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27 October 2025
Today, Ukrainian defenders have thwarted yet another attempt by Russian troops to seize the settlements of Shakhove and Volodymyrivka in Donetsk region.
Russian forces have concentrated their main assault capabilities on the Pokrovsk front, where fierce battles are ongoing even within the city.
All deep-strike goals must be fully locked in by year’s end, including expanding the geography of long-range strikes.
In the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, six gas pipelines, a power line, and several houses were damaged as a result of Russian artillery shelling on October 27.
Ukraine must adopt a number of legislative changes after receiving an invitation to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Russian army carried out artillery strikes on the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have detained two more agents of Russia's FSB who were adjusting enemy fire on the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, one of them being the head of security at one of Dnipro's universities.
At the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff meeting, tasks were set to expand the geography of long-range strikes by Ukraine's Defense Forces.
Ukraine's Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ivan Anusic signed a letter of intent in Kyiv to deepen defense-industrial cooperation, agreeing to create joint production chains and cooperate between their defense industries.
EU countries are discussing the possibility of issuing joint debt worth tens of billions of euros to support Ukraine after Belgium blocked a plan to use frozen Russian assets for a reparations loan.
Russian forces have attacked critical infrastructure facilities in the Snovsk community, Chernihiv region.
Russian forces launched an artillery strike on the settlement of Prymorske in the Zaporizhzhia region, killing a man after a shell hit a residential building.
Russian occupation forces are actively conducting infiltration operations on the southern front, attempting to advance toward Stepnohirsk from the directions of Stepove and Kamianske in order to entrench themselves in the basements of apartment buildings and hold positions that would be difficult to dislodge them from.
As of now, 279,000 people in frontline areas of Ukraine require evacuation, including 15,000 children and 11,500 people with limited mobility.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) have destroyed a fuel and lubricant storage facility and a Russian fuel depot in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region.
U.S. President Donald Trump responded to reports that Russia had tested a nuclear-powered missile, advising Russian leader Vladimir Putin to focus on ending the war in Ukraine rather than conducting missile tests.
During the past day, Russian troops attacked the city of Kharkiv and 13 settlements across the Kharkiv region using various types of weapons, injuring three civilians.
Russian troops hit an infrastructure facility in the Sumy region. Firefighters extinguished the resulting fire.
Authorities have confirmed a drone attack on Moscow. On the night of October 26-27, local residents reported explosions in several towns across the Moscow region.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down 66 Russian drones of various types out of 100 launched by Russia since the evening of October 26.
On October 26, Russian occupiers killed two and wounded seven people in the Donetsk region.
Russian troops targeted critical and social infrastructure in the Kherson region on October 26, wounding one person.
On October 26, as a result of massive shelling in the Sumy region, a 69-year-old man was killed and 15 people were injured, including children aged 8 and 15.
There were 124 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops on October 26, with the heaviest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian army launched strikes on the Nikopol and Pavlohrad districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region on October 26, causing damage to infrastructure.
Russia suffered approximately 1,137,690 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 27, 2025, with 800 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 701 attacks on 24 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and another was wounded as a result of an airstrike on the Huliaipole community.
Fighters with the Phoenix border guard unit of unmanned aerial systems, in coordination with adjacent Ukrainian units, repelled a Russian mechanized assault near Volodymyrivka in the Donetsk region, destroying about 50 enemy troops and 14 armored vehicles.
Reconnaissance units of the Black Forest Brigade have destroyed a Russian state-of-the-art Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system valued at $45 million.
The Prymary special unit of Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) struck three radar stations and a landing craft in temporarily occupied Crimea.