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The IRGC said in two statements on the night of 5 November that its Aerospace Force's electronic warfare systems brought down a fifth and a sixth US MQM-170 reconnaissance drone over Qeshm Island, Tasnim reported. Anadolu Agency, citing IRNA, reported the claim and said the statements gave no further details. Mehr News Agency carried the claim on the morning of 6 November. No US comment on the claim was found.

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Ukraine's air force said Russia attacked Ukraine with 227 Shahed, Gerbera and other drones, 86 of them jet-powered, from 18:00 Kyiv time on 5 November (16:00 UTC), Ukrainska Pravda and Ukrinform reported. It said that as of 08:00 Kyiv time on 6 November (06:00 UTC) hits were recorded at 14 locations and debris fell at eight more.

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Bila Tserkva city council said three jet-powered drones attacked energy facilities of the community on the night of 5 to 6 November and power supply was disrupted, Ukrainska Pravda reported. DTEK's Kyiv regional networks said two energy facilities in parts of Obukhiv and Bila Tserkva districts were significantly damaged, Ukrinform reported. Russia's defence ministry said its forces struck a battery energy storage park in Bila Tserkva, Interfax and RIA Novosti reported.

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The Russian-installed mayor of Horlivka, Ivan Prikhodko, said a civilian was injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on the town in occupied Donetsk Oblast, RIA Novosti and Donetsk Media reported early on 6 November.

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US President Donald Trump said he met Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev on 5 November and would not say what they discussed, Ukrinform and the Kyiv Independent reported. He said a big agreement that concerns more than Ukraine was coming, Ukrinform reported. The Kyiv Independent reported that trilateral talks were set for 10 to 11 November in Abu Dhabi, according to US envoy Witkoff. The meeting came on the day First Lady Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House, the BBC reported.

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Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Saudi aircraft carried out 61 raids in 24 hours on Sanaa and the governorates of al-Jawf, Taiz, Saada, Marib, Lahj, al-Dhale, Ibb, Hodeidah and Hajjah, Yemen Extra and 21 September reported. He put the total since the escalation began at 4,197 raids and missile strikes, Al-Manar reported. He did not give the places or times of single raids. No Saudi or coalition statement on the raids was found.

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Kharkiv Oblast Police said a Russian jet-powered drone struck police officers who had arrived at a facility in Derhachi at around 21:45 Kyiv time on 5 November (19:45 UTC) to warn staff, Ukrainska Pravda reported. It said two officers were injured, one of them seriously, and a police car was damaged.

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Ukraine's energy ministry said new power outages hit seven oblasts after Russian attacks on 6 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported. LB.ua reported that Ukrenergo introduced emergency outages in Kyiv and in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv and Cherkasy oblasts.

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Kirovohrad regional head Raikovych said a Russian attack on the Oleksandrivka community on the evening of 5 November set a house on fire and that three injured people were taken to hospital, Ukrinform and Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said a Russian drone destroyed a private house in Kropyvnytskyi district, Radio Svoboda and DSnews reported. Raikovych said on 6 November that one of the injured had been discharged, Ukrinform reported.

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Houthi military media released footage on 5 November of what it said were drone strikes on vehicles and gatherings of Yemeni government forces in eastern al-Jawf, SouthFront reported, citing al-Masirah. No account from the government side was found.

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Yemeni government forces of the Taiz military axis said they retook several positions in al-Sarari, in Sabr al-Mawadim district south of Taiz, and in Sanamat in al-Misrakh after heavy clashes with the Houthis on 5 November, Khabar Agency reported. Al-Mashhad al-Yemeni also reported that government forces retook positions in Sabr al-Mawadim and al-Misrakh. No Houthi account of the fighting was found.

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Krasnodar Krai's regional operational headquarters said falling debris from Ukrainian drones started a fire at an enterprise in Afipsky overnight into 6 November, with no one injured and windows damaged in one flat, Meduza reported. The Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova Plus reported a fire at the Afipsky oil refinery and explosions and fires in Adygea, the Kyiv Independent reported; the Kyiv Independent said local authorities had not commented at the time.

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The mayor of Shabla in Bulgaria said a local resident found a drone marked Shahed on the beach opposite the Shabla range and that military specialists would inspect it, Novinite reported, as carried by Ukrinform. The mayor said it might carry explosives. Ukrinform reported that it was found on the morning of 6 November and may have washed ashore from the sea.

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Brent crude traded at $99.90 a barrel at 05:06 GMT on 6 November, up 1.67% from the previous settle, FinanceFeeds reported, citing CNBC. FinanceFeeds linked the move to Iranian reports of attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.

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Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state TV that Iran wants practical US steps, not written commitments, before new diplomacy, and the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, Mohammad Eslami, accused IAEA chief Grossi of passing information to Iran's adversaries. Brent crude traded at $99.90 a barrel in Asian hours, FinanceFeeds reported, citing CNBC, and Yemen's foreign minister Afrah al-Zouba said a lack of deterrence had encouraged Houthi attacks. 1 event and 3 statements recorded.

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Ukraine's energy ministry said new power outages hit seven oblasts after Russian attacks, and Bila Tserkva's city council said drones hit the community's energy facilities overnight, which Russia's defence ministry said was a strike on an energy storage park. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 227 drones from the evening of 5 November and that 196 were shot down or suppressed, while Russia's defence ministry said its air defences destroyed 142 Ukrainian drones overnight. Krasnodar Krai's regional headquarters said falling drone debris set fire to an enterprise in Afipsky, and the Russian-installed mayor of Horlivka said a Ukrainian drone injured a civilian. President Zelensky said Ukraine had not received US$16 billion of US aid envisaged by earlier agreements, and presidential office official Serhii Leshchenko said Ukraine would propose sectoral ceasefires in energy and the Black Sea at the Abu Dhabi talks. 6 events and 12 statements recorded.

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Al Jazeera's correspondent reported heavy fighting on the Maqatrah front in Lahj on 5 November, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. The report did not give casualties. No statement on the Maqatrah fighting by the Houthis or by Yemeni government forces was found on the cited page.

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The Kyiv City Military Administration said debris from a Russian drone fell in an open area in Kyiv's Pecherskyi district on 5 November, Ukrinform and UA.News reported. No casualties were reported in either account.

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Brent crude settled at about $98.29 a barrel on 5 November, up 3.9%, and WTI rose 2.7% to about $90.52, Bloomberg reported, carried by Rigzone. Earlier in the day Brent traded at about $96.96 at 7.11pm UAE time, The National reported, and at about $97.56, RTE reported; CBS News reported a 2.2% rise to $96.70. Brent had fallen below $100 a barrel on 4 November.

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Ukraine's State Emergency Service said four Russian drones struck Sloviansk on the morning of 5 November, damaging an administrative building, production premises and two shops, Ukrinform reported. It said a drone then struck the place where firefighters were putting out a fire at a car service, and that no one was hurt. Suspilne reported the service said a fire covering 370 square metres was put out.

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Kursk governor Khinshtein said a Ukrainian drone attack in the village of Uspeshnoye in Rylsk district injured a 46-year-old man, who had a blast injury and a closed head injury, RIA Novosti, Interfax and Life.ru reported on 5 November. He described him as a further casualty after the two people he had reported injured earlier that day. No Ukrainian account was found.

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The Shostka district administration said a Russian drone attack on Hlukhiv on the morning of 5 November injured a 51-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl, Ukrinform and LB.ua reported. Suspilne reported that district head Bieliaiev said the drone hit near Shevchenko park at about 08:52 Kyiv time (06:52 UTC), breaking windows.

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AP reported, carried by CBS News and Fox News, that court documents unsealed on 5 November show the Trump administration held talks with Iranian officials on removals during the war, and that as recently as mid-October it had plans to deport Iranians through an unnamed third country. The judge ordered advance notice before any deportation, CBS News reported. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond, CBS News reported.

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Belgorod oblast's operational headquarters said a Ukrainian FPV drone attacked a cyclist in Shebekino, leaving him with shrapnel wounds to his legs and hand and a broken foot, and that he was taken to Shebekino hospital, RIA Novosti and Interfax reported on 5 November. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Saudi Civil Defence issued a National Early Warning Platform alert of a potential danger in Yanbu governorate on 5 November and declared the danger over minutes later, Al-Mada reported. Al Jazeera reported that the coalition's announcement of a missile intercepted toward the Medina region came minutes after the Yanbu warning. Civil Defence did not say what the danger was.

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Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on 5 November and delivered a message from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, CBS News and Fox News reported, and the Kremlin confirmed the meeting, Fox News reported. Iranian accounts said they discussed gas pipelines from Russia to Iran, CBS News and Fox News reported, and regional issues, Fox News reported. Russia's foreign ministry the same day warned Russian citizens against all travel to Iran, CBS News reported.

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Al Jazeera's correspondent in Taiz said on 5 November that the city's hospitals face shortages of fuel and medical supplies, Al Jazeera Arabic reported in an entry timed 22:20 Mecca time. No second account of the shortages was found in the window.

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The Russian-installed head of occupied Luhansk oblast, Pasechnik, said a Ukrainian strike on a scheduled bus travelling from Petrovka to Luhansk killed five people and injured 13, including teenagers aged 15 and 17, RIA Novosti and Interfax reported. Russia's Investigative Committee said a drone struck the bus on a road in Slavianoserbsk district, killing five civilians and injuring more than ten, and that it had opened a terrorism case, RIA Novosti reported. A doctor at the Luhansk republican hospital said four of the injured were in intensive care, RIA Novosti reported. Russian health ministry aide Kuznetsov said one patient was in an extremely serious condition and eight adults and two children in a serious condition, and RIA Novosti, citing Russia's health ministry, said 15 people were being treated in LNR hospitals, two of them children. Pasechnik later gave seven killed and 14 injured in three attacks on transport in the region that day, Vedomosti reported. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi held calls on 5 November with counterparts from nine regional countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey, CBS News reported, citing Iran's foreign ministry. Middle East Eye reported separate calls with his Saudi and Qatari counterparts, and Didar News reported calls with the foreign ministers of Kuwait and Turkey. Few details of the calls were given. In the call with the UAE, the UAE foreign ministry said Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed stressed advancing diplomatic efforts.

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Rostov governor Slyusar said in an interview with Rossiya 24 that work at all three of the oblast's sea ports, in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and Azov, had effectively stopped because of Ukrainian attacks, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on 5 November. No port operator or Ukrainian account was found.

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A Russian Investigative Committee officer told RIA Novosti that a college in Donetsk was damaged in a drone attack in the night to 5 November. Novosti Donbassa, a Ukrainian outlet relaying occupation sources, named it as the Donetsk industrial and energy college in Leninsky district and said dozens of windows were broken. The Russian-installed DNR office for documenting what it says are Ukrainian war crimes told RIA Novosti that St Nicholas cathedral in Leninsky district was damaged in the night attack, and Rambler News, carrying Vzglyad, reported damage to its facade and glazing. No Ukrainian official account was found.

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Vinnytsia regional head Zabolotna said a Russian attack on the region on 5 November slightly injured three people, burned lorries and cars and damaged critical infrastructure, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Suspilne reported that lorry drivers were among those hurt, that two lorries and a trailer burned and that 11 cars were hit elsewhere.

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Belgorod oblast's operational headquarters said Ukrainian forces attacked five settlements in four districts with no casualties, preliminarily, RIA Novosti reported on the morning of 5 November. In the afternoon it said drones attacked five districts, damaging buildings, cars and an infrastructure object, including the roof of a commercial building in Graivoron and a car in Masychevo, and that preliminarily no one was hurt, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Lithuania's foreign ministry said on X that it had summoned a representative of the Russian embassy to condemn continued Russian attacks on civilians and critical infrastructure in Ukraine, Ukrinform reported on 5 November.

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Turkey's parliament ratified the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan by 279 votes to 119 on 5 November, AP reported, carried by The Times of Israel. AP said any deployment of troops would need further approval by parliament. Al Jazeera and Al-Monitor also reported the ratification.

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Chernihiv regional head Chaus said Russian forces attacked an energy facility in the region overnight into 5 November, causing emergency outages in one district and damaging houses in the Berezna community, Ukrinform and LB.ua reported. Chernihivoblenergo said 35,000 consumers were without power, Ekonomichna Pravda reported.

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Krasnodar krai's operational headquarters said falling drone debris set an administrative building on fire in the village of Ilyich in Temryuk district, with no casualties, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. The headquarters also said debris fell on a car park in Ilyich and the roof of a private house was damaged in Starotitarovskaya, 93.ru reported. No Ukrainian account was found.

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President Zelensky said after meeting Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez that Spain would provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth EUR 437 million, LB.ua and Ukrainska Pravda reported on 5 November. No Spanish government account was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said Russian forces attacked the region more than 30 times during 5 November, injuring seven people, among them a child, Ukrinform reported. He said a private house was damaged and fires broke out in Dnipro, and that there was damage in the Nikopol, Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka and Pokrovske communities, Synelnykove district and Pavlohrad. Hanzha named women aged 87, 47 and 67 among those taken to hospital; his morning report on the shelling of Marhanets also named women aged 47 and 87.

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Belgorod oblast's operational headquarters said a Ukrainian drone hit a car in the village of Malomikhailovka in Shebekino district, leaving a man with a shrapnel wound to the chest, and that he was taken to Shebekino hospital, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Bryansk governor Kovalchuk said a drone attacked a moving civilian car in the settlement of Kister in Pogar district, injuring a 58-year-old woman, who was taken to hospital, RIA Novosti and Bryansk Today reported on 5 November. RIA Novosti described the drone as Ukrainian. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Russia's emergencies ministry in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast said a Ukrainian drone attack on the settlement of Chernigovka (Chernihivka) in the night damaged four private houses and injured a 63-year-old woman, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. No Ukrainian account was found.

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The Russian-installed head of occupied Luhansk oblast, Pasechnik, said Ukrainian forces attacked a minibus near the bus station in Alchevsk, injuring a 38-year-old man, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. No Ukrainian account was found.

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A local source in Sanaa governorate said two strikes by Saudi aircraft hit two water wells in al-Hattab village, Hamdan district, on 5 November, destroying them and killing livestock, Khlaasa reported, carrying Al-Motamar.net, and Al-Masa Press reported. No human casualties were reported in these accounts. Al-Bu'd Al-Rabi', carried by Khlaasa, described the strikes as hitting Houthi sites north of Sanaa and gave no information on losses. No Saudi or coalition comment was found.

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Kursk governor Khinshtein said two people were injured in Ukrainian attacks on the region's border area, one of them seriously, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. Interfax reported he said a man born in 1987 was seriously wounded when an FPV drone hit a car near Mokhovoe in Bolshesoldatsky district. No Ukrainian account was found.

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The Russian-installed head of occupied Luhansk oblast, Pasechnik, said a Ukrainian strike on a Gazel van on the road between Rebrikovo and Rovenki killed two men, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. Vedomosti reported he counted it among three attacks on transport in the region that day. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said Russian forces shelled Marhanets with artillery on 5 November, injuring four women, Ukrainska Pravda and Radio Svoboda reported. He said two of them, aged 47 and 87, were taken to hospital and that houses and cars were damaged, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

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The Russian-installed mayor of Donetsk, Kulemzin, said three people were injured in Kuibyshevsky district in drone attacks in the night, Interfax reported on 5 November. He later said, citing additional information, that a man born in 1946 had also been wounded in the district, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Oman's foreign ministry said Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi and Iran's Abbas Araghchi reviewed contacts toward practical, political and technical understandings to restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and agreed to keep consulting. Xinhua reported that Oman and Iran called for lasting maritime security arrangements to end the regional war. CBS News reported the call on the morning of 5 November US time.

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US First Lady Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House on 5 November, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Novaya Gazeta Europe reported. Al Jazeera reported that she called for peace at the meeting. Novaya Gazeta Europe said the sides exchanged thanks, gifts and letters, and RIA Novosti reported that she asked Russian envoy Dmitriev to pass a personal message to Putin. The meeting followed the Oleshky ceasefire and evacuation.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Koretskyi and Slovak Prime Minister Fico signed a cooperation agreement in Lviv on 5 November, Ukrinform reported. h.ua reported they signed a declaration on cooperation and an agreement on bilingual schools, and that Slovakia would give three electric locomotives and a EUR 500,000 energy aid package of 54 generators.

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Odesa regional head Kiper said a Russian attack on the south of Odesa oblast on 5 November damaged energy infrastructure, partly destroyed a delivery service warehouse and damaged a college, with no casualties, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Interfax-Ukraine reported he said windows of the college and its dormitory were broken and that, preliminarily, no one was hurt.

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HRANA said Branch 5 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court sentenced two men arrested in the January protests to death, Iran International reported on 5 November; Fox News also reported the HRANA account. Iran International said its review counts about 220 prisoners under death sentence. No Iranian judiciary statement on the cases was found.

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The Russian-installed mayor of Donetsk, Kulemzin, said a Ukrainian drone attack in the city's Kalininsky district injured a young woman born in 2007, RIA Novosti reported on 5 November. No Ukrainian account was found.

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Emergency power outages were introduced in Dnipro on the order of Ukrenergo and hourly scheduled cuts were suspended, Ukrainska Pravda reported on 5 November. No cause was given in the report.

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A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran had sent a nuclear proposal to the United States via Qatar, to be discussed only after Washington meets seven demands, and that Washington was reviewing it, The Times of Israel and Arab News reported, carrying Reuters. Fox News reported the demands as compensation, an end to sanctions and the naval blockade, an end to regional hostilities including in Lebanon and Gaza, release of frozen assets, fewer US forces in the region and a permanent end to the war. Iran International, citing Reuters, reported the demands include oil sanctions waivers, an end to the blockade and release of frozen funds. No Iranian statement on the record and no US comment on the proposal were found.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 25 October 2026 in Oleksandrivka (Donetsk), Ukraine, affecting a health facility and health transport. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 23 October 2026 in Kramatorsk (Donetsk), Ukraine, affecting health transport. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 2 November 2026 in Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia), Ukraine, affecting a health facility and health workers. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as primary care. WHO reports no one killed and 4 people injured. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-kvpp/ 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 1 November 2026 in Al-Suqaya Area (Lahj), Yemen, affecting a health facility, health transport, health workers, patients, health supplies and other health resources (NA). WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as primary care. WHO reports 10 people killed and 10 people injured. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 3 November 2026 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, affecting a health facility and health workers. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as secondary care. WHO reports no one killed and 1 people injured. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-nfnv/ 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 3 November 2026 in Kiliya (Odesa), Ukraine, affecting a health facility. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as secondary care. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-qskg/ 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 3 November 2026 in Dnipro, Ukraine, affecting a health facility. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as secondary care. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-xq07/ 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 29 October 2026 in Izium (Kharkiv), Ukraine, affecting a health facility, health workers and health supplies. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as Center for Disease Control and Prevention. WHO reports 5 people killed and 14 people injured. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 27 October 2026 in Putyvl (Sumy), Ukraine, affecting a health facility and a health warehouse. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO lists the facility type as secondary care. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-0d45/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T15:27:06Z

The Kyiv Independent said on 4 November that hackers gained access to its website's content management system and a newsletter service, sent four emails and posted messages with fake claims about Zelensky and Putin. It said the content pointed to a Russian operation and resembled the hack of an air-raid alert app three days earlier.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-1f7k/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T19:34:51Z

The Kyiv Independent reported that a Russian attack struck what appeared to be a building materials warehouse in Bucha district, Kyiv oblast, early on 5 November, and that its reporters saw the fire at the scene. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said logistics infrastructure was targeted and that one man was injured, according to preliminary information, Ukrinform and the Kyiv Independent reported. Kyiv regional head Tkachenko said the attack set fire to a warehouse, Ukrinform reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-1myp/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Helsinki District Court sentenced the Russian captain of the cargo ship Fitburg to three years and six months and its boatswain to two years and ten months for aggravated criminal damage to undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland in late 2025, Yle reported, as relayed by European Pravda and Ukrainska Pravda on 5 November.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-1q8e/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T17:27:20Z

Kharkiv regional prosecutors said a drone, preliminarily of the Molniya type, hit a private home in Derhachi at about 21:40 Kyiv time on 4 November (19:40 UTC), injuring a 63-year-old man and leaving a woman and her 8-year-old son with acute stress, Dumka reported. Kharkiv regional head Syniehubov gave the injured man's age as 67, LB.ua, Interfax-Ukraine and Kharkiv Times reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-49f9/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T19:34:51Z

Ukrainian and Azerbaijani government delegations held talks in Uzhhorod on 5 November with business representatives, the Kyiv Independent reported. Report.az said Azerbaijan's energy minister Shahbazov and Ukraine's energy minister Shmyhal, who co-chair the two countries' intergovernmental commission, led their delegations, and that Shahbazov said Baku aims to deepen its energy partnership with Ukraine.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-4jz1/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Representatives of Ukraine, Germany, France, the UK, the US, NATO and the World Bank met in Brussels on 4 November to coordinate ahead of trilateral talks set for 10 to 11 November in Abu Dhabi and to discuss post-war reconstruction, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing a European Commission press release.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-4scr/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T19:34:51Z

Yemeni outlets citing local, medical and military sources said a Houthi ballistic missile hit the al-Allala training camp for government recruits in Qatabah, al-Dhale, on 4 November, Khabar Agency and Al-Mashhad al-Yemeni reported. Reported tolls differ: at least 11 killed and about 60 wounded (Khabar Agency), 14 killed and more than 30 wounded (Al-Jumhuriya TV citing medical sources, as Anadolu reported), and more than 20 killed (Yemeni sources cited by CGTN). Some of the seriously wounded were moved to hospitals in Aden, Tehama Press reported, and al-Dhale official media said the governor visited the wounded, Yemen Monitor reported. No Houthi statement on the attack was found.

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The Sanaa-based health ministry, run by the Houthis, said Saudi strikes on Wadi Allaf in Sahar district, Saada, killed a child and injured two on 4 November, Yemen Press Agency reported. Antiwar.com, citing the ministry, also reported at least one child killed and two people injured in Saada. No Saudi or coalition comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-6q9q/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

The Russian-installed mayor of Donetsk, Kulemzin, citing Donetskenergo, said 907 transformer substations shut down automatically across all districts of the city on 5 November, leaving 119,700 subscribers without power, RIA Novosti and DAN reported. He gave no cause.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-763z/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T19:34:51Z

The International Committee of the Red Cross said four trucks of medical supplies, including surgical kits, reached health facilities in Taiz City on 4 November. An ICRC spokesman told AFP it was the first delivery to the city's hospitals since 23 September, The New Arab reported.

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The Russian-installed head of Horlivka in occupied Donetsk oblast, Prikhodko, said a direct drone hit on a civilian car in the Tsentralno-Gorodskoy district injured a civilian man on 5 November, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-8aw1/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T13:41:24Z

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on a motorcycle in Qabrikha, Marjayoun district, on 4 November killed one person and wounded one, MTV Lebanon reported; Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported it as a drone strike. The IDF said its air force struck two suspects observing its troops in the Qabrikha area, outside its security zone, Walla and The Times of Israel reported. AFP, carried by Arab News Pakistan, called it the first such fatality in south Lebanon since September.

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The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) said that a tanker was struck by two unidentified projectiles about 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, at 23:20 UTC on 4 November, Reuters reported, carried by Dawn. UKMTO said the crew's status was unconfirmed. The reports named no vessel, flag or attacker.

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Donetsk oblast police said a massed Russian air strike on Serhiivka in Donetsk oblast on 4 November killed two people and injured a man, and that bombs destroyed homes, Vchasno reported. Donetsk regional head Filashkin said four people were killed and five injured in the oblast on 4 November, two of them in Serhiivka, LB.ua and Al Jazeera reported. The police did not give the time of the strike.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-awq0/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Ukraine's air force said Russia attacked Ukraine with two Kh-35 missiles and 128 drones, 65 of them jet-powered, from 18:00 Kyiv time on 4 November (16:00 UTC), Ukrainska Pravda reported. It said that as of 08:00 Kyiv time on 5 November (06:00 UTC) hits were recorded at 18 locations and debris fell at nine more.

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Kupiansk district military administration head Kanashevych said a Russian FPV drone injured a 57-year-old man in Prykolotne, Kupiansk district, at about 16:00 Kyiv time on 4 November (14:00 UTC), Dumka reported. Kharkiv Times, citing the regional administration, emergency service and police, also reported a 57-year-old man injured there.

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Ryazan governor Malkov said more than 200 drones attacked Ryazan oblast in the night to 5 November, RIA Novosti reported. He said fires broke out at industrial facilities in Ryazan, power lines were damaged, windows were broken at School No. 58, where classes were cancelled, private houses were damaged in Ryazan district and a non-residential building caught fire in Rybnovsky district, and that one person was injured, the Kyiv Independent and RIA Novosti reported. The Telegram channel Exilenova+ said drones reached the industrial area of the Ryazan oil refinery, and the outlet Astra said a Wildberries logistics centre was hit, the Kyiv Independent reported. Malkov did not name the facilities, and the Kyiv Independent said it could not verify the footage.

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Kramatorsk city military administration head Honcharenko said two FAB-250 aerial bombs struck a residential area of Yasnohirka in the Kramatorsk community at 15:50 Kyiv time on 4 November (13:50 UTC), killing two women and injuring a third, Ukrinform reported. Suspilne, citing the administration, reported six houses damaged. Donetsk regional head Filashkin later counted two of the oblast's 4 November deaths in Yasnohirka, LB.ua reported.

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Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel for the first time since September on 4 November, CBS News reported. OilPrice.com reported that Brent fell $8.94, or 8.6%, to $94.66, and linked the fall to Trump and Vance blaming the Iran war for the Republicans' midterm losses. Brent rebounded to $96.06 on 5 November, Arbiterz reported.

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The Sanaa-based health ministry, run by the Houthis, said a Saudi air strike on a home in al-Barh, Maqbana district, Taiz, on 4 November killed seven civilians, including two children, and wounded six children, Beirut Time and 26sep.net reported. A Sanaa-based rights body gave the same figures, Al-Manar reported, and Antiwar.com, citing the ministry, reported seven killed and 13 wounded. No Saudi, coalition or Yemeni government comment was found.

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Kursk governor Khinshtein said an elderly man was injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in Sudzha on 4 November, RIA Novosti reported. Kurskaya Pravda, relaying the governor, said the man was 69 and had shrapnel wounds. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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South Korea's defence ministry finalised a revised motion on 5 November to extend the deployment of its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit and widen its operating area closer to the Strait of Hormuz, adding a P-8A patrol aircraft, Asia Today reported. The Korea Times said the plan adds a mine-clearing team and needs parliament's approval, and that it adds 75 personnel; Reuters, carried by The Standard, said it follows Trump's pressure for support in the Iran war. The government says it keeps its principle of not joining the war, Asia Today reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-kc6e/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-06T05:14:17Z

DTEK said emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv's Podilskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts following a Russian attack on 5 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported; UNN reported DTEK's cuts were applied on Ukrenergo's command. The Kyiv City State Administration said the metro's red line was suspended because of significant voltage fluctuations, Ukrainska Pravda reported, and later said it resumed at 13:01 Kyiv time (11:01 UTC), Glavred reported. In the afternoon, Kyivvodokanal said power outages at its facilities had disrupted water supply in all districts of Kyiv and that supply was being restored gradually, Ukrinform reported. In the evening, RIA Novosti, citing an unnamed Telegram channel and showing Ukrinform video, reported that Kyiv's streets were almost entirely dark and that emergency and outage cuts were in force in some right-bank districts, and it carried Klitschko saying the stable work of the city's life-support systems was in question.

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The Taiz Siege Affairs Office said a shell hit a home in al-Athawr, Hayfan district, Taiz, on 4 November, killing three children and a woman and wounding four, and blamed the Houthis, Khlaasa and Yemen Monitor reported; the Hayfan district director said it was a ballistic missile, not a shell, Al-Sahil reported. The Sanaa-based health ministry, run by the Houthis, said a Saudi strike on a home in Hayfan killed at least four people, including a woman and three children, and wounded four, Antiwar.com reported, and Taiz Today and Al-Masa Press blamed Saudi strikes. No source gave an hour.

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Belgorod regional operational headquarters said on 4 November that a married couple was killed when a drone hit their car in Otradovsky, Krasnaya Yaruga district, RIA Novosti reported. It said men were hurt by drone detonations in Novaya Tavolzhanka and in Kazinka, Valuyki district, a woman when a drone hit a house in Striguny, Borisovka district, and a man when a drone hit a car in Soldatskoye, Rakitnoye district. It also reported a man killed when an FPV drone hit a lorry in Voznesenovka, Shebekino district, in the daytime on 3 November. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Bryansk governor Kovalchuk said four civilians were injured in Ukrainian attacks on 4 November, two of them when a drone hit a civilian car near the village of Mogilevtsy in Klimovo district, RIA Novosti reported. Bryansk Today, relaying the governor, reported that drones attacked Klimovo district, injuring four people and damaging a shop and a house. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said Russian drones attacked Dnipro and Samar, injuring three people, Ukrinform and the Kyiv Independent reported. He said the roofs of a private house and several garages caught fire in Dnipro and that fires broke out at critical infrastructure facilities. Ukraine's air force warned through the night of drones heading toward Dnipro, the Kyiv Independent reported.

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Zelensky arrived in Spain on 4 November to discuss air defence, he said on X, the Kyiv Independent reported, adding that it was his fifth visit since 2022 and that he was expected to meet Prime Minister Sanchez on the sidelines of the Ibero-American Summit. Censor.NET reported that he arrived in Madrid and named air defence as his first priority.

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Belgorod governor Shuvaev said a Ukrainian drone attack on a minibus near the village of Soldatskoye in Rakitnoye district killed three civilians on 4 November, RIA Novosti reported. Reuters, as carried by the Deccan Herald, also reported the three deaths. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli forces set fire to homes in the town of Haddatha, Bint Jbeil district, from the morning of 4 November, in items MTV Lebanon carried at about 11:24 and 13:02 Beirut time. NNA also reported artillery fire on Baraachit, Mansouri and Majdal Zoun and an explosion in Bani Hayyan, TRT World and Anadolu Agency reported, and an Israeli drone dropping stun grenades near olive pickers outside Kfar Shuba, TRT World reported. TRT World, citing NNA, said no injuries were reported. No IDF account was found.

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The US Treasury sanctioned two Indian nationals and their network, which it accused of selling fraudulent registrations and certificates to ships carrying Iranian oil, CBS News and Gulf News reported. The same action designated Turkiye-based Fugo Ground Services for ground handling for sanctioned Iranian airlines, Al Jazeera reported. Reports gave different counts of those designated: 13 people and companies (The Washington Times), or five individuals and 10 companies (Israel National News).

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-ve3n/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Krymenergo said Crimea's power system was working under restrictions after an accident on trunk networks outside the peninsula, RIA Novosti and EADaily reported on 5 November. The Russian-installed head of Crimea, Aksyonov, said an emergency at energy facilities outside the peninsula had cut power and that restoration was under way, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported, calling it a new accident.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261105-vrbz/ 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Prime Minister Koretskyi said Ukraine received EUR 4.36 billion from the European Union under the Ukraine Support Loan, of which EUR 3.7 billion was macro-financial assistance and EUR 660 million was for defence, Ukrainska Pravda reported on 5 November. Ukrainska Pravda said the payment followed the adoption of reforms.

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Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli attacks since 2 March had killed 4,390 people and injured 12,429; in Yemen, an Al Jazeera correspondent said hospitals in Taiz faced shortages of fuel and medical supplies, and a local source said Saudi strikes destroyed two water wells in Hamdan district, Sanaa, Yemeni outlets reported. Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said air defences intercepted a ballistic missile launched toward the Medina region, which Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree called false, while Saree said a Houthi drone hit King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. The US military released footage of what it called defensive strikes on an Iranian island base, Fox News reported, and Iran's army said two more tankers struck sea mines and caught fire east of the Strait of Hormuz, without naming them. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, met President Putin in Moscow, and a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran had sent a nuclear proposal to the United States via Qatar. President Trump said he would rather not destroy the rest of Iran but might have to, and Turkey's parliament ratified the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. 17 events and 21 statements recorded.

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The Russian-installed head of occupied Luhansk oblast, Pasechnik, said a Ukrainian strike on a bus from Petrovka to Luhansk killed five people and injured 13, and Russia's Investigative Committee said a drone struck the bus. President Zelensky said 43 people had been confirmed killed in the strike on Komyshuvakha, and UN Special Rapporteur Katsarova said at least 438 Ukrainians had died in Russian captivity. DTEK said emergency power cuts hit Kyiv after a Russian attack and Kyivvodokanal said water supply was disrupted in all districts, Chernihiv regional head Chaus said Russian forces attacked an energy facility and Chernihivoblenergo said 35,000 consumers lost power, and the Russian-installed Donetsk mayor said 119,700 subscribers lost power. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched two missiles and 128 drones from the evening of 4 November, Ryazan governor Malkov said more than 200 drones attacked his region, and Russia's defence ministry said air defences intercepted 496 Ukrainian drones between 20:00 Moscow time on 4 November and 08:00 on 5 November. Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House, and Prime Minister Koretskyi said Ukraine received EUR 4.36 billion from the EU. 42 events and 34 statements recorded.

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Odesa regional head Kiper said Russian strikes hit commercial warehouses used for shoe-making on the outskirts of Odesa on 4 November, causing fires and destroying two cars, RBC-Ukraine reported. RBC-Ukraine reported that, according to preliminary data, one person was injured, without naming the source of that figure. No Russian comment on the strike was found.

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HRANA said Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced a political detainee to death for "corruption on earth" and to five years in prison, and that the verdict was communicated to him on 4 November. HRANA said the charges included contact and information exchange with individuals affiliated with Israel. No Iranian judiciary statement on the case was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261104-9c6m/ 2026-11-04T22:40:49Z 2026-11-05T13:56:03Z

Kyiv's city military administration said drone debris fell on an open area near a private home in Desnianskyi district on the morning of 4 November, Ukrinform reported. Later in the morning debris fell on the grounds of a private home in Sviatoshynskyi district, setting its roof on fire, and caught fire on open ground in Holosiivskyi district, Ukrinform reported. Ukraine's interior ministry said an unexploded Gerbera-2 drone was found in a forest park in Desnianskyi district and made safe, the Ukrainian Women's Guard reported. No casualties were reported.

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Penza governor Melnichenko said a missile danger alert was in force in Penza oblast from 05:20 to 06:26 Moscow time on 4 November, RIA Novosti and Interfax reported. Stolitsa58 reported that a separate drone danger regime was in force and that mobile internet was limited. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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The Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia oblast, Balitsky, said power in the Russian-held part of the region was disrupted by a drone attack on trunk grids outside the region, RIA Novosti reported. Russia's energy ministry said a Ukrainian strike on energy facilities overnight on 4 November cut power to Crimea and Sevastopol, Rambler News reported. Ostro, citing local channels, reported that Crimea was still without power on 4 November, with electric transport not running and problems with the water supply, and Russian-installed adviser Kryuchkov said an accident had occurred in the power system outside Crimea.

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Bryansk's governor said a drone exploded over a civilian minibus on the Bryansk to Novozybkov road near Vygonichi on 4 November, and a 30-year-old passenger was taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Zaporizhzhia regional acting head Semikin said two Russian strikes on Vilniansk on 4 November killed a 52-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man and injured a 59-year-old man, Ukrinform reported. Semikin said the town was hit by Shahed-type drones. A five-storey apartment building and private houses were damaged, and a fire in the apartment building was put out, Ukrainska Pravda reported. No Russian comment on the strike was found.

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The Russian-installed head of Horlivka in occupied Donetsk oblast, Prikhodko, said a direct drone hit on a bus in the Tsentralno-Gorodskoy district injured two civilians on 4 November, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Sumy regional prosecutors said a Russian drone struck near a shop in the Putyvl community at about 11:25 Kyiv time on 4 November, injuring a 57-year-old woman, the Ukrainian Women's Guard and Suspilne reported. No Russian comment was found.

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Belgorod's regional operational headquarters said an FPV drone hit a car in the village of Dobroye in Graivoron district on 4 November, injuring a man with a shrapnel wound to the leg and a woman with suspected acoustic trauma, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Rallies were held in Iran on 4 November, the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, which Iran marks as the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance. Mehr News Agency said rallies were held in over 900 locations and that the Tehran march began at 9:00 from Palestine Square. Press TV said Tehran mayor Alireza Zakani spoke and that the final resolution demanded retribution and withdrawal from the NPT. Al Jazeera published photographs of the rallies. No casualties were reported in the accounts found.

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Ryazan governor Malkov said on 4 November that one person was injured in Ryazan during a drone attack, with no threat to life, RIA Novosti and Izvestia reported. He said a private house was damaged in Klepikovsky district and a non-residential building caught fire in Rybnovsky district. Malkov also said ten drones had been downed over the region; that figure is his own account. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Zlatopil mayor Baksheiev said two drones struck a civilian food production facility in the town on 4 November, damaging warehouses, equipment and products and causing a large fire, with no casualties, Ukrinform reported. Kharkiv regional head Syniehubov said a drone crashed in Kharkiv's Nemyshlianskyi district, where a 35-year-old woman suffered an acute stress reaction and the windows of an educational institution, a car and a kiosk were damaged, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The State Emergency Service said a garage building caught fire in Chuhuiv, with no casualties, Dumka reported.

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Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence issued a warning through the National Early Warning Platform in Riyadh Province before dawn on 4 November to alert residents to a potential danger, and later said the danger had passed, Siasat Daily reported. Civil Defence did not say what the threat was, and AP reported the overnight alert in Riyadh. No interception statement for Riyadh was found in the window.

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The Russian-installed mayor of Donetsk, Kulemzin, said a drone attack on the city's Kyivskyi district injured a man and damaged the glazing and facades of apartment blocks and a telecommunications company building, RIA Novosti reported. He said four cars were destroyed and 18 damaged, Donetsk Media reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Ozon said a drone struck its logistics centre in the Republic of Adygea and that employees were evacuated with no one injured, the Kyiv Independent and UPI reported. Adygea's head Kumpilov said a fire broke out at the Ozon logistics centre in Adygeysk after a drone attack on 4 November, RIA Novosti reported. Kumpilov said drone debris damaged a gas pipe and the windows of a private house, RIA Novosti reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said a Russian attack on an enterprise in Dnipro on 4 November injured two men, aged 38 and 57, who were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, Ukrinform reported. Suspilne reported a fire at the enterprise. No Russian comment on the Dnipro strike was found.

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Komala, an Iranian Kurdish opposition party, said two explosive-laden drones hit one of its headquarters in the Alana valley in the Balisan area east of Erbil at 8:40 am local time on 4 November, causing minor material damage and no casualties, Rudaw reported. Komala blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guards, This Is Beirut reported. Reuters, in a report carried by AsiaOne and Al Arabiya, citing unnamed security sources, reported that two drones attacked Iranian Kurdish opposition sites in Sulaymaniyah and east of Erbil on Wednesday. No Iranian or Iraqi government response was found.

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Ukrainian regional authorities said Russia attacked energy infrastructure in Ternopil, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Volyn, Odesa and Zhytomyr oblasts on the evening of 3 November and overnight into 4 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Russia's defence ministry said it struck two Ukrainian electrical substations, RIA Novosti reported. Ukraine's energy ministry said nuclear power plants were forced to reduce output and emergency outages were in place in Kyiv, Kyiv oblast and Kharkiv oblast, Ukrinform reported. The attacks followed the large strike on Ukraine's energy system on 3 November.

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In Yemen, the Houthi-run health ministry in Sanaa said a Saudi air strike on a home in Maqbana, Taiz, killed seven civilians, including two children, and that Saudi strikes in Saada's Sahar district killed a child, while Yemeni government officials and the Houthis blamed each other for a strike on a home in Hayfan, Taiz, that the Taiz Siege Affairs Office said killed three children and a woman. The ICRC delivered four trucks of medical supplies to health facilities in Taiz City, its first delivery there since 23 September, and UN OCHA said the city was running out of basic goods because of access constraints. Yemeni outlets citing local and medical sources said a Houthi ballistic missile hit a training camp for government recruits in al-Dhale, where Al-Jumhuriya TV, citing medical sources, put the toll at 14 killed, as Anadolu reported, and Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on a motorcycle in Qabrikha killed one person, which the IDF said targeted two suspects observing its troops. UKMTO said a tanker was struck by two unidentified projectiles about 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, the IRGC said four tankers hit naval mines south of the Strait of Hormuz, and Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said a missile hit Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport; Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel for the first time since September, CBS News reported. President Trump said it was "largely true" the Iran war had hurt Republicans and Vice President JD Vance wrote that "the reason we lost is the war", and Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said anyone expecting a shift in US policy after the midterms was "seriously mistaken"; the US Treasury sanctioned an India-based network it accuses of selling fraudulent registrations to ships carrying Iranian oil. 14 events and 19 statements recorded.

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In Donetsk oblast, the Kramatorsk city administration said two aerial bombs on Yasnohirka killed two women and injured a third, and Donetsk oblast police said a Russian air strike on Serhiivka killed two people and injured a man. Zaporizhzhia regional acting head Semikin said Russian drone strikes on Vilniansk killed two people and injured one, and Ukrainian officials reported people injured in Russian attacks on Dnipro, the Putyvl community, Derhachi and Prykolotne. Belgorod governor Shuvaev said a drone attack on a minibus near Soldatskoye killed three civilians, the Belgorod regional headquarters said a couple was killed when a drone hit their car in Otradovsky, and Russian and Russian-installed officials reported people injured in Bryansk, Kursk and Ryazan oblasts and in occupied Horlivka and Donetsk. Ukrainian regional authorities said Russia attacked energy infrastructure in six oblasts and Russia's defence ministry said it struck two substations, while Russian officials blamed a Ukrainian attack for power cuts in Crimea and Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast. Representatives of Ukraine, European partners, the US, NATO and the World Bank met in Brussels ahead of trilateral talks set for 10 to 11 November in Abu Dhabi, and Zelensky, who arrived in Spain to discuss air defence, said he held a call with US envoys Witkoff and Kushner. 26 events and 19 statements recorded.

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Syria's General Intelligence Service said on X that an operation with the Internal Security Forces foiled a plot against the Homs oil refinery, arrested two people and seized prepared explosive devices, Al Jazeera reported on 3 November. The service linked the cell to Hezbollah. Hezbollah denied the accusation and said it has no presence on Syrian territory.

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Iranian state media and the Sistan and Baluchestan police information centre said a criminal police officer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen as he left his home in Saravan on the morning of 3 November, AFP and Tabnak reported. The attackers were not identified in the reports. A Baluch armed group, the Popular Fighters Front, said the same day that it had attacked a police special units commander in Saravan; the reports found do not say whether it is the same attack.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the Border Guard reported suspicious activity by people with torches on the Polish-Russian border shortly after midnight, local time, on the night of 2 to 3 November and that "we managed to prevent a provocation", Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing RMF24. Poland deployed counterterrorism units near the border after warnings of possible sabotage in early November, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing Polish media.

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Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said forces intercepted and destroyed a drone over the Mecca region, a drone over the Eastern Province and a drone heading toward the southern region on 3 November, Xinhua reported. No damage was reported in the accounts found. A Houthi spokesman said the group carried out no operations toward Saudi territory that day, while the Houthi military spokesman separately claimed attacks on Abha airport and King Khalid Air Base.

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Odesa city military administration head Lysak said trade infrastructure was hit in an attack on Odesa on 3 November, and Odesa regional head Kiper said a shopping centre building was struck and caught fire, Ukrainska Pravda reported. No injuries were reported.

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Yaroslavl governor Yevraev said 124 drones were neutralised overnight into 3 November and two employees were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, Profile reported; Profile said the refinery's infrastructure was damaged and a fire broke out. The Exilenova+ Telegram channel and residents reported three fires at the Slavneft-YANOS refinery, the Kyiv Independent reported. No statement from Ukraine's General Staff on the refinery was found.

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Sevastopol's Russian-installed governor Razvozhayev announced electricity restrictions on the morning of 3 November after an attack on energy infrastructure outside the region, Profile reported. Power was partly cut in Alushta, Saki, Yevpatoria and Kerch, Interfax reported.

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Energy minister Shmyhal said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles at Ukraine overnight into 3 November, the Kyiv Independent reported, and President Zelensky said the main target was energy in nine regions. Ukraine's air force said 309 targets were downed or suppressed, with hits at 23 locations. DTEK said generation had stopped at three of its thermal power plants, and Ukrenergo said emergency power cuts were in place in a number of regions and in Kyiv, Ukrinform reported. Russia's defence ministry said it carried out a massed strike on energy sites supplying Ukraine's military industry. The Kyiv Independent called it the largest attack on Ukraine's energy system this year.

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Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said an army officer was killed and one other person wounded in an attack by a group in the southeast, Khabaronline reported on 3 November. Defa Press, an armed forces outlet, said through its Zahedan reporter that the officer was killed and one other member of the forces wounded in an attack by hostile groups. The reports did not name the attackers.

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Kyiv mayor Klitschko said emergency power cuts and water disruptions hit Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast on 3 November after strikes on the regional distribution network, the Kyiv Independent reported. Kyiv Independent journalists reported hours-long water or power outages in the Pecherskyi, Podilskyi and Holosiivskyi districts and in Sofiivska Borshchahivka. The city suspended trams and trolleybuses from the evening and opened warming centres, the report said.

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A strike hit a medical facility in Kharkiv at about 3 a.m. local time on 3 November, injuring 73 people, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office said, the Kyiv Independent reported. Mayor Terekhov said Russia used ballistic missiles and guided aerial bombs, that more than 1,000 windows were broken and that about 200 patients were to be moved to other medical facilities. President Zelensky said the cardiology department was damaged, Al Jazeera reported. Russia's defence ministry statement for the night did not mention the hospital.

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September.net, the Yemeni armed forces' news site, said a Houthi ballistic missile and shelling hit the main market of Tur al-Bahah in Lahj on the morning of 3 November, causing civilian casualties, Ajel reported; no figures were given. No Houthi comment on the market was found.

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Lebanon's National News Agency reported an Israeli air strike on the outskirts of Kafr Tebnit and a demolition accompanied by machine-gun fire in al-Qantara in south Lebanon on 3 November, Alkofiya TV reported. The agency also reported Israeli aircraft flying a mock raid at medium to low altitude over the Akkar and Hermel border areas. No casualties were reported and no Israeli military statement on the strike was found.

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Energy minister Shmyhal said Russia directed three drones at a substation critical to the stable operation of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant during the 3 November attack, and that he had informed the IAEA, the Kyiv Independent and Radio Svoboda reported. No IAEA statement on the substation dated 3 November was found. The attack was part of the overnight strike on Ukraine's energy system.

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Norway's defence ministry said on 3 November it would deploy NASAMS sensors and about 30 troops to Finnmark near the Russian border as a preventive measure focused on drone detection, the Kyiv Independent reported. Defence minister Sandvik said the threat level was unchanged, The Barents Observer reported.

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Brent crude fell $1.17, or 1 percent, to settle at $103.60 a barrel on 3 November, its lowest close since 7 October, Fox News and Oil & Gas Middle East reported. Fox News tied the fall to talks on Ukraine and to the mediation between the US and Iran.

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Britain and France announced on 3 November that the Multinational Force Ukraine will hold its first exercise in Poland this month, with nearly 3,000 personnel from 12 European countries, the BBC reported. Euromaidan Press gave the dates as 9 to 22 November and put the number of countries at 11. Officials said any force would deploy to Ukraine only after a peace deal and not on the front line, the BBC reported.

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Khmelnytskyi regional head Tiurin said Russian drones hit housing in Shepetivka district early on 3 November, damaging the roof of an apartment block, the windows of the building next to it and two cars, ZAXID.NET reported.

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Iran executed two young men arrested during the January 2026 protests over the killing of four police officers in Isfahan on 8 January, Fars reported, according to AFP. Hengaw, a Kurdish rights group, said the two were hanged in Isfahan Central Prison on 3 November and that the charges included collaboration with the enemy.

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The SBU security service and the Prosecutor General's Office charged Iuliia Mendel, President Zelensky's former press secretary, with treason in absentia on 3 November, the Kyiv Independent reported. They accused her of information and subversive activities against Ukraine. Mendel denies collaborating with Russia, the report said.

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Sumy regional head Oleh Hryhorov said Russian drones struck a woman cycling between settlements in the Velyka Pysarivka community, seriously injuring her, and hit a civilian car on almost the same stretch of road on 3 November, Ukrinform reported. The car burned and its occupants got out, Ukrinform reported.

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A morning missile strike on Dnipro on 3 November killed two people and injured 20, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said, the Kyiv Independent reported. Mayor Filatov said a missile hit the hospice ward of a local hospital and that about 50 terminally ill patients were moved, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Filatov said 20 residential buildings were damaged, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported.

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The Asian Football Confederation postponed the 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia, due to start on 7 January, to 23 December over regional safety, AFP and CBS News reported on 3 November. AFP linked the decision to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Times of Israel called it the latest event in Saudi Arabia to be postponed over regional safety.

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Russian forces dropped four aerial bombs on Yasnohirka, a suburb of Kramatorsk, on the morning of 3 November, killing a woman and injuring five people, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office said, Ukrinform reported. Donetsk regional head Filashkin said the woman killed was 48, Vchasno reported. The prosecutor's office said 16 houses were damaged, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

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Zhytomyr regional head Bunechko said about 130 settlements and more than 180,000 subscribers were without power after the attack on 3 November, Ukrinform and Al Jazeera reported. LB.ua reported the same figures.

