Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 193 combat engagements on October 6, with the Pokrovsk axis the most active as defenders repelled 59 attacks and Russian forces carried out extensive drone, missile and guided bomb strikes.
• Overnight assaults hit energy and rail assets in Poltava and Sumy regions, damaging depots and power facilities, sparking fires, and briefly delaying multiple intercity trains before service was restored, officials said.
• Ukrenergo reported consumers without power in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Sumy regions, enforced hourly outages in parts of Chernihiv, and urged energy conservation during evening peaks.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemned a dangerous escalation near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after IAEA experts recorded shootings and explosions about 1.25 kilometers from the site, noting the station has lacked stable external power.
• Law enforcement announced new actions against mobilization abuses, including an SBU case against Kyiv lawyers accused of removing over 300 men from military rolls, a DBR indictment of a Dnipro enlistment officer over 17 unlawful delistings, and arrests in fraud schemes involving humanitarian aid and falsified medical exemptions.