A Russian jet drone hit Kyiv's North Bridge on the morning of October 3, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, a day after repeated strikes closed the city's Southern Bridge.

“Direct hit on the North Bridge. Emergency services are heading to the location,” Klitschko said, 24tv.ua reported. Bus and trolleybus routes across the bridge were halted, Fakty reported. No casualty or damage figures had been given at the time of writing.

Russia's drone attacks on the capital's Dnipro crossings have spread from the Southern Bridge, hit repeatedly on October 1-2, to the North Bridge. The Southern and Paton bridges were closed in both directions on October 2.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 108 attack drones, 47 of them jet-powered, between 18:00 on October 1 and 08:00 on October 2, and that 88 were downed or suppressed, with hits recorded at 11 locations, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Its tallies for the day of October 2 and the night of October 2-3 were not yet published at the time of writing.

In Russia, the defence ministry said its air defences downed 646 Ukrainian drones over regions from Belgorod to Astrakhan, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas between 20:00 Moscow time on October 1 and 08:00 on October 2, the Kyiv Post reported, and 209 more between 08:00 and 20:00 on October 2, Interfax reported. The ministry's tally for the night of October 2-3 was not yet published at the time of writing, and the Russian side of that night is not yet fully reported.

Refinery strikes

Volgograd: UPDATE, night of October 1-2: Ukraine's General Staff said its forces hit the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, causing explosions and a fire, Ukrinform reported. The agency's Ukrainian-language service said NASA FIRMS satellite data showed fires at the refinery's delayed coking unit and its ELOU-AVT-1/5 crude units. Governor Andrei Bocharov said only that industrial infrastructure had been attacked, and neither Lukoil nor Russian officials have confirmed damage or a halt.

Samara region: UPDATE, October 1: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces had hit an oil facility in the region, UAWire reported. Telegram channels reported a storage tank on fire at Rosneft's Kuibyshev refinery, while Ukraine's Defence Ministry described the target as one of Russia's largest gas processing and petrochemical plants. The site has not been identified officially, and no damage has been confirmed by Russian officials.

Krasnodar region: no restart has been reported at the Ilsky refinery, which IntelliNews reported on September 30 had halted after the September 26 strike. Russian authorities have not confirmed the shutdown.

Nationwide: plants reported halted or cut in September account for about 121.6mn tonnes a year, or 37% of Russia's 327mn tonnes nameplate capacity, by IntelliNews' refinery ledger, and up to 159.2mn tonnes, or 49%, if earlier halts still hold. The Ilsky halt, which rests on Ukrainian sources, is not counted. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in early September that about 10% of Russian refining capacity was under repair.

Metal plants hit

No new strike on a Ukrainian metals plant was found in the 48 hours to the time of writing. The status of 38 plants and mines is tracked in IntelliNews' metals and mining ledger, linked below.

Oil depots, factories and military targets in Russia

Samara region: Ukraine's General Staff said a fire was recorded at the Samara oil pumping and dispatch station near Prosvet after its strike on the night of October 1-2, Ukrinform reported. The ASTRA Telegram channel said the target was probably Transneft's Samara station, which it called Europe's largest tank farm, with 71 tanks holding more than 1.6mn cubic metres of oil, the Kyiv Post reported. Samara Mayor Ivan Noskov suspended ground public transport. Regional authorities did not comment on the fire.

Nationwide: Zelenskiy said on October 2 that Ukrainian forces had targeted airfields, industrial facilities, oil refineries, “a missile and space centre” and an ammunition depot in the Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Samara and Krasnodar regions and in the Black Sea, Ukrinform reported. He did not name the sites.

Kaluga region: air defences destroyed 13 drones overnight on October 3, and apartment buildings in Kaluga were damaged, with several people slightly hurt by flying glass, Governor Vladislav Shapsha said, TASS reported. He gave no number for the injured.

Tula region: nine drones were destroyed overnight with no casualties or damage, Governor Dmitry Milyaev said, TASS reported.

