Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 121 combat engagements on October 24, with the Pokrovsk axis seeing the heaviest pressure as Russian forces attempted 37 assaults.
- Morning strikes on Kherson’s residential areas killed at least two people and injured more than two dozen, officials said, with damage to dozens of apartment blocks, private homes and public transport.
- Ukrainian officials reported intensified Russian storming across the south, including recent massed attempts near Orikhiv and daily assault tries near the Antonivka bridgehead, all described as unsuccessful.
- Co-chairs of the Coalition of the Willing, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, agreed to deliver immediate energy-resilience aid, curb the shadow fleet, and study options to use the value of frozen Russian sovereign assets to meet Ukraine’s financing needs.
- The United States announced sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil on October 22, followed by EU measures targeting Rosneft and Gazpromneft on October 23, moves coordinated with the UK to squeeze Russia’s energy revenues as President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed for more air-defense systems.