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Ukraine Probes Deadly Troop Gathering Strike as Russia Reports Battlefield Gains and Drone Incidents

Kyiv cites a hacked group chat exposing a banned ceremony, with the unit commander now in custody.

Overview

  • Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation charged a battalion commander and a Dnipro court remanded him without bail over a Nov. 1 ceremony that violated orders, with prosecutors citing 12 soldiers and seven civilians killed.
  • Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russian forces likely learned of the gathering by breaking into a group social-media chat, calling it an operational-security failure.
  • Russia's Defense Ministry and state media reported seizing Novoe, Sladkoe and Gnatovka and destroying a Ukrainian command post and armored vehicles in Zaporizhzhia, claims that were not independently verified in the provided coverage.
  • Explosions were reported by Ukrainian officials and media in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson on Nov. 10 and in parts of Zaporizhzhia region on Nov. 11.
  • Russian regional authorities reported overnight UAV activity, with Saratov citing damage to civilian infrastructure and Rostov saying air defenses downed or suppressed drones without casualties, while the DNR office alleged three Ukrainian shelling incidents.