Ukhta refinery in Russia's Komi Republic attacked by drones, fire reported
Ukhta, Republic of Koma, locals report an attack on the Ukhta Refinery. A fire at the oil refinery after the attack. The Ukhtyn oil refinery in the Russian Federation was also attacked by drones at night. A fire started there. The plant is located at a distance of about 1,750 km from the Ukrainian border.
In the Republic of Komi, an attack on the Ukhtyn Oil Refinery, which belongs to the LUKOIL structure, is reported. The enterprise is able to process about 4.2 million tons of oil per year. The main products are automobile gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oil and vacuum gas oil. Information about the consequences of the attack and the extent of possible damage is being clarified.
Defense forces of Ukraine attacked the Lukoil-Ukhtanaftoperobka oil refinery in the Russian city of Ukhta, Republic of Komi. The refinery is located about 1,700 km from the state border of Ukraine.
Ukraine drones hit Tver region plant producing Kh-55/Kh-101 fuel components
Ryedkino, Tver region. Tonight, the Airline of the ZSU raided the Redkinsky research plant. The enterprise produces Decilin-M fuel components for Kh-55 and Kh-101 cruise missiles, as well as additives for diesel fuel and aviation kerosene. The plant is part of the production chain of the Russian military industry, providing the rocket and aviation industry with special chemical products. This is the second attack on the enterprise in 2026. The previous one happened in February.
In the village of Redkino, Tver region, a factory caught fire after a drone attack, the governor of the region, Igor Korolev, said. The company's employees were evacuated. The fire has already been extinguished. Ukrainian publics claim that a plant producing fuel for cruise missiles was attacked.
Ukrainian forces are mounting another large-scale attack drone raid into Russia tonight, the second in a row.
Local channels report multiple drone streams pushing deep into Russian airspace, with ongoing disruptions at multiple Russian airports.
Rolling blackouts have been implemented across most of Kyiv and parts of Kyiv Oblast today, to help limit energy consumption following repeated Russian attacks.
Various other regions of Ukraine are also experiencing scheduled power outages, which are expected to grow in length as energy infrastructure gets hit harder.
@alternative_war The site houses two of Yandex's three Nvidia A100 supercomputers, Lyapunov and Chervonenkis. Yandex says it cannot yet say whether the equipment can be restored.
@AMK_Mapping_ The Air Force counted 136 Shahed-type drones in the overnight attack, 93 of them jet-powered, plus Gerbera and Parodiya decoys, launched from Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, occupied Donetsk and Crimea.
@KyivIndependent The 8th SSO regiment's Vivaldi operators captured three Russian servicemen in one populated area of the Lyman direction after radio reconnaissance fixed the pair and they seized communications.
@KyivIndependent The plant is the Redkino Experimental Plant in Tver Oblast, which makes Decilin-M fuel components for Kh-55 and Kh-101 cruise missiles. It is US/UK sanctioned and was hit in February.
@EspresoTV Ukrainska Pravda says Tkach was on assignment locating fugitive former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko when he was detained in Vienna, and calls the detention unlawful.
@AMK_Mapping_ Energy strikes caused a voltage drop on 8 Oct that halted metro trains and escalators on all three lines. Klitschko said the city's own generation had been destroyed.
Occupied Luhansk under massive attack, power outages reported
Occupied Luhansk has been under a massive attack for several hours. Power outages are observed in some areas of the city. There are several burning points in the city, and the attack continues.
Zaporizhzhia: Russian strike hits residential building, one injured
Loud explosions were reported in Zaporizhzhia. The Russian army struck a residential building in the city, according to head of OVA Semikin. The consequences of the attack are being clarified. According to preliminary data, one person was injured as a result of the strike by the Russian Federation in Zaporizhzhia, Semikin reported.
Russia's internet suffered a major outage on 8 October after Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, overnight.
Yandex's press service confirmed the complete shutdown of the Sasovo data center, one of the company's largest data processing and storage centers, due to damage to part of the infrastructure. A fire broke out at the facility, and users reported problems with Yandex Disk, Yandex Documents and other services. The same strike hit the Sasta machine tool plant on the same territory.
Monitoring sites Sboy.rf and Downdetector reported outages at T-Bank, Sovcombank, Alfa-Bank, Avito, Google, YouTube, RuTube, the streaming platforms Ivi and KION, the Russian Railways website, several mobile operators and retailers such as Pyaterochka, Magnit and DNS, The Moscow Times reports. The worst disruptions were in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Online bus ticket sales in the Moscow region went down, and Mostransavto blamed the "suspension of operations at the data center that supports online ticket purchasing services."
Planet Labs satellite imagery comparing 22 September and 8 October shows roof damage to a large building at the site.
State Duma defense committee deputy chair Alexei Zhuravlev called on data center owners to protect their facilities from drones themselves, saying companies are already allowed to set up their own air defense, anti-drone nets and armed observation groups.
Buchansky district: Russian drone strike hits logistics sites, casualties reported
As a result of Russian UAV strikes on the morning of 8 October, a large-scale fire broke out at a logistics facility in Buchansky district, Kyiv region. Rescuers of the State Emergency Service localized the fire and continue dismantling and extinguishing structures despite the constant threat of new air attacks.
According to preliminary information, there are dead and many injured in Buchansky district. The Kyiv Regional Military Administration says the enemy attacked warehouses: three people were injured, one hospitalized, and two more treated on the spot. All necessary operational services are involved in eliminating the consequences.
Reporting also says the Russians hit warehouses of the ATB supermarket chain in Buchansky district. In Sviatopetrivske, a kindergarten school and a playground near one of the residential complexes were damaged, and glazing of high-rise buildings was also damaged. In another settlement of the district, a woman was injured with an open fracture of the right tibia and a contusion; she was hospitalized at a local hospital.
@MilitarySummary He also said giving Ukraine the advantage in the sky would bring Putin to the table, and asked the US to help protect Ukrainian airspace and keep Starlink capable.
Just a reminder it was exactly three months ago that Trump promised Ukraine its own license to build Patriot Interceptors and one month since the Lindsey Graham tariff bill was signed.
How’s all that support for Ukraine going, Trump apologists?
Seoul has recalled its ambassador from Kyiv amid a diplomatic row over Ukraine’s disclosure of the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea
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Russian propagandist Goldman seems to have only now realized how Russian military personnel are actually treated within the Russian army. Russia's "meat assaults" have been known about for quite some time, and the fact that soldiers who refuse to follow orders from Russian commanders can simply be taken away and "zeroed out."