Overview

• Overnight strikes in Poltava and Sumy hit rail depots, traction substations and power facilities, causing fires, brief train delays and outages, as Ukrenergo reports consumers without electricity in five oblasts and rolling cuts in Chernihiv.
• Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk says more than 26 attacks on energy infrastructure were recorded in a single day and lists urgent needs including additional air-defense and electronic-warfare systems, spare equipment and passive protection, plus increased gas imports.
• The General Staff logged 193 combat engagements on October 6 and 101 by mid‑afternoon on October 7, with Ukrainian forces reporting 59 assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk front and a tightening fight on southern axes where Russia increased drone and artillery strikes.
• Ukraine’s security services reported new arrests targeting internal threats, including a Kyiv legal network that removed more than 300 men from the draft rolls and a Zaporizhzhia group that diverted volunteer‑supplied FPV drones and medical gear for profit.
• IAEA observers noted firing close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry warned of a dangerous escalation and urged demilitarization and restoration of external power, while satellite data showed a major blaze continuing at Feodosiya’s oil terminal in occupied Crimea.