Abu Dhabi, day one: Zelensky calls the talks “constructive”; no prisoner-swap deal confirmed

Civilian casualties of russian strikes on 10 November and the night into 11 November, as reported by the authorities; the data are incomplete and may rise, the reports cover different periods and partly overlap, so they have not been added up. The Kyiv Independent counted 9 killed and 39–40 injured across the country in the day to 12:03 on 10.11:

• Donetsk region, day to 10.11 — 3 killed, 1 injured (regional governor Vadym Filashkin, via the Kyiv Independent); may include Kramatorsk
• Dnipro, 10.11 — 2 killed, at least 4 injured; strike on a critical-infrastructure company, fire (regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha, Telegram, via Suspilne, 16:21 on 10.11; the story was being updated)
• Kramatorsk (Donetsk region), 9–10.11 — 2 municipal workers killed (9.11 ≈15:55 and 10.11 ≈11:05), 1 seriously injured; FPV drones hit service vehicles (city military administration head Oleksandr Honcharenko, via the Kyiv Independent)
• Kyiv region, 10.11 — 1 killed, 9 injured (1 of them a child); an energy facility in Boryspil district damaged (regional governor Tymur Tkachenko, via the Kyiv Independent)
• Zaporizhzhia region, day to 07:23 on 11.11 — 1 killed, 15 injured; 1,107 strikes (via Ukrinform)
• Kherson region, day to 08:02 on 11.11 — 1 killed, 3 injured; 35 towns and villages shelled (via Ukrinform)
• Sumy region, 10.11 — 1 killed, 7 injured (via the Kyiv Independent); day to 08:25 on 11.11 — 50 strikes, 5 casualties (via Ukrinform); the reports cover different periods
• Kharkiv region, 10.11 — 0 killed, 8 injured (3 of them children aged 1, 5 and 11; regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, via the Kyiv Independent); on the morning of 11.11 a missile strike on Kharkiv — 1 injured (via Ukrinform, 07:49)
• Odesa, 9.11 — 3 killed, 3 injured (figures reported earlier, via the Kyiv Independent)
• Kirovohrad region, 10.11 — 2 injured, one in intensive care (local authorities, via the Kyiv Independent)

Dnipro, 10 November. A russian strike on a company classed as critical infrastructure started a fire; 2 people were killed and at least 4 injured, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region (Telegram, via Suspilne, 16:21 on 10.11). The report does not mention children or name the weapon; the story was still being updated, and no final figures were found as of the morning of 11.11. There is no word of a day of mourning.

Kramatorsk (Donetsk region), 9–10 November. russian FPV drones attacked service vehicles of the municipal transport company KATP 052810 on two days running, according to the head of the city military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko (via the Kyiv Independent, 11.11): on 9.11 at about 15:55 a worker in his fifties was killed, on 10.11 at about 11:05 a worker born in 1987, and another was seriously injured and taken to hospital. Honcharenko: “Municipal workers go to work every day risking their lives.” On the evening of 10.11 Suspilne reported strikes on cars, a market and a rubbish truck in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk with people killed and injured (headline only; the text was not read).

Kharkiv region, 10 November. 8 people were injured in the day, among them three children aged 1, 5 and 11, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov (via the Kyiv Independent); the power grid was also hit. On the morning of 11.11 (Ukrinform, 07:49) a missile strike on Kharkiv damaged apartment blocks and a garage cooperative; 1 person was injured. These reports mention no deaths.

125 clashes on 10 November — the fewest since 25.10 and 30% below the weekly average (179), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (report via Suspilne 08:32 and LB.ua 08:38 on 11.11). Fire, though, went up: 8,781 kamikaze drones — almost twice the day before (4,608) and the most since 31.10; 2,653 shelling attacks (8 of them by multiple rocket launchers), 65 air strikes with 222 guided glide bombs. The named directions account for only 43 of the 125 assaults; the report does not break down the rest (its headlines call the Kramatorsk direction the hottest, its text the Kostiantynivka direction). Attacks by direction:

• Kostiantynivka — 15
• Pokrovsk — 11
• South Slobozhanskyi — 7
• Huliaipole — 3
• Lyman and Oleksandrivka — 2 each
• Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Orikhiv — 1 each
• Kupiansk and Prydniprovskyi — no assaults
• North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk — no assaults; 6 air strikes (11 glide bombs), 41 shelling attacks (2 by MLRS)
• Volyn and Polissia — no signs of offensive groupings

