"Russia's President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a righteous battle in Ukraine. Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard, he said. President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports."
"Ukraine has recaptured more than 170 square kilometres (66 square miles) of territory near the eastern town of Dobropillia in recent counteroffensives, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Russian forces had lost nearly 3,200 soldiers in the operation. Popular Ukrainian war blog DeepState said Ukrainian forces had given up the village of Poltavka, east of Dobropillia in Donetsk. Russia's Ministry of Defence said its air defence system intercepted four HIMARS rockets and three Neptune missiles fired by Ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours."
Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men, with Russian men aged 18 to 30 to be drafted from October 1 to December 31. Putin framed the campaign as a righteous battle and asserted his forces were prevailing. Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian helicopter with a remote-controlled drone near Kotlyarivka, and a Russian drone strike killed a family of four, including two children, in Sumy region. Ukraine recaptured over 170 square kilometres near Dobropillia and reported nearly 3,200 Russian casualties in that operation, though some villages changed hands. Russia reported intercepting HIMARS rockets, Neptune missiles and dozens of Ukrainian drones.
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