Russian shelling kills five civilians in Ukraine on October 1

As a result of Russian shelling on October 1, 2025, five civilians were killed in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, and more than 30 injured in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions, according to the National Police of Ukraine. 

Those killed as a result of Russian shelling on October 1 included an 88-year-old woman from Balakliya, a man and a woman from Kupiansk, as well as an elderly victim of a Russian mortar strike in Antonivka, and a man killed by morning shelling from a multiple launch rocket system in Kherson.

In the Kharkiv region, in addition to the dead, 16 people were injured in Balakliya, which was hit by a Russian missile strike in the evening. Among the victims were a 4-year-old child and a police officer.

In the Donetsk region, where the Russian military carried out more than 1,900 strikes in one day, four people were injured: three in Druzhkivka and one in Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka. The Russians mainly used various types of drones to carry out the strikes, but they used a guided bomb to strike Dobropillia.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, in Primorske, a 73-year-old man sustained leg wounds in a Russian drone strike.

In the Sumy region, two people were injured during the day, and there was considerable damage, including to a kindergarten. In the region, Russian troops targeted a substation, power lines, a gas pipeline, and a hangar with a heat pipe. In addition, official and private cars were damaged by shelling.

There were no casualties or injuries on October 1 in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but damage was identified.

Earlier, Bohdan Bernatskyy, a member of the Sanctions Policy Working Group of the Crimean Platform Expert Network, revealed at the Third Parliamentary Summit in Latvia that over 1,300 Russian military companies and 2 million industrial workers continue to operate, many without international restrictions.

As is known, China, North Korea, India, and Brazil also assist Moscow in killing citizens of Ukraine in Russia’s war, including funding the Russian budget through trade. 

Previously, the Reuters news agency reported that Russia expects to begin natural gas production at the new Sakhalin-3 project in 2028, aiming to supply gas to China and meet domestic needs, Reuters reported.

Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko also noted that energy giant Gazprom, along with local authorities, is preparing a plan to build a gas condensate processing plant in southern Sakhalin to produce jet fuel, diesel, and other oil products.

Ukraine urges the international community to unite to restore global security under the UN Charter and strengthen sanctions against Russia to enforce compliance with international law. Following Russia’s initial invasion in 2014, Ukraine has pursued the liberation of its territories within its internationally recognized 1991 borders while developing comprehensive reintegration strategies and policies for all liberated areas.

On September 26, in an interview with Axios, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Ukraine will never recognize the territories under Moscow’s occupation as Russian, but if a ceasefire were implemented, he would agree to a halt to all hostilities at the current front line while Ukraine works to regain its lands later through diplomacy.

A journalist asked whether he would consider making any territorial concessions in the pursuit of peace.

“No, we will never recognize these territories which are temporarily occupied as territories of Russia. We can’t do it,” the Presdent said.

The interviewer pointed out that he was not asking about recognition, but whether Zelenskyy would agree to say, “Well, the border was here and now it’s here.”

“If you look at today’s situation and if tomorrow there is a ceasefire and everyone understands that we don’t have the power to bring back these territories, we are ready to speak about it,” Zelenskyy said. “We are ready to get it back sometime in the future in a diplomatic way, not with weapons. And I think this is a good compromise for everybody.”

He added that this implies resolving these issues through dialogue while minimizing losses.