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The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to October 6, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,116,340 people, including 1,090 people over the past day.
Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian strike drone in western Ukraine with the help of the Skynex anti-aircraft artillery system.
Soldiers of the 35th Sumy Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed 18 enemy shelters and neutralized 20 Russian invaders.
Coastal defense forces used a drone to neutralize a Russian boat and its crew.
Fighters from the Rubizh Rapid Reaction Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine captured a Russian soldier and two residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region who had signed contracts with the Russian armed forces.
In Zaporizhzhia, on the night of October 5, as a result of shelling by the occupiers, 18 high-rise buildings, 24 private houses, and seven non-residential premises were damaged.
In the occupied areas of Donetsk region, residents are being treated with expired pills delivered every two months by mobile stalls.
05 October 2025
On October 5, a branch of the Ukrainian delivery company Nova Poshta was destroyed as a result of Russian shelling in Donetsk region.
Since the start of the day, there have been 192 combat engagements between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops.
Police officers released video footage from Lviv region showing the immediate aftermath of the combined Russian attack. The video captures patrol officers helping residents escape from destroyed homes.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement surveyed a strategic ammunition storage facility — the 120th depot of the Main Missile-Artillery Directorate (GRAU) — in Bryansk, Russia, and recorded its operating routines, security arrangements, and cargo movement patterns.
The Lviv Regional Military Administration (RMA) has shared photos showing the aftermath of the Russian strike on the region during the night of October 5.
Scheduled hourly power outages remain in effect across Chernihiv region.
Russian drones targeted two civilian vehicles in the Kharkiv region throughout the day, killing two men and injuring a female volunteer.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a business facility in the Dnipro district was damaged as a result of an overnight strike, while during the day, the enemy shelled the Nikopol area.
Russian troops carried out more than ten shelling attacks on the Chernihiv region throughout the day.
Debris from a falling missile and several drones was recorded in the Ternopil region following a nighttime enemy attack. Minor roof damage was reported in the Chortkiv area.
Russian troops launched an attack on the village of Malokaterynivka in the Zaporizhzhia district.
As of 16:00, four people were reported killed and eight injured in Lviv region following a Russian missile and drone attack.
Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have engaged in 106 combat clashes, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk sector, where 24 clashes have been recorded.
As a result of Russia’s large-scale combined attack on Ukraine, Lviv and Zaporizhzhia regions suffered the most damage. Rescue teams have already extinguished 10 of 13 fires that broke out at the sites of the strikes.
Air defense forces of Ukraine neutralized 478 aerial targets out of 549 launched by Russia during its attack on Ukraine starting in the evening of October 4, including 439 drones of various types, one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, 32 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, and six Kalibr cruise missiles.
In Chernihiv, an enemy UAV hit a gas station.
A school, a kindergarten, and a church were hit in Lviv as a result of massive shelling by the Russian army.
During the night of October 5, the Russian Federation carried out a combined missile and drone strike targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. In particular, equipment belonging to JSC Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo was damaged.
A family of four, including a 15-year-old girl, was killed in the village of Lapaivka in the Lviv region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia launched more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones at Ukraine overnight. Five people were killed, and 10 were injured.
The experience of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is already influencing the formation of a new military doctrine.
Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) are experiencing a personnel shortage, particularly a lack of specialists needed to staff newly created units.