Guided bombs killed at least 40 in Komyshuvakha; 59 still missing

Civilian casualties of russian strikes on 4 November and the night to 5 November, plus the updated toll of the 2 November strike — as reported by the authorities on the morning of 5.11. The data are incomplete and may rise; the reports cover different periods, so they are not added up:

• Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), 2.11 — at least 40 killed, 59 missing, at least 5 injured (no report of children); guided bombs on a humanitarian aid point (President Zelensky, regional administration, police; Suspilne, updated 4.11 15:43)
• Zaporizhzhia district, 24 hours to the morning of 5.11 — 3 killed, 1 injured; russian forces struck 53 settlements 784 times in a day (Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defence council, via Focus, 09:07 5.11)
• Putyvl community (Sumy region), 4–5.11 — 1 killed (a woman, 69), 1 injured (a man); a drone hit a residential building (regional governor Ihor Kalchenko, via Focus)
• Kharkiv region, 24 hours to the morning of 5.11 — 0 killed, 3 injured and 3 more with acute stress reactions, among them an 8-year-old boy in Derhachi; a 15-year-old injured in Izium on 2.11 has received treatment (regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, via Focus)
• Dnipro and Samar (Dnipropetrovsk region), night to 5.11 — 0 killed, 3 injured; fires at a private house and at critical infrastructure sites (regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha, via Focus)
• Bucha district (Kyiv region), night to 5.11 — 0 killed, 1 injured; fire at logistics infrastructure (State Emergency Service, via Focus)
• Southern Odesa region, night to 5.11 — no casualties reported; damage to energy facilities, a delivery-service warehouse, the office building of a medical-supplies maker, a college and a dormitory (regional governor Oleh Kiper, via Focus)

Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), 2 November. Between 10:00 and 11:00, while bread was being handed out, russian forces dropped 9 guided bombs on a school used as a humanitarian aid point (Suspilne, citing its own sources); LB.ua describes it as an underground “resilience centre” whose concrete roof collapsed after a direct hit. Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, said those inside were civilians and the bombs were first FAB-500s, then a FAB-3000. The death toll kept rising: 18 → 24 → 26 → 33 → 37 (LB.ua, 4.11 11:52; four police officers and rescuers among the dead) → at least 40, according to Zelensky (Suspilne, 15:43 4.11). 59 people are missing and up to 38 may be under the rubble; police have identified 12 of the dead, the rest are being identified through relatives’ DNA. The State Emergency Service has brought in dog teams and mountain rescuers; the search goes on. The region declared mourning (according to a Censor.NET headline; the text was not read, and it still gives an early figure of 24 dead). There is no final death toll yet.

184 clashes in 24 hours — 11% below the weekly average (207), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (as of 08:00 on 5.11, Ukrinform 08:22; the evening report at 22:32 on 4.11 had 179). The air war picked up instead: 89 air strikes — the most since 13 October — and 289 guided bombs, the most since 24 October and 22% above the weekly average. Add 7,045 kamikaze drones and 2,449 shelling attacks. The named directions account for only 52 of the 184 attacks (the report does not explain the gap). Attacks by direction:

• Pokrovsk — 17
• Kostiantynivka — 10
• Huliaipole — 9
• South Slobozhanskyi — 6
• Lyman — 6
• North Slobozhanskyi — 2
• Sloviansk — 2
• Kupiansk, Oleksandrivka — no assaults
• Kramatorsk, Orikhiv and Prydniprovskyi — no active fighting

2,380 troops in 24 hours to 5 November — 22% above the weekly average (1,951) and the most since 2 November, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. Cumulative total: about 1,599,390. Not independently confirmed; figures are being updated. Losses by category:

• personnel — 2,380
• tanks — 1
• armoured vehicles — 3
• artillery systems — 23
• MLRS — 2
• air defence systems — 5
• aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, ships — increase not given in the report
• operational-tactical drones — 1,163
• vehicles (incl. fuel tankers) — 375
• UGVs — 5
• special equipment — 2

