Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 155 combat engagements on September 30, including 51 assaults repelled in the Pokrovsk sector.
- Kyiv reported two missile strikes, 54 airstrikes with 112 guided bombs, 3,931 artillery strikes, and 5,246 kamikaze drones used by Russian forces that day.
- Ukrainian forces detailed defensive actions across sectors, noting clashes near Kupiansk, Lyman, Siversk, Toretsk, Novopavlivka, Orikhiv, and along the Dnipro left bank.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces captured Kirovsk and Seversk Maly in the Donetsk region on September 30 and reported taking Shandrigolovo a day earlier.
- Moscow’s daily briefings claimed roughly 1,600 Ukrainian casualties on September 30 and extensive air-defense activity, including the downing of 128 UAVs and two Neptune missiles that day.