Whatever came down on Lipetsk overnight, it started with a missile warning and ended in flames by the steel mill
Local Telegram channels had spread the missile-danger announcement hours before residents began filming blasts over the city.
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Ukraine hits 15 Russian vessels as drone blockade of Crimea spreads across Azov Sea
Thermal anomalies flared from occupied Mariupol to Kerch as Ukrainian drones struck ships, power links and the air defenses guarding Russia’s routes into the peninsula.
The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap
Ukrainian buyers are installing them to decentralize a grid that Russian strikes have battered through four winters.
Russia has hit Ukraine’s energy system 6,000 times. Allies pledge €375 million at Gdansk conference, but fund is still short
The US, Sweden, and Norway led the pledges in Gdańsk, but Ukraine still needs over 3 gigawatts of thermal power repaired before winter.
Ukraine needs €650 million to keep lights on this winter. Without it, next repairs stop
Kyiv is pressing donors ahead of the Gdańsk recovery conference to replenish the fund before Russia resumes its winter assault on the power grid.
Ukraine strikes Kstovo refinery, supplying 30% of Moscow Oblast’s gasoline 800 km from border
It is at least the third strike since November on the same refinery.
Canada adds 12.4 mn euros to Ukraine Energy Support Fund, total passes 57 mn
Equipment worth around 260 mn euros is already in transit to Ukraine, with delivery expected before temperatures drop.
Russia hit Ukraine’s nuclear energy infrastructure 155 times, creating serious risks for nuclear safety – Shmyhal
Officials say repeated strikes on substations linked to nuclear plants threaten the stability of Ukraine’s power grid.
Ukraine warns of energy funding gap despite €100M partner pledge for winter preparations
Officials said Ukrainian teams have already identified usable equipment from decommissioned power plants in several EU countries for transfer to Ukraine.
Emergency boilers sat in storage all winter. Now Ukraine is rethinking the whole approach.
Russia’s energy campaign failed to break Ukraine. Kyiv has until October to build something stronger than luck.
254 soldiers per square kilometer: price Russia is paying to move front line
Ukraine is now downs 90% of Russia's attack drones.
“If we don’t hit them in the face, they will hit us and won’t feel what war is” – Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s energy strikes
Ukraine will keep targeting Russian energy infrastructure until Moscow stops hitting Ukraine's own, the president says.
Kyiv proposes energy ceasefire to Moscow, as Ukrainian long-range strikes already disrupted over 40% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports
Russia can't protect its oil terminals. Ukraine destroyed $1 billion worth in five strikes. It just offered to stop — on one condition.
Gas infrastructure hit again: Russia’s 2026 drone campaign against Naftogaz passes 30 strikes
The latest overnight attack on Poltava and Sumy oblasts adds to a relentless energy strike campaign.
Russian drones hit Ukrainian city 15 km from Poland. Next day, Belarus moved heavy equipment toward Poland’s border
Russian Shahed drones struck an energy facility in Novovolynsk.
After a winter of blackouts, Ukraine and the EU stockpile energy repair equipment before Russia strikes again
Kyiv estimates €5.4 billion needed to prepare the energy system for next winter.
Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says
With the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities.
Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove
Amidst freezing temperatures and Russia’s systematic infrastructure strikes, Kyivans have developed specialized toolkits of DIY engineering and adaptive routines to maintain their homes.
Russian bombs kill four in one village, rescuers dig for four more in another
Aerial bombs destroyed two homes in Zaporizhzhia district, killing four people including a child among the injured, while in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast up to four people may remain trapped under rubble from a separate strike.
Kyiv IT worker jailed for life — court finds he helped Russia strike the power grid that heats his city
He also gave the enemy coordinates of the defense enterprise where his stepfather worked — and reported back on whether the strikes hit their targets, per the PG Office,