Overview
- Ukrainian defenders said they repelled 48 Russian assaults across multiple settlements in the Pokrovsk sector on October 31.
- The General Staff recorded 157 front-line clashes and reported 60 air strikes with 132 guided bombs, 4,160 shellings including 108 MLRS attacks, and 5,404 kamikaze drones used by Russia.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said roughly 170,000 Russian troops are deployed near Pokrovsk and emphasized the city is not encircled.
- Ukraine’s navy said Neptune cruise missiles hit a thermal power plant in Russia’s Oryol region and an electric substation in Novobryansk.
- Regional officials reported civilian casualties after Russian attacks, including eight killed in Donetsk region and a 56-year-old woman killed in Kherson.