Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 260 combat engagements on November 5, including 93 on the Pokrovsk axis, and said units in the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad area are not encircled.
- Officials report strike-and-search operations inside Pokrovsk to block small Russian groups from entrenching, with reinforced assault, special operations and National Guard elements committed.
- Frontline accounts and independent analysts describe deep Russian infiltration and ongoing urban combat across multiple neighborhoods, with extensive damage inside the city.
- The military cites intense aerial munitions use, including 94 guided bombs and thousands of kamikaze drones on November 5, following a surge in such strikes through October.
- Parallel to battlefield actions, the SBU detained two alleged FSB spotters tied to strikes on Kyiv and Kramatorsk, and prosecutors reported over 190,000 documented war crimes since 2022.