Here are the main statements by the Ukrainian General Staff and the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday’s hostilities, as quoted by the BBC’s Russian service, which warns that they cannot be independently confirmed in the context of hostilities.
Here are the main messages of the summary of The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday morning:
In the past 24 hours, Russian troops have carried out 5 missiles and 23 air strikes, carried out more than 100 attacks with rocket launchers. Slavyansk and Seversk of Donetsk Oblast, Zaporozhye, Novoaleksandrovka of Kherson Oblast suffered the most from shelling and rocket attacks.
On Saturday, the Russian army said it had approached Pavlovka in the Donetsk region, which shelters Ugledar from the south. The report of the General Staff talks about it Russian bombing of Ugledar and Pavlovka from tanks and missile artillery, but it was not specified whether there was an advance of the Russian armed forces there.
Russian troops continue to arrive in the western part of Belarus, reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Thus, on October 26, a train with military equipment from Russia arrived in Brest. The Russian army has been spotted in the settlements between Brest and Malorita (closer to the border with the Volyn region of Ukraine).
During the so-called evacuation in the Kherson region, the Russian army evacuated the prisoners from the corrective settlement No. 90 in Kherson, which in turn is now used to house military personnel and equipment, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff reported
The Russian Defense Ministry in its regular briefing reported on the latest activity of Russian units.
TO direction Kupyanskoto The Russian Armed Forces repelled Ukrainian attacks on their positions in the areas of the settlements of Pershotravnevo, Orlyanka, Tabaevka and Berestovoe in the Kharkiv region. The defense ministry says the Ukrainian side’s losses amount to 250 people.
TO Direction Lima the Russian army repelled an attack in the direction of Stelmakhovka, Makeevka and Chervopopovka in the Luhansk region. The losses of Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense, amount to 50 people.
TO Direction Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih The Ukrainian armed forces carried out “three unsuccessful attacks” in the direction of the settlements of Pyatihatki, Chervoni Yar and Ishchenko in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian military has lost more than 180 people, according to the Russian defense ministry.
The Russian army they managed to take the offensive only in the southern direction of the Donet, in the area of the villages of Novomykhaylovka and Vladimirovka in the Donetsk region. The defense ministry said it was able to capture “a number of strategic strengths and heights”. The Ukrainian army had lost more than 100 people.
This was announced by the Ministry of Defense attacks on a Ukrainian communications center in the Belyaevka region of Kherson oblast and an ammunition depot near Kupyansk in Kharkiv oblast. Furthermore in the Ochakov district in the Nikolaev region, the Russian armed forces attacked the training center for special operations forces of the Ukrainian armed forces. Instead, the Ministry of Defense affirmed it the drone attack on the port of Sevastopol it was organized by the fighters of the 73rd Center for Special Naval Operations of the Ukrainian Navy and the preparation of the operation would take place under the guidance of “British specialists” stationed in Ochakov.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported the destruction of a battery of US M777 howitzers and two HIMARS MLRS launchers, a German MARS-2 MLRS launcher and a US AN / TPQ-37 counter battery radar.
In addition, the Ministry of Defense said that Russian fighters were able to shoot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, and the air defense forces destroyed a Su-25 attack plane.
