The Russian army made about 40 attempts to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov, Donetsk, Lugansk and Zaporozhye regions.

Almost half a million apartments remain without electricity in Kyiv. The reason is overloads in the Ukrainian energy system damaged by Russian shelling.

On November 3, the UN Human Rights Committee published a report on the situation in Russia, among others, noting the most significant cases of human rights violations in the North Caucasus. Among them are forced conscription to war, forceful suppression of anti-mobilization protests, abductions, torture, persecution of human rights activists and journalists, representatives of the LGBT community, “honor killings,” the practice of collective responsibility and female circumcision.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners.

Four drunken conscripts from North Ossetia slaughtered 13 cows and shot at a Russian serviceman in the town of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, occupied by Russian troops.

Ukraine launched new missile attacks on the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka.

Russia continues to launch missile attacks on populated areas of Ukraine: Poltava, Nikopol, Marganets, Volchansk, Nikolaev.

On November 1, the French human rights organizations Habitat-cité and Comité Tchétchénie sent an appeal to the UN, declaring the inadmissibility of the deportation of Chechen refugees from France.

On October 31, negotiations between the heads of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh took place in Sochi. First, Putin held bilateral meetings with Aliyev and Pashinyan, then everyone met in a trilateral format.
As experts note, the Sochi meetings did not add anything new to the negotiation process.