Enemy conducting offensive operations near Bakhmut, Avdiivka – General Staff

At the same time, the enemy is still attempting to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update, Ukrinform reports.

"In the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces repelled occupiers' attacks outside the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhgrad, Marinka, Soledar, Ozarianivka, Odradivka in the Donetsk region and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region," the report said.

The enemy is shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. On October 22, the Russian occupiers again resorted to massive shelling of critical infrastructure and civilian housing, violating the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war. More than half of the cruise missiles and attack UAVs launched by the enemy were shot down by the defense forces of Ukraine.

In total, over the past day, the invaders launched 32 missile and 25 air strikes and carried out more than 80 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems.

The enemy launched strikes on energy and critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Mykolaiv regions.