Overview

• An overnight attack on Kyiv set apartments ablaze and hit energy facilities, injuring eight people and cutting electricity to the city's left bank with water supply disruptions reported, officials said.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 112 combat drones from multiple directions starting the evening of October 8 and that defenses neutralized 87, though 22 UAVs hit 12 locations.
• Regional authorities in Sumy reported three civilians killed and two injured during a concentrated assault using drones and guided aerial bombs across several hromadas.
• In Kherson’s Korabelny district, a drone strike on a utility vehicle killed a municipal worker and left three colleagues hospitalized in serious condition.
• Russian regional officials reported Ukrainian UAV attacks in Belgorod and Rostov with injuries and damage, while Ukraine’s General Staff said it struck the Korobkovsky gas processing plant and the Yefimovka dispatch station in Russia’s Volgograd region.