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MK conducts an online broadcast of events in Ukraine. This is day 615 of the special operation. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces artillerymen near Soledar. The Bundestag discussed information about the attack on Crimea by German surface drones.
Read the previous online broadcast here.
An emergency situation has been declared in the Vinnytsia region due to an outbreak of hepatitis A. This is reported by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Air defense systems on duty destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Bryansk region at about 16:00, reports the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Ukraine received a message from Poland about the possible blocking of the checkpoint by carriers from November 3 until the end of the year, said Andrey Demchenko, a representative of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service.
Soldiers of the volunteer battalion «Crimea» in the Zaporozhye direction, a heavy Ukrainian hexacopter Reactive Drone Agric RDE616, also known as «Baba Yaga», was shot down. A representative of the battalion reported this to TASS.
The Russian Ministry of Defense released a report for October 31:
— The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction per day amounted to 170 military personnel and 2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle;
— Air defense shot down MiG-29 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;
— The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Leopard tanks in the Kupyansk direction;
— The Russian Armed Forces repelled three Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks in the Krasnolimansk direction, the enemy lost up to 250 military personnel;
— The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 33 Ukrainian UAVs in one day;
— The Russian Armed Forces hit places near Malodolinskoye, Odessa region production of UAVs and unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
— The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 140 military personnel and 2 Paladin self-propelled guns in the Zaporozhye direction in one day;
— The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire on accumulations of manpower and equipment of two brigades Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Ugledar and Staromayorsky in the DPR;
— The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yuzhnodonetsk direction per day amounted to up to 160 military personnel;
— Russian air defense systems intercepted 8 Storm Shadow cruise missiles, 2 Neptune anti-ship missiles, as well as six HIMARS MLRS shells;
— The Russian Armed Forces repelled five attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction, enemy losses amounted to up to 60 military personnel;
— The Russian Armed Forces defeated brigades of Marines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Alekseevsky Island, as well as near Berislav, Kherson region;
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 125 military personnel in one day, as well as the Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount. and a D-30 howitzer in the Kherson direction;
— In one day, the Russian Armed Forces defeated the personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 132 districts.
FSB: a resident of Yalta was detained, who organized on instructions SBU surveillance of Tsarev.
"On October thirty-first, at about 13.00 Moscow time, another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped. The Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by duty air defense systems over the territory of the Belgorod region,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired mortars at a temple in the Bryansk region.
"Employees of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Tver Region suppressed the illegal activities of a citizen of the Russian Federation who participated in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in hostilities against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. A native of the Tver region served as deputy chief of staff of one of the territorial defense units of Ukraine. The man was detained during a clash in one of the regions of the LPR,” the message says.
A criminal case has been opened under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of Russia (high treason in the form of going over to the enemy’s side).
An explosion occurred in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region, against the backdrop of an air raid warning, the local publication Zerkalo Nedeli reported.
Russian air defense stopped an attempt by Kiev to carry out a terrorist attack on Russian territory on Tuesday; a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the Belgorod region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Tuesday.
Ukrainian troops dropped two ammunition from a drone on Staromikhailovka, reported the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
The Security Service and the National Police of Ukraine may be aiming to carry out provocations with biological weapons “under a false flag,” said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Bryansk region, in the Starodub district the power supply has been disrupted. There were no casualties, the governor said.
Ukrainian troops lost a fifth of their Leopard 2 tanks due to strikes by the Russian Armed Forces, Forbes reports.
Minority Leader in the US Senate from the Republican party Mitch McConnell recalled that the funding bill being considered in the near future provides for assistance to Israel, but does not address a similar issue in relation to Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost their offensive potential in Zaporozhye, said Vladimir Rogov.
A hacker suspected of treason was arrested in Tomsk. According to investigators, he assisted hacker groups coordinated by Ukrainian security forces.
Verkhovna Rada Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said that the bill on US assistance to Israel would indirectly hit Ukraine.