The Pacific Fleet Military Court handed down a verdict to a 61-year-old resident of Ussuriysk: 23 years in prison for high treason and public calls to action. According to the Primorsky Krai prosecutor's office, he called for setting fire to military enlistment offices and organized the shipment of a vehicle for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The verdict has not yet entered into force.
Governor of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky reported a nighttime drone strike on Melitopol: children born in 2015 and 2016 and a man born in 1961 were wounded. Private homes, an apartment building, and administrative buildings were damaged. The day before, a Moscow — Melitopol scheduled bus was attacked; three of the eight people on board were injured.
Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar reported that overnight, air defense duty forces shot down more than 20 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones over the region. The attack was repelled in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the region. Information about casualties is being clarified. Earlier, on October 24, a bus depot of Rostovpassazhirtrans was damaged in a UAV attack.
According to war correspondents and the 'Sever' grouping, Russian units advanced near Vesyoloye Pole, Sergeyevka and on the approaches to Orikhiv; the encircled grouping in the 'Vovchansk cauldron' was eliminated, and a deployment point of the 475th Assault Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velykyi Burluk was destroyed. Aide to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov called the next round of talks 'sighting' and set a deadline of November 4. Elon Musk said Zelensky had admitted the use of Starlink for military strikes. According to war correspondents and the 'Sever' grouping, Russian units advanced near Vesyoloye Pole, Sergeyevka and on the approaches to Orikhiv; the encircled grouping in the 'Vovchansk cauldron' was eliminated, and the deployment point of the 475th Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Velykyi Burluk was destroyed. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov called the next round of talks 'calibrating' and set a deadline of November 4. Elon Musk said Zelensky admitted the use of Starlink for military strikes.
The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the opening of an investigation into Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks in several regions: five people were injured at an industrial facility in Perm Krai, three on a bus in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and a woman in Donetsk. It was previously reported that a missile strike hit an industrial zone in Yelets and a UAV fell on a polyclinic in Lipetsk.
Tsargrad military commentator Vlad Shlepchenko suggested that the use of the airspace of the Baltic states by Ukrainian drones could create prerequisites for missile attacks on the Leningrad Region. According to him, during the recent raids on northwestern Russia the drones again flew through neighboring states, and deeper than in the spring. Similar concern was voiced by expert Yevgeny Mikhailov.
Head of the LNR Leonid Pasechnik said that after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the building of the Luhansk telephone company, the bodies of two dead engineers were found. According to him, air defenses downed about 50 aerial targets over the past day, and three people were wounded.
Former US presidential national security adviser John Bolton told Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus that the Ukrainian armed forces' strikes on Wildberries warehouses were not aimed at military targets but sought to show Russians the consequences of the war. He also highly praised Ukrainian drone developments.
On the night of October 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a massive strike on the territory of the LNR, the head of the region Leonid Pasechnik said. The building of the Luhansk Telephone Company was damaged; according to preliminary data, people may be under the rubble. According to Pasechnik, air defenses shot down about 50 aerial targets; over the past day, three wounded people sustained injuries incompatible with life.
Hero of Russia Alexander Nakhodkin told TASS that Ukrainian troops are using robot dogs and unmanned platforms to deliver ammunition. According to him, the nature of combat operations in Donbas has changed significantly since 2022, and the West is using Ukraine as a testing ground for technology. Experts and the Russian Armed Forces command have also noted the development of ground-based robotic systems.
The FSB reported the detention of a German citizen who signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2025 but deserted after not receiving the promised 100,000 hryvnias. According to the FSB, he previously served in the Bundeswehr and took part in conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria and Ukraine. Berlin has not yet commented on the substance of the case.
