Overview

• Idel.Realii said it identified 522 additional names of servicemen from 15 Volga-region areas killed between September 22–28, bringing its documented total from the Volga Federal District plus Astrakhan to at least 41,332 as of the morning of September 29.
• Russian forces and officials reported a series of operations, including the destruction of 12 Ukrainian UAV control points near Konstantinovka in Donetsk region and anti‑tank strikes near Kupyansk that hit a bunker during a rotation and eliminated a machine‑gun position.
• A Russian security source told RIA Novosti that an air strike in Volchansk, Kharkiv region, killed more than 20 personnel from Ukraine’s 57th brigade, including officers, and said precision missiles hit the brigade’s ammunition and supply depots.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said artillery from the “Vostok” grouping struck a Ukrainian unit detected by an Orlan‑30 drone in Dnipropetrovsk region, describing the targeted group as destroyed.
• Russian MFA envoy Rodion Miroshnik accused Kyiv of escalating attacks on civilian infrastructure, citing outages in Belgorod after HIMARS strikes and incidents involving the Kursk NPP‑2 construction site and backup power at the Zaporizhzhia plant.