Ukraine has a population of between 20 and 25 million remaining.

There is no scenario where a country of Ukraine's size, let alone with such a devastated economy and massive post-war costs, is maintaining an army anywhere near 800,000 in peacetime.

This is just complete fantasy.

Ansarallah claims that it engaged a Saudi F-15 fighter jet formation with surface-to-air missiles, forcing it to retreat and abandon a combat mission to strike the Yemeni capital Sana'a.

It seems either a friendly fire incident or some sort of crash occurred involving Russian aircraft, which were taking part in air defence operations against Ukrainian drones near St. Petersburg last night.

The pilots apparently did not survive. No other details are known at this moment.

Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.

At least 11 missiles were used in total, including ~5 Iskander-Ms, ~4 Rm-48U modified S-400s, and ~2 Kn-23s.

Locations targeted include:

- An "Epicentr" Shopping Centre in northern Kyiv (3 strikes)

- The eastern industrial zone of Kyiv (4 strikes)

- Unknown targets located east of Bila Tservka (2 strikes), on the southwestern outskirts of Kyiv (1 strike), and near Irpin (1 strike).

It's possible that there was a 6th Iskander-M that was shot down near Irpin, however this is currently unconfirmed.

Footage showing the impact of a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile in Kyiv tonight.

It's claimed that this is at an "Epicentr" Shopping Centre in the northern suburbs of the city.

Russia 🇷🇺 continues massive strikes against Ukrainian 🇺🇦 energy infrastructure, with hundreds of strikes

-> The primary target is the electrical network (powerplants, substations, pylons...)
-> The secondary target is the heating network

Most of the strikes in 2026 are mapped :

There is a possibility of Russia carrying out additional ballistic/cruise missile launches towards Kyiv/Kyiv Oblast in the coming hours.

Regarding the colossal amount of Russian losses reported by the Ukrainian General Staff, this is due to a combination of continued and abnormally aggressive Russian assaults in certain directions, specifically Dobropillia and Huliaipole; the falling of the leaves, which both help to actually eliminate more Russian resources but also help to verify them, which is a condition to add them to the daily count; and, very likely, some exaggeration.

I agree. This is a common trend for this time of the year, where all the usual movement and infiltration routes are all of a sudden very exposed due to falling leaves. This, combined with unusually intense Russian offensive operations, is naturally going to create such an effect. I expect casualties will begin to decrease over winter.

Of course, as Playfra rightly points out, these numbers provided by the Ukrainian General Staff are exaggerated. In my opinion, the claims of 3k Russian casualties in a day (KIA + WIA) are a significant exaggeration. Claims that they have videos of all the FPV strikes are just claims, and there is no way to verify these numbers when we only see a small fraction of this supposed total.

And one must also ask, if Russia is suffering such heavy casualties due to these abnormally large offensive operations, then how many casualties is Ukraine suffering due to these same abnormally large offensive operations, which are naturally supported with larger-than-usual strike campaigns.