Overview

• Chief of the General Staff Valeriy Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin that Russian forces are advancing on nearly all axes, citing fighting near Primorsk and Stepnohors'k in Zaporizhzhia, operations in Kupyansk’s southern districts, and control over most of Yampil in Donetsk.
• The Defense Ministry reported claimed Ukrainian losses of more than 385 personnel in the “Vostok” sector, up to 225 in the “Zapad” sector, and up to 155 in areas covered by the “Southern” grouping, along with tanks, armored vehicles and artillery systems.
• Russian forces said they struck a traction substation and rail rolling stock used for Ukrainian troop movements, as well as airfield infrastructure, UAV assembly and storage sites, and a fuel depot, while Grad rocket fire near Mala Tokmachka was described as enabling assault units to take new positions.
• The ministry said air defenses destroyed 30 Ukrainian fixed‑wing drones over Belgorod, Kursk, Rostov and Voronezh regions on the evening of October 7, and the Rostov governor later reported additional drones intercepted overnight with a brief grass fire and no injuries.
• Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported three civilians killed and one injured in a strike on Maslova Pristan, and a pro‑Russian underground coordinator claimed hits on a training camp in Chernihiv and an aerodrome area in Kryvyi Rih, which could not be independently verified in the provided reports.