Overview
- The humanitarian mission finished on 31 October, bringing evacuees to Ukraine after transit routes through occupied Crimea, Anapa and Belarus and placing them in medical care, heated shelters and reception centers.
- Ukraine's General Staff said 245 combat clashes took place on 31 October, reporting dozens of air strikes, hundreds of guided bombs and thousands of kamikaze drones concentrated on the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk directions.
- Ukrainian forces reported a strike on the Kombinat "Kamensky" rocket‑fuel plant near Kamensk‑Shakhtinsky using strike drones and coastal Neptune missiles, causing fires and damage to production workshops that supply solid rocket propellant.
- Russian attacks on energy and transport nodes left about 300,000 households without power—roughly 200,000 in Dnipro region and more than 80,000 in Kyiv region—and caused civilian deaths and injuries that complicate winter preparations and repairs.
- Ukrainian units say heavy Russian attrition has led Moscow to deploy recruited mercenaries on some axes and that more than 1,700 people have been killed or injured by mines and explosive remnants since the full‑scale invasion, underscoring urgent demining and humanitarian needs.