Voronezh region: three drones were shot down overnight with no casualties, TASS reported.

Belgorod region: a drone injured a two-year-old boy in Tomarovka on October 2, the regional operational headquarters said, Interfax reported.

Moscow region: an explosion at the Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant, which makes ammunition and pyrotechnics, killed seven people, the Shot Telegram channel reported, according to The Moscow Times. Authorities had not commented, and preliminary reports pointed to a technical cause; no aerial attack was reported in the area.

Occupied Donetsk: Ukraine's 210th Separate Assault Regiment said one of its drones hit a target near the city's railway station on October 2, Ukrinform reported.

Ukraine under fire

Kyiv: Russia's defence ministry said on October 2 that it had struck a road and rail bridge across the Dnipro in Kyiv, without naming it, Vedomosti reported.

Kyiv region: Russian drones set a warehouse and several production facilities on fire in Hostomel on the evening of October 2, injuring four people including an eight-year-old girl, the Kyiv regional military administration said, the Kyiv Independent reported. Economic Pravda, citing sources, named the site as a warehouse of the pharmaceutical distributor Venta, which had not commented. It was the fifth strike on a pharmaceutical warehouse in a month, UNITED24 reported, quoting the health ministry as saying there was no systemic shortage of medicines. Russia's defence ministry also claimed a strike on the Kyivska substation at Nalyvaikivka, Vedomosti reported; no Ukrainian confirmation was found.

Kharkiv: Russian glide bombs killed two people and injured 33, including two children, on October 2, damaging about 20 residential buildings and destroying a house, Mayor Ihor Terekhov and regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said, Ukrinform reported.

Kharkiv region: Russian drones killed two men near Myronivka and on the Skovorodynivka-Pysarivka road on October 2, Syniehubov said, Espreso reported.

Poltava region: a drone hit an energy facility in the Lubny district on October 2, leaving about 6,000 consumers without power, with no casualties, Governor Vitaliy Diakivnych said, Espreso reported.

Rivne region: a civilian enterprise was damaged on October 2 and a fire forced the evacuation of nearby residents, Espreso reported.

Odesa region: Russia's defence ministry said it struck the port complex in Izmail and a cargo ship in the Black Sea heading for Odesa, Vedomosti reported. No Ukrainian confirmation was found.

Data centres, telecoms, media and R&D

Kyiv: Data Center Parkovyi said on October 1 that its Kyiv facility had completely ceased operations after critical damage in a series of Russian strikes and could not be restored, Hromadske reported. No employees were hurt and customer data was moved to backup sites in EU countries, the company said. Russia's defence ministry had claimed a strike on the Parkovy and Bemobile data centres on September 28-29.

Nationwide: Russia's defence ministry said its strikes in the week to October 2 hit logistics and telecommunications centres, power generation, transport and port infrastructure, Interfax reported.

Weapons and technology

Russia plans up to 1,000 missile, drone and glide bomb strikes this winter on substations, power plants, boiler houses, the switchyards of nuclear plants and water and sewage facilities, The New York Times reported on October 2, citing a Russian document from August obtained by Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, UNITED24 reported. The aim is to cut electricity and heating in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa by as much as 90%, in three stages starting with substations near the western border that carry European power imports, then hydroelectric plants, then the nuclear plants.

Ukraine used its domestically built FP-7 tactical ballistic missile in combat for the first time, Zelenskiy said on October 1, without saying what it hit. “We're not telling,” his communications adviser told the Kyiv Independent. Published specifications differ: the Kyiv Independent gives maker Fire Point's claimed range as up to 250 km with a 200kg warhead, the Kyiv Post gives up to 200 km and up to 150kg.

Ukraine is testing five types of high-speed interceptor drones against Russia's jet-powered drones, and one model is expected to reach about 400 units by the end of October, NV reported. “Engines are key. We really import a lot of engines,” Zelenskiy said.

