Russia-Ukraine war

A Russian aerial bomb attack on Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on 2 November hit a school building used as a humanitarian aid distribution center. Governor Mykhaylo Semikin said on 7 November that the death toll had risen to 55 as the search entered its sixth day.

Russia launched 433 drones overnight, and the Air Force said 371 were downed. Strikes on energy infrastructure in at least four regions injured three DTEK workers. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on 1 November that hundreds of thousands of families remained without electricity.

A Russian drone strike on the grounds of a vocational school dormitory in Vinnytsia Oblast killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl, on 1 November, the State Emergency Service reported. Six people were injured, including three 5-year-olds. The dormitory housed displaced people, Governor Natalia Zabolotna said.

The humanitarian ceasefire around Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, lasted from 3 a.m. on 27 October until 11 p.m. on 1 November, the Kyiv Independent reported, and neither Ukraine nor Russia reported violations. Melania Trump said nearly 800 people were evacuated; neither side has disclosed its own figure.

A Russian airstrike destroyed the Kramatorsk City Council's executive committee building in Donetsk Oblast on 31 October, local authorities reported. Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the city's military administration, said Russia destroyed it with an airstrike. Information about casualties was not immediately available.

Evacuees from Oleshky reached Ukrainian-controlled territory on 31 October after a 19-hour journey, arriving at a border crossing with Belarus in Chernihiv Oblast, the Kyiv Independent reported. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the mission was successful.

A Ukrainian delegation reached Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, on 30 October and began an evacuation and distribution of humanitarian aid, Davyd Arakhamiia of the Servant of the People faction said. Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said the ceasefire had held for 80 hours. Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said 527 people would return to Ukraine.

A fire reportedly broke out at the Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast overnight on 30 October after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack, the monitoring channel Exilenova+ said. Samara governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said Russia was repelling an attack. Monitoring channels called it a 'resumption of strikes' after an unofficial pause. The Kyiv Independent could not verify the footage.

A Russian jet-powered drone struck the platform of a railway station in Dnipro on 29 October, where the Dnipro-Zaporizhzhia train was standing. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, said the death toll rose to 15 on 30 October, with 14 people injured.

A Russian attack on central Chernihiv killed two 15-year-old girls and injured 31 people, including four children and a ten-month-old baby girl, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing city and regional officials. Viacheslav Chaus, head of Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, said the city centre was struck with a Banderol drone-launched cruise missile.

Russian drones struck an apartment building in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, killing at least three people and injuring 32, including six children and two people in critical condition, according to local authorities cited by the Kyiv Independent. Poltava Oblast declared 30 October a day of mourning.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 613 drones were launched toward the Russian capital overnight on 28 to 29 October, and Russian authorities reported no casualties or damage, the Kyiv Independent said. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the war 'must continue' so that Russia is protected from threats.

A drone attack on 29 October reportedly killed an employee of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The agency did not say whether Russian or Ukrainian forces carried out the attack. Director General Rafael Grossi renewed his call for maximum military restraint around nuclear facilities.

Russia attacked Kyiv in two waves of ballistic missiles overnight on 26 to 27 October. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said at least one person was killed and 15 injured. The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said the Southern Bridge over the Dnipro River and metro infrastructure were damaged, and train service on the bridge was suspended.

A ceasefire took effect at 03:00 Kyiv time on 27 October around the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, to allow a humanitarian mission, Ukraine's ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had stopped firing on the Kherson front. According to the Associated Press, fighting is meant to stay frozen until at least Saturday.

The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said in a report on 26 October that Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure constitute a war crime. It concluded that Russian authorities committed the crimes against humanity of other inhumane acts, based on interviews with 255 people who endured last winter's outages.

A large Ukrainian drone attack hit the city of Belgorod overnight on 25 October. Belgorod Oblast authorities said one civilian was killed and 14 injured, and that at least 30 apartment buildings and 35 vehicles were damaged. The monitoring channel Exilenova-Plus said the MegaGRINN shopping complex was the target. The Kyiv Independent could not verify the reports.

