Overview

• Ukraine reported 158 combat clashes on October 1, with the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk sector and widespread Russian air and artillery activity.
• Air defenses neutralized 44 of 49 drones on the night of September 30, yet a strike in Chernechchyna, Sumy region, killed a couple and their two young sons, and energy hits in Chernihiv cut power to over 26,000 homes.
• A daytime drone attack on central Dnipro killed one person and injured 31, damaging apartments, offices, a dormitory and a cultural center, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to urge stronger air-defense support.
• A missile strike on Balakliia in Kharkiv region killed an 88-year-old woman and wounded 15, including a 4-year-old girl treated for acute stress.
• Russia claimed its forces captured Verbove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in a push that analysts say could threaten supply routes, a claim Ukraine has not confirmed, while occupation authorities said Nova Kakhovka’s Kremlin-installed mayor, Vladimir Leontyev, died after a drone strike.