Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin warns of retaliation if Ukraine strikes with Western long-range weapons

Vladimir Putin did not deny reports that North Korea sent troops to Russia to join the Russian president’s war in Ukraine but instead pointed to his country’s recent military treaty with Pyongyang which deals with mutual defence.

Mr Putin was asked by a reporter about satellite imagery apparently showing North Korean troops operating in Russia at a news conference on Thursday during the end of the Brics summit in the Russian city of Kazan.

“Images are a serious matter. If images exist, they indicate something,” Mr Putin said. He went on to attack the US for “escalating tensions in Ukraine” and denounced “direct involvement of Nato troops” in the conflict.

The head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that two people were killed in an artillery barrage on Stanislav.

“Unfortunately, today the Russian army took the lives of two more people in the Kherson region. Around two o’clock in the afternoon, the enemy fired on Stanislav with artillery.

“Two men were fatally wounded. Both died at the scene. I express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims,” he said.

The Kherson Regional Military Administration added: “A man, 49, sustained blast trauma and concussion. The victim was outside at the time of the strike. He refused to be hospitalized, so medics treated him at the scene.”

Kharviv authorities have revealed the body of a man was found in a house in Radkove in the Chuhuiv district,

“Rescuers recovered the body of a dead 65-year-old man from the rubble of a private house in the village of Radkove, Chuhuiv district,” a post from Kharkiv Regional Military Administration read.

Another local resident suffered an acute stress reaction.

Russian forces struck three settlements on 26 October, damaging residential buildings.

The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the death toll after Russian strikes on the region has risen to five.

“Rescuers have recovered the body of a man from the rubble,” he wrote.

It came after a Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others with at least 21 others injured including an eight-year-old and teenagers.

The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.

The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.

A Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others, said regional governor Serhii Lysak.

The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.

The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.

A man and woman died after a Russian drone dropped explosives on a village in the southern Kherson region, local prosecutors said, while two people in their 60s were killed by shelling in the Kharkiv province in the north east.

Donald Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan he would be able to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine if he was elected.

Asked how he would avoid the course of WW3, he said: “I know both very well. If I told you exactly what I would do I could never get the deal done.” “I believe as President-elect I would get that war stopped and stopped fast.

“We have tremendous power in the US. I stopped other wars just by using tariffs.”

583 children were killed, two of them within the past day, reported the Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram.

One child was killed in Kyiv and one in Dnipro in overnight airstrikes.

“As of the morning of October 26, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 583 children were killed and more than 1,655 sustained injuries of varying severity.

“Children were most affected in the following regions: Donetsk region - 595, Kharkiv region - 454, Dnipropetrovsk region - 183, Kherson region - 181, Kyiv region - 133, Zaporizhzhia region - 145,” the report says.

In total, more than 2,238 children have been affected by the war.

An airstrike has killed a civilian and destroyed a police car after attacks in the Nikolaiv region.

FPV drones struck in the suburbs, reportedly struck on Sunday afternoon.

A 43-year-old resident was killed while riding a moped through the village, according to the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration.

FPV drones launched repeated strikes on police officers who arrived at the scene to investigate the attack.

The fire completely destroyed their car but the police officers were not hurt.

Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal emphasised that Ukraine needs more weapons after Russian strikes killed at least four overnight.

“Unfortunately, there are casualties — people died, including children,” the Prime Minister noted on Telegram.

“More weapons, long-range capabilities, and harsher sanctions pressure on the enemy— this is what Ukraine needs right now for the safety of our citizens, for the safety of Europe, and to achieve a just peace.”

Ukraine has claimed to have shot down 44 Russian strike drones overnight as they continue to count casualties.

“As a result of air combat, as of 12:00, October 26, 44 enemy drones have been confirmed downed in Kirovohrad, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Kursk regions,” a Telegram post by the Ukrainian Air Force message reads.

It came after the Russians were accused of conducting missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in the Sumy region and Dnipro, resulting in civilian casualties.

A Russian drone strike killed a teenager in Kyiv during a nighttime barrage on the Ukrainian capital that lasted for hours, officials said, while four people were reportedly killed in a missile attack on central Ukraine that also left at least 20 injured.

As reported, three missile strikes hit Dnipro overnight. Twenty people were injured, and four people, including a 14-year-old child, were killed.

Over ten high-rise buildings, two private houses, medical facility buildings, a garage, and thirty civilian vehicles were damaged.

In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, a Russian strike drone hit a residential building, resulting in one death and six injuries.