Strike on buses in Kramatorsk: at least 33 killed

Civilian victims of russian strikes on 8 October and the night of 9 October — per the official reports that could be found as of the morning of 9.10 (the data are incomplete and may rise):

• Kramatorsk (Donetsk region), 8.10 — at least 33 killed, 18 injured after a strike on a bus stop with two scheduled buses
• Biline (Kramatorsk community), 8.10 — 3 killed by shelling
• Pryluky (Chernihiv region), strike of 7.10 — search operation completed: 22 killed, including 5 children; 54 injured, including 7 children
• Kyiv, evening of 7.10 — strike on an apartment building: 2 killed, 4 injured, including 2 children
• Sumy region, 8.10 — 1 killed in Sumy, 14 injured in three communities, including two 12-year-old boys
• Ivano-Frankivsk, night of 9.10 — 1 killed, consequences being clarified
• Kharkiv region — 4 injured; Kyiv region — 3 injured over the day

Kramatorsk, morning of 8 October: a russian aerial bomb hit a public transport stop where two scheduled buses were standing — both burned out. In the morning Zelensky gave 12 killed; as of 13:09 the head of the Donetsk RMA Vadym Filashkin and the State Emergency Service reported at least 33 killed and 18 injured. It is the deadliest strike on civilians of the day. Filashkin suspended public transport in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. The reports found do not say whether there are children among the dead.

Pryluky, Chernihiv region: on 8 October rescuers completed the search operation at the five-storey building hit by a russian missile on 7 October. 22 people were killed, including five children; 54 were injured, including seven children. 15 people were rescued from the rubble, among them a five-year-old child; more than 500 rescuers worked at the site. Zelensky visited the scene of the strike.

211 combat clashes were recorded on 8 October. russia carried out 83 airstrikes (243 KABs), used 9,987 kamikaze drones and shelled positions and settlements 2,444 times (19 with MLRS). Attacks by direction (the named ones account for only about 72 of the 211 clashes; the rest are not broken down in the retellings of the report):

• Pokrovsk — 16
• Huliaipole — 16 (updated data)
• Kostiantynivka — 12
• Lyman — 8
• Kupiansk — 8
• South Slobozhanskyi — 5
• Sloviansk, Oleksandrivka, Orikhiv — 2 each
• North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk — 1 assault, 30 shelling attacks
• Kramatorsk and Prydniprovskyi — no assaults

Ukraine’s General Staff reports russian losses for 8–9 October (total ~1,549,490 personnel; no independent confirmation):

• personnel — 1,710
• tanks — 3
• armoured vehicles — 7
• artillery systems — 67
• MLRS — 5
• air defence systems — 1
• unmanned ground vehicles — 18
• operational-tactical UAVs — 1,757
• vehicles — 617

On the night of 9 October russia attacked with 136 strike drones (93 jet-powered Shaheds, Gerberas and Parodiya decoys). By 08:00, 114 had been shot down or suppressed; hits were recorded at 8 locations and debris fell at 7 more. The drones came from the directions of Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, occupied Donetsk region and Crimea. The report mentions no missiles; some drones were still in the air at the time of the report.

🔥📏 2,440 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Omsk refinery (Omsk), 8 October, daytime strike. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed hitting the refinery and a fire (report of 8.10 at about 18:03 Kyiv time); it calls it russia’s most powerful oil refinery (over 21 million tonnes of oil a year) and says this is the second attack on the site after 6 July. The company Fire Point said upgraded FP-1 drones were used, flying more than 2,500 km. The General Staff did not specify the extent of the damage. The local authorities effectively acknowledged the attack: Governor Vitaly Khotsenko said air defence was repelling it and the situation was “under control”; mobile internet was restricted, Omsk airport was closed, and an OSINT channel’s video shows a fire.

local authorities: indirectLocal authorities (Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko (via h.ua), 8.10): said air defence was repelling the attack and the situation was under control; urged people to rely on official sources; the authorities closed the airport and restricted mobile internet; the refinery and a fire were not named in the statement (as retold).

