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16 October 2025
The Ministry of Defense, together with other ministries and the National Security and Defense Council, is working on a model for arms exports; the first agreements are expected to appear in the near future.
A Russian drone attacked a mobile office of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's National Post, near the village of Shyroka Balka in the Kherson region, injuring the driver.
Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries caused more damage to the Russian economy than international sanctions.
In the Kharkiv region, the aftermath of the massive Russian attack on energy and gas infrastructure continues to be eliminated, with 400 users remaining without gas.
Ukrainian defenders thwarted an attempt by Russian forces to attack the settlements of Shakhove and Volodymyrivka in the Donetsk region.
Russian forces have attacked Chernihiv with drones, damaging residential buildings in the city.
Early on Thursday, October 16, Russian forces launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine, which included two ballistic missiles hitting the territory of a Ukrainian Ground Forces training unit. The facility is located in a rear and relatively quiet part of the country.
During the Dobropillia operation in the Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, Ukraine's Defense Forces liberated 182.8 square kilometers from Russian invaders and cleared another 230.1 square ilometers of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
The Russian army command continues to involve military personnel from North Korea to support operations in the Sumy region due to critical personnel losses and the failure of offensive actions in this area.
Russia is attacking Ukraine with Shahed drones with cluster munitions and is carrying out double strikes to injure rescuers and energy workers who are restoring facilities after the attack.
On the outskirts of Pokrovsk and in surrounding settlements, Ukrainian forces are neutralizing thousands of Russian invaders. Meanwhile, fighting with enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups persists within the city itself.
On the night of October 15-16, Russia carried out another combined strike targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure, particularly facilities in the gas sector.
A drone exploded at an enterprise in the Krasnopillia community, Sumy region, early on October 16, killing a 38-year-old man.
Counter-sabotage operations by Ukrainian forces are ongoing in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, where the enemy has concentrated about 80 troops.
Reports claiming that Russian forces landed on Karantynnyi Island in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson are false.
Ukrainian forces struck the Saratov oil refinery on the night of October 15-16.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russians used more than 300 drones and 37 missiles, including a significant number of ballistic missiles, last night, and also spoke about the enemy's double terror – repeated strikes and cluster munitions.
Russian invaders attacked the Kramatorsk community in the Donetsk region with drones at night and in the morning.
A man was wounded in Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, as a result of a Russian attack that occurred in the early morning.
Russian invaders killed one and wounded six residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, October 15.
As a result of drone attacks targeting energy facilities in Russia’s Volgograd region overnight on October 15–16, a fire broke out at an electrical substation.
On October 15, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 184 combat engagements with Russian forces along the front line.
Russian forces attacked an enterprise in Chernihiv.
In Kherson region, two people were injured over the past 24 hours as a result of Russian aggression.
Russia’s total combat losses in its war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to October 16, 2025, amount to approximately 1,127,300 personnel, including 1,080 eliminated in the past 24 hours.
Russian propaganda is spreading a fake story on social media, alleging that Ukrainian soldiers killed three civilians in Sumy region.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, drone pilots from the main operational and reconnaissance unit, together with fighters from the 'Strix' strike UAV company of the 4th Border Guard Detachment, destroyed five shelters and a communications antenna belonging to Russian invaders.
The Russian army shelled the private sector of the Kramatorsk community in the Donetsk region, damaging residential buildings.
Russia has effectively acknowledged that the reconstruction of occupied Avdiivka has been halted.
15 October 2025
In Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, two people were injured and a Nova Poshta terminal and an apartment building were damaged during a Russian drone attack on the evening of October 15.