2,580 russian troops killed or seriously wounded on 10–11 November, according to Ukraine’s General Staff: more than a day earlier (2,220) and a third above the 30-day average (1,959). Artillery systems: 73, the most since 26.09 and twice the 30-day average (37). Total ≈1,614,180 (≈1,611,600 as of 10.11). There is no independent confirmation; the figures are being updated:

• personnel — 2,580
• tanks — 3
• armoured vehicles — 10
• artillery systems — 73
• MLRS — 0
• air defence systems — 2
• aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles — 0
• operational-tactical drones — 1,559
• vehicles (incl. fuel tankers) — 513
• UGVs — 5
• special equipment — 2

164 drones and missiles overnight into 11 November — the same as the night before (163) and almost a quarter below the weekly average (212): 163 attack drones (91 jet-powered; Shahed, Gerbera, S-8000 Banderol and Parodiya types not counted separately) and one Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missile fired from over the Black Sea. 144 (88%) were shot down or jammed — the highest share since 3.11: 14 S-8000 Banderols and 130 other drones (Air Force, as of 08:00). Hits at 17 locations, debris at 7. The report does not say whether the missile was intercepted. Launch areas: Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, Shatalovo and Hvardiiske (occupied Crimea).

Energy. A mass drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, a steel city of some 600,000 in central Ukraine, left part of it without power and heating (Ukrinform, 00:22 on 11.11); in the Cherkasy region an energy facility was damaged, cutting power to part of Uman district (07:53); in the Mykolaiv region 60,788 customers in Pervomaisk district were without power (Kyiv Independent, 10.11). Sloviansk, night into 10.11: two FAB-250 bombs damaged 22 apartment blocks and a medical facility; no casualties were reported (city military administration head Vadym Liakh, via Suspilne). No overall figure for damage to the power system in the day was found.

✈️📏 635 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Strike results: the 123rd Aircraft Repair Plant (Staraya Russa, Novgorod region, north-western russia), night into 10 November. Ukraine’s General Staff has now confirmed the strike (Telegram, via Suspilne, 15:59 on 10.11): explosions and a fire on the plant’s grounds; the extent of the damage is being established. According to the General Staff, the plant repairs and upgrades A-50 airborne early-warning aircraft and military transport planes. The russian side had already acknowledged the strike on 10.11: governor Alexander Dronov reported damage to an industrial site and two country houses with no casualties, and russia’s MoD named the plant among those hit (see the issue of 10.11). Bottom line: confirmed by the General Staff and acknowledged by russia; the scale of the damage is unknown.

local authorities: indirectLocal authorities (Novgorod region governor Aleksandr Dronov; russia’s MoD, 10.11 (≈10:05 Moscow time)): an industrial site and two country houses damaged, no casualties; russia’s MoD named the plant among those hit

🚢unverified📏 860 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region, on the Baltic west of St Petersburg), night into 11 November. A drone strike on the port and a fire were reported by the monitoring channel Exilenova+ (via the Kyiv Independent, 02:59 on 11.11); no official confirmation from the General Staff, the SBU, military intelligence (HUR) or other bodies had been found by the morning. Governor Alexander Drozdenko (via Lenta.ru) confirmed a fire in the port area after a drone attack, three workers injured (not life-threatening) and an emergency shutdown at a transformer substation; he said 150 drones were shot down over the region. Bottom line: the local authorities name the port and acknowledge the fire; the scale and what exactly was hit are unknown.

local authorities confirmLocal authorities (Leningrad region governor Aleksandr Drozdenko, 11.11 (morning)): fire in the Ust-Luga port area after a drone attack, 3 workers injured, emergency shutdown of a substation; 150 drones shot down over the region

💥Donetsk airport (occupied Donetsk region), 10 November. The 412th regiment (brigade) of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) said on Telegram (via the Kyiv Independent, 23:46 on 10.11) it had hit a russian drone launch site at the airport, with the aim of destroying the infrastructure used to launch drones at Ukrainian cities. The scale and effect were not given; no statement by the occupation authorities was found.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Donetsk occupation authorities, 10–11.11): no statements about this facility found in the material read

🛢️Reuters (two industry sources, as relayed by the Kyiv Independent, 10.11): Ukrainian drones have cut russia’s oil-refining capacity by about 30% since late October; actual throughput may have fallen by ≈200,000 tonnes a day, to ≈700,000. In one week 9 of 35 large refineries — ≈300,000 tonnes a day of capacity out of a total of ≈930,000 — had disruptions or emergencies. These are estimates, not officially confirmed; the Reuters original was not read.

