Category: World

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 80 loitering munitions of the Shahed, Gerbera and different varieties on the evening of 4-5 November. About 50 of the drones had been Shaheds.

Supply: Ukrainian Air Pressure Command

Particulars: Early studies point out that as of 09:00, Ukrainian air defence forces had shot down or jammed 61 Russian drones of the Shahed, Gerbera and different varieties over Ukraine's north, south and east.

Strikes by 18 drones had been recorded at seven places, and particles from downed drones fell in two areas.

The aerial assault is being repelled by plane, anti-aircraft missile items, digital warfare belongings, unmanned programs items and cell hearth teams from Ukraine's defence forces.

The assault continues to be ongoing, as a number of Russian drones stay in Ukrainian airspace.

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Russia has misplaced 900 troopers killed and wounded and 500 weapons and items of army gear over the previous day.

Supply: Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Fb

Particulars: The entire fight losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 5 November 2025 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:

• roughly 1,145,670 (+900) army personnel
• 11,329 (+3) tanks
• 23,535 (+3) armoured fight autos
• 34,273 (+24) artillery techniques
• 1,535 (+0) multiple-launch rocket techniques
• 1,237 (+2) air defence techniques
• 428 (+0) fixed-wing plane
• 346 (+0) helicopters
• 78,258 (+398) operational-tactical UAVs
• 3,918 (+0) cruise missiles
• 28 (+0) ships/boats
• 1 (+0) submarine
• 66,574 (+70) autos and gasoline tankers
• 3,990 (+0) particular autos and different gear.

The data is being confirmed.

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Russia's seaborne crude oil exports have fallen sharply – the steepest decline since January 2024 – as new US sanctions pressure key consumers to pause purchases from Moscow.

Supply: Bloomberg

Quote: "4-week common volumes from the nation's ports had been 3.58 million barrels a day to 2 November, in accordance with vessel-tracking information compiled by Bloomberg, down by about 190,000 from the revised determine for the interval to 26 October."

Particulars: The hunch has hit Moscow's oil revenues, which fell to their lowest stage since August, following the US ban on dealings with Russia's two largest exporters, Rosneft and Lukoil. Refineries in China, India and Türkiye have quickly halted purchases of sanctioned cargoes and are searching for options.

Though Russian exporters proceed to load crude onto tankers, refineries are in no hurry to take supply, leaving volumes of Russian oil at sea rising to greater than 380 million barrels – a rise of 27 million barrels, or 8%, since early September, in accordance with tanker-tracking information compiled by Bloomberg.

India, China and Türkiye collectively account for over 95% of Russia's seaborne crude exports, which means it’s virtually unimaginable to offset even a reasonable discount of their imports.

Moscow is prone to preserve loading tankers even when shipments stay in floating storage, making the quantity of oil at sea an more and more vital indicator of the sanctions' impression.

Background:

• The US just lately imposed sanctions on Russia's largest oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil, together with their subsidiaries.
• On 23 October, the European Union permitted its nineteenth package deal of sanctions in opposition to Russia.

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Ukraine's Particular Operations Forces (SOF) carried out strikes on two key amenities of Russia's oil processing infrastructure on the night time of 3-4 November.

Supply: SOF press service

Particulars: The SOF attacked the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant within the Republic of Bashkortostan (greater than 1,300 km away from the Ukrainian border), a serious producer of elements for aviation gasoline, rubber and butylated hydroxytoluene. The plant performs an important function in Russia's military-industrial advanced and is a big income for the Russian state price range.

Native authorities have confirmed the explosions and destruction that occurred on the plant.

SOF additionally confirmed that they carried out a joint strike with Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and Unmanned Techniques Forces on the Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery, one in all Russia's largest refineries.

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No models of the Ukrainian defence forces are encircled within the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad city space in Donetsk Oblast, Main Andrii Kovalov, spokesperson for the Basic Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated.

Supply: Kovalov in a remark to Ukrainska Pravda

Quote: "At current there isn’t any encirclement or blockade of the cities within the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad city space. Nor are any of the models of Ukraine's defence forces encircled.

Items of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are doing all the things potential to take care of logistics."

Particulars: Kovalov stated the state of affairs in Pokrovsk stays troublesome, however a complete operation is underway to detect Russian troops inside the metropolis, wipe them out, and push the Russians out of Pokrovsk.

Background:

• Operational Strategic Group Skhid (East) reported that as of 19:00 on 4 November, Russian troops had made 27 makes an attempt to dislodge Ukrainian defenders from their positions on the Pokrovsk entrance. The defence forces are holding again the Russian assault and have repelled 23 assaults.
• Search and strike operations are ongoing in Pokrovsk, as are coordinated actions by all parts of Ukraine's defence and safety forces. The Russians are struggling losses and there’s no encirclement of town. Logistics, although sophisticated, stay purposeful, the navy reported.
• The search and strike operations to find and wipe out Russian troops in Pokrovsk contain members of the Unmanned Methods Forces, assault models, Particular Operations Forces, Army Police, Safety Service of Ukraine and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.

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Russian chief Vladimir Putin has as soon as once more been bragging about Moscow's weapons developments.

Supply: Putin at a ceremony to honour the builders of the Burevestnik and Poseidon missile programs, as reported by Russian media

Particulars: The Kremlin ruler boasted that "solely home supplies" are used within the Poseidon and Burevestnik missiles.

