Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 155 engagements on September 30, including 51 repelled assaults on the Pokrovsk axis, and cited 54 air strikes and 5,246 kamikaze drones used by Russia that day.
• By mid‑afternoon October 1, the military recorded 79 new clashes with the fiercest fighting again near Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka, while regional commands reported failed Russian pushes around Vovchansk and no confirmed advance at Zvirove.
• Ukraine’s security bodies announced new legal steps, charging Russian commanders over the 2022 Ohtyrka bombardment and notifying a general suspected of directing the 2023 Kakhovka dam demolition, as Kherson police identified six alleged torturers and the SBU detained agents near Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
• Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said they destroyed an S‑400 radar in occupied Crimea with drones, a claim not independently verified, as reports noted a brief overnight traffic halt on the Kerch bridge and air‑defense activity in Feodosia.
• Kyiv began deploying a team to Denmark to share drone‑defense expertise, EU leaders in Copenhagen weighed stronger support, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said her country has authority to shoot down hostile drones in its airspace.