War update: 194 combat clashes on front lines over past day, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk axes hottest

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this in a situation update as of 08:00 on October 3. The enemy launched one missile strike and 90 airstrikes, dropping 275 guided aerial bombs. In addition, Russian forces used 9,522 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,435 shelling attacks, 33 of them using multiple rocket launchers. Under Russian fire were Bezsalivka, Koreniok, Tovstodubove, Potapivka, Sopych, Bachivsk, Neskuchne, Ulanove, Volfyne, Malushyne, Buniachyne, Brusky, Kruzhok, Velyka Berizka, Ryzhivka, Havrylova Sloboda, Iskryskivshchyna, Rohizne, Budky, Znob-Novhorodske, Seredyna-Buda, Yastrubshchyna and Kozache in the Sumy region, and Mykhalchyna Sloboda, Buchky and Bleshnia in the Chernihiv region.