Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine!November 2nd, 2022

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy with the forces of a battalion tactical group and a company of foreign mercenaries, totaling up to 500 people, launched five consecutive attacks on the positions of Russian troops on a narrow front in the direction of the settlement of Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic). All the enemy attacks have been repelled. The enemy was driven back to the initial positions by Russia’s troops, artillery fire, army and ground-attack aviation, heavy flamethrower systems. More than 160 militants, five tanks, nine armoured fighting vehicles, and ten pickup trucks have been neutralised. In the Krasny Liman direction, Russia’s troops eliminated over 70 Ukraine’s personnel, two tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, an armoured personnel carrier, and five pickup trucks. In the Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog direction, the enemy, with up to two battalion tactical groups, failed attempts to attack in the directions of Ishchenka, Bruskinskoye, Pyatikhatki, and Koshara (Kherson region). The defeat resulted in destroying up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, seven armoured fighting vehicles, and 13 vehicles. Operational-tactical and Army Aviation, missile troops and artillery annihilated two command posts in Artemovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Konstantinovka (Zaporozhye region) as well as 59 artillery units in firing positions, manpower, and military hardware in 177 areas. A communication hub of a Ukrainian group of troops was destroyed near Prikolotnoye (Kharkov region). Close to Dnepropetrovsk, an oil terminal was destroyed, from which diesel fuel was supplied to the troops in Donbas. Russia’s air defence systems shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the settlements of Egorovka, Zeleny Gai, Pavlovka, Nikolskoye, Zavitne Bazhannya, Kirillovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Poltava (Lugansk People’s Republic), Novaya Tarasovka (Kharkov region) and Novaya Kamenka (Kherson region). Moreover, 13 shells of the U.S. HIMARS MLRS were shot down over the settlements of Burgunka, Olgovka, Nikolayevka, Novaya Kakhovka, Ponyatovka, Nikolskoye (Kherson region) and Novonikolskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic). In total, 326 airplanes and 162 helicopters, 2,349 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,084 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 874 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 3,527 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,791 units of special military hardware have been annihilated during the special military operation.