Overview
- Moscow reported shooting down 251 Ukrainian drones overnight, describing one of the war’s largest such raids, with interceptions over Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- Ukrainian officials said Russia launched more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones over the weekend, killing five people, knocking out power across multiple regions and prompting Poland to heighten air-defense readiness.
- Rail infrastructure has come under sustained fire, with Ukrainian railways citing about 40 major attacks since August and a Russian drone strike on Chostka station that left at least one dead and around 30 wounded.
- Independent and Western reporting highlighted Russian changes to Iskander-M and Kinjal missiles that analysts link to a sharp drop in Ukraine’s ballistic interception rate to about 6% in September.
- Zelensky said weapons used in the mass strikes contained 102,785 foreign-made components across 549 systems and shared data with partners to target specific firms and products, while Ukraine claimed a strike on a refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region.