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Ukraine’s General Staff published the morning situational update at 8am on day 1,704 of the Russian-imposed war on Ukraine, reporting a total of 181 combat clashes in the previous 24 hours.
Russian forces lost around 1,980 personnel, while damage or destruction was caused to five tanks, three armoured combat vehicles, 64 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, two air defence systems, eight ground-based robotic complexes, 1,855 unmanned aerial vehicles, 413 automobiles, and a unit of special equipment.
Ukrainian defence forces struck two areas of concentration of Russian personnel and equipment in the past day, along with three pieces of artillery, a UAV control point, and two other important Russian targets.
Russia carried out 88 air sorties launching 309 guided aerial bombs, as well as using 10,270 kamikaze drones and artillery shelling 2,755 times at populated areas and areas of Ukrainian troop concentrations, including 45 times using multiple launch rocket systems.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia had launched 126 various types of strike drones, including 61 jet drones, noting that between 6pm on October 23rd and 8am on October 24th the defences had neutralised 101 drones, with reported impacts at 14 locations, as well as debris falling in another five locations.
Chernihiv: One person was killed and 18 were injured following a Russian strike on a Nova Poshta terminal that was in operation during the day, as strikes caused a fire to break out on the territory and the building sustained damage, but emergency services eventually contained and extinguished the fire.
Russia struck the region again during the evening, damaging administrative buildings and outbuildings in Novgorod-Siverskyi with Geran drones, while a Molniya drone struck a courtyard in the Koryukivka community, damaging the window and roof of one house, and destroying another house. Five houses in the Ripkin community had windows shattered from the blast wave of a Geran drone impacting nearby.
Dnipropetrovsk: One person was killed and eight injured during attacks throughout October 23rd on Dnipro city, which also damaged private homes, businesses, and infrastructure, while another three people were injured the community of Pidhorodnenska in the Dniprovsky district.
Damage was caused to infrastructure, private homes, administrative buildings and trucks in the Nikopol district, along with infrastructure facilities in Kryvyi Rih, and the communities of Karkipvska and Hrushivska in the Synelnykove district.
Russia also struck overnight, damaging a private house in the Vasylkiv community of Synelnykove with an FPV drone, while a fire broke out as a result of a drone attack in the Pidhorodnenska community.
Donetsk: A two-story apartment building was damaged as a result of a Russian strike on Kramatorsk yesterday, and a woman was rescued from under the collapsed structures and debris by emergency services, who helped the community services remove a total of 2.7 tons of building materials from the scene.
Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported that Russia deployed three FAB-250 bombs with UMPK guidance systems on Kramatorsk at 3:44pm, which resulted in injuries of varying degrees from mine-explosive trauma to closed traumatic brain injuries, concussions and shrapnel wounds, to two women aged 45 and 54, a 47-year-old man, two girls aged 7 and 10, and their brother aged 1 year and 10 months, while 27 residential properties were reported as damaged in the impact zone.
Head of the Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin issued a morning report stating that two people were killed and more than 18 were injured during the Russian attacks, which included one person killed in Sloviansk and another person killed in Kramatorsk, while 14 residents of Kramatorsk and four people of Sloviansk were injured.
A 62-year-old woman died in the hospital after sustaining injures from the FAB-250 bomb strike on Sloviansk on October 23rd, making the toll total of four injured, all hospitalised, and one killed, while the Donetsk Police recorded damage or destruction to 23 pieces of equipment, six cars, three apartment buildings, one private house, two stores, and a agas station.
Twenty residential buildings, a store, a bus stop, and a garage cooperative were damaged in Novodonetskoe, the police reported, along with a private house in both Iverskoye and Stepanivka, adding that all the named cities, as well as Druzhkivka, were targeted by Russian attacks.
As a result of the Russian shelling, Dmytro Ivanchenko, the head of “Agrofirma Donеchchyna” LLC, died at the age of 48, and despite the war, his company continued its operations in the Kramatorsk community, according to the Department of Agro-Industrial Development and Land Relations of the Donetsk Regional State Administration
Kharkiv: A 13-year-old child suffered a stress reaction following a Russian Geran 5 drone jet drone strike on residential areas and civilian infrastructure of the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv, with one strike hitting a residential building and causing a fire to break out that damaged three neighbouring private houses, while a second drone hit a the roof of a four-story building causing a fire to break out that spread across an area of 1,000 square metres. Later in the day, three people were injured, including a child, when Russia launched another series of attacks on the Osnovyansky district, which caused several fires to break out.
Two men aged 57 and 52 were injured during a strike on Cherkasy Tyshky, while a 39-year-old woman suffered stress reactions following a Russian strike that damaged a gas station and cars in the village of Blyzniuky. Damage was caused to two cars, construction equipment and residential buildings in Cherkaska Lozova, and a drone strike hit residential and public buildings in the village of Mala Danilivka.
Russian forces struck the Industrial district of Kharkiv with a drone this morning causing a severe stress reaction to a 64-year-old woman, and throughout yesterday the Russians continued to use jet drones to target the districts of Osnovyansky and Slobidskyi, injuring a 12-year-old girl, two women aged 46 and 37, while a 13-year-old boy had stress reactions, after strikes reportedly impacted on an office building, private houses, a civilian enterprise, and an area near a gas station, causing fires to break out.
A fire train was deployed to tackle a large fire that broke out in a warehouse in the Bezlyudivska community overnight, but no one was injured during this strike, and no one was injured when Russian forces attacked Zolochiv at least twice with FPV drones yesterday, hitting a Renault Duster car around 15:20, and a Mercedes Sprinter van at around 16:45.
