Russia’s Defence ‌Ministry said on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) its ​forces ⁠had carried out a “massive strike” on military-industrial facilities ‌in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, ‌using high-precision ‌land-, ⁠sea-and ⁠air-launched weapons, as well as drones.

Targets included sites ​where the ‌company Fire Point makes and stores Flamingo cruise missiles ‌and medium- and ​long-range drones in Kyiv as well ⁠as regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, ‌Poltava and Kharkiv, it said.

The strikes targeted port and ship-repair infrastructure in the ‌Odesa region, as ​well as vessels it said were ⁠being used in the ⁠interests of Ukraine’s armed ‌forces, the ministry added.

Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday (September 29, 2026), as Moscow seeks to make Ukraine buckle under the pressure of day-and-night bombardment of its capital and other cities.

The Russian onslaught has used new jet-powered drones that fly too fast and too high for Ukrainian ground-based air defences to shoot down.

Ukraine is scrambling to keep pace by developing faster interceptor drones, in the latest example of how the war has driven military innovation, but making and deploying new weapons takes months.

Russia’s ballistic missiles have also got through as Ukraine is desperately short of US-made Patriot air defence interceptor missiles, which are the only reliable way of stopping Moscow’s ballistic attacks.

Patriot stockpiles are low, largely because of the Iran war, and Ukraine has received only small numbers of them this year despite President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleading. Ukraine said that its air defences shot down two ballistic missiles overnight, which suggested that Kyiv had recently received some more Patriots.

Air defence needs are mounting with the approach of the bitter winter months, which in the years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on Feb 24, 2022 have brought an escalation of strikes on Ukraine’s power grid.

That strategy denies Ukrainian civilians heating and running water, among other things.

The Russian Defence Ministry said that its forces hit data processing centres in Kyiv that Moscow says are used by the Ukrainian military, which is increasingly deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield.

Other Russian targets included facilities in the Ukrainian capital and the Kyiv region where drones and cruise missiles were stored, as well as an electrical substation, a drone manufacturing facility, and port infrastructure facilities in the southern Odesa region, the Ministry said.

Ukrainian authorities said that the barrage hit apartment buildings, houses and public transportation in Kyiv, wounding one person.

In Odesa, the attack wounded eight people overnight and damaged residential buildings, civilian infrastructure, a school, an animal shelter and port infrastructure, local officials said.

Ukraine hasn’t sat back in the face of the Russian blitz. Its long-range drones have targeted Russian missile and drone manufacturing plants and launch sites. It also has hit Russian oil refineries, causing fuel shortages.

The two armies are largely deadlocked on the long front line in eastern and southern Ukraine.

Mr. Zelenskyy says that Moscow intends to increase recruitment for another battlefield push.

He said late Monday that another 10,000 North Korean troops are heading to Russia, adding to the 8,000 he said are already there.

Russia and North Korea have made no secret of their military cooperation.

A drone hit a petrol station in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday (September 15, 2026), Mayor Vitali Klitschko ‌said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that there was also a strike on ‌warehouse facilities in another part of the city.

A ‌Reuters ⁠witness heard an explosion in Kyiv.

The attack ⁠comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (September 14) that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to hit each other’s energy ​targets.

Russia has recently ‌started hitting petrol stations in Kyiv, expanding the range of target facilities. In recent months, Russia hit some 300 petrol stations, mainly in or near ‌Ukraine’s frontline regions.

As Moscow was striking Ukraine, neighbouring ​Poland has commenced military aviation operations as a preventive measure to secure its airspace, Poland’s ⁠Armed Forces said in a statement on social media website X.

In Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, ‌a Ukraine missile attack has damaged a warehouse of the e-commerce company Ozon in the southern port city of Taganrog, among other facilities, regional governor said on Telegram.

Separately, a drone attack has hit an industrial facility in Samara region on the Volga ‌River, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on Telegram, without naming it. ​The region is home to a number of large oil refineries.

Reuters could not immediately ⁠independently verify the reports.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that ⁠Kyiv was ready to support a U.S. proposal for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire on energy sites ‌only if Washington could ensure Moscow was genuinely ready to end its war on Ukraine.

Two people were killed and at least 10 injured after Russia struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones and missiles overnight on Tuesday (September 8, 2026), local authorities said.

The attack comes after a pause over the weekend as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Kyiv for their first official visit in a renewed push to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Damage and fires occurred in at least five districts of the capital, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said, while a statement on Telegram by the Kyiv City Military Administration said damage to civilian infrastructure was located in at least 16 locations.

