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Last night, air defense alert systems intercepted a total of 216 unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions, including 71 over the Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast, and Volgograd Oblast. Another 59 drones were shot down over the Black Sea.

Drones were shot down over six northern districts of the Rostov region tonight.

Military personnel repelled a drone attack on energy facilities in the Volgograd region overnight.

Air defense forces intercepted 17 unmanned aerial vehicles over the Rostov region and the Black Sea in three hours on the evening of November 13.

A Yerevan court has extended the pretrial detention of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who is accused of plotting to seize state power, for another three months.

A Novorossiysk resident was hospitalized after being injured by shards of broken window glass during a drone attack. Three apartment buildings were damaged, as well as an oil depot at the Sheskharis transshipment complex.

At a military court hearing in Baku, prosecutors demanded life sentences for five former leaders of the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, including its former president, Arayik Harutyunyan.

A Moscow court acquitted Kabardino-Balkaria resident Aslan Khagundokov of the 2012 murder of a Moscow official. Khagundokov remains in prison on a conviction handed down ten years ago for the murder of a Rostov businessman.

The Dagestan Prosecutor's Office has filed an appeal against the Khasavyurt Court's ruling that Muslim Ediev's detention was unlawful due to his illness. Ediev remains in pretrial detention and complains of worsening health, according to his lawyer.

On the 351st day of uninterrupted protests, protesters marched through small streets in central Tbilisi near the Georgian Parliament. Police attempted to prevent activists from crossing the road at zebra crossings.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan dismissed the cassation appeal of the head of the Kanal-13 internet television channel, Aziz Orujov.

The Tbilisi City Court has ordered pretrial detention in absentia for former Prime Minister and current opposition party leader Giorgi Gakharia, who is accused of official misconduct during his tenure as Georgia's Minister of Internal Affairs.

Anapa authorities filed a petition for 670 million rubles in compensation in a dispute over the sinking of tankers near the Kerch Strait, which resulted in a fuel oil spill. The court recommended filing a new lawsuit instead of increasing the compensation amount.

The Rostov Regional Court upheld the five-year prison sentence of the director of a commercial organization in a case involving deaths and injuries caused by a collapsed podium.

Thirty-three-year-old Aliya Ozdamirova, who fled Chechnya due to threats from her family, was deceived or forcibly taken from Georgia to the republic on November 9. Her funeral took place on November 12. Human rights activists reported that her friends believe she may have been the victim of an "honor killing."

Activist Nina Sander, detained after protests on the day of municipal elections, has been charged with inciting the overthrow of the government in addition to organizing group violence and faces up to nine years in prison. There are 64 defendants in the October 4 protest case.

Windows were blown out in five private homes in the Afipsky settlement and the Smolenskaya village, and a car was also damaged. In the village of Volnoye, windows were also damaged in five homes due to an explosion from an unmanned boat.

Vitaly Heroyan was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 763 soldiers from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

Faig Nagiyev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest. The party noted that three activists had been subjected to similar persecution in the past week and called it politically motivated.

Sergei Sviridov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,494 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.