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The General Staff of Ukraine issued the morning operational report on day 1,710 of the Russian-imposed war on Ukraine, stating that 211 combat engagements had been recorded in the previous 24 hours.
During the past 24 hours, Russia have last around 1,590 personnel, while damage or destruction was caused to one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, 21 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, one air defence system, two aircraft, three ground robotic complexes, 1,589 unmanned aerial vehicles, and 246 vehicles.
Russia reportedly launched one missile strike, carried out 82 air strikes dropping 263 guided aerial bombs, used 9,576 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,476 shellings, 42 of which were salvos from multiple launch rocket systems.
During the past day, Ukrainian forces struck four areas of concentrated Russian personnel and equipment, as well as two artillery pieces, and one UAV control point.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia had launched 113 drones (71 jet drones), 4 Kh-59/69 cruise missiles, and an unknown number of ballistic missiles, reportedly intercepting 96 drones and 3 cruise missiles, but reporting impacts at 17 locations, as well as debris impacts at another five locations.
Chernihiv
Two 15-year-old girls were killed, and twenty three people were injured, following a strike on the city centre of Chernihiv, according to the City Administration, as a video showed a father screaming near the body of his deceased daughter, reported Head of the City Council Bryzhynskyi, noting that four of the injured were children.
Dnipropetrovsk
14 people were killed and at least fourteen were injured after a Russian Geran-4 drone struck a platform of passengers boarding a commuter train, and who should have been in shelters due to the air raid alert, which is being investigated by local authorities, while President Zelenskyy passed on condolences and asked the world to replace sanctions on Russia due to ‘terrorist acts.’
Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Ganzha reported that six people were in critical condition, including an 11-year-old boy, having sustained multiple shrapnel wounds, while a 40-year-old man had to have both of his legs amputated.According to a doctor from one of the medical facilities, two women aged 56 and 39, along with a 19-year-old man, were admitted to them in a serious condition and in a state of traumatic shock, who have now undergone surgery, and are in a stable condition in the intensive care unit.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported that prior to the Russian attack on the railway infrastructure, passengers were informed about the evacuation by staff members onboard the train, as well as air rid sirens repeatedly sounding at the station, urging people to go to shelters, but despite this, a significant number of people remained on the platform – a ‘detailed, minute by minute investigation’ is ongoing, they added.
Russian media attempted to state that Ukrainian Air Defences had malfunctioned and caused the incident at the train station, but the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine released an image of the fragments of a Russian jet drone on the platform of the station as proof, saying that Russia were ‘attempting to shift the blame for the deaths of civilians.’
Shortly after the explosion and incident at the train station, two explosions were heard in the suburbs of Dnipro city, which followed reports from residents of lights flickering in some districts, while the power went out completely in others, and even trolleybuses and tram lines had to suspend services.
25,000 consumers in the Dniprovskyi district were left without electricity following the explosions, confirmed Ganzha, noting that energy workers were already attempting to restore the connections.
According to Russian intelligence, a series of strikes were carried out using Geran-5 drones at around 15:10 to 15:15 against the 330kV ‘Dnipro-330’ electrical substation in the village of Diivka.
Damage was caused to a dormitory of a vocational school in Dnipro causing a fire to break out on the upper floor and injuring two girls, reported the regional military administration, noting that the girls, aged 15 and 16, experienced cute stress reactions, and medical assistance was provided at the scene.
More than 50 windows were shattered in the dormitory and the entire 5th floor reportedly sustained damage, reported Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov, noting that the fire had been extinguished, and students had been relocated to other dormitories or decided to go home.
Widespread power outages were reported again around 9:30pm, this time disrupting more than 300,000 consumers due to damage to the main power grids, according to DTEK, who said energy workers were on the scene attempting to restore connections as soon as possible, and water supply had been switched to alternate backup sources.
Utility workers spent the night attempting to restore the connections for the residents, but Mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov announced on Friday morning that the system could not withstand the attacks from Russia, urging residents of the city to stay home if possible, because no electric transport was currently operating.
Olexandr Ganzha said that a 40-year-old man who had sustained injuries in the Russian missile strike on the railway station in Dnipro had died in hospital, taking the total number of fatalities to 15, and the number of people in a critical condition in hospital has been reduced to five.
Head of Ukrzaliznytsia, Alexander Pertsovsky, reported that a train station in Dnipro was attacked again overnight, but did not provide details about the attack, despite describing the night in the city as ‘extremely difficult.’
During the morning report, Mykola Lukashuk reported that fires broke out and damage was caused to an enterprise and infrastructure in Dnipro, while fires also occurred in the Mykolaiv community of the Dnipro district.
Russia set a truck on fire due to a drone explosion in the Bozhdariv community of the Kamiansky district, set an outbuilding on fire in the Mezhiv community of the Synelnykove district, while also targeting the communities of Nikopol, Marganets, Myrivska, Chervonohryhorivska, and Pokrovska with FPV drones and UAVs.
Donetsk
A Russian drone attacked an armoured vehicle belonging to the STEEL evacuation team of the Coordination Humanitarian Centre, who, at the time of the attack, were transporting civilians who had been evacuated from dangerous areas.
The drone flew under a protective net and struck the rear of the vehicle, which resulted in two passengers sustaining minor shrapnel wounds, while the evacuation vehicle was damaged.
During the day, the Russians fired on a residential area of Sloviansk with a Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system, injuring a woman, according to Anastasia Medvedeva, spokesperson for the Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Five people were injured in total during the past 24 hours, reported Head of the Regional Military Administration, noting the residents were all from Sloviansk.
Kharkiv
A 64-year-old man was injured following an FPV drone strike on the village of Voloska Balakliia on the morning of October 29th, according to the Head of the Kupiansk District Military Administration Andriy Kanashev.
