# Ukraine marks Defenders Day by vowing to send Russia’s ‘sick war’ back

https://mins.news/en/item/81760

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-10-01 11:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/returning-russias-sick-war-to-where-it-came-from-ukraine-marks-defenders-day-2/

> Ukraine marked Defenders Day on Oct. 1 as Russia’s full-scale invasion continues. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had struck targets in the Black Sea and in Russia’s Oryol, Samara and Bryansk oblasts. Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi said Ukraine was relying on innovation, unmanned systems, precision and unconventional tactics rather than superior numbers.

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