Eurasia Press & News
In today’s summary:
On the Liman direction it is declared about the loss of combat capacity of the Russian 144-th motorized rifle division
On the cover direction there were shots of the “road of death” from the bodies of the Russian military near Dobropillia
On the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports on the progress to a depth of 12-14 km north of Orekhov
Starshield satellite Internet service is still operating in Ukraine with restrictions on the speed of movement of terminals
OSINT researcher Clement Molen – the main targets of Russian long-range strikes were energy facilities
As a result of the raid on St. Petersburg, several tanks of the oil terminal were damaged
Ukrainian UAVs attacked the oil pumping station of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Tambov region
In the United States delay the transfer to Ukraine already paid by European allies missiles for PatriotThe situation at the front
On the Liman direction it is declared about the loss of combat capacity of the Russian 144-th motorized rifle division.
The commander of the Ukrainian group of troops “Center” Brigadier General Andriy Biletsky said that during Operation Vіvaldi, the Russian 144th motorized rifle division ceased to exist as an organized military force. According to him, earlier this division had the task to come to Barvenkovo in the rear of the Slavonic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
On the cover direction there were shots of the “road of death” from the bodies of the Russian military near Dobropillia.
20-th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine “Lubart” showed The road of death near Dobropol, dotted with the bodies of the Russian military. Explorer under the nickname Playfra explainedthat three Russian routes converge on this site ‘seeping’, which allows to cause great losses even in the territory formally controlled by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
OSINT-Researcher Clement Molen writes on the deterioration of the situation in Dobropol: according to him, the Russian military began to “seep” into the city, and some of its districts were in ‘Grey Zone’. He compares the situation in the area of Konstantinovka a year ago, but notes that Ukrainian troops still control the flanks of the city, and the rear is covered by defensive lines. According to the researcher, SOW while they keep their reserves in the rear, while the Russian Armed Forces are forced to hurry to take a foothold in Dobropolye before the winter, when it becomes more difficult to come due to absence “greens”.
On the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports on the progress to a depth of 12-14 km north of Orekhov.
RF Ministry of Defense declared about capture Omelnik and Timoshevka to the northeast of Orekhov. According to map DeepState, both settlements are controlled by the SOU and are separated from the Russian control zone by 14 and 12 km, respectively.
The Russian military is trying to take advantage of the autumn bad weather to organize local breakthroughs in the Gulyaipol direction, reported in the 7-th building DSHV. In addition, according to the Ukrainian military, the enemy accumulates in the offensive of armored equipment and gradually begins to try to carry out mechanized assault. It is reported that the task of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on this site is to reach the outskirts of Zaporozhye.
In the battalion “Brotherhood” GUR showed, as captured by Russian servicemen who tried to get into the Ukrainian rear on the bottom of the former Kakhovka reservoir (Geo-reference).
Volodymyr Zelensky reported, that Starshield terminals (military version Starlink) still cease to function when driving at a speed of 130-161 km, which complicates front-line logistics and limits the use of jet interceptor drones. Analyst Michael Kofman confirms this information, and Sergey “Flash” Beskrestnov tells, that because of this, communication with helicopters that shoot down is broken “Shaheds”.
Volodymyr Zelensky carried out negotiations with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where he raised issues of delay in the supply of counter-ballistic ZUR for ZRK Patriot, early warning of ballistic missile launches and the situation around Starlink.
Mutual shelling and sabotage
Air Force VSU reported on the night of October 20, 165 Shahed-type drones (105 of them are jet), Gerbera, UAV-simulators of the type “Parody” and loitering ammunition S-8000 “Banderol” / “Dan-T”. 115 UAVs — 70 percent, including 73 jets — were shot down or suppressed. The means of air attack in 30 locations, as well as the fall of the wreckage in 13 locations, have been recorded.
Radio Liberty journalist Alex Raufoglu, citing Ukrainian sources, said that the United States again did not warn Ukraine about ballistic missile launches on Kiev the day before. In a comment to the journalist, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured that he did not know “what happened last night,” but explained the lack of intelligence in previous days “a programmatic problem.”
On the eve of the UAV hit the central park in the New Water in Kharkov region when there were families with children. According to the information, информацииsix people were killed, including two girls: at the age of 11 and one year and two months, and 15 others were injured, including seven children. Damaged cafes, shop, children’s school of arts and car.
Also the day before, as a result of the UAV attack on Rivne, the BADM warehouse, one of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in Ukraine, was destroyed. According to the market participants, there were stored preparations Sanofi, Pfizer, Novartis, Berlin-Chemie, Bayer, Teva and other manufacturers. No injuries were reported. The extent of drug losses and the possible impact on supplies are not yet known.