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Belgorod governor Shuvaev said a drone hit a civilian minibus in Vvedenskaya Gotnya in the Rakitnoye district on 3 November, injuring four people including children, Interfax reported. The regional operational headquarters said a man and a woman were injured when a drone hit an apartment block in Belgorod, Interfax reported. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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The Kherson city military administration said a 56-year-old man was injured by Russian shelling in the Korabelnyi district at about 14:00 local time on 3 November, Suspilne Kherson and Khersonline reported.

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The Russian-run management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said a drone hit a moving car and killed two people, one of them a plant employee, on 3 November, Interfax reported. The management said she was the third plant worker killed in two weeks. The place was not given, and no IAEA statement on the death dated 3 November was found.

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President Zelensky met Chancellor Merz in Berlin on 3 November, Suspilne reported. They discussed air defence missiles, F-16 aircraft and a winter support package, Ukrinform reported. Zelensky was also due to meet Steinmeier and Kloeckner and to attend the Berlin security conference, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

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The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) said a tanker was hit by two unidentified projectiles in its engine room about 14 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, on 3 November. UKMTO said no casualties and no environmental impact were reported. The tanker, its operator and the attacker were not named in the reports. Al Jazeera said it could not verify whether the incident was linked to claims by Iran's Revolutionary Guards about tankers hitting mines.

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Yemeni government media said a Houthi missile and shelling hit the main market of Tur al-Bahah in Lahj, causing civilian casualties, and Iranian state media said a police officer was shot dead in Saravan and an army officer killed in another attack in the southeast. UKMTO said a tanker was hit by two unidentified projectiles about 14 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, with no casualties reported, while the IRGC Navy claimed three oil tankers hit sea mines. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted drones over the Mecca region, the Eastern Province and toward the south, and a Houthi spokesman said the group carried out no operations toward Saudi territory that day. President Trump told Fox News the US "hit it last night" in what he called a "minor attack", an Israeli military spokesperson told AFP Israel did not take part in the strikes on Qeshm Island, and Qatar said both sides remained committed to the negotiation process. Brent crude settled at $103.60, its lowest close since 7 October, Fox News and Oil & Gas Middle East reported. 10 events and 28 statements recorded.

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A strike on a medical facility in Kharkiv injured 73 people, the regional prosecutor's office said, and a missile strike on Dnipro killed two and injured 20 and hit a hospital's hospice ward, regional head Hanzha and mayor Filatov said. Energy minister Shmyhal said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight, President Zelensky said the main target was energy in nine regions, and Kyiv mayor Klitschko said the capital faced emergency power cuts and water outages. Russia's defence ministry said its massed strike hit thermal power plants and substations it said supply Ukraine's military industry, and said 856 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight. In Russia, Yaroslavl's governor said two refinery employees were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, and the Exilenova+ Telegram channel and residents reported fires at the Slavneft-YANOS refinery, the Kyiv Independent reported; Belgorod's governor said a drone hit a minibus, injuring four people including children. Kremlin spokesman Peskov confirmed talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on 10 and 11 November, and Zelensky met Chancellor Merz in Berlin, Suspilne reported. 23 events and 23 statements recorded.

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Aerial bombs hit a school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where residents received humanitarian aid every week, on 2 November, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, and further strikes hit the same site, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said, the Kyiv Independent reported. The United Nations in Ukraine said the morning air strikes by Russian forces reportedly killed at least 29 civilians and that later strikes killed two rescuers and four police staff, with nearly 50 people missing. Regional officials put the toll at 31 killed by 3 November, and acting regional head Semikin said five were injured and almost 50 missing, The Moscow Times reported. Russia's defence ministry said on 3 November that the attack targeted Ukrainian military units around Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, The Moscow Times reported, citing Reuters. Acting regional head Semikin declared 3 November a day of mourning in the region, Ukrinform reported.

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Polish police chief Marek Boroń told RMF FM that counterterrorism units were sent to the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie regions near Kaliningrad, working with the army, border guard and intelligence services, after warnings of possible sabotage, Notes from Poland reported on 2 November. No incident was reported.

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Ukraine's energy ministry said there were power outages in 10 oblasts on the morning of 2 November after Russian strikes, worst in Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv oblasts, the Kyiv Independent reported. Ukrenergo's morning count was nine oblasts, DSnews reported, and Ukrenergo ordered emergency outages in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Ekonomichna Pravda reported. Ukrenergo set outage schedules of 1.5 to 2.5 queues for the day, RBC-Ukraine reported.

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Sumy regional head Hryhorov said two attack drones hit homes in Mykolaivka hromada, Sumy district, on 2 November, killing a man and seriously injuring his wife, and that one house was destroyed and five damaged, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Sumy police said 17 settlements in the region were attacked over the day, with one killed and seven injured, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Only Ukrainian officials described the attacks.

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China's foreign ministry said Wang Yi met Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, in Beijing on 2 November, Xinhua and CGTN reported. AFP said the visit had not been announced beforehand, Hong Kong Free Press reported.

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Voronezh governor Alexander Gusev said 20 drones were downed overnight into 2 November over Voronezh and eight districts, with no casualties, and that the facades and glazing of two private houses were damaged, Interfax reported. Only Russian officials described the attack.

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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on 2 November requiring private data centres to reserve 10% of their capacity for state use, to be handed over within 24 hours of a commission's decision, Meduza and Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukrainska Pravda reported that foreign data centres may be used only with FSB consent. Meduza reported the decree was justified as a response to unfriendly actions of foreign states.

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Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said on X on 2 November that two drones were intercepted and destroyed in the Riyadh region, without saying who launched them, Middle East Monitor reported, citing Anadolu. He said that earlier the same day air defences intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile fired toward Saudi Arabia's southern region. No casualties or damage were reported. The coalition gave the account; no other source described the interceptions.

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A diplomat told The Times of Israel that a delegation of Qatari mediators arrived in Tehran on the evening of 2 November to resume talks on a deal under which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for US sanctions relief, followed by nuclear talks. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told IRNA in Ashgabat the same day that if the conditions were accepted the Strait of Hormuz would be opened and negotiations would resume, Al Jazeera reported; Al Jazeera added that Qatar and Pakistan continued to facilitate indirect talks.

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Samara governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said air defences repelled a drone attack overnight into 2 November and that 46 drones were downed, RIA Novosti reported. The Moscow Times reported that the Astra outlet identified Transneft's linear production and dispatch station southeast of Samara from eyewitness photos, and that NASA imagery at 08:20 UTC showed a black smoke plume; no casualties were reported. Kazakhstan's energy ministry temporarily suspended oil transit on the Atyrau-Samara pipeline after the attack, RIA Novosti reported.

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Lebanon's National News Agency reported that Israeli aircraft struck Aita al-Jabal on 2 November, that artillery shelled the Marjayoun plain, al-Mansouri and the outskirts of Kawnin, and that Israeli forces carried out detonations in Beit Yahoun and Bani Hayyan and demolished homes in Zawtar al-Sharqiya, DPA reported via Gulf Channels. No casualties were reported. No IDF account of the day's fire was found.

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A drone hit a car in Kherson's Korabelnyi district at about 08:00 local time on 2 November, wounding a 62-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man, France 24 reported, citing local authorities. France 24 reported that Russian attacks on Kherson region resumed after the local truce for the Oleshky evacuation ended. Only Ukrainian officials described the attack.

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A drone hit a truck near Soloti in Valuyki district of Belgorod Oblast on 2 November and a man suffered a shrapnel wound, the regional headquarters said, Interfax reported. Only Russian officials described the attack.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said a 61-year-old man was killed and three people injured, including boys aged 4 and 10, in Russian attacks on Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih and Synelnykove districts on 2 November, LB.ua and Radio Svoboda reported. Only Ukrainian officials described the attacks.

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India's Ministry of External Affairs said on 3 November that the commercial vessel MSV Al Jusufi was attacked near Limah, Oman, the previous evening, Siasat Daily reported. It said 14 Indian nationals were aboard, 13 were rescued and one died of his injuries. India's government said the vessel was struck by an unidentified aerial object, and Indian Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Oman's coast guard rescued the other 13 crew, AFP reported via Arab News Pakistan. No party said it carried out the attack, and no UKMTO or Omani statement on the vessel was found.

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The Kyiv Independent reported that protesters and National Guard soldiers held a tense standoff in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv on the evening of 2 November over the detention of service members and draftees, that four people were hospitalised, and that police denied reports of hostages.

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Kharkiv regional head Syniehubov said guided bombs hit Izium on the morning of 2 November, killing one person and damaging 14 private houses, two shops and six cars, Ukrinform reported. The Izium city military administration said 15 people were receiving treatment, and Ukrinform reported that the city was left without power. Only Ukrainian officials described the strike.

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The Yemeni Armed Forces Media Centre said a Houthi ballistic missile struck al-Makhaf village in the al-Aqroud area of Taiz on 2 November, killing or wounding 60 civilians including children, 26 September Net and Yemen Monitor reported. Local sources cited by Khlaasa said the missile fell in the village after a failed Houthi launch, killing 14 civilians, mostly children, and injuring 25; residents cited by 2 December News, an outlet of the National Resistance, gave the same figures as a preliminary toll and said the dead included children. No Houthi account of this missile was found. The Houthi-run economy ministry said in a statement carried by Saba the same day that Saudi troops attacked a market in al-Aqroud, killing eight civilians and injuring dozens according to preliminary reports, Demócrata reported.

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Hezbollah said it began on 2 November to distribute the first promised aid to displaced families and owners of destroyed homes, opening its first centres in the Nabatieh region, L'Orient Today reported. Libnanews reported that the amount of the first instalment and the source of the funds were not given.

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Odesa city head Lysak said Russian forces attacked Odesa overnight into 2 November, injuring four people and damaging infrastructure, two homes and a garage, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Odesa regional prosecutors said five women were injured across the region, and the Izmail district administration said a bakery and a grain warehouse were hit and 12 settlements lost power, UNIAN reported. RBC-Ukraine reported that a DTEK energy facility in the region was attacked. Russia's defence ministry said it struck a military facility in Odesa region, France 24 reported.

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Donetsk regional head Filashkin said Russian attacks on 2 November killed four civilians, in Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, Bilenke and Sloviansk, and injured six people in the region, Ostro reported. Only Ukrainian officials described the attacks.

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Kharkiv regional head Syniehubov said five people were injured in Chuhuiv, four of them women with blast wounds, and two in Prymorske in Pechenihy hromada on 2 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Only Ukrainian officials described the attacks.

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US officials, speaking anonymously to NBC News and ABC News, said US forces carried out limited strikes on Qeshm Island on 2 November, which they described as defensive and as a response to Iran again trying to target a US aircraft. The officials said the strikes were not a resumption of major combat, NBC News reported. IRNA, Iran's state news agency, reported five successive explosions on Qeshm and said residents saw two aircraft, Entekhab reported. President Donald Trump told Fox News "we hit it last night" and described it as a "minor attack", Al Jazeera reported, saying Trump had confirmed the strikes. US Central Command did not respond to requests for comment, The Times of Israel reported.

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India's Ministry of External Affairs said the commercial vessel MSV Al Jusufi was attacked near Limah, Oman, and one of its 14 Indian crew died. In Taiz, local sources said a missile that Yemen's army blamed on the Houthis killed 14 civilians and injured 25 in al-Makhaf village, while the Houthi-run economy ministry said Saudi troops attacked a market in al-Aqroud the same day, killing eight civilians. US officials speaking anonymously said US forces carried out limited strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, which they described as a response to Iran again trying to target a US aircraft, and Iran's IRNA reported explosions there; the IRGC said it downed two US drones, a claim a US official called false. Lebanon's National News Agency reported Israeli air strikes, shelling and demolitions in several south Lebanon villages, and the Saudi-led coalition said two drones were intercepted in the Riyadh region and a Houthi missile fired toward the south was intercepted. Qatari mediators arrived in Tehran for talks on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a diplomat told The Times of Israel, and China's foreign minister Wang Yi met Ali Bagheri Kani of Iran's Supreme National Security Council in Beijing, while President Trump said a deal was "coming together very nicely". 8 events and 21 statements recorded.

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Aerial bombs hit a school used as an aid distribution point in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and the United Nations in Ukraine said the morning strikes reportedly killed at least 29 civilians and later strikes killed two rescuers and four police staff; Russia's defence ministry said the attack targeted Ukrainian military units. Donetsk regional head Filashkin said Russian attacks killed four civilians in the region, and regional heads Syniehubov, Hanzha and Hryhorov each reported one person killed, in Izium, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and in Mykolaivka hromada of Sumy Oblast. Ukraine's energy ministry said Russian strikes left power outages in 10 oblasts, and Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 193 drones overnight, of which 154 were downed or suppressed. In Russia, Samara governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said 46 drones were downed overnight, and The Moscow Times reported that a Transneft oil station southeast of Samara was hit, after which Kazakhstan suspended oil transit on the Atyrau-Samara pipeline, RIA Novosti reported. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were no plans for further humanitarian operations like Oleshky and that Ukrainian forces very likely used the pause to regroup, while Ukraine's General Staff said Russia used the Oleshky ceasefire for military activity unrelated to the humanitarian mission. 16 events and 32 statements recorded.

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Nizhny Novgorod regional authorities capped petrol sales at 40 litres per vehicle per fill, banned dispensing it into canisters and restricted sales to cars with other regions' plates at stations near the region's borders, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on 1 November, citing Interfax; the outlet said the limits came amid queues at petrol stations after the drone attack. The authorities said fuel supply was working steadily.

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Iranian negotiators were in Doha on 1 November for a third consecutive day of talks with Qatari mediators, an official quoted by Reuters said, CBS News reported. An official briefed on the talks told Reuters that Iran's negotiators had left on Sunday but not because of any problems in the talks, and that a draft proposal was being circulated, Al-Monitor reported. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said consultations with the mediators were continuing but had not yet reached a definitive conclusion, Iran International reported.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian strikes overnight into 1 November hit energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi oblasts, Meduza reported, and that hundreds of thousands of families remained without electricity, the Kyiv Independent and Meduza reported. DTEK said three of its workers were injured and that emergency outages were introduced in Kyiv, the Kyiv Independent reported. Kyivvodokanal said a water facility lost power and pressure was reduced in four districts, Meduza reported. Russia's defence ministry said in its daily report that its forces struck energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by Ukraine's armed forces, without naming places, Profile reported.

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Drones hit Vasyshcheve in Kharkiv district on the evening of 1 November, and Kharkiv regional prosecutors said the strike came at about 19:25, Ukrainska Pravda reported. A five-storey residential block's roof was hit, two houses were damaged and a greenhouse caught fire, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Kharkiv regional head Oleh Syniehubov said five people were injured; regional prosecutors later reported 11 injured, among them a three-year-old girl, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The prosecutors said a strike drone was used, and Ukrainska Pravda reported it as a Russian attack.

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Poltava regional head Vitalii Diakivnych said drone debris fell on a private property in the Reshetylivka community on 1 November, damaging a house and injuring a child, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukrinform reported it as a Russian drone attack.

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Nizhny Novgorod governor Gleb Nikitin said more than 100 drones were destroyed over the region overnight and into the morning of 1 November and that an industrial enterprise in Kstovo district suffered significant damage, Profile reported. The monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ said the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery was hit, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported; the governor did not name the plant. A woman in a car was hurt by falling drone debris, Profile reported, and Nizhny Novgorod mayor Yuri Shalabaev said the driver whose car was damaged was sent home after a medical examination. Russia's defence ministry said Ukrainian drones were downed over Nizhny Novgorod region among others overnight, Profile reported.

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UKMTO said a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile and that the master of another vessel relayed its mayday, CBS News reported. The incident occurred just after 15:00 UTC on 1 November, according to UKMTO, and the vessel was northwest of the Musandam Peninsula, The Maritime Executive reported. The maritime security firm Vanguard Tech identified the vessel as the offshore tug Selat Storm and said it was partially sinking, The Maritime Executive reported. The Maritime Executive said the status of the crew was not reported, and no party said it carried out the attack.

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A drone hit the grounds of a vocational school dormitory in the Koziatyn community of Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 November, killing a 13-year-old girl and a woman and injuring six people, among them three five-year-olds and a 16-year-old, regional head Natalia Zabolotna said, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The State Emergency Service gave two dead and six injured, the Kyiv Independent reported; Zabolotna said the dormitory was being used to house internally displaced people and that one of the five-year-olds was in serious condition. Ukrainian officials blamed a Russian drone.

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Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said on 1 November that the coalition had carried out an operation to neutralise vital resources the Houthis use to strengthen their ballistic missiles and drones and to threaten shipping lanes south of the Red Sea, citing deliberate and systematic Houthi attacks on civilians and civilian objects in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Euronews Arabic reported. The statement as reported gave no location and no casualty figures.

