Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its Center, East, West and Dnepr groupings inflicted heavy Ukrainian losses over the past day and improved positions.
• The ministry released video and said its forces took control of Alekseyevka in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
• Andriy Yermak said a Ukrainian delegation in Washington met Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to discuss Patriot systems and Tomahawk cruise missiles, with Zelensky due in the U.S. on October 17.
• Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova alleged Kyiv is preparing attacks that could involve Tomahawks and criticized EU openness to facilitating such supplies.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky created an Odesa city military administration and appointed Serhiy Lysak to head it by presidential decree.