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck the Tolyattikauchuk plant in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, and an aircraft at the Yeysk airfield in Krasnodar Krai. The General Staff said the plant's synthetic rubbers are used to make solid rocket fuel for tactical and ballistic missiles. The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify the claims.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Starlink and Starshield were working at full speed on the morning of 24 October, after being limited to 161 kilometers per hour. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Starshield was above 400 kilometers per hour. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had ordered SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on 21 October to lift the cap.

The Ukrainian and Russian General Staffs announced a ceasefire in a designated area from 03:00 Kyiv time on 27 October to allow a humanitarian operation in Oleshky, Kherson Oblast. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General Staff, said Russian forces would cease fire on the Kherson front from 04:00 Moscow time on 27 October.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners, with 261 Ukrainian service members and nine civilians returning home and 270 Russian prisoners of war returned to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. It was the first exchange in two months.

The Comoros-flagged merchant vessel Khoryv sank near Constanța, Romania, with 14 crew aboard. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said one Ukrainian sailor died, three were missing and four were hospitalised, and that early reports indicate a drone strike may have been the cause.

A Russian attack on Chernihiv during the day killed one man and injured at least 25 people, local authorities said. Chernihiv City Council said two private businesses were targeted but gave no further details.

Ukraine struck the Proton electronics plant in Oryol, the General Staff confirmed on 24 October, saying the hit complicates production of components for cruise and ballistic missiles. Oryol Oblast Governor Andrey Klychkov confirmed that an enterprise was targeted. Flights at all four of Moscow's main airports were suspended during a Ukrainian drone raid.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said after a call with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that a trilateral meeting of Ukraine, the US and Russia at team level was planned for the first half of November, but that it depended on the Russians.

A Russian drone hit a 24-story apartment building in Kyiv early on 21 October, sparking a fire on the 20th floor. The Kyiv City Military Administration said at least two people were killed and two injured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg. According to TASS, Witkoff said efforts were under way to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine and that he had brought documents with settlement proposals; he said he hoped trilateral talks between Ukraine, the US and Russia would resume.

President Volodymyr Zelensky met US envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo and said the US side had assured Ukraine it would receive 'strong' security guarantees. He said Witkoff would share the document setting out the guarantee options with the Russians, with their feedback expected in one day.

A Russian attack on Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, at 10:04 on 20 October killed four people and injured six, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office said. Roman Polishchuk, director of the municipal utility Kramatorskteploenerho, said three of those killed were employees of the Kramatorsk combined heat and power plant.

Ukrenergo, the state electricity operator, reported new power outages in twelve oblasts after Russian attacks, and said power limitation schedules for industry would apply across all of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on 19 October that a wave of strikes with 16 ballistic missiles and over 200 drones hit 28 electrical substations and other energy facilities.

A Russian drone struck the central park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv Oblast, at around 4:30 p.m. on 19 October, killing six people including two girls aged eight and one, and injuring at least 15, including seven children, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Prosecutors opened a pre-trial investigation into a possible war crime.

Waves of Russian missiles struck Kyiv overnight on 19 October, killing at least one person and injuring eight, local authorities said. In Irpin, one woman was killed and 19 injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired 16 ballistic missiles and that Kyiv received no advance warning from partners.

Russia launched 332 drones and Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles overnight, the Air Force said, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 15 key power generation and transmission facilities were targeted. Regional authorities reported seven people killed and around 90 injured over the past day.

Russia struck the Zaporizhstal steelworks in Zaporizhzhia with six ballistic missiles at dawn on 17 October, the company Metinvest said. It reported no casualties and listed it as the fifth large-scale ballistic attack on the plant since 11 August.

Ukraine's General Staff rejected claims by Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, that Russian forces had captured 92 settlements since early September, including Kostiantynivka and Dobropillia. Its spokesperson Andrii Kovaliov said Ukrainian forces still hold positions in Kostiantynivka, where fighting is ongoing, and that Dobropillia remains under Ukrainian control.

Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, announced that Russian forces had 'begun massive strikes on Ukraine's energy facilities', TASS reported. Ukrainska Pravda noted large-scale power cuts around Rivne and serious damage to the power grid in Lutsk on 16 October.

President Donald Trump issued a broad waiver of sanctions under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, with an executive order that largely waives its tariffs. Russia's economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev called the suspension a 'truly historic moment'; Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a co-author of the law, criticised it.

Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 580 drones and two Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles, the Air Force said, neutralizing 536 drones. Kirovohrad Oblast governor Andrii Raikovych said it was the oblast's most massive attack since the full-scale invasion began, killing three people and injuring six in Kropyvnytskyi.

Seven sailors were missing from the San Marino-flagged chemical tanker Wine Trader after it caught fire near Sulina in Romania's Black Sea, Romanian officials said. A second tanker, the Yara J, was reported hit by a drone the previous evening, and Romania's defense minister said an investigation was under way.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Financial Times that Ukraine had lifted its pause on strikes against Russian oil refineries. He said Ukraine had refrained for three days to accommodate a US request while Russia resumed attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 injured in September 2026, the highest for September since the start of the full-scale invasion and 85 per cent higher than in September 2025. Long-range missiles and drones caused 53 per cent of the casualties.

Russia launched 39 ballistic missiles and 128 Shahed-type drones overnight at energy and critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, adding that 600,000 people were without power. Ukraine's Air Force said it neutralized four ballistic missiles and 115 drones.

SpaceX limited the speed of Starlink terminals used by Ukraine's military to 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour) while in motion, presidential adviser Beskrestnov said, disrupting drone missions. Elon Musk said limits on Starshield are decided by the U.S. military and ultimately the president.

Wreckage of a Russian drone fell on Lutsk and set fire to a warehouse, killing six people, five at the scene and one in hospital, and injuring 12, regional governor Roman Romaniuk said.

Ukraine's Third Army Corps said it retook another 101 square kilometers in the fourth stage of Operation Vivaldi on the Lyman sector in Donetsk Oblast, including the villages of Zelena Dolyna, Lypove and Kolodiazi. The corps reported this on Telegram.

A Russian missile struck a nine-story residential building in the Desnyanskyi district of Kyiv late on 13 October, killing at least three women and injuring 25 people, including a 7-year-old girl, Kyiv police said. Ukraine's Air Force said it received no information from partners about the launches.

Russian strikes hit Kharkiv through 12 October: upper floors of a high-rise were destroyed in the morning, and an entrance section of another residential building collapsed in the evening. The death toll from the evening strike rose to four, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

President Trump announced an 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, saying both parties had agreed; a senior Ukrainian official said Kyiv had no information about it. Ukraine's Presidential Office said Russia then struck the CHP-5 power plant in Kharkiv, and a missile strike on a grocery store in the suburbs of Kharkiv killed three people, the regional governor said.

Russian guided aerial bombs struck a five-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia on the morning of 10 October. Once search and rescue operations ended, a State Emergency Service spokesperson said 23 people had been killed; 32 were reported injured.

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded that President Volodymyr Zelensky halt attacks on Russian refineries and said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, when asked about his deal easing sanctions on Russian diesel.

The U.S. Treasury Department issued a temporary general license allowing Russian diesel to be supplied to the global market, after U.S. President Donald Trump said Russia would immediately supply over 300,000 tons. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the decision would provide Russia with additional revenue to finance its war.

A Russian glide bomb strike on two minibuses in Kramatorsk killed 33 people, Ukraine's emergency service said. Twenty-two more were injured, the Donetsk regional governor said, and the Kramatorsk and Sloviansk military administrations halted all public transport.

Russian drone strikes on Kyiv killed four people and injured at least 19, the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said, and an attack on an energy facility caused widespread power outages; the drop in voltage temporarily halted Kyiv Metro train services, the city administration said.

A Russian missile struck a residential building in Pryluky during a mass overnight attack; the death toll rose to 22, including five children, and at least 54 people were injured, AAP reported.

Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight; multiple explosions were heard in the city from about 3:15 a.m. local time, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a strike on a non-residential area in the Obolon district. The full extent of the damage was not immediately clear.

A Russian drone struck one of the bridges over the Dnipro in Zaporizhzhia overnight, and the bridge was closed to traffic, the city council said. Five people in the region, including two members of the Red Cross, were injured during the overnight attack.

Russia struck a hospital in Kryvyi Rih with Banderol missiles, injuring four people including two medical workers, local officials said. Regional authorities reported at least 13 people killed and 104 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the preceding day.

