**🇷🇺 Russia – Sunday, 4 October 2026**
**Kyiv's Northern Bridge hit again, Ukraine strikes back**
Russia struck Kyiv's Northern Bridge on October 3, injuring two and cutting trolleybus power, a day after five strikes disabled the Southern Bridge, mayor Klitschko said. Ukrainian strikes on Russian-occupied Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, and on Russia's Belgorod region, killed several, local officials said. Moscow says the bridges carry Ukrainian troops and supplies.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261003-russia-strikes-another-major-bridge-in-kyiv
**Zelensky alleges Russian "doctrine" to empty Kyiv**
Zelensky says captured Russian intelligence documents describe a strategy of striking roads, schools and hospitals to pressure civilians to leave Kyiv and other cities; Russia has not addressed the claim. NATO's Rutte separately dismissed Putin's Kaliningrad nuclear threat as not "real" while vowing to defend allied territory.
**Previously:**
Al Jazeera
Russia’s ‘new doctrine’ targets civilian sites in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president says new intelligence shows Moscow aims to 'pressure people to leave' Kyiv and other cities.
**🇷🇺 Russia – Saturday, 3 October 2026**
**Kyiv bridges struck four days running**
Ukrainian officials say Russian drones hit Kyiv's Northern Bridge on October 3, a day after striking the Southern Bridge — the third and fourth such strikes on Dnipro River crossings since Wednesday. Mayor Klitschko reported deck and power-line damage and halted traffic; Russia's defense ministry has not commented specifically on the bridge strikes.
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-strikes-key-kyiv-bridge-for-3rd-straight-day-as-attacks-intensify/
**Putin threatens "all weapons" over Kaliningrad**
Putin told Moscow's Valdai forum on October 1 that Russia would use its full arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if NATO attacked Kaliningrad, after Russian embassies said Moscow had intelligence of a planned NATO blockade of the exclave, a claim NATO did not confirm. NATO called the remarks "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric" and said it would defend allied territory.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/putin-warns-weapons-arsenal-russia-territory-attacked-136930888
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