Russia says 433 Ukrainian drones downed overnight; Ukraine says Russia attacked with 134 drones
Russia's Defence Ministry said 433 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over Russian regions overnight. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia attacked Ukraine with 134 drones during the night.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on 31 October that 433 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over Russian regions during the past night.
Ukraine's Air Force, for its part, said Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 134 unmanned aerial vehicles, 72 of them jet-powered. Ukrainian air defences neutralised 105 drones. According to the Air Force, hits were recorded at 20 locations and falling debris at 10 locations.
The press service of Ukraine's State Emergency Service in Kharkiv region said five people were injured in a Russian strike on Kharkiv's Osnovianskyi district on the night of 31 October. A fire broke out on the roof of a private house at the site of the strike, and outbuildings covering a total area of 300 square metres also burned.
Russia's Defence Ministry said that during the same night the Russian Armed Forces struck logistics and energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of Ukraine's military-industrial complex. According to the ministry, Combined Heat and Power Plant No. 6 (TEC-6) in Kyiv, which supplies electricity to military logistics facilities, workshops and warehouses in the "Proton" industrial zone in Kharkiv, and a dry cargo ship 18 kilometres south of Odesa were hit.
A day earlier, on 30 October, power went out in some districts of Kyiv after explosions. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three drones hit one of the capital's critical facilities and that problems with the water supply had arisen in the city.
Ukraine's Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said on 31 October that the ceasefire regime in the Kherson direction is being observed, thanks to which the Ukrainian delegation was able to reach Oleshky safely.
On the diplomatic front, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said the composition of the Russian delegation to the trilateral talks to be held in Abu Dhabi will be determined in the near future. On 30 October, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Abu Dhabi that if Zelensky wants a meeting with Putin, he must come to Moscow.
