Ghana, China expand mining cooperation as Accra targets illegal gold mining

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By bne IntelliNews September 14, 2026

Ghana and China have agreed to strengthen oversight of Chinese mining companies operating in Ghana and deepen geological cooperation as Accra intensifies its campaign against illegal gold mining.

The two sides agreed to deepen cooperation during talks between Ghana’s Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and China’s Ministry of Natural Resources on the sidelines of the 2026 China Mining Conference in Tianjin, Citi News reported.

The three-part strategy covers enforcement against illegal mining, technical cooperation in geological surveys and mapping, and efforts to attract more responsible Chinese investment into Ghana’s mining sector.

Lands and Natural Resources Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah also used the Tianjin conference to seek Chinese investment in domestic mineral processing, technology transfer and infrastructure as Ghana seeks to capture more value from its mineral resources rather than relying primarily on raw-material exports.

Chinese groups already have a significant presence in Ghana’s gold industry. Zijin Mining (HKEX: 2899; SSE: 601899) operates the Akyem mine after acquiring it from Newmont (NYSE: NEM) for $1bn in 2025, while Chifeng Gold (HKEX: 6693; SSE: 600988) owns the Wassa mine and Shandong Gold (HKEX: 1787; SSE: 600547) controls the Cardinal Namdini operation. 

The new arrangement is intended to strengthen enforcement against illegal mining, locally known as galamsey, while expanding technical and investment cooperation with China, a major source of mining capital, equipment and technology for Ghana’s minerals industry.

Ghana has intensified its anti-galamsey campaign as environmental damage mounts and public pressure grows over polluted rivers and degraded forest reserves. Buah said in August that 258 suspects had been arrested in operations against illegal mining in forest reserves, while the government estimated that about 8,900 hectares of forest reserves had been completely degraded.

The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat announced a broadened Operation WATER SHIELD campaign in September targeting financiers, facilitators, logistics networks and equipment suppliers supporting illegal mining around rivers and watersheds.

Buah said cooperation with Beijing would create a mechanism for holding Chinese companies and nationals operating in Ghana to higher standards.

“This is very important in how we collaborate on critical areas of the natural resources sector. This includes how to work with them in policing Chinese companies that are working in Ghana to make sure that they meet the highest standards,” he said.

Buah said the arrangement could also allow Chinese authorities to take action against Chinese nationals found to have breached Ghanaian mining laws.

“Those who are found to have broken the law, especially those who engage in illegal mining activities (galamsey), are not only punished in Ghana, but we have a pathway where the Chinese will also police their people who are working in Ghana,” Buah added.

The cooperation comes as Ghana struggles to convert arrests into successful prosecutions, a weakness Buah identified in August as a central problem in the anti-galamsey campaign.

Ghana is seeking to protect gold production and attract fresh investment into lithium and other minerals while curbing unregulated mining that damages forests and waterways and undermines confidence in regulation.

China’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Sun Shuxian proposed deeper cooperation in geological surveys, mineral mapping, technological innovation and assessments of Ghana’s critical-mineral potential.

Citi News reported that potential Chinese technical support discussed during the talks included satellite remote sensing and airborne geophysical surveys, which could help close gaps in Ghana’s geological data, particularly in areas that remain poorly mapped.

 

Google’s €13bn Finnish data centre push could hike Estonian power prices by €5/MWh

Google’s energy-intensive data centres will buy electricity equivalent to half the output of Finland’s Loviisa nuclear power plant over the next 22 years. / Image by Akela999 from Pixabay

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By Linas Jegelevicius in Vilnius September 13, 2026

Google’s €13bn investment in large data centres in Finland could push Estonian electricity prices higher by reducing the amount of cheap Finnish power available for export, Estonia's public broadcaster ERR reported on September 11.

Estonia has imported around 40% of its electricity from Finland and other Nordic countries in recent years. Rising Finnish consumption could therefore feed into Estonian prices, although additional demand is also expected to encourage investment in new generation.

Google’s energy-intensive data centres will buy electricity equivalent to half the output of Finland’s Loviisa nuclear power plant over the next 22 years.

Tiit Hobejogi, a management board member at Eesti Energia subsidiary Enefit, said Finnish electricity consumption has already risen by around 500 MW compared with 2025. Excluding the coldest winter months, Finnish prices have increased by around €5/MWh over the past year, also affecting Estonia.

“This naturally means that prices there will rise, and if prices rise there, they will also rise for us during periods when we import electricity from Finland. Looking at this year, electricity consumption in Finland has actually increased by around 500 megawatts compared with 2025. There may be several factors behind that, but excluding the coldest winter months, the price in Finland has risen by €5 per megawatt-hour over the past year and that has also had an impact on us,” Hobejogi said, ERR.ee reported.

The potential impact is estimated at around €5/MWh, or 0.5 cents/kWh, if additional demand is not matched by new generation.

Elering CEO Kalle Kilk said the development highlighted Estonia’s dependence on neighbouring electricity markets.

“If consumption increases and supply has not increased by the same amount, that clearly affects both security of supply and prices. We have to take into account that we in Estonia have been quite dependent on the situation in our neighboring countries. The main conclusion for us is that in the future we need to take somewhat greater responsibility ourselves for ensuring that we have enough electricity that can also be generated domestically,” Kilk said, ERR.ee reported.

Additional Finnish wind and other generating capacity could nevertheless limit the longer-term impact on average prices.

 

BRICS gets its declaration, and Putin gets the summit he wanted

New Delhi produced unanimity on tariffs and navigation, silence on Ukraine, and a Russian president warning that European gas could reach $1,500 / bne IntelliNews / AI enhanced

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By Ben Aris in Berlin September 13, 2026

BRICS adopted the New Delhi Declaration unanimously on September 12, an enormous document of over 18,000 words, after negotiations that had to bridge members sitting on opposite sides of a Middle Eastern war.

That the text exists at all is the summit's main achievement. G7 and G20 summits usually result in a short, handcrafted statement that offends no one. This year’s BRICS summit declaration is a long draft on how a new multipolar international order could work. And it remains very much a work in progress.

And the three leading protagonists of this plan are Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hosted the event, and Chinese President Xi Jinping who travelled to New Delhi for the first time in seven years to attend the meeting – a significant diplomatic gesture given the military tensions on the Sino-Indian border.

The main thrust of the results of the meeting boiled down to three big messages:

Political: BRICS is increasingly defining itself as the institutional voice of the Global South and pushing for redistribution of power inside the UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO and G20.

Economic: it is slowly constructing a parallel BRICS economic infrastructure — local-currency payments, development finance, guarantees, insurance, commodity trading, supply chains and potentially communications infrastructure — but most of these remain incremental early-stage projects rather than a fully-fledged alternative system.

Technology/industrial: AI, digital infrastructure, critical minerals, energy storage, smart grids, robotics, research networks and industrial policy occupy remarkably large parts of the declaration. BRICS is becoming as much an industrial and technology cooperation bloc as a geopolitical one.

The organisation has come a long way since the idea of the BRICs was coined by Goldman Sach’s head of research as a 1990s equity sales marketing term. Today the emerging BRICS bloc has become a geopolitical force, but it remains a young organisation riven by rivalries – not the least being the Chinese and Indian border dispute.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week that differences between the United Arab Emirates and Iran, who have joined the expanded BRICS+ group, were having a "negative impact" on the organisation and were holding up the drafting of a joint declaration. In the end the members found wording that deplores all forms of unprovoked aggression without naming anyone, ANI reported from the summit.

For Vladimir Putin, who arrived in New Delhi with a delegation of more than 300 Russian executives, the meeting delivered what a sanctioned head of state goes to such things for: a stage, a bilateral with his largest remaining customer, and a room in which nobody raised the war.

What the declaration says, and what it leaves out

The economic content is aimed squarely at Washington without using its name. The members recorded concern about rising unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures that distort international trade and breach World Trade Organisation rules, and called for reform of the United Nations Security Council to reflect current geopolitical realities. There are three European counties on the UNSC, one Asian, one US but no African or Latam countries present.

On the Middle East the declaration stresses the importance of protecting commercial navigation and the safety of seafarers, which is the closest the group comes to addressing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the fighting around Bab el-Mandeb.

Chairman Modi proposed turning ten governance reform proposals into a “BRICS Reform Roadmap” covering representation, responsiveness and rule-making, and described the aim as converting a "pyramid of privilege" into "a platform of partnership".

What the published accounts do not show is any language on Ukraine, which appears to have been ignored completely, although Modi in one public comment to Putin called for the war to ended and a ceasefire declared.

India has spent the year balancing its relationship with Moscow against American pressure over its Russian crude purchases, and at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek on August 31 Modi also told Putin the war needed to end for humanity's sake. But in New Delhi the subject of the four-year old conflict did not make the text.

Putin says EU paying $1,500 for gas

The most quotable economic claim of the summit was Putin's, and it was about Europe rather than about BRICS. He said he does not rule out European gas prices reaching $1,500 per 1,000 cubic metres as a gas crisis in Europe begins to accelerate.

That is a forecast of roughly a doubling from current prices as the EU goes into the heating season with historically low amounts of gas in storage. Dutch TTF was trading around EUR81 per megawatt hour this week, up about 147% on the year, which converts to something in the region of $900 to $950 per 1,000 cubic metres. European storage went into August only 57.1% full, the lowest reading for that date on record, but is supposed to reach a 90% target by November – now impossible.

Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's investment envoy, put the same argument less carefully at the same summit, saying Europeans overpay for gas because of the “stupidity” of EU bureaucrats.

Russia's LNG export revenue rose 18% month on month in August and its pipeline gas revenue rose 25%, even as EU imports of Russian LNG fell 46% to the lowest monthly volume of the war, on the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air's figures. Europe is buying less Russian gas and paying Russia more for it. During the four years of war Europe has sent more money to pay for Russian gas than it has to Ukraine’s to support it in its conflict with Russia: €220bn for fossil fuels, compared with roughly €195bn in financial, military and humanitarian support for Ukraine.

Modi-Putin bromance continues

Putin met Modi on September 11 in the afternoon for talks on trade and energy. Indian media said the two would discuss lifting bilateral trade to $100bn by 2030, with cooperation in rail transit, steel, critical minerals, fertilisers and nuclear power. The Kremlin said earlier in the week that a possible sale of Su-57 stealth fighters was also on the agenda and the Indian army are desperate for Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missile system to protect its northern borders.

A 300-strong Russian executive delegation was there to negotiate supply chains and food security contracts, which is a more accurate description of what the relationship now consists of than any communique. India took EUR4.8bn of Russian fossil fuels in August, 87% of it crude, and has bought 37% of Russia's crude exports since December 2022. And this delegation has an easy source of funding available: New Delhi has been running a $40bn trade deficit with Russia on oil imports, that has been piling up in Indian banks as a rupee mountain. Unable to convert its rupees into dollars, the two presidents have been looking for a way to mobilise this money.

But India is not only Russia's biggest oil customer, it has also become its fuel supplier: Russia imported 120,000 tonnes of petrol from the Vadinar refinery in August, sold by Nayara Energy, in which Rosneft holds 49.13%, because Ukrainian drones have taken out enough Russian refining capacity to make buying back its own crude cheaper than processing it at home.

Who else was in the room

From O’Neill’s original four, the BRICS organisation has now grown to eleven member nations all of which were represented, taking in in Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE, with Saudi Arabia listed as a member by BRICS and by India though Riyadh has never publicly confirmed accession.

Putin, Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian and Modi attended in person, with Xi arriving on September 12. Representatives of the African Union, ASEAN, CELAC and Gulf Cooperation Council chairs gave the summit a partner layer beyond the immediate members.

The fault line everyone expected was the Gulf. Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE hold sharply different positions on the US and Israeli war on Iran, and BRICS foreign ministers had already failed to agree a joint statement when they met in May.

Putin used the margins for a run of bilaterals: Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whom he invited to a Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim, South Africa, and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. He also met the head of the New Development Bank, the group's Shanghai lender, and said Russia supports broadening participation in its work.

Xi Jinping announced that China will take the BRICS chairmanship in 2027 and host the 19th summit.

What the group actually agreed to do

Despite the top level delegations, very little was achieved in concrete tmers. There is a declaration, a reform roadmap proposal, a chairmanship handover to China from India, and a set of bilateral trade targets. There is no announced common currency, no new lending facility of any size, and no mechanism attached to the complaint about unilateral tariffs. And little talk of resolving the running wars.

However, the purpose of the meeting was not to do deals, but continue the process of smoothing off the rough edges of the nascent geopolitical organisation that intends to build a new world order based in the Global South. This was more of a “get to know you” gathering than a nuts and bolts “get down to business” meeting.

It’s going to take some time. Members include two countries at war with each other's allies, one under comprehensive Western sanctions, and several that depend on American market access. With these conflicting tensions the group is not going to reach unanimity on anything, but for now is focused on thrashing out principles they can all agree on.

