Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff put cumulative Russian personnel losses at about 1,119,390 and said 1,020 were lost in the latest 24 hours.
• The military reported 217 combat engagements in the past day, with the fiercest fighting on the Pokrovsk axis and heavy pressure also on the Oleksandrivsk direction.
• Local footage and reports showed a major fire at Feodosia’s oil terminal in occupied Crimea, while regional authorities withheld public details and Russia’s Defence Ministry instead highlighted mass UAV interceptions.
• Volgograd region officials said drones caused damage and fires at fuel‑energy facilities in Kotovsky district, with a report of a blaze at the LUKOIL‑Korobkivsky gas processing plant unconfirmed.
• Ukrainian regional authorities reported civilians killed and injured under Russian strikes, including two dead and eight wounded in Kherson on October 8, with additional damage in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions.