The long-range war reached both capitals within a day and a half

Each side is now striking the other’s rear at scale. Kyiv came under missile and drone attack at about 3:15 a.m. on Oct 7, with a fire reported in Podilskyi district and Tu-95 bombers reported airborne; damage and casualties were not immediately clear — Kyiv Independent. Zelensky had warned on Oct 6 that Russia was preparing a large-scale attack and asked allies for any available air-defence systems. Overnight into Oct 6, Moscow Mayor Sobyanin said 650 Ukrainian drones flew toward the capital and Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed nearly 900 downed across several regions; two people were killed in the Moscow region, and a fire at the Volodarsk fuel depot was reported by a military blogger and Telegram channels but not officially confirmed — Al Jazeera, AP, Kyiv Independent. At sea, Russia’s Transport Ministry said an unmanned vessel struck a Liberia-flagged tanker off Sochi on Oct 6, with all 23 crew rescued, and Zelensky said the Oct 6 strikes on two ships in Bulgaria’s economic zone were a Russian combined sea and air drone attack; neither Sofia nor Bucharest has named Russia, and the EU’s Kaja Kallas called for a moratorium on Black Sea attacks — Kyiv Post, Kyiv Independent, Euromaidan Press. On NATO’s flank the Kremlin warned Lithuania that lifting its nuclear-weapons ban would escalate tensions, Poland said it will station Patriot batteries in the Lublin region, and Latvia said armed men on the Belarusian side threatened its soldiers — Moscow Times, Kyiv Independent. In the Gulf, the Panama-flagged tanker On Peace was struck off Oman, wounding 12 crew, and UKMTO counts nine attacks in the waterway this month; Iran’s oil minister Mohsen Paknejad resigned, and Trump said the US ‘must finish up’ with Iran ‘the nice way or the not-so-nice way’ — CBS News, Bloomberg, Iran International. In Yemen, the Saudi-backed Operation Yemen Dawn retook Dhubab near the Bab el-Mandeb with support from about 100 coalition jets, and government and Houthi sources reported more than 270 fighters killed in 24 hours — AP, CBS News. Brent settled at $100.58 on Oct 6, up 0.3%, after falling 1.9% on Oct 5 as exports from the Gulf rose — Bloomberg, Reuters. In Ethiopia, airstrikes and artillery killed at least 17 people in Tigray after federal forces took Mekelle — Reuters.