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Situation Summary
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued attempts to encircle Avdiivka, despite reportedly heavy losses of both personnel and equipment.1Twitter @DefenceHQ, 4 November 2023; Kyiv Independent, ‘Military: Russia loses almost 7,000 soldiers killed or wounded near Avdiivka,’ 6 November 2023 Fighting also continued to concentrate in the area of Bakhmut and near the boundary with the Zaporizhia region. In the Zaporizhia region, Ukrainian forces made advances south and southwest of Orikhiv. On 3 November, Ukrainian sources reported that a Russian missile hit Ukrainian positions in an unspecified frontline settlement in the Zaporizhia region, reportedly killing 19 troops, including high-ranking officers, and wounding over 50 military as well as an unspecified number of civilians. Clashes were also recorded on the Russian-occupied southern bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, mainly east of Oleshky, and along the Kreminna-Svatove-Kupiansk line in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions. Ukrainian forces also conducted several successful missile strikes in Crimea, inflicting losses on Russian military personnel and destroying military equipment.
Russian shelling and airstrikes reportedly killed over a dozen civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions. On 2 November, Russian drones fired on Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one civilian and wounding seven others. On 3 November, 11 civilians were wounded in a Russian missile strike on Zarizhne in the Zaporizhia region. Russian drones and missiles also targeted regions further away from the frontline, especially during large-scale strikes on 1 and 3 November, affecting the western regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Khmelnytskyi, the central regions of Poltava, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad, and the northern region of Zhytomyr.
