Night air attack, 189 combat clashes, battles in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, Israel's “Northern Arrows”.
Consequences of the shelling of Dnipropetrovsk region
Today is Defenders of Ukraine Day.
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At 09:00, a minute of silence was held across the country in memory of the fallen soldiers.
Day of Defenders of Ukraine is a national holiday, launched on October 14, 2014 by a presidential decree as Defender of Ukraine Day. The same document repealed the decree on celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23 from 1999.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to pilot Andriy “Dzhus” Pilshchikov posthumously. No. 658/2024.
The title was awarded to Andrey Pilshchikov for personal courage and heroism demonstrated in the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, selfless service to the Ukrainian people. 189 combat clashes. Russia launched four missile strikes (six missiles), 74 air strikes (128 air strikes), and carried out almost 4,700 artillery shellings.
The situation remains most tense in the Pokrovsk direction, where the defenders stopped 43 assaults and offensives of the occupiers. The enemy attacked in the direction of the settlements of Novotoretskoye, Novogrodovka, Lisovka, Mirolyubovka, Vozdvizhenka, Sukhaya Balka, Nikolaevka, Selidovo and Mikhaylovka. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Selidovo – 20 assaults were repelled there.
In the Kurakhovsky direction the defenders repelled 31 assaults near Georgievka, Konstantinovka, Kurakhovoye, Tsukurino and Yekaterinovka. /p>
More details about the operational situation – in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,370 Russian soldiers and 33 enemy artillery systems. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Russian army has lost 654,430 people.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the morning of October 1, the Russian army struck the center of Kherson. The enemy shelled the market and the bus stop. According to updated information from the head of the city military administration, six people were killed. Another six were wounded.
“The attack came at retail outlets where Kherson residents bought or sold products in the morning,” OVA head Alexander Prokudin reported on Telegram.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the enemy struck at around 9 a.m., probably with artillery.
“The shelling took place near a local market and a public transport stop. It is now known that seven civilians were killed in the shelling – three women and four men. Three citizens were also wounded, they are receiving qualified medical care. The data is being clarified,” the report says. On the night of October 1, 2024, Russia attacked Ukraine with 32 Shahed-type strike UAVs. Air defense shot down 29 of them.
According to the Air Force, the occupiers launched drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk in Russia and Cape Chauda in Crimea.
As a result of the air combat, aviation, the MDV and the electronic warfare of the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 29 attack UAVs in the Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Poltava, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
As a result of the electronic warfare counteraction, three enemy drones were lost, but without consequences.
The US State Department stated that Ukraine is capable of freely striking Russian territory without permission from Washington, since it can use its own means for this.
As reported by the Voice of America, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller noted that “thanks to programs implemented over the past year, Ukraine has a lot of its own weapons.” He also recalled that the United States has authorized the use of weapons provided as part of support to strike in response at targets located in the border region of the Russian Federation.
However, the speaker did not give a clear answer to the journalists' direct question about why the White House does not want to lift restrictions on the use of American weapons deep into the territory of the aggressor country. According to Miller, “the United States is considering all possibilities, all tactics and all support from the point of view of how this will affect the battlefield and the entire strategy of Ukraine.”
The foreign ministers of the Group of 7 countries have issued a joint statement on the second anniversary of Russia's attempted annexation of parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. It speaks of “strong support” for Ukraine.
The Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, assured that they stand by the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. They will never recognize the violations of international law committed by the Russians against Ukraine and will continue to condemn Russia's aggression, human rights violations and abuses in the temporarily occupied territories, as well as attacks on critical and civilian infrastructure. “We call on all members of the international community to do the same and call on Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, to respect the UN Charter and the fundamental principles that underlie the international order,” the statement said.
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On October 1, Mark Rutte officially becomes the new, 14th Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance.
According to Reuters, a ceremony is to take place in Brussels during which Jens Stoltenberg, who has led NATO for the past ten years, will hand over his powers to the former Dutch prime minister.
The bloc's member states expect the new secretary general to generally maintain his predecessor's course, which includes three priority areas: helping Ukraine to resist Russian aggression, increasing NATO funding for the defense industry, and actively involving the United States in ensuring security in Europe.
Rutte is considered an ardent supporter of Ukraine and is noted for his ability to successfully negotiate with various coalition partners over the years.
The Israeli Armed Forces have launched a ground campaign in Lebanon. The operation was called “Northern Arrows”, and the IDF officially announced its launch on its social media. According to Reuters, the troops are calling their actions “limited, localized and targeted raids against Hezbollah in the border areas of southern Lebanon.” The targets to be destroyed “posed an immediate threat to settlements in northern Israel.”
The operation is being supported by air forces and artillery, which “are carrying out precision strikes on military targets.” The army is acting “in accordance with the decisions and within the powers granted by the political authorities.”
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