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The hacker groups Cyber Partisans BY and Silent Crow said they hacked the federal and regional websites of Russia's statistics agency Rosstat and took about 23 TB of data, including information on Russian military losses, Mediazona reported on 1 November. Rosstat told RBC its resources had been subjected to a cyberattack and that no leak of databases or legally protected information was recorded, Mediazona reported.

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Zaporizhzhia acting regional head Mykhailo Semikin said a Russian FPV drone attack in Zaporizhzhia on the evening of 1 November injured a 20-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man, who had shrapnel wounds that were not severe, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

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UKMTO said a tanker was struck by two unknown projectiles about 72 nautical miles east of Ras al Khafji, Saudi Arabia, and that all crew were accounted for, investingLive and House of Saud reported; investingLive said UKMTO reported the hit on the port side, and House of Saud said UKMTO logged the incident, number 192-26, at 23:47 UTC on 1 November. Vanguard Tech, cited by The Maritime Executive, named the tanker as Largo Atom and said it was reportedly hit by two UAVs, resulting in complete loss of power; UKMTO did not name the vessel, investingLive reported. No party said it carried out the attack.

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The Houthi-run Saba agency, citing a Houthi health ministry spokesperson, said three civilians were injured in a strike it attributed to Saudi Arabia on an oil company station in Bajil district, Hodeidah governorate, Euronews Arabic reported on 1 November. Euronews Arabic carried no coalition comment on the Bajil strike.

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The Kyiv regional administration said a drone attack on the morning of 1 November injured two men, in Bila Tserkva and Brovary, and damaged houses, a car, a playground and a shop in the Brovary, Boryspil, Bucha and Obukhiv districts, Ukrinform reported.

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From 22:47 Kyiv time on 1 November the official Air Alarm app showed false radiation, chemical, street-fighting and missile warnings, including a Russian-language message, while no sirens sounded, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukraine's air force said at 23:02 that the app had likely been subjected to hostile interference and that there was no radiation threat, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications, SPRAVDI, blamed Russia, Al Jazeera reported.

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A localised ceasefire in Ukraine's Kherson region, which began on Tuesday, ended on Sunday 1 November, Al Jazeera reported, calling it the longest of the war so far.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said Russian forces attacked five districts more than 40 times with drones and artillery during 1 November, injuring six people, Ukrainska Pravda reported; the outlet's account names the Dnipro, Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Kamianske and Synelnykove districts and says a 34-year-old man was taken to hospital in moderate condition.

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Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said air defences intercepted and destroyed a drone and a ballistic missile that the Houthis launched toward the kingdom's southern region, Euronews Arabic reported on 1 November. The statement as reported gave no time, damage or casualties.

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The State Emergency Service in Rivne Oblast said a Russian attack on 1 November set a private house on fire in Ostroh district and injured four people, Ukrainska Pravda and the Kyiv Post reported. The accounts did not name the weapon.

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The Houthi-run Saba agency, citing a Houthi health ministry spokesperson, said a strike it attributed to Saudi Arabia injured three civilians at an oil company station in Bajil, Hodeidah; separately, Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the coalition carried out an operation against resources the Houthis use for ballistic missiles and drones. Al-Maliki also said air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile and a drone the Houthis launched toward southern Saudi Arabia, and Yemeni army spokesman Majed Abdullah al-Nazili said government forces killed about 500 Houthi fighters on the al-Jawf, Marib and al-Bayda fronts, a claim Al Jazeera said it could not verify. UKMTO said an unknown projectile struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, which the security firm Vanguard Tech named as the offshore tug Selat Storm, and that two unknown projectiles struck a tanker about 72 nautical miles east of Ras al Khafji, with all crew accounted for; the IRGC Navy said two oil tankers on an unauthorised route struck naval mines and exploded. Iranian negotiators held a third consecutive day of talks with Qatari mediators in Doha, an official quoted by Reuters said, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said consultations had not yet reached a definitive conclusion, while President Trump said the war would be put away "very soon, one way or the other". Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said a future war could last longer than the last one, and Ali Nikzad, deputy speaker of parliament, said the window for negotiations was closed. 7 events and 17 statements recorded.

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A drone hit the grounds of a dormitory housing displaced people in Koziatyn, Vinnytsia Oblast, killing a 13-year-old girl and a woman and injuring six, regional head Natalia Zabolotna said, and Kharkiv regional prosecutors said 11 people were injured when drones hit Vasyshcheve. President Zelensky said overnight Russian strikes hit energy facilities in four oblasts and that hundreds of thousands of families remained without electricity, DTEK said three of its workers were injured, and Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 433 drones overnight, of which 371 were downed or jammed. Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said more than 40 attacks injured six people, and the State Emergency Service said a Russian attack set a house on fire in Rivne Oblast and injured four; separately, Al Jazeera reported that a localised ceasefire in the Kherson region ended on 1 November. In Russia, Nizhny Novgorod governor Gleb Nikitin said an industrial enterprise in Kstovo district suffered significant damage, and monitoring channels said a Lukoil refinery was hit; the region capped petrol sales at 40 litres a fill amid queues after the attack, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported, and the defence ministry said 235 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight. Ukraine's air force said the Air Alarm app had likely been subjected to hostile interference after it showed false radiation and chemical warnings, which SPRAVDI blamed on Russia, and two hacker groups said they took data from Rosstat, which said its websites came under a cyberattack but that no leak of protected data was detected. 13 events and 12 statements recorded.

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Profile reported that a Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a private house in Klimovo and that the Bryansk region's governor reported a woman of 30 and a man of 41 killed and five people injured. The governor also reported a woman of 73 injured in Pogar and two men injured in Voronok, in Starodub district, according to Profile.

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Iranian negotiators were in Doha for Qatar-mediated talks after more than 12 hours of talks with Qatari mediators in Tehran, an official told Reuters, as reported by The Times of Israel and Fox News. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera that the letter from US Vice President Vance had been discussed at high level and that there were no plans for meetings with US officials, and Fox News's account had him saying there was no need to meet Americans at present. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, citing mediation sources, reported that the sides had agreed on preliminary measures and that a US delegation would join Iranian officials for direct talks in Doha; a US official told The Times of Israel that no breakthrough had occurred and that there was no plan for US mediators to join the talks in Doha. The talks followed a Qatari delegation's arrival in Tehran the day before.

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Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered Iran's forces to respond immediately and without geographic limits to any new attack and to update the target list to bring US and Israeli assets within reach. The Times of Israel said the statement was posted on his Telegram account; Newsweek said the state media IRNA and Tasnim reported the directive; The New Arab cited state TV and a meeting with commanders. Separately, Armed Forces General Staff chief Ali Abdollahi said on X whenever signs of hostile enemy action were confirmed, the armed forces would not wait for the enemy's action to begin before choosing the time and manner of response, Fox News reported, and army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said on X that any new US attack would spread the war wider, The Times of Israel reported. The statements came as US officials weighed resuming strikes and Qatar mediated talks with Iran.

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Lebanon's National News Agency reported an Israeli strike between Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Kfar Tebnit, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. Al Jazeera Arabic, with agencies, reported in its own account strikes on the outskirts of Barachit and between Adshit al-Qusayr and al-Tayyibeh, a detonation in Tulusa, machine-gun fire toward Ibl al-Saqi, and drones over Tyre and Beirut's southern suburbs. Neither account gave casualties. The IDF said the reported strike in Kfar Tebnit was a controlled detonation during routine operations to demolish infrastructure, The Times of Israel reported. No Lebanese health ministry statement dated the day was found.

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Belgorod governor Shuvaev said one man was killed in Shebekino district and four people were injured in Belgorod, Graivoron and Shebekino districts in attacks by Ukraine's armed forces on 31 October, Profile reported. Profile's account gave no further detail on the weapons or the places within the districts. No Ukrainian comment was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said a Russian strike on Pavlohrad injured ten people, three of them children, boys of 12 and 16 and a girl of 16, and damaged several apartment buildings, Ukrainska Pravda reported in a post at 17:37 Kyiv time; the post said Hanzha had first reported eight injured. The Kyiv Independent's past-day tally published on 1 November, citing Hanzha, gave 17 injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast including three children, over a window that runs into 1 November. No Russian statement on Pavlohrad was found.

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Dnipropetrovsk regional head Hanzha said five districts were attacked more than 20 times with drones overnight into 31 October, one person was killed in Dnipro district and two were injured, including a man of 18 in Synelnykove district, Ukrinform reported. President Zelensky said about 200,000 families in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and more than 80,000 in Kyiv Oblast were without power, Meduza reported; bne IntelliNews gave the same figures as households in Dnipro and its region and in Kyiv region.

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Russian attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk on 31 October injured six people, Ukrinform, Ukraine's state news agency, reported in its own account. The report was published at 06:25 Kyiv time on 1 November.

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Iran's Fars news agency said an "enemy" drone attacked two fishing boats about 14 nautical miles south of Qeshm Island, leaving two fishermen missing and two wounded, The Times of Israel reported. Iran's state broadcaster IRIB, citing Hormozgan deputy governor Ahmad Nafisi, blamed "the American enemy" for the attack, The New Arab reported. News.az reported that Iranian state TV later said the two missing fishermen had been found and that Fars reported two injured, one of them taken to hospital. No US statement on the boats was found.

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A Russian drone struck a private house in Kharkiv overnight into 31 October and five people were injured, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. Ukrainska Pravda's report gave no further detail.

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A fire broke out at the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Ufa after a drone attack overnight into 31 October, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing the Russian outlet Astra, whose analyst identified the reforming unit from eyewitness photos, and the monitoring channel Exilenova+, which reported three fires at what it believed were two refineries. Meduza, citing Ukrainian monitoring channels, reported that Ukrainian drones attacked Bashkortostan and that the refinery in Ufa was hit; it reported residents' accounts of night blasts and columns of smoke, citing Ufa1.ru, and said local authorities did not confirm an attack. A drone-danger regime was declared in Bashkortostan in the morning and an airport suspended operations, Rambler News reported citing Gorobzor.ru; Russia's defence ministry listed Bashkortostan among 19 regions where it said drones were intercepted overnight, Interfax reported. No Ukrainian claim on Ufa dated the day was found.

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Turki al-Malki said on X that air defences intercepted and destroyed a hostile drone in the Riyadh region on Saturday and that falling debris caused no injuries. Sky News Arabia described him as the Saudi defence ministry's spokesman and the ministry as the announcer; The Times of Israel and Saraha News described him as the Saudi-led coalition's spokesman posting on X. His posts as quoted said "hostile drone" and named no launcher; Saraha News's headline said the coalition intercepted a Houthi drone launched toward the Riyadh region. No Houthi claim or denial dated 31 October was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-w4ps/ 2026-11-03T04:58:25Z 2026-11-03T04:58:25Z

MSNOW, citing three senior Gulf Arab officials, reported that the United States had warned Gulf allies to prepare for a possible new round of strikes on Iran as early as 4 November, a day after the US midterm elections, The Times of Israel reported. The AP, citing two diplomats, reported that US officials had privately urged several Middle Eastern countries and regional allies to prepare for the possibility of new military action and Iranian retaliation, Fox News reported. A White House official told MSNOW the White House does not comment on sensitive military plans, The Times of Israel reported. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta that President Trump had not made a decision on resuming strikes and preferred a diplomatic solution, both live pages reported.

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At the IISS Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, GCC Secretary General Jasem Al Budaiwi said Gulf states remained open to negotiation but that diplomacy needed partners who respond in kind; Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said a second round of US-Iran fighting would be more dangerous and more destructive; Saudi Vice Foreign Minister Waleed Elkhereiji called securing navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz straits a shared responsibility; and UK Middle East minister Stephen Doughty said the UK had deployed air defence equipment to Saudi Arabia, Iran International reported. The Times of Israel's account had Abdelatty saying he was extremely worried about a new escalation. Yemen's foreign minister Afrah al-Zouba, citing UN experts, linked maritime threats to outside support for the Houthis, Iran International reported. The Dialogue ran over the weekend of 31 October and 1 November; remarks whose day was not given were left out.

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Moldova's defence ministry said a drone was detected at 16:24 moving from the direction of Ukraine's Odesa region toward Transnistria's Rybnytsa district, and was lost from radar at 16:54 in Calarasi district, and that airspace over the north and centre of the country was restricted, European Pravda reported. No damage was reported. The ministry's statement as European Pravda carried it did not say who launched the drone.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-r4cq/ 2026-11-03T04:14:28Z 2026-11-03T04:14:28Z

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces hit the Kamensky Combine in Rostov Oblast overnight into 31 October, describing it as a plant that makes solid rocket fuel, and said the strike set a finished-goods warehouse on fire and damaged four workshops, Euromaidan Press reported. Profile reported that more than 90 drones were destroyed over Rostov region, and that Rostov governor Yuri Slyusar said Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the region were attacked, that debris damaged a private house and that no casualties were reported. The governor's account as reported did not mention the plant.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-e96j/ 2026-11-03T03:03:10Z 2026-11-03T03:03:10Z

The last of four aircraft carrying evacuees from occupied Oleshky landed in Homiel, Belarus, on the morning of 31 October, and the evacuees crossed into Ukraine in Chernihiv Oblast, President Zelensky said, calling the humanitarian operation completed and thanking the United States and Melania Trump for mediation, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said the oldest evacuee was 94 and the youngest just over one year old, Ukrainska Pravda reported, and that the evacuees faced no filtration or phone checks, Meduza reported. Ukraine's General Staff said 167 civilians, 22 of them children, were also evacuated from the right bank of Kherson Oblast during the ceasefire, Slovo i Dilo reported. The BBC and the Kyiv Independent reported the arrivals and family reunions on 31 October; Ukraine's southern command spokesman said the local ceasefire ran to 22:59 on 1 November.

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Iran's Fars news agency said a drone attacked two fishing boats south of Qeshm Island, leaving two fishermen wounded and two missing whom state TV later said were found, and Hormozgan's deputy governor, cited by IRIB, blamed "the American enemy"; no US statement on the boats was found. Lebanon's National News Agency reported an Israeli strike between Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Kfar Tebnit, with Al Jazeera Arabic reporting further strikes in the south, and the IDF said the Kfar Tebnit blast was a controlled detonation; Turki al-Malki said Saudi air defences intercepted and destroyed a hostile drone in the Riyadh region and that falling debris caused no injuries. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered Iran's forces to respond without geographic limits to any new attack and to update the target list, Iranian state media and The Times of Israel reported, and Mohsen Rezaei said on state television that Iran was debating whether to keep its ban on nuclear weapons if hostilities resumed, with no decision taken. Iranian negotiators were in Doha for Qatar-mediated talks, an official told Reuters, and Foreign Minister Araghchi said there were no plans for meetings with US officials, while a US official told The Times of Israel there had been no breakthrough; MSNOW and the AP reported US warnings to partners to prepare for possible new military action against Iran, and Rubio said Trump had not decided. At the Manama Dialogue, Egypt's foreign minister said a second round of US-Iran fighting would be more dangerous and more destructive, and the UK said it had deployed air defence equipment to Saudi Arabia; US Central Command said it redirected 144 commercial vessels under the naval blockade of Iran, and UKMTO figures in The National showed more than 30 attacks on ships around Hormuz in October. 7 events and 21 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/russia-ukraine-war/day/2026-10-31/ 2026-11-03T03:03:10Z 2026-11-03T05:40:27Z

A Russian strike on Pavlohrad injured ten people, three of them children, and overnight drone attacks across Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed one person and injured two, regional head Hanzha said; a Russian drone struck a house in Kharkiv, injuring five, the State Emergency Service said, and Ukrinform reported six people injured in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. President Zelensky said about 200,000 families in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and more than 80,000 in Kyiv Oblast were without power, and Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 134 drones overnight, of which 105 were downed or suppressed. In Russia, the Bryansk governor reported two people killed and five injured when a drone struck a house in Klimovo, Profile reported, the Belgorod governor said one man was killed in Shebekino district and four people injured across three districts, and the defence ministry said 433 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight over 19 regions. A fire broke out at the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Ufa after a drone attack, Ukrainska Pravda reported citing the outlet Astra, while local authorities did not confirm an attack, and Ukraine's General Staff said its forces hit the Kamensky Combine in Rostov Oblast, where Profile reported more than 90 drones destroyed. The Oleshky evacuees crossed into Ukraine through Belarus and Zelensky said the humanitarian operation was complete; the Russian foreign ministry's Rodion Miroshnik, citing Russian-installed officials, said a Ukrainian drone attacked a civilian car leaving Oleshky and injured two, and Meduza said Ukraine did not comment; Moldova's defence ministry said a drone entered its airspace. 10 events and 14 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-28rj/ 2026-11-03T02:19:18Z 2026-11-03T02:19:18Z

Yemeni government forces said they repelled a Houthi attack south of Taiz, and the government said its drones struck Houthi gatherings in Lahj governorate, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on 30 October. No Houthi account of the fighting was found.

