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30 October 2025
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi met with the commanders of army corps, military units, and formations holding back Russian assaults in the Pokrovsk sector of the front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that during another large-scale combined attack on Ukraine, Russia used more than 650 drones and over 50 missiles of various types.
In Zaporizhzhia, rescuers have found the body of another person under the rubble of a dormitory that was partially destroyed in a Russian nighttime attack.
During the night of October 30, Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 623 drones and missiles out of 705 launched by Russia since the evening of October 29. There were direct hits from 16 missiles and 63 strike drones recorded at 20 locations.
Russia carried out a massive overnight and morning attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure using missiles and drones. Targets included facilities in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
As of 10:00 a.m., scheduled hourly power outages have been canceled across Ukraine, though there remains a possibility they will be reinstated during the day.
A massive Russian missile and drone attack on the Vinnytsia region left four adults and a seven-year-old child injured and damaged civilian and critical infrastructure.
The consequences of the evening enemy artillery strike on the city center were shown in Kherson; houses and an educational institution were damaged.
In the Vinnytsia region, Ladyzhyn was left without heat and water due to Russian shelling, and the city is preparing to launch an alternative heat and water supply system.
On the morning of October 30, Russian invaders struck Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region with Iskander missile systems, damaging houses.
Russia in the Security Council remains a major stumbling block
Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 172 clashes with Russian troops over the past day, with 55 of them occurring on the Pokrovsk front. Heightened enemy activity was also observed in the Kupiansk, Lyman, and Kostiantynivka sectors of the front.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022, to October 30, 2025, have reached approximately 1,140,860, with 960 eliminated in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces launched a missile strike on Dnipro, hitting an industrial enterprise.
As a result of a massive missile and drone strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, emergency power outages have been introduced in several regions of the country.
Fighters of the 5th Separate Assault Kyiv Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used FPV drones to destroy two Russian artillery guns and a self-propelled howitzer.
The number of people injured in Zaporizhzhia as a result of a combined Russian attack has risen to 11, including six children aged up to six years old.
In Kyiv region, a Russian drone attack left a woman injured and caused fires as well as damage to residential buildings and vehicles.
Fighters of the 5th Separate Assault Kyiv Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used FPV drones to destroy two Russian artillery guns and a self-propelled howitzer.
Assistance from residents of France’s Brittany, who are providing fishing nets for building anti-drone tunnels, could grow into a formal friendship and partnership agreement between Brittany region and Ukraine’s Kherson region.
The occupation “Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea” has rejected an appeal filed by the lawyers and decided to keep in custody Crimean Tatar women from Bakhchysarai and the Sevastopol district — mother of five Esma Nimetulaieva, teacher Nasiba Saidova, student Elviza Aliieva, and entrepreneur Fevziie Osmanova.
At the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces deliberately "signed" their spoofing operations so that the falsified GPS coordinates on maps would form the letter Z.
Based on evidence gathered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), another Russian agent who corrected enemy strikes on Mykolaiv has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
29 October 2025
Crews of the 429th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment Achilles used drones to strike three tanks and one armored vehicle belonging to the Russian invaders.
Ukraine’s National Guard fighters, in coordination with neighboring army units, captured two Russian soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector.
As many as 11 people were injured in Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling on October 29.
More than 90 Russian Molniya drones have been shot down in Kharkiv region over the past week.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin's statements about supposed encirclement of Ukrainian forces in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, were fabrications and fantasies not based on any factual evidence.
Due to repeated violations of Baltic airspace by Russia and the launching of meteorological balloons from Belarus, it is necessary to shift from intercepting intruders to having the capability to shoot them down, and to consider tougher measures in response to provocations from Belarus.
I call on EU countries to allocate 0.25% of GDP to support Ukraine