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Ukraine's Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said on 13 November 2026 that Kostiantynivka was not raised in talks on humanitarian missions, though Kyiv has a priority list of occupied settlements. Speaking on Telegram, Lubinets said he first heard of the proposed humanitarian mission for Kostiantynivka, modelled on the one in Oleshky, from media reports, and that Russian representatives had not raised the city in contact. Kostiantynivka was not named among settlements Ukraine has preliminarily listed for such missions, and Kyiv initially focused on occupied Kherson Oblast, where he described extremely poor living conditions amounting to a humanitarian catastrophe. On 12 November Vladimir Putin proposed the mission in talks with US special envoys and again claimed full control of the city, which Ukrainska Pravda said was false. The General Staff said Putin's claims of occupying Kostiantynivka are untrue, while the Office of the President said Russia seeks to use the mission to regroup its forces. Kherson Oblast military chief Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces returned during the Oleshky ceasefire to positions Ukrainian defenders had pushed them from almost a year earlier.