Russia hit industrial sites in southeastern and central Ukraine overnight, killing ​three, while an attack cut power to ‌thousands in the country’s north, Ukrainian officials ​said on Tuesday (September 22, 2026).

Moscow had ⁠simultaneously hit industrial enterprises in the cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad in the ‌southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram.

Russia deployed missiles, ‌drones and artillery at four districts ‌of ⁠the region, killing three people ⁠and injuring another six in Dnipro, where Mr. Hanzha said a business and warehouse premises were badly damaged.

With ​fighting on the ‌front line largely stalled more than 4-1/2 years into the war in Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv increasingly have struck businesses, ‌ports, logistics and other economic targets ​in recent months to try to damage the other’s war effort.

The ⁠overnight Russian barrage on Ukraine included an unspecified number of Oniks anti-ship and ballistic ‌missiles, as well as four cruise missiles and 212 drones, Ukraine’s air force said.

Businesses have also been damaged in Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih, which is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mr. Hanzha ‌said.

A Russian attack on an energy facility ​in a neighbouring region left nearly 1,00,000 consumers in the northern ⁠region of Chernihiv without power, a regional electricity ⁠distribution company said.

Moscow also carried out a “massive” attack on a central region ‌of Poltava, hitting an industrial enterprise and a critical infrastructure facility, Governor Vitalii ​Diakivnych said.

A Russian drone strike on ​a minibus in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson killed ‌four people on Wednesday (August 18, 2026), Ukrainian authorities said, in ​what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a “vicious” ⁠attack.

Another woman was killed and a man wounded in a separate drone attack on a car in the ‌central part of the city, the governor of the surrounding region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said ‌on the Telegram messaging app.

The four passengers – a ‌man ⁠and three women – were killed in a ⁠morning attack on the minibus, Mr. Prokudin said on Telegram. There was no immediate comment from Russia on the incident. Russia denies ​targeting civilians in the ‌war triggered by its invasion of its smaller neighbour in February 2022.

“The vicious Russian ‘safari’ against our people in Kherson has long gone beyond anything ‌a normal person could imagine,” Mr. Zelenskyy said on ​X.

“These are the realities of everyday life in Ukraine’s frontline regions. While partners hesitate ⁠over additional supplies of defence equipment, the Russians have long run wild.”

Ukrainians have coined the term “safari” ‌to describe drones “hunting down” civilians or vehicles in the street. Earlier this month, Ukraine released a video showing a drone chasing down and wounding a vegetable seller in Kherson.

Mr. Prokudin said that four passengers and the minibus driver were wounded ‌in the attack. He posted blurred photos of a yellow ​bus with bloodied steps, shattered windows and footage from inside the vehicle with its ⁠floor covered in blood and a hole in its ⁠roof.

Mr. Prokudin said the Russian operator of the drone must have seen he was targeting a ‌civilian vehicle.

“Despite this, the operator dropped the explosive directly on to the roof of the ​bus,” he said.

Russian ​strikes killed ⁠three people, including a child, in the region ‌surrounding capital Kyiv on Saturday (August 8, 2026), ‌an official said.

Tymur ‌Tkachenko, ⁠head of ⁠the Kyiv regional administration, said Russian strikes were ​recorded at ‌three locations in the Boryspil district, near the capital.

Three more ‌people were injured ​in the attack, he said.

In ⁠the capital itself, fires were ‌reported in two districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, following an air raid alert.

Reuters witnesses ‌heard several powerful explosions ​that shook the centre of the ⁠city.

Ukraine is chronically ⁠short of air defences capable ‌of downing Russia’s ballistic missiles.

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 15 people and wounded 42 others overnight into Wednesday (August 5, 2026), Ukraine’s state emergency service said.

The attack was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have become near-routine this summer.

Ukraine has a limited stockpile of interceptor missiles for the U.S.-made Patriot systems, the sole air defence system in its arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles, making large volleys like Wednesday’s hard to stop, even as Ukraine has stepped up deep strikes on Russian oil refineries and energy infrastructure.

In the wider Kyiv region around the capital, 14 people were killed and 27 wounded, with fires at multiple locations in Brovary, Bucha and Fastiv districts, Ukraine’s emergency service said.

