Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin’s troops thwart cross-border attack as he warns against long-range weapons
Russia loses nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east, in the past 24 hours
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Russian forces blocked another cross-border incursion allegedly by Ukraine into south-western Russia, a local official claimed.
An “armed group” attempted to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region yesterday but was beaten back, local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said. The Russian local official did not specify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the attack.
Bryansk region neighbours Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on 6 August that rattled the Kremlin and constituted the largest attack on Russia since the second World War.
The region has been previously attacked by two murky groups – the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
This comes as president Vladimir Putin said Russia would use “a range of responses” if the US and its Nato allies allowed Ukraine to strike inside his country with Western long-range weapons.
On the frontline, Russia lost nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east, in the past 24 hours where a fierce battle is underway, military officials said.
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Several injured in Russian air attacks on Kharkiv
Several people were injured overnight in Russia’s multi-wave air attacks on the Ukrainian northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian military officials said early today.
Two people were hospitalised late yesterday after Russia hit the city of Kharkiv – the administrative centre of the wider Kharkiv region - with precision guided bombs and damaged several residential buildings, the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
There were more attacks on the city later in the night, Terekhov said, partially damaging several buildings.
At least four more people suffered various injuries in the Kharkiv region later in the night after Russia launched more attacks, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram.
In an attack on the city of Chuhuiv, a residential building was damaged, Syniehubov said. He added there were no injuries in that attack.
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Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Russian forces are making swift and “significant tactical advances” into the eastern Ukrainian city of Selydove, war monitors have said.
Open source data suggests Russian forces advanced in September at their fastest rate since March 2022, despite Ukraine taking a part of Russia’s Kursk region.
Tom Watling reports:
Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Ukraine’s military say the hottest fighting along the roughly 640-mile frontline is taking place on the outskirts of the eastern city of Selydove
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said that a full withdrawal of Russian troops, and not just peace talks, were essential to ending his country’s more than 2-1/2-year-old war against Moscow.
The chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was addressing an international meeting devoted to implementing a peace plan, one of several gatherings staged as a follow-up to last June’s world “peace summit” hosted by Switzerland.
“Don’t expect this war to end when the warring sides begin to talk to each other,” Yermak told the gathering, according to the president’s website.
“Don’t be deceived. This war will end when the last soldier of the occupying army returns home.”
583 Ukrainian children killed so far in war
583 children were killed, two of them within the past day, reported the Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram.
One child was killed in Kyiv and one in Dnipro in overnight airstrikes.
“As of the morning of October 26, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 583 children were killed and more than 1,655 sustained injuries of varying severity.
“Children were most affected in the following regions: Donetsk region - 595, Kharkiv region - 454, Dnipropetrovsk region - 183, Kherson region - 181, Kyiv region - 133, Zaporizhzhia region - 145,” the report says.
In total, more than 2,238 children have been affected by the war.
Russian forces repel Ukrainian border attack in Bryansk
Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported on Sunday.
It came months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt.
An “armed group” sought on Sunday to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region, its governor, Aleksandr Bogomaz, said but was beaten back.
Mr Bogomaz did not clarify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the alleged attack, but claimed on Sunday evening that the situation was “stable and under control” by the Russian military.
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“Ambassadors from NATO’s Indo-Pacific partners including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea Ãhave been invited to attend,” the military alliance added. The North Atlantic Council is NATO’s main decision-making body.
Ukrainian military intelligence said on Thursday that about 12,000 North Korean troops, including 500 officers and three generals, were already in Russia, and training was taking place on five military bases.
Speaking on the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not deny that North Korean troops were in Russia. But he said it was Moscow’s business how to implement a treaty with Pyongyang that includes a mutual defence clause to aid each other against external aggression.
Intense firefighting with 84 encounters between Ukraine and Russia reported so far today
Ukrainian forces have reported a “tense frontline” as Russian forces try to break through their defence with as many as 84 battles being fought on Sunday.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posting to Facebook, said: “The situation on the frontline remains tense.
“The enemy, despite the significant losses inflicted to him by our defenders, continues to try to break through the defence of Ukrainian troops.”
They added: “The enemy made aviation strikes in the areas of Stepnogo, Bilovodiv, Basivka and Junakivka, which are in Sumy region, dropping a total of 12 aviation bombs.
“The enemy struck and on his territory, according to the available information, for today the Russians have carried out 15 air strikes on the Kursk region - using 18 air bombs.
“Today in the Kharkiv direction Russian occupiers twice stormed the defensive borders of the Ukrainian army in the Vovchansk district, our defenders repelled the attacks of the Russians.”
Two killed in Kherson region drone and artillery strikes
Two civilians were killed in Russian attacks on Sunday in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, which is split by the front line and regularly hit by Russian artillery, drones and missiles, the regional governor said.
An elderly man was killed after explosives were dropped on him from a drone and another man was killed by artillery fire, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messenger.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday Russia had used more than 1,100 guided aerial bombs, 560 attack drones and about 20 missiles over the past week against Ukraine.
“Russia does not stop in its terror against Ukraine. Daily aggression against our people, our towns and villages. Strikes with various types of weapons,” Zelenskiy, who urged Kyiv’s allies on Saturday to intensify pressure on Moscow, said on Telegram.
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