Russian troop casualties may reach around 40,000 for October, Estonian intelligence suggests.
Janek Kesselmann, the deputy commander of the Estonian Military Intelligence Center, told Estonian media EER “Russia’s losses are quite high. And this month seems to be one of the biggest in terms of losses for Russia.”
Kyiv reported that Russian forces had suffered 1,630 casualties on Friday alone breaking the previous second-highest tally of 1,530, set on October 18.
Kesselmann added that Russian tactics have shifted recently so troops no longer enter settlements as it recquires “sophisticated preperation”.
“Therefore, they besiege settlements with indirect fire. After the settlement is surrounded, they simply destroy it. It is a very cynical and disgusting thing,” Kesselmann said.
It came as North Korean troops will be deployed into Ukraine to fight with Russian forces as early as this weekend, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed.
This would be a major escalation in the war with geopolitical consequences now reaching the Indo-Pacific region, western officials warned, as the grinding conflict approaches three years.
Ukrainian intelligence had determined that “the first North Korean military will be used by Russia in combat zones” between Sunday and Monday, Mr Zelensky said.
Vladimir Putin has not denied the presence of North Korean troops in Ukraine.
The head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that two people were killed in an artillery barrage on Stanislav.
“Unfortunately, today the Russian army took the lives of two more people in the Kherson region. Around two o’clock in the afternoon, the enemy fired on Stanislav with artillery.
“Two men were fatally wounded. Both died at the scene. I express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims,” he said.
The Kherson Regional Military Administration added: “A man, 49, sustained blast trauma and concussion. The victim was outside at the time of the strike. He refused to be hospitalized, so medics treated him at the scene.”
Barney Davis26 October 2024 19:01
Kharviv authorities have revealed the body of a man was found in a house in Radkove in the Chuhuiv district,
“Rescuers recovered the body of a dead 65-year-old man from the rubble of a private house in the village of Radkove, Chuhuiv district,” a post from Kharkiv Regional Military Administration read.
Another local resident suffered an acute stress reaction.
Russian forces struck three settlements on 26 October, damaging residential buildings.
Barney Davis26 October 2024 18:00
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the death toll after Russian strikes on the region has risen to five.
“Rescuers have recovered the body of a man from the rubble,” he wrote.
It came after a Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others with at least 21 others injured including an eight-year-old and teenagers.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
Barney Davis26 October 2024 17:01
A Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others, said regional governor Serhii Lysak.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
A man and woman died after a Russian drone dropped explosives on a village in the southern Kherson region, local prosecutors said, while two people in their 60s were killed by shelling in the Kharkiv province in the north east.
Rescuers work at a site of an apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, in this handout picture released 26 October 2024 (Reuters)
Barney Davis26 October 2024 16:01
Donald Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan he would be able to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine if he was elected.
Asked how he would avoid the course of WW3, he said: “I know both very well. If I told you exactly what I would do I could never get the deal done.” “I believe as President-elect I would get that war stopped and stopped fast.
“We have tremendous power in the US. I stopped other wars just by using tariffs.”
Barney Davis26 October 2024 15:05
583 children were killed, two of them within the past day, reported the Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram.
One child was killed in Kyiv and one in Dnipro in overnight airstrikes.
“As of the morning of October 26, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 583 children were killed and more than 1,655 sustained injuries of varying severity.
“Children were most affected in the following regions: Donetsk region – 595, Kharkiv region – 454, Dnipropetrovsk region – 183, Kherson region – 181, Kyiv region – 133, Zaporizhzhia region – 145,” the report says.
In total, more than 2,238 children have been affected by the war.
Barney Davis26 October 2024 14:05
Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal emphasised that Ukraine needs more weapons after Russian strikes killed at least four overnight.
“Unfortunately, there are casualties — people died, including children,” the Prime Minister noted on Telegram.
“More weapons, long-range capabilities, and harsher sanctions pressure on the enemy— this is what Ukraine needs right now for the safety of our citizens, for the safety of Europe, and to achieve a just peace.”
Barney Davis26 October 2024 13:34
Ukraine has claimed to have shot down 44 Russian strike drones overnight as they continue to count casualties.
“As a result of air combat, as of 12:00, October 26, 44 enemy drones have been confirmed downed in Kirovohrad, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Kursk regions,” a Telegram post by the Ukrainian Air Force message reads.
It came after the Russians were accused of conducting missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in the Sumy region and Dnipro, resulting in civilian casualties.
A Russian drone strike killed a teenager in Kyiv during a nighttime barrage on the Ukrainian capital that lasted for hours, officials said, while four people were reportedly killed in a missile attack on central Ukraine that also left at least 20 injured.
As reported, three missile strikes hit Dnipro overnight. Twenty people were injured, and four people, including a 14-year-old child, were killed.
Over ten high-rise buildings, two private houses, medical facility buildings, a garage, and thirty civilian vehicles were damaged.
In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, a Russian strike drone hit a residential building, resulting in one death and six injuries.
(Telegram)
Barney Davis26 October 2024 12:24
Russian troop casualties over October may reach around 40,000, Janek Kesselmann, the deputy commander of the Estonian Military Intelligence Center has said.
Kesselmann told ERR: “The advance of the Russian Federation armed forces has been made possible by massive bombings, including cluster bombs, killer drones and indirect fire.
“This effect is carried out by meat attacks, so to speak, where Russia cynically wastes its personnel.
“The losses in Russia are quite high. And it seems that this month will be one of the biggest losses in Russia
“We estimate that the enemy will lose somewhere around 40,000 soldiers both wounded and killed during the month.”
Barney Davis26 October 2024 11:18
According to Kyiv mayor Vitalii Klitschko, a drone slammed into a 25-storey apartment block Friday night in the city’s west, killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring five others.
Ukraine’s Emergency Service said 100 people were evacuated following the strike, which damaged several apartments on the building’s upper floors.Serhii Popko, who heads Kyiv’s local military administration, said on Saturday that Russian forces overnight pummeled the city for seven and a half hours.
Air raid sirens wailed throughout the night, and Popko said that Ukrainian air defense shot down “up to a dozen” Russian drones.Also late on Friday, a Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and two adult women, said regional governor Serhii Lysak, adding that at least 20 others were left with injuries, including an 8-year-old and teenagers.
He said the attack damaged thirteen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
Barney Davis26 October 2024 10:30