diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
index 71e692fb60..aa04fb76ec 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.14/full.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ What's New in Pylint 2.14.2?
 ----------------------------
 Release date: TBA
 
+
+* Fixed a false positive for ``unused-variable`` when a function returns an
+  ``argparse.Namespace`` object.
+
+  Closes #6895
+
 * Avoided raising an identical ``undefined-loop-variable`` message twice on the same line.
 
 * Don't crash if ``lint.run._query_cpu()`` is run within a Kubernetes Pod, that has only
diff --git a/requirements_test_min.txt b/requirements_test_min.txt
index 9b0d00ac8f..386f2605cb 100644
--- a/requirements_test_min.txt
+++ b/requirements_test_min.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -e .[testutils,spelling]
 # astroid dependency is also defined in setup.cfg
-astroid==2.11.5  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
+astroid==2.11.6  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
 typing-extensions~=4.2
 pytest~=7.1
 pytest-benchmark~=3.4
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5cbc86df73..ebe3815fe9 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install_requires =
     # Also upgrade requirements_test_min.txt if you are bumping astroid.
     # Pinned to dev of next minor update to allow editable installs,
     # see https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/issues/1341
-    astroid>=2.11.5,<=2.12.0-dev0
+    astroid>=2.11.6,<=2.12.0-dev0
     isort>=4.2.5,<6
     mccabe>=0.6,<0.8
     tomli>=1.1.0;python_version<"3.11"
diff --git a/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.py b/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..569564dc92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""Regression test for https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6895"""
+# pylint: disable=missing-class-docstring,too-few-public-methods
+import argparse
+class Cls:
+    def meth(self):
+        """Enable non-iterator-returned to produce the failure condition"""
+        return argparse.Namespace(debug=True)
diff --git a/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.rc b/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c3b20ca247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/u/unused/unused_variable_after_inference.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[Messages Control]
+enable=non-iterator-returned