Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 200 engagements on October 7, including 82 airstrikes with 177 glide bombs and 6,159 kamikaze drones, with 46 assaults repelled near Pokrovsk and 32 on the Novopavlivsk axis.
• Russian Shahed drones struck a freight train on the Nosivka–Nizhyn line in Chernihiv region, damaging tracks and storage facilities and forcing Ukrainian Railways to reroute, delay and suspend multiple services.
• Ukrenergo reported outages across Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Donetsk regions, with rolling cuts in Chernihiv, as the energy minister counted over 26 attacks on power assets in a day and pressed G7 envoys for more air defence and EW.
• Regional officials reported civilian casualties and damage from widespread strikes, including five injured overnight in Dnipropetrovsk, deaths and injuries in Kherson and Donetsk, and 202 separate attacks across Sumy that hit homes and infrastructure.
• Zelensky said Russian forces were ordered to storm positions near Pokrovsk “at any cost,” while southern commanders noted increased drone and artillery fire but reported no evidence of preparations for a major river crossing in Kherson.