The oblique agglomeration in the operating lap. 1350th Day of War

Russian forces entered the northern and east parts of Pokrovska, cutting off the last routes to supply the agglomeration defenders. According to unofficial Ukrainian sources, until 2 November under the control of the aggressor could pass 50–70% of the city's surface, and its defence was broken into respective parts. The main fights are about the Ukrainian military-controlled "cytadela" into which the high-rise settlement has been converted. According to any sources, it was already winged by the Russians. Russian advancement on the northern and east outskirts of neighbouring Myrnohrad is negligible and is most likely aimed solely at tying the Ukrainian forces defending this city. The bag in which the pokrowska agglomeration is located is presently 10–11 km deep and 8 km wide at the base (it is controlled by the defenders of Czunyszyne, Suchy Jar and Prominiń), while its width at the exit is about 2 km. The provision of supplies to Ukrainian forces from the end of October is already only provided on ft by fields between Pokrowski and the main road from the agglomeration to the north of Rodynskem. Thus it is presently the only possible way to retreat Ukrainian soldiers, but it is under constant fire and control of enemy drones.

The Ukrainian attempts to deblock the agglomeration from the north ended with a failure., whose intent was to establish a connection with Myrnohrad (the supply of this town for many weeks was only possible by Pokrowsk). The Ukrainians drew additional forces to this end, withdrawn from various little endangered sections of the front, which had made field advancement but failed to displace the Russians from Rodynsky. A full fiasco was the chopper landing of peculiar forces of Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) on the northwest outskirts of Pokrovska. They were besides tiny to actually support the defense, and were most likely only sent to show the Ukrainian presence at the elevated to the rank of symbol of the destroyed entrance stele into the city.

Several Ukrainian brigades were included in the operational lap. Due to the long-term struggles and the deficiency of rotation, their forces have frequently melted to battalion level, but this is inactive an crucial possible from the position of the defenders. Individuals with the top experience were directed to defend the agglomeration. On the Ukrainian Internet, the number of appeals, signed besides by the lower level of linear commanders, to give the order to retreat as long as possible. They criticise the misinformation of the actual situation by the Ukrainian advanced command levels with the General Staff at the head and stress that it is now only possible to save the surviving force. The defenders realize that in the absence of a real anticipation of deblocking – and the actions taken so far indicate that the Ukrainian command does not have adequate forces for this intent – the collapse of the agglomeration is only a substance of time.

Aggressor has made crucial advancement in the areas of another node towns in Donbasa and in the Kharkiv Oblast. He entered Constantinówka from the south east, having previously eliminated the last points of Ukrainian opposition between this city and the Donbas Canal. Russian units cut the supply routes of Lyman with the Kharkiv circuit and went to its east periphery. They besides cut off the merger of this town with Siewierski, to which the last supply line (to the west by local roads towards Slavianska) remains 3 km. The Russians besides went to the confederate outskirts of Siewierska (they had previously reached this town from the north and the east). They besides straight threatened the last road crossing the Oskoł River in the Kupujansk-Wuzłowa area (the western part of Kupinsk is already under the control of the aggressor). They besides made crucial advancement in Volchansk, where defenders already control only the southeastern part of the city.

At the border of the circuits of Djepropetrovsk and Zaporosian Russian troops crossed the Janczur River. The Pokrowske–Hulajpole road, which is the main supply way of the Ukrainian group in the north-eastern part of the Zaporo region, remains 5 km, and according to any sources, there are already fighting for the Danylivka road. The Russians besides made further advancement in the western part of the circuit, where they entered the Primorski Dnieprem.

