Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 148 combat engagements over the past day, including 45 assaults on the Pokrovsk axis, with high pressure also on the Oleksandrivskyi and Kostiantynivskyi directions.
- As of mid‑afternoon Oct. 29, officials counted 122 engagements for the day, 36 of them near Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian officers say Russia is using scorched‑earth methods and slipping small groups through the urban area.
- Overnight, Ukrainian forces said drones struck Russia’s Novospassky and Mari El refineries and the Budyonnovsk gas‑processing plant, triggering explosions and fires as multiple airports briefly restricted flights.
- In occupied Crimea, drone attacks ignited fuel depots near Hvardiiske and in Simferopol; Russian-installed leader Sergei Aksyonov reported no casualties as emergency crews worked the sites.
- On the domestic front, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the SBU has evidence that Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov holds Russian citizenship, and the State Bureau of Investigations detained former Ukrenergo head Volodymyr Kudrytsky on fraud suspicions.