Ukraine

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that contacts about the Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump on Sunday are continuing, but offered no details, no scope and no confirmation that Moscow has agreed to anything. Ukraine says Russia has already violated the announcement, the EU has imposed new sanctions, and Russia's Defence Ministry says its overnight strikes hit no Ukrainian energy targets.

Russia's government is discussing the problems facing Yandex after Ukrainian strikes took three of its data centres out of action in less than a week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Yandex has said its Vladimir data centre shut down completely on Sunday, following earlier strikes in the Kaluga region and at Sasovo, where two of the supercomputers used to develop its AI model are housed.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Ukrainian representatives in Miami on Friday to try to produce a unified proposal for ending the war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the conflict a 'dangerous stalemate' — an assessment the Kremlin said it agreed with — as both sides escalate strikes on each other's economies.

Ukraine's military said on Friday that it hit three facilities involved in missile production across Russia overnight, including a factory in the Tver region that makes missile components and a centre in the Nizhny Novgorod region for disassembling intercontinental ballistic missiles. Russian regional governors confirmed drone attacks at both sites, with one serviceman reported killed.

A Russian bomb attack on a street in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 12 people and wounded 14 on Thursday, October 8, 2026, Ukrainian authorities said, hitting two city buses and a bus stop.

At least 33 people were killed and 18 wounded in a Russian bomb strike on a Kramatorsk street where two city buses were operating on October 8, 2026 — the deadliest single strike in Ukraine this year, according to AFP and CNN, far above the toll reported in the morning's first accounts.

Russia carried out massive air strikes on industrial and port infrastructure in Ukraine's Odesa region early Monday, October 5, with Kyiv reporting one person killed and six injured in a separate strike on Kharkiv. Moscow says it hit ports, fuel depots and cargo vessels it claims serve military purposes; neither side's claims have been independently verified.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on October 4 that the United States is pressing for technical-level trilateral talks with Russia by the end of October, with Kyiv ready to take part in the UAE or another US-proposed venue. The push coincides with India's expanded mediation effort, focused on Black Sea shipping, grain and energy.

Ukraine is navigating its biggest budget crisis since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022: the war costs about $190 million a day, tax revenue is falling, Russian strikes have shut steel plants and cut grain exports by more than a third, and Kyiv needs $56 billion to plug this year's funding gap.

Kyiv says it intercepted a Russian operational plan for a winter campaign of up to 1,000 strikes on Ukraine's energy system, including the switchyards linking its three operating nuclear plants to the grid. The New York Times obtained a copy; neither it nor The Times has independently authenticated the document.

Russia launched nearly 190 drones and ballistic missiles at Ukraine on the night of September 29–30, targeting Kyiv's energy infrastructure in what ISW assesses is the opening of a winter-long campaign to degrade Ukraine's energy security and force capitulation.

Russia launched a large combined ballistic-missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, killing at least three people including a child, damaging energy infrastructure, and sending a drone into Moldovan airspace — Reuters and EA WorldView reported.

Kyiv's public disclosure of a quiet handover of two North Korean prisoners of war has sparked a rare diplomatic clash with Seoul — which demanded an explanation and apology, while Ukraine says no secrecy deal ever existed.

Russian glide bombs struck a school and homes in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring six — including three children — after teachers evacuated about 100 people into a shelter, Reuters reported.

Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev met US officials in Washington on Monday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine and possible postwar US–Russia energy initiatives, a US official said Tuesday — the latest step in a fast-moving diplomatic sequence that includes a proposed energy-infrastructure ceasefire.

Drones now cause most casualties in Ukraine, and a 'kill zone' up to 10 kilometers deep has made moving on the battlefield nearly suicidal. How cheap FPV drones rewrote the grammar of war.

The Ukraine frontline is 'static' after months of near-zero advances, ISW assesses — but Moscow is betting on a massive winter strike campaign to force Kyiv's surrender before spring 2027. Here is where the war stands.

Russia struck the head office of Ukraine's largest mobile provider Kyivstar and a Vodafone data centre on Sunday — the latest and most symbolically significant escalation of its week-long bombardment of Ukrainian communications infrastructure.

Russian strikes hit the Kyiv headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile provider, on September 27 — part of a week-long campaign against data centres — while Ukraine struck refineries deep inside Russia.