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Russia and Ukraine's second round of US-brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi ended on 11 November without a ceasefire, as Russian negotiators revived Moscow's December 2021 demands on Nato while agreeing in principle to a prisoner exchange, ISW and negotiators said. Hours later, on 12 November, Russia fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv and a Russian drone killed a 44-year-old woman and injured 5 others at an apartment block in the capital's Solomianskyi district, officials said. The EU agreed on 12 November to blacklist 145 more Russia-linked targets, including 50 banks, pending formal approval on 16 November.
Russian strikes also hit Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district, wounding one person and setting fire to dozens of garages, and a Russian drone strike on a market in Chornomorsk killed 3 people and injured 11 on 11 November, officials said. In Spain, a general strike over housing and pay turned violent in Barcelona and Madrid on 11 November, with at least 100 people detained nationwide, El Mundo reported. Russia's FSB said it had detained two Polish nationals for spying in Kaliningrad, a claim Poland dismissed as a provocation, while cybersecurity firm ESET said a Russia-linked group had spied on a Romanian government agency's Nato and EU correspondence.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 59 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 30 verified stories on war & conflict in the past seven days, 2 of them still live. The most recent, updated 12 November 2026: Four soldiers killed as military helicopter crashes in Malatya, Turkey.
A Turkish army S-70 Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Samanköy in Malatya province on Thursday evening, killing all four soldiers aboard, the defence ministry said.
14 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% confidenceA Russian drone strike killed a 44-year-old woman and left 7 people hurt at a Kyiv apartment block on Thursday, part of a wider overnight barrage on energy and transport sites, officials said.
Updated : Number of people hurt in the Solomianskyi drone strike rises to seven, Kyiv officials say.
11 independent sources · 98% confidenceA morning drone attack damaged apartment blocks in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district as the capital moved to cut outdoor lighting amid power shortages.
3 independent sources · 88% confidencePolice made dozens of arrests in Barcelona, Madrid and the Basque Country as Wednesday's nationwide strike over housing and pay turned violent.
Updated : Barcelona's mayor says 52 people were detained in the city's unrest.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceRomania's air force sent up two F-16 jets and issued a public alert in Tulcea county after radar picked up a drone near the Black Sea's Snake Island.
4 independent sources · 87% 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.
Updated : Ukraine's SSO confirms this was the third strike on the Omsk refinery this year, as one person was injured in the region, the governor says.
9 independent sources · 98% confidenceA missile strike early on Wednesday wounded one person and set fire to dozens of garages in Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said; Ukrinform reported five hurt in a strike it blamed on drones.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceA jet-powered Russian drone hit a crowded market in the Ukrainian port city on Wednesday, regional officials said.
4 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% confidenceCybersecurity firm ESET said Russia-linked group Turla compromised a Romanian government email server to intercept Nato and EU correspondence.
4 independent sources · 82% 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% confidenceParis's public prosecutor opened an investigation after a cyberattack hit refrigerated storage units at France's national blood service, authorities said.
4 independent sources · 97% confidenceSpain's government approved new railway safety rules and a victims' advocate office, responding to unions' demands after the Urda train crash that killed 69.
4 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% confidenceA pupil threw a petrol bomb at a French regional councillor trying to end a Chelles school dispute, prompting condemnation as a 'crime'.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceDebris from a Nato fighter's missile was found in northern Lithuania after a jet had technical problems trying to shoot down a drone overnight, reports said.
8 independent sources · 98% confidenceThe European Commission chief announced extra funding for Black Sea security and search-and-rescue during a visit to Varna with PM Radev.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceUS refuelling tankers were moved from RAF Mildenhall to Germany on Monday after a suspected Iran-linked threat, officials said, weeks after a similar move at RAF Fairford.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceUS envoy to NATO Whitaker said Washington is carrying out Donald Trump's plan for more American troops in Poland, though numbers and timing are undecided.
3 independent sources · 55% 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% confidenceThe IAEA said a worker at Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was killed in a drone attack, with a worker at a nearby thermal plant also killed.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceEuropean, Ukrainian and US officials met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday to coordinate security guarantees for Ukraine as the first trilateral session concluded after four and a half hours.
7 independent sources · 98% 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% confidenceFrance summoned Iran's ambassador and the EU pledged a united response after Paris blamed Tehran for a cyberattack on supermarket fridges; Iran denies it.
8 independent sources · 98% confidenceAn elderly resident died and two neighbours were hurt after a Russian drone hit a home on the northern edge of the Kyiv region, officials said.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceEuropean Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said discussions on Europe's security can only begin once a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine, and pledged new Black Sea funding.
3 independent sources · 59% confidenceA cyberattack hit Italy's anti-mafia investigations directorate, which said hackers copied only public material already on its website.
4 independent sources · 82% confidenceJared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will meet Ukrainian, EU and NATO representatives before US-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November.
7 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian forces attacked a residential area in Izium, Kharkiv region, overnight, injuring 6 people including 2 children and setting 3 fire stations ablaze, emergency services said.
4 independent sources · 98% confidence