Russia keeps targeting power grid: Ukraine-controlled part of Donetsk Oblast fully blacked out, outages in three more oblasts
Russian air strikes killed six civilians, including two children, and injured at least 13.
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WSJ: How Chinese engines power Russia’s deadly drone raids on Ukrainian cities
Covert exports from China provide Russia with drone engines, navigation gear, and batteries, WSJ says.
Children among 15 injured in Russia’s attack on Sumy as Moscow keeps targeting power grid and railways, kills 12 across Ukraine
Ukraine’s Air Force says it shot down 107 drones, but 36 managed to hit 20 targets across the country.
Power grid targeted as Russia fired 653 drones and 52 missiles in overnight terror attack on Ukraine
In Zaporizhzhia, Russia’s attack destroyed a dormitory and damaged several homes, killing two civilians and injuring 17 others — six of them children. More civilians were injured and killed in other regions.
Russia may be stockpiling drones for larger air attack—but its artillery and FPVs never stopped targeting frontline civilians: 3 killed, 13 injured
While Ukraine’s air defense took down most drones, Shaheds and Gerberas still struck civilian homes, schools, and infrastructure in six oblasts.
UK to build pilot batch of Octopus interceptor drones under joint project with Ukraine
The first 1,000 drones will be manufactured in Britain before expanding production to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs.
Kyiv mother and daughter hid in the bathroom to survive — smoke killed them instead as Russia hit their home
Russians killed three people and injured 31 in Kyiv, while elsewhere their attacks left at least five more civilians dead and 18 injured.
Russia kills firefighter in Kharkiv double-tap attack and strikes Kyiv’s Brodsky Synagogue—both hit in 130-drone overnight assault
Railway workers in Sumy were hospitalized after a separate drone strike on station infrastructure. Ukrainian Air Force intercepted 92 enemy drones.
Russia hit a Ukrainian city with 20 drones in daylight — four civilians killed, child among wounded
Novhorod-Siverskyi was hit around 15:40, with officials confirming the drone barrage caused injuries of varying severity, including at least one in critical condition.
Russia hammers Kharkiv with KAB bombs, drones target Kherson and power grid in Chernihiv, Sumy oblasts
Nine civilians were injured in Kharkiv alone, most suffering acute stress reactions, as bombs struck homes and a civilian enterprise overnight.
Russia’s overnight strike cripples Poltava gas fields — extraction halted across region
Explosions were reported in Poltava, Kharkiv, Kropyvnytskyi and other cities during a widespread overnight attack.
Ukraine’s Navy doesn’t exist—except it kind of does, and it’s brilliant
At 2 am, they rip their mooring rope racing to engage 17 Shaheds.
Russia bombs hospital housing over 100 patients, keeps targeting power grid in Kirovohrad Oblast and Kharkiv
The guided bomb explosion injured six people and caused serious damage inside a Kharkiv hospital. Suburban trains were also disrupted in Kirovohrad Oblast due to infrastructure damage.
Russia keeps targeting Ukrainian power grid, causing blackout in Donetsk Oblast and outages in Odesa’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Russia launched 118 drones, 103 were downed overnight, Ukrainian Air Force reported. Russian attacks killed four people and injured nine in Donetsk Oblast.
Russia injures 12 in Kyiv and kills 7-year-old in Zaporizhzhia, power outages spread as Moscow hits energy grid with drones and missiles (updated)
Kyiv’s eastern bank part went dark, Dnipro and Cherkasy also reported injuries and damage after explosions hit residential buildings overnight.
Russia uses three distinct turboprop Shahed drone variants — all packed with foreign parts
Ukraine’s sanctions envoy said that Moscow’s drone assembly plants in Tatarstan and Izhevsk can’t operate without imported microcontrollers and digital converters.
Russia hits firefighters mid-rescue in Chernihiv, kills five civilians in Sumy and Kherson oblasts, targets Odesa port
At least 17 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine.
Ukraine just sanctioned a Chinese firm helping Russia build Shaheds—and also extended measures on Russian oligarch-linked firms
Kyiv named Shenzhen Weiliao for supplying drone parts to Alabuga plant and renewed sanctions against Aven, Fridman, and Kosogov-linked structures.
Russia hit Ukraine’s railways overnight — and kills a civilian woman in northeastern Ukraine
Russian drones and missiles struck railway infrastructure in Odesa and Konotop while a missile hit Balakliia, killing a woman and injuring 16, including a 4-year-old..
They were 6 and 4, asleep in their beds—then a Russian drone came for them, their parents, and their unborn twin siblings
Rescuers pulled the bodies of two boys, along with their parents, from the ruins in Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast.