General Staff report: 149 clashes took place at the front

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information as of 08:00 on October 13, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion.

In total, 149 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, the enemy carried out 91 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, dropping 215 guided bombs. In addition, it carried out 5,436 attacks, 83 of them from multiple rocket launcher systems, and used 5,256 kamikaze drones to destroy them.

The aggressor carried out airstrikes, in particular, on the areas of the settlements of Kharkiv in the Kharkiv region; Yuryivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region; Kostyantynivka, Mykolaivka, Siversk in the Donetsk region; Magdalinivka, Novoandreivka in the Zaporizhia region; Mykolaivka in the Kherson region.

Over the past day, the Defense Forces’ aviation, missile forces, and artillery have struck ten areas of concentration of enemy personnel and equipment.

Four combat clashes took place in the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions over the past day. The enemy launched eight air strikes, dropped a total of 15 guided bombs, and carried out 174 shellings.

In the South-Slobozhansk direction, 23 combat clashes occurred in the areas of Vovchansk, Novovasylivka, Kamyanka, Zapadne, Kutkivka, and in the direction of Bolohivka and Kolodyazne.

Six attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction over the past day. Defense forces repelled enemy assault actions in the areas of Kupyansk, Pishchane, Stepova Novoselivka, and Petropavlivka.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked nine times, trying to advance in the areas of the settlements of Novomykhailivka, Drobysheve, Myrne, Zeleny Gay, and Shandryholove.

In the Slavyansk direction, over the past 24 hours, the enemy carried out three attacks on the positions of our units in the areas of the settlements of Yampil, Serebryanka, and Viyimka.

Two combat clashes were recorded in the Kramatorsk direction – the invaders tried to advance in the direction of Stupochok.

In the Kostyantynivka direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Shcherbynivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Pleshchiivka, Rusyn Yar, and Poltavka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 46 offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Shakhove, Nykanorivka, Novoekonomichne, Rodynske, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Udachne, Novoserhiivka, Kotlyarivka, Horikhove, and Dachne.

In the Oleksandrivka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 24 attacks on the positions of our troops near the settlements of Ivanivka, Oleksandrovka, Sosnivka, Sichneve, Vorone, Stepove, Verbove, Oleksiivka, and Novohrygorivka.

In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy carried out four assaults in the Stepovoye area and towards Stepnohirsk and Primorske.

Over the past day, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Hulyaipil and Prydniprovsk directions.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.

Our soldiers inflict significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment, and actively undermine the enemy’s offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders last day amounted to 1,140 people . Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized three tanks, 21 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, 232 unmanned aerial vehicles of the operational-tactical level, 109 units of automotive equipment and one unit of special equipment of the invaders.

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