Ukraine eliminated the quisling mayor of Nova Kakhovka in the occupied part of Kherson.
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⚡️Ukrainian drone kills member of Russian occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast, Kremlin proxy claims.
Volodymyr Leontiev, 61, previously served as the head of the Russian-installed administration in the town of Nova Kakhovka.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) October 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Now do Saldo.
Ukraine struck another oil refinery. Yaroslavl is about 250 km northeast of Moscow.
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In Yaroslavl, the Novo-Yaroslavl oil refinery, one of the largest petroleum producers in Russia, is on fire. Its processing capacity is about 15 million tons of oil per year. Yaroslavl region governor Mikhail Evraev claimed the blaze was not related to a drone attack.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) October 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
A pumping station was also hit.
Russia’s fuel situation is getting critical with 38% of refining capacity now shut down.
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As of September 28, 38% of Russia's primary oil refining capacity - equivalent to 338,000 tons per day - was out of operation.
Drone attacks that have struck more than two dozen major oil refineries in Russia since early August have driven the Russian fuel market into an unprecedented crisis.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) October 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The Russian fuel shortage comes to the highway from Moscow to Kazan.
Zelenskyy warns of danger at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been operating on backup diesel generators for a week.
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Zelensky in his evening speech warned of a critical situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP: for the seventh day it has been cut off from the grid due to Russian shelling and is running only on diesel generators. One generator has already failed. Russia blocks repairs, creating a threat to everyone.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Here’s an update from the Russian salient at Dobropillia, which has been cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
The Russians are clinging to their final chance near Dobropillia, and their desperate plan is to push in fresh reinforcements and claw back Novotoretske, which currently lies in the grey zone where some houses are held by Ukrainian troops and the rest are dominated by Ukrainian drones.
The Russians see this as their only way to reconnect with their trapped pockets, but the reality is harsh. Every approach is under Ukrainian fire control, every move is watched, and every soldier sent forward risks elimination before even reaching the frontline.
Despite some Russian presence in a trench fortification across Novotoretske, these remnants are unable to move outside due to relentless strikes.
Russia’s territorial gains have slowed in September.
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⚡️Russian territorial gains in Ukraine drop sharply in September, monitoring group says.
The pace of Russia’s territorial advances in Ukraine slowed significantly in September, with Russian forces seizing 44% less land compared to August, the Ukrainian monitoring group DeepState reported on Oct. 1.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) October 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
But Russia is claiming to have taken the village of Verbove.
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⚡️Russia claims capture of another Dnipropetrovsk Oblast village.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Oct. 1 Moscow's troops had captured the village of Verbove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, marking further gains in the region.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) October 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Russia destroyed a market in Kharkiv.
Dr. HIMARS makes a house call.
Another 920 Russians.
All those medals and titles didn’t save him.
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Holder of the “Best Strangler” diploma, versatile fighter and Master of Sport, reconnaissance Senior Lieutenant Самбу Эрес Маадыевич (Sambu Eres Maadievich) with multiple survival tactical training, commander of the Black BARS platoon, was eliminated in Ukraine on 3 March 2025.
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— KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Ukraine has come up with a defense against fiber-optic drones.
The idea behind the simple engineering design, which consists of a stretched barbed wire, is to break the fiber-optic cable that gets on it by rotating the barb around its axis.
This solution can be effective because fiber-optic drones do not pull the cable in the air, but rather lay it on the ground behind them.
In the intercepted video, a Ukrainian soldier says that the 150-meter-long fence is powered by a battery and controlled by a small controller. It rotates with a one-minute pause every minute, thus working 12 hours a day.
A British F1 engineer has produced a low-cost long-range drone that is supposed to fill a gap between FPV drones and expensive cruise missiles.
I’m most amazed that anyone with F1 could build anything at low cost.
