Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 218 engagements in the past 24 hours, including 89 airstrikes with 186 guided bombs and 3,938 shelling incidents, with 79 Russian assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk axis.
- Commanders say roughly 200 Russian troops infiltrated Pokrovsk in small groups, prompting ongoing urban firefights and counter‑sabotage operations to prevent deeper entrenchment.
- Heavy fighting also flared on the Kostiantynivka and Oleksandrivskyi sectors, where dozens of Russian attacks were recorded and guided bombs struck nearby towns.
- The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry attributed systematic drone strikes on civilians along the Dnipro’s right bank to Russia’s “Dnipro” grouping, identifying commander Mikhail Teplinsky within a chain of command led by Gen. Valery Gerasimov.
- Border regions face increasing artillery and drone attacks, officials said, with new injuries and infrastructure damage in Kharkiv region; Ukraine’s military intelligence also confirmed an Oct. 15 strike that killed Lt. Vasiliy Marzoev, son of a general accused of war crimes.