Overview

• An overnight Russian aerial assault across multiple regions killed five people and injured 19, with Odesa’s port area set ablaze and parts of Chornomorsk left without power, according to regional officials.
• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 217 combat engagements on Oct. 8 and reported 199 more by Thursday evening, with the heaviest fighting concentrated on the Pokrovsk and Oleksandrivsk axes.
• Ukrenergo said Chernihiv is operating under three simultaneous schedules of hourly power cuts as crews repair damaged equipment, and the operator urged consumers to conserve electricity.
• Ukraine’s military said its forces struck the Korobkovsky gas‑processing plant in Kotovo and the Yefimovka dispatch station in Russia’s Volgograd region, reporting explosions and fires while cautioning that damage assessments are pending.
• The fire at the Feodosiya fuel terminal in occupied Crimea continued into a fourth day after a Ukrainian drone attack, as local occupation authorities offered scant public information.