Euromaidan Press Staff

Brussels pledged a further €3.3 bn with von der Leyen promising more is coming, even as Russia struck Kyiv's water system without a single missile intercepted and Ukraine hit back at two S-400 launchers in Bryansk that had bombed the capital hours earlier.

Ukrainian partisans, meanwhile, claimed to have sabotaged a Russian plant that supplies components for missiles used to bomb Ukrainian cities.

The reveal lands as Russia floods Ukrainian skies with faster attack drones that killed a man in Kyiv overnight, Finland approves its second-largest defense package before winter, and Italian jets down a drone over Lithuania in a first for the country.

Anthropic, meanwhile, said it detected and shut down a Russian espionage campaign against Kyiv that had been automated through its Claude chatbot.

The attacks raise the risk to civilian travel near a NATO frontier, days after Warsaw warned Moscow could hit the crossings, while far from home Ukrainian drone specialists surface fighting Russian forces from Mali to Sudan.

Elsewhere, occupied Oleshky marked its 942nd birthday under a Russian blockade so tight that residents say they're reduced to eating roadside grass.

A Russian lawmaker separately warned that a fourth Oreshnik missile strike is coming.

The same day brought a fire at a Russia-Iran hub on the Caspian and a $1bn Canadian air defense pledge as Russia builds around 100 ballistic missiles a month.

Separately, mine contamination has injured nearly 1,700 civilians since the invasion began, with farmers hit hardest.

The occupied Zaporizhzhia plant came off diesel power after nearly three weeks, a step the IAEA called critical to avoiding an accident.

Kyiv is also stockpiling food and water ahead of winter, bracing for harsher aerial attacks on infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's Lasar's Group says its bomber drones destroyed a rare Russian Zhitel jammer 55 km behind the front.

The pause meant to smooth the way for restarted peace talks began under an air raid alert, with Russian attacks reported before it had even taken effect.

Meanwhile Kyiv formally asked the UN's aviation body to warn airlines away from Russian airspace.