A 26-story, non-residential building was hit in the Holosiivskyi district. At another location in the same district, a fire broke out and the flames spread to a nearby non-residential building. Rescuers saved one person during a search and two people were evacuated from an apartment in a 16-story, residential building.

People also were trapped in a five-story residential building in the Solomianskyi district. At least 10 people were rescued, according to the emergency service, which said fires also were recorded in the Darnytskyi and Podilskyi districts.

Russian troops are inching towards the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, trying ​to establish a foothold close to a heavily defended area, ‌Ukraine’s top army official said on Saturday (May 2, 2026).

Kostiantynivka, ​along with other cities, forms a so-called fortress ⁠belt in the country’s east – an area well fortified by the Ukrainian military.

All four international airports of the Russian capital were closed due to safety concerns on Sunday (February 22, 2026) afternoon until further notice, as air defence forces shot down 11 Ukrainian drones within an hour.

The Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia said in a press release that air traffic restrictions have been imposed at all four international airports — Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo — due to safety concerns.

“Air defences have intercepted another UAV flying towards Moscow,” Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on his Max channel.

“Thus, the total number of downed drones has reached 11,” Sobyanin wrote in his latest social media post at 4 p.m. (local time).

As the war with its neighbour nears four years anniversary, Russia claims that Ukrainian drones regularly attack its different regions, including Moscow. Russia too attacks Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones.

Two people were killed, and several were wounded as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian border regions, local authorities said Wednesday (January 14, 2026).

In the city of Rostov-on-Don, a drone attack sparked a fire in a residential building, and the body of a man was found in the charred remains of one of the apartments, the local governor, Yuri Sliussar, wrote on Telegram.

Four other people, including a four-year-old, were wounded in strikes elsewhere in the Rostov region, which sparked fires in several industrial areas.

In the border region of Belgorod, a woman was killed and a man wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and in recent months has been pummelling the country nightly with hundreds of drones and missiles.

Ukraine launches dozens of drones at Russia every night in retaliation, saying it aims to target the energy industry, which is helping the Kremlin finance its invasion.

Russia’s top diplomat accused NATO and the European Union of using Ukraine to declare a “real war” against his country in a speech at the United Nations on Thursday (September 25, 2025) that Britain dismissed as “false fantasy world distortions.”

He spoke at a G20 meeting of Foreign Ministers at the U.N. two days after U.S. President Donald Trump signalled a harsher stance on Moscow, praising Ukraine’s war effort and saying NATO allies should shoot down Russian jets that enter their airspace.

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Tensions have mounted along Europe’s eastern flank where Estonia has accused Moscow of sending three fighter jets into its airspace, a week after NATO jets shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace.

“Another clear example is the crisis in Ukraine provoked by the West, through which NATO and the EU have … already declared a real war on my country and are directly involved in it,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Lavrov, foreign minister for more than two decades, has made similar remarks in the past, but their echo within the walls of the United Nations building — delivered in front of fellow G20 foreign ministers — underscored the gravity of the moment.

He made no reference to Trump’s comments earlier this week, instead repeating Russia’s position that it was the West’s actions that provoked the war in Ukraine, which began when Moscow’s forces launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022.

’False Fantasy World Distortions’

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called out Mr. Lavrov as he made to leave when she began her speech and condemned Russia’s “unprovoked war of aggression” against Ukraine.

“No amount of false fantasy world distortions, misinformation and propaganda from the Russian representative about the causes of the war will convince anyone,” she said.

Russian forces occupy around 20% of Ukraine and the fighting rages in the east of the country more than 3-1/2 years since the full-scale invasion.

Europe’s Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas, called on world powers to exert international pressure on the Kremlin.

“There are no signs that Russia’s goal of subjugating Ukraine has changed,” she said.

Ukraine and Europe publicly welcomed Trump’s rhetorical U-turn on the war in Ukraine on Tuesday, in which he mocked the Russian military’s slow progress, saying he believed Kyiv could turn the tables on Russia and retake its occupied land.

But some European diplomats have cautioned Mr. Trump’s statements may indicate he is moving to leave Europe to carry the burden of supporting Ukraine.

Despite concerted lobbying by Europe and Ukraine, Mr. Trump has not imposed heavy new sanctions on Russia. Instead, he has imposed tariffs on products from India for buying Russian oil and discussed the possibility of similar action against China.

Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Thursday, Mr. Trump’s tone remained largely unchanged on Russia. He voiced disappointment with President Vladimir Putin’s actions and said Moscow was doing poorly in the war in Ukraine.

Mr. Lavrov held talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday. He is due to address the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday.