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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:06 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni became a victim of pro-Kremlin pranksters, one of whom posed as the chairman of the African Union Commission. In the conversation, the Italian Prime Minister spoke about the feeling of “fatigue” from Ukraine and the insufficient efforts of the EU in the fight against illegal migration. For more details, see the article The counteroffensive is tired .
21:29 The United States has begun sending Ukraine smaller packages of military aid to stretch out support as long as possible while Congress discusses new aid, White House Speaker Karine Jean-Pierre said.
19:34 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the new commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel Sergei Lupanchuk, “is an experienced officer, a combat officer, the right commander and a person who can add more power to our Special Operations Forces.” General Viktor Khorenko, commander of the Special Forces, will continue to perform special tasks as part of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the president added.
18:31 The Pentagon announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth $425 million. It provides for $125 million in weapons from the US Department of Defense arsenals, as well as $300 million from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) to strengthen air defense in the long term.
The package will include, in particular, ammunition for NASAMS, HIMARS; artillery shells of 155 and 105 mm caliber; TOW missiles; Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank systems; more than 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades; anti-personnel ammunition; spare parts, maintenance and other equipment. As part of USAI, the Pentagon will provide Ukraine with laser-guided munitions to combat drones.
18:12 The Russians launched a missile attack on the village of Zarechnoye in the Zaporozhye region - 11 people were wounded, the Kamyshevakhsky village council of the Zaporozhye region reported. Apartment and private residential buildings were damaged, several houses were destroyed.
17:18 In Chaplynka on the left bank of the Kherson region, there are already seven dead and seven wounded after a strike on the “social fund” building, the occupation “authorities” said.
16:47 In the occupied Volnovakha Donetsk region, a blow was struck at the cultural center of railway workers, in which the Russian military were stationed, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko.
16:22 The Russians shelled the central part of Kherson, three people were injured, OVA reported.
15:56 The “authorities” of the occupied Kherson region stated that in Chaplinka, a Ukrainian missile attack destroyed the building of the “social fund and employment service”, one person was killed, two were injured. Ukraine allegedly attacked the building with “six American missiles,” four of which were shot down.
15:45 Zelensky replaced the commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: instead of Viktor Khorenko, he became Colonel Sergei Lupanchuk.
15:01 Kuleba said that during a working visit to Germany he had a meeting with the general director of the defense concern Rheinmetall: “Ukraine will have more weapons and ammunition to protect civilians and infrastructure from Russian attacks. We discussed ways to further develop the alliance of German and Ukrainian defense industries".
14:37 British intelligence states that neither the Ukrainian Armed Forces nor the Russian Army can break through the front line due to the reliable air defense of both sides and the huge contact line that must be held. According to analysts, the operations of recent weeks have become a continuation of a trend identified at the beginning of the war: the balance of ground combat operations, all other things being equal, is generally in favor of the defending forces.
Thus, in the south, the Ukrainian offensive remains relatively static between the two main lines of well-prepared Russian defensive positions. And in the Avdeevka area, a large-scale Russian offensive ran into powerful Ukrainian defenses. Intelligence believes that the main factor was the relative weakening of tactical aviation. Both sides maintain reliable air defenses, which prevents combat aircraft from providing effective air support for assault operations.
14:14 Ukraine does not feel a decrease in international assistance, despite the war in the Middle East, but media attention to the Ukrainian issue has indeed decreased, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba admitted.
13:50 The Netherlands announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth 500 million euros. The funds will be provided over the next eight months. Of this amount, about 260 million euros will be spent on artillery shells, another 240 million on ammunition for tanks, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said during a two-day visit to Ukraine.
13:42 As a result of a night attack in Kharkov, the building of one of the city’s educational institutions was seriously damaged, said Mayor Igor Terekhov. The contact network had to be removed from the road so that State Emergency Service workers could clear the rubble from the inside. Utilities are not damaged, but in part of the Osnovyansky district there is an emergency power outage. The rest of the attacks hit the service station and the hostel where the displaced people lived. Residential buildings were also damaged.
The college building had to be demolished to prevent a tragedy.
13:29 Kuleba said that Ukraine still expects to receive long-range Taurus missiles from Germany: “The German government needs more time to formulate a final decision.”
