The largest number - a third - of all 83 battles on the front since the beginning of the current day remains in the Pokrovsk direction, but the enemy has become more active today in the Kupyansk direction, where, along with Oleksandrivka, there have been 11 combat engagements, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a summary at 4 p.m. on November 3, writes UNN.
The invaders continue to storm the positions of Ukrainian defenders. In total, 83 combat engagements have taken place since the beginning of the day.
As stated, border settlements, including Serhiivske, Khrynivka, Orlykivka, Halahanyvka of Chernihiv Oblast; Koreniok of Sumy Oblast, suffered from artillery shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation.
Situation by directions
In the Northern-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, the enemy launched 6 air strikes, dropped a total of 13 guided aerial bombs, and carried out 57 artillery shellings, including one from a multiple rocket launcher system, since the beginning of the day.
In the Southern-Slobozhansky direction, Ukrainian soldiers stopped an enemy attack in the area of Kamianka.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressor carried out 11 assault actions in the area of Petropavlivka and in the direction of Pishchane, Novoosinove, and Kurylivka. Six combat engagements are currently ongoing.
In the Lyman direction, the invading army attacked seven times in the areas of Myrne, Novoselivka, and towards Drobycheve, Stavky.
In the Sloviansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled two enemy attacks near Serebryanka and Vyyimka, and one more combat engagement is ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers did not conduct offensive actions.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, in the areas of Oleksandro-Shultyne, Pleshchiivka, Ivanopillia, Shcherbynivka, Rusyn Yar, our soldiers stopped seven enemy offensive actions, and two more combat engagements are ongoing. Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka were under air strikes.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 32 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of Shakhove, Fedorivka, Nove Shakhove, Myrnograd, Rodynske, Razine, Chervonyi Lyman, Novopavlivka, Sukhyi Yar, Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske. The Defense Forces are holding back the enemy's pressure and have already stopped 28 attacks.
Today, in the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy attacked 11 times in the areas of Sichneve, Vorone, Stepove, Oleksiivka, Verbove, Pavlivka, Tsehelne, Uspenivka, Krasnohirske. One combat engagement is still ongoing. The enemy launched air strikes on the areas of Demuryne, Velykomykhailivka, Orestopil, Oleksiivka.
In the Huliaipole direction, seven combat engagements were recorded in the area of Okhotnyche, four combat engagements are still ongoing.
In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy has attacked twice in the areas of Stepnohirsk and Stepove so far.
No enemy offensive actions were recorded in the Prydniprovskyi direction.
In other directions of the front, the situation, as stated, has not undergone significant changes.