Overview
- - A Russian assault unit says it took control of a bakery plant complex in eastern Kupyansk and advanced along Dzerzhinsky Street, reporting seven large buildings and a technical facility cleared.
- - Russia’s Defense Ministry reports its forces are dismantling an encircled Ukrainian grouping in Kupyansk and say they repelled attempts to break the siege, citing destroyed armored vehicles and electronic warfare assets.
- - Denis Pushilin says Ukrainian forces’ efforts to escape from Krasnoarmeysk/Pokrovsk were blocked, with seven attacks from the Grishino area repelled and some Ukrainian troops surrendering.
- - Russian battlefield summaries claim more than 130 Ukrainian casualties in the ‘Sever’ sector and up to 70 in the ‘Dnepr’ area, along with the destruction of an AN/TPQ-36 radar and multiple depots.
- - Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi confirms a November 1 Russian strike on troops gathered for an awards ceremony, while state operators report halted generation at public thermal plants and rolling blackouts after recent Russian attacks.