Overview
- Vladimir Putin met youth volunteers and children of special military operation participants in Red Square, awarded honors in the Kremlin, and toured a patriotic exhibition featuring the Victory Banner.
- The Defense Ministry reported intercepting 85 drones overnight on November 4, including 20 over Nizhny Novgorod region, where falling debris damaged three private homes and one apartment building and flights were briefly halted at the local airport.
- RIA Novosti published video it says shows a Ukrainian drone killing a civilian attempting to leave the Kupyansk area, an attribution that could not be independently verified in the provided reports.
- Belarus’s Security Council said Russian weaponry on its territory, including the Oreshnik missile system and tactical nuclear arms, serves as an effective deterrent given what it called regional militarization.
- At an awards ceremony for designers, Putin said the Burevestnik cruise missile and Poseidon underwater system use only domestically produced materials.