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Ukrainian General Staff: Day 1707 of the Russian-imposed war on Ukraine began with an announcement that 196 combat engagements had been recorded between the two sides in 24 hours.
Russia reportedly lost 1,400 personnel, while damage or destruction was caused to 21 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, one air defence system, seven ground-based robotic complexes, 1,794 unmanned aerial vehicles, 232 vehicles, and a piece of special equipment.
Ukrainian forces also struck three areas of concentrated Russian personnel and equipment during the past day.
During the night, Russia launched 280 attack drones, (69 jet drones), and multiple missiles, with the defence forces claiming to have intercepted 255 drones, of which 56 were jet drones, along with 2 Iskander-M/MS-400 ballistic missiles, however, hits were recorded at 25 locations, and debris fell at another 16 locations.
Cherkasy: Ukrainian air defences worked as a united team in the previous 24 hours to destroy five Russian drones over the region, stating that there were no casualties or reports of property damage as a result from the falling debris.
Dnipropetrovsk: One person was killed and seven others were injured following a Russian drone strike on Pavlohrad, reported Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Ganzha.
Five of the injured parties were in hospital, including two 10-year-old girls and a 37-year-old woman in a serious condition, Ganzha noted, adding that a car burned, while several apartment buildings and a store were damaged from the strike.
Suspilne correspondents later confirmed that one car had been completely destroyed, while damage was caused to two apartment buildings and store, noting that local residents were being assisted by volunteers and utility workers in boarding up windows and cleaning up the debris around damaged properties.
Russia attacked the region 50 times in a single day, Ganzha reported at 6:30pm, stating that one person was injured, while damage was caused to private houses, warehouse infrastructure and nearby vehicles, as the communities of the District Centre, Pokrovska, Marganets, Chervonohryhorivska, and Myrivska.
A residential building and an educational institution were damaged during strikes around the Zelenodolsk community of the Kryvyi Rih district, while a 62-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman were admitted to hospital in a moderate condition in the Mezhiv community of the Synelnykove district as a result of a Russian drone strike.
Three women were injured following Russian strikes on the Synelnykove district in the early hours of this morning, including two women aged 55 and 77 who were hospitalised in a moderate condition, along with a 27-year-old woman who is being treated as an outpatient.
Damage was caused to apartment buildings and private homes, as well as cars, while fires broke out were extinguished by the State Emergency Services, reported the Head of the Regional State Administration Mykola Lukashenko.
Russia also damaged infrastructure in Dnipro, along with a private residence when shelling the communities of Marganets, the District Centre, Myrivska, and Chervonohryhorivka, in the Nikopol district, while the Verhkhivtsevska community of the Kamiansk district.
Donetsk: Head of the Donetsk Regional Administration Vadym Filashkin reported that three people were killed and 22 people were injured during Russian strikes on the settlements of Kramatorsk, Iverskyi and Sukhanivka.
One person was killed and three injured as a result of Russian strikes yesterday, reported the Head of the Sloviansk City Military Administration, Vadym Liakh, stating that seven private houses, a store, and eight cars sustained damage during the attacks.
Kharkiv: Two strikes with FPV drones were recorded on the settlements of the Malodanilivska community, according to its head, Alexander Holobov, who said that damage was caused to a garage following a strike near apartment buildings in Cherkaska Lozova in the morning, while a vehicle was damaged in the afternoon.
Russian forces struck the territory of the Borschiv village council, according to the head of the Balakliia Military Administration Vitaliy Karabanov, who said there were no casualties, and provided no information about any damage caused.
A minimum of four Tornado-S MLRS rockets impacted around Novobavarsky district of Kharkiv just after 6pm local time, killing two people and injuring four others, according to the State Emergency Services.
Two fires broke out which affected a non-residential building and passengers, while damage was also caused to private and multi-story residential buildings, a children’s educational institution, vehicles, and buildings of private enterprises, but all fires were quickly extinguished.
Russia struck the central part of Lozova, according to Mayor Serhiy Zelensky, who shared an image of a fire that broke out, noting that rescuers had attended the scene but there was still the threat of further strikes in the region.
FPV drones struck Zolochiv this morning, reported Head of the City Military Administration Viktor Kovalenko, noting that the hits were recorded at 5:40am and 07:50am, damaging a two-story apartment building and a car.
Around 2:40am, Russia struck Izium with a Geran-5 drone, according to the local Military Administration, stating that the strike damaged a building in the city centre when a fire broke out.
Russian strikes on Shevchenkove resulted in a 74-yrar-old woman being killed and a 74-year-old man suffering severe stress reactions, according to the Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov.
Kharkiv State Emergency Services reported that two 58-year-old men were injured, and a 77-year-old woman suffered a stress reaction in the village of Vilshany of the Solonystska community, while damage was caused due to a fire breaking out in a summer kitchen, a garage, and a local enterprise.
Explosions of guided aerial bombs were recorded in the eastern part of the Borivska community yesterday, along with an FPV drone with a fibreoptic cable hitting a civilian car in Horokhatka, while there was activity of drones in Pydvisoke and Bakhtyn during the day, reported the local city administration.
According to reports, at least 5 strikes were carried out using guided aerial bombs, 7 strikes using multiple launch rocket systems/operational-tactical missiles, and a minimum of 112 strikes using Geran/Lancet/Molniya/FPV-type drones.