One woman aged 55 was killed and 14 people were injured following a FAB-500 aerial bomb falling on an apartment building in Izium, reported Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov, reporting that one of the bombs it a five-story building, causing it to collapse.
Four more people may be trapped under the rubble, Syniehubov noted, stating that an administrative building and an outbuilding was destroyed, while various damages was caused to 20 private houses, following a total of thee air bombs impacting on the city at 8:50pm, reported the Izyum City Military Administration and the Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
As a result of a Russian strike on the Sloboda district of Kharkiv, a factory was on fire after an impact of a Bandera missile, causing a fire to break out at a facility that manufactures plastic packaging, according to Bohdan Gladyki, the director of the city’s emergency situations department, noting that no one was injured.
During a walk in Novooleksandrivska in the Chuhuiv region, a 43-year-old man came across an unidentified explosive device, and was hospitalised in a serious condition, according to Kharkiv State Emergency Services.
Search and rescue operations continued at the site of the FAB strike in Izyum on Friday, with the State Emergency Services reporting at 7:41am that the number of killed had risen to four, and the services were still searching for a person under the rubble.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that a Russian drone strike was recorded in the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv, and that a fire broke out which had been contained by rescuers, while no one was reported injured.
Kherson
No shelling or drone strikes were recorded in the previous 24 hours, said Shanko, head of the City Military Administration, stating that areas remotely mined by the Russians were discovered in Komyshy, in Kherson near the Korabel microdistrict, and most extensively in Antonivka, adding that one person was injured while stepping on a mine.
Head of the Regional Military Administration Olexandr Produkin also reported that no attacks had taken place in the previous day, adding that five people were evacuated from the most dangerous communities of the region.
Kyiv
One person was reported to have been killed by the Kyiv City State Administration and a 35-year-old woman was injured, as Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on the capital at 11pm, causing severe damage to the Comfort Town residential complex in the city, as well as the Kyiv Venice residential complex near Rusanivka, as residents reported a shop building had been partially destroyed.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that there had also been a fire break out at a warehouse building due to the strikes, while debris from a downed rocket had was on fire in the courtyard of a residential complex in the Dnipro district, and windows were shattered by the blast wave of an explosion in an apartment building at a third location.
According to monitoring channels from Kyiv, the Russians had destroyed ordinary commercial shops including a Rozetka grocery store and a fish market, during the ballistic missile attack.
State Emergency Services reported that the body of a person had been found during the search of debris at a partially destroyed building in the Dniprovsky district, noting that the windows of a residential building and parked cars were damaged at two other locations, while fires broke out in a warehouse building, garbage, wood, and the roof of a defunct structure in the Darnitsky district.
According to AMK mapping, a total of 6 Iskander-Ms and 2 Zircons (8 missiles in total) struck a warehouse complex in the eastern part of Kyiv, noting that all missiles appeared to have impacted on their targets, and other intel specialists reported that the ballistic missiles struck the area near the ‘Radiozavod’ factory in the capital.
Mayor Klitschko reported that debris from a drone fell on an open area in the Obolonsky district at 6am, stating that emergency services were on the way to the scene of the incident.
Poltava
Three people were killed when Russia struck Kremenchuk, damaging multi-storey residential buildings using a ‘Bandera’ missile, according to the Head of the Poltava Regional State Administration Vitaliy Dyakivnych, noting that two others had been injured, including a 6-year-old child, in a post published at 12:20pm.
During an update published at 1:08pm, eleven people were reported to have been injured by Dyakivnych, noting that three children were among the injured, and at 1:55pm it was reported that 15 people had been injured, but the final tally reported at 6:30pm was 32 injured people, including six children.
State Emergency Services reported that four cars and an outbuilding were on fire, while damage was caused to the windows of four multi-story buildings, adding that all fires had been extinguished.
Russia launched a large-scale ballistic missile strike on Kremenchuk and Svitlovodsk, using around 10 ballistic missiles, including Zircons, within around 30 minutes, likely targeting strategically important facilities, such as oil refineries or hydroelectric power plants, according to initial reports.
The Regional Military Administration reported that as a result of a drone strike that had occurred around five minutes before the missiles had been launched, damage was caused to an industrial enterprise, but the overall information was still being clarified.
During the night, Russia launched a large missile strike on Kremenchuk, likely targeting the refinery, using at least 6 Zircons, 6 Iskander-Ks and 4 KN-23s, a total of 16 missiles, reported AMK Mapping, while the local administration confirmed in the morning that an ‘industrial facility’ was struck twice by the Russian forces.
Sumy
Russia struck the Hlukhiv community with a drone, injuring a 41-year-old man, according to Sumy Regional Police, stating that throughout the day, Russian forces struck 14 settlements of the region.
Intel specialists and monitors reported that at least 3 strikes were carried out using guided aerial bombs, as well as a minimum of 25 strikes carried out using Geran/Lancet/BM-35 drones.
Zaporizhzhia
As a result of a Russian strike, two men aged 41 and 66 were provided medical assistance for injuries, while fires broke out in four passenger cars and open areas, along with damage caused to a warehouse building, four cars, and four buses.
Head of the Regional State Administration Ivan Fedorov confirmed that two people were killed, and 23 others, including a minor, were injured as a result of 792 Russian attacks on 56 settlements in the region.
Russia carried out 20 air strikes, used 624 various types of drones, launched 5 rocket salvos with MLRS, along with 143 artillery strikes, resulting in 148 reports of damage to residential buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure facilities.
Intel specialists and monitors reported that at least 17 air strikes were carried out using guided aerial bombs, four strikes using MLRS/operational-tactical missiles, and a minimum of 54 strikes using Geran/Lancet/Molniya drones.