Russian struck with a Banderol drone in Nova Vodolaza, targeting non-residential buildings and not causing any injuries, while two Russian rockets hit a private sector in Zlatopil, who also said no one was injured as a result of the strike, however, a 56-year-old male security guard suffered a stress reaction after Russian forces struck the central hospital in Derhachi with a drone for the first time in four years.
Private houses, cars, and administrative buildings were damaged a the communities of Oskil, Dibrova, Izium, Novyi Burluk, and Lyman, also came under Russian fire, while rescuers reportedly extinguished fires in the districts of Osnovyansky, Slobidskyi, Kharkivsky, Chuihivsky, and Kupiansky, according to the State Emergency Services, who reported damage to a residential building, garage, cars, an office, a production facility, a warehouse, and other buildings, as a result of the fires.
Kherson: A 67-year-old man was taken to hospital with blast trauma and shrapnel wounds after the car he was driving was attacked by a drone near the Koryabel district at 11am yesterday morning, and a second FPV drone attacked another vehicle in Korabelnaya Square, causing the male driver to be hospitalised with blast injuries and shrapnel wounds. Russia also attacked a vehicle at around 4:10pm in Myrolubivka with a drone, causing explosive and closed head injuries, as well as a concussion, to the 65-year-old male driver.
Doctors did everything they could to save the life of a 63-year-old Kherson resident who was attacked by a drone in the Korabel district on the morning of October 17th by a Russian drone, but unfortunately the injuries sustained proved fatal.
The Kherson community was targeted with cruise missiles and drones overnight, injuring a man in a car in Korabel Square, while also causing damage around Naftogavani, Hydro Park, Antonivka, and near the car bridge in Ostrov, and six people were injured in total in the region as a result of the attacks throughout yesterday and overnight.
Kyiv: Two people were injured when a Russian drone struck and destroyed a one-story private residential building in the Obolonsky district of the capital, as fires broke out at the scene. Rescuers found one person injured and handed them over to medical personnel to be hospitalised, while the other injured person did not require hospital treatment.
Lviv: Fragments of a Russian Geran-5 drone, including the jet engine, were found in a crater that was 300 metres from residential buildings in the Stryi district, after it was shot down by the Ukrainian air defences. Due to the overnight attack on October 23, more than 175 settlements of the Lviv region were left without power yesterday morning, affecting approximately 500,000 residents, which was a result of a Russian strike on a substation and electrical infrastructure, and it was eventually restored by 18:20 in the evening.
Mykolaiv: Russian troops targeted energy facilities in the region with attack drones, while also using FPV drones to target the Kutsurub community, damaging a private house in the village of Solonchaky during one attack.
Odesa: One person was injured and a large-scale fire broke out on the area of a recreational park, but the response was complicated by air raid alerts and a subsequent attack on the location where the rescuers were working, while a three-story administrative building and a production and storage facility of an enterprise were partially destroyed at another location, injuring two people.
Three people were injured when Russia attacked the southern part of Odesa, damaging civilian, recreational, and industrial infrastructure facilities, reported Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Kiper, noting that the injured received the necessary medical assistance, and the consequences of the fires had been assessed by rescuers, as local media reported the Titan food processing plant in Kilia had been destroyed after several Russian strikes.
Poltava: Damage was caused to 5 residential buildings, two cars, a store, a hotel and restaurant complex, and a hotel, during Russian strikes on the Poltava district, but there were no casualties as a result of the strike.
Rivne: Power outages were in effect in several regions yesterday as a result of Russian attacks, with energy workers attempting to restore supply under the constant threat of repeated strikes, while the restoration was reportedly being complicated because of damage to energy facilities in the neighbouring regions.
Multiple jet-powered Geran 5 drones and reconnaissance drones flew through north Kyiv region and Zhytomyr region, following the same flight path to Rivne, clearly following either power lines and energy infrastructure, or monitoring the highways and railways for movements of military cargo and possible substations that could cause disruptions to the rail network and the nearby residents.
Sumy: A Russian drone struck the second floor of an apartment building in the Hlukhiv city centre, and the fire spread upwards, but no one was injured in this incident, however an explosion of a Russian drone in Hlukhiv later in the day injured a 25-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, who were being treated in hospital, according to Sumy Regional Prosecutor’s Office, adding that a 70-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were injured when a drone struck a car in Hlukhiv too.
In total, Russian forces carried out more than 40 strikes on the Sumy region in a 24 hour period, causing power outages in the Konotop and Shostka communities as a result of attacks on energy facilities, while there was also reported damage to the residential sector and an educational institution in Konotop following a Russian drone strike.
One of the Russian targets was a bus depot in Sumy, damaging 15 minibuses and destroying one other, according to the Sumy Transport Operators Association, noting that Russia struck Sumy with three drones overnight, hitting gas stations, injuring two people, damaging the pedagogical university and nearby private homes.
Zaporizhzhia: Seven people were injured as a result of strikes on Zaporizhzhia region and district, following 934 Russian strikes on 61 populated areas, including four missile strikes, 21 air strikes, 730 various types of drones, as well as 179 artillery strikes, resulting in 107 reports of damage to residential buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure facilities.
Zhytomyr: Emergency services attended the scenes of fires at critical infrastructure and civilian facilities overnight, working to mitigate the consequences of Russian strikes, and reported that no one was harmed overnight.
