Overview
- Russian units said they began clearing operations in Kupyansk’s Zapadnaya-Vtoraya microdistrict, with a commander citing searches of basements and utility spaces and drone-guided strikes near the Oskol River.
- The Defense Ministry published fresh footage from Dvurechansk after announcing its capture and released accounts of completed clearances in the settlements of Rog in the DPR and Yablokovo in the Zaporizhia region.
- The FSB reported thwarting a planned killing of a senior official at Moscow’s Troekurovskoye cemetery, and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets claimed the intended target was Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will not send representatives to the Ukraine-related meeting in Turkey and called temporary mobile internet shutdowns in some regions a justified anti-drone measure.
- Russian envoy Rodion Miroshnik reported that 13 civilians were killed and 71 injured in Russian regions by Ukrainian attacks from 10 to 16 November, with most casualties attributed to drones.