Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff said forces struck the 8-N pipeline control station in Bryansk and again hit a Samara oil dispatch site, and confirmed hits on two aircraft at the Kacha airfield in occupied Crimea, with damage still being assessed.
• Russia launched a large overnight barrage that included three Iskander ballistic missiles and about 115 strike and decoy drones, Ukrainian officials said, with interceptions reported across multiple regions.
• Regional authorities reported one man killed in Zaporizhzhia after glide-bomb strikes and a 60-year-old woman killed in Odesa’s Tatarbunary after missile strikes, as Ukraine noted Russia’s upgraded guided bombs are reaching the city again.
• Moscow’s mayor reported dozens of Ukrainian drones downed en route to the capital and authorities temporarily halted flights at Sheremetyevo, while Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses destroyed 69 Ukrainian UAVs over 10 regions and Crimea.
• Ukraine reported 140 combat engagements on September 23 with the Pokrovsk sector the most intense, and said earlier strikes destroyed Russian drone stockpiles and a field ammunition depot in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.