General Staff: Russian offensive repelled near Sloviansk.

A Russian drone struck a merchant vessel flying the Marshall Islands flag in the Black Sea. Separately, two merchant ships were hit by drones around 112 kilometers (70 miles) off Bulgaria's coast on Oct. 6.

In recent weeks, some residents have started walking out of Oleshky to the neighboring village of Radensk alone or in pairs, on roads mined by Russian forces.

The South Korean government is considering several measures in response to the dispute, including a potential recall of South Korea's Ambassador to Ukraine, according to South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun.

What may look like a string of hybrid incidents increasingly resembles a sub-threshold war against Europe, says Olena Davlikanova, a security policy expert.

The man was suspected of "collecting data on defense facilities and critical infrastructure to adjust massive attacks on Kyiv from September 21 to 24 this year," the SBU said on Oct. 5.

Regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said that four people were injured in the Kryvyi Rih attack, including two medical workers.

Parliament Speaker Juozas Olekas said removing the constitutional ban would strengthen Lithuania's resilience and deterrence.

The number includes 1,540 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

The bridge has been closed, and traffic rerouted, according to the Zaporizhzhia City Council. The strike follows multiple attacks on bridges in central Kyiv in the past week.

Potentially undermining sanctions, over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, from South Korean ports were loaded onto sanctioned Russian tankers, based on analysis of port records and ship-tracking data.

Ukraine's drone struck the Volodarsk Linear Production and Dispatch Center near the village of Konstantinovo, according to monitoring channels.

"I hate to see them having it; it's a rough disease," U.S. President Donald Trump said. "We'll help anybody that has that kind of problem, were willing to help."

"(I)f a threat arises that we feel needs to be addressed by a change in posture, we'll do so. We haven't done that up to this point," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Russia again targeted Kyiv late on Oct. 5, with drone debris falling into a residential area in Kyiv's Pecherskyi district after air defenses shot it down, reporters on the ground said.