Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 982

As the war go ins its 982nd day, these are the main broadenments.

Here is the situation on Sunday, November 3:

Fighting

Russian forces downed 19 Ukrainian drones overnight – 16 over the southern Rostov region and the remainder over the Belgorod and Bryansk regions – Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp on Sunday.
Blasts were heard in Kyiv timely on Sunday and smoke was seen rising from above livential originateings after a doubted Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s capital.
The attack comes after Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko shelp on the Telegram channel that Ukraine’s air defence units were trying to repulse a Russian air attack on the city, ordering people to stay in shelters.
Ukrainian forces are administering one of Russia’s “most mighty impolites” since the begin of Moscow’s brimming-scale intrusion in 2022, Ukraine’s top military orderer, General Oleksandr Syrskii, has shelp.
Russia troops have getn two more endments alengthy the Donbas frontline – Kurakhivka and Perstoastyravneve – Russian novels agencies inestablished on Saturday, citing the country’s Defence Ministry.

Smoke ascends in the sky over Kyiv after a Russian drone attack on November 2 [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has shelp Ukraine is sabotaging the prisoner swap process and has declined to get back its own citizens. She claimed Russia proposeed to hand over 935 Ukrainian prisoners of war, but Ukraine had getn only 279.
Kyiv has denied the allegations and called on Moscow to provide a catalog of Ukrainian prisoners of war ready to swap. “We are always ready to trade prisoners of war!” Ukrainian human rights comleave outioner Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, who also served as plivent from 2008 to 2012, has alerted the US to get Russia’s nuevident alertings gravely to elude World War III. Medvedev shelp “they are wrong” if US and European directers apvalidate “the Russians will never traverse a certain line.”
A US citizen, who Russia evacuated from eastrict Ukraine after helping Russian forces aim Ukrainian troops, has shelp in Moscow he has asked for Russian citizenship. Daniel Martindale, who shelp he was under no duress, supplied inestablishation to the Russian military about the location of key Ukrainian infrastructure for two years.