Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 155 engagements for Sept. 30, including 54 airstrikes, 3,931 shelling incidents and 5,246 one‑way attack drones, with the heaviest pressure on the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka sectors.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian personnel have begun a mission in Denmark to share counter‑drone tactics, a step Ukraine’s top brass links to wider European concerns over unidentified drone incursions.
• Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said they struck an S‑400 radar in occupied Crimea with drones, a claim not yet verified by independent sources.
• Local authorities in Sumy named a family killed in a drone strike and reported 96 attacks across the region in 24 hours that injured multiple civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure.
• Security and accountability measures intensified: the SBU announced suspicions for Russian commanders over the 2022 Okhtyrka strikes, detained agents directing fire on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, foiled two bomb plots targeting soldiers in Lviv, police identified alleged torturers in Kherson, and prosecutors notified a Russian general suspected of coordinating the Kakhovka dam demolition.