Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:04 The draft budget of the Russian Federation for 2025-2027 includes 90 billion rubles for one-time payments for concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense, which will allow for the recruitment of up to 225 thousand new contract soldiers, the Russian publication Important Stories calculated.
19:31 Kyiv Post reports, citing sources, that the Defense Forces killed six officers from the DPRK yesterday. They were among 20 servicemen killed in a missile strike near Donetsk. The officers from North Korea had come to a meeting with the Russian Armed Forces command, which was demonstrating to them the preparation of personnel for assault operations.
18:48 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters in Sumy Oblast. The main issue is the protection of infrastructure, energy, and the operation of air defense. The president also heard a number of reports, including those of the head of the SBU, law enforcement officers, and Syrsky.
18:17 Zelensky said that he was on a working visit to the Sumy region and visited the command post of the 82nd separate airborne assault Bukovina brigade, which is carrying out combat missions as part of the operation in the Kursk region.
17:23 At least 177 Ukrainian prisoners of war have died in Russian captivity since February 2022, the Defense Ministry reported. They added that this is only official data, and the real number could be significantly higher.
17:00 The Prosecutor General's Office reported that Russians executed 93 Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield this year. Moreover, 80% of the executions were carried out in 2024.
16:09 In Poland, 300 Ukrainians have expressed a desire to join the Ukrainian Legion, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz reported. According to him, the Polish side was ready to begin training on September 1, but there were not enough volunteers. "Ukraine has now taken steps related to informing, recruiting and promoting this process, so we are counting on the result," the Polish minister added.
14:33 Russian troops are 7 km from the outskirts of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, the city's infrastructure is 80% damaged, said GVA head Sergei Dobryak. Despite this, according to him, 13,000 people remain there, including 94 children, and the evacuation continues. Dobryak added that a month and a half ago there were 48,000 people and almost 5,900 children in Pokrovsk.
13:24 Swiss Ambassador to Kiev Felix Baumann in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine called the information that his country allegedly supports the peace plan of China and Brazil, as previously stated by a representative of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, a "misunderstanding". According to Baumann, the Swiss position "remains absolutely clear: any decision in response to Russia's full-scale military aggression against Ukraine must fully respect international law, the UN Charter and, in particular, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine."
12:07 In Sumy Oblast, six workers were injured as a result of enemy shelling of a substation, the Ministry of Energy reported. Substations, household consumers and an energy facility were de-energized, power has already been restored. In Chernihiv Oblast, household consumers were de-energized after the shelling of overhead lines and a substation, a total of 4,817 subscribers were left without power. Power has been partially restored.
11:31 The Czech Republic and Ukraine will jointly produce 155 mm artillery ammunition - a corresponding agreement was signed by the Czech arms manufacturer Czechoslovak Group (CSG) and Ukrainian Armor. The agreement is part of a large package of contracts signed by the two companies on October 2 at the International Defense Industry Forum in Kiev. Production will begin next year.
11:25 In the Kirovograd region, during a night attack by drones, the administrative building of one of the enterprises in the Golovanovsky district was damaged, an employee was injured, reported the head of the OVA Andriy Raikovich.
11:13 Ukraine will receive 12 Caesar systems from France, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced. The corresponding contract was signed by the French-German defense concern KNDS on the sidelines of the industrial forum in Kiev. The supplies are financed by Ukraine.
10:36 The General Staff confirmed that the Defense Forces struck the fuel and lubricants storage base of OOO Annanefteprodukt, located near the settlement of Anna in the Voronezh Region, at night. At least one of the vertical tanks was confirmed to have been hit, and a fire broke out.
10:24 In Energodar, the "chief of physical security" of the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP, Andrey Korotky, was blown up. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, his car was blown up this morning. Korotky is a collaborator involved in organizing and committing war crimes against Ukrainians during the occupation. After the seizure of the NPP, he gave the Russians lists of the plant's employees with their personal data, indicating citizens with a pro-Ukrainian position, and personally took part in the repressions.
09:55 In the Kharkiv region, eight people were injured as a result of Russian shelling over the past 24 hours: two in the village of Tokarevka in the Kharkiv district, two in the village of Boguslavka in the Izyum district, three in the village of Perovskoye in the Bogodukhovsky district, and one in the village of Okhrimovka in the Chuguevsky district, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:42 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on October 3 - in Stara Nikolaevka and Kremennaya Balka. Another two people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:37 At night, the Russian army struck Belozerka in the Kherson region with artillery, one person was killed, the OVA reported. Another person was injured in the morning as a result of a drone attack in Kizomys. Over the previous day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed and four were injured.
09:26 Air defense destroyed nine of the 19 Shahed-type attack UAVs used by the enemy to attack critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine at night, the Air Force reported. Another seven drones were lost in location - probably due to counteraction by electronic warfare. The drones were shot down in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Kherson regions.
08:50 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the offensive of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, which they began in the summer, will reach its climax "in the coming months, if not weeks." According to analysts, the Russian army does not have enough manpower and resources to continue an intensive offensive indefinitely.
08:38 On October 3, the regional FSB office in Novosibirsk burned down - a flammable mixture was thrown into a broken window of the building and set on fire, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
08:17 In the Voronezh Region, drones attacked the oil depot of OOO Annanefteprodukt in the urban-type settlement of Anna at night. Governor Alexander Gusev claims that one of the suppressed UAVs fell on the territory of the oil depot, and an empty tank caught fire. Also in the Perm Region, a private oil depot in the industrial zone of the village of Osentsy caught fire at night. The Russian Emergencies Ministry stated that the UAV attack version is not being considered, and that the cause of the fire was "careless handling of fire" or "emergency operation of electrical equipment."
07:33 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 4:
- personnel - about 657,940 (+1230) people,
- tanks - 8908 (+15),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,627 (+31),
- artillery systems - 18,965 (+59),
- MLRS - 1212 (+8),
- air defense systems - 965 (+1),
- aircraft - 368 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,494 (+101),
- cruise missiles - 2613 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,820 (+70),
- special equipment - 3333 (+3).
03:42 NATO countries will not shoot down missiles and drones over Ukraine, as they do over Israel, said Deputy Spokesperson for the Pentagon Sabrina Singh. She explained that the situation in Ukraine is different from the situation in Israel. "That would mean that we are drawn into a war. And now we feel that Ukraine has been able to successfully defend itself from Russian strikes on its cities, population, infrastructure. And we will continue to provide them with the support they need to do this," Singh added.
00:37 In the Darnitsky district of Kyiv, during the shooting down of an enemy UAV, a metal-plastic frame on the eighth floor of a 16-story building was knocked out, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported. The fire was quickly extinguished, no one was hurt.