Conflict & Security
Russia and Ukraine trade overnight strikes as Kyiv prepares trilateral peace talks
November 1, 2026 at 09:56 AM · Updated 16h ago
10 reports · 9 in Arabic, 1 in English · over 13 hours
Russia reported severe damage to an industrial plant east of Moscow as Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian refineries and prepared a trilateral peace meeting.
- Nizhny Novgorod Governor Gleb Nikitin said an overnight drone attack destroyed over 100 drones and damaged an industrial company in Kstovo.
- Deputy Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Ukrainian strikes hit three refineries after the attacks resumed following a several-day pause.
- Ukraine's Air Force said it shot down 371 of 433 Russian drones launched overnight in strikes on several regions.
- Zelensky said a trilateral Ukraine–US–Russia meeting is being prepared for the first half of November.
- The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin would accept any phone call from Zelensky, insisting the first round be trilateral.
- Russia's Defense Ministry said overnight strikes targeted a military-used railway station in Sumy and a ship southwest of Odesa.
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any Putin-Zelensky meeting would require Zelensky to travel to Moscow, with Russia offering security guarantees.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said European countries must eventually participate in discussing European security guarantees.
- Zelensky said his forces struck a missile-making enterprise in Russia's Rostov region as part of ongoing 'long-range sanctions' without acknowledging the refinery attacks.
- US President Donald Trump had urged Kyiv to halt strikes ahead of the midterm elections, and Ukrainian officials denied ever agreeing to Kushner's demanded 30-day pause.
- Ukrainian drones struck the Novokuybyshevsk refinery in Samara, the Ufa cluster in Bashkortostan, and NORSI in Nizhny Novgorod between October 30 and November 1.
- The strikes followed about three weeks after Trump's October 11 energy truce announcement, which Moscow did not confirm and Kyiv said was not reciprocated.