On the night of 29 on 30 October, the Russians conducted 1 of the largest massive air attacks on Ukraine from the beginning of full-scale aggression. According to the Ukrainian Air Force Command (DSP), it utilized 400 strike drones (including imitations of them were 653) and at least 52 ballistic and maneuvering missiles. Defenders reported the disposal of 592 unmanned and 31 rockets. As a consequence of the attack, more than 700 localities were cut off in the dynamite, Lviv, Vinnytsky and Zaporossky circuits. Energy supply gaps besides occurred in respective another circuits. Heat plants specified as Amber and Kałuska in the Ivanofranki Region were hit, Dobrotwirska in the Lviv Oblast and Ladyżyńska in the Vinnytsky Oblast. According to the global Atomic Energy Agency, respective substations of crucial importance for the operation of Ukrainian atomic power plants were damaged: Chmielnicka, South-Ukrainian and Ruieńska. The targets were besides gas infrastructure in Lviv (K. Stryja) and Poltava, railway infrastructure in the Mikołaj region (the trains were temporarily stopped), critical and industrial infrastructure in Chernihov, Dnieper and Zaporozh (the last mentioned cities were to hit 8 rockets) and the airports of Borispol and Starokonstantin. In the afternoon of October 30, a guided air bomb hit a thermal power station in Slaviansk and in the evening ballistic missiles again in Dniepr and lying close Kamiensk.

The attack of October 29–30 was another in fresh months, during which the Patriot strategy deficiency in Ukrainian air defence has become known. The defenders did not study the shooting down of any of the 9 Iskander-M and Kindrazi ballistic missiles utilized by the enemy. Commenting on the DSP spokesman, Colonel Yuri Ihnat stressed that Patriots – located in just a fewer locations in Ukraine – must not be more than 25 km from the mark of their attack to effectively counter the impact of ballistic missiles. And even if this condition were fulfilled, there is no 100% warrant that all Russian missiles could be intercepted.

Energy and transport infrastructure stay the main targets of Russian air strikes in the immediate back of the front and in border circuits. Objects were damaged in the following circuits: Charkowski (31 October, 2 November) Chernihowski (29 October, 1 and 2 November), Djeepropetrowski (29 and 31 October, 1 November), Donetsk (29 October, 2 November), Mikołajowski (3 November), Odski (29 and 31 October, 2 and 4 November), Poltavaski (1 November), Sumtava (31 October, 1 and 2 November) and Zaporoski (2 November). The main substations are regularly attacked, resulting in prolonged interruptions in the supply of electricity and the impossibility of their full restoration (2 November saw a full blackout in the defence-controlled part of the Donetsk Oblast). According to Ukrainian data, from the evening of 28 October to the morning of 4 November (including the mass attack of 29–30 October), the aggressor utilized 1494 drones (including 920 impact "shaheds") and 93 missiles. The defenders reported a neutralized 1272 unmanned and shot down 39 missiles.

On 2 November, president Volodymyr Zelenski reported that the Ukrainian air defence was reinforced with Patriot air defence systems handed down by Germany. On 1 November, the German Aid to Ukraine task was announced by the German authorities to deliver 2 Patriot batteries.

The United Kingdom has decided to supply Ukraine with an additional batch of Storm Shadow maneuvering missilesthe number of which has not been disclosed. She informed the Bloomberg agency on November 3. On the same day, U.S. president Donald Trump one more time announced that he is not presently considering the anticipation of handing over Ukraine's maneuvering missiles to Tomahawk. On October 31, CNN tv announced that the Pentagon was to give "green light" to this.

Italy is preparing the 12th military support package for Ukraine. On November 3, Guido Crosetto, Minister of Defence, gave this message. A day earlier, materials from the front appeared on the net confirming that the erstwhile packages (Rome does not uncover their contents) included wheeled tank destroyers with 105 mm B1 Centauro cannon (the transfer was already announced to Kiev in May 2023) and wheeled armored transporters Puma.

On October 30, Ukrainian defence minister Denys Shmyhal reported that the ministry had allocated an additional 1.9 billion hryvians (more than $45 million) to acquisition drones from the DOT-Chain Defence program. According to the ministry's data, in the last 3 months, the military has received nearly 100,000 unmanned workers with a full value of 3.74 billion hryvnia (about $90 million). The average time of transportation of equipment from warehouses to units is presently around 10 days.