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Yemeni government armed forces spokesman Colonel Majed al-Nazili said on 30 October that Houthi ballistic missiles targeted Aden International Airport and the Maashiq presidential palace; the government statement called it the sixth attack of its kind during the month, Yemen Monitor reported. A police official told AFP the palace was targeted by two missiles, Gulf News and Euronews Arabic reported. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Aden reported two explosions in the city. No casualties or damage were reported in the accounts found, and the sweep found no Houthi claim of the attack.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-2377/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said early on 30 October that air defences intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Houthis toward the Mecca region, Alsaudi News and Al Jazeera Arabic reported. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Houthi forces had carried out no operation toward the Saudi depth that day and called the Mecca accusation false, Al-Quds Al-Arabi and Lebanon24 reported. No damage or injuries were reported in the accounts found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-ac7d/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on 30 October that Ukraine had attacked three oil refineries and a gas-chemical complex, with minor damage at one plant, and did not name the plants, Radio Svoboda and Expert reported. Fire Point, a Ukrainian drone manufacturer, said its FP-1 drones hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery, including a diesel hydrotreatment unit, Radio Svoboda and the Kyiv Independent reported. The independent Russian outlet Astra and monitoring channels reported an attack on the refinery, with photos and video showing columns of smoke, Verstka reported; Meduza reported them as saying drones struck the refinery and described the reports as unconfirmed. The accounts found carried no official Ukrainian statement on the refinery.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-b79q/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

The US embassy in Riyadh announced on 30 October that non-emergency US government staff and their families had been ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, effective 23 October, citing Houthi attacks on civilian airports and critical infrastructure, Reuters reported in copies carried by U.S. News and Al-Monitor. The Times of Israel liveblog reported the announcement as saying staff needed special authorisation to use Saudi airports; Fox News reported it as telling staff to use extreme caution at them.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-bj4r/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Oman's Maritime Security Centre said the Royal Navy of Oman evacuated 25 crew members from the Panama-flagged merchant vessel RITI, which it said was targeted and caught fire about 1.6 nautical miles off Musandam, and gave them medical care; the centre gave no further details, Reuters reported. The accounts found named no attacker and reported no injuries. The Maritime Executive reported that the RITI was laden and that a risk consultancy assessed the cause as an Iranian missile; that assessment is analysis, not a finding of this record. The IRGC Navy said the same day that tankers had been halted and others had hit mines south of the strait; no source found by the sweep tied the RITI to those statements.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-csff/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

UN Secretary-General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on 30 October that more than 290,000 people had been displaced in Yemen since early August, including about 6,100 pregnant women, and that about 65,000 refugees and asylum seekers faced rapid deterioration, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. An OCHA report dated 30 October put the number displaced since August at 290,000, and UNHCR's Yemen operation was funded at 18 percent, 34 million of 194 million dollars, Tech Times reported. A Taiz health office official told DPA that vaccination had stopped at 44 facilities because of the siege, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-e3jm/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

A Lebanese military court judge charged 13 people on 30 October over a truck seized carrying about 780 kg of explosives, two of them in custody and 11 in absentia, Lebanese state media reported according to Al Jazeera. Hezbollah said the explosives were its own and were meant for use against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, asked for their return and called the charges unjust, Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel liveblog and Fox News reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-km8w/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

G20 foreign ministers opened two days of talks in Atlanta on 30 October, hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with the Iran war and energy security at the centre of the agenda, The National reported. Germany's foreign office said most G20 members agreed that Iran must come to the negotiating table, Fox News reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-kvx8/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

UKMTO said it received a report that a vessel about 40 nautical miles south of Iran's Lavan Island was hit on its port side by an unknown projectile, causing a fire on board, and that the crew was reported safe. It named no party and no vessel. The IRGC Navy said the same day that tankers had hit mines south of the strait; no source found by the sweep tied this vessel to those statements.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-ng3d/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

A Ukrainian delegation led by human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets arrived in occupied Oleshky on 30 October under the local ceasefire in place since 27 October, and the evacuation of residents and the distribution of aid began, Charter97 reported, citing Lubinets, and Fakty reported, citing Lubinets and MP Davyd Arakhamia. Lubinets said the ceasefire had lasted 80 hours and continued, and that the work proceeded under the agreements reached with Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova, Fakty reported. Lantratova said the mission was ending without incident, Meduza reported.

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Donetsk Oblast Military Administration head Vadym Filashkin and the regional prosecutor's office said Russian strikes on Sloviansk on 30 October killed a 73-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy and injured 12 people, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The administration also reported two people injured in Kramatorsk and two in Druzhkivka, and gave an oblast total for the day of two killed and 16 injured. The Kyiv Independent, citing Filashkin, reported two killed in Sloviansk and 16 injured across the oblast. The sweep's Russian- and Ukrainian-language searches found no other account dated the day.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-pwnh/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Fars reported explosions at sea near Qeshm and Sirik in the early hours of Friday 30 October local time, with residents describing flashes, the Siasat Daily reported; no page found fixes the UTC day. IRNA, citing unofficial sources, said the sounds were warning shots fired at vessels, Radio Farda reported. Tasnim, citing unnamed sources, said the IRGC Aerospace Force intercepted a hostile fighter near Qeshm and forced it to leave, Anadolu Agency and Radio Farda reported. An Iranian outlet, Urgent News, said US forces had targeted a naval installation; the sweep found no US statement on it, and none of these accounts was independently verified.

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Samara Oblast governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said a massive drone attack targeted the region's civilian infrastructure on the morning of 30 October and that dozens of drones were destroyed, Expert and Profile reported. He later said two men died while clearing up after the strike and several people were injured; Novokuybyshevsk mayor Katkova said one person died in the city and the injured were receiving help, Profile reported. The regional health ministry issued advice on smoke and the regional prosecutor opened a hotline, Profile reported. The accounts found carried no Ukrainian statement on the attack; the sweep's Ukrainian-language search found only Verstka relaying the governor.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-rzj4/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

The US State Department approved a possible sale to Ukraine of 500 PAC-3 missiles with parts and support, at an estimated cost of 2.1 billion dollars, Ukrainska Pravda reported on 30 October. The purchase is to be funded by Canada, Germany and Norway and by the EU's Ukraine Support Loan, with no US funds, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-t30e/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Russia's aviation authority Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Moscow's Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo airports from the night of 29 to 30 October, and Yaroslavl's airport was closed, Ukrainska Pravda and Profile reported. Profile listed restrictions at Penza, Saratov, Samara's Kurumoch, Ulyanovsk, Bugulma, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Cheboksary and Saransk; Interesnaya Rossiya listed Ulyanovsk, Kazan, Penza and Saratov and gave 06:27 for the Kurumoch restriction, where Profile gave a 05:28 notice. The Moscow restrictions began on 29 October UTC and are in the previous day's record.

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Flydubai cancelled its flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Abha, citing Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, Khaleej Times reported on 30 October; the article's body said the cancellations ran up to and including 5 November, while its headline said until 1 November. Khaleej Times also reported that Singapore Airlines cancelled two Dubai flights and that Indian airlines extended their suspensions of flights to Saudi Arabia.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-w51e/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration head Oleh Syniehubov reported seven people injured and 12 suffering stress across the oblast over the past day, the Kyiv Independent reported on 31 October. Ukrainska Pravda, citing the administration, reported four people injured and six in shock in Kharkiv city, two men injured in Derhachi and one man injured on a road near Horokhovatka. The sweep found no Russian statement on the strikes.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-z1j7/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

The Saudi-led coalition said on the evening of 30 October that it intercepted a drone launched toward Riyadh and a Houthi ballistic missile launched toward the southern region, and later said it destroyed a Houthi drone over the Medina region, The Times of Israel liveblog, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al-Weeam reported. The Houthi military spokesman denied the Medina claim, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. No damage or injuries were reported in the accounts found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-z3cm/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

A Russian strike hit an energy facility in Kyiv on the evening of 30 October, the Kyiv Independent reported. DTEK said parts of Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi and Podilskyi districts were without power. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three drone strikes hit critical infrastructure and that the Left Bank was without water. No casualties had been reported at the time of publication, the Kyiv Independent said.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-znqz/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

A Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on 30 October for talks with Iranian officials aimed at reviving negotiations between the United States and Iran, Iranian state media reported according to Nukta; Euronews Persian reported that Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday and named no source. An official briefed on the talks told Reuters the effort was coordinated with the United States, The Times of Israel liveblog reported. Pakistan's military spokesman said the same day that Pakistan was cautiously optimistic about its own mediation.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261103-zp8h/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Shostka mayor Mykola Noha said Russian strike drones attacked the city from the morning of 30 October, killing a 43-year-old woman and injuring eight people, five men and three women, one of the women seriously, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The Kyiv Independent, citing local authorities, reported one woman killed near Shostka and 14 people injured in the region over the past day. The sweep's Ukrainian- and Russian-language searches found no other account dated the day.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-30/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T02:19:18Z

The UN Secretary-General's spokesman said more than 290,000 people had been displaced in Yemen since early August, and Yemen's government said Houthi ballistic missiles targeted Aden airport and the Maashiq presidential palace, with Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting two explosions in the city. Oman's Maritime Security Centre said its navy evacuated 25 crew from the Panama-flagged RITI after it was targeted and caught fire off Musandam, and UKMTO reported a vessel hit by an unknown projectile about 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island; the IRGC Navy said tankers had been halted and others had hit mines south of the strait, and no source found tied either vessel to those statements. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a Houthi drone toward the Mecca region and, in the evening, a drone toward Riyadh, a ballistic missile toward the southern region and a drone over Medina; Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Houthi forces had carried out no operation toward the Saudi depth that day. The US embassy in Riyadh said non-emergency staff and their families had been ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, citing Houthi attacks on airports, and a Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran for talks on reviving US-Iran negotiations, Iranian state media reported. A Lebanese military court judge charged 13 people over a seized truck carrying about 780 kg of explosives, which Hezbollah said were its own. 13 events and 19 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/russia-ukraine-war/day/2026-10-30/ 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z 2026-11-03T01:47:35Z

Russian strikes on Sloviansk killed a 73-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy and injured 12 people, Donetsk regional officials said; Shostka's mayor said a drone attack killed a 43-year-old woman and injured eight, and Kharkiv's regional administration reported seven people injured across the oblast. A strike hit a Kyiv energy facility on the evening of 30 October, the Kyiv Independent reported; DTEK said parts of four districts were without power and Mayor Klitschko said the Left Bank was without water. In Russia, Samara's governor said two men died while clearing up after a drone attack on the region, Deputy Prime Minister Novak said Ukraine had attacked three oil refineries and a gas-chemical complex, and Rosaviatsia restricted airports in Moscow and the Volga region on a night the defence ministry said 1,043 Ukrainian drones were intercepted. Ukraine's human rights commissioner Lubinets and MP Arakhamia said a Ukrainian delegation had arrived in occupied Oleshky under the local ceasefire and that the evacuation of residents had begun, and the US State Department approved a possible sale of 500 PAC-3 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, estimated at 2.1 billion dollars. 9 events and 10 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-2an6/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Sterlitamak administration head Shaymardanov said eight drones were downed over the city on 29 October, that debris fell on an enterprise's grounds and caused minor damage, and that the plant was operating normally. The independent Russian outlet Astra, from monitoring-channel footage, said the target was the Bashkir Soda Company plant and that smoke rose over it, the Moscow Times reported. The Moscow Times also reported that Ufa airport halted flights during the attack. No Ukrainian statement on the attack was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-2any/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

The rights group HRANA reported on 29 October that Branch 23 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court had sentenced three men arrested during the January 2026 protests to death, on charges that include carrying out operations on behalf of Israel. HRANA said the sentences were communicated to the three in prison on 26 October and that they were moved to Ghezel Hesar prison on 28 October. No statement from Iran's judiciary was found. The three are not named here.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-3e2e/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Hanzha said a drone attack on Pavlohrad on 29 October injured a 15-year-old girl and set a shop and a house on fire. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-8pqq/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

UKMTO said late on Thursday that a tanker transiting outbound about 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman, was on fire, and later that the report indicated a small boat had approached on the port side and attached two explosive devices to the hull above the waterline; the blasts caused an engine-room fire that temporarily disabled the ship. UKMTO said the crew were safe, there was no environmental impact, the fire was put out and the ship continued to its next port. Three maritime security sources told Reuters the ship was the Panama-flagged tanker Louise 1 and described it as the first successful limpet-mine attack in the strait in this war. India's shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said all 27 Indian seafarers aboard were safe. No party said it was responsible.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-ae8a/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Hanzha said at 18:19 on 29 October that a drone hit the upper floors of the dormitory of Vocational College No. 17 in Dnipro and several rooms caught fire, and that two girls aged 15 and 16 were in shock. Mayor Filatov said more than 50 windows were shattered and that it was the second time the building had been hit; the Kyiv Independent, citing Filatov, reported no injuries. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-cyd3/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Perm governor Makhonin said 10 drones were downed over Perm Krai on 29 October and that one industrial site in the north of the region suffered minor damage, with no casualties, Profile reported. He did not name the site. No Ukrainian statement on the attack was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-ffhm/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration head Chaus said Russia struck central Chernihiv around midday on 29 October with Banderol drone-launched cruise missiles and that two 15-year-old girls were killed. Patrol police head Biloshytskyi said in an evening update that two people were killed and 31 injured, including four children, one of them a 10-month-old baby; the Kyiv Independent, citing regional officials, gave at least 25 injured. The oblast declared 30 October a day of mourning. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-g50h/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

The Shin Bet said on Thursday it had opened a bounded investigation into possible foreign influence on Israel's election, CBS News reported, after Netanyahu's Likud party said in a statement that the election had been stolen by Arab-majority parties with foreign funding and named Iran among the fronts at stake. The Central Elections Committee's acting director-general, Din Livne, wrote that there was no basis to claims of a systematic compromise of the election's integrity. Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari denied any Qatari interference. Final results had left Netanyahu's bloc short of a majority.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-h03n/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

UKMTO said the master of a third-party vessel reported another vessel on fire about 9 nautical miles north of Khasab, Oman, at about 03:00 UTC on Thursday, with the crew's status unknown, and classed it as an incident under investigation, not a confirmed attack. UKMTO later said regional authorities identified the vessel as a dhow, that it caught fire and sank following a maritime security incident, and that the crew were evacuated safely, Reuters and AFP reported. No party said it was responsible.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-hn85/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

The Houthi-run Saba news agency, citing an unnamed local source, said on Thursday that Saudi aircraft carried out a series of strikes on the Mokha and Dhubab districts of Taiz governorate, near the Bab el-Mandeb, without giving targets, damage or casualties. A government-aligned Yemeni outlet relayed the same Houthi media reports. No coalition or Yemeni government statement on strikes there on 29 October was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-jefp/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Hanzha said Russian attacks late on 29 October left up to 350,000 people in the oblast without electricity, the Kyiv Independent reported. No Ukrenergo statement dated 29 October was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-jhdw/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Israel's Shin Bet, police and military said on Thursday that military prosecutors had indicted a soldier, arrested in September and not named by the authorities, on charges of passing information to an enemy with intent to harm state security and contact with a foreign agent. The joint statement alleged he had been in contact with Iranian agents for about a year and was paid in cryptocurrency, Middle East Monitor reported. The soldier is not named here.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-k3ty/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

The Saudi-led coalition said early on Thursday that it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile the Houthis fired toward Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, Khaleej Times and Al Jazeera reported. No damage or injuries were reported. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said that evening that Houthi forces had fired ballistic missiles at the Ras Tanura refinery and an Aramco facility in Abqaiq and a drone at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, all in the Eastern Province; no Saudi, coalition or Aramco statement on a hit at those sites was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-km03/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Acting head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration Semikin said a 49-year-old man was killed and three men injured in Bilenke on 29 October. Local authorities put the oblast's toll for the day at two killed and 23 injured, including a child, the Kyiv Independent reported. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-m4p7/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-04T14:08:13Z

