There have been 168 combat engagements on the front today, with Russian forces conducting 57 attempts to break through Ukrainian Defense Forces’ lines in the Pokrovsk sector, suffering significant losses.
Today, Ukrainian defenders have thwarted yet another attempt by Russian troops to seize the settlements of Shakhove and Volodymyrivka in Donetsk region.
In the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, six gas pipelines, a power line, and several houses were damaged as a result of Russian artillery shelling on October 27.
Russian forces launched an artillery strike on the settlement of Prymorske in the Zaporizhzhia region, killing a man after a shell hit a residential building.
On the afternoon of October 26, Russian forces carried out a strike on the Derhachi community in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the attack, a building caught fire.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated that Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine on October 25 is yet another manifestation of Russian terror, and Ukraine urgently needs enhanced air defense to stop it.
Counterintelligence officers of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the National Police have detained a Russian FSB agent in central Kyiv who was attempting to set fire to the building of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
On Friday, October 24, the Russian army attacked Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region three times with drones, damaging parts of the city's infrastructure.
This autumn, Russian invading forces have intensified assault operations on the southern axis, particularly in the Orikhiv sector of the front. However, all breakthrough attempts have failed.