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Current information on the situation on the front line: November 2 (updated)
2023-11-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02.11.2023 to 00:00 03.11.2023

Over the past 24 hours Representative officereportedabout 48 facts of firing from the AFU.

Information was received about the injury of four civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Mariupol and Yasinovataya.

A total of 13 residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.

Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Kirovsky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 12 attacks from MLRS, incl. with a cluster warhead, 155mm artillery, attack UAV.

At Gorlivske there were 34 artillery attacks from MLRS, 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

On Yasinovatsky there were two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead. A total of 149 units of various ammunition were fired.

A previous 44 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day

21:53 In the Zaporozhye region, those mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue surrender to the Russian army

21:52 It is reported that “geraniums” are flying towards Poltava

20:45 Personnel combat work of the crew of the anti-tank guided missile system "Kornet" of the Kostroma paratroopers

19:37 Video: Kherson region, our bank of the Dnieper, the enemy decided to hide in a house after crossing the river. I was hoping to sit it out. But in the end, a couple of accurate hits from the 122mm D-30 reduced the number of enemy forces on our shore.

The persistence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command indicates the preparation of a “meat” crossing of the Dnieper.

19:08 RF Armed Forces provided safe conduct of the next rotation of observers from the IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye NPP.

A ceasefire was declared along the entire route to the station, which was observed by the Russian military. During the inspection of the road, sappers found unexploded foreign-made ammunition left as a result of new artillery attack from the Ukrainian side in the immediate vicinity of the Zaporizhia NPP. They were later destroyed.

18:27 Personnel combat work of the crew of the anti-tank guided missile system "Kornet" of the Kostroma paratroopers in the Artemovsk direction.

Taking a position on the roof of one of the multi-storey buildings on the outskirts of Artemovsk, the paratroopers launched an anti-tank guided missile from an anti-tank missile system and destroyed a car with Ukrainian servicemen from a distance of about five km.

17:19 Ukrainian militants fired one rocket from the MLRS at the Kirovsky district of Makeyevka - representative office of the DPR JCCC.

17:15 Artillerymen of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces destroy military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Belogorovka area -video.

16:27 Battle for Avdievka: active advance of the Russian Armed Forces from the south and north

Combined units of the Russian army continue the assault on the fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces around Avdievka.

On the northern flank, fighters of the Russian Armed Forces carried out several successful attacks along the railway northwest of Krasnogorovka, as a result of which Russian troops gained a foothold near the railway track.

On the southern flank, Russian troops achieved the greatest successes over the past 24 hours in the Severny direction, where, as a result of a successful assault along the front, they managed to significantly advance both to the Khimik microdistrict and to Severny (one km remained to the village).

15:57 Unique personnel work of Airborne Forces snipers in the forest near Kremennaya (LPR).

15:22 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 2, as of 15:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

As a result of the detonation of an explosive object (EOD) on the Taganrog - Mariupol highway, employees of the Donbassgaz Group of Companies, a woman born in 1976, were injured. and a man born in 1960.

n.p. Yasinovataya: – in the Tsentralny district, 20, a man born in 1954 was wounded.

Additional information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Force in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovsky district):

– per. Pechati, 19/1 – direct hit on a private residential building;

– per. Pechati, 18, 19/2 – private residential buildings.

n.p. Gorlovka (Central City district):

– st. Dundicha, 136 – private residential building.

– The village of Shirokaya Balka has been cut off from power.

14:55 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction;

The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansk direction, enemy losses amounted to up to 40 military personnel;

The Russian Armed Forces defeated the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rabotino area, the enemy lost up to 100 military personnel in the Zaporozhye direction;

Russian air defense intercepted four Storm Shadow missiles and eight HIMARS MLRS rounds in one day;

The Russian Armed Forces hit a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force at the Mirgorod airfield in the Poltava region;

Russian air defense intercepted three Neptune anti-ship missiles in one day;

The Russian Armed Forces hit the command post of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the UAV control center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Reznikovka area in the DPR;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 31 Ukrainian UAVs in one day;

The Russian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction inflicted fire damage on the personnel and equipment of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novomikhailovka, Staromayorsky and Priyutny;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction per day amounted to 165 military personnel;

The Russian military in the Donetsk direction repelled an attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces attack aircraft near Kleshcheevka and defeated the enemy’s manpower and equipment;

The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction lost up to 115 military personnel, a tank, nine infantry fighting vehicles, including eight Bradleys;

Russian troops destroyed up to 30 military personnel and five Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles in the Kherson direction in one day.

14:27 Military expert Boris Rozhin reported on the advance of Russian troops in the Avdeevsky and Kupyansky directions:

On the Avdeevsky sector of the front, Russian troops managed to cross the railway and capture a number of positions that are located to the north

In the Kupyansky direction there is progress to the south in the forest towards Sinkovka.