Large warehouse fires burned in the city of Brovary and the villages of Velyka Dymerka, Kvitneve and Peremoha. A fire involving vehicles at an enterprise in Fastiv district was extinguished.

In Bucha district, crews battled a warehouse fire in the village of Chaiky after putting out a separate fire at a logistics facility in Sofiivska Borshchahivka.

In the capital, one person was killed and 15 were wounded, and emergency crews extinguished all fires sparked by the strikes in the Obolonskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Holosiivskyi and Desnianskyi districts, the Kyiv City Military Administration said.

Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine’s president on defence technology development, said the war of attrition has entered a new phase. “The enemy is attacking everything indiscriminately — retail warehouses, food storage facilities, logistics hubs, enterprises, building materials warehouses,” he said on Facebook.

One of the companies that came under heavy fire was Epicentr, one of Ukraine’s largest retail and construction chains. It said in a statement on Facebook that “in minutes, Russian missiles destroyed what the company had built over decades.” One employee was killed, and three others were wounded. Russia hit two of the company’s key logistics hubs.

A direct hit also destroyed the production floor of its ceramic tile factory, forcing the company to halt manufacturing there and shift production abroad, with full recovery expected to take up to two years, the company said.

Epicentr also voiced support for other Ukrainian businesses damaged in the attack, saying it understood “how many years of work, effort, faith and daily responsibility stand behind every enterprise.” Ukraine has carried out its own campaign against Russian retail logistics, striking multiple warehouses belonging to Wildberries — often described as Russia’s answer to Amazon — as part of a broader effort to damage Moscow’s economy and confront Russians with the costs of the war.

The Ukrainian capital ​Kyiv came under a Russian ‌missile attack early ​on Monday (July 6, 2026) and ⁠officials said residents were trapped inside a badly damaged ‌building near the city centre.

Reuters witnesses reported ‌a series of ‌explosions ⁠in and around the ⁠capital and said air defences were also in ​action against Russian ‌drones.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, said a residential building had been ‌hit in the ​historic Podil district.

“People are trapped on the ⁠seventh to ninth floors,” Mr. Klitschko said.

He said drone ‌debris had fallen on a second residential building in the same area and in other districts of ‌the city of 3 million.

At least ​30 people were killed in Kyiv ⁠on Thursday (July 2, 2026) when Russia launched ⁠hundreds of drones and dozens of ‌missiles at the city.

Russian missiles and drones killed at least eight civilians and injured 35 others in Ukraine on Monday (June 29, 2026) in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as “horrific attacks.”

Since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted strategic bombing in an effort to destroy the country’s infrastructure and sap Ukrainian morale. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the UN

A Russian missile targeting infrastructure struck the central city of Dnipro, killing five people and wounding 29, Zelenskyy said on social media.

Russian drones also hit a passenger minibus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three and wounding six, including a child, he said.

In addition, Russia drones killed a 69-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, National Police said.

Other deadly attacks occurred in at least six other regions of Ukraine, authorities said.

Some customers in eight Ukrainian regions were left without power Monday (June 29, 2026) after Russian strikes, after hot weather drove up electricity use as people turned on air conditioners, grid operator Ukrenergo said.

Mr. Zelenskyy renewed his plea for Europe to step up its development of air defenses to block Russia’s ballistic missiles, which are hard to stop.

“People need greater protection from such horrific attacks,” Mr. Zelenskyy said. “Above all, we need anti-ballistic capabilities. It is essential that Europe is as active as possible in developing its own anti-ballistic defense – its own systems and missiles.”

A marked shift has taken place in the war in recent months, Western officials say, as Ukraine’s expanding drone strikes have brought fuel shortages in Russia and Russia-occupied territory. The attacks have weakened the Russian military’s supply lines to the front in eastern and southern Ukraine, slowing their advance, according to analysts.

Ukraine’s innovative drone engineering has given it an edge in the war and made it a world leader in the technology’s military use, and it is now helping partner countries after previously pleading for foreign military support.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (June 28, 2026) acknowledged that repeated Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russia’s oil facilities have caused fuel shortages. The scarcity has triggered public anger and frustration as people wait in line for hours to fill up at gas stations.

