The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) continue their offensive in the east of the country. According to the updated maps , there were no global changes at the front during the day, the Russian offensive against Vuhledar was bogged down, fighting is underway in the Pavlovka area of the Donetsk region.
In social networks, photos were published in which the Russian flag was removed from the administrative building in Kherson. The head of the press center of the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, Natalya Gumenyuk, said that the Russian army can "create the impression that the settlements have been abandoned, and entry into them is safe." So Russia, with the help of a provocation, hopes to lure the Ukrainian army into the city.
Boris Rozhin, a military expert at the Russian Propaganda Center for Military-Political Journalism, claims that there are no significant changes in the Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to carry out attacks and reconnaissance in force.
“Our troops continue to stand in the same positions against the background of rumors about the withdrawal from Kherson. The enemy is intensifying shelling of the Antonovsky bridge area and settlements on the Dnieper.
An anonymous analyst with the nickname Def Mon on Twitter studied satellite images west of Kherson and concluded that Russia is building fortifications in the area, since there are defensive positions in almost every forest belt.
In the Avdeevsky direction, according to Russian propagandists, there are battles for Vodyanoye, Pervomayskoye and Experienced.
In the Svatovsky direction, the Russian Federation is trying to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Makeevka, Nevsky and Belogorovka.
In Pavlovka, the Russian offensive was unsuccessful, the army was unable to seize control of the road to Ugledar, and fighting continues for fortified areas near Novomikhailovka. The fact that the operation of the Russian army in the Donetsk region is not producing results is also reported by one of the former representatives of the “DPR” occupation administration, the commander of the “Vostok” battalion Alexander Khodakovsky. According to him, on the night of November 3, the soldiers of the RF Armed Forces "fell hostage" to the weather conditions – dirt roads became impassable due to rains.
“In Pavlovka, they advanced as far as they could, and ended up as hostages at the mudslide and heights above sea level … Actually, it’s not Pavlovka itself that is impassable, but the ways to approach it. These are kilometers of crossroads observed by the enemy, along which the supply of everything vital is creeping, and not slipping, as it should be in relation to open areas.
Videos of Ukrainian Excalibur artillery strikes on Russian armored vehicles in the south have been published online. It is alleged that the T-72B3 of the 2016 model and the BMP-2 were destroyed.
At the same time , the recruitment of volunteers into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began in Russia, it is organized by the Civil Council, consisting of public figures from 9 Russian regions. They announced the creation of a Mobilization Technical Center for Russians who want to volunteer to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. When asked by The Insider about who is in the organization, a member of the Civil Council, Denis Sokolov, replied that it was not yet possible to name all the participants – among them there are prominent people "who have not yet secured the rear."
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) claimed on the eve that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are on the offensive in the direction of Svatovo and the Kremennaya Luhansk region and in the Kherson region, and Russian troops are on the defensive, especially in southern Ukraine.
The institute's experts also write that Russia's mobilization efforts, combined with Western sanctions, are having a long-term devastating effect on the Russian economy.
On November 2, it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to cover from the flanks in the Svatovo region, a key defense center of Russian forces in the north of the Luhansk region. Military analyst Def Mon analyzed and geolocated several videos and concluded that the line of operations of Ukrainian troops now lies further east. Hostilities also intensified in the south, shelling of Novaya Kakhovka resumed, and there was a fire in the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.