13:27 Ukrainian formations are attacking residential buildings and the infrastructure of Energodar with a swarm of drones. The strikes occur at the time of the next visit of the IAEA mission to the Zaporizhia NPP.

The raid lasts more than half an hour, at the moment it is known about at least ten UAVs launched from Nikopol, several of them crashed into residential buildings and a shopping center, there were no casualties.

13:17 Explosions in the Nikolaev region.

12:55 Kherson region, area of the small railway bridge application of our high-explosive bomb FAB-1500 with a universal planning and correction module.

Every day, at least 20 FABs hit targets in the enemy’s area of action on both banks of the Dnieper.

12:32 The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to use Leopard tanks more often in the Zaporozhye direction, said the commander of the UAV group of the 1430th Motorized Rifle Regiment with the call sign “Yakut” -video.

12:16 Statement of Head of the press center of the "West" group

During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, units of the West group of forces, with the support of aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Sin'kovka area.

The crews of operational-tactical aviation aircraft destroyed two crossings across the Oskol River and carried out air strikes on temporary deployment points and control points of 43 Mechanized, 68 Jaeger Brigades and 141 Reserve Rifle Brigades in the Cherneshchyna, Kopanki and Kurilovka areas.

During the counter-battery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed two 155mm M-777 artillery guns, two 122mm 2S1 “Gvozdika” self-propelled artillery mounts, 155mm AS-90 and “Crab” self-propelled artillery mounts, and a 152mm 2A65 towed howitzer. 152mm Msta-B" and two mortar crews in the areas of Shiykovka, Kutkovka, Kopanki, Ivanovka and the Krinichki tract.

The enemy's total losses amounted to up to 245 military personnel, a UAV control center, an ammunition supply point, and two unmanned aerial vehicles.

12:01 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 2, as of 12:00, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):

– st. Arensky, 54, 68, 70, 74, 77/1, 77/2 – private residential buildings, the gas pipeline was also damaged.

– st. Fotieva, 59 – private residential building.

11:37 The artillery attack in Donetsk, which hit journalists from Zvezda, TASS and Izvestia, shows the terrorist logic of Kyiv. About it stated Maria Zakharova.

According to her, the Ukrainian authorities are not only not afraid to admit to their terrorist attacks, but are also proud of them.

11:27 The Russian Armed Forces are preparing for a new wave of attacks on Avdievka, - ISW

Analysts say the Russians are preparing to launch frontal infantry attacks after heavy artillery preparation.

11:11 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Krynki 11 rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha 15 rounds;

-- n.p. Radensk seven rounds;

-- n.p. Korsunka 10 rounds;

-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka eight rounds;

-- n.p. Sagi 10 rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery nine rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Peschanivka, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Korsunka, Maslovka village, firing a total of 31 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

10:37 Soldiers of the Central Military District per dayreflectabout five militant attacks in the area of the Tor ledge. The nationalists attack in the Krasnolimansk direction every day - but to no avail.

The assault groups recaptured some positions from the enemy quite recently. By gaining a foothold on them, the motorized riflemen gained a strategic advantage. The positions of the militants are close - and every day the nationalists are trying to regain their lost advantage.

“Every two or three days of work we carry out replacements, replenish ammunition, food and water. The enemy is using all types of artillery,” said the deputy battalion commander with the call sign “Fidel.”

10:11 “Lancets” and ATGMs are working: 1st Tank Army destroys armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.

Thanks to the coordinated actions of reconnaissance and assault units, our soldiers destroyed a Ukrainian tank and an American HMMWV armored vehicle.

09:54 During the day, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 44 cases of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces, and fired 155 ammunition.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 15 attacks from MLRS, incl. with a cluster warhead, 155mm artillery, attack UAV.

On Gorlovsky - 27 artillery attacks from MLRS and 152mm caliber artillery.

On Svetlodarsky - one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.

On Yasinovatsky - one artillery attack from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

The enemy fired at Donetsk, Yasinovatsky district, Gorlovka, Lugansk.

Over the past 24 hours, information has been received about the injury of 4 civilians in the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk. Nine residential buildings and one civil infrastructure facility were damaged in Donetsk and Lugansk.

09:22 In the Avdeevsky direction:

Southwest:

1) Fighting in Vodyanoye, there is preliminary progress, but since the beginning of our offensive there has not been a single video/photo confirmation.

2) Fighting on the outskirts of Severny

3) Our eastern quarry, now there are battles for plantings around it

Southeast:

1) Positional battles continue, ours are not going to the Royal Hunt. The direction is delaying the APU

2) According to unconfirmed information, ours are operating in the direction of the air defense base

East:

Fog of war, most likely from Kamenka and Vesyoly, we have extremely limited actions, no offensive

Northeast:

1) Our journalists and the Ukrainian Osinth declare actions against Novokalinovo with the aim of expanding the Krasnogorovsky salient. We have progress, but no video/photo recording yet

2) Movement to the north-west towards the railway junction near Ocheretino is slow

3) Ours occupied a more or less stable line along the Avdeevka - Ocheretino railway and, previously, crossed it. Ukrainians and, for example, Vozhak talk about this. We act in the direction of Stepnoye.

