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03 October 2025
On the eve of the heating season, Russians are looking for ways to inflict more damage on Ukrainians. Currently, damaged energy facilities are being restored in the affected regions of Ukraine.
In the Donetsk region, as a result of strikes by Russian invaders on energy facilities, Druzhkivka, Kostiantynivka, and part of Kramatorsk have been left without power.
Late on Thursday evening, October 2, Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian city of Sochi, where Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin had just finished his speech at the plenary session of the Valdai Forum shortly before the raid began.
On Friday, October 3, Russian forces launched drone and artillery strikes on Nikopol and Synelnykove districts in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring four people.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used strike drones to hit a P-14F Lena long-range early warning radar station and a Sopka-2 air traffic control radar complex located in Russia’s Voronezh region.
In the Kherson region, two men aged 33 and 59 were wounded as a result of the morning shelling of the village of Komyshany.
The draft state budget for 2026 calls for allocating funds to support programs for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Priorities include housing, employment, social protection, and assistance for vulnerable groups.
The East Operational Strategic Group has refuted reports of alleged Russian advances in the areas of Uspenivka and Pavlivka in the Novopavlivka sector.
In Slavutych, Kyiv region, after the attack by Russian drones on October 1, work to restore the electricity supply continues around the clock.
The Russian army has again shelled the Korabelnyi district of Kherson, causing casualties—a 35-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman.
In September, Russian troops significantly intensified their air strikes in the south. The number of missile strikes increased by 47%—from 23 in August to 34 in September.
Long-range strike drones of the “A” Special Operations Center of the Security Service of Ukraine once again hit a target at a distance of 1,400 kilometers — this time in the town with a telling name, Orsk.
The Russian occupation army is trying to bypass the city of Stepnohirsk from the east to create a springboard for fire control over the outskirts and logistics routes of the center of the Zaporizhzhia region.
Four people were wounded in the village of Lisna Stanka in the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region as a result of a Russian drone strike.
An oil refinery was attacked in the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region of Russia.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation, 1,330 people have been injured by mines and explosive remnants in Ukraine, including 135 children.
In the Kherson region, over the past three days, Russian forces have stepped up attempts to storm Ukrainian positions in the areas of the railway bridge on the left bank of the Dnipro River and the Antonivskyi Bridge, using rain and fog as cover.
The St. Nicholas Church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was damaged in Poltava as a result of a Russian attack.
In Poltava region, emergency responders came under a second Russian missile strike, resulting in a damaged fire truck.
Ukraine’s Air Forces shot down 320 aerial targets out of 416 launched by Russia in an overnight attack on Ukraine, including 303 drones of various types, 12 Iskander-K cruise missiles, and five guided aviation missiles Kh-59/69.
Russian forces carried out 35 attacks on 19 settlements across eight territorial communities in Sumy region over the past 24 hours, leaving three people injured.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, explosions were heard in the evening of October 2, with military airfields Belbek and Kacha — both hosting Russian aviation — reportedly coming under attack.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces stopped the advance of the Russian army in the area of Vorone, Ternove, Kalynivske, and Novomykolaivka in the Novopavlivka sector. These settlements remain under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On Friday morning, the governor of Russia’s Perm krai confirmed that drones attacked Berezniki overnight, where the Azot plant — a producer of ammonium nitrate and other chemicals — is located.
Overnight on October 3, Russian forces carried out a combined missile-and-drone strike on Poltava region, damaging energy infrastructure facilities.
On the frontline yesterday, October 2, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 162 combat clashes with Russian invaders.
Air defense forces were on duty in the Mykolaiv region last night. Debris from enemy drones caused a fire in the Bashtanka district.
Russian troops attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with strike drones at night, causing fires in Dnipro.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to October 3, 2025, amount to approximately 1,113,430 people, including 970 people over the past day.
In 2026, Russia's federal spending on 18 of 51 state programs will decrease, allowing the government to save more than 207 billion rubles.