Ukraine has successfully used Neptune and Flamingo missiles in tandem, Zelenskyi says. Recent Russian strikes knock out around 60 per cent of Ukraine\u2019s gas production, according to Bloomberg News. Russia redeploys troops from near Pokrovsk to mount an offensive in Dnipro region, according to OSINT reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine has successfully used a combination of domestically produced Neptune and Flamingo missiles at enemy targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told journalists, according to Ukrinform\u2019s report on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the past week \u2014 I will not mention the quantity \u2014 [Ukraine] used Neptune and Flamingo missiles in combination. [The public] can analyze the results on their own. We do not say that these missiles are massively used in tandem. We are just saying that there is such use and there are first tangible results from these types of our weapons,\u201d Zelenskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also shared a number of Ukraine\u2019s notable successes in the use of domestically produced weapons at targets deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[Ukraine] has struck enemy warehouses with the Palyanytsia [drone-missile] dozens of times. That\u2019s positive news, because we\u2019ve been through different experiences, and these are not isolated cases anymore. A second positive [thing to share] is that the Ruta, our drone-missile, for the first time struck a sea rig more than 250 kilometers away. The biggest success is the Lyutyi drone and Fire Point [company], there was a massive use of up to 300 pieces, that\u2019s a serious operation. We understand that Ust-Luga and Primorsk are within range. What has happened is, in my opinion, a huge success,\u201d Zelenskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Flamingo FP-5 long-range cruise missile was first disclosed to the public in summer 2025. It is developed by Ukraine\u2019s Fire Point defense company and is capable of traveling 3,000 kilometers. Its photo was released in mid-August by AP photographer Yefrem Lukatskyi. That same month, Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister, Denys Shmyhal confirmed that Ukraine had begun producing long-range Flamingo missiles. President Zelenskyi said in August that the Flamingo will be mass-produced in several months and that the missile had undergone successful tests. He gave no further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fire Point chief technology officer Iryna Terekh said in an interview with Ukrainian news site Liga.net in September that the company was manufacturing 50 missiles a month at the time, an increase from 30 missiles in August. It planned to further scale up the production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine\u2019s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on fuel imports to survive the looming winter, Bloomberg News said on Thursday. The paragraphs below are quoted from the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv told its allies earlier this week that a massive Russian barrage targeting the Kharkiv and Poltava regions on Oct. 3 took out roughly 60% of the country\u2019s gas production, according to people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the strikes continue, Ukraine expects it will need to buy roughly 4.4 billion cubic meters of gas by the end of March, at a cost of nearly 2 billion euros, according to people familiar with the details. That\u2019s the equivalent of nearly 20% of Ukraine\u2019s annual consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the attacks, Ukraine has made urgent appeals to its Group of Seven partners for equipment to repair its energy system and reiterated long-standing requests for more air defense systems to help protect energy infrastructure. It\u2019s also seeking financial support to pay for the needed gas imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far this year, Ukraine has purchased 4.58 billion cubic meters of gas from foreign suppliers, including 3.67 billion since the end of the last heating season. While Kyiv has estimated that by the end of this year the country\u2019s import needs will reach 5.8 billion, it told allies earlier this week the figure may rise because of Russian attacks, according to the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Ukraine has survived previous winters with generators and helping civilians during winter power blackouts, there\u2019s rising concern that it won\u2019t be possible to repair the damage from the spate of recent attacks before the end of winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the costs are mounting. The bill for emergency energy repairs is estimated to be around 758 million euros, according to people familiar [with the matter]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank and the European Commission are already considering additional aid to help Ukraine\u2019s energy sector, according to the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 3, Russia launched the biggest attack of the war on gas production sites of the state-owned gas and oil company Naftogaz, critically damaging some of them. The company said its facilities in Kharkiv and Poltava regions were targeted. Ukraine\u2019s natural gas facilities were subsequently targeted on October 5, Naftogaz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russian military command reportedly redeployed elements of the 41st Combined Arms Army from south of Pokrovsk to the Novopavlivka direction, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An open-source analyst on X [@WarUnitObserver] reported on October 8 that the Russian military command redeployed elements of the 35th, 55th, 74th, and 137th separate motorized rifle brigades from south of Pokrovsk to the Novopavlivka direction. The X analyst reported that the entire 90th Tank Division is now operating near Novopavlivka and Ivanivka (southwest of Novopavlivka) and that only elements of the 15th and 30th motorized rifle brigades and 27th Motorized Rifle Division remain south of Pokrovsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian military analyst Denys Popovych told Radio NV that Russian forces aim to focus their offensive efforts on the region of Dnipro as they \u201cdon\u2019t quite succeed\u201d in the Pokrovsk direction, in Donetsk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey need victories, they need to announce that they are seizing territory. I think they will try to mount an offensive in the region of Dnipro. September\u2019s analytical reports show that they succeeded to seize territory with fewer efforts. They conducted fewer assaults and seized more territory in September,\u201d Popovych said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"