Kherson: Russian forces targeted a medical facility with two drones, on of which hit a diesel generator and the other hitting the corner of the building, damaging the first and second floors, while up to 40 windows and doors were shattered, but the facility’s director, Timoshenko, reported that there no injuries.
Head of the Regional State Administration Oleksandr Produkin reported that 3 people were injured, including one child, as 35 communities of the region came under attack in the previous 24 hours, damaging critical and social infrastructure, as well as an apartment building, 6 private houses, a private garage, and a car.
Kyiv: One person was killed after Russia struck the territory of an educational institution in the Desnyansky district, damaging buildings of the university campus, dormitories, and nearby residential buildings.
Another strike near one of the metro stations struck a car, and at least 10 people have been injured at several locations across the capital, following the launch of four Russian UM-48 missiles, which are not the most accurate, and one of which landed in an open space and caused a crater to form.
Russian forces struck the Dniprovsky district, damaging a medical facility and supermarket, and the Kyiv State Emergency Services reported that an ambulance crew responding to a call were also hit by shelling.
According to AMK Mapping, the Lisova Metro Station had been struck in the missile strike, and also shared images of the crater noting that the Russian RM-48I S-400 modified ballistic missiles had clearly missed their targets, showing they were completely inaccurate, and is why a barrage of four is often launched simultaneously.
The flight map appeared to show a total of eight missiles had been launched in two waves, which included four from near Klintsy and four from near Pochep in Russia, noting that Ukraine had also launched two interceptors of an unknown type, but not Patriots, that ultimately missed their targets and failed to intercept any.
Following a second series of strikes, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated that damage was caused to an administrative building in the Podilsky district and hits to non-residential buildings in two other locations, while damage was also caused to the Southern Bridge, temporarily disrupting traffic.
AMK Mapping reported that approximately 12 missiles were used in the second strike, most of which were Iskander-M’s, but at least one was an RM-48U modified S-400 ballistic missile.
The report claimed Russia used 5 Iskander-Ms and 1 S-400 to target the CHP-5 Combined Heat and Power Plant in southern Kyiv, (noting that the damage to the bridge area and metro network would be from the blast wave of the impacts).
AMK also said that four Iskander-Ms struck in the Dniprovsky District of eastern Kyiv, and two Iskander-Ms struck the Podilsky District in northern Kyiv.
Mayor Klitschko updated that unfortunately, one person had died as a result on the Ukrainian capital, while fourteen residents had been injured, nine of whom were admitted to hospital.
The Mayor also updated the traffic situation following the strike near South Bridge, saying that trains were running between Akademmistechko and Lisovo on the red line.
Although there was damage as a result of the strike between the Darnytsia and Chernihivska stations, as well as to the exits of the Lisova station, Ukraine’s metro specialists worked throughout the night to ensure all stations could open.
However, the train service between the Osokorky and Chervony Khutir stations on the green line have been temporarily suspended due to damage to metro infrastructure on the Southern Bridge, so the city had increased the number of buses to help reinforce ground transportation routes between the left bank and the right bank.
Mykolaiv: Russia struck the village of Lupareve with an FPV drone on October 26th, damaging a car, while Russia also attacked other areas of the region using Shahed drones throughout the day, but there was no casualties, reported the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration.
Poltava: Debris from a Russian drone fell on the premises of a horticultural cooperative in the Omelyan community of the Kremenchuk district, causing a fire to break out in one of the cottages, as well as damaging windows nearby due to the blast wave, but preliminary reports said no one was injured, according to Head of the Regional State Administration Vitalii Diakivnych.
Sumy: Firefighters rescued a man while responding to the aftermath of a Russian strike in Shostka this morning, helping the man out of the burning building and transporting him to medical personnel in his own car, adding that his life was not in danger.
As a result of the strike, which damaged warehouses containing grain, a large fire broke out, then less than half an hour after rescuers began tackling the blaze, Russia launched a second strike, but thankfully the firefighters had found safety, were not harmed, and finished extinguishing the fire.
Mayor of the Putivl community Kostyantyn Havryliuk announced that the community had finally been put back onto hourly power outages, after the city had spent more than two days without power.
Havryliuk said: “Many people came to the resilience points to charge their mobile phones and try to contact their loved ones – thanks to our utility workers, communication was possible.
According to reports, at least 6 strikes were carried out by guided aerial bombs, and a minimum of 23 strikes were carried out using Geran/Lancet/BM-35 drones.
Vinnytsia: Damage was caused to a civilian infrastructure facility due to a Russian drone strike, and all relevant services worked on site to eliminate the consequences, reported Head of the Regional State Administration Natalia Zabolotna, adding that no one was harmed.
Zaporizhzhia: Rescuers extinguished a fire caused by Russian drone strikes on a non-operational shopping centre, and the building’s structures had to be dismantled, but fortunately there were no casualties.
Five people were injured in total, including a 17-year-old boy, as a result of Russia launching 908 attacks on 59 populated areas of the region, including 25 air strikes, 689 various types of drones, 7 rocket artillery salvos, and 187 artillery strikes, resulting in 181 reports regarding damage to residential buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure facilities.
According to reports, at least 17 strikes were carried out using guided aerial bombs, 5 strikes using multiple launch rocket systems/operational tactical missiles, and a minimum of 55 strikes using Geran/Lancet/Molnya drones.
