Ukraine war latest: Russian glide bomb strikes in Kramatorsk kill at least 33

Key developments on Oct. 8:

• At least 33 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk buses
• Russian drone barrage on Kyiv kills 4, injures 19, disrupts electricity, water supplies
• Polish SIM cards found in Russian drones downed in Poland
• US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart
• Ukraine strikes Russia's Omsk oil refinery in Siberia, General Staff confirms
• UK ramps up sanctions against Russian shadow fleet, crypto industry, big oil

A Russian glide bomb strike on two minibuses in Kramatorsk killed 33 people on the morning of Oct. 8, Ukraine's emergency service (DSNS) said.

Twenty-two more people were injured in the Russian attack, Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. Fire broke out in at least two busses following the Russian strikes, according to DSNS.

"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death. She hits our cities, kills our people and multiplies her crimes every day," Filashkin said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that doctors were still fighting for the lives of some of the injured people and warned that the number of dead may still increase. Two dead people could not yet be identified due to the severity of their injuries, he added.

"This strike will not go without our response. Russia is trying to destroy all life in Donbas, and the world needs to react to this," Zelensky said.

The Kramatorsk and Sloviansk military administrations ordered the stop of all public transport.

"The Russians are targeting civilians. For them, a bus with passengers is an attractive target precisely because one hit can kill as many people as possible," Filashkin said.

Across Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, four more people had been killed and six injured by Russian attacks as of the morning of Oct. 8, prior to the Kramatorsk strike, according to the governor.

In total, Russian forces shelled settlements in the Donetsk region 31 times over the last day, and 256 people, including 32 children, were evacuated from the front line, according to the Donetsk governor.

Russian drone barrage on Kyiv kills 4, injures 19, disrupts electricity, water supplies

Russian drone strikes on Oct. 8 have killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, the city's authorities said.

A Russian drone struck a four-story commercial building in Solomyanskyi district, killing two and injuring two, and leading to a fire, while the wreckage of another fell on the Holosiivskyi district, Klitschko said.

Prior to that strike, Klitschko said that Russian attacks on the capital this morning had killed one person and injured 11 others.

A fourth person died of their injuries in hospital, the Kyiv city military administration (KMDA) said in the afternoon.

Klitschko raised the number of injured to 19, 13 of which were hospitalized, in an update on 07:21 p.m. local time.

At 10:00 a.m. local time, Ukraine’s biggest private energy firm DTEK announced emergency energy shutdowns in Brovary, Buchanskyi, Vyshgorod, and Boryspil districts of the oblast.

Shortly after, KMDA announced that the right bank of Kyiv may experience interruptions in water supply, as the power decrease in the electricity grid also meant a decrease in pressure of the water supply network. This applied especially to the Holosiivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Solomyanskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.

The drop in voltage from external power supply centers also temporarily halted Kyiv Metro train services and escalator operations, the KMDA said.

DSNS also said that a fire broke out at a logistics facility in the Buchanskyi district in Kyiv Oblast following a Russian drone strike.

In Sviatopetrivske in Buchanskyi district, a school-kindergarten and a nearby playground in a residential complex were damaged in the attack, Kyiv Oblast Governor Tymur Tkachenko said. In another settlement in the district, a woman was injured and hospitalized, he added.

Overnight, Russian drone strikes on Kyiv had already killed four people and injured 21 across four districts, KMDA said.

Polish SIM cards found in Russian drones downed in Poland

Polish military prosecutors found Polish SIM cards in some of the Russian drones downed during a Russian mass drone incursion into the country on the night of Sept. 9 to Sept. 10, 2025, RMF24 reported on Oct. 8.

Polish authorities didn't disclose whether three Polish SIM cards had been stolen or obtained illegaly, according to RMF24. The investigation was discontinued after it did not lead to the identification of the specific people responsible for the Russian incursion.

"The investigation was discontinued because the perpetrator of the crime of violating Polish airspace and thus posing a threat to public safety was not identified," Marcin Kozak, spokesman of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin, said.

On Sept. 9, 2025, more than 30 Gerbera-type drones breached Polish airspace, some of which were shot down by the Polish military, RMF24 reported.

US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart

Ending Russia's war against Ukraine through negotiations is currently unattainable, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Greek media outlet Kathimerini on Oct. 8, casting further doubt on President Donald Trump's latest push to broker peace.

