Russo-Ukraine War - 02 November 2022 - Day 252
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On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]
The UK Ministry of Defence reported that the owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, stated on 23 October that Wagner forces were making advances of 100-200m per day, which he claimed was 'normal in modern warfare'.
According to their military doctrine, Russian forces plan to advance 30km or more per day in most conditions. In February, Russian forces planned to make a 1000km advance through Ukraine within a month. In September, Ukrainian forces achieved advances of over 20km per day.
In the last two months, Prigozhin has abandoned any pretence that he is not associated with Wagner and has been more explicit in his public statements. He is likely trying to burnish his credibility within the stressed Russian national security system.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in certain directions. Conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions. Russia is shelling units of the Ukrainian 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, Russian forces launched 1 missile and 12 air strikes, carried out more than 25 MLRS attacks. At night, Russian forces 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.
Russian forces shelled in other directions:
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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 Ukrainian 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, Russian forces are 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 Ukrainian Defence Forces of the current day struck Russian forces 20 times. Areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as positions of the Russian forces' anti-aircraft defences, were affected.
Units of missile troops and artillery of the Ukrainian forces Defence Forces struck 3 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, an ammunition warehouse and 3 other important Russian military objects during the day.
Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Russian Ministry of Defense in a daily briefing reported that during the day in the Kupyansk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to attack in the direction of Yagodnoe, Nikolaevka, Orlyanka (Kharkiv region) and Kuzemovka (Luhansk People's Republic, LPR). The enemy was driven back to their original positions, up to 150 Ukrainian fighters and a large amount of equipment were destroyed.
In the Limansky direction, the RF Armed Forces fired on the enemy with long-range artillery, assault and army aviation on distant approaches. Attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the direction of Makiivka, Ploshchanka and Chervonopopovka (Luhansk People's Republic, LPR) were repulsed. About 250 Ukrainian servicemen were liquidated.
In the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, attempts to break through the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the directions of Ishchenko, Bruskinskoye, Sukhanovo and Pyatikhatki (Kherson region) were prevented. 105 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 9 armored fighting vehicles and 7 vehicles were destroyed. The radar station for guidance and target designation of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was liquidated.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command post of the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Kirovsk region (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR), 73 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 169 districts.
During the counter-battery fight, a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Hurricane" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in the Kharkiv region. An ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and a fuel storage for military equipment in the Cherkasy region were also destroyed.
Fighter aircraft in the Kharkiv region shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force. 12 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by means of air defense, 24 HIMARS MLRS shells, 10 Alder and Uragan rockets, 2 HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 9 artillery shells during the day at the area of the industrial zone of the Energodar thermal power plant, as well as the adjacent territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The shooting was carried out from the settlements of Marganets and Chervonogrigorovka (Dnepropetrovsk region) controlled by Kyiv, the enemy positions were suppressed by return fire from the RF Armed Forces.
The Ministry of Defense also announced the resumption of the implementation of the grain deal, which was suspended after the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian vessels involved in ensuring the security of the humanitarian corridor. The Defense Ministry said that thanks to the participation of the UN and Turkey, guarantees were received from Kyiv not to use the corridor and Ukrainian ports for combat operations.
"The Russian Federation considers that the guarantees received at the moment appear to be sufficient and resumes the implementation of the agreement," the ministry said.
Zaporozhye region
The fifth and sixth reactors of Zaporozhye NPP were transferred from cold shutdown to hot shutdown. According to Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of Rosenergoatom, the station does not generate energy, but works for heat transfer. Consumers in Energodar have already begun to receive heat from ZNPP.
In the near future, a rotation of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Zaporozhye NPP is planned.
Zaporizhzhya NPP began transition under the jurisdiction of Rosenergoatom. Andrei Rudenko, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, said that specialists critical for the operation of the station signed documents with the new operating company. Rudenko also noted that Russia is studying the issue of creating a security zone around the nuclear power plant.
Kherson region
Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries made an attempt to break through the defense line in the Kherson direction, said the deputy head of the regional administration Kirill Stremousov. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated and forced to retreat.
The authorities of the Kherson region said that the evacuation from the right-bank part of the region was completed, and traffic through the Dnieper was limited.
DPR
During the day on November 2, Ukrainian armed formations opened fire on Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Staromikhaylovka, Panteleimonovka, Zaitsevo, Novobakhmutovka.
As a result of the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk, 3 civilians were killed, another civilian was injured. Fixed damage to residential buildings in Donetsk, Gorlovka and the village of the Izotov mine.
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin announced the advancement of Russian units in the Maryinsky direction and the occupation of new positions in Maryinka itself. According to him, now the allied forces are pushing back the line of contact, which deprives the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the opportunity to shell DPR settlements with impunity.
In addition, Pushilin added, Russian troops are advancing near Ugledar. The fighting for Pavlovka continues, there is an advance in the Novomikhailovka area.
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During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Severodonetsk using HIMARS MLRS. In total, 2 missiles of the M31 GMLRS type were fired. As a result of the impact, the service station building was destroyed.
The representative of the LPR in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, spoke about the unsuccessful attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to advance in the direction of Kremennaya and Belogorovka. According to him, the enemy was driven back by artillery and aviation fire.
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