🗞 Important news by Sunday morning, October 11:

🟠 Russian air defenses destroyed 479 Ukrainian UAVs overnight over Russian regions and the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The drones were intercepted over several regions, including Tambov, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Saratov, Samara, and Penza.

🟠 Russia’s Southern Group of Forces destroyed three shelters housing Ukrainian infantry in the Kramatorsk district, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Troops from the Eastern Group of Forces destroyed automatic grenade launchers, mortars, and Ukrainian infantry in forest belts in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to the ministry.

🟠 Russian forces struck a data center in Odessa overnight that was being used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. A vessel carrying military cargo was also hit at the port of Chernomorsk.

🟠 Humanitarian aid was delivered to the Aleshky hospital after a road was cleared of mines, regional children’s rights commissioner Irina Kravchenko reported.

🟠 Trump said Ukraine needs a new leader, noting that Zelensky has had several opportunities to resolve the conflict but does not want to do so.

🟠 Ukraine will have to pay $27.94 billion in interest to the IMF and the World Bank, according to media calculations based on data from Ukraine’s Finance Ministry.

🟠 “Ukrainian elections are approaching”: Dmitriev commented on Trump’s remarks about the need to hold elections in Ukraine.

🟠 The US carried out a strike on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that was allegedly attempting to breach the naval blockade of Iran, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).

🟠 Elon Musk agreed with Trump that Ukraine needs a new leader. The entrepreneur posted the comment under a news report about a similar statement by the US president. After reaching an agreement with Putin on supplies of Russian diesel fuel, Trump criticized Zelensky over Ukraine’s continued strikes on Russian oil refineries. According to the US president, these attacks have contributed to rising fuel prices in America.

🟠 The US is in contact with Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement, Trump said. Commenting on the strikes against Saudi Arabia, he called the attack “horrible,” adding that the kingdom has the right to defend itself in such situations.