For Putin, the summit was a big win. Of all the BRICS nations, he is the only one that has definitively and irreparably broke with the old “unipolar” world order and has no choice but to commit to the Global South. His Western adversaries have done all they can to isolate Russia, and the comradery of the a Global South summit where he shares the limelight with the leaders of the two most populous countries in the world is worth its weight in gold. The Russian president spent two days being applauded at a business forum, and that the largest single piece of news to come out of it was his own line about European gas prices.

The summit ran in the same 48 hours in which the European Union failed, for the second time, to renew its sanctions on individual Russians, with the whole list due to lapse on September 15 unless ambassadors agree on September 14. Ukraine fatigue in Europe is building again as the cost of the war boomerang back on the increasingly dysfunctional European economy. As IntelliNews reported, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is starting to look increasingly desperate as he runs out of men, money and missiles ahead of a widely anticipated brutal Russian missile campaign in an attempt to freeze Ukraine into submission.

 

Russian drones strike near Polish border as train carrying Boris Johnson, EU officials evacuated

Former UK Prime Minister Johnson and other top EU officials were evacuated from their train on the Polish border after a Russian drone attack on the railway. / bne IntelliNewsFacebook

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By bne IntelliNews September 13, 2026

A Russian drone hit a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train just 2km from Poland and strikes damaged vehicles and a petrol station near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing, threatening a special train carrying former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and senior European officials which had to be evacuated after a drone warning.

Russian forces launched a series of drone strikes close to Ukraine's border with Poland on September 13, hitting transport and fuel infrastructure along one of the country's most important connections with the EU and triggering air defence alerts on the Nato side of the frontier.

A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train in Ukraine's Volyn region about 2km from the Polish border, according to Ukrainian state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia. The crew had been warned of the incoming threat and the train was evacuated before the strike. No injuries were reported.

Separately, a petrol station and trucks near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing caught fire during the attacks. The crossing, one of the principal road links between Ukraine and Poland, was temporarily disrupted. Moscow said its strikes were directed at infrastructure supporting the transport of European military cargo into Ukraine.

The attack came dangerously close to a special train carrying Johnson, Günter Sautter, foreign and security policy adviser to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and other European delegates returning from Kyiv.

Der Spiegel reported that the chartered train was caught in the danger zone and had to be partially evacuated. Passengers were alerted during the journey and prepared to leave the train as the drone warning was issued. Johnson, Sautter and the other passengers were unharmed.

Johnson and Sautter had been in Kyiv for the annual Yalta European Strategy conference, which brought together senior Ukrainian officials and Western politicians, security officials and policymakers. Other participants included Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and security advisers from France and Italy.

Bild reported that Poland stepped up air defence measures as the attacks approached its territory. Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said Polish systems detected a group of 12 Russian Geran-5 drones attacking western Ukraine, with one strike about 1km from the Polish border and another about 5km away. Polish F-16 fighters, helicopters and a Saab reconnaissance aircraft were used to monitor the frontier.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described the attacks as “Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO.” He called on Ukraine's partners to increase pressure on Moscow, including through tighter sanctions on Russia's military-industrial complex, restrictions on Russian citizens entering Western countries and a comprehensive trade embargo.

The incident came only days after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that Russia was likely to target border crossings between Ukraine and European countries.

Tusk said on September 10 that Polish and Ukrainian intelligence services had already prevented a threat to one border crossing and said Warsaw had received intelligence, including a detailed briefing from CIA director John Ratcliffe, suggesting further Russian operations against the crossings could follow.

The warning followed a Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian border post with Moldova that killed two people, underscoring an apparent expansion of attacks against the logistics corridors linking Ukraine to its European neighbours.

The latest strikes form part of a sharp intensification of Russia's long-range drone campaign against western Ukraine and the country's transport network.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 453 drones of various types during the latest large-scale attack, including Shahed-type drones, newer jet-powered systems and decoys. Ukrainian forces said more than 400 were shot down or suppressed, although strikes or debris were recorded at multiple locations.

The railway network has come under attack for a second consecutive day. On September 12 Russian drones hit railway infrastructure in Lutsk and Fastiv, including a passenger train in Lutsk. Passengers were evacuated before that strike and no casualties were reported.

The wider September 12 barrage killed at least 10 people and injured dozens across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. Two people were killed when a Russian strike hit a shop in Zviahel in Zhytomyr region, while petrol stations and other economic infrastructure were also attacked.

The growing focus on Ukraine's western regions has raised concerns that Russia is deliberately extending its campaign towards the country's economic and logistical lifelines with the EU. Unlike eastern and central Ukraine, much of the far west had until recently remained relatively insulated from sustained attack.

The strikes also bring Russian weapons increasingly close to Nato territory without crossing it, raising the risk of an accidental spillover or miscalculation at a time when the road and rail corridors through Poland remain critical both for Ukrainian trade and Western supplies.

 

Missile War Monitor: Trump tells Ukraine to stop hitting Russian diesel

TRUMP BLAMES UKRAINE FOR DIESEL $ INCREASES

Washington asks Kyiv to spare Russian refineries, a Ukrainian tile plant is out for six months, and cargo handling at Odesa's ports is down more than fifteenfold / bne IntelliNews / bne IntelliNews

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By Ben Aris in Berlin September 14, 2026

Donald Trump has asked Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries, saying the campaign is causing a diesel shortage. Kyiv hit two more the same night.

The US president spoke to reporters at his Doonbeg golf club in Ireland on September 13, on the sidelines of the Irish Open, after a call with Vladimir Putin. "Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," he said. "We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel, because that's hurting, that's hurting the world." The remarks were reported by the Associated Press. Neither the White House nor Kyiv has added anything to them.

It is the first time Washington has publicly asked Kyiv to call off a part of its deep-strike campaign, and it puts a price on what this monitor has been tracking since June. Ukrainian drones have pushed Russian refinery runs to their lowest in more than two decades, and as IntelliNews reported when the campaign turned on the civilian economy, each side is now aiming at what the other sells rather than what it fields. The diesel Russia no longer makes is diesel the world no longer has. The US national average pump price for diesel passed $6 a gallon for the first time on September 12.

Kyiv's answer arrived within hours. Overnight on September 13 Ukraine's General Staff recorded fires at two refineries, and the night after that, drones reached Sochi.

The cost of the refinery campaign

The data analytics firm Kpler puts Russian refinery runs at 3.80mn barrels a day for July 2026 to date, which it describes as the lowest in more than 20 years. Refined product exports ran at 1.2mn b/d in the same period, against 1.6mn b/d in June and 2.3mn b/d in July 2025. Between March and July, Kpler estimates Russian gasoline output fell by 175,000 b/d and diesel and jet output by about 350,000 b/d. Its August and September figures are forecasts rather than outturns and are not used here.

