RUssian Army TRIES to Advance On 6 Fronts; RU Suffers Heavy Losses Near Vuhledar; RUs Continue Large-Scale “meat-grinder” Assaults On Avdiivka Front; UKR Strikes Crimea with ATACMS Missiles for the First Time; The Drones Fighting Cat and Mouse Battles Behind RU Front Lines in UKR, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Russian army tries to advance on six fronts:

On 2 November, the Russian army conducted unsuccessful offensive actions on the Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka, Shakhtarsk, and Zaporizhzhia fronts.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 2 November

Quote: “During the day, the Air Force of the Defence Forces carried out 13 strikes on areas where Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated and two on the Russian anti-aircraft missile systems.

Rocket Forces and Artillery units hit a command post, three areas where Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition warehouse, eight artillery pieces, as well as another important target of the enemy.”

“During the day, 38 combat clashes took place. In total, the enemy launched four missile attacks and 44 air strikes and carried out 59 attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.”

Details: Ukraine’s Defence Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation on the Melitopol front and offensive (assault) actions on the Bakhmut front, inflicting losses in manpower and equipment on the Russian troops and exhausting the Russians along the entire contact line.

On the Kupiansk front, the Russians conducted unsuccessful assaults near Synkivka, Petropavlivka and Ivanivka (Kharkiv Oblast). Ukrainian soldiers repelled five attacks there. —>READ MORE HERE

Ukraine war latest: Russia suffers heavy losses near Vuhledar; US sanctions 200 targets involved in Russian war effort

Ukrainian forces repelled Russia’s attempted advance towards Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Nov. 2.

Russian troops suffered heavy losses as a result, including “dozens of vehicles and many killed and wounded,” according to Zelensky.

“There was an attempt by the enemy to advance in the Vuhledar direction, but our soldiers stopped it, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy — dozens of vehicles, many killed and wounded,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

A Ukrainian-held front-line town of Vuhledar — located around 50 kilometers southwest of occupied Donetsk — was the site of a major Russian defeat in early 2023 as attacking forces reportedly lost thousands of soldiers and over 100 armored vehicles.

In the same report, Zelensky said that Ukrainian forces also continue their offensive operations in the south and defensive operations near another Donetsk Oblast’s front-line town, Avdiivka.

Russia intensified its attacks against and around Avdiivka in early October in an attempt to encircle the town. This resulted in heavy Russian losses in both manpower and equipment.

According to the U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the situation around Avdiivka shows the Russian military command’s inability to learn from past mistakes.

Also, in its Nov. 2 update, the U.K. Defense Ministry said that over the course of last week, Ukrainian strikes destroyed at least four Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) launchers located in occupied territories.

The destroyed equipment includes three S-400 Triumph (known by NATO as SA-21) launchers, which reportedly cost $500 million each, in Luhansk Oblast, as well as potentially another unknown air defense SAM system in Crimea. —>READ MORE HERE

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