Ukrainian Armed Forces destroy pontoon crossing, ammunition depot hit Russian army groupings - Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Facebook.

Russians try to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrate their efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.

Russians shell positions of Ukrainian troops along the entire contact line, carry out engineering defense equipment in certain directions and conduct aerial reconnaissance.

The adversary continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, strikes critical infrastructure, as well as the homes of the civilian population.

There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.

Russians conducted 7 missile and and 12 air strikes, about 80 attacks from multiple missile systems in the last 24 hours.

Russians hit more than 20 settlements. In particular, Slavgorod, Bilovody, Vugledar, Ridkodub, Gulyaipilske, Novoandriivka, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv.

Russians also used seven Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Ukrainian cities. Three of them were shot down, and four reached Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv.

In order to further support armed aggression against Ukraine, mobilization is ongoing in Russia. Local authorities in some districts try to implement their plan by enlisting unemployed men.

Russians shelled the other directions:

in the Seversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery in Bleshnya, Gai and Senkivka of the Chernihiv region and Starykovo of the Sumy region;

in the Slobozhansk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in 18 settlements, including Hlyboke, Udy, Ohirtseve, Strelecha, Kolodyazne, Dvorichne, Neskuchne;

in the Kramatorsk direction - from artillery of various types, in Spirne, Bilogorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Dronivka, Vesele;

in the direction of Bakhmut, Russians shelled Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivangrad, Opytne, Mayorsk, New York, Viimka, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Odradivka settlements;

in the Avdiivka direction - Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka were shelled by Russians.

Russians did not conduct offensive actions in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Infrastructure in 16 settlements was damaged by Russian shelling. Among others - Vremivka, Temyrivka, Olgivske, Gulyaipilske and Zaliznychne.

In the temporarily captured territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, Russians try to intensify measures to discredit units of Ukrainian Armed Forces. Special correspondents of the Russian mass media are additionally involved in creating fake content.

More than 27 settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the Southern Bug direction.

Russians actively engage UAVs of various types to conduct reconnaissance and carry out strikes. Ukrainian defenders shot down eight UAVs in different directions: five of the Orlan-10 type and three of the Shahed-136 type.

Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Krasna Gora, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Ozeryanivka, Zaitseve, Odradivka, Andriivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Kamianka, Pobieda, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, and Ternovy Pody.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to keep enemy logistics facilities and their supply arteries under fire control. Over the past day, one more enemy pontoon crossing was destroyed. In addition, information about the destruction of enemy ammunition depots on October 5 near the village of Kinski Rozdory was confirmed.

Enemy units continue to suffer losses.  For example, in Pology and Tokmak settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of shelling by units of Ukrainian Defense Forces in areas where the enemy's manpower is concentrated, the enemy lost about 85 people wounded. Information about the dead is being clarified.

In the Luhansk region, about three hundred wounded prisoners who agreed to fight in Ukraine were sent to the local hospital in Novosvitlivka.

Aviation of Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted 30 strikes in the last 24 hours.  It has been confirmed that 24 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, have been destroyed.  In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down two enemy helicopters.

Ukrainian missile forces and artillery hit two Russian control points, one area of ​​concentration manpower, weapons and military equipment, two areas of artillery firing positions, a radar station and an enemy radio-electronic warfare complex.