Units of the Ukrainian defense forces have repelled attacks by Russian troops outside the settlements of Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Novomykhailivka, Marinka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, and Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
Russian forces launched 40 cruise missiles and 16 Shahed-136 attack drones on targets in Ukraine on October 22, with Ukrainian defenders shooting down 20 missiles and 11 Shahed-136s.
Fighters of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have shot down a Russian cruise missile in the north of the Kyiv region with a shot from a Stinger man-portable air defense system.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke over the phone with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu in a second call since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In Mariupol, the city on the Sea of Azov temporarily captured by the invasion forces, the Russian flags disappeared from the flagpoles in Freedom Square downtown.
The decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the imposition of "martial law" in the temporarily occupied territories is another crime of the Russian leadership against the Ukrainian state and Ukrainians.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down four out of six cruise missiles and 10 Shahed-136 drones launched today by the Russian army at the territory of Ukraine.
Petro Kotin, Head of Ukraine's state nuclear agency Energoatom, said that about 50 employees of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant were held in Russian captivity.