12:38 The future of Ukraine depends on the United States, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: “Our future depends on the decisions of the United States, and we believe that the administration will be able to find a solution. We are at a decisive moment, because there is little attention to Ukraine is fading, and we would like to remain on the international agenda. The war against Russia is still going on, we need help. If we were to lose the American one, the scenario would be radical. We would like to avoid that."
The minister also compared the military budgets of Ukraine and Russia for 2024: $40.7 billion versus $115 billion. “We spend all our income and all internal loans to finance the Armed Forces, and without foreign support we would have to cut many non-military expenses. Russia "There is a chance to wait until Ukraine can no longer tolerate this. But help is in the interests of the West: if Ukraine falls, Russia can attack other countries," he added. Ukraine's foreign aid needs in 2024 amount to $42.9 billion.
12:03 The Ukrainian military congratulated their colleagues on the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery and showed new footage of ATACMS missile launches against enemy targets.
10:49 New domestically produced weapons will reach the front faster - from November 1, the Ministry of Defense has significantly reduced the delivery time for equipment and weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the department reported. During the period of martial law, the production cycle is shortened, and the testing process is simplified, which significantly “frees the hands of manufacturers,” the ministry noted.
09:35 Another person wounded as a result of the Russian strike on October 21 at the Nova Poshta terminal in the Kharkov region died in the hospital. As of now, eight dead and 15 wounded are known, the prosecutor's office said.
09:16 In the evening, the enemy began to attack the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region. As a result of the attack on the village of Urozhaynoye, two people were injured and nine private houses were damaged, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Also at night, Kherson came under artillery fire - seven private houses and a gas pipeline were damaged, and fires in two utility buildings were extinguished. According to the OVA, over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed and four were injured.
09:13 During a night attack in the Kalush district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, debris from a downed drone fell and a fire in a dormitory was extinguished, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
09:11 During the night attack, 16 enemy kamikaze drones were sent across the Lviv region. Of these, 11 were destroyed, and five hit a critical infrastructure facility, said the head of the OVA, Maxim Kozitsky. No people were injured, the fire was quickly extinguished.
09:03 The Russians attacked the Odessa region at night with Shahed drones; there was a hit on the technical territory of an infrastructure facility in the region. There were no casualties or severe damage recorded, said OVA head Oleg Kiper.
08:37 At night, the Russian army launched strikes on Kharkov with four Shahed-type UAVs, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Garages and cars, a service station building, an inactive sewing shop and a residential building were damaged, and an educational institution was partially destroyed. Eight people came to the doctors with an acute reaction to stress; no one was injured. In addition, at night the Russians attacked the village. Korotich, Kharkov district, two non-residential buildings were damaged. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has shelled the Kharkov, Chuguev and Kupyansky districts.
08:19 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 3:
- personnel - about 303,270 (+850) people,
- tanks - 5265 (+24),
- armored combat vehicles - 9901 (+24),
- artillery systems - 7328 (+36),
- MLRS - 854 (+4),
- air defense systems - 566 (+0),
- aircraft - 322 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5495 (+7),
- cruise missiles - 1551 (+2),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9691 (+33),
- special equipment - 1034 (+2).
07:54 Air defense shot down 24 of 40 Shahed-136/131 attack drones and an X-59 guided missile at night , the Air Force command reported. Russia attacked Ukraine with drones from the Kursk region and from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk region. A Kh-59 guided missile was fired from the airspace of the occupied Kherson region. "Shaheds" were launched in waves and flew in different directions in small groups.
07:20 Over the past 24 hours, 50 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Bakhmutsky - in the districts of Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Pivdenny, Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky - near Stepnoy, Tonenky, Severny, Pervomaisky, Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the area of Marinka and Novomikhailovka; on Shakhtarsky - near Prechistovka and Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - near Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol direction and assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
01:18 The Russians are attacking the Kharkov region with kamikaze drones, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Hit on civilian infrastructure was recorded in Kharkov and a settlement in the Kharkov region, and a fire broke out. At this time, there have been no reports of casualties.
00:21 White House National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby described Zaluzhny’s article in The Economist as one of the important arguments confirming the urgent need for further support for Ukraine. Kirby also noted that during the war, the needs of the parties change, including in relation to the weapons systems that partners provide to Ukraine: “We are developing and have already evolved in the context of what we provide to Ukraine, just as the war itself has evolved. And I suspect this process will continue."
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