Overview
- Sustained Russian raids on energy infrastructure have left parts of consumers in 12 oblasts without power, with Dnipropetrovsk region reporting more than 600,000 people offline.
- The temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost external supply and is operating on diesel generators, forcing emergency procedures and raising safety concerns.
- A precision aviation strike on an underground school in Komyshuvakha killed 55 people and rescue work has been repeatedly halted by follow-up drone attacks on teams and equipment.
- Ukraine is facing very high battlefield activity, with the General Staff reporting hundreds of clashes and the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions as Russian forces press multiple axes.
- Ukrainian strikes have degraded four Russian drone command-and-control nodes, which has reduced some UAV activity but has not stopped mass kamikaze and FPV drone attacks that continue to hamper repairs and aid during the run-up to winter.