SkyShark is a suicide loitering munition carrying a 10–20 kg warload, with an advertised range of about 250 km and top speeds near 450 km/h. It uses onboard target-acquisition guidance to find and dive onto selected targets. MGI states that SkyShark will be deployed to Ukraine within approximately six weeks and that Ukrainian partners are lining up for production, with an estimated price tag of around $67 thousand.
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Gascoyne — who spent 27 years in Formula One, starting in 1989 as head of aerodynamics at McLaren and later founding Lotus Racing — said his team’s expertise in lightweight composites and high-performance vehicle design transfers directly to drone engineering.
“They came to die.”
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1/ A Russian soldier has spoken out about being ordered to go on suicide missions. After he emerged as the only survivor of his group, he and a comrade were tied to a tree to be 'sacrificed to Baba Yaga'. He seems to expect that he may soon be murdered by his commander. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
2/ Aleksandr Anatolyevich Osipovich (call sign "Psycho") of the 74th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit 21005) was ordered to lead several other men to frontline positions across an open field, in full view of Ukrainian drones. Not surprisingly, it didn't end well.
3/ The whole group apart from Osipovich was killed in the attempt. He says that it's suicidal for the men to try to reach their frontline positions while under constant fire control from Ukrainian drones and artillery.
4/ "Most of the guys who come here can't even enter their positions, because the routes are absurd, impossible to navigate. Just two kilometers of open field under enemy birds [drones]. They walk, knowing they are about to die, and they keep walking. But they came to die.
5/ "They came to help the Motherland, and the Motherland called them. They came. And our commanding officers think themselves gods. They do whatever they want."
6/ After he got back to his base, Osipovich was ordered to repeat the mission with a fresh group, but refused. One of the new group, a man with the call sign "Grom", also refused. They were both tied to a tree as a way of getting rid of them – a practice the Russians call "sacrificing to Baba Yaga".
7/ "I warned the command that it would be impossible to get through there, but they told me: this is your task, this is your order, go as you please ... I refused to carry out an absurd task – to walk 1.7 kilometers across a field with the guys in open terrain under enemy fire."
8/ "This morning we arrived, they tied us to a tree and told us they would leave us there overnight so that enemy birds [drones] would kill us. And it didn't arouse suspicion. It was as if they were destroying us. But I refused to accept this fate. We were saved."
What a fabulous idea! It was an American battleship, after all, that kicked the asses of those funky-looking aliens who invaded Hawaii.
Go to Hell. Go straight to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect a bag of onions.
Russia’s Dirty Dozen — plus one.
I doubt any of them will see the inside of a courtroom, but I am pretty confident they will meet their demise sooner rather than later.
This is what is left of Kostiantynivka.
Not sure why these folks were still in Gaza but it’s good that they were able to get out.
They were about to do their cover version of Bohemian Rhapsody when all hell broke loose.
North Korean stuff blowing up.
Those Russians sure know how to party.
Let’s see how the Russian economy is doing.
Oh look! The country described as a gas station with nukes now has to import gasoline.
Uncontrollable contraction sounds like a bad thing.
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‼️ Russia: “The head of the "oligarchs' union" has stated that the Russian economy is beginning to experience uncontrollable contraction.”
👉 Alexander Shokhin
He is the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/30/g...
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— Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“"It seems to me that whether it's a cooling or a controlled soft landing, it's neither very soft nor very controlled," Shokhin said.”
Why didn’t they get Steven Seagal to star in it?
“Despite state funding and the participation of renowned actors, screenings averaged three people per screening, and by the end of September, the film was pulled from screenings. "People simply weren't buying tickets," the distributor told Mozhem Obshcheniem ( We Can Explain ).”
A Colombian band gives a lift to Ukrainian audiences.
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Los Iankovers are a Colombian band with a unique sound—blending traditional Ukrainian music with South American rhythms.
The group has gone viral online for their performances, and now they’re touring across Ukraine, bringing joy to audiences in cities large and small.
🎥: @corrie-ua.bsky.social
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) October 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
