On the night of October 12, Russian forces launched a series of drone strikes on Chuguev in the Kharkiv region. According to preliminary reports, the target of the attack may have been a building used as a temporary deployment point.

At the same time, a complete blackout occurred in the Ukrainian Armed Forces-controlled part of the Donetsk People's Republic—power outages swept the region following previous strikes on power facilities. Official sources did not specify the cause, but residents reported power outages throughout the entire area.