One in four apartment buildings damaged by Russian attacks in Zaporizhzhia
One in every four apartment buildings and nearly 2,500 private houses in Zaporizhzhia have been damaged by Russian shelling.
03 November 2025
One in every four apartment buildings and nearly 2,500 private houses in Zaporizhzhia have been damaged by Russian shelling.
In the Borzna community of the Chernihiv region, two people were killed in a field, and another was injured as a result of an explosion caused by a Russian drone.
Assault units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces advanced in several areas near the Dobropillia salient over the past day. In total, 188 square kilometers have been liberated since the start of the operation, and 248.7 square kilometers have been cleared of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
Since the start of the day, 83 combat clashes have taken place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with fighting ongoing in six sectors of the front. The Pokrovsk sector remains the hottest, where the enemy continues to demonstrate the highest activity.
Specialists of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) have struck the command post of a Russian S-400 Triumf air defense battalion in temporarily occupied Crimea, destroying and damaging two radar stations, other equipment, and a surveillance radar.
The Russians shelled the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, injuring a 65-year-old woman.
The Ukrainian Naval Forces struck a Russian anti-tank missile system located on the Sivash drilling platform in the Black Sea.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees awarding the Cross of Combat Merit to two servicemen of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Private Oleksandr Aliksiienko and Junior Sergeant Oleksandr Tishaiev, for continuously holding a frontline position and engaging in combat for 165 days.
The head of NATO's Military Committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, believes that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has already suffered a strategic defeat due to the attack on Ukraine.
A 66-year-old woman from the village of Pidlyman in the Kharkiv region, who was seriously injured on November 2 as a result of a Russian FPV drone strike, died in hospital.
Ukraine's Defense Forces halted the expansion of Russian presence in the northern part of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, and prevented the enemy from cutting off the road connecting Pokrovsk and Rodynske.
The intensity of fighting on the front lines in October remained high, with 5,480 combat engagements and nearly 140,000 artillery strikes by Russian forces recorded during the month. These figures exceeded those of September.
The Russian army launched 10 Heranium -2 UAV strikes on infrastructure facilities in the Popivka community.
Russian troops shelled the Korabelnyi district of Kherson, injuring a 75-year-old man.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed the strike on the Saratov oil refinery and several logistics facilities of the Russian army in the Luhansk region.
A company in Dnipro was damaged by a Russian missile strike on Monday morning.
On the morning of November 3, the Russian army shelled Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, damaging an educational institution, an apartment building, and an administrative building.
A fire broke out in an agricultural enterprise hangar in the Chernihiv region, and administrative buildings were damaged as a result of Russian drone attacks over the past day.
A decrease in the activity of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups has been observed along the Ukrainian-Russian border. At the same time, the Defense Forces continue to record isolated attempts by the enemy to infiltrate, particularly in the Sumy region.
The Head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitaliy Kim, published photos and videos of the consequences of the night shelling of Mykolaiv.
Agents of the partisan movement ATESH carried out reconnaissance of the territory of the 102nd Separate Special Purpose Detachment for Combating Underwater Sabotage Forces and Assets of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the Kostiantynivska Bay area of Sevastopol.
From the morning of November 2 to the morning of November 3, the Russian army launched 87 strikes on 35 settlements across 17 territorial communities in the Sumy region.
On November 2, a total of 162 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the enemy exerting the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk sector of the front.
In the early hours of November 3, Russian forces launched a missile strike on the city of Dnipro, injuring one person.
As of November 3, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine are estimated at about 1,144,830 personnel, including 1,160 soldiers lost in the past 24 hours.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector of the front, drone operators from the ‘Hart’ Border Brigade struck a bridge on temporarily occupied territory that Russian forces had been using for logistics.
Overnight, Russian forces attacked Mykolaiv region with Shahed-type drones, damaging local energy infrastructure.
Reports from Russia indicate that a drone attack targeted an oil refinery in the city of Saratov.
Ukrainian partisans are crippling Russia’s logistics — the number of fires at railway infrastructure sites across the Russian Federation continues to grow.
Russian troops attacked Trostianets community in Sumy region with strike drones; according to preliminary reports, one person was killed.