Commander of the Unmanned Systems Force Major Robert Browdi "Madiar" announced on October 31 the launch of a wide-ranging recruitment to the recently formed kind of troops. It is essential to fill 15,000 vacancies. According to Browdi, these troops account for about 2% of the full number of Ukrainian defence forces. Under the peculiar motivational programme "18–24th Drony" men who are not mobilised are encouraged to serve. It provides for a one-off bonus of 1 million hryvnia (about $24,000) if a contract is signed.

On 3 November Zelenski announced opening this year in Berlin and Copenhagen abroad export representations to deal with both co-production and arms exports. His advisor Alexander Kamyszyn will deal with agreements with EU countries and will represent the Ukrainian arms manufacture in Europe. The president stressed that arms sales are a tool to strengthen national military production and to rise additional resources for the improvement of defence technologies, including drones, rocket missiles and artillery systems.

On October 28, Kenya's abroad Ministry reported that Moscow illegally recruited the citizens of this country to participate in the war against Ukraine. The hotel called on immigration and safety services to keep increased vigilance at border crossing points, including airports, in order to identify and detain agents conducting the illegal recruiting of Kenyans for "work" in Russia.

Ukrainian forces hit further fuel and energy infrastructure facilities in Russia and areas occupied by it. On 29 October, unmanned refineries of NS-OIL in Novospasskoje in the uljanów and Marijska Oblast in Tabashin, Mari El Republic, and a fuel base in Symferopol in the occupied Crimea. Fires broke out on the premises, and the first 1 was to harm the infrastructure. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the installation at the Budionnowski Gas Processing Plant in the Stawropolski Country was besides hit on the same day. On 31 October, a thermal power plant in Orle was damaged (according to the Ukrainian Navy the object was hit by Neptun maneuvering missiles) and Vladimir's power substation in the Włodzimierz region. Ukrainian drones besides caused a fire at the site of a refinery in Jarosław. On 2 November, they hit an oil terminal in Tuapse Port in Krasnodarsk, leading to harm to the pipeline and moored tanker. In addition, substations were attacked in the July and Kursk and occupied Lugansk circuits, any of which were temporarily cut off from the supply of electricity. A day later, a refinery was hit in Saratów (according to the Ukrainian General Staff, the processing installation was damaged) and substations in the Kursk and Volgograd circuits. On 4 November, the targets of the attack were chemical plants in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, and in Kstów, in the non-non-grod region.

On October 29 HUR reported the liquidation of Ms Genimina Mazzerina – Lt. Colonel of Police and peculiar Officer of OMON Obiebieg. According to HUR data on October 25, his car exploded in the territory of the Kemer region of Russia and the unit in which he served Mazzerin belonged to the formation of the Russian National defender liable for war crimes and acts of genocide on civilians in the Kiev circuit in February and March 2022.

30 October The French Ministry of Defence has denied reports of Russian abroad intelligence about alleged deployment of 2,000 French soldiers in Ukraine. They were distributed by TASS and pro-Russian social media accounts. The goal of disinformation messages is to make an impression of the escalation of conflict. The Ministry explained that the increased movement of French troops in Europe is due to participation in NATO exercises "Dacian Fall". As part of these, France sent equipment and personnel to respective European countries to temporarily grow the multi-national battalion stationed in Romania to the brigade level. Paris assured that no French forces were deployed or prepared to deploy to Ukraine.

On 30 October, "The Telegraph" reported that almost 100,000 Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 22 had left for EU countries after a relaxation of the rules on trips abroad in August this year. The Ukrainian State Border Service did not confirm this information, claiming that the vast majority of people leaving the country are inactive women, children and elderly. Her spokesman, Andrij Demchenko, acknowledged that the border service does not supply separate statistic on the crossing of the border by age group, but that the number of men aged 18-22 is "small compared to the overall passenger flow". However, Eurostat data for the 27 EU and EFTA countries published in early November show that in September this year the number of men from Ukraine in the age group from 18 to 34 years covered by temporary protection increased. While there were less than 8,000 specified cases in August, the number of these cases increased to nearly 30,000 a period later.