Trump said it is time for Ukraine to choose a new president; Kyiv replies that only the people decide

Civilian victims of russian strikes on 10 October and the night of 11 October — per official reports as of the morning of 11.10; the data are incomplete and may rise. The totals of the most severe earlier strikes are given for comparison:

• Kramatorsk (Donetsk region), 8.10 — at least 33 killed, 18 injured, an aerial bomb on a bus stop with two scheduled buses (as of 13:09 8.10; no final data found)
• Pryluky (Chernihiv region), 7.10 — 22 killed (5 of them children), 54 injured (7 of them children), missile strike on a five-storey building; search operation completed on 8.10
• Zaporizhzhia, 10.10 (≈04:48) — 20 killed (3 of them children), 32 injured; per the State Emergency Service at 18:15 — 18 injured (3 of them children); guided aerial bombs on a five-storey building and residential blocks; 11.10 declared a day of mourning in the city
• Dnipropetrovsk region, Nikopol district, 10.10 — 1 killed (an 11-year-old boy), 5 injured (2 of them children), drones and artillery
• Donetsk region, Sloviansk, 10.10 — 1 killed; 4 injured across the region over the day
• Kyiv, Obolon, 10.10 at about 14:00 — 8 injured (including a 15-year-old girl), missile debris in a residential courtyard and a hit on a restaurant
• Dnipro, night of 11.10 — 4 injured (including two 8-year-old girls), a drone hit a nine-storey building
• Kharkiv, 10.10 — 5 injured, a fire at a medical facility after a drone strike
• Mykolaiv region, Snihurivka, 10.10 — 2 women injured, missiles on an enterprise

Zaporizhzhia, 10 October at 04:48: russian guided aerial bombs hit a five-storey apartment building and residential blocks in Shevchenkivskyi and Voznesenivskyi districts; at least 26 residential buildings were damaged. Timeline of the figures: around 13:18 — 12 killed (3 of them children); at 15:00 per the State Emergency Service — 17 killed; at 18:15 per the State Emergency Service — 20 killed (3 of them children) and 18 injured; at 21:25 Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia regional defence council, reported 20 killed and 32 injured. The search and rescue operation at the site has been completed; according to earlier data, at least 11 people were missing. 11 October was declared a day of mourning in the city. Separately, on the morning of 11.10 Fedorov gave 20 killed and 37 injured over the day for the city and district — a different, broader count; see discrepancies.

Kyiv, Obolon, 10 October at about 14:00: missile debris fell in the courtyard of an apartment building, and a hit was recorded on a restaurant building. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko (19:54), eight were injured, including a 15-year-old girl who was hospitalised; at 15:37 the State Emergency Service spoke of five. The missile type has not been officially named. The strike coincided with damage to an energy facility in Kyiv region: the capital had emergency power cuts and water disruptions.

221 combat clashes were recorded on 10 October. russia carried out 73 airstrikes (255 KABs), used 8,444 kamikaze drones, shelled positions and settlements 2,553 times (45 of them with MLRS) and carried out 1 missile strike. Attacks by direction (the named directions account for only 95 of the 221 clashes; the rest are not broken down in the retelling of the report):

• Pokrovsk — 25
• Huliaipole — 21
• Kostiantynivka — 18
• Lyman and South Slobozhanskyi — 10 each
• Sloviansk — 6
• North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk — 3
• Kupiansk and Prydniprovskyi — 1 each
• Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivka, Orikhiv — no assaults

Ukraine’s General Staff reports russian losses for 10–11 October (total ~1,552,840 personnel; no independent confirmation):

• personnel — 1,930
• tanks — 2
• armoured vehicles — 6
• artillery systems — 39
• MLRS — 4
• air defence systems — 2
• unmanned ground vehicles — 7
• operational-tactical UAVs — 1,531
• vehicles — 557
• special equipment — 3

On the night of 11 October russia attacked with 116 strike drones. By 08:30, 94 had been shot down or suppressed (74 of them jet-powered); 10 drones hit 7 locations and debris fell at 9 more. The night report says nothing about missiles; at the time of the report about 10 drones were in the air. Overnight a drone hit a nine-storey building in Dnipro (4 injured), and in Odesa a residential building, an administrative building and the building of the telecom company TENET were damaged.

