Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:36 Russians carried out aerial bombing strikes on Konstantinovka in Donetsk region: one person was killed, three were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. The enemy dropped two FAB-250 on the city this afternoon: ten private houses, two multi-story buildings, two administrative buildings, nine non-residential premises were damaged.
17:38 Rheinmetall intends to launch four weapons manufacturing plants in Ukraine, with the first plant already operating and the second "on the way," said Armin Papperger, director of the German concern. According to him, gunpowder and ammunition manufacturing plants are being built. An air defense system manufacturing enterprise is also expected to be created.
16:59 The death toll in Dnipro as a result of the Russian strike overnight has increased to five - rescuers have pulled another body out of the rubble. 21 people were injured, said OVA head Serhiy Lysak. More than 20 apartment buildings were damaged in the city, one was destroyed and another is in disrepair.
16:36 Republican US vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has said that Ukraine must give up its territory to end the war with Russia: "The Ukrainians are going to have to make that decision... They're already too exhausted." J.D. Vance says that such ideas are already slipping through in private conversations with Ukrainian officials: "They're starting to talk about it now. They're saying this can't go on forever. They don't have the people, they don't have the weapons, they don't have the money."
15:41 By Monday, October 28, 5,000 North Korean soldiers will be transferred to the Kursk region, The New York Times reports, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. According to him, the soldiers are part of an elite unit of the Korean People's Army. They will be delivered from Vladivostok by Il-76 transport planes to a military airfield in the European part of Russia, and then sent to the combat zone.
The official also said that there were mixed signals about whether additional North Korean troops would be sent to participate in the fighting on Ukrainian territory. They are currently concentrated only in the Kursk region.
Meanwhile, the first secretary of the DPRK mission to the UN, Il Ha Kim, denied the transfer of Korean troops to Russia. He claims that these accusations against Pyongyang are "dirty maneuvers by the US and its allies to mask their own crimes and prolong the conflict in Ukraine."
12:47 Air defense destroyed 44 out of 91 enemy UAVs (Shahed and unspecified types) in the Kirovograd, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky and Kursk regions at night, the Air Force reported. One drone left the airspace in the direction of Belarus, 44 Russian drones were lost, and another enemy UAV remains in the airspace of Ukraine.
In addition, during today's attack, Russia used three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, two Kh-59 guided air missiles and two missiles of an unspecified type. The enemy used missiles to strike civilian infrastructure facilities in Sumy Oblast and the Dnieper.
11:55 As a result of the night attack, there is partial power outage in four settlements of the Khmelnytskyi district, including the regional center, reported the head of the OVA Serhiy Tyurin. A hotel and two houses were damaged, no one was hurt.
11:46 In Dnipro, the death toll from the night attack has risen to four - another body was found under the rubble of a house. The number of injured has risen to 20, including four children aged eight to 17, said OVA head Serhiy Lysak.
10:59 Over the past evening and night, Russian troops struck Kiev, Dnipro, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi and other regions of Ukraine. In Dnipro, one of the most important hospitals in the country, the Mechnikov Hospital, was damaged, as well as ordinary residential buildings, Zelensky said.
09:38 Russians shelled the village of Borovaya in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:14 In the Kiev region, as a result of a night Russian attack, one person was killed and a 13-year-old child was injured, reported the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 26:
- personnel - about 687,600 (+1690) people,
- tanks - 9109 (+12),
- combat armored vehicles - 18,332 (+45),
- artillery systems - 19,782 (+29),
- MLRS - 1240 (+2),
- air defense systems - 984 (+2),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 329 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,726 (+56),
- cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,460 (+95),
- special equipment - 3541 (+6).
08:17 At night, the Russian army fired artillery at Kherson, one person was injured, OVA reported. Over the previous day, three people were killed and seven were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region, including one child.
08:11 In Donetsk region on October 25 as a result of Russian shelling one person was wounded - in Donetsk, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
07:45 Late in the evening of October 25, Russians launched a missile attack on the Dnieper: three people were killed, including a child, 19 were injured, including four children, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak. As a result of the attack, 13 apartment buildings and two private houses, a hospital, and cars were damaged.
07:39 As a result of yesterday's attack on Kiev by Russian UAVs in the Solomensky district, one person was killed and five were injured, reported the head of the KGVA, Sergei Popko. The deceased was a girl born in 2009.
06:08 In parallel with using the proceeds from frozen Russian assets through a $50 billion loan from the G7 countries, Ukraine is working with partners to confiscate the entire amount of blocked Russian funds, about $300 billion, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova told Ukrinform. According to her, the United States supports full confiscation, but other G7 member countries need to be convinced.
02:13 G7 leaders issued a joint statement announcing that they had reached a consensus on how to provide Ukraine with about $50 billion in loans, to be repaid using revenue from frozen Russian assets. The funds would be distributed through several channels to support budgetary, military and reconstruction assistance for Ukraine.
00:02 The enemy launched missile strikes on the infrastructure of the cities of Sumy and Konotop, OVA reported.