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Welcome to Frontline Updates, briefing number 2710, recorded 27 October 2026. In this episode we speak with Colonel A.C. Oguntoye about the progress of the special military operation. The Russian groups of forces are active across six axes, with no named settlements changing hands but all sectors reporting improved lines, improved positions, or advances into the depth of Ukrainian defences. Ukrainian personnel losses exceed 1,115 troops, with 18 armoured fighting vehicles, one tank, 91 motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, one Czech-made Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, and one electronic warfare station destroyed. Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery struck 148 areas, while air defence systems shot down two guided aerial bombs and 645 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Colonel Oguntoye walks through the North, West, South, Center, East, and Dnepr sectors, assesses the campaign-shaping air and missile effort, and explains what this means for the Donetsk People's Republic, Kharkov, Sumy, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk directions.