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Monday, 09 February 2026, 20:04
Russian troops fired on the settlement of Zelenivka in the Kherson community from the temporarily occupied east bank of the Dnipro River, with one of the shells striking an apartment building.
In the Chernihiv region, additional power outages are being introduced on top of the scheduled rolling blackouts already in place.
Due to severe weather conditions in southern Ukraine over the past few days, Russian forces have reduced the use of kamikaze drones by 15–20%, recording over 500 attacks instead of the usual 700–800.
On the Orikhiv front, Russian invading forces are reinforcing assault companies with mobilized servicemen who refused to sign contracts and are directing these units for offensive operations.
Russian invading forces attempted to open a new direction for assault operations near the settlement of Stepove in Zaporizhzhia region but failed.
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) is working to restore connections and avoid significant delays to passenger train traffic following Russian strikes.
Due to Russian drone attacks, as of the morning of October 2, consumers in several regions remain without power, with the most severe situation in Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
The Ukrainian Navy has not recorded any movement of Russian ships in the Black and Azov Seas recently.
In Balakliia, Kharkiv region, the number of victims of the Russian missile strike on the evening of October 1 rose to 15, with one person killed.
Two people were injured in Odesa as a result of an attack by Russian strike drones.
On October 1, Ukrainian forces engaged in 158 combat clashes with Russian invaders along the front line.
The Russian army carried out 587 strikes on 13 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region on October 1, leaving an elderly man wounded.
Russia suffered approximately 1,112,460 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 2, 2025, with 980 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, drone operators from the Hart border guard brigade destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle and a field gun near Vovchansk.
The United States will supply Ukraine with intelligence to support long-range missile strikes against Russia's energy infrastructure.
One person was killed and ten others were injured in Russia's October 1 missile strike on Balakliia in the Kharkiv region.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has notified in absentia Russian Major General Volodymyr Omelyanovych, Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Russian 'Dnepr' Grouping, of suspicion for his role in organizing the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) dam in occupied Kherson region.
Despite the autumn-winter season and significant losses in manpower, weapons, and military equipment, Russian forces are not abandoning offensive operations.
01 October 2025
During the entire counteroffensive operation in the Pokrovsk district, 177.8 square kilometers of territory were liberated, and 198.9 square kilometers were cleared of saboteurs.
As part of the Ukrainian President's Bring Kids Back UA initiative, a group of children aged 4 to 17 has been returned from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
An emergency situation has arisen at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant as a result of a Russian attack on energy infrastructure in Slavutych, Kyiv region, and the plant is now in a blackout.
A 26-year-old woman was injured in the Dnipro district of Kherson as a result of Russian shelling.
Throughout the day, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Throughout September, Ukraine’s air defense forces destroyed 10,215 Russian aerial targets.
Slavutych, located in the Kyiv region, has been left without electricity following a Russian strike on a local substation.
A woman was killed in shelling of Antonivka, a suburb of Kherson. Her identity is currently being established.
Since the start of the day, 79 combat engagements have been recorded between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, with the heaviest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has released real footage of an assault operation carried out by the elite special unit “Artan.”
Rescuers extinguished fires caused by night shelling in the Kharkiv region.