An oil tanker caught fire in the Black Sea off Sochi; the cause was unknown, and a local social media page said it may have been attacked by naval drones. The Telegram channel Mash identified it as a Liberian-flagged tanker, and the outlet Astra said it is on Ukraine's sanctions list as a shadow fleet vessel.

President Zelensky said the drone attack on two merchant ships in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone was carried out by Russia and that Ukraine's navy had contacted its Bulgarian counterparts. Bulgaria's defence minister, Dimitar Stoyanov, said it was not yet possible to say whether the drones were Ukrainian or Russian.

A Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region overnight killed two people and injured nine, the regional governor said. Moscow's mayor said most of the 650 drones launched towards the capital were intercepted, and Russia's defence ministry said it intercepted 868 across Russia. The exiled outlet Astra reported a fire at the region's largest fuel storage hub.

Sea and aerial drones struck two merchant ships in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea. The Togo-flagged Alfa Watan sank with its crew unaccounted for; all 18 crew of the Palau-flagged Able were rescued, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said, adding that the drones were 'clearly either Russian or Ukrainian'.

A Russian drone struck a Marshall Islands-flagged merchant ship carrying rapeseed oil in the Black Sea, killing one person and injuring seven, said Oleh Kiper, head of Ukraine's Odesa regional military administration.

Russian guided aerial bomb strikes on Kharkiv's Slobidskyi district killed six people and injured 59, including three children, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.

A grain ship caught fire and sank in Romania's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea; Romanian authorities said two people were killed and 11 rescued, without identifying the cause. President Zelensky said two Russian drones had struck the ship, which he said was Turkish-owned and carrying corn.

Russia's defence ministry said it was intensifying strikes on infrastructure in Kyiv and across Ukraine, presenting them as a response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian civilian targets. ISW counted seven Russian strikes on Kyiv's Dnipro bridges from 1 to 4 October.

Russian attacks killed at least five people and injured 30 across Ukraine over a day, local authorities said; a drone hit Kyiv's Northern Bridge, the fourth consecutive day of strikes on the capital's Dnipro bridges.

President Zelensky said the United States was proposing a technical-level meeting of Ukraine, Russia and the United States by the end of October, and that Ukraine was ready to take part.

Russia's foreign ministry again called on foreign citizens and diplomats to leave Kyiv and said massive strikes on Ukrainian cities would continue; the European Commission said the EU delegation would keep working there.

President Zelensky said Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi counteroffensive had retaken about 125 to 140 square kilometres and was not finished; the figure is Ukraine's own.

Russian drones struck Kyiv's Northern Bridge over the Dnipro, after four strikes on the Southern Bridge on 1 and 2 October. Regional authorities reported at least eight civilians killed and 83 injured across Ukraine over the preceding day.

Reuters reported, citing sources, that an oil refinery in Volgograd had stopped all crude processing after a Ukrainian drone attack on 2 October; Volgograd's governor had reported a massive drone attack on industrial infrastructure without saying which facilities were hit.

President Vladimir Putin ruled out a ceasefire on long-range strikes with Ukraine, telling the Valdai forum in Moscow that the idea of Ukraine halting strikes on Russian refineries in return for Russia halting strikes on ships was 'simply ridiculous'.

An overnight Russian missile and drone attack, mainly on the power grid, killed seven civilians including a child and wounded 24, President Zelensky said. Ukraine's prime minister called it the first attack of that scale since the last heating season.

On the last day of Russia's parliamentary elections, Ukraine attacked Moscow and the surrounding region with drones. Russia's defence ministry said more than 1,900 drones were shot down overnight; the Moscow region's governor said three people were killed.

President Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed not to strike each other's energy facilities. President Zelensky said Kyiv would stop if partners ensured Moscow did the same; the Kremlin did not say whether it would.

Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least 22 people, 15 of them in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Russia's military told President Putin its forces had taken Kostiantynivka, one of the fortified cities of Ukraine's Donetsk defensive line. The next day President Zelensky and Ukraine's General Staff said the city remained under Ukrainian control.

President Trump announced a three-day ceasefire for 9 to 11 May, with a halt to all kinetic activity and an exchange of 1,000 prisoners by each side. President Zelensky and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed the agreement.

The first talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States together since the 2022 invasion opened in Abu Dhabi and ran for two days.