Operational information as of the evening of November 2, 2022 from the General Staff

The two-hundred-fifty-second (252) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. The enemy is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions. Conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions.

The enemy is shelling units of the Defence Forces along the contact line, carrying out border fortification equipment in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. It continues to strike critical infrastructure and civilian homes in violation of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war. During the current day, the enemy launched 1 missile and 12 air strikes, carried out more than 25 MLRS attacks.

At night, the enemy again attacked Ukrainian infrastructure facilities with missiles and Iranian Shahed-136 attack UAVs in the areas of more than 15 settlements. Among them are Kremenchuk in Poltava oblast, Vuhledar and Vodyane in Donetsk oblast, and the city of Smila in Cherkasy oblast. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes.

The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The threat of new strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus remains. The enemy shelled in other directions:

in the Siverskyi direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Hai and Senkivka, Chernihiv oblast; in the Slobozhansky direction - from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Hatyshche, Hlyboka, Dvorichne, Kozacha Lopan and Krasne; in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions - from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Berestove, Hrekivka, Zarichne, Nadiya and Nevske settlements;

in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Ivanhrad, Mayorsk, Rozdolivka, Opytne and Soledar; in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske settlements; in the Novopavlivsk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Mykilske, Pavlivka and Prechystivka;

in the Zaporizhzhia direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bilohirya, Hulyaipole, Kamianske, Mala Tokmachka, Novopil, Novosilka, Orihiv and Shcherbaky. More than 15 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buh direction. The so-called "evacuation" of local residents from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson oblast continues.

As a feature, the evacuation of the civilian population from certain settlements of the left-bank part of the Kherson oblast was noted. According to the available information, since October 31 of the current year, the removal of collaborators with their families, medical personnel and equipment from the central district hospital has started from the settlement of Hornostaivka. The occupying authorities gave local residents of the settlement of Nova Zburyivka 3 days to independently leave the occupied territory or the territory of the russian federation.

The population is warned that "evacuation" will be mandatory from November 5. On October 27 of this year, the occupying authorities began an "audit" of industrial solar power generation facilities. According to the results of the work, the occupiers threaten to confiscate and take away the equipment of enterprises whose owners are in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities and refuse to return to the temporarily occupied territory.

According to detailed information, as a result of the successful actions of units of the Defense Forces in the Zaporizhzhia oblast, the occupiers delivered about a hundred seriously wounded to hospitals in the cities of Tokmak and Melitopol in the previous days. In connection with the periodic elimination of collaborators and refusal to fulfill their duties, the enemy is holding contests to fill vacant positions in the bodies of the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia oblast. Aviation of the Defence Forces of the current day struck the enemy 20 times.

Areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as positions of the enemy's anti-aircraft defences, were affected.

Units of missile troops and artillery of the Defence Forces struck 3 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, an ammunition warehouse and 3 other important military objects of the enemy during the day.