Overview

• Ukrainian officials reported that Russia launched about 549 attack systems on Oct. 5–6, including roughly 496 drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least five people in Lviv and Zaporizhzhia and knocking out power for about 73,000 households in the Zaporizhzhia area.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 251 Ukrainian drones in one night over 14 regions and Crimea, while the governor of Belgorod reported power cuts affecting nearly 40,000 residents after the strikes.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said its long‑range drones hit Russia’s Sverdlov munitions plant in Nizhny Novgorod, a Crimea oil terminal and a Russian ammunition depot, claims Moscow countered by noting interceptions near the plant and no major damage to industrial facilities.
• Poland’s armed forces placed aircraft and air defenses on heightened readiness to safeguard its airspace during the mass Russian strikes on Ukraine, describing the measures as preventive.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian weapons used in the Oct. 5–6 attacks contained 102,785 foreign‑made components across 549 systems, urging tighter enforcement of sanctions on technology supplies.