Ukraine's air force said four jet-powered drones attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast at about 11:00 Kyiv time on 29 October, that three were downed and that the fourth hit Dnipro railway station. Ukrzaliznytsia said the drone struck a platform where passenger train No. 866 Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia was waiting and that people were on the platform despite an air-raid warning. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Hanzha said that afternoon that 14 people were killed and 14 injured, six of them seriously, including an 11-year-old boy; on 30 October the Kyiv Independent, citing Hanzha, reported at least 15 killed and at least 14 injured, and the oblast declared 30 October a day of mourning. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-ptse/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Poltava Oblast Military Administration head Diakivnych said Russian drones struck an apartment building in Kremenchuk on 29 October, killing at least three people and injuring 32, six of them children; Ukrinform had earlier reported 28 injured, three of them children. Private homes and a boarding school building were also damaged, the administration said. Poltava Oblast declared 30 October a day of mourning. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-pyna/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration head Syniehubov said three guided aerial bombs hit a five-storey apartment building in Izium on 29 October, injuring 12 people, with four possibly under the rubble. Later reports gave four killed and 12 injured, per Syniehubov as cited by the Kyiv Independent, or four killed and 14 injured, per the National Police as cited by Euromaidan Press. Across Kharkiv Oblast that day, Syniehubov said, four people were killed and 21 injured, including six injured in Lozova and three in Kharkiv city, Shevchenkove and Zatyshshia together. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-qq6y/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Yandex published its third-quarter 2026 results on 29 October and withdrew its forecasts for 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA, saying several of its data centres had been attacked by drones in October and part of the infrastructure was damaged, Sostav.ru and New Retail reported. The company said the attacks came after the quarter closed and did not affect the quarter's results; third-quarter revenue rose 12 percent year on year to 411 billion rubles, New Retail reported. No harm was reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-qtd9/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Ukraine's navy said on 29 October that a Long Neptune missile strike destroyed two Su-34 fighter-bombers at Marinovka airfield in Volgograd Oblast. President Zelensky said two Su-34s had been destroyed and that an Iskander launcher was also hit, without giving its location. On 30 October the Ukrainian open-source community AviVector published satellite images that it said showed wreckage near the hangars at Marinovka, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The announcement did not give the date of the strike itself. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-qyv3/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Ukraine's human rights commissioner Lubinets said on 29 October that route demining in occupied Oleshky was complete and a humanitarian convoy was ready, and that he and a delegation had set out for the mission area, with aid distribution to follow; his office said the route ran through Russia and Belarus with the transfer likely on 31 October, and that the local ceasefire in place since 27 October ran to 22:59 on 1 November. Russia's human rights commissioner Lantratova said Lubinets had arrived in Belarus, Radio Svoboda reported. Kherson Oblast Military Administration head Prokudin said no shelling of civilian or critical infrastructure was recorded in the oblast on 29 October and one person was injured by a mine. No ICRC statement dated 29 October was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-rmhr/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Yemen's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Al-Saadi, wrote to the president of the Security Council, copied to the Secretary-General, saying the Houthis had targeted Aden International Airport with several ballistic missiles on 28 October and flights had been diverted, Ajel reported. According to Ajel, the letter asked for measures to protect civil airports and to hold those responsible to account, and for full implementation of resolutions 2140 and 2216, including the arms embargo on the Houthis.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-s3ce/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T01:44:28Z

Ballistic missiles struck Kyiv just after 22:00 local time on 29 October, Kyiv officials said. Kyiv city prosecutors said one man was killed and a 35-year-old woman injured, and that eight apartment blocks in Dniprovskyi district, a petrol station, a restaurant, a dental clinic and warehouses were damaged, Euromaidan Press reported. Mayor Klitschko said warehouse buildings were hit in Darnytskyi district, the Kyiv Independent reported. No Russian official comment was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-tcdn/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Acting governor Semikin said FPV drones hit a bus and a trolleybus in Zaporizhzhia city on 29 October, that three women on the trolleybus were injured, one seriously, and that one person was injured on the bus; Ukrainska Pravda called the trolleybus hit the third attack on the city's public transport that day. Local authorities put the oblast's injured for the day at 23, the Kyiv Independent reported.

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Ryazan governor Malkov said a fire broke out at an enterprise in Shilovsky district after the drone attack on 29 October and was later contained, with no casualties, Profile reported. He did not name the enterprise. No Ukrainian statement on the attack was found.

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Russia's aviation authority Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports from about 05:00 Moscow time on 29 October for about two hours, Meduza reported. Moscow mayor Sobyanin said 613 drones flew toward the Moscow region between 20:30 on 28 October and 07:00 on 29 October, that most were neutralised on distant approaches and 231 were destroyed near Moscow. No damage or casualties in Moscow were reported. No Ukrainian statement on the Moscow attack was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-yyra/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said on Thursday evening that air defences intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles the Houthis fired toward Riyadh. Saudi Civil Defence, in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, said shrapnel from the interception wounded one Saudi citizen and damaged a house and a vehicle, and it had issued warning alerts for Riyadh, al-Kharj governorate and Najran beforehand. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the same evening that Houthi forces had fired several missiles at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh as one of six operations against Saudi Arabia. No Saudi, coalition or Aramco statement on a hit at the airport was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261102-zass/ 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck a storage site for Geran-type drones, a fuel and lubricant depot and the drone launch site near Navlya in Bryansk Oblast, about 70 km from the border, on 28 October and overnight into 29 October, calling it the second strike on the site after one on 3 August. No Russian account of the strike was found.

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Shrapnel from the interception of two Houthi ballistic missiles over Riyadh wounded one Saudi citizen, Saudi Civil Defence said; the Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed them and one fired toward the Eastern Province, and Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said his forces fired missiles and a drone at refineries and airports and attacked a military headquarters in the Najran region. In the Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO said its report indicated a small boat had attached two explosive devices to the hull of an outbound tanker about 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, named by security sources to Reuters as the Louise 1, and that a dhow caught fire and sank about 9 nautical miles north of Khasab, its crew evacuated; the IRGC Navy said three unnamed tankers hit mines in 24 hours. Houthi-run Saba said Saudi aircraft struck the Mokha and Dhubab districts near the Bab el-Mandeb; Yemen's UN ambassador wrote to the Security Council asking for measures to protect civil airports, saying the Houthis had targeted Aden airport with ballistic missiles on 28 October, Ajel reported, and the transport minister said the airport returned to normal operations on Thursday morning. Israel's Shin Bet opened a limited investigation into foreign influence after Likud said the election had been stolen with foreign funding, a claim the Central Elections Committee said had no basis and Qatar denied any part in, and military prosecutors indicted a soldier accused of passing information to Iranian agents for cryptocurrency. The Pentagon's casualty system put US service members killed at 23, 11 of them by hostile action, Iran said it was discussing a plan with mediators to end the war and reopen Hormuz while a senior Iranian official said the strait would stay closed until Iran's conditions were fully met, and the IRGC said it downed an MQ-1 drone off Sirik. 8 events and 17 statements recorded.

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A jet-powered drone hit a platform at Dnipro railway station where a train to Zaporizhzhia was waiting, killing 15 people and injuring 14 by the regional administration's count on 30 October, Ukrainian officials said, and regional head Hanzha said Russian attacks late that night left up to 350,000 people in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast without power. Russian strikes killed two 15-year-old girls in central Chernihiv, where patrol police said 31 were injured, killed three and injured 32 in a Kremenchuk apartment block, and killed four and injured 12 when guided bombs hit a five-storey block in Izium, regional officials said; the acting governor said a man was killed in Bilenke, and prosecutors said a night missile strike on Kyiv killed one man. Ukraine's navy said a Long Neptune missile strike destroyed two Su-34 aircraft at Marinovka airfield, the General Staff said it struck a drone storage site and fuel depot near Navlya, Bryansk Oblast, and Russia's defence ministry said 1,214 drones were destroyed overnight over Bryansk, Moscow and other regions, Bashkortostan and Udmurtia, as flights were restricted at three Moscow airports. Drones attacked Sterlitamak, where the city said debris caused minor damage at an enterprise and the independent outlet Astra said the Bashkir Soda plant was the target, and Yandex withdrew its 2026 forecasts, citing October drone attacks on its data centres. On the Oleshky mission, Ukraine's human rights commissioner Lubinets said route demining was complete and a convoy ready, his office said the local ceasefire runs to 1 November, Russia's commissioner Lantratova said Lubinets had arrived in Belarus, and Kherson's regional head recorded no shelling of civilian infrastructure in the oblast that day. 19 events and 22 statements recorded.

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Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of the Russian-held part of Zaporizhzhia region, said a drone hit a Simferopol to Moscow passenger bus near Prymorsk with 31 people aboard, killing one, and blamed Ukrainian forces. Reuters, citing officials, reported one killed and 30 injured and said it could not verify the account.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-15y6/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Russian ballistic missiles and drones struck Kyiv overnight into 27 October, and AP reported explosions shaking the city minutes after 3 a.m. Kyiv prosecutors said a 46-year-old woman was killed; Ukraine's State Emergency Service said 15 people were injured, while Kyiv officials gave earlier counts of 10 to 14. Officials said a university dormitory and campus, a medical facility, an administrative building, metro infrastructure on the Southern Bridge and an electricity company office were damaged, and the Health Ministry said a paramedic and an emergency medical technician were hurt. Russia's defence ministry said it struck transport infrastructure in Kyiv and a drone assembly workshop, and that the bridge is used to move military cargo.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-198n/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority said it would take legal action against vessels of the shipping company Sinokor from 1 November and that enforcement had already been taken against at least seven of them, gCaptain and Reuters reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-1zxa/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to an Iranian government readout carried by Tasnim and CBS News, which said the two reaffirmed expanding cooperation and that Putin cited trade growth of 10.4 percent in eight months.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-3b6e/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Bryansk's governor said Ukrainian drones attacked the city overnight and that explosive devices dropped from drones killed a resident and injured six civilians, MSK1 reported, adding that three apartment buildings and 11 cars were damaged. Novaya Gazeta Europe, citing the governor, reported that two residents were killed. Reuters also carried the report, citing local authorities.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-4359/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

AFP reported fighting between Houthi and pro-government forces near the Bab el-Mandeb in western Yemen, citing military sources on both sides. CBS News carried the AFP report on 27 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-79w5/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said government airstrikes hit Mokha and Dhubab district near the Bab el-Mandeb on Tuesday. An eyewitness in Mokha told AP she heard two explosions around 4 a.m., one near the port. The Yemeni military said it struck Houthi positions in Taiz governorate, without naming Mokha.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-azgj/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Israelis voted in a general election, the first since the 7 October 2023 attack, AFP and AP reported. Exit polls reported by Al Jazeera gave neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot's a 61-seat majority, and NPR member station WFAE reported high turnout. AFP said Netanyahu warned Tehran of a devastating blow if it attacked.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-f29t/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-03T05:40:27Z

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said a Houthi ballistic missile hit Aramco's Ras Tanura refinery and caused large fires. Saudi Arabia's energy ministry called the fire limited, The Star reported, and Siasat Daily reported that Riyadh had not confirmed the strike. The maritime security firm Vanguard reported a fire in the area that was later contained, The Express Tribune reported. A source told Bloomberg the fire near the terminal was contained, The Star reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-fjdy/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted three Houthi ballistic missiles fired toward the Eastern Region and four drones toward the Southern Region, and in the afternoon two ballistic missiles fired toward Riyadh, Reuters and AP reported. Saudi Civil Defence issued alerts in several regions and said shrapnel from the two missiles intercepted near Riyadh caused material damage in the city. The Houthis said they had fired missiles and a drone at targets in Riyadh, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-fwxr/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Russia's aviation authority Rosaviatsiya restricted flights at Moscow's Vnukovo airport from 01:54 Moscow time on 27 October, Interesnaya Rossiya reported, as Russia's defence ministry said it had destroyed Ukrainian drones overnight.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-g11r/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Romania's Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador over an act of sabotage, Agerpres reported. Romania's intelligence service said a sabotage network run by Russia set a fire near a weapons factory, part of a wider campaign of sabotage it said Russia coordinates, Al Jazeera reported. Romania's president called the alleged plot a grave violation of a NATO member's security, AP reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-hzza/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Mediazona reported on 27 October that three people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk region, in a roll-up of reports from other regions that does not name the authority behind each figure or the time of the attack.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-jrhb/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Kharkiv regional governor Syniehubov said an overnight attack on Kharkiv killed two people and injured four, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported; AP dated the attack to late on Monday 26 October. A Mediazona roll-up, which does not name the authority behind each figure, reported five injured in Kharkiv region.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-mh4z/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone, the Norwegian government said; AP reported the call lasted about 90 minutes, was their first known direct talk with him since February 2022, and that the two leaders then spoke with Zelensky. The Kremlin said the sides agreed to keep phone contact and that Putin said a lasting peace must take Russia's interests into account. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was very skeptical of reaching out to Putin.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-nf44/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Kuwait's criminal court sentenced three men to death and others to prison terms on Monday 26 October for spying for Iran, membership of Hezbollah and a plot to kill the interior minister, CBS News reported, citing two judicial sources speaking to AFP. The National reported on 27 October that eight were sentenced to five years in prison.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-sgzt/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

British prosecutors charged two men with national security offences over an incident at RAF Fairford, a US-run air base in England, Reuters and AP reported. One was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service that police said they believe to be Iran's, and the other with entering a prohibited place.

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Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said on 28 October that Russian shelling over the past day killed two people, one in Novodonetske and one in Iverske, and wounded three, two in Sloviansk and one in Iverske, Interfax-Ukraine reported. He said Russian forces shelled settlements 24 times. The report does not state the exact window of the past day.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-tvs4/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Iraq's Security Media Cell said one drone was shot down near Baghdad's Green Zone, Reuters reported, while two Iraqi security sources told Reuters that the US embassy's air defences activated as two drones approached the Green Zone perimeter and that both were shot down. Al-Arabiya reported that two drones were downed near the embassy, CBS News said. Neither account reported casualties or damage, and neither named who launched the drones.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-v18d/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told a UN Security Council briefing on Iran that Iran should work with the agency without further delay so it could verify nuclear material, AFP and CBS News reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-xzq9/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Belgorod regional governor Shuvaev said a civilian woman was killed in Shebekino district and seven people were injured across the Belgorod, Graivoron and Shebekino districts, MSK1 reported. He said air defences downed 134 drones over the region in a day.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261031-z2p8/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

A local ceasefire around Russian-held Oleshky in Kherson region took effect at 01:00 UTC on 27 October, Russia's defence ministry said, and Reuters reported the same start. Ukraine's David Arakhamia said it would last until 22:59 Kyiv time on 1 November, and Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said neither side had violated it by about 17:30 local time. Reuters, reporting from Kherson, said residents reported a calm day. UN humanitarian coordinator Matthias Schmale said residents remained trapped without a guaranteed safe exit route; AP reported the deal was brokered by Melania Trump.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-1d6e/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry said Deputy Foreign Minister Hamad Suleiman Al-Mashaan summoned Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Toutounchi and handed him a protest note over an Iranian embassy statement, which the ministry called blatant interference in Kuwait's affairs and judiciary, KUNA and Iran International reported. The embassy had rejected the claim that an Iranian citizen was involved in the assassination plot for which a Kuwaiti court sentenced three men to death on 26 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-367q/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

A Pentagon official told CBS News that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia as the Joint Staff's director of strategy, plans and policy on Wednesday. The official said Sylvia was accused of leaking classified information related to the Iran war. No second account was found.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-5qzq/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Bulgarian Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said three uncrewed surface vessels struck the Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone off Cape Kaliakra around midday on 28 October. Owner Contships Management said all 18 crew, 14 Filipino and four Ukrainian, were safe and ashore, Reuters reported. The ship was sailing from Haifa to Constanta; who carried out the attack was not stated.

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Tula governor Dmitry Milyaev said 64 drones were destroyed in a massive attack on the region early on 28 October, and debris damaged an apartment building, private homes and infrastructure in the adjacent industrial zone in Novomoskovsk. He said one person was hospitalised, temporary accommodation was opened and environmental laboratories were sent. Astra and the Ukrainian monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ reported the Azot chemical plant hit and burning, Radio Svoboda and Ukrainska Pravda reported; the governor did not name the facility.

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Rights group HRANA reported on 28 October that a Tehran revolutionary court had sentenced a photojournalist detained in January to 26 years in prison, 20 of them under the enhanced espionage penalties. The Committee to Protect Journalists, citing HRANA, said the verdict was communicated on 26 October, and called for the conviction to be overturned.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-7z0w/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey announced a further £10 billion of support for Ukraine, including £7 billion of economic support over three years, £3 billion of UK export finance capacity and £500 million in urgent military funding for this winter, the UK government said. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with Burnham on 28 October and thanked him for the package.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-hd5m/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a Russian attack drone struck the city's Osnovianskyi district on the afternoon of 28 October and a fire broke out. Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said a 60-year-old man was killed, three men were hospitalised and a woman was treated. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said an attack drone hit a postal warehouse in Kharkiv that afternoon, killing one and injuring four, and that the fire covered 1,000 square metres; the accounts match in time, place and toll and are recorded as one strike. Russia did not comment on this strike in these sources.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-hxt5/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

An official briefed on the negotiations said on 28 October that Qatari mediators had presented Iran with a new draft deal on Sunday, 25 October, with a seven-day timeline of confidence-building steps, and that a response was expected by the end of the week, Reuters and CBS News reported. A senior Iranian official told Reuters on 28 October that Qatar had brought only unacceptable ideas, not an offer, and that Iran would not make concessions on the nuclear issue. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X the same day that Iran remained in close contact with intermediaries on implementing its 7-Day Plan in even less than a week.

