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2 Months Under Drapaty: Ukraine’s Army Is Winning

In brief: Drapaty is reshaping Ukraine’s military around drone-heavy warfare, decentralized command, and younger combat leaders. His tenure has seen local counteroffensives regain ground while pursuing a 30-year plan to modernize the AFU.

Kyiv Post

Death toll from Russian missile strike on Pryluky rises to 14: bodies of three children recovered from under rubble – video

Alona Mazurenko — 7 October, 13:44



The death toll from a Russian missile strike on Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast has risen to 14, and 50 people have been injured. Rescue workers are still clearing the rubble of an apartment block struck by the Russians.

Source: Chernihiv Oblast Police; Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne; Ukraine's State Emergency Service

Quote from the State Emergency Service: "Fourteen people, including four children, are now known to have been killed in the Russian attack on Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast."

Details: Fifty people have been injured, including seven children. Fifteen people have also been rescued, including one child. Psychologists from the State Emergency Service have provided support to 36 people.

Ukrainska Pravda

Ukraine will step up strikes on Russian refineries in response to Moscow's aerial terror, Zelenskyy says

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — 3 October, 19:44

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine will increase its strikes on Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new campaign of airstrikes aimed at forcing people to flee Kyiv and other cities.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with Reuters

Details: Zelenskyy said Ukraine will react to Moscow's change of tactics, but it will not respond in kind by indiscriminately striking civilian infrastructure.

Quote from Zelenskyy: "We have to respond in any way [we can]. With their attacks on our energy, we have to respond on their energy. First of all, oil refiners: what gives money to them for this war. But we will not respond, of course, just like them, on any civilian objects."

Details: Zelenskyy also noted that Ukrainian intelligence has obtained documents indicating that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has issued a "new doctrine" of military attacks on a much broader range of civilian targets ahead of this winter.

Quote: "We saw documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure ... logistics ... roads, schools, hospitals, to pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities. This is the goal of the operation."

Details: According to Zelenskyy, the reason for the policy shift was Putin's desire to appear strong at a time when his troops are losing ground in Donbas and suffering heavy casualties.

Ukrainska Pravda

Putin calls proposals for mutual halt to strikes on ships and oil refineries absurd

Iryna Balachuk — 1 October, 21:00

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has called a proposal not to strike Ukrainian ships if Ukraine refrains from striking Russian oil refineries "absurd".

Source: Russian state-owned news agency TASS; RT na russkom, citing remarks by the Kremlin leader at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

Quote from Putin: "We are being told: how about they stop striking your [Russian] oil refineries, and you stop striking their [Ukrainian] ships – let them transport civilian cargo, agricultural products. But what about our other civilian cargo, like oil and petroleum products? They say they will stop the strikes, so there will be more diesel, which is so badly needed in, say, the United States. But we will have more of it – we already have enough diesel. It won't reach global markets because there are sanctions in place. And in response we are supposed to stop striking targets that are important to them. Well, it just looks absurd."

Details: As usual, Putin claimed that Ukraine started attacking first.

Quote: "The Kyiv authorities started striking our tankers and other ships. They started in early July and they announced it publicly, they were not shy about it. In the first 10 days alone they knocked out 40 of our ships. And overall they have damaged over 100. We started to respond. Now we're getting appeals from all sides: 'Let's stop.' Well, they started it. Take this grenade from a Soviet soldier, you fascist. Now they don't like it."

Details: Asked again whether he would be willing to agree to a proposal for a mutual cessation of strikes, the Russian leader's answer was brief: "No."

Ukrainska Pravda

Testifying Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Smith said he stands by his decision to bring charges and would do so again based on the same facts, “regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”

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Zelensky: Overall drone interception rate amounts to 70%, for jet-powered drones currently only 57%

28.09.2026 22:51

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian forces are already using interceptors against jet-powered drones, but the interception rate is currently only 57%.
The head of state said this in his evening address, according to Ukrinform.

"The overall drone shoot-down rate as of today is 70% – this includes both regular and jet-powered shaheds. But for jet-powered shaheds, unfortunately, the rate is much lower than it needs to be – 57% for now. New interceptors are being actively tested," Zelensky said.

According to him, some combat units are already using them, but certain details still need to be refined to achieve sufficient effectiveness and scale.

"We are pushing the developers to move faster. Every week, there must be more concrete results in terms of shoot-downs along the interception lines," the President said.

As Ukrinform reported, Volodymyr Zelensky previously said that two Ukrainian companies had successfully conducted combat tests of interceptors, during which a Russian high-speed Shahed drone was destroyed.

Ukrinform