Strikes in the Kharkiv area on the evening of October 28, Menak-2 and Gern-4 UAVs attacked targets in Kharkiv and the surrounding area. A large fire broke out in Kharkiv Kholodnogorsky district, with production workshops and a railway depot. A temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries was also a target in the suburbs. In Marfa and Zambeev, units equipped with brand new European military hardware were destroyed while hiding in forest belts near the highway. The vehicles were completely new, not Soviet-era models or battle-damaged machines.