The firm also draws a distinction the strike tallies tend to blur. About 4.3mn b/d of Russian refining capacity, close to 58% of the total, was either attacked or in downtime in mid-July, but Kpler estimates only 1.5mn to 2.0mn b/d was effectively offline. A refinery that has been hit is not the same as a refinery that has stopped.

AP's own account of the Trump remarks attributes the diesel squeeze substantially to the Iran war rather than to Ukrainian strikes alone, citing International Energy Agency figures showing Gulf net diesel exports in August at just over a quarter of their February level. The president's attribution to Zelenskiy is therefore contested by the context of the story that carried it.

Two more refineries, and a named plant

Ukraine's Defence Intelligence claimed the strike on the Slavyansk-EKO refinery at Slavyansk-on-Kuban in Krasnodar Krai, saying operators of its Active Operations and Unmanned Systems departments hit a key oil-processing installation and the tank farm in a joint long-range operation. The General Staff records a fire. No source states a shutdown, a run cut or an output loss, the operator has not commented and no Russian official body has acknowledged damage. The plant's capacity is given two ways and the discrepancy is not resolved here: the Kyiv Independent puts it at about 5.2mn tonnes a year, United24 at more than 4mn tonnes. The Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters said falling debris damaged a gas pipeline in the residential Slavyansk district.

The second strike matters for a different reason. Ukraine's General Staff has now named the TANECO refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, Tatneft's plant of more than 16mn tonnes a year, about 1,200 km from the Ukrainian border, and says a tank caught fire at 03:22 local time. The September 13 edition of this monitor could record only an unnamed enterprise in the Nizhnekamsk petrochemical zone, because the identification then rested on the monitoring channel ASTRA and Telegram posts and no Ukrainian body had claimed it. That gap is now closed. Russian regional authorities reported two killed and twelve injured, figures the Kyiv Independent says it could not verify, and on the Tatarstan account the deaths were not at a plant. Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Nizhnekamsk, Kazan and Bugulma.

A third item upgrades an earlier entry. The General Staff confirmed on September 13 that the September 11 strike on Rosneft's Saratov refinery damaged an ELOU-AVT-6 primary oil processing unit and a section of main pipeline. Damage to a crude distillation unit is materially more than the fire previously recorded, though it remains a Ukrainian military claim and Rosneft has not commented.

Sochi burns, and Moscow names nothing

Russia's defence ministry says air defences intercepted and destroyed 399 Ukrainian drones over eleven regions and the Black Sea between 20:00 Moscow time on September 13 and 08:00 the following morning. That is a claim, not a count, and it is the largest single-night figure Moscow has published this month.

At Sochi, the Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters reports five people injured including a child, one of them hospitalised, and three private houses damaged. Mayor Andrey Proskunin announced the drone threat at 02:13 and the all-clear at 06:02. Rosaviatsia closed Sochi airport from 22:37 to 08:28, about ten hours, delaying 79 flights, 35 departures and 44 arrivals; Krasnodar airport was shut from 23:37 to 07:01 with 16 flights delayed. In Rostov region, where about 50 drones were claimed destroyed, a power line was damaged in the Myasnikovsky district, leaving 30 private houses without supply.

That power line is the only economic asset any Russian official source has named for the night. No refinery, depot, fuel storage, port or substation appears in any official account of the Sochi raid, and Ukraine's military has not claimed it. Monitoring channels reported large fires around the city and initial claims of damage to the Bocharov Ruchey residence; the Kyiv Independent states it could not verify those reports or the extent of any damage, and no Russian official has confirmed them. They are recorded here as seen and not used. The fuel-depot attack on Sochi on September 3 and 4, which did damage a Lukoil-linked facility, is a separate event and is not folded into this one.

Six months of no tiles

The sharpest corporate consequence of the week landed on September 14, when the ceramics maker Cersanit's press service described what a Russian jet-powered drone did to its plant at Zviahel in Zhytomyr oblast on the night of September 12. The strike caused serious damage to the facility including key elements of the ceramic tile production cycle, the company said. Production is halted, and restoration will require at least six months. All employees on site were evacuated safely and nobody was killed.

That statement closes an open item. When the plant was struck, regional administration head Vitaliy Bunechko confirmed only that an enterprise with foreign investment had been hit and declined to name it; the Cersanit identification rested on Forbes Ukraine citing eyewitnesses, and the company, the administration and the Polish government had all said nothing. The company has now spoken, and what it describes is not a fire but a plant out of the market until spring.

The Odesa figures point the same way at national scale. Infrastructure Minister Mykola Kalashnyk said that after July 22, cargo handling at the ports of Greater Odesa fell more than fifteenfold, and that since the start of the full-scale invasion 1,173 port infrastructure facilities and 274 civilian vessels have been damaged or partially destroyed. Ukraine is looking for alternative routes, he said, primarily via railways and the Danube ports. The drone war shifted to the ports in the summer and has not shifted back. At the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv on September 12, Economy Minister Oleksandr Kravchenko put damage to infrastructure and fixed assets from Russian air strikes at close to $10bn this year, the combined cost of the attacks and the de facto blockage of the ports at about 1.5 percentage points of GDP, and export revenue at risk at about $40bn. Those figures originated with Reuters.

Moscow names the companies it hit

Russia's defence ministry published on September 13 the most specific corporate target list it has issued in this campaign. Via TASS, it said it struck the Palma, Raben-Ukraine and Odesa-22 logistics centres in the city of Odesa, a Nova Poshta centre at Illichivka, a logistics centre at Usatovo and the Bloom centre at Teplodar, and a dry cargo vessel at the port of Odesa, describing all of them as holding or distributing cargoes for the Ukrainian army. Raben-Ukraine is the Ukrainian arm of the Polish-headquartered Raben Group; Nova Poshta, which TASS renders as New Post, is Ukraine's largest private parcel carrier.

The ministry gives no damage description, no fire and no casualty figure, only that the sites were hit, and neither Raben nor Nova Poshta has commented. No Ukrainian authority has confirmed any of the six. What the Ukrainian side does describe for the same night is consistent in outline without confirming any target: Euromaidan Press, publishing State Emergency Service imagery, reported 24 people injured including two children and large fires at warehouses across the region.

The grid before winter

A Russian drone killed an electricity worker in Sumy oblast on September 14. Oleh Hryhorov, head of the regional military administration, said the drone struck the crew's service vehicle in the Konotop district while they were repairing grid infrastructure damaged in earlier attacks. The dead man was a 53-year-old driver; a 50-year-old electrical technician was hospitalised.