🖥️unverifiedKommersant, according to a Kyiv Independent headline (10.11), reports that russian companies are looking for data-centre capacity abroad after Ukrainian strikes. The text was not read.

unverified UK MoD and IAEA: no new updates for 10–11.11 were looked for in this issue. The new monthly UN report (HRMMU/OHCHR) for October was not searched for again; the September report (15.10) remains the latest.

🤝Three-way talks in Abu Dhabi, 10 November. russia’s delegation is led by Putin’s aide Vladimir Medinsky (with deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin and representatives of the General Staff and the FSB); Ukraine’s by Rustem Umerov; the US mediators are Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Medinsky opened by thanking the hosts and said he hoped a “bigger and more professional” delegation would help move towards peace (Interfax, Meduza). The session was closed and lasted about four hours, with a ≈40-minute break. Umerov separately described a morning coordination meeting with European national security advisers and EU and NATO representatives; according to a Suspilne headline, Ukraine, the US and Europe issued a joint statement on security guarantees (Suspilne, 12:04, headline only). Zelensky (10.11) summed up the agenda as humanitarian steps (first of all prisoners), the content of security guarantees and de-escalation: “We need real instruments to block any repetition of the war.” The second day began on 11.11 at 11:00 Moscow time. No concrete agreements have been officially announced.

🔁unverifiedPrisoner exchange. A Ukrinform headline (23:56 on 10.11) says “the sides agreed” in Abu Dhabi to hold a large prisoner exchange soon; Zelensky (22:30 on 10.11, according to a Ukrinform headline) spoke of “discussing the possibility of a large exchange”. The materials read give no date, no number and no official confirmation from russia; the texts were not read.

📰unverifiedAccording to an Axios headline (9.11), the White House is “cautiously optimistic” about this week’s russia– Ukraine peace talks. The article could not be read (Axios pages were unavailable); there are no details or sources.

🕊️unverified Ukraine and russia. Before the Abu Dhabi talks on 10.11, Trump, speaking at the White House, according to russian-language accounts (Focus, EADaily; the English original was not read), spoke of a “very strong desire” by russia and Ukraine to end the war, said “we’re having a very good conversation about it in Abu Dhabi” and that “something may happen” there (also in a conversation with Reuters, according to EADaily). According to the same accounts, he believes the war “will end pretty soon”, and called an MS NOW reporter “fake” media when reminded of his promise to end the war. These are unverified translations, so no quotes are given.

🛢️unverified Iran. According to Euronews and Yahoo Finance headlines (10.11), Trump again said the war with Iran is “effectively over” militarily and a resumption of fighting “very unlikely”; Tehran denies it is planning talks. The texts were not read; the quotes are not verified.

🧩unverifiedTrump’s administration. According to a Kyiv Independent exclusive (10.11, mostly anonymous sources), Trump’s former chief of staff Susie Wiles resigned a week earlier after the Republicans lost both houses of Congress; the outlet also describes a “troubling” back channel between her and Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s former chief of staff, and its role in the collapse of an Oval Office meeting. Yermak did not respond; the article contains no White House response. Trump’s own words are not given here.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (10.11, according to Interfax) called the first day of the Abu Dhabi talks “productive” and said a lot of work lies ahead; earlier the same day, according to the Kyiv Independent, he repeated that security guarantees for Ukraine must also be acceptable to russia. According to CBS (headline), he also said the US has no need to resume military action against Iran.

🏛️Senator Dick Durbin (Kyiv Independent, 01:45 on 11.11) urged the incoming Congress not to give up on Ukraine and to keep supplying air defence; he called attempts to “appease Putin” “fantasy and folly”.

fantasy and folly

No new statements on Ukraine by official Beijing in the day were found in the materials read.

🗣️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (10.11, 12:35 Moscow time, Rossiyskaya Gazeta) said the russian delegation would decide itself whether to contact moscow during the talks, depending on how they go; he declined to predict the outcome (“let’s not answer such questions, especially now”) and said details, including on shipping in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, would not be disclosed away from the negotiating table. Context: the talks are closed; Ukraine and the US have spoken of humanitarian and security topics.

🗣️Putin’s aide Vladimir Medinsky (opening of the Abu Dhabi talks, 10.11; Interfax, Meduza) thanked the hosts and the American “peacemaker partners” and said he hoped a bigger and more professional delegation would help make progress towards peace. Context: russia’s delegation includes deputy foreign ministers and representatives of the General Staff and the FSB; russia has named no concrete proposals publicly.

🗣️No new statements by Putin, Lavrov, Ushakov, Medvedev, Belousov or the other officials on the list about the war, the talks, Ukraine or the US for 10–11.11 were found in the materials read (the latest statements by Peskov and Lavrov, of 9.11, are in the issue of 10.11).