Overview

• The General Staff said 174 engagements occurred on October 7, with 46 airstrikes, 2,229 kamikaze drones and 3,730 shellings, as fighting intensified on the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka axes and pressure rose on the southern front.
• Energy and transport facilities were hit in Poltava and Sumy overnight, trains were briefly delayed, and Ukrenergo reported morning outages in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Donetsk, with rolling cuts in Chernihiv.
• Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk told G7 envoys that more than 26 attacks struck energy sites in a day and urged additional air‑defense and electronic‑warfare support alongside equipment for repairs and protection.
• In the south, officials reported an escalating tempo of Russian drone and artillery strikes; the Kherson administration logged 1,535 UAV uses over a week with about 77% downed by Ukrainian defenses.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemned a dangerous escalation around the Russian‑occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after IAEA experts noted nearby shelling and prolonged loss of external power, while a fire at Crimea’s Feodosiya oil terminal persisted after a reported drone strike.