Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces lost up to 1,430 personnel in the past day, with the ‘Southern’ grouping reporting more than five square kilometers taken near the Klyeban-Byk reservoir.
• Russian officials reported the destruction of a Ukrainian UAV command post and a temporary deployment site near Konstantinovka, and said FPV operators blew up an ammunition depot and downed an R-18 drone on the Kramatorsk–Druzhkovka axis.
• An officer from the 18th Army said Ka-52 helicopters destroyed a large fortified position near Kherson with ten defenders killed, while regional reports noted a contained fire at the Afipsky refinery, damage to a social facility in Shebekino, and more than five drones downed overnight in Voronezh region.
• Authorities in Bryansk said drones struck Starodub, damaging a residential roof without injuries, and reported that a man wounded in a Sept. 23 attack on Suzemka died; in Kursk’s Karyzh, a man was hospitalized with a shattered femur after a drone strike.
• Ukrainian outlets reported explosions in Zhytomyr, Poltava and Chernihiv regions during air-raid alerts as Russia’s cross-border drone activity and regional interceptions continued.