During the day on 10 October russia carried out a missile strike on Kyiv (the General Staff’s daily report noted 1 missile strike over the day): the sixth air-raid alert of the day lasted 37 minutes, and the hit was in Obolon. According to Ukrinform, on the night of 10.10 the strikes targeted the energy system of Kyiv region; Ukrenergo, as retold by Ukrinform, notes that russia is increasingly hitting transmission and distribution networks rather than generation. On 10.10 a jet Shahed reached Lviv for the first time; it was shot down by air defence.

🔥📏 920 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Samara pumping station (Transneft; village of Prosvet, Samara region), night of 10 October — a repeat strike, the third in a month. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the hit (report of 10.10, before 15:34 Kyiv time) and wrote that the military are clarifying the extent of the damage. For comparison, according to the General Staff, after the strike of 2.10, 11 RVS-20000 tanks, 3 RVSPK-50000 tanks, a section of pipelines and an automated loading station were damaged, and on 7.10 four tanks of 50,000 m³ were destroyed. No statements by the local authorities about the consequences of this particular strike were found: the hit is neither confirmed nor denied.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Samara region authorities, 10.10): no statements about the consequences of the 10.10 strike on this site were found.

💥unverified📏 605 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Yandex data centre (Vladimir), night of 11 October. According to Glavcom and LB.ua (citing the OSINT channel Supernova+ and Astra), drones attacked a data processing centre; russian media citing the company wrote that it had stopped operating, and Yandex Cloud reported power supply problems in one of its availability zones and outages of a number of services. This is the third strike on Yandex sites in four days (Sasovo 8.10, Kaluga 9.10). As of the morning of 11.10 the General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO and USF had not confirmed the hit. The local authorities effectively acknowledged the consequences without naming the site: Governor Aleksandr Avdeyev reported a drone attack on infrastructure on the outskirts of Vladimir, two substations disconnected and about 5,000 residents without power.

local authorities: indirectLocal authorities (Vladimir region governor Aleksandr Avdeyev (via LB.ua), 11.10): drones attacked infrastructure on the outskirts of Vladimir; two substations disconnected, about 5,000 residents without power; nearby buildings were evacuated; did not mention the data centre.

💥📏 110 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Military targets, 9 October and the night of 10 October. Ukraine’s General Staff (report of 10.10, 15:52 per Channel 5) confirmed hitting: an EW station near Trukhanovo (Bryansk region), command posts near Peremozhne (Zaporizhzhia region) and Dokuchaievsk, a sergeants’ training centre near Khorly (Kherson region), a repair and maintenance base near Sukhodilsk, a fuel and lubricants depot near Chystiakove, materiel depots near Rodynske and Borovenky (Donetsk and Luhansk regions). The extent of the damage was not given. The Bryansk region authorities said nothing about this EW station — no statements were found.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Bryansk region authorities, 10.10): no statements about these sites were found.

🛢️unverified📏 70 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Oil loading terminal in Rostov region, night of 10 October. According to Ukrinform (09:14), Ukrainska Pravda and Espreso, an oil terminal is burning after a drone attack; the operator and the extent of the damage are not named. As of the morning of 11.10 the General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO and USF had not confirmed this strike. No statements by the Rostov region authorities about the site were found.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Rostov region authorities, 10.10): no statements about this site were found.

As of the morning of 11.10 there are no results or confirmation from the General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO and USF for the strikes on: the Volodarskaya pumping station (Moscow region, 6.10), a tanker in the port of Sochi (6.10), an enterprise in Sasovo district (8.10), an enterprise in Krasnodar (8.10), the Ukhta refinery (9.10), a Yandex data centre in Kaluga region (9.10), an oil terminal in Rostov (10.10) and a Yandex data centre in Vladimir (11.10). Results usually appear a day or more later.

ISW / Critical Threats, in its assessment for 9 October, writes that the US diesel concession will “finance” russia’s war economy, that Ukraine has hit a Yandex data centre for the second time (in Kaluga region) and that sanctions will complicate its restoration, and that Ukrainian forces recently advanced north-east of Lyman and east of Oleksandrivka. ISW also notes that russia appears to be localising production of Geran components (including CRPA antennas) in the Alabuga special economic zone with Chinese involvement. The assessment for 10.10 could not be read.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced northeast of Lyman and east of Oleksandrivka

unverifiedThe New York Times, as retold by Ukrinform, writes that russia is physically unable to deliver the diesel volumes promised by Trump, because Ukrainian strikes have left fuel short even on the domestic market; analysts quoted by CNN estimate the increase in supply at about 5–6% by the end of the year, and diesel futures fell 4% on Friday. The NYT original could not be read.