Ukrenergo said at 10:36 Kyiv time that morning strikes had caused new power outages in Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts and that crews were restoring supply where the security situation allowed. It named no facility and gave no consumer count. The grid operator also said no scheduled restrictions were planned for September 14, and that consumers off supply in Mykolaiv oblast were off because of heavy rain and thunderstorms rather than shelling, which are two different things and are kept apart here.

The United Nations Development Programme's administrator, Alexander De Croo, told the BBC on September 13 that Ukraine enters the cold season from a "very weak position". Russian strikes are hitting "gas stations, shopping malls, and business centers, but above all, energy infrastructure, transmission lines, and similar assets," he said. "There is absolutely no justification for this." He warned that damage to heating plants, electricity networks and municipal utilities could disrupt water supply, heating systems and sewage networks, and that if temperatures fall towards minus 20 Celsius the compounding damage would create conditions "bordering on a humanitarian catastrophe". Moscow has tried to freeze Ukraine into submission in each of the past three winters. On the other side of the ledger, First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal says Ukraine met its baseline winter gas storage target a month early, with 14.6bn cubic metres in store by late August, and the government has allocated UAH6.8bn ($152mn) to grid repairs, backup generators and blast protection.

Weapons and technology

Zelenskiy gave the week's volumes on September 13: about 2,100 strike drones, 78 missiles and 1,700 guided aerial bombs. "A significant portion of them are specifically jet-powered Shaheds, with which the Russians are trying to break the economy and destroy people's lives," he said. He gave no interception figures and did not define the seven days.

The two nights either side of that statement show how uneven the tempo has become. On the night of September 12 to 13 the Ukrainian Air Force says Russia launched 453 drones and that 405 drones and four S8000 Banderol cruise missiles were shot down or suppressed, with 13 locations struck. The following night it counted 108 drones launched and 85 destroyed or suppressed, with hits at seven locations it did not itemise. A fourfold swing inside 24 hours is consistent with Ukraine's Defence Intelligence assessment that Russia alternates between firing and rebuilding a stockpile it put at about 6,200 Geran drones in August.

Two much larger figures are circulating for the September 12 to 13 night, of 863 drones launched and 741 downed, sourced only to an unnamed "Western sources analysis" relayed by a monitoring account. They are roughly double the Air Force's own tally on every axis and are not used here. A separate claim of "over 800 drones, 751 downed" now recirculating dates from September 7 2025.

The most consequential development for anyone reading these tallies is what has stopped being published. Since August 13 the Ukrainian Air Force no longer gives ballistic missile launch or interception counts in its morning briefings, a restriction announced by its spokesman Yurii Ihnat; only a monthly aggregate survives. Drone counts continue nightly in full. Any statement that no ballistic missiles were fired in a given period now has to carry that caveat, because the silence is a reporting decision and not necessarily an absence.

On propulsion, Russia's jet programme has crossed over. Defence Intelligence puts Geran-4 and Geran-5 production at about 3,000 units a month against about 2,800 for the piston-engined Geran-2 as of August, the first month the jets have led. Militarnyi reports Geran-5 drones deployed near Oryol flying at 500 to 600 km/h against about 180 km/h for the Geran-2, on a launch system a Russian Telegram analysis group describes as about 80 metres long. That last figure is a monitoring claim and is labelled as one.

Ukraine's own long-range programme got a rare piece of performance data. An open-source analyst working as Harbuz, cited by Ukrainska Pravda, says that of 23 verified FP-5 Flamingo launches, six reached their targets and only two hit the facility aimed at. The manufacturer Fire Point, an interested party in any judgement of its own missile, reported production of three missiles a day as of March 2026. The publishing outlet's own headline figure of 33% contradicts the counts in its text, and the counts are used here instead. Kyiv's hunt for air defence ammunition has run in parallel with the build-out of its own strike systems all year.

The money moved on September 11. EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said the European Commission had approved EUR6.1bn for Ukrainian air defence, drones and missiles, including the purchase of American PAC-3 interceptors for Patriot systems. The size of the next tranche is reported two ways, at EUR4.7bn and at EUR4.3bn, and the discrepancy is unresolved. At the first council meeting of the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance the same day, Kubilius put European drone production at about 1.5mn units a year against Russian output of up to 10mn FPV drones and 130,000 jet-powered drones. "We need design cycles in weeks, not months, and countermeasures that keep pace," he said. His jet-drone figure and Defence Intelligence's 3,000 a month are plainly counting different things and are not reconciled here.

On autonomy, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, told the Human Rights Council on September 7 that he was "horrified" by reports of fully autonomous drones allegedly deployed by Russia that killed three Ukrainians, and added: "I join calls for the urgent prohibition of weapons that can take lives without human involvement." The incident behind that was on July 6 at a filling station in Zaporizhzhia, where a Molniya-2 drone running an Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputer killed three civilians, according to Ukrainian investigators who examined the wreckage and were reported by the New York Times on August 24. Turk was reacting to reports and said "allegedly"; no independent forensic body has verified the assessment.

Arson and sabotage in the EU

No new arson or sabotage incident connected to the war took place in the European Union or the United Kingdom in the period covered by this edition. The table below is unchanged in length for the first time since it was created, and that is worth saying plainly rather than padding with older events. Two existing cases did move.

In Bulgaria, the date of the fire at the EMCO ammunition depot near Gorni Varpishta in Gabrovo region is now settled as the night of Friday September 11, on Gabrovo provincial governor Kristina Sidorova's account that it began around 23:00 and spread between stores. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev says the authorities are not ruling out outside interference and has ordered an inspection of every ammunition depot in the country. That is a refusal to exclude an explanation and it is not an attribution. EMCO, which owns the destroyed stock and is an interested party, says the fire was sabotage and that human error is completely ruled out, and it names nobody. No prosecutor's case, arrest or charge has been reported. The minister's position has shifted since a fire at the same company on August 10, after which he suggested external factors were unlikely.

In Germany, the formal attribution already in the table hardened. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on September 6 that his government's September 1 conclusion that Russia was responsible for the Leipzig airport drone incidents is "clear and legally sound". Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has announced mobile anti-drone units for nine cities, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Leipzig, Hanover and Cologne, and a national "Cyberdome" described as a distributed digital sensor network. No cost figure and no timeline were published, and this is an announced capability rather than a demonstrated one. No suspect has been named, arrested or charged, so a state-level attribution stands with no criminal case behind it. Russia denies involvement, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on September 6 that the German accusations are "by and large, the start of a real war".

Major strikes and targets

Three tables follow: Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, and arson and sabotage at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU and the UK. All three are non-exhaustive.

