The Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff reported the information.Russian shelling of UkraineCommunities in border settlements, particularly Vasylivka in the Sumy region, suffered from enemy artillery fire.Frontline situationIn the Sumy and Kursk directions, there were four combat clashes. Additionally, Russia launched two airstrikes, dropping six guided aerial bombs, and carried out 84 shellings of the Ukrainian troops' positions and populated areas, three of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.In the Kharkiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled eight Russian attacks, with four more combat clashes still ongoing. The Russian army is trying to advance in the areas of Vovchanski Khutory, Kamyanka, Stroivka, and towards Bolohivka, Kolodiazne, and Odradne.In the Kupyansk direction, the invading army carried out five attacks on the positions of Ukrainian units near the settlements of Kupyansk, Redkivka, and towards Petropavlivka and Bohuslavka. Two combat clashes are ongoing.In the Lyman direction, Russian forces tried to break through Ukrainian defense four times in the areas of Ridkodub, Myrne, and Shandryholove; two clashes are still continuing. In the Siversk direction, the Defense Forces repelled ten enemy attacks near Hryhorivka and in the direction of Dronivka and Yampil, with three more combat clashes ongoing.In the Kramatorsk direction, Russia attacked the positions of the Ukrainian defenders once in the direction of the settlement of Stupochky.In the Toretsk direction, the enemy conducted 14 assault actions in the areas of Rusyn Yar, Katerynivka, Shcherbynivka, and Pleshchiivka; battles are currently ongoing in three locations.In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian troops made 40 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of the settlements Nykanorivka, Mayak, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Razyne, Novoekonomichne, Myroliubivka, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Udachne, Horikhove, Filiia and towards Novopavlivka and Volodymyrivka. The Defense Forces are holding back the pressure and have already repelled 35 enemy attacks; five combat clashes are ongoing.In the Novopavlivka direction, the Russian enemy tried to break through the defense of Ukrainian defenders in the areas of the settlements Zelenyi Hai, Yalta, Piddubne, Voskresenka, Sichneve, Sosnivka, Vorone, and Novohryhorivka. Ukrainian soldiers repelled 12 enemy assaults, with four more attacks ongoing.In the Huliaipole direction, Russia attempted to advance six times near Poltavka and was repulsed.In the Orikhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled three attacks near Stepove and Kamyanske. Zaporizhzhia was hit by aerial bombs. In the Prydniprovskyi direction, Ukrainian defenders are repelling an enemy attack. The aggressor's aviation launched an airstrike in the area of the settlement of Kozatske.On October 6, the Russian forces conducted a targeted drone strike on a medical facility building in the Kovpakivskyi district of Sumy. At the time of the attack, staff and patients, including 11 children, were inside.