Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 200 combat engagements on October 7 and reported one missile strike, 82 airstrikes with 177 guided bombs, 5,012 shelling incidents and 6,159 kamikaze drones used.
• Fighting remained most intense on the Pokrovsk axis with 46 Russian assaults and on the Novopavlivsk axis with 32, while heavy battles also persisted on the Southern‑Slobozhansky, Lyman, Toretsk and other fronts.
• Strikes damaged energy and railway infrastructure in Poltava and Sumy regions; Ukrenergo reported outages in five oblasts and rolling blackouts in Chernihiv, and Ukrzaliznytsia rerouted and delayed trains on the Nizhyn corridor.
• Regional authorities reported civilian casualties and damage across multiple areas, including five people injured overnight in Dnipropetrovsk region and additional injuries and widespread destruction after 202 attacks in Sumy region.
• Southern defense officials described a tendency toward escalation with more drone and artillery strikes, while Ukrainian naval infantry reported no confirmed signs of preparations for a large Russian amphibious landing on the Dnipro’s right bank.