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The oil refinery in the town of Kirishi, Leningrad region — one of Russia’s largest — has shut down its most powerful crude distillation unit, CDU-6, following a drone attack and subsequent fire.
Czech President Petr Pavel stressed that halting the initiative to supply ammunition to Ukraine would primarily harm the Czech Republic itself.
Russian forces have once again struck the energy infrastructure of Donetsk region, leaving several settlements without electricity.
Pilots from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Pomsta border brigade, working in close cooperation with neighboring units, stopped an attempt by Russian invaders to capture Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the temporary suspension of the US government (“shutdown”) did not stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
Due to the growing drone and missile threat from Russia, the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually being moved deeper into the country, away from the front line.
The Sumy Regional Military Administration (RMA) has released a video of the moment of the enemy strike on the perinatal center. A 60-year-old woman was injured as a result of the attack.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has confirmed strikes on the Sverdlov Plant in Russia and an oil terminal in Feodosia, Crimea.
Russian forces have carried out a targeted strike on a medical facility in Sumy.
Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) has recorded a steady increase in Chinese support for Russia since 2023.
On the night of October 6, drones struck several military-industrial facilities in Russia.
The decision to disband the strike drone company of the 10th Mobile Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) was made due to the unit’s lack of effectiveness in completing assigned missions.
North Korea currently provides Russia with 35–50% of its ammunition requirements, delivering 200,000–260,000 shells of 152 mm and 122 mm per month.
In recent days, Russian occupation forces have been attempting to step up their activity near Vovchansk.
The Kremlin is trying to prevent the United States from providing long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine in order to preserve the safety of its rear areas, as such missiles would enable Ukrainian forces to significantly weaken the combat effectiveness of Russian forces at the front.
Russian forces shelled Kherson community in the morning of October 6, killing one person and injuring several others.
In Kyiv region, several cargo trucks were destroyed or damaged as a result of a nighttime Russian drone attack.
Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 83 out of 116 drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine starting in the evening of October 5.
On the night of October 6, Russian drones attacked a civilian industrial facility in Odesa region.
In Chernihiv region, Russian forces attacked an energy facility overnight on October 6, resulting in power outages.
Over the past 24 hours, 231 combat engagements occurred between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the heaviest pressure from the enemy concentrated in the Pokrovsk sector of the front.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian army attacked Nikopol and the Synelnykivskyi district with drones.
Over the past day, October 5, Russian invaders wounded three residents of Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have launched 762 strikes on 17 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, killing one person and injuring 11 others.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to October 6, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,116,340 people, including 1,090 people over the past day.
Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian strike drone in western Ukraine with the help of the Skynex anti-aircraft artillery system.
Soldiers of the 35th Sumy Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed 18 enemy shelters and neutralized 20 Russian invaders.
Coastal defense forces used a drone to neutralize a Russian boat and its crew.
Fighters from the Rubizh Rapid Reaction Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine captured a Russian soldier and two residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region who had signed contracts with the Russian armed forces.