Among the drones it produces are the Sarych, which uses video and thermal imaging equipment for surveillance, and the Klin, a loitering munition designed to strike targets, according to Ukraine's military intelligence agency.
Russian air defenses intercepted 75 drones heading toward Moscow and a reported 610 nationwide early Saturday morning, Oct. 17. The widespread barrage triggered emergency airspace closures across the Russian capital, forcing international flights to divert to St. Petersburg amid an expanding campaign of strikes across 15 Russian regions.
At least eight people have been killed and nearly 60 injured in the latest wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine.
Russian forces carried out one of their largest assaults on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, striking over 15 generation and transmission facilities, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday, Oct. 17. The widespread bombardment hit cities including Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, and Vinnytsia, prompting Zelensky to urge partners for air defense aid while criticizing the US waiver of Graham Act sanctions.
Russian tactical aircraft dropped eight guided aerial bombs on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson on Saturday, Oct. 17, killing an emergency ambulance driver, injuring 27 people – including a one-month-old infant and an 11-year-old child – and damaging 10 residential high-rises.
How Russian and pro-Kremlin Telegram channels react to Ukrainian strikes on territory controlled by the Kremlin regime. Between 2024 and 2026, Ukraine's strikes on Russia's rear turned from isolated episodes into a sustained campaign. The targets moved far beyond the frontline zone: oil refineries and export ports, defence plants and, from summer 2026, the major logistics hubs of Russian online retail.
In parallel, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces launched a middle-strike campaign ...
Russian tactical aviation struck a residential district in Sloviansk with FAB-250 bombs early Saturday, Oct. 17, killing one person, injuring 10, and damaging eight high-rise apartment buildings. Emergency teams conducted search-and-rescue operations amid a wider overnight Russian barrage that also hit Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
Houthi missile strikes threaten key supply routes on Yemen's Red Sea coast, intensifying pressure on government forces.
Russia strikes Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Moscow presses its campaign against Ukraine's power grid.
Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency announced restrictions at three of Moscow's four major airports, while the Transportation Ministry said the region's aviation operations were under "special monitoring."
Russia’s Chief of General Staff Valery Geramisov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russian forces have begun massive strikes on Ukraine’s energy facilities and are targeting strategic bridges, railways and data centers. Putin said such strikes must continue, days after Washington announced a self-proclaimed energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
The idea of Ukrainian drones silencing Kremlin bots clearly caught the world’s imagination, but the real story behind Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Russia’s mega data centers is one of strategic vulnerability, writes Leonid Baratz. The post Ukrainian drone strikes highlight the vulnerability of Russia’s data centers appeared first on Atlantic Council.
De Wever said that Ukraine urgently needed the fighter jets, as they were one of the few weapons capable to strike Russian jet-powered drones.
The president called Zelenskyy “P.T. Barnum” and said Biden armed Ukraine for free.
Russian drone attacks killed two people and left 280,000 electricity customers without power in Kharkiv on Friday, officials said. Ten people were hospitalized, including two in serious condition, as strikes hit civilian sites across the city.
Countries along NATO’s eastern flank growing increasingly concerned about the risk of escalation of the war in Ukraine.
US president says Zelenskyy ‘more difficult to deal with than Putin’ after so-called energy ceasefire collapsesDonald Trump has called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace”, while renewing his criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine collapsed.Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after Zelenskyy said that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire abruptly and declared by Trump last week, one that neither Russia nor Ukraine said they had agreed to.
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Moscow sends swarms of drones to attack infrastructure in central Ukraine as Zelenskyy says Kyiv will restart strikes on Russian oil refineriesThe White House’s unilateral effort to negotiate an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has collapsed as Moscow sent a record swarm of drones overnight to attack infrastructure in central Ukraine and Kyiv appeared to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries despite warnings from Donald Trump.Moscow accused Ukraine of launching a strike against a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region, its first since Trump abruptly declared an “energy ceasefire” that neither Russia nor Ukraine said they had agreed to.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed additional F-16 fighter jets and ammunition with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever as Russia continued attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Zelensky said F-16s were proving particularly effective against Russia’s jet-powered Shahed drones, while fresh strikes left nearly 15,000 residents without electricity in Volyn.