Ukraine

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Russia's shadow campaign spreads beyond the front.

Three children were among the injured in Kyiv, and Russian air attacks interrupted lessons on the first day of school across Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a fired Ukrainian minister is pitching US investors on building a drone army in exchange for Patriot missiles.

Russia has launched nearly 2,000 attack drones and nearly 1,600 guided bombs at Ukraine this week, hitting Kyiv's civilian supply chains and a Kyiv Oblast book warehouse, while Ukraine tested new interceptors and struck Russia's second-largest oil refinery overnight.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's aviation commander says a new generation of domestically built aircraft is nearly ready for service.

Russian jet-powered drones have struck warehouses and logistics facilities around Kyiv for two days running, part of a wider campaign that has destroyed 90% of Ukraine's modern commercial storage capacity.

Separately, a Ukrainian-built Baton drone is now targeting the very roads Russia depends on to resupply that push.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian investigators traced the components of a downed Russian Su-35 fighter to 22 unsanctioned firms supplying its engines, guidance, and missiles.