Two of the five people injured in the strike on the bridge in Zaporizhzhia were Red Cross employees, said Mykhailo Semykin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration. The injured also included women aged 24 and 59 and a 36-year-old man, as well as two men aged 43 and 54, he said. Semykin said the Red Cross workers were on their way to work when the attack hit. Traffic on the damaged bridge was closed because of damage to the road surface.
A photo published by Semykin showed a round-shaped crater. The official asked residents of Zaporizhzhia to take the restrictions into account and to follow official information.
The same night, the Russian attack also affected other Ukrainian cities. In Kyiv, the roof of an educational institution in the Obolonskyi district caught fire, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) reported. The fire was extinguished and no one was injured. In Odesa, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, the building of a private enterprise was damaged and the resulting fire was put out.
The SES also reported that in Zaporizhzhia on the evening of October 5 a drone hit a nine-story residential building. An apartment on the fifth floor and a balcony on the sixth floor caught fire, and two people were wounded.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 137 drones at Ukraine overnight into October 6, of which 114 were shot down by morning.
The Russian army has repeatedly struck bridges over the Dnipro in Kyiv, The Moscow Times writes. The first strike, by two drones, hit the Southern Bridge on October 1, and over the following day the crossing was attacked by two more strike drones. On October 3, the Northern Bridge became the target of Russian jet-powered drones. Drones also struck it on October 4, the day German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv and called such strikes war crimes. In all cases the crossings were damaged, including the road surface, and traffic on the bridges was closed, causing difficulties on Kyiv's roads.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the attacks, claiming the bridges allegedly provide for the transfer of troops and supplies of military cargo to the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously said Russia was preparing to intensify attacks on major Ukrainian cities and cut them off from the rest of the country. Senior Ukrainian officials told The Economist that Russia in particular plans to paralyze Kyiv before the onset of cold weather and to destabilize the political situation. According to them, Vladimir Putin ordered attacks on all civilian facilities in the Ukrainian capital. Sources among Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times that Moscow is seeking to increase pressure on Kyiv so that it yields to its demands in early 2027, including the surrender of territories in the Donbas.