💥📏 1,300 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refining and petrochemical complex (Salavat, Bashkortostan), 8 October. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the hit (report of 8.10 at 13:58 Kyiv time): a fire broke out on the site; according to the General Staff, the complex processes up to 10 million tonnes of hydrocarbon feedstock a year. There are no more detailed data on the damage. No statements by the local authorities about this site for 8.10 could be found, so the reaction is “the hit is neither confirmed nor denied” by the local authorities.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Bashkortostan authorities, 8.10): no statements about the site for 8.10 were found (the search results found concern earlier attacks on this complex).

unverifiedSochi (a tanker in the port, night of 6.10) and the Volodarskaya pumping station (Moscow region, night of 5–6.10): Ukraine’s General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO, USF, Operational Command “South”, the AFU’s StratCom or Zaluzhnyi had not confirmed these strikes in verified sources as of the morning of 9.10; they remain unconfirmed. No new General Staff “Results of the strike on …” reports, other than the two sites above, were found for the day.

🕊️unverifiedWitkoff and Kushner, according to Axios citing US and Ukrainian officials, will present “new ideas” for ending the war to a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on 9–10 October; among them a partial ceasefire covering energy infrastructure and grain shipments ( Ukraine is open to it; russia, according to the sources, has shown little interest), security guarantees and a post-war reconstruction plan. National security advisers of the United Kingdom, France and Germany have also been invited to the talks. Witkoff and Kushner may travel to Moscow to see Putin later this month. Ukraine’s delegation includes Kyrylo Budanov, Rustem Umerov, Davyd Arakhamia and Serhiy Kyslytsya.

unverified Hungary, according to one aggregator’s summary, has agreed to open the second and third clusters of Ukraine’s EU accession talks; the source does not give the date of the decision, and no official confirmation was found.

🛢️⛽Iran. In a Truth Social post on 8 October (location not given) Trump said the US will not attack Iran before the 3 November midterm elections, called the state of Iran’s economy and army “very bad” and said the sides are holding “productive talks”; he also cited the naval blockade and large volumes of oil going through the Strait of Hormuz. Axios separately reports (citing sources) that on 7.10 the Pentagon ordered Central Command to complete preparations for a possible resumption of major combat operations; there is reportedly no final decision.

“we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections”

🕊️unverified Ukraine and russia. No public statements by Trump on peace terms, sanctions or weapons over the past day were found. According to Axios (sources), on Thursday 8 October Witkoff and Kushner met Trump to present the latest American proposal and hear his views before the talks in Miami; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Deputy National Security Adviser Mike Needham also attended the meeting.

🕵️Republika Srpska. On 7 October on Truth Social Trump said that political consultants Chris LaCivita and James Blair are “outside consultants” who do not work for him and that he would fire them “immediately” if a conflict of interest emerged: according to Axios, they advised the pro-russian government of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!”

😅📅light noteLight note. On 6 October at an event at Sparrows Point near Baltimore, where $6.6 bn for submarine production for the navy was announced, Trump praised Budget Director Russ Vought, turned to him and promised “big surprises” in a few weeks — asking “right, Russ?”. He did not say what they would be. This episode is older than a day: no fresher fun moment for 8–9.10 was found.

“We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks, right, Russ?”

unverifiedUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at a press conference in Lisbon, described the war as a stalemate, as retold by Axios; the source does not specify the date of the remarks in the retelling.

🗣️Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, asked by reporters on 8 October about US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remark that there are no prospects for a diplomatic end to the war, replied that the kremlin “agrees with him”. Peskov shifted responsibility for the lack of progress onto Kyiv and European capitals; called partial agreements (including India’s proposal of a partial ceasefire) of no interest to russia, and did not specify the terms of a “guaranteed” settlement. Context: on 9–10 October Ukraine is holding talks with Trump’s envoys in Miami, and a partial ceasefire on energy, according to Axios, is one of the American ideas Ukraine is open to.

🗣️unverifiedSergei Lavrov, russia’s foreign minister, said on 7 October that moscow is ready for talks with Ukraine but wants to know what proposals Zelensky will bring, and tied a new meeting to a demand that elections first be held in Ukraine. He also accused Ukraine of an “unprecedented number” of attacks on civilian sites during the State Duma elections; he gave no evidence. The statement is older than a day but did not make it into yesterday’s issue.

Vladimir Putin: the material found contains no public statements about the war against Ukraine on 8 October.