Overview

• Ukraine’s Air Force said it intercepted or suppressed 126 Shahed-type and decoy drones launched from Russia and occupied Crimea, though 10 locations were hit and debris fell in six areas.
• Four power facilities were damaged in the Odesa region and about 29,000 customers lost electricity, with Chornomorsk hardest hit, while some 30,000 households in Chernihiv’s Nizhyn district were left without power.
• Following a meeting with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, Zelenskyy said forces and resources are prepared for planned deep strikes inside Russian territory.
• The General Staff reported 182 combat engagements on Aug. 30, citing intense missile, air, artillery and drone use, and said the fiercest fighting persisted near the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors as it labeled Russia’s spring–summer campaign a failure.
• Regional updates pointed to growing civilian tolls, with one killed and twelve injured in shelling of Kherson on Aug. 31 and multiple injuries in the Dnipropetrovsk region over the past two days.