Several UAVs on the eve of the evening struck the object of critical energy infrastructure in the Novoyavorovsky community in the Lviv region. Head of local OVA Maxim Kozitsky reported (1, 2) at least two consecutive impacts on the same object. There are no dead and wounded.
Last night, Izyum in Kharkov region was subjected to a series of UAV blows, including jet. Five people were injured, houses, cars and the building of the city’s education department were damaged, local authorities reported.
Also last night the drones were attacked by Kovel in the Volyn region. The head of the Volyn OVA Roman Romanyuk reported on the hit on the territory of the shopping center “Epicenter”, where the storage facilities were damaged. In addition, private car service and parking of trucks with semi-trailers were damaged. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties and injuries.
According to the local Telegram channel, the shopping center “Epicenter” in Dubno in the Rivne region was hit. According to the video published in the network, the roof of the building was damaged. According to preliminary information, three people were injured, a fire broke out.
As a result of the strike on warehouses in the suburbs of Dnipro (until 2016 – Dnipropetrovsk), two people were killed, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Alexander Ganzha said. The rescuers extinguished the fire after the attack and found the bodies of the victims, their personalities are established. Four victims are also known.
Polish Cersanit completely stopped production at the Zвяgel plant in Zhytomyr region after the attacks on the night of September 12 and October 16, сообщилhead of the company Zbislav Adam Krovyak said. As a result of the strikes, the building of the enterprise and key elements of the production line were seriously damaged. According to Krovyak, it is impossible to resume work in the current circumstances, including because of the threat to staff and power outages. Cersanit is the largest manufacturer of ceramic tiles and plumbing in Ukraine, the Ukrainian divisions of the company employ about a thousand people. After the first attack, the company estimated the period of restoration of production facilities at least six months.
OSINT researcher Clement Molen has published a map of UAV and missile strikes on Ukraine’s territory by month of 2026. According to him, in January-April, the main goals were electric power facilities, in May-June – gas stations and industrial enterprises, in July-September – warehouses, logistics, railway and port infrastructure, gas stations, military-industrial complex enterprises and data centers. In October, the focus is shifting again to electricity facilities and bridges.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the destruction of 13 drones over the Belgorod and Kursk regions, the Perm region and the Crimean peninsula during the day of October 19. On the night of October 20, 136 UAVs were intercepted over Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orlovskaya, Pskov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula regions and the Moscow region.
The Ukrainian resource “Absolutely Super-Jerelo” published satellite images of the consequences of the strikes on St. Petersburg on October 18. According to him, three tanks with a volume of 10-15 thousand cubic meters were damaged at the St. Petersburg oil terminal, one of them was completely destroyed. At the oil base “Ruchya” destroyed a tank of 5 thousand cubic meters and damaged another. The fire on the logistics hub Ozon covered more than 10 thousand square meters. The damage to the road surface is recorded on the Southern Fairway Bridge, as well as on the lifting section of the Finnish railway bridge. The resource also published pictures of the consequences of the attack on the VKontakte data center. According to the authors of the channel, the drones broke the roof of the building and damaged its walls, and traces of fire are also visible.
Telegram channels Exilenova+, Supernova+ and Crimean Wind reported an attack on the Nikolskoye LPDS in the Tambov region last night. Exilnova+, citing local residents, writes that a tank with diesel fuel caught fire on the territory of the station. The head of the Tambov region Yevgeny Pervyshov later reported that after the attack, the UAVs occurred a fire “on the territory of one of the enterprises of the Michurinskiy District”, there were no casualties. LDPS “Nikolskoye” is part of the system of the oil pipeline “Druzhba” company “Transneft” and includes three tank fleets, two pumping stations, a network of pipelines and bulk capacity. The capacity of the station is about 300 thousand tons per day. She was already attacked on August 18, 2025. On the eve of Pervyshov instructed to temporarily cancel the system of gasoline release introduced earlier at the gas stations of Rosneft and Lukoil on the principle of “sweeping”, noting that it can be returned in case of deterioration of the situation due to new attacks.
According to the estimates of volunteers CIT, for the day from 20:00 on October 18 to 20:00 on October 19 became known At least 33 dead and 114 injured civilians as a result of shelling and strikes in Russia and Ukraine, including in the occupied territories. Also CIT publishes Summary of strikes on energy infrastructure during this period.
Arms and military equipment
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delays the transfer to Ukraine of a significant batch of missiles for the Patriot, already paid for by European allies, The Kyiv Independent reported, citing Ukrainian officials and the military. According to Axios, we are also talking about AIM-9X air-to-air missiles for NASAMS, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a virtual meeting with a two-party group of American senators. He also said that during the talks with Trump’s representatives, Steve Uitkoff and Jared Kushner proposed to suspend the attacks on Russian refineries for 30 days in exchange for the ZUR for Patriot, but the American representatives did not support this idea.
