Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:07 Zelensky announced new support packages for Ukraine next week, in particular from the Nordic countries: "We have created this new format of cooperation - Ukraine plus the Nordic countries. And within the framework of this format, we are invariably increasing our interaction - defense, political, economic. I am grateful to each country in this format: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland." According to the president, Kiev will discuss with these countries, in particular, "new fundamental steps that can increase pressure on Russia for this war and for the sake of honest diplomacy."
In turn, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced that Zelensky will visit Iceland at the end of October, where he will take part in the 76th session of the Nordic Council.
17:45 Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz announced an attempt to cross the state border by an armed group of people in the Klimovsky District. According to him, the situation in the district is currently stable.
16:14 During the day, Russians attacked the village of Dmitrovka in the Kutsurub community of the Nikolaev region three times with FPV drones, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. In addition, the Russians fired at the police officers who arrived at the call. As a result of the hits, a fire broke out, which completely destroyed the service car, the law enforcement officers were not injured.
15:49 Vladislav Voloshin, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces, confirmed the advance of Russians in the Levadnoye area of ​​the Zaporizhia region: "The Russian army has increased certain efforts, regrouped and carried out massive assault operations. As a result, it had partial success, that is, it penetrated the Ukrainian defense to a depth of approximately a platoon strongpoint."
13:38 Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak said in an interview with Corriere Della Sera that Kyiv may consider initiatives from China, Brazil and South Africa to integrate them into the peace formula: "At the beginning of November, we will complete our peace formula, and Zelensky said that then he will be ready to listen to other initiatives, such as those proposed by China, Brazil, South Africa, etc., to integrate them into ours. Then our proposal will have significant support."
Yermak also noted that in order to start negotiations, "we need to return to the situation that existed before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Then we will talk about how to return sovereignty to the 1991 borders." At the same time, the head of the OP emphasized that the only security guarantees that Kyiv considers real are NATO membership. He also confirmed that Zelensky is against freezing the war and any territorial compromises.
At the same time, Yermak was unable to answer the question of when the second Peace Summit would take place: "We will be ready to hold an international conference when we feel strong and supported by the Global South for negotiations with Russia." To a clarifying question from a journalist, whether this meant that the conference had been postponed until next year, Yermak replied: "We don't know, we will do it when the conditions are right, hopefully as soon as possible."
In addition, Yermak assured that elections in Ukraine will be held immediately after the end of the war.
13:03 Russians fired automatic weapons at a civilian car in Selydove, Donetsk Oblast, the prosecutor's office reported. A video posted on social media showed two people in the car during the attack, one of whom was wounded. Ukrainian soldiers then arrived at the scene, provided first aid to the wounded and evacuated civilians from the shelling. According to preliminary information, this happened on October 24.
In addition, according to media reports, the enemy shot two women in the city, and in the area of ​​the private sector, which was practically not affected by active military actions, there are bodies of dead civilians. That is, these murders were probably committed after the enemy took control of these territories, the prosecutor's office noted.
12:07 In Berislav, Kherson region, Russians attacked a checkpoint with drones. As a result of an explosive device dropped from a drone, three police officers received chemical burns, the National Police reported.
10:41 Air defense destroyed 41 of 80 enemy drones (Shahed and unspecified types) in the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Sumy, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv regions at night. Most of the UAVs were shot down in the Odessa and Kyiv regions, the Air Force reported. In addition, 32 Russian drones were lost, and another flew off in the direction of Belarus.
09:28 A UAV attack has caused a fire in Tambov Oblast, Governor Maxim Egorov reported. He clarified that "an isolated fire due to a bang" in Michurinsky Municipal District was quickly extinguished, and there were no casualties. Local residents report that the fire started at the Transneft-Druzhba control station in the village of Novonikolskoye. The Michurinsky Oil Refinery is also located in the same village.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the night, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 51 UAVs: 18 over the Tambov Region, 16 over the Belgorod Region, four each over the Bryansk, Lipetsk, and Oryol Regions, three over the Voronezh Region, one over the Kursk Region, and one over the Sea of ​​Azov.
09:13 The day before, Russians shelled the village of Radkovo in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkiv region - one person was killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In the village of Malinovka in the Chuguevsky district, as a result of the shelling, a grain storage warehouse was damaged.
08:55 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed and eight were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:37 At night, Russians launched a drone strike on critical energy infrastructure facilities in the Romensky district of Sumy Oblast, OVA reported. One person was injured in the Sumy community as a result of the drone attack.
08:21 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on October 26 - in Konstantinovka and Nikolaevka. Another nine people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
07:53 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 27:
- personnel - about 689,040 (+1440) people,
- tanks - 9113 (+4),
- combat armored vehicles - 18,355 (+23),
- artillery systems - 19,821 (+39),
- MLRS - 1240 (+0),
- air defense systems - 984 (+0),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 329 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,799 (+73),
- cruise missiles - 2625 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,560 (+100),
- special equipment - 3542 (+1).
05:26 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Levadnoye in the Zaporizhia region, and has also advanced near Shakhtarskoye, Novoukrainka, Bogoyavlenka in the Donetsk region, Novodarovka in the Zaporizhia region, and Stelmakhovka in the Luhansk region.