Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck three Russian air defense assets on Russian territory on October 27 and overnight into October 28. The targets included a Tor surface-to-air missile system, a radar station, and an electronic warfare system.
Ukraine’s development and use of its own ballistic missiles will pose a greater challenge to Russia by making some of its best-protected targets vulnerable.
Russian forces have stepped up assaults on the Huliaipole axis in recent days. Meanwhile, the highest number of combat engagements has been reported on the Pokrovsk axis, with heavy fighting also reported on the Ocheretyne and Kostiantynivka axes.
On the evening of October 27, Russian troops carried out an airstrike on the center of Sloviansk; a woman was injured, and a school building was destroyed.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to October 28, 2026, have reached approximately 1,583,350 personnel, including 1,510 troops killed or wounded over the past 24 hours.
Russian troops launched 846 attacks on 41 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region over the past 24 hours. Two people were injured in enemy attacks on the Zaporizhzhia district.
The Russian city of Lipetsk was targeted by jet-powered projectiles, and a fire reportedly broke out near the Novolipetsk steel mill (NLMK), according to preliminary information.
The Verkhovna Rada supported an appeal to the President to award the title of Hero of Ukraine to serviceman Kostiantyn Vlasenko, who held a combat position in the Kupiansk sector for 491 days and was evacuated after suffering severe injuries during a unique aerial evacuation operation.
A total of 178 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops were recorded on October 26, with Russian forces launching 24 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector.
Over the past two weeks, Russia has used more than 100 ballistic missiles to strike Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Ukraine currently lacks missiles for its Patriot air defense systems, while deliveries of aid are being delayed.
The Vivaldi operation by the Ukrainian Defense Forces pushed Russian troops back and liberated significant areas north of Lyman, but the threat to the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration still remains.
The ceasefire arrangements in the temporarily Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in the Kherson region are being fully implemented, Ukrainian Parliamentary Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets says.
Military leaders from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard briefed President Volodymyr Zelensky on the initial results and progress of Operation Veles on the Kupiansk axis.
The ceasefire in the temporarily Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in the Kherson region is being fully observed, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has said.
On October 26 and during the night of October 27, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck Russian military ammunition depots in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Russian forces have failed to expand their foothold in the Velykyi Burluk area in the Kharkiv region, but continue to fabricate “successes” for Russia’s senior military leadership.
The State University of Trade and Economics is assessing the damage caused by a Russian ballistic attack that left several people injured. No students or university staff were killed.
Thanks to technology, the battlefield in the island area of the Kherson region is now “transparent.” Attempts by Russian forces to advance and establish positions end with their destruction, while Russian troops have failed to land in Kherson’s Korabel neighborhood.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on a new Russian attack involving ballistic missiles, said that artificial and prolonged delays in deliveries of interceptors for Patriot and NASAMS air defense systems directly help Russia achieve the objectives of its terrorist campaign.
Romania's Intelligence Service said on Monday it had identified a sabotage network coordinated by Russia, which it believed was responsible for a fire in September at an industrial site in central Romania near a state-owned weapons company.
Ukraine’s air defense forces shot down two ballistic missiles and neutralized 255 drones launched by Russian forces against Ukraine beginning on the evening of October 26.
Total combat losses among Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—from February 24, 2022, to October 27, 2026—amount to approximately 1,581,840 personnel, including 1,400 over the past 24 hours.
Russia is expanding the range of African countries from which it recruits men to address a shortage of personnel in its armed forces amid the war against Ukraine, where it is suffering heavy losses.
An agent of the ATESH partisan movement serving in the Russian Armed Forces has provided information on the security arrangements at the Vostochnaya substation (Dzhankoi substation) in temporarily occupied Crimea, which is guarded by Russian troops.
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