The comments confirm earlier Kyiv Independent reporting that Washington's latest effort to advance negotiations faces growing uncertainty.

At this point, there appears to be no prospect of a negotiated settlement, Rubio said. He added that the goal remains out of reach because Russia insists on gaining full control over Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast without fighting, a demand Kyiv has rejected.

The latest rounds of peace negotiations have also stalled over Moscow's territorial demands.

The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected a ceasefire and demanded that Kyiv surrender the partially occupied Donbas, a strategically important region in eastern Ukraine. Moscow is effectively seeking territory that Russian forces have failed to capture militarily.

Ukraine has instead called for a ceasefire along the current front line.

The diplomatic effort now faces another obstacle: Moscow has given little indication that it intends to take part in further talks. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Oct. 7 that there were currently no plans for U.S.-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine.

"There are currently no plans to hold talks in this format," Ryabkov told reporters.

The latest effort began in early September, when Trump's envoys traveled to Kyiv and Moscow seeking progress before the U.S. midterm elections. The trips produced one tangible outcome: an agreement in principle to hold a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S.

A month later, however, even the trilateral meeting remains uncertain.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Oct. 8 that Ukrainian negotiators will meet with Trump's envoys in the U.S. later this week to discuss the prospects for peace talks with Russia.

Ukraine strikes Russia's Omsk oil refinery in Siberia, General Staff confirms

Ukraine's General Staff confirmed that its forces struck Russia's Omsk oil refinery in Russia's Omsk Oblast on Oct. 8.

"The destruction of such facilities is the exercise by Ukraine of its inalienable right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and is aimed at reducing the military-economic potential of the Russian Federation," the General Staff said.

Ukrainian drone manufacturer Fire Point had previously reported an attack on the refinery, saying that the refinery was hit with its own long-range FP-1 attack drones.

Videos and images from local residents, shared by Ukrainian monitoring channels, show explosions, fire, and smoke rising from the area surrounding the oil refinery.

Omsk Oblast Governor Vitaly Khotsenko confirmed that there was a drone attack on the region. Ukrainian authorities have not yet confirm a strike on the refinery.

Omsk is located in southwestern Siberia, north of the Kazakh border. The city of more than 1 million people is some 2,500 kilometers (about 1,550 miles) east of Ukraine controlled territory.

The Omsk oil refinery is owned by Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom. It's the country's largest refinery by refining capacity, processing more than 21 million metric tons of crude oil per year.

The plant produces a wide range of fuels, lubricants, and petrochemical products and is involved in supplying the Russian military, Ukraine's General Staff said after Ukraine struck the refinery on July 6. According to the military, the facility has a refining depth of about 99%, one of the highest rates in Russia.

Earlier, an overnight Ukrainian strike on the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil refinery in Russia's Bashkortostan region caused a large blaze at the plant, Ukraine's General Staff confirmed on Oct. 8.

UK ramps up sanctions against Russian shadow fleet, crypto industry, big oil

The U.K. published 38 new sanctions listings on Oct. 8, targeting ships helping Russia evade existing sanctions and a range of companies in Moscow's military-industrial complex, energy, and cryptocurrency sectors.

"The message is simple: if you help Russia fund or equip this war, you will face the consequences," reads a U.K. government press release.

Among the businesses in the new sanctions listings are three cryptocurrency exchanges and two payment platforms.

Xeltox Enterprises, one of those listed entities has "been involved in obtaining a benefit from or supporting the government of Russia by carrying on business in a sector of strategic significance (...) the financial services sector," reads the U.K. government's sanctions listing.

Russia has increasingly sought to use cryptocurrency, which is hard to track, to circumvent global sanctions, and the new U.K. sanctions target the "A7" network, which is at the heart of Moscow's attempts to evade financial sanctions.

That has prompted the U.K., the U.S., the EU, and Ukraine to target crypto schemes in recent sanctions packages.

Also featuring on the listings are two further oil companies: Zarubezhneft and INK Capital.

"The U.K. was the first country in the G7 to sanction the top four Russian oil companies," reads the press statement.

The U.K. has also added 12 ships to its list of sanctioned vessels accused of being part of Russia's shadow fleet — dilapidated vessels suspected of helping Moscow evade price caps and bans on its trade in oil and gas.

That takes the number of ships sanctioned by the U.K. to 645 and the total number of Russia sanctions to 3,537.