Russia's defence ministry said its air defences downed 5,031 fixed-wing drones, four Flamingo cruise missiles, four HIMARS rockets and 37 guided bombs in the week to October 2, TASS reported.

Ukraine has turned down Australia's offer of its retired Tiger attack helicopters because of the cost of maintenance, spare parts and flying hours, Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko told Defense Express, NV reported.

Powerus, a US drone maker in which President Donald Trump's sons hold an indirect stake, is in talks with Ukrainian defence companies about producing long-range strike drones and other battlefield-tested technology in the US, IntelliNews reported.

Arson and sabotage in the EU and the UK

Poland: three people, two soldiers and a civilian employee, were taken to hospital with irritation of the face and hands after an envelope was opened at the military police station in Nowa Deba on October 1, and 133 people were evacuated from a neighbouring building, Finwire reported, citing Polish media. Prosecutor Marcin Kozak said no substance was detected, and all three were discharged. No one has been blamed.

Moldova: UPDATE, September 30-October 1: one of three drones that entered Moldovan airspace crashed and exploded near Branesti in the Orhei district, less than 50km from Chisinau, and police said fragments carried “Geran-4” markings, IntelliNews reported. The foreign ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Oleg Ozerov on October 1.

Europe: Russia's special services have been tasked with stepping up activity in EU and Nato countries, targeting military sites, critical infrastructure, communications and Starlink ground stations, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) said on October 2, the Kyiv Independent reported. EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on October 1 that a Russian strike on arms factories on European territory “would be Article 5”, the Kyiv Post reported, after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called European plants supplying Ukraine potential military targets. A Nato official told Politico that Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous.

UK: no update on the RAF Fairford investigation was found for October 1-3.

Tit for tat

Russia carried its drone attacks on Kyiv's bridges to the North Bridge, set a pharmaceutical warehouse on fire outside the capital and killed two people in Kharkiv with glide bombs. Ukraine's General Staff said it hit the Volgograd refinery and a major oil pumping station in Samara region, and Russia's defence ministry claimed 646 Ukrainian drones downed overnight on October 2 and 209 more that day.

The ledgers

The running ledgers are kept as six public spreadsheets at permanent addresses. The first three are non-exhaustive, every row is sourced, and where only one side has spoken the row says so. Defence ministry figures are recorded as claims, and in the sabotage ledger attribution is given exactly as the authorities state it and no further. The fourth tracks what has happened to Ukraine's steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy and non-ferrous plants since 2021, grouped by owner. The fifth tracks strikes on data centres, telecoms, media and research sites; the sixth tracks refinery strikes.

RUSSIA STRIKES LEDGER: Russian strikes on Ukraine's economic infrastructure, 323 rows

UKRAINE STRIKES LEDGER: Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, 191 rows

ARSON & SABOTAGE LEDGER: Arson, sabotage and drone incursions in the EU and the UK, 67 rows

METAL STRIKES LEDGER: Ukraine's metals and mining assets: 2021 baseline against status in September 2026, 38 plants and mines

DATA CENTRE & TELECOM STRIKES LEDGER: Data centres, telecoms, media and research sites hit in Ukraine, 33 rows

REFINERY STRIKES LEDGER: Russian oil refineries hit, and how badly, 27 refineries

Russian oil refineries hit by Ukrainian strikes, as of September 30, 2026. Non-exhaustive; strike counts are floors. Damage: 0 claimed, no damage confirmed; 1 fire or minor damage; 2 secondary unit damaged, output reduced; 3 primary distillation unit damaged; 4 refinery halted. Plants reported halted or cut in Sep 2026 account for about 121.6 mn t/yr, about 37% of the 327 mn t/yr nameplate total; up to 159.2 mn t/yr (49%) if earlier halts still hold. Russian officials put capacity under repair at about 10% (Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, early September). Status mostly from unnamed industry sources cited by Reuters. Full sourced ledger: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHjZvX9Hf-6jdKxcTE8Dw7f6O2_svY0kX54sqKPyU_s

This article was produced with the help of IntelliNews Lambda analytical tool