Defence forces repelled the enemy near Shakhove in the Donetsk region. The occupiers also made territorial gains.

The Russian Black Sea port of Tuapse has suspended fuel exports, and the local oil refinery has stopped processing crude oil following attacks by Ukrainian drones on November 2.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) exposed the deputy director general of the Atomenergomash branch of the Energoatom joint-stock company for soliciting and receiving unlawful benefits from a representative of a contracting company.

On the night of Wednesday, 5 November, Russian troops attacked the territory of Novhorod-Siverskyi in the Chernihiv region with strike drones.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has responded to the Prosecutor General’s Office over allegations of illegal surveillance of its administrative building, which prompted a search of a Bureau employee.

Russian forces continue to build up manpower in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, and are organizing logistics for further infiltration deeper into the city.

Yurii Sobolevskyi, First Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional Council and a regional council member from Servant of the People, declared a sudden increase of more than 3.5 million hryvnias in one year — funds of unexplained origin, mostly in foreign cash. Meanwhile, his family showcases a lavish lifestyle on social media, including numerous trips abroad and the use of a premium-class car registered to his retired father-in-law.

The Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad urban area is in a precarious situation, with the "gray zone" spreading rapidly on the maps and Russian propaganda actively pushing claims of full encirclement. Although this is not the case, the situation looks extremely serious. Compared to the now fully "gray" Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad may appear better off, but that’s deceptive: as of the evening of November 4, only 5 kilometers remain before a potential full encirclement.

The General Staff assured that none of Ukraine’s Defense Forces units are encircled within the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad agglomeration. There is also no blockade of the cities.

During the night of November 4, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck infrastructure at the "Lukoil-Nizhny Novgorod Refinery" in the Russian city of Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region). A petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan was also hit.