4 November 2023

November 2023 in brief

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission said verified civilian deaths since the invasion had passed 10,000, including more than 560 children, with more than 18,500 injured, and that from August to October 86 percent of verified civilian casualties were in government-controlled territory. ^[1][2] Strikes on central Kherson hit a hospital and an ambulance, killing and injuring civilians including health workers, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator, who citing WHO said more than 1,300 attacks on health care had been verified in Ukraine since February 2022. ^[1] The UN warned that strikes on power, gas, water and hospitals were putting front-line communities at risk as winter began, and the largest drone attack of the war so far, 75 drones mainly at Kyiv, left nearly 200 buildings in the capital without power, Ukrainian officials said. ^[1][2] A strike on a civilian ship entering Pivdennyi port killed a port pilot, the UN said, and overnight strikes on Odesa damaged the Fine Arts Museum and injured eight people, according to Ukraine's interior minister. ^[1][2] The last workers were evacuated from the Avdiivka coke plant as Russian assaults continued, and Ukraine said it struck the Zalyv shipyard in Kerch, while Russia's defence ministry said one ship was damaged. ^[1][2] Commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi described the war as a stalemate entering a positional phase, a description President Zelensky rejected. Polish hauliers blocked three border crossings with Ukraine, and Ukraine's ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said prisoner exchanges were not taking place because Russia did not want them. ^[1]

Written from the records it cites; every figure appears in a cited record.