🗞 Important news by Thursday morning, October 8:

🟠 Over the course of last night, 399 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted and destroyed. They were shot down over the territories of Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Orenburg, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula and Ulyanovsk regions, the Moscow region, the Republics of Bashkortostan, Crimea and Tatarstan, as well as over the Black Sea.

🟠 According to monitoring resources and local channels, Russian drones attacked targets in Kiev, Brovary, and the areas of Fastov, Vyshhorod and Izmail overnight. Reports from near Vyshhorod said a substance was hit, while explosions were reported in Sumy. Russian aircraft struck targets in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, including areas around bridges across the Dnepro, Yasna Polyana and Omelnyk.

🟠 Russian forces struck a vessel carrying cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces while it was en route to the port of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

🟠 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a Yandex data center near Ryazan for the first time last night. The data center’s operations have been completely halted due to a fire caused by the UAV attack, and services may experience disruptions, the company said.

🟠 Members of the European Parliament are demanding the closure of “Russian Houses” in EU countries, LRT reports.

🟠 The cost of renting an oil tanker on the main trade route in the Middle East has surged to $1.33 million per day, the highest rate ever recorded.

🟠 Three people were killed and another 36 injured in strikes on airports in Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. The airport in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, was among those attacked.

🟠 Fuel prices at gas stations in California have broken all previous records.

🟠 Former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan retained her lead in the race for UN Secretary-General following another informal vote in the Security Council.

🟠 Tokyo may allow nuclear weapons to be brought into the country under special circumstances. The measure is being considered as a way of strengthening deterrence against potential adversaries under the US “nuclear umbrella.”

🟠 The first execution in the United States since the Krista Pike incident has taken place, the Associated Press reports.