Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces hit traction substations used to move Ukrainian weapons and equipment, describing a wider campaign against logistics nodes.
• The ministry reported heavy Ukrainian losses across several fronts and announced the capture of Derilovo and Mayskoye in Donetsk and Stepove in Dnipropetrovsk, claims that could not be independently verified.
• Explosions were reported in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr, Poltava and Chernihiv regions during an air-raid alert, according to Ukrainian TV channel TSN cited by Russian media.
• Regional authorities said a drone strike caused a brief fire at the Afipsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai with no casualties, and a separate drone hit an oil pumping station near Konar in Chuvashia, halting work.
• Belgorod’s governor reported shelling and drone attacks on 41 settlements with one person killed and six seeking medical help, and Bryansk’s governor said a man wounded in a September 23 drone attack has died.