Overview
- The General Staff logged 157 combat engagements on October 31, up from earlier counts issued the same day.
- Defenders said they stopped 48 Russian assault actions on the Pokrovsk direction in the latest morning update.
- Russia conducted 60 airstrikes and dropped 132 guided bombs, launched 5,404 kamikaze drones, and carried out 4,160 shelling attacks, including 108 from multiple‑launch rocket systems.
- An earlier evening update reported one Pokrovsk-area location still contested as fighting continued.
- Preliminary Ukrainian figures for the Pokrovsk sector cited 104 enemy personnel neutralized, including 55 killed, and Zelensky described the situation as difficult while denying any encirclement.