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With nearly all votes counted on Wednesday, Netanyahu's bloc had 53 seats, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48 and Arab parties 19, leaving neither side the 61 needed, according to Central Elections Committee data reported by the Jerusalem Post and broadcasters' projections reported by Iran International. Netanyahu called for a right-wing government and spoke of removing Iran's threat 'once and for all' with President Trump. The election was held on 27 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-k3sp/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Belgorod governor Alexander Shuvaev said on the morning of 28 October that over the past day a civilian was killed in Graivoron district in what he called a targeted Ukrainian strike, and four people were injured in Korocha and Shebekino districts, two of them seriously, Profile reported. He said 212 drones were downed or suppressed and the region came under 140 attacks. The figures cover the previous 24 hours, so the death may have occurred late on 27 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-k4bq/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Yemen's Transport Ministry said the Houthis struck Aden International Airport twice with ballistic missiles, at 13:00 and 15:00 local time, and called it the sixth attack on the airport within days; armed forces spokesman Majed al-Nazili said the missiles caused civilian injuries and material damage, without giving a number. An Aden police official told AFP a missile hit inside the airport perimeter, and residents told Reuters they heard an explosion near the airport; a security official told AP flights were diverted to Seiyun, and AP reported two runway craters seen in a Transport Ministry video. An aid source told Reuters that UN staff had left shortly before and no one was hurt. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree had issued what he called a final warning to evacuate the airport, saying a Saudi military cargo aircraft there was carrying weapons.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-pxc2/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Lipetsk governor Igor Artamonov said 45 drones were downed over the region overnight into 28 October, one person sought medical help and debris broke windows in a Lipetsk apartment block. He said reports of a major fire at an industrial facility were not true and that debris had started a woodland fire, now contained. The Russian Telegram channel Radar Lipetsk and Ukrainian monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ reported a fire at or near the Novolipetsk Steel plant, The Moscow Times and Ukrainska Pravda reported; this was not independently confirmed. Ukraine's General Staff did not comment on Lipetsk in these sources.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261101-tej6/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

The Wall Street Journal reported that the US told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign against Iran after the 3 November midterm elections. Two diplomats told AP the US urged regional allies to prepare for possible renewed action and for Iranian retaliation. Both reports said President Donald Trump had made no final decision; Trump had said late on 27 October that 'anything's possible'.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-27/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-03T05:40:27Z

Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry, said government forces struck a gas station near Taiz late on Monday, killing two people and wounding several; AP said it could not verify the account. AFP, citing military sources on both sides, reported fighting between Houthi and pro-government forces near the Bab el-Mandeb in western Yemen, and an eyewitness in Mokha told AP she heard two explosions as Houthi TV reported government airstrikes. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said a missile hit Aramco's Ras Tanura refinery, which Saudi authorities did not confirm while the security firm Vanguard reported a fire in the area that was later contained, and the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted Houthi missiles and drones over several regions, with Saudi Civil Defence reporting shrapnel damage in Riyadh. Iraq's Security Media Cell said a drone was shot down near Baghdad's Green Zone, security sources said two were downed as the US embassy's air defences activated, and Iran's navy said an unnamed tanker hit mines east of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire. Israelis voted in their first general election since 7 October 2023, with exit polls showing neither Netanyahu's bloc nor Eisenkot's at a 61-seat majority, and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told the UN Security Council that Iran should let the agency verify its nuclear material. 10 events and 11 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-28/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:44:49Z

Yemen's government said two Houthi ballistic missiles hit Aden International Airport, halting air traffic and injuring civilians, an account an aid source disputed, telling Reuters that no one was hurt; the Houthis had warned people to evacuate the airport. Kuwait summoned Iran's ambassador over an embassy statement on the assassination plot case, and the embassy said the Iranian named had not been in Kuwait for 10 years. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Qatar had presented only unacceptable ideas, not an offer, while the Wall Street Journal and AP reported that the US told Gulf allies to prepare for possible renewed strikes after the midterms. Israel's near-final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats and Eisenkot's 48, leaving neither with the 61 needed, and a Pentagon official told CBS News that Hegseth removed the Joint Staff's strategy director over alleged leaks about the Iran war. 5 events and 16 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/russia-ukraine-war/day/2026-10-28/ 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z 2026-11-02T20:48:14Z

A Russian drone hit a postal warehouse in Kharkiv's Osnovianskyi district, killing a 60-year-old man and injuring four, Ukrainian officials said. Belgorod governor Alexander Shuvaev said a civilian was killed in Graivoron district and four people were injured over the past day, and Tula's governor said drone debris damaged an apartment building and homes in Novomoskovsk, where monitoring channels reported the Azot chemical plant hit. Lipetsk's governor said debris broke windows in a Lipetsk apartment block and denied reports of a major fire at an industrial facility, after monitoring channels reported a fire near the Novolipetsk steel plant. Russia's defence ministry said 531 drones were destroyed overnight, and Ukraine's air force said 71 of 88 Russian drones were downed. Bulgaria's defence minister said three sea drones struck the container ship Contship Jet in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, with all 18 crew safe, and the UK announced a further £10 billion of support for Ukraine. 6 events and 14 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261028-eyhm/ 2026-10-28T06:42:47Z 2026-10-28T06:42:47Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 23 October 2026 in Zolochiv (Kharkiv), Ukraine, affecting health transport. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

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WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 25 October 2026 in Zolochiv (Kharkiv), Ukraine, affecting health transport. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO reports no deaths or injuries. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261028-wvtg/ 2026-10-28T06:42:47Z 2026-10-28T06:42:47Z

WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) records an attack on 26 October 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine, affecting health transport and health workers. WHO classes it as violence with heavy weapons. WHO reports no one killed and 2 people injured. WHO rates the report as confirmed, and its public record does not name who carried out the attack. The SSA is the WHO global record of attacks on health care in emergencies.

https://thewarrecord.com/russia-ukraine-war/day/2026-10-27/ 2026-10-27T21:36:06Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

Russian ballistic missiles and drones hit Kyiv overnight, killing a 46-year-old woman, Kyiv prosecutors said, and injuring 15, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service, with damage to the Southern Bridge, a university campus and a medical facility. Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said Russian shelling killed two people and wounded three over the past day, and Mediazona reported three people injured in Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian officials said Ukrainian drones killed a resident of Bryansk and a woman in Belgorod region's Shebekino district, and Russian-installed officials said a drone hit a passenger bus near Prymorsk in Russian-held Zaporizhzhia region, killing one. A local ceasefire around Russian-held Oleshky took effect, and Ukraine's ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said neither side had violated it by about 17:30 local time. Finland's Alexander Stubb and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre spoke with Putin by phone, their first known direct talk with him since 2022, AP reported, and Romania summoned Russia's ambassador, Agerpres reported, after its intelligence service said a Russian-run network set a fire near a weapons factory. 11 events and 12 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-1dva/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

The Saudi-led coalition said on 26 October it destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in Sanaa, including one used to fire a missile at Riyadh that was intercepted, The National reported. Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said on X its forces destroyed four launchers, five tunnels used to store missiles and a missile depot, Al Jazeera reported. The Houthis said they attacked East-West pipeline pumping stations and Riyadh airport; Saudi Arabia did not immediately confirm.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-2nrc/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine told the General Assembly on 26 October that Russian authorities committed the war crime of intentionally attacking civilian objects and the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts through attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, mainly in the 2025-2026 winter. It also found Russian authorities trafficked people from 29 countries into their armed forces through deception and coercion. The Commission said Russia did not give access or answer requests about its examination of Ukrainian attacks on energy in Russia and occupied areas. Chair Erik Mose said energy attacks had intensified again as winter approached.

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Shabwa Governor Awad Al Wazir's office said on 25 October security forces arrested 13 alleged members of a Houthi cell and seized a lorry of weapons, ammunition and explosives smuggled by sea, The National reported. The National put the toll from the 19 October missile strike on the province's training camp at 77.

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The Comoros-flagged cargo ship Khoryv, carrying ferrous metals from Turkey to Sulina with 10 Ukrainian and three Azerbaijani crew, sank after a drone attack about 13 nautical miles from Constanta, just outside Romanian territorial waters, on 23 October, Marine Insight reported. One seafarer died, three were missing and nine were rescued by Romanian services and a nearby merchant ship. Romania's president blamed Russia, which had not publicly responded. Marine Insight cited Reuters on a sudden surge of attacks on merchant ships off Romania and Bulgaria in the preceding two weeks.

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UKMTO said on 26 October it had multiple third-party reports of a vessel on fire about 63 nautical miles southeast of Al Faw in the northern Gulf, with its identity, crew status and damage unknown, and classed it as suspicious activity rather than a confirmed attack, gCaptain reported. JMIC counted five attacks inside the Gulf since 7 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-ah4f/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-03T05:51:46Z

Yemen's Ministry of Transport said the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport with two ballistic missiles on 24 October, the "fourth such attack this month", Al Jazeera reported. The Houthis said they attacked the al-Nasr camp and Aden's naval base. No casualty figures were given. Yemen's coast guard commander said three Houthi missiles targeted the Coast Guard Authority in Aden, resulting in infrastructure damage, Asharq Al-Awsat reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-cyyn/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

The US warned citizens about travel to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Syria, Yemen and Israel, citing terrorism, and said Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia "have the potential to escalate rapidly beyond that immediate area", The National reported on 24 October. Iran's armed forces chief of staff Ali Abdollahi said the same day the US Navy would not be allowed back into the Gulf "under any circumstances", Al Jazeera reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-dpqh/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on 26 October and were due to meet security chief Mohsen Rezaei, Al Jazeera reported, in one of the highest-profile visits to Tehran in months. The visit by Makkah pact members came amid fears of renewed US strikes and Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-dt4q/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

Egypt's House of Representatives voted on 26 October to authorise President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to "undertake necessary" measures to support Saudi Arabia's defence should Riyadh request help, according to a parliamentary statement reported by Reuters via Al Jazeera. The National reported the mandate covers sending troops.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-ec1z/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired at Riyadh, a drone in the Riyadh region, a cruise missile aimed at Khamis Mushait and 10 ballistic missiles fired toward the south in a barrage that began on the evening of 24 October, Al Jazeera reported. Saudi Civil Defence said shrapnel from two intercepted missiles fell in Jeddah, Taif, Rabigh and Wadi Al-Mughammas in Mecca province, and that debris in Khamis Mushait and Ahad Rafidah injured two and damaged three homes and seven vehicles. The GCC called it "a grave violation of the sanctity of the Holy Sites"; the Houthis deny targeting holy sites.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-f5e3/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

Iran's army said its air defence systems struck and destroyed a US LUCAS drone over Bandar Abbas, Tasnim reported, according to CNBC TV18 on 25 October. The claim was not independently verified and the US did not comment in the report. It came as President Trump said the US could strike Iran as early as Sunday or reach a deal.

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Iran's hardline Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, known as Paydari, issued a statement interpreted as calling for Iran to develop nuclear weapons "as quickly as possible" and turned against President Pezeshkian, who favours talks with the US, Al Jazeera reported on 26 October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-mzas/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

The White House said on 23 October that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to temporarily halt military action in Russian-held Oleshky, Kherson region, so humanitarian aid could enter and civilians could leave through a safe passage, in a deal it said was brokered by Melania Trump, Reuters reported. The pause took effect at 01:00 GMT on 27 October, Reuters reported from Kherson, and Russia's defence ministry gave the same start time, Al Jazeera reported. The White House estimated 1,700 to 2,000 mostly elderly residents and about 50 children remained in a town of about 24,000 before the war. In early October the exiled head of Oleshky's administration said that of over 60 people who left in September only 12 reached Ukrainian-held territory, and the Kyiv Independent reported severe shortages of food, water and power in the town.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-nkjw/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

Russia and Ukraine each returned 270 prisoners of war on 23 October at the Novaya Guta crossing in Belarus, according to Russia's defence ministry and Belarusian state media, The Moscow Times reported. On 22 October the two sides repatriated the remains of 277 fallen soldiers at the same crossing. Russian ombudsman Yana Lantratova said 12 families were also reunited across the border in an effort with Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and the ICRC. It was the first POW exchange since 19 August.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-p9nz/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

US Central Command said on 25 October that more than 3,000 commercial vessels had transited the Strait of Hormuz with its support over six months, that it had helped Gulf countries export more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil since June, and that more than 95 percent of ships had sailed through safely, Al Jazeera reported. CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper flew over the strait during a regional visit.

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A large drone attack on central Belgorod overnight into 25 October reportedly hit the MegaGRINN shopping complex, which was closed, and damaged at least 30 apartment buildings, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing local residents and monitoring channels. Belgorod oblast's operational headquarters confirmed a massive UAV attack, and authorities reported one civilian killed and 14 injured. The Kyiv Independent said it could not verify the reports.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-vdam/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Security sources said an explosive-laden drone attacked an Iranian Kurdish opposition camp northeast of Irbil on 24 October, Arab News reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-xegy/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

A spokesman for Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said on 25 October the country coordinated the rescue of 40 Iranian sailors from multiple commercial ships in international waters off Sri Lanka and supported their return to Iran, Reuters reported via gCaptain. Laden Iranian tankers have been held off Sri Lanka by the US blockade, according to a nonprofit cited earlier in October.

https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-yjze/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z

Iran's ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, said on 24 October that Iran remained open to talks under the Pakistan- and Qatar-brokered interim deal reached in June, and that it had conveyed via Pakistan an offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifted its naval blockade, which he said Trump rejected, Arab News Pakistan reported. Iranian officials later called reports of such an offer a "lie and fabrication", the Times of India reported. President Pezeshkian blamed the US for the deal unravelling but said both sides should return to it, Al Jazeera reported.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-24/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-03T05:51:46Z

Yemen's transport ministry said the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport with two ballistic missiles, the fourth such attack this month, and authorities said the coastguard headquarters was also hit. An explosive-laden drone attacked an Iranian Kurdish opposition camp northeast of Irbil, security sources said, and Iran's Mehr news agency said an IRGC drone operation targeted Komala's headquarters; no casualties were reported. The US warned its citizens about travel to 13 Middle East countries, saying Houthi attacks could "escalate rapidly", and Iran's armed forces chief of staff said the US Navy would not be allowed back into the Gulf. Iran's ambassador to Pakistan said Tehran had offered through Pakistan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the US lifted its blockade, but the account is disputed: Iranian officials later called reports of such an offer a "lie and fabrication". 4 events and 0 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-25/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-02T20:42:13Z

Saudi Civil Defence said debris from intercepted missiles injured two people and damaged three homes in the south and that shrapnel fell in Mecca province, as the Saudi-led coalition reported intercepting a barrage that included 10 ballistic missiles fired toward the south. Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said it coordinated the rescue of 40 Iranian sailors from several commercial ships in international waters and their return to Iran. The Shabwa governor's office said security forces arrested 13 alleged members of a Houthi cell and seized a lorry of sea-smuggled weapons, and The National put the toll from the 19 October missile strike on the province's training camp at 77. Iran's army said its air defences destroyed a US drone over Bandar Abbas, Tasnim reported, a claim not independently verified. US Central Command said more than 3,000 commercial vessels had transited the Strait of Hormuz with its support over six months and that it had helped Gulf countries export more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil since June. 6 events and 0 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/iran-war/day/2026-10-26/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-03T00:22:18Z

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in Sanaa, and the Houthis said they attacked East-West pipeline pumping stations and Riyadh airport, which Saudi Arabia did not immediately confirm. UKMTO said it had third-party reports of a vessel on fire about 63 nautical miles southeast of Iraq's Al Faw and classed it as suspicious activity rather than a confirmed attack. Saudi Arabia's defence minister, Pakistan's army chief and Turkey's intelligence chief met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Al Jazeera reported. Egypt's House of Representatives voted to authorise President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to support Saudi Arabia's defence if Riyadh asks. Iran's hardline Paydari Front issued a statement read as calling for nuclear weapons "as quickly as possible" and turned against President Pezeshkian, Al Jazeera reported. 8 events and 0 statements recorded.

https://thewarrecord.com/russia-ukraine-war/day/2026-10-23/ 2026-10-27T21:03:25Z 2026-11-05T16:01:58Z

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