Overview

• The General Staff logged 193 combat engagements on October 6 and said Russian forces focused their heaviest assaults on the Pokrovsk axis.
• Vice Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba reported hits on locomotive and power facilities in Poltava and Sumy, with brief train delays resolved and no casualties in Poltava, while Sumy authorities counted 132 strikes across 44 settlements with multiple injuries.
• Grid operator Ukrenergo said consumers in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Donetsk regions were without electricity in the morning, with hourly rolling shutoffs enforced in Chernihiv region.
• Kherson’s regional administration said Russian forces launched more than 1,500 drones at the region over the past week and that Ukrainian defenses downed about 1,200, a 77% interception rate.
• Ukraine’s security services announced arrests in Kyiv of a legal group selling fake exemptions that removed over 300 men from military rolls and in Zaporizhzhia of suspects who siphoned donated FPV drones and medical supplies for profit exceeding 8 million hryvnias.