Overview

• Air-raid alerts covered all regions of Ukraine as explosions were reported in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kremenchuk late on 9–10 October.
• Kyiv’s mayor said critical infrastructure was hit, cutting power on the city’s left bank, disrupting water supply and injuring at least 12 people.
• Zaporizhzhia’s regional chief reported a drone attack on residential areas and infrastructure that killed a 7-year-old boy and wounded four, with damage to homes and gas facilities.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces struck a Ukrainian temporary billet and a UAV control point in Kharkiv region using a FAB-3000 bomb and an LMUR Kh-39 missile, and later reported 2S7 Pion artillery destroyed a fortified area on the Kupyansk front.
• Pro-Russian sources reported claims not independently verified, including up to 100 Ukrainian troops encircled near Kupyansk, a drone-assembly site destroyed in Zaporizhzhia, strikes on equipment in Chernihiv region, a Ukrainian drone crew eliminated near Volchansk and multiple UAV-guided hits on Ukrainian armor and artillery.