4) There are no battles for AKHZ at the moment

Units of the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, deployed near Avdievka, lose equipment in attempts to counter-attack our troops at the Avdievka-Ocheretino railway.

09:15 Russian fighters destroyed seven mortar crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.

Units of the Vostok group, with the support of artillery, destroyed manpower and vehicles in enemy positions in the Novomikhailovka areas, north of Nikol'skoye, Staromayorsky and Malinovka. Artillery fire destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle in the Elizavetovka area and a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Rovnopol area.

In addition, enemy personnel in shelters in the Staromayorsky and Novodonetsky areas were hit. Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit more than 190 militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also hit the vehicles of units of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade, the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 128th Local Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

09:00 Zaporozhye Front, Verbovoy area, Front Bird reports:

“Several armored vehicles dropped a group of dry land in the forest belt. But the enemy did not know that our bird was already watching this whole epic.

After transmitting the coordinates of the artillery, several heavy, lethal parcels were sent to the enemy.”

08:54 The Russian Ministry of Defense published personnel destruction of the German Leopard tank, which is in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in the Zaporozhye direction.

08:41 As a result of yesterday’s artillery attack of Aleshek by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, a civilian was killed. This was reported by the Telegram channel “The main thing in Kherson and the region”

Yesterday afternoon, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled a residential village in Aleshki, as a result of which one resident was wounded and another was killed - a man died in his car.

08:31 Ukrainian troops at 8.15 Moscow time fired 10 missiles from the MLRS at Gorlovka - DPR representation in the JCCC.

08:16 Frontline summary for the morning of 11/02/2023:

In the Kherson-Crimean direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, continued attacks on the left bank near Poima, Peschanivka and Krynoki. At the last of the listed settlements they managed to somewhat expand the bridgehead. Long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces worked on Ukrainian units in Kherson, Sadovoy, Poniatovka and Tyaginka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at Russian troops in Aleshki, Podstepnoye, Kazachi Lagery and Korsunka.

In the Zaporozhye direction, after artillery shelling, Ukrainian units managed to expand the zone of control to the west of the village of Rabotino. Similar actions at Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy were not successful.

On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, continued assault operations in Mar'inka, near Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka) and on the southern approaches to Avdievka. After artillery shelling, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked in the waste heap area north of the Avdeevsky coke plant. LBS unchanged.

In the Lugansk direction there are oncoming battles in the Serebryansky forest in the Dibrova area. Russian troops managed to take new positions near Petropavlovka and Sin'kovka. Thus, they strive to break through to Kupyansk.

08:05 The Russian Ministry of Defense published personnel combat work of the crew of the Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system of the West group of troops against air targets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction in the special operation zone.

08:01 Summary on the morning of November 2, 2023:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction continue preparations for crossing the Dnieper. For these purposes, the Ukrainian Armed Forces yesterday attacked the headquarters of the Dnepr group of forces, the command of which Colonel General Teplinsky had recently been appointed (he was not injured), and also unsuccessfully tried to destroy other regional control centers on the Arabat Spit with missiles. On our bank of the Dnieper, the enemy is constantly transferring small groups of enemy infantry to the area of ??the settlement. Krynki, yesterday our aviation with volumetric detonating bombs joined the work against the enemy in the indicated village.On the Zaporozhye Front, against the background of deteriorating weather conditions, the activity of UAVs and enemy artillery in the village. Verbovoe decreased slightly. At Rabotino, anti-tank crews of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division worked on two enemy armored vehicles, one of them was destroyed.

In the Avdeevsky direction, a rocket and bomb attack was carried out on a coke plant, and an underground ammunition depot was destroyed. The enemy is mining the approaches to the industrial zone in anticipation of an assault. They report that our troops are advancing towards the village. Novokalinovo on the northwestern ledge of the front: the task of cutting the enemy’s rock road from Ocheretino is visible.

East of Andreevka, the enemy is trying to push through our defenses to reach the Kurdyumovka-Artemovsk highway. Our troops have increased the use of FPV drones, they note an increased level of interaction between units of the Russian Armed Forces and a decrease in personnel losses in comparison with the initial period of defense of the front sector.

In addition to attacks on the Kherson region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to attack Crimea with missiles yesterday. Attacks on the Russian border have been intensified. In the Belgorod region, Shebekino was shelled, two enemy UAVs were shot down over the region. In the Kursk region - five arrivals to settlements. Sverdlikovo in Sudzhansky district. In the Bryansk region, our air defense shot down an enemy UAV over the Starodub municipal district. In Donetsk, a girl born in 2001 died from Nazi artillery attack and four civilians were injured.

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