Operational information as of the morning of November 3, 2022 from the General Staff

The two-hundred-fifty-third (253) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. Congratulations on the professional holidays of military engineers and soldiers of missile troops and artillery. Efforts in all endeavours.

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. Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Makiivka, Nevske and Bilohorivka settlements of the Luhansk oblast; Verkhnokamyanske, Spirne, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Pervomaiske, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane, Pavlivka and Prechistivka in Donetsk oblast.

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 facilities and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has launched 3 missile and 24 air strikes, launched more than 80 MLRS attacks.

Areas of more than 20 settlements were hit by the russian occupiers. Among them are Kupyansk in the Kharkiv oblast, Kremenchuk in the Poltava oblast, Nevske in the Luhansk oblast, Vodyane, Vuhledar, Krasnohorivka and Nevelske in the Donetsk oblast, Smila in the Cherkasy oblast, Nova Kamianka in the Kherson oblast, and Ternovi Pody in the Mykolaiv oblast. The threat of new strikes and the use of attack UAVs remains, in particular from the territory of the republic of belarus.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The enemy shelled in such directions:

in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Orlykivka and Muravyi in the Chernihiv oblast and Vilna Sloboda, Zapsillia and Kharkivka in the Sumy oblast; in the Slobozhansk direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Alisivka, Ambarne, Aniskine, Hatyshche, Hlyboke, Zelene, Kozacha Lopan, Krasne, Mala Vovcha, Morokhovets, Ohirtseve, Okhrimivka, Sosnivka, Starytsa, Strilecha and Khrypuny Kharkiv oblast; in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Berestove, Dvorichna, Kamianka, Krokhmalne and Fiholivka in the Kharkiv oblast, Hrekivka, Nevske, Ploshanka and Sukhodil in the Luhansk oblast and Terny and Yampolivka in the Donetsk oblast;

in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Verkhnyokamianske, Zelenopillia, Mayorsk, New York, Opytne, Rozdolivka, Siversk, Soledar and Spirne settlements of the Donetsk oblast; in the Avdiyivka direction - from tanks and the entire range of artillery weapons, in the areas of Kamianka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk oblast; in the Novopavlivskyi direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Bohoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Novopil and Pavlivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast;

in the Zaporizhia direction - from tanks and artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Dorozhnyanka, Mala Tokmachka, Malynivka, Novoandriivka, Pavlivka, Stepove and Shcherbaky of the Zaporizhzhia oblast. In the South Buh direction, more than 30 settlements along the contact line suffered fire damage. russian occupation forces continue the forced "evacuation" of the population in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. Residents of settlements along the left bank of the Dnipro River from the settlement of Velyka Znamyanka in the Zaporizhzhia oblast to Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson oblast are subject to it.

The occupiers continue to steal and take away ambulances and equipment from hospitals from the settlement of Hola Prystan to the city of Skadovsk. In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast, units of the russian occupation forces continue to use the civilian population as "human shields". Thus, according to available information, in the city of Svatove, the occupiers continue to place their units in schools and enterprises, and the local population is forced to continue working and bringing children to classes, despite shelling.

According to the updated information, the defeat of the enemy in the previous days has been confirmed. Thus, up to 60 servicemen were destroyed in the village of Pershotravneve in the Mykolaiv oblast, and up to 50 Russian invaders were wounded in the village of Vasylivka in the Zaporizhzhia oblast. Aviation of the Defence Forces struck the enemy 21 times last day.

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

Air defence forces shot down 10 "Shahed-136" attack drones and "Orlan" unmanned aerial vehicle.

Units of missile forces and artillery of the Defence Forces, in a day, hit 5 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 ammunition warehouses and 3 other important military objects of the enemy.