Russia has continued its attacks on Ukraine overnight, with infrastructure damage reported in Kyiv and Odesa, among others.
A rescuer works at a site of a damaged business centre hit during Russian military strike in Odesa, Ukraine. Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/ReutersThe latest attacks come as part of an air campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions in the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months.
Menawhile, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a post near the frontline.
“This is where independence is won. And the path to peace runs through these very labyrinths, these very corridors,” he said in a video published on his social media channels, walking in the trenches.
“When we say, ‘Ukraine is holding on,’ this resilience begins right here at the front, in command posts like this and at every one of our positions because Ukraine has defenders,” he said.
Ukraine war briefing: Russia pounds power grid with seven killed in biggest energy attack in monthsRead moreElsewhere, Nato’s Mark Rutte will travel to Münster in Germany today to meet with the 1st German-Netherlands Corps and meet with chancellor Friedrich Merz and prime minister Rob Jetten.
The trio will speak at a joint press conference early afternoon, and Merz is later expected to deliver a major speech on Ukraine as he presents the 2026 International Award Ceremony of the Peace of Westphalia to Rutte in early evening.
I will bring you all the updates here throughout the day.
It’s Wednesday, 1 October 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
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