Ukrainian units from the 12th Special Forces Brigade, 1st Corps of NGU, and 425th Separate Assault Regiment conducted a counterattack against elements of the Russian 90th Tank Division near Dobropilliya.
Date note: The author notes the operation likely took place two to three weeks prior to the Oct 1 report, estimated here as mid-September.
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Units involved in the Dobropilliya counterattack included: 1st and 6th Battalions of the 12th Special Forces Brigade “Azov,” the “Tuman” Special Operations Detachment of the 1st Corps of NGU “Azov,” and the “Shkval” Battalion of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelia”.
A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Rai-Oleksandrivka.
Russian attacks killed three people and injured 13 others, Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadym Filashkin said. Two people were killed in Kramatorsk and one in Druzhkivka overnight.
Ukraine is preparing for intensified fighting around Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, two key cities in its remaining defensive belt in Donetsk.
Biletsky and Denys Prokopenko, commander of the National Guard's 1st Azov Corps, are among the commanders overseeing the region's defense.
Russian troops are 10 kilometers from Kramatorsk and constantly attack the city with FPV drones and KABs.
Kramatorsk is gradually becoming empty due to suffering from Russian attacks.
In the Dobropillia sector, the soldiers destroyed Russian infantry, Bukhanka vans and an Msta-S self-propelled howitzer.
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Source story: day-1-2026-10-01