Main news overnight and Tuesday morning, 27 October: ballistic strike on Kyiv, ceasefire in Oleshky, Stubb and Stere talk with Putin

Nightly air raids, 196 clashes in fighting, battles on the Konstantinivske and Pokrovske directions, enemy shelling, Konotop without power.

Around 3:30 in the night the Russians launched a new wave of attacks on the capital using ballistic missiles. In Kyiv, a red air-raid alert level was announced.

According to monitoring channels, the shelling was carried out from Bryansk.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that in the Podilskyi district an administrative building was hit. Two other addresses sustained damage to non-residential buildings.

This was the second ballistic attack on the city in the evening and night. During the first, the Russians killed one person and injured ten; a university dormitory was hit.

As of the morning of 27 October it was reported that in both waves of attacks Russia killed one person in Kyiv and injured 15. Law enforcement agencies are recording damage in six districts of the city.

In the Desnianskyi district, a woman of 46 years died as a result of the enemy strike. Another 13 people aged from 19 to 59 were injured. Among the injured are two workers of the emergency medical team. As of the morning, the number of those injured after the Russian strike on the university campus and surrounding area yesterday evening has risen to 12, five of them students and university staff, said President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The enemy strike damaged multi-story and private residential buildings, medical facilities, a subway station, a university dormitory, a business center, an administrative building, trams and cars.

As a result of the ballistic attack at night, on 27 October the South Bridge was damaged again. The bridge traffic is currently closed, city mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Facebook.

“Train movement between the Osokorky and Chervonyi Hutir stations on the green line of the metro is also suspended,” the report says.

During the first wave of the attack, after the 21-hour mark, there were damages to the metro and between the Darniytsia and Chernihivska stations and exits from Lisova. Now the entire red line is functioning normally.

“Metro specialists worked all night to ensure movement at all stations,” Klitschko said.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that yesterday on the front there were 196 clashes.

The enemy was most active on the Pokrovskyi (26 attack) and Konstantynivskyi (22) directions.

In the Hluyai-Pil district the occupiers 15 attacked our defenders’ positions multiple times.

More about the operational situation – in the news.

Also the General Staff informs that the Defense Forces yesterday eliminated another 1400 Russian occupiers. In total since the beginning of the full-scale invasion Russia has lost in Ukraine about 1 581 840 military personnel.

More information about the enemy’s losses is in the news.

In the area of the occupied town of Holykhivka, Kherson region at 3:00 a ceasefire regime has begun, said Ombudsman of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets.

He emphasized that the Ukrainian side is fulfilling its agreements.

Lubinets reminded that this is taking place within the humanitarian mission conducted jointly with the Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Yana Lantratova, with the mediation and coordination of the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump.

More details in the news.

In the night to 27 October Russia attacked Ukraine with Iskander-M/S-400 from the Bryansk region, 280 strike drones of Shahed type (69 of them are reactive), Gerberas, decoy drones of type “Parody” from directions: Orel, Millerovo, Kursk, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtersk (RF), TOT Donetsk, TOT AR Crimea – Hvardijske.

The main direction of the enemy strike is Kyiv.

According to preliminary data, as of 09:00 by air defense or suppression were shot down/neutralized 257 enemy targets: 2 Iskander-M/S-400 and 255 enemy Shahed-type drones (56 of them are reactive), Gerberas, drones of other types.

There were confirmed hits of enemy air attack means on 25 locations, as well as the fall of fragments on 16 locations.

As a result of Russian strikes the city of Konotop in Sumy region has been without power for the fourth day, said Konotop mayor Artem Semenikhin on the Suspilne air.

Water intakes have stopped, part of critical infrastructure has switched to backup power sources.

“Damaged educational institutions, even our hospital is now operating on generators. It was such a treacherous strike in the middle of the night on civilian infrastructure. We opened points of invincibility. Water is supplied according to the schedule: from 6:00 to 9:00, also from 18:00 to 21:00,” Semenikhin said.

“Unfortunately, there are no forecasts for electricity. No forecasts at all,” he wrote in Telegram.

President of Finland Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gar Sterre 27 October held a phone conversation with Putin. The sides discussed Russia’s war against Ukraine and diplomatic efforts to end it, the Finnish president’s office said. The Finnish president’s office emphasized that Stubb and Stere took part in the talks as leaders of their states, not as representatives of Europe.

During preparations for the phone talks Finland and Norway consulted with Ukraine. One of the goals was to transmit to Putin Ukrainian signals regarding future peace talks in Abu Dhabi.

“The conversation was direct and matter-of-fact. We are neighbors of Russia. How the war ends will affect the security of Finland, Norway, and Europe as a whole. Ending the war requires direct negotiations,” Stubb said.

Advisor to the Ukrainian president Dmytro Lytvyn in comments to journalists said that after the call with Putin Stubb and Stere contacted Volodymyr Zelensky to share details.

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