Overnight into 3 November, Russian troops launched four dozen drones and a guided missile across Ukraine, injuring at least 7 people, including a 10-year-old and 2-year-old child.
A UN investigation found that the Russian army was responsible for the missile attack on a cafe in Hroza, a village in eastern Ukraine, where people were attending a memorial service on 5 October 2023.
Russia launched a missile strike on Ukraine's Poltava Oblast early on October 29. Air defenses did not down the missile, but no casualties or damage was reported.
Daily Russian strikes across Ukraine are claiming lives, injuring civilians, and inflicting damage to residential areas and critical infrastructure. Over two days, Russian attacks killed at least one, injured 17 civilians, almost all in southern Ukraine's Kherson Oblast.
For the first time since the war began, Russia has halted long-range bomber flights in Ukraine over a month, likely preserving cruise missile to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure this winter.
Kremlin is aware of Ukraine's intent to retaliate, as Russia first removed its fleet from Crimea and is repositioning its aircraft farther from Ukraine's borders.
In the first such registered case of a "new level of complexity aimed at overwhelming air defense," Russia launched air bombs simultaneously with its usual mix
However, Russian attacks on civilians escalate, with kamikaze drones targeting the cargo destined for the liberated seaports, and strikes on funeral processions and hospitals
Still raging over their expulsion from Kherson, Russian invaders now seek to reduce the city to ashes, bombarding homes, shops and aid distribution points in a vicious scorched earth assault that claims civilian lives daily.