But Mr. Putin ruled out making any concessions to end the invasion and insisted that Russia will ultimately prevail in the war despite what he called “temporary” setbacks.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia’s position on Ukraine remains unchanged, insisting that Russian troops are continuing their front-line offensive.

Their effort “makes us confident that our goals will be achieved,” Mr. Peskov told reporters.

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said the Kremlin’s stance is an attempt to push the West and Ukraine to giving in to Russia’s demands.

But, it added, “Russia’s battlefield performance continues to decline in 2026 and Russia’s ability to seize its objectives militarily is in question.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 209 Ukrainian drones from late Sunday (June 28, 2026) through early Monday (June 29, 2026).

Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 82 of the 108 drones that Russia launched overnight.

Russia launched a ​drone attack on Ukraine’s Black ‌Sea port of ​Odesa overnight ⁠on Monday (April 6, 2026), killing three people, including a child, and ‌damaging infrastructure, residential and administrative buildings, ‌the Regional Governor ‌said.

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“Overnight, ⁠Odesa came under ⁠another heavy attack by the enemy,” Oleh Kiper, Odesa ​Regional Governor, ‌said on the Telegram app. As well as the three ‌dead, 10 people ​were injured, he said.

“Residential buildings, critical infrastructure ⁠and administrative facilities were hit. There is ‌significant damage,” Mr. Kiper said. With the war now in its fifth year, Moscow has escalated its attacks ‌on Odesa, a key ​logistics hub in southern Ukraine and the ⁠country’s largest port, handling ⁠the majority of the Ukrainian grain ‌and other maritime exports.

A Russian ​attack damaged an energy facility ‌in Ukraine’s southern ​Black Sea region of Odesa, power company DTEK said on Tuesday (February 10, 2026).

“The damage is extensive. Repairs will take a long time ​to restore the equipment to ⁠working order,” DTEK said on the Telegram messaging app.

Regional Governor ​Oleh Kiper ⁠earlier said some settlements in the region had been partially left without power.

“At ‌night, the enemy ‌launched another cynical attack on the energy infrastructure ‍of the Odesa region,” Mr. Kiper wrote on Telegram.

Critical infrastructure ‍facilities are running off generators and work was underway to restore electricity supply, Mr. Kiper said.

Moscow has intensified its attacks on the Ukrainian power grid and other ⁠energy infrastructure since October, leaving millions without power ​and heating in freezing temperatures.

The ⁠city of Odesa and the surrounding region have been a frequent target of attacks.

A barrage of Russian drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight killed at least four people in cities across the country, including a 10-year-old boy, regional officials said on Monday (February 9, 2026).

AFP journalists at the scene of one strike on the southern city of Odesa saw gutted buildings and fire and emergency services working by lamplight to perform CPR on one of the victims.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones — including Iranian-designed Shaheds — at the country from Sunday (February 8) evening into the early hours of Monday (February 9).

Air defence units downed more than one hundred drones and several of the missiles, they added without elaborating.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine nearly four years ago, has bombarded its neighbour while joining recent rounds of U.S.-brokered talks to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

Mykhailo, a 32-year-old resident of the port city of Odesa who lives on the fourth floor of a residential building damaged overnight, told AFP that his apartment windows had been blown out and his car was damaged.

“First we heard the buzzing of a Shahed, and then the hit — and then another hit,” the postal worker said.

Seventeen-year-old student, also named Mykhailo, told AFP that when he stepped out onto his balcony, he saw the doorframe had been dislodged by the blast.

Local officials in the city said that a 35-year-old man was killed and that two more were wounded, including a 19-year-old woman.

Farther north in the Kharkiv region, State emergency services said they had recovered the bodies of a woman and a 10-year-old boy after a drone attack.

And a 71-year-old man was killed by Russian drones in his bed in the settlement of Novgorod-Siversky in the northern Chernigiv region, local authorities said.

Though Washington wants to see the war end by mid-year, Kyiv and Moscow remain at odds over territorial divisions, with Russia pushing for full control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal.

Russia occupies around 20% of Ukraine’s land.