Overview
- Ukraine's Air Forces said Russia launched 52 missiles, including ballistic types, and 653 UAVs overnight on October 30, with a dormitory strike in Zaporizhzhia causing at least one death and 17 injuries, including six children.
- Russia's Defense Ministry said the overnight attacks targeted defense‑industry facilities, supporting energy infrastructure and military airfields using air‑, sea‑ and ground‑launched weapons and drones.
- The ministry reported front‑line actions using FPV ‘Molniya’ drones that destroyed Ukrainian positions near Kupyansk and around Krasnoarmiisk, and said tanks and artillery knocked out depots, firing points and a UAV control node on the right bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region.
- Russian regional officials reported four civilians wounded by Ukrainian drones in Belgorod, air defenses intercepting drones over Voronezh and Rostov without casualties, debris damaging equipment at an Orel thermal power plant and an infrastructure site near Vladimir being attacked with services operating.
- Russian officials announced completed tests of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater vehicle, prompting deterrence‑focused reactions from Western commentators.