kremlin: three-way talks in Abu Dhabi in early November

Civilian victims of russian strikes on 23 October and the night of 24 October — per official reports; no consolidated national morning tally could be found, and the data are incomplete and may rise:

• Dnipropetrovsk region, 23.10 — 1 killed, 11 wounded (in Dnipro 1 killed and 8 hospitalised; another 3 wounded in Pidhorodne community); drone and artillery attacks on four districts (RMA head Oleksandr Hanzha)
• Kyiv, Obolonskyi district, night of 24.10 — 2 wounded, a private house damaged (Kyiv City Military Administration)
• Kharkiv region, dawn on 24.10 — 2 men wounded when a russian drone struck a village (per a Suspilne Kharkiv headline; text not read)

Dnipropetrovsk region, 23 October: regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported on Telegram one person killed and 11 wounded. In Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, infrastructure, businesses, private houses and cars were damaged; 8 of the wounded were hospitalised. In Nikopol district — across the Dnipro river from the russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — Nikopol and the communities of Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka, Pokrov and Mozoleve were hit; in Kryvyi Rih district, Karpivka and Hrushivka. Over the day the four districts were attacked almost 70 times. The source does not say which weapons were used.

181 combat clashes on 23 October, according to Ukraine’s General Staff (as of 08:00 24.10, Ukrinform 08:42). russia carried out 88 air strikes (309 KAB guided bombs), used 10,270 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,755 shelling attacks, 45 of them with MLRS. The attacks by direction add up to only 73, so they do not account for all 181 clashes; the General Staff does not explain the gap:

• Kostiantynivka — 23 attacks
• Pokrovsk — 19
• Huliaipole — 10
• South Slobozhanskyi — 5 (all repelled)
• Kupiansk — 5 attempts to advance
• Sloviansk — 5
• Lyman — 3
• Orikhiv — 2
• Oleksandrivka — 1
• North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk — 2 air strikes, 6 KABs, 47 shelling attacks; Kramatorsk and Prydniprovskyi — no assaults

russia lost 1,980 personnel in a day — slightly above the previous week’s average (≈1,940), according to Ukraine’s General Staff as of 24.10 (Glavcom 08:29); about 1,576,600 in total. Not independently confirmed:

• personnel — +1,980
• tanks — +5 (12,444)
• armoured fighting vehicles — +3 (25,600)
• artillery systems — +64 (51,565)
• MLRS — +2 (2,232)
• air-defence systems — +2 (1,722)
• operational-tactical UAVs — +1,855 (579,064)
• vehicles and fuel tankers — +413 (166,501)
• UGVs — +8; special equipment — +1; aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, ships — 0

russia launched 126 attack drones overnight into 24 October — the fewest since 13.10 and 42% below the previous week’s average (≈218). As of 08:00, 101 (80%) had been shot down or suppressed, 50 of them jet-powered; hits were recorded at 14 locations — the fewest since 11.10 — and debris at 5; 8 drones were still in the air. The report names no missiles. The mix included Shahed-type drones, some jet-powered, Banderol S-8000/Dan-T, Gerbera and Parodiya drones, launched from the directions of Shatalovo, Oryol, Bryansk, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and from occupied Donetsk and Hvardiiske in Crimea (from 18:00 on 23.10).

unverifiedAfter the talks in St Petersburg ended, russia carried out a new ballistic missile strike on Kyiv and drone attacks on other regions (per LB.ua; the date and consequences are not specified in the material read).

💥Strike results, 23 October, 12:38. Ukraine’s General Staff reported that “yesterday and today” the defence forces hit a depot and preparation and launch site for attack drones in Donetsk region; a unit command post near Hromove in occupied Crimea; an ammunition depot near Hirnyk, a drone depot near Sverdlove and a supply depot near Berdiansk; depots near Balkove and Orikhiv; and an assembly area of the “Rubikon” unit — russia’s elite drone formation — near Kamianka in Zaporizhzhia region. The General Staff statement is the official confirmation; these are tactical targets in occupied territory, not a deep strike into russia. Local authorities were not checked, and no exact coordinates were given.

• Donetsk region — depot, preparation and launch of attack drones
• Hromove (occupied Crimea) — unit command post
• Hirnyk — ammunition depot; Sverdlove — drone depot
• Berdiansk — supply depot
• Balkove and Orikhiv — supply depots
• Kamianka — assembly area of the “Rubikon” unit

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities, —): Statements by the occupation authorities for 23.10 were not searched for and none were found; no verdict.

🔥No new strikes on targets inside russia in the past day officially confirmed by the General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO, USF or Zaluzhnyi could be found. Morning Telegram and media reports of fires at russian facilities on 23–24.10 were not read and are not included. Local authorities were not checked.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (—, —): Not checked: no confirmed strikes.

🤝Peskov said on 23 October that three-way technical talks between Ukraine, the US and russia would take place in Abu Dhabi in early November. According to Axios (21.10), the format was agreed with Kyiv in Oslo and with Moscow in St Petersburg; Ushakov named around 10 November as a tentative date. Kyiv wants a meeting of leaders, a format Moscow has rejected. According to an LB.ua headline, Zelensky confirmed that talks were possible in November (the text was not read).

🕊️unverifiedA reminder from 21.10: at a three-hour meeting with Witkoff in St Petersburg (with Kushner joining remotely), Putin announced the release of Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American held for more than four years, and — according to the russian and US officials Axios cites — agreed “in principle” to resume three-way talks.

Putin agrees in principle to resume trilateral talks.

🕊️Is Putin a humanitarian? At a White House event (CBS via LB.ua, 22.10), Trump said Witkoff’s words could be justified by the release of the American, but he would not go any further than that. Earlier, on Truth Social, he wrote that there had been no swap and the US had given nothing (Axios, 21.10); Senators Tillis and Cornyn criticised Witkoff’s remark.

unverifiedAccording to a US News headline on 23.10, Trump said the US could carry out another military operation against Iran; the content and venue of the speech were not read (page unavailable).

🤷light noteAt a campaign rally in Florida on 23 October, Trump said tariffs had helped end eight wars, and added that perhaps they should be applied to Ukraine and russia right away: “I never thought of that” (Ukrainian retelling by Censor.NET). He immediately noted that it would not work, because the US buys little from either country.

🏛️Repeated from 21.10: Senator Thom Tillis responded to Witkoff calling Putin a “humanitarian” — “Look up the definition of ‘humanitarian’.”; John Cornyn wrote “Putin is stone cold killer” (posts on X, per Axios). China’s reaction for the day was not searched for.

Look up the definition of 'humanitarian'.

🗣️unverifiedkremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on 23 October that Ukraine–US–russia talks would take place in Abu Dhabi early next month; asked whether Europe would take part, he said “nothing can be ruled out a priori”, but that the format is three-way. Putin has instructed negotiators to discuss security for russia and Ukraine once a settlement begins. Context: Moscow still demands all of the Donbas and Crimea, while Kyiv wants a settlement starting from the current front line.

🗣️A reminder from 21.10: Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov named around 10 November as a tentative date for three-way talks, possibly in Abu Dhabi; Oslo, he said, “did not yield much of use”, and he blamed earlier cancelled talks on Ukrainian strikes on election day.