130 drones and missiles on the night to 5 November — the fewest since 30 October, 2.4 times fewer than the night before (310) and 45% below the weekly average (235). According to Ukraine’s Air Force (18:00 on 4.11 to 08:00 on 5.11): 128 strike drones, 65 of them jet-powered Shaheds (Gerberas and Parodiya decoys not counted separately), and 2 Kh-35 air-launched guided missiles from the Black Sea. 105 drones were shot down or jammed; the fate of the missiles was not given. Hits at 18 locations, debris at 9; the attack was still under way. Launch areas: Oryol and Kursk regions, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, occupied Donetsk region and Crimea.

Aftermath of the night attack: in Kyiv region (Bucha district) logistics infrastructure is on fire; in Dnipro and Samar critical infrastructure sites were damaged, and air defence downed 30 drones over the region; in the south of Odesa region energy facilities and civilian buildings were damaged. Focus also mentions damage to a DTEK thermal power plant — no details.

💥Two Pantsir air-defence systems (a Pantsir-S2 and another Pantsir) and a russian fire team in occupied Crimea came under fire on 3 November and the night to 4 November, according to Ukraine’s General Staff (4.11 13:51, via Ukrinform and Ukrainska Pravda). Losing the Pantsirs weakens air defence over military sites in Crimea and southern russia. The location in Crimea was not named. The same report says a drone control point near Vladivka (Zaporizhzhia region) and a depot near Bilovodsk (Luhansk region) were “hit”. Confirmed only by the General Staff; the occupation authorities have not commented and there are no independent images.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities of Crimea, 3–4.11): no statement by the local authorities about this site on this date was found in the material read (a search in russian returned irrelevant results)

💥📏 115 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈A russian army supply depot near Bilovodsk (occupied Luhansk region) was “hit” on 3 November and the night to 4 November, according to Ukraine’s General Staff (4.11 13:51); no details of the damage. In the same report the General Staff confirmed the destruction of a storage building at a missile and artillery weapons depot near Ohorodne (Donetsk region), struck on 26 October. Confirmed only by the General Staff; no statement by the local authorities was found.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities of Luhansk region, 3–4.11): no statement by the local authorities about this site on this date was found in the material read (a search in russian returned irrelevant results)

🛢️unverified📏 705 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Yaroslavl, night to 3 November: my.ua (4.11) attributes the drone strike on the Slavneft-YANOS refinery, which we reported yesterday, to Ukraine’s defence forces. But the General Staff report of 4.11 (13:51) does not mention it, and there is still no official confirmation (General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO, USF); the extent of the damage is unknown. No new statement by governor Mikhail Yevrayev was found today — on 3.11 he acknowledged a fire at an “enterprise” without naming the refinery (issue of 4.11).

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Yaroslavl regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev, 3.11): no new statements found for 4–5.11; on 3.11 the governor acknowledged a fire at an “enterprise” without naming the refinery (see the issue of 4.11)

💥Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) destroyed a russian Tunguska anti-aircraft system, and another strike hit a Pantsir-S1 — according to the captions of two Ukrinform videos on 5.11 (01:20 and 00:28). Place and time were not given; Ukrinform quotes a price of $15m for the Pantsir without a source. The USF’s own statements were not read, so the place and date of the strikes are not established.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (—, —): place not named, so local statements cannot be checked

⚡unverifiedVoronezh, 4 November: partisans cut power to a plant that builds and repairs Il-76 transport aircraft, according to Ukrinform (14:56, video). This is the partisans’ claim as relayed by Ukrinform; the General Staff, SBU, HUR and SSO have not confirmed it, and the effect on production is unknown. No statement by the Voronezh regional governor for that date was found.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Voronezh regional governor, 4.11): no statement by the local authorities about this site on this date was found in the material read (a search in russian returned irrelevant results)

unverifiedAnalysts in Ukrinform exclusives (4.11; only the headlines were read): one argues that Putin is “manipulating Trump, who wrongly believes he is running the game”; another (3.11) thinks that Vladimir Medinsky’s role at the talks in Abu Dhabi means a return to the Istanbul terms and that there will be no tangible results while Putin is in power. These are the views of individual experts, not institutions.