He additionally stated that new generations of weapons are already being developed primarily based on a nuclear propulsion system much like that used within the Burevestnik.

In response to Putin, these applied sciences "will assist construct a station on the Moon".

The Russian ruler claimed {that a} NATO reconnaissance ship had been current within the Burevestnik take a look at zone on 21 October, however that Russia had not interfered with its actions.

"Allow them to watch," he stated.

He additionally said that Russia has begun mass manufacturing of the Oreshnik missile system.

Putin insisted that Russia poses no menace to anybody: "Russia, like all the opposite nuclear powers, is creating its nuclear potential."

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Russian forces launched a large-scale guided aerial bomb and drone assault on the Synelnykove district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 4 November, killing two folks and injuring 4.

Supply: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Quote: "Through the day, the Russians launched a large-scale assault utilizing guided aerial bombs and drones on the Synelnykove district.

Within the Pokrovske hromada, an airstrike hit the centre of a settlement, killing two males, together with a police officer, and injuring 4 others, amongst them one other police officer." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: A store and a automobile caught fireplace. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which had lined an space of 200 sq m. Injury was brought about to a number of outlets and retail items, a café, a hair salon, vehicles, and a five-storey condominium constructing.

Within the Petropavlivka hromada, a home caught fireplace following a strike on a residential space.

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On the night time of 3-4 November, Ukrainian kamikaze drones operated by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Particular Operations Forces (SOF) carried out a strike on the Russian Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery.

Supply: an Ukrainska Pravda supply in navy intelligence

Particulars: In the course of the operation within the metropolis of Kstovo, Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Ukrainian forces used over 5 dozen Ukrainian-made drones, together with Bober (Beaver) and FP-1 varieties.

The supply stated that the assault passed off whereas a rectification column, accountable for major oil processing and already broken in earlier strikes, was beneath restore.

Details about the strike additionally appeared in plenty of Russian Telegram channels. Movies posted by Russian customers present a brilliant glow over the refinery and explosions adopted by a hearth on the facility.

Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez is certainly one of Russia's main refineries, supplying particularly Moscow Oblast, which accounts for about 30% of the nation's petrol consumption. Its nominal crude processing capability is about 17 million tonnes per yr.

The plant produces over 50 forms of merchandise: petrol, aviation and diesel gas, in addition to bitumen, paraffin and others.

The supply in DIU added that the refinery's output is actively utilized by Russian forces and by Russia's defence trade.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned that with a view to cease Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine wants robust help from each the European Union and america.

Supply: Zelenskyy in an internet deal with to the EU enlargement summit broadcast by Euronews, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Zelenskyy was requested whether or not he believes that the European Union is doing sufficient to cease Russia's battle towards Ukraine amid intensified Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory.

The Ukrainian president mentioned that Europe helps Ukraine with fuel imports, provides tools and helps the restoration of electrical energy and power provides.

Quote: "All this is essential, particularly throughout the battle. But when we’re speaking about whether or not the EU is doing sufficient to make Putin cease, I believe immediately we nonetheless want each the US and Europe, after which we can have an opportunity to cease Putin."

Extra particulars: Zelenskyy famous the significance of European help for financing Ukrainian defence manufacturing and for strengthening Ukraine's air defence.

Talking concerning the US, Zelenskyy mentioned that Washington must be open to offering Ukraine with long-range weapons.

Quote: "This is essential. At the same time as a deterrent we will need to have them to make use of. We’d like US help."

Extra particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned that Ukraine wants the help of US President Donald Trump on this problem, including that he believes that it "will probably be a decisive strain on Russia".

He additionally thanked the EU and the US for the current sanctions which have hit Russia.

Quote: "These are instruments that may pressure and push Russia in direction of a negotiation course of, in direction of diplomacy. And undoubtedly each America and Europe will probably be wanted on this diplomacy."

Background:

• On the finish of October, america for the primary time in Trump's second time period imposed new large-scale sanctions on Russia over Moscow's refusal to have interaction significantly with the US president's peace efforts. Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's largest oil corporations, had been amongst these focused.
• The European Union lastly authorized its nineteenth package deal of sanctions towards Russia by written process on the morning of 23 October.

• The power part of the sanctions package deal supplies for a ban on the import of Russian LNG.

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Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has struck the headquarters of the Russian Rubikon centre, a unit that specialises in using unmanned programs, within the occupied metropolis of Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainska Pravda has learnt that this occurred final week.

Supply: DIU

Particulars: DIU found the headquarters of the Russian troops from the so-called Rubikon centre in a partly destroyed constructing in Russian-occupied Avdiivka.

Quote: "The enemy's Rubikon centre specialises in using unmanned programs, together with fight UAVs, in Russia's genocidal conflict in opposition to Ukraine. It is among the most combat-capable buildings of the Russian occupation forces, into which the aggressor state pours important sources."

Extra particulars: Having established the precise coordinates of the Russian place, DIU operators labored in situations of dense city improvement to arrange the strike. They guided an FP-2 unmanned system carrying a warhead weighing greater than 105 kg straight onto the headquarters.

Quote: "Because of the strike, officers and UAV operators of the Russian Rubikon centre who had been within the headquarters have been killed."

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