Russia Ukraine war latest: : Putin warns against using long-range weapons as Russian troops advance on prize city

Two civilians were killed in Russian attacks on Sunday in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, which is split by the front line and regularly hit by Russian artillery, drones and missiles, the regional governor said.

An elderly man was killed after explosives were dropped on him from a drone and another man was killed by artillery fire, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messenger.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday Russia had used more than 1,100 guided aerial bombs, 560 attack drones and about 20 missiles over the past week against Ukraine.

“Russia does not stop in its terror against Ukraine. Daily aggression against our people, our towns and villages. Strikes with various types of weapons,” Zelenskiy, who urged Kyiv’s allies on Saturday to intensify pressure on Moscow, said on Telegram.

People living in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Khmelnytskyi have faced power outages over the past 24 hours after intense Russian bombardments.

Ukraine’s Energy Ministry reported that a substation in Khmelnytskyi had been shut down during an air raid, resulting in a blackout for residents and industry.

Another Russian attack on a substation in Dnipropetrovsk resulted in equipment being switched off, causing a power outage for household consumers and a water utility.

The power supply has since been restored.

Overhead lines went out of service in Donetsk after fighting cut power to a substation.

Substations, household consumers, energy facilities and local industry were cut off from the power grid during a Russian drone attack on Sumy Oblast. The power supply has been restored.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has revealed the damage of strikes on a Ukrainian village.

“The investigation revealed that on October 26 at approximately 9pm, Russian troops conducted an air strike on the village of Malynivka in the Chuhuiv district.

“The storage facilities of the farm sustained damage.

“There were no casualties.

“Additionally, yesterday at approximately 10pm the Russian military shelled the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district with artillery. A 76-year-old woman was injured, and residential buildings were damaged,” the statement says.

Russian troops repelled eight new counterattacks by Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Sunday.

News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.

Russia shelled eight towns and villages in Donetsk leaving two people killed, nine civilians and four police officers injured.

The National Police of Ukraine reported that the towns Kostiantynivka, Kurakhove, Mykolaivka, and Toretsk, as well as the villages of Kostiantynopil, Markove, Rozdolne, and Sontsivka were damaged, including 22 residential buildings.

“The Russian military dropped two FAB-250 bombs equipped with a guidance module on Kostiantynivka, killing one person and injuring three civilians.

In Mykolaivka, another civilian was killed with damage caused to a civilian car, a motorcycle, and a power line.

Kostiantynopil was hit by shelling from a Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher injuring two residents and causing damage to three civilian homes and a car.

Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had taken control of the village of Izmailivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Sunday.

News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.

Russia launched a multi-wave drone attack on Kyiv for the second straight night, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said this morning.

“It seems that now every night, without long breaks, the Russian armed forces attack the peaceful city of Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, head of the military administration said on Telegram messaging app.

“Last night, the enemy made another attack on the capital.”

He added that Russia launched around 10 drones in several waves, from different directions and at different heights, but Ukrainian air defence units destroyed all of the weapons on their approach to the city.

No injuries or major damage were reported, Mr Popko added. He said that the Air Force will release data on the full-scale of the overnight attack on Ukraine later on Sunday.

Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Russia on the overnight attack on Kyiv.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said Moscow will use “a range of responses” if the US and its Nato allies allow Ukraine to use Western long-range weapons to strike inside Russia, according to remarks published on Sunday.

The Russian defence ministry “is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes on Russian territory, it will offer a range of responses”, Putin told state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin in video remarks published on Zarubin’s Telegram messaging account.

Russia’s air defence units destroyed or intercepted 51 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said early this morning.

Eighteen of the drones were intercepted over the Tambov region, some 450km southeast of Moscow, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.

Another 16 were destroyed over the Belgorod border region and the rest over the Voronezh, Oryol and Kursk regions in Russia’s south.

One woman was moderately injured as a result of the drone attack on Belgorod, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram. He added that a few cars were also damaged.

Tambov governor Maxim Yegorov said a Ukrainian drone fell onto the Michurinsky district, sparking a short-lived fire but causing no injuries or material damage.

The Russian defence ministry reports only how many drones its units destroy, not how many Ukraine launches. Russian officials also rarely disclose the full scale of damage inflicted by the attacks, especially when they involve military or energy infrastructure.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.