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Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 03:02
31 October 2025
Since the start of the day, 94 clashes have occurred between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with fighting ongoing in seven sectors of the front, and the heaviest enemy pressure concentrated in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian military carried out an airstrike on Bilenke community near Zaporizhzhia. While officials were documenting the aftermath, an enemy drone attacked members of the commission on site.
Representatives of the embassies of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy met with officials at the Office of the President of Ukraine to discuss enhancing Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Vasyl Maliuk stated that since the beginning of the year, 160 Russian oil production and refining facilities have been successfully targeted, including 20 such sites in September and October.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine has already identified priority targets for a new wave of “long-range sanctions” to be implemented in the near future.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that while Russian troops are present in Pokrovsk, they are being systematically destroyed by Ukrainian forces. As of the morning of October 31, there have been no significant changes in the town, no encirclement has been recorded, and the situation remains under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees imposing sanctions on individuals involved in Russia’s military production and propaganda efforts.
Russia has in recent months attacked Ukraine with the 9M729 cruise missile — a secret development that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019 to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
A peace on Russia’s terms would mean nothing but a pause before a new war
Members of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine will pay another visit to the country from 3 to 6 November 2025.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russia’s budget deficit next year, caused by sanctions, will amount to at least $100 billion, and according to more optimistic forecasts, up to $130 billion.
The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Maliuk, said that in the summer of 2023, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service destroyed one of three Oreshnik missiles on Russian territory.
I would advise Trump to start from the premise that Putin is a genocidal murderer
Russian troops shelled the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, killing one person and wounding four others.
The United States has canceled a planned meeting in Budapest between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin due to Moscow’s hardline demands regarding Ukraine.
In the Donetsk region, enemy strikes on infrastructure have caused a drop in voltage in the region's power grid, with possible power outages in three cities.
Energy infrastructure in the Odesa region was damaged during the night of October 31 as a result of an enemy drone attack.
As a result of Russia's missile and drone attack on Ukraine on October 30, electrical substations critical to maintaining nuclear safety in Ukraine were damaged.
Russians shelled the Central district of Kherson, wounding a 50-year-old woman.
Ukraine and its allies are jointly developing a peace plan that will result in a single document; there are no alternative “plans” proposed by individual countries.
Authorities in several regions of Russia on Friday reported drone attacks, including strikes on a combined heat and power plant in the city of Oryol and an electrical substation in the Vladimir region.
Russian invaders killed eight and wounded 18 residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, October 30.
On the evening of October 30, Russian troops struck Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided bombs, reportedly wounding one person.
Fighters from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed a Russian BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, two tanks, and around 50 enemy troops near Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
In southern Ukraine, drone operators have destroyed Russian equipment and communication systems.
Fifteen people, including four children, were injured in Sumy as a result of a Russian attack with strike drones on the evening of Thursday, October 30.
Across Russia, cell sites and communications equipment belonging to local mobile operators continue to be set on fire.
Operators of a combat group from the 73rd Naval Center of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) demonstrated how they mine the enemy’s logistics routes deep in enemy rear areas.
Defense Forces destroyed one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 107 drones used by the Russian army to attack Ukraine on the night of Friday, October 31. Thirty-six enemy UAVs were spotted hitting 20 locations.
On the night of October 31, the Russian army attacked railway infrastructure in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.