unverifiedCongressman George Whitesides (per Ukrinform, 3.11, headline only) said Putin is “panicking” ahead of the new US Congress convening and is pressuring Ukraine; Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in the US expects bipartisan support to hold after the midterm elections (4.11).

🤝On 4 November Zelensky spoke for about 90 minutes with Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, and said a three-way meeting with russia and the United States is being prepared “in less than a week”. The date stands — 10–11 November in Abu Dhabi: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed it on 3.11, and Witkoff said (per an Axios headline) that the US will mediate. No official readout of the call and no line-up of the delegations have been published.

The negotiations must move forward at full throttle to bring this war to an end as quickly as possible.

🏗️On 4 November in Brussels Ukrainian and US teams discussed post-war reconstruction with the EU, France, the UK, Germany, NATO, the World Bank and business; Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, outlined the first results. A second meeting, on security guarantees, is set for 5 November. The European Commission (per Ukrinform, 4.11) estimates Ukraine could complete 95% of the reforms required for EU macro-financial assistance this year.

🛡️unverified Ukraine is chronically short of Patriot missiles, Zelensky told German defence minister Boris Pistorius on 4 November, asking for faster deliveries; the day before, Chancellor Friedrich Merz had promised more help with air defence and energy before winter. The headlines read give no quantities.

🕊️ Ukraine and russia: no direct statements by Donald Trump about the war in the past day were found in the material read. The White House (3.11, via Ukrinform) credits him with starting a dialogue between the two countries and with the truce in Oleshky, a town in russian-occupied Kherson region; the same day in Berlin Zelensky said Trump has influence over Putin and that he hopes Trump will focus on peace after the elections.

🛢️ Iran. In a phone interview with Fox News (night of 3–4.11, per ABC7 and CBS), commenting on the midterm results, Trump said: “I think part of it was Iran.” He told the Wall Street Journal he has no regrets about the war against Iran: “I did the right thing. I would have done it again.” The day before, he had threatened to resume large-scale strikes after the vote. Iranian officials, per PBS and Al Jazeera, called the results Americans’ rejection of the war.

I don't think about it. I did the right thing. I would have done it again.

🏰russia, Europe, NATO: no separate statements by Trump in the past day. No verified funny episode either, so the “fun” slot is skipped this time.

unverifiedFirst Lady Melania Trump is due to speak at the White House at 11:00 Eastern time on 5 November about the truce in Oleshky and, according to a White House statement of 3.11, to bring together representatives of russia and Ukraine. According to the Kyiv Independent, citing a Ukrainian official, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets and russia’s commissioner Yana Lantratova are expected (she is under US sanctions, so a State Department waiver is needed); neither Kyiv nor Moscow has publicly confirmed the participants. No results yet.

China: no statements by Chinese officials on the war in the past day. No other US officials besides Trump and the First Lady appear in the material read.

🗣️unverifiedKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on 3 November that a russian delegation will come to Abu Dhabi for the three-way talks on 10–11 November. Earlier, Putin’s foreign-policy aide Yuri Ushakov (28.10) said the talks would come after 4 November, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (31.10) that the date would be named once finally confirmed, and Peskov (30.10) that Europeans might be brought in; Zelensky says russia does not want Europe involved. This is a russian outlet’s account; the Kremlin’s original was not read.

🗣️unverifiedAccording to a United24 Media headline, the Kremlin said it knows nothing about Melania Trump’s White House event with representatives of russia and Ukraine; which official said this, and when, is not established (the text was not read).