Date	Target	Weapon	Region	Damage
15 Jun	Odesa ports	Missiles and drones	Odesa	Export infrastructure damaged; first sustained pressure on the sea corridor
6 Jul	Crimean power grid	Drones	Occupied Crimea	Peninsula-wide blackout
14 Jul	Togo-flagged merchant ship, Odesa port	Missile	Odesa	Three crew killed
19 Jul	Kyiv and other cities	Missiles and drones	Ukraine	Largest bombardment of the war to that date, in response to the Tambov strike
27 Jul	Drone-industry exhibition	Missiles	Kyiv region	At least 10 killed
31 Jul	US-owned drone factory	Missile	Ukraine	Plant destroyed
5 Aug	Kyiv	24 ballistic missiles	Kyiv	Air defences unable to respond; interceptor stocks reported near exhaustion
18 Aug	Kryvyi Rih thermal power station	Drones	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Damaged beyond the ability to generate
20 Aug	Antonov aircraft plants; drone and cruise missile component sites; three retail chains' warehouses	About 75 missiles, 23 ballistic or hypersonic	Kyiv	18 killed, 42 injured, 90,000 customers cut off; no ballistic missile intercepted
21 Aug	Largest shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih	Drone	Dnipropetrovska oblast	16 killed, 140 injured, three missing
22 Aug	Ukrzaliznytsia rail depots and repair works, Darnytskyi district	11-13 ballistic missiles	Kyiv	Extensive fires; air defences inactive
22-25 Aug	DTEK energy assets; Odesa and Chornomorsk ports; Rozdilna rail junction; two Epicentr stores; fuel depots	Missiles and drones	Odesa region	Six ships damaged in Greater Odesa between August 18 and 24
25-26 Aug	Power distribution across five regions	162 Shahed-type drones, some jet-powered	Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia	Consumers cut off in five regions; Ukrenergo published no numbers
26-27 Aug	Kherson combined heat and power plant	Five guided bombs over two nights	Kherson	All remaining heat and power generating equipment destroyed weeks before the heating season
27 Aug	Odesa port infrastructure and a grain elevator	Missiles and drones	Odesa	Seven-hour attack; elevator and port damaged, three injured; trains delayed more than 17 hours
27 Aug	Warehouses and distribution centres of Roshen, Comfy, Avrora, Budynok Ihrashok, Fora, KOLO and Epicentr	258 drones, two Oniks and Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles	Kyiv region	Roshen, Avrora and Budynok Ihrashok centres destroyed; third strike on Fora logistics in August
27 Aug	Industrial plants and an energy facility, Kremenchuk and Myrhorod districts	Drones	Poltava	Seven settlements cut off
28 Aug	Nova Poshta warehouse at Sviatopetrivske and terminal in Sumy	Drones; four guided bombs at Sumy	Kyiv region and Sumy	Warehouse struck twice more while crews fought the fire; Sumy terminal hit and three lorries damaged; a Kyiv region sorting centre destroyed
27 Aug	Zaporizhstal steelworks	Five ballistic missiles	Zaporizhzhia	Blast furnace shop, power and transport infrastructure hit; plant already halted since the August 11 strike that killed eight
27 Aug	Cargo ship Progress IV, out of Reni with sugar and peas	Reported drone strike, unattributed	Black Sea, Romania's economic zone	Caught fire and sank; all 12 crew rescued; Romania has opened a criminal investigation and named nobody
28 Aug	Fozzy hypermarket and production facilities, Vyshneve	Drones	Kyiv region	Operations halted, scale of damage being assessed; no casualties
28 Aug	Epicentr hypermarket, Zaporizhzhia	Drone	Zaporizhzhia	Fire over about 2,000 sq m; four injured; the chain's last operating store in the city
28 Aug	Hypermarket, Pavlohrad	Not stated	Dnipropetrovsk	Store burned; a 17-year-old killed and seven injured; the chain was not named by officials
28 Aug	Petrol station, Kharkiv	Geran-4 drone	Kharkiv	Fuel dispensers and operator's building burned; one woman killed and four men injured
28 Aug	14 warehouse premises across five districts, including a book warehouse at Sviatopetrivske	Shahed-type drones	Kyiv region	Publishing stock destroyed; Readeat suspended shipments
28 Aug	Warehouses of a private company, Myla	Drones	Kyiv region	Prolonged detonations; M-06 highway closed over 17 km; more than 200 evacuated; prosecutors opened an inquiry into the storage of explosive materials
28 Aug	Cargo lorries	Drones	Zhytomyr	Four lorries and three semi-trailers burned
28 Aug	Power facilities in four regions	Not stated	Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv	Consumers cut off; Ukrenergo published no numbers
29 Aug	Lorries carrying grain, Safianivka	Shahed drones	Odesa, Izmail district	Five lorries destroyed and three damaged; about 125 tonnes of grain damaged; one killed and three injured
29 Aug	Energy infrastructure, Mykolaiv city and two districts	Shahed-136 drones, Banderol cruise missiles, one Iskander-M	Mykolaiv	More than 300,000 consumers cut off; trams and trolleybuses suspended
29 Aug	Supermarket and a warehouse, Mykolaiv	Drones	Mykolaiv	Both caught fire; no casualties reported
29 Aug	Warehouse at Zolochiv, enterprises at Chuhuiv and Liubotyn, power lines at Chervona Poliana and Cherkaska Lozova, a shopping centre and two petrol stations	Four missiles, guided bombs, 11 Molniya drones, one FPV and 83 unidentified drones	Kharkiv	Cherkaska Lozova cut off; two killed and 11 injured across the region
29 Aug	A shop, a gas pipeline and a mobile phone tower	Not stated	Kherson	34 settlements struck; one killed and 26 wounded
29 Aug	Logistics company building, Pavlohrad	Not stated	Dnipropetrovsk	Building destroyed; two wounded
28-29 Aug	Ukrposhta delivery lorry, near Kramatorsk	Drone	Donetsk oblast	Vehicle destroyed with about 500 parcels aboard; date placed by ISW and not independently confirmed
29-30 Aug	Black Sea port infrastructure	Banderol S8000 jet loitering munitions	Odesa	Cargo operations prevented; vessel calls down from seven or eight ships a day to one, per the Ukrainian Ports Association
30 Aug	Food storage warehouses, operator not named	Not stated	Odesa	Damaged; fire covering roughly 3,000 sq m
30 Aug	Food-processing facility, a warehouse, port infrastructure and energy sites, operators not named	Not stated	Mykolaiv	Struck; single-sourced and no damage detail given
30-31 Aug	Nova Poshta terminal	One Kh-59 and 121 Shahed-type drones across the attack	Odesa	Terminal building partially destroyed; fire later extinguished; no casualties
31 Aug	Warehouse holding goods of the Varus supermarket chain, Boryspil	Not stated	Kyiv region	A large amount of goods damaged and destroyed, per the company; all 119 stores stayed open; deliveries may be delayed and some items temporarily unavailable
31 Aug	Distribution centre of the Avrora chain	Not stated	Kyiv region	Completely destroyed, per the co-owner; no employees injured; second Avrora centre lost in five days
31 Aug	Unspecified infrastructure, Odesa city	Shahed and Banderol drones and guided aerial bombs	Odesa	Infrastructure damaged, details being clarified by the regional administration; electricity supply disrupted across the city
