The Air Force says Moscow launched 430 drones and 19 missiles. More were killed in Odesa Oblast, while damage to power and other infrastructure facilities is reported across several regions.
Hundreds of students in Sumy have returned to in-person classes in the city's first underground school, where they can study protected from shelling that has become routine in the oblast
Russian forces struck a passenger train preparing to depart for Kyiv at a railway station in Shostka on 4 Oct., leaving dozens injured among railway workers and passengers
A 5-million-hryvnia diffractometer and 15,000 books were destroyed when Russia struck Sumy State University on 18 Aug., bringing total book losses to 60,000 volumes.
Ukraine's air defense downed over 80 Russian drones during a coordinated Russian assault on civilian targets that damaged residential buildings, infrastructure, a kindergarten across 3 oblasts.