The Kyiv Independent reports that a Russian serviceman, said by Fontanka to be an Air Force colonel, was killed in a November 12, 2026 car explosion in Shushary near St. Petersburg — the second such bombing there in under three months — as Russia's Investigative Committee opened a murder case. The article also rounds up that day's war news: overnight strikes on Kyiv and the Omsk refinery, peace talks ending without a breakthrough, and U.S. envoys Kushner and Witkoff heading to Moscow.