreed to meet Trump at APEC on 18-19 November.
46 independent sources · 98% confidenceEU ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to sanction 145 more individuals and entities tied to Russia's war effort, including 50 banks, pending formal approval on 16 November.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceUkraine's special forces said drones struck Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk for a third time this year, as one person was hurt in the region, officials said.
9 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussia's FSB said the men were part of a Polish intelligence network; Poland dismissed the claim as a "provocation".
13 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian negotiators repeated Moscow's 2021 demands on Nato while agreeing in principle to a prisoner exchange, as a second day of Abu Dhabi talks ended without a ceasefire.
16 independent sources · 98% confidenceA drone strike set fire to Russia's Ust-Luga oil port on the Baltic Sea, injuring three people and disrupting flights from St Petersburg, officials said.
18 independent sources · 98% confidenceUkraine's president said American negotiators asked if Kyiv would trade the Donbas region for security guarantees resembling NATO membership, in an interview ahead of this week's Abu Dhabi talks.
2 independent sources · 74% confidenceUS envoys press Russia to let Europe into future Ukraine talks as negotiators work on a prisoner exchange and prepare to tackle territory on day two.
16 independent sources · 88% confidenceUkraine's General Staff confirmed a drone strike on a plant that repairs Russian military transport and radar planes in Staraya Russa overnight on Tuesday.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceA night-time drone attack set Russia's Kirishi oil refinery ablaze and killed a woman hit by falling debris in nearby Vsevolozhsk, the regional governor said.
17 independent sources · 98% confidenceA drone attack on the Russian city of Saratov sparked a large fire reported near its oil refinery overnight on Saturday, Russian media said.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceA fire broke out near the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region after a reported drone attack, as officials urged parents to keep children home.
6 independent sources · 88% confidencePoland sent about 180 extra police and anti-terrorism officers to its border with Kaliningrad, as Lithuania's defence minister called his side of the border calmer.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceGitanas Nausėda says Moscow is probing NATO responses through suspected hybrid operations, though a large-scale attack is not imminent.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceRobert Fico said he was available to support efforts towards an agreement involving Moscow, but no mediation arrangement has been announced.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian retailer Ozon reports an attack at an Adygeysk facility; employees evacuated and deliveries may be disrupted.
5 independent sources · 88% confidenceThe White House said First Lady Melania Trump will convene Russian and Ukrainian representatives for talks, though it gave no date or agenda.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceDrones hit the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia, sparking a large fire, injuring two workers and causing power cuts in Crimea, reports say.
15 independent sources · 98% confidenceMoscow's mayor said Russian air defences destroyed 493 drones overnight into Tuesday, a claim that has not been independently verified.
2 independent sources · 74% confidencePoland's prime minister said security forces stopped a possible provocation near the Kaliningrad border, days after Russia and Ukraine reported hacked emergency-alert apps.
55 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussia, Ukraine and the US will hold working-level talks in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November, with the Kremlin naming presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky to lead its delegation.
20 independent sources · 98% confidencePrime Minister Kristen Michal said he will keep calling Vladimir Putin a dictator, despite reports the Pentagon asked Baltic states to tone down their language.
2 independent sources · 64% confidenceA gendarme was set alight by a Molotov cocktail during a Paris cost-of-living protest on Saturday, prompting a criminal investigation, officials said.
2 independent sources · 64% confidenceDrones hit the Samara Linear Production and Dispatch Station near Prosvet overnight, Ukrainian monitors said, the latest in a monthslong campaign against the depot.
9 independent sources · 88% confidenceA drone attack hit the NORSI oil refinery in Kstovo, Russia, overnight into 1 November, Ukrainian monitoring channels said, as the regional governor warned of possible power and water cuts.
6 independent sources · 88% confidenceUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he raised a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the 18-19 November APEC summit in Shenzhen with Russia's Sergei Lavrov.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussia's FSB said it detained a Russian minor suspected of planning an attack at Moscow's Tsaritsyno museum park after a US warning of a possible mass-casualty event.
29 independent sources · 98% confidence