Night air attack, 169 combat clashes, battles in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions, casualties of the occupiers, enemy shelling, visit of Annalena Baerbock.
Consequences of the shelling of Donbass
Last night, Russian invaders entered a supermarket in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv. Fourteen people were injured, including four police officers, the city mayor Igor Terekhov, the State Emergency Service and the National Police reported.
According to the National Police, the enemy had previously carried out airstrikes with FAB-250 from the UMPK. Fourteen people, including four police officers, were injured by blasts and other injuries.
At 22:28, Terekhov wrote in a telegram about the sounds of explosions in Kharkov. Later, he clarified that the enemy had hit a supermarket in the Shevchenkivskyi district, located near multi-story buildings.
Power lines and ground electric transport, cars were damaged. There were broken windows in nearby houses. As of 23:55, there were 11 victims, the State Emergency Service reported 13. Another attack occurred near one of the markets in the Kholodnogorsk district of the city. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties, but the windows were broken. All relevant services were working at the scene.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 169 combat clashes have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
Our defenders have repelled 27 attacks over the past 24 hours in the Pokrovsk direction. The enemy attempted to advance near Mirolyubovka, Lisovka, Luch, Sukhoi Yar, Novogrodovka and Vishnevoye.
The Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the Kurakhovsky direction. In the areas of Ilyinka, Ostrovsky, Dalniy, Antonovka and Yekaterinovka, the occupiers attempted to break through Ukrainian defense lines 27 times.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an operation in the Kursk direction, where the enemy carried out twenty-eight airstrikes over the past 24 hours, using 40 guided bombs, and Ukrainian defenders repelled thirteen enemy attacks. More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,300 occupiers and 11 tanks. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russians have already lost about 700,390 soldiers.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the night of November 4, the air defense shot down 50 enemy attack drones in 9 regions of Ukraine.
The enemy launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile strike on the Dnipropetrovsk region (launch area – Rostov region of Russia). It also attacked the Kharkiv region with guided bombs and launched 80 Shahed-type attack UAVs and unidentified drones in the Bryansk, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk directions in Russia.
As of 08.30, the destruction of 50 enemy UAVs has been confirmed in the Kyiv, Sumy, Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev, Zhitomir, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Kirovograd regions of Ukraine.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has arrived in Kyiv. This is her eighth visit to Ukraine.
As Reuters writes, she said that Ukraine, entering its third winter of war, needs support to ensure its very survival. The minister also recalled Russia's support with weapons from North Korea and massive Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure.
“We counteract this cruelty with our humanity and support so that Ukrainians can not only survive the winter, but so that their country can survive. Because they are also defending the freedom of all of us in Europe,” Baerbock said upon her arrival in Kyiv.
In the capital, she is due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and her Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiha. The German Foreign Minister was last in Ukraine in May this year.
The current President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, is leading the elections, according to preliminary data. By the morning of November 4, the Moldovan Central Election Commission had processed 99.5% of the votes in the second round, and according to these results, the pro-European candidate from the Action and Solidarity Party has more than 55% of the votes, writes NewsMaker.
44.75% of the votes went to the candidate from the pro-Russian Socialist Party, Alexandru Stoianoglo. The overall turnout for the elections was 54.3%.
“Moldova, you won today. Together we demonstrated the strength of our unity, democracy and commitment to a worthy future,” Sandu said in X after the preliminary results were known.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already congratulated Maia Sandu on her victory.
The head of Ukraine wrote about this on the social network X. According to him, Ukraine supports the European choice of the people of Moldova and is ready to work together to strengthen the partnership. “A peaceful, united Europe can guarantee every person and every family the opportunity to meet tomorrow with hope and confidence,” Zelensky wrote.
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