Russia struck Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday, October 7, damaging buildings and warehouses across the capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram. Explosions were heard across the city as Moscow pressed on with its nearly daily campaign of attacks on Ukrainian cities.
A separate strike on Dnipro, in Ukraine's southeast, damaged an industrial facility, according to regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha. No further details were immediately available.
Pressure across the front
Ukraine's General Staff reported 174 combat engagements by 22:00 on October 7. Russian forces carried out one missile strike and 46 air strikes, dropping 82 guided bombs, alongside more than 2,200 kamikaze drone launches and over 3,700 shelling attacks on Ukrainian positions and settlements.
The heaviest fighting was reported in the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka directions. In the Pokrovsk sector alone, Ukrainian forces said 144 Russian troops were killed, 99 of them irrecoverable, while one vehicle, one piece of special equipment and 15 drones were destroyed.
Assaults in the north-east
In the South-Slobozhansk direction, Russian troops attempted 28 assaults around Vovchansk, Vovchansky Khutory, Tyhyi, Ambarne, Kamianka and several other settlements, with some clashes still ongoing at the time of the update.
Further north, in the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, Ukrainian units repelled six assault attacks despite seven Russian air strikes and 164 shelling attacks, including fire from multiple-launch rocket systems.
Another night under fire
The latest strikes on Kyiv and Dnipro underline the pattern of the past weeks: Russia is combining mass drone and missile pressure on cities with relentless ground assaults in the east and north-east. Ukrainian defenders continue to hold their lines and inflict heavy losses, but the scale of the daily bombardment — thousands of shelling attacks and hundreds of guided bombs and drones in a single day — keeps pressure on air defences, infrastructure and civilians alike.
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