1 Sep	Ukrzaliznytsia depot and railway facilities, Kyiv	Ballistic missiles	Kyiv	Six Ukrainian Railways employees killed and one hospitalised; a workshop destroyed and multiple fires; train traffic halted on two sections and later reopened. 12 killed and 21 injured across Kyiv and the oblast overnight
1 Sep	Port export infrastructure at Odesa and Chornomorsk, the Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border, energy infrastructure and a sewing workshop	At least ten Banderol S8000, plus Shahed drones and guided aerial bombs	Odesa	Orlivka took direct hits and operations are fully suspended; it handles up to 1,200 vehicles a day. Temporary blackouts in some areas; major fire at the workshop; two residential buildings damaged and one injured
31 Aug	DTEK Energy coal mine	Drone	Dnipropetrovsk	A worker injured, per the company; no damage figures given
1 Sep	Nova Poshta terminal, Odesa	Not stated	Odesa	Fire inside the building, extinguished by the State Emergency Service; no casualties at the site; the terminal had been damaged in earlier strikes
1 Sep	Three warehouse facilities, Bucha district	Not stated	Kyiv region	Fires and structural damage at all three, all extinguished; the State Emergency Service says two further strikes were made on the warehouses while crews worked; owners and contents not identified
1 Sep	A supermarket and stores across the Nikopol, Pavlohrad and Synelnykivsky districts	Aerial bombs and drones	Dnipropetrovsk	Supermarket destroyed and stores damaged in more than 20 attacks from the evening, per the regional military administration; no chain named
1-2 Sep	Port infrastructure, energy infrastructure, the Orlivka ferry crossing and a Nova Poshta terminal, Odesa	Ballistic weapons, guided aerial bombs and Banderol munitions	Odesa	Infrastructure damaged and electricity disrupted; eight injured including one child and two hospitalised; a 24-storey residential building, office buildings and two educational institutions also hit
2 Sep	Industrial facility, operator not named	Jet-powered drones	Poltava	Damage not specified; no casualties; emergency service units deployed
2 Sep	Backbone energy facilities, Odesa region	Massed missile and drone attack	Odesa	More than 350,000 families cut off, of which 177,000 restored at the time of reporting, per DTEK Odesa Grids. Electric public transport stopped and water supply failed in the Peresyp district. Ukrenergo says supply was restored to all Odesa region consumers by the morning of September 3, with grid restrictions still applied to avoid overloading damaged equipment
2 Sep	DTEK industrial site and a Ukrnafta filling station	Massed missile and drone attack	Odesa	Transport vehicles and office buildings damaged at the DTEK site; structures destroyed and equipment significantly damaged at the filling station
2 Sep	Energy facilities, operators not named	Not stated	Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Kherson	Consumers cut off in the four regions, per the energy ministry; no figures published
3 Sep	Biokon pharmaceutical logistics complex, Boryspil district	Drones	Kyiv region	Warehouse premises, an administrative building and a shop damaged, with a large fire; one man hospitalised with shrapnel wounds. Described by nv.ua as one of the largest specialised pharmaceutical warehouses in the country
3 Sep	Two enterprises, operators not named, Khmelnytskyi district	Drone debris	Khmelnytskyi	A cargo lorry burned over roughly 40 sq m and its driver was injured; a separate warehouse fire covered roughly 200 sq m
3 Sep	Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine plant, Velyka Dymerka, Brovary district	One drone	Kyiv region	One drone struck the finished-goods warehouses, per Ekonomichna Pravda citing Ukrainska Pravda; local Telegram channels showed significant smoke over the industrial area; preliminary information indicates no casualties. No official confirmation and no company statement at the time of writing
3 Sep	Nova Poshta branch and depot, Dnipro	Banderol S8000	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Branch and depot destroyed; a 27-year-old driver employed by the company killed and five employees wounded by shrapnel of varying severity. The company says it is still establishing the exact number of damaged shipments, will compensate the declared value of destroyed parcels and has switched to a backup logistics scheme
3-4 Sep	Warehouse premises, Sofiivska Borshchahivka	Drones	Kyiv region	Warehouse premises damaged, per Oleksandr Medvid, acting head of the Borshchahivka village council; no casualties reported and no floor area, stock or value figure given
3-4 Sep	Industrial enterprise and warehouses, Brovary	Drones and drone debris	Kyiv region	Fire at an unnamed industrial enterprise with smoke over the city and residents told to close their windows; a separate warehouse fire started by debris from destroyed drones was quickly contained. Brovary mayor Ihor Sapozhko says there is no information on casualties
4 Sep	An enterprise and a supermarket, Nikopol district; a logistics company building and vehicles, Dnipro	Drones and artillery	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Damage confirmed by Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the oblast military administration, who says two districts were attacked more than 10 times. Two police officers were killed and one hospitalised in a critical condition at the Bohdanivka hromada in Pavlohrad district. A gymnasium, apartment blocks and private homes were also damaged. Neither the supermarket chain nor the enterprise was named
3 Sep	Warehouses of Teva Pharmaceuticals and a World Health Organization warehouse	Drones	Kyiv region	Teva facilities were targeted twice on September 3 and one of the WHO's main warehouses for humanitarian medical supplies was destroyed, per Kyiv Post. Teva says it is assessing the consequences and doing everything possible to minimise the impact on supplies. It was the WHO's third warehouse lost in three months. No damage figure has been given. Teva is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and reported Ukrainian revenue of UAH4.65bn (about $111mn) in 2025
3 Sep	Ukrnafta production facilities	Not stated	Not established	Several Ukrnafta production facilities came under attack overnight, with hits recorded and fires, and damaged equipment shut down pending specialist assessment, per the Naftogaz Group press service. Employees sheltered and there were no casualties. The oblast was not disclosed and no production-loss figure was given
3-4 Sep	Warehouse at Balakliia, a hangar at Yavenske, a greenhouse at Zolochiv and electricity networks at Pechenihy	MLRS, four missiles, two guided bombs, four Molniya drones, seven FPV drones and 83 further drones across 12 settlements	Kharkiv	Warehouse destroyed at Balakliia; hangar and greenhouse damaged; electricity networks damaged at Pechenihy and power lines in the Chuhuiv district; 12 wounded across the oblast including two children, per Oleh Synehubov. A 24-hour tally, so individual strikes are not separately timed
4 Sep	Warehouse premises, Sviatopetrivske, Bucha district	Drones	Kyiv region	Four direct drone hits on the storage premises, a large fire and heavy smoke, no casualties, per Anton Ovsienko, head of the village council. Local channels say the warehouses held food products; that is not officially confirmed and no operator has been named
