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Ukraine's president told reporters Kyiv will not cede territory, but said a comprehensive deal including security guarantees could be put to a referendum.
Talks on Ukraine took place in Abu Dhabi. Al Jazeera reports that Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia called them among the most difficult since 2022, while Russia's Vladimir Medinsky said they brought the sides closer to peace.
Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources was quoted on Friday as saying the government has set a cull limit of up to 30% of brown bear populations, after reports that bear attacks have killed 36 people in Russia this year.
The White House says President Trump will end his visit to China with a three-way meeting with the presidents of China and Russia on the sidelines of next week's APEC summit in Shenzhen.
The EU's foreign policy chief cautioned against debating European security architecture with Moscow, as European leaders discussed who should represent Europe in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Russia's Investigative Committee has opened an investigation into a car explosion in Moscow, a day after a serviceman was killed in a car blast in St Petersburg, while Russian media link the Moscow car to Sergei Zavorotniy, a former spokesman for ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
At a Kremlin meeting with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would not compromise on his demands to end the war in Ukraine, but offered a short-term ceasefire in a key frontline city.
Two news agencies report that Armenia has lost its voting rights in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, linking the move to unmet obligations or debt, but the reports give few details and include no response from Armenia or the CSTO.
Two days of US-mediated talks ended with a planned prisoner-of-war exchange but no reported progress on core issues such as Donetsk, and US envoys are to travel next to Moscow and then Dublin.
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it will ban four French nationals from entering Russia in response to France's July 2026 expulsion of former RT France head Xenia Fedorova.
Russian and Ukrainian delegations ended a second day of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi on 11 November 2026, with Moscow's chief negotiator saying the sides agreed a large-scale prisoner swap.
Indonesia has asked Russia to stop recruiting its citizens for military roles, as a Ukrainian state project says Ukrainian forces captured a man from Java who fought with Russian forces.
Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned Moldova's ambassador, according to two separate news agencies, and Anadolu Agency reports the summons was over the expulsion of a diplomat.
A 41-year-old US Army member was arrested near Gloucester on 10 November 2026 in a UK-US investigation into suspected espionage for Russia.
The fourth round of U.S.-brokered talks began on Tuesday. The Guardian reports that European officials are not taking part directly, at Russia's insistence, and that Ukraine will brief European allies separately.
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta is winding up its operations, and according to Reuters the paper says a campaign of state pressure made it impossible to continue reporting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about using the potential of the security councils of Commonwealth of Independent States countries, according to headlines from TASS and Anadolu Agency.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on 8 November 2026 that France will attend the Abu Dhabi talks on ending the war in Ukraine, after the Kremlin said there was no role for European powers.
U.S. President Donald Trump said a three-way meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is likely at next week's APEC summit, but neither Beijing nor Moscow has confirmed it in the reports reviewed by Vocemundi.
Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of people, with the largest figure reported in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the energy company DTEK and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.