The talks between the Ukrainian and American teams in Miami ended earlier than planned; the Ukrainian delegation is returning home. Presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said the talks have not been cancelled, and that the first day “dragged on” and left “a somewhat different aftertaste”. Zelensky, according to Ukrinform, says the Ukrainian team is being used as a “screen” for a deal with Putin.

unverifiedAccording to the Financial Times and Axios (as retold by Ukrinform), Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner threatened to stop intelligence sharing with Ukraine if Kyiv did not halt strikes on russian refineries. An American official had earlier told Axios that there were no threats to cancel intelligence access; the FT original had not been read at the time of the issue; see discrepancies.

European reactions to Trump’s diesel deal with Putin, 10 October:

• EU: Kaja Kallas said Europe will not ease pressure on russia
• Finland: Prime Minister Petteri Orpo called the deal a “terrible disappointment”
• United Kingdom: promised to maintain maximum pressure and the sanctions regime
• Estonia: Prime Minister Kristen Michal intends to raise additional aid for destroying russian refineries at the European Council
• Latvia: the foreign ministry called the decision a “contradictory signal” to Moscow about easing sanctions

Other decisions over the day, according to Ukrinform: the Netherlands is preparing a law on seizing vessels of russia’s shadow fleet; Japan plans to buy Ukrainian interceptor drones; the Bundestag recognised Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine; Montenegro expelled propagandist Mikhail Zvinchuk and four other russians; Brigadier General Oleh Honcharuk has been appointed commander of the “South” grouping.

🗳️🛢️ Ukraine and russia. On 10 October, speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Ukraine needs “a new leader who can make a deal” and that Zelensky could have ended the war “many times” but does not want to; about the strikes on russian refineries he said Zelensky “wants to make problems for the world”, and added peremptorily: “He better damn well stop”. According to Axios, it is the most serious crisis between Trump and Zelensky since February 2025. Zelensky had earlier called the diesel deal “not fair and not honest” and a “weak decision by strong partners”; Sybiha replied that the decision is up to the people. The White House did not respond to Axios’s request.

I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.

🛢️ Iran. The material found contains no new statements by Trump on Iran over the past day; the latest found is from 8.10 (Axios: the US will not attack Iran before the midterm elections).

😅🏆light noteunverifiedLight note. On learning that the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African lawyer Navi Pillay, Trump, as retold by Glavcom citing The Guardian, said he had never heard of her, called the decision “a stain on Norway’s reputation” and reckoned the prize should have gone to the US for ending, in his words, eight wars. The retelling does not say where he said this; the original was not read.

Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania) said he is using a “discharge petition” (218 signatures needed) to bring to a vote the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act”, which would block purchases of russian oil: “It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly”. Don Bacon (Nebraska, Republican) has already agreed to sign the petition. The House is not meeting before the 3 November elections, and the bill would still have to pass the Senate and could face a veto.

It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly

unverifiedAccording to Glavcom, General Keith Kellogg said Ukraine should keep striking russian refineries and sees the kremlin’s offer to supply diesel to the US as an attempt to weaken that pressure. The original source of this statement had not been found at the time of the issue.

The material found contains no statements by Chinese officials about the war over the past day.

🗣️unverifiedKirill Dmitriev, Putin’s special envoy and head of the RDIF, in a post on X on 10 October (as retold by EADaily at 22:25) called Trump’s call for a change of Ukraine’s leadership an “iconic and historic moment”, adding that Trump is joining those who believe Ukraine needs leadership focused on peace rather than Zelensky’s “militaristic ambitions”. Context: this is a public judgement on the internal affairs of another state; Sybiha replied that the decision is up to the Ukrainian people, and Kyiv had earlier called the diesel deal a gift to Putin. The original post was not read.

🗣️Putin, Peskov, Lavrov, Ushakov and Medvedev left no new citable statements about the war over the past day in the material found. The latest known statement is Ushakov’s on Putin’s call with Trump on 9.10, already given in the 10.10 issue; no official kremlin reaction to Trump’s words about a “new leader” could be found.