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Russia Pounds Ukraine With Drones and Missiles as Ground Assaults Intensify on Pokrovsk Axis

The campaign seeks to pressure power grids and rail links to weaken logistics ahead of winter.

Overview

  • Ukraine’s General Staff reported 193 combat engagements in the past day, with 59 Russian attacks repelled on the Pokrovsk direction and heavy fighting also on the Toretsk and Novopavlivka axes.
  • Overnight strikes damaged energy and railway facilities in Poltava and Sumy regions, briefly delaying major trains, as Ukrenergo reported morning outages across Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Donetsk with rolling cuts in Chernihiv.
  • Kherson authorities said Russian forces launched about 1,535 drones over the past week, with Ukrainian defenders destroying or suppressing roughly 77% of them using air defenses and electronic warfare.
  • Satellite data showed a large ongoing fire at the Feodosia oil terminal in occupied Crimea after a reported UAV attack, with smoke stretching about 12 kilometers and two distinct hotspots detected.
  • Ukrainian agencies reported parallel homefront actions, restoring centralized fresh water to Mykolaiv via a new pipeline and detaining groups in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia accused of selling draft-evasion services and diverting volunteer aid.