4-5 Sep	Epicentr hypermarket, Mykolaiv	Shahed-type drones, described as jet-powered	Mykolaivska oblast	Six direct hits on the site in one day, per the company; staff put out four fires and the last hit destroyed the building. Trading halls damaged, one floor burned out completely, windows blown out in the neighbouring residential blocks; a 72-year-old man hospitalised and a 17-year-old girl treated and discharged. Firefighters repeatedly withdrew because of repeat strikes. The site employed 520 people, including staff relocated from the chain's destroyed stores in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa. Epicentr counted 10 shopping centres completely destroyed and 13 damaged as of early August, with losses it puts above $1bn
4-5 Sep	Warehouse holding food products, operator not named	Drones	Odesa	Direct hits started a fire in the warehouse building, later extinguished, with no dead or injured, per Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration, and the State Emergency Service. The same facility was struck on August 30, when about 3,000 sq m was destroyed. A Ukrainian aggregator says the warehouses belong to the ATB supermarket chain; no official has named an operator
4-5 Sep	A warehouse, specialised equipment and a cargo lorry, Kryvoozerska hromada	Shahed-type drones	Mykolaivska oblast	Warehouse, specialised equipment and a cargo lorry damaged, per Heorhii Reshetillov, first deputy head of the oblast military administration; no casualties. Whether the warehouse is a commercial facility is not stated
5 Sep	Kametstal steel works, Kamianske	Ballistic missile	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Five killed and five wounded, three of them hospitalised, per Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the oblast military administration. Four of the dead were on shift: a locksmith, an electrician, a hydraulics specialist and a machine operator. Metinvest says sintering and blast-furnace operations were destroyed and on-site energy and transport infrastructure damaged, that the plant has completely halted and that the restoration timeline remains unknown. Toll revised up from four killed on September 5
5 Sep	Warehouse of a private enterprise, Poltava hromada	Attack drone	Poltava	Direct hit on the warehouse; adjacent residential buildings damaged by the blast wave; munition debris, some with warheads, found across the district; no injuries reported at the time of publication, per Vitalii Diakivnych, head of the oblast military administration. The enterprise was not named
4 Sep	Security Service of Ukraine headquarters, central Kyiv	Geran-4 jet-powered drone	Kyiv	Exterior wall damaged and the office of acting head Oleksandr Poklad struck; 12 injured and seven hospitalised; the Kyiv City Express urban rail service was suspended. Debris was recovered and identified as a Geran-4. Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov says the drone was guided over a mesh radio repeater switched on within 5 km of the target; that is his stated personal opinion and no authority has confirmed it
5 Sep	Kyiv International and Boryspil airports	Not stated	Kyiv and Kyiv region	Struck deliberately and for the first time in a long while, per Zelenskiy, who linked the strike to discussions about US envoys arriving by air. Two women were injured at Boryspil and both were hospitalised. No damage assessment has been published for either site
5 Sep	Vehicle service station, Dnipro district	Not stated	Dnipropetrovska oblast	One killed and five injured. The facility is a vehicle service station and not a filling station. Headline-level sourcing only; the originating report could not be fetched
5-6 Sep	Food warehouse and the building of a logistics company, Synelnykove district	Attack drones	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Both caught fire in large-scale blazes fought by nearly 40 firefighters and more than 10 vehicles through the night and extinguished by morning, per the State Emergency Service. Neither company has been named
5-6 Sep	Passenger train bound for Kherson	Shahed-type drones	Kherson	Two diesel locomotives damaged and a 55-year-old railway worker hospitalised with a shrapnel wound to her arm, concussion, blast injuries and a closed head injury, per governor Oleksandr Prokudin
5-6 Sep	Shopping mall, a warehouse and vehicles, Mykolaiv	Not stated	Mykolaivska oblast	Mall, warehouse and vehicles damaged and three injured including a 17-year-old girl, per the regional military administration; in Mykolaiv city eight lorries and two trolleybuses were damaged and a lorry driver was killed at Halytsynivka. No operator has been named
6 Sep	Infrastructure facility, Fastiv district	Jet-powered Banderol	Kyiv region	Large-scale fire fought by more than 30 firefighters, two cranes and an aviation unit and extinguished by the evening; the State Emergency Service says spread to neighbouring energy infrastructure was prevented. The facility type was not specified. Struck inside the three-day halt on strikes on Kyiv, which covers the city and not the region
6 Sep	Electrical networks, warehouses and railway infrastructure	MLRS, FPV drones and 86 further drones	Kharkiv	Networks, warehouses and rail infrastructure damaged; four killed and eight wounded across the oblast, per governor Oleh Synehubov. Three of the dead were at Chuhuiv, where a jet-powered drone destroyed a house, a warehouse and a garage, killing a 45-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy
6 Sep	Warehouses, railway infrastructure, agricultural land and a filling station across five districts	Not stated	Kyiv region	28 objects damaged and two killed in Bucha district, per governor Tymur Tkachenko. No operator has been named
6 Sep	A cell tower and a gas pipe, with transport, critical and social infrastructure across more than 30 settlements	Not stated	Kherson	Damaged; two killed and 20 wounded, per governor Oleksandr Prokudin
6 Sep	Enterprises, and water and gas systems	Not stated	Khmelnytskyi	Fires at unnamed enterprises and damage to water and gas systems; seven wounded, one in a critical condition, per the National Police. Four were hospitalised after drone debris fell on a three-storey building
6 Sep	Private enterprise, Lubny district	Not stated	Poltava	Enterprise hit with no casualties. It was not named
6 Sep	Truck parking, Zaporizhzhia city	Geran-4 jet drones	Zaporizhzhia	Multiple impacts across the city with a large fire in a lorry park, per the monitoring account AMK Mapping. Oblast-wide the authorities logged 886 strikes on 54 settlements, 187 reports of property and infrastructure damage and 52 damaged buildings in the city, with one killed and 25 wounded
5 Sep	FM Logistic Class A warehouse, Dudarkiv	Drones	Kyiv region	A new section of the warehouse damaged and operations temporarily suspended, per group press office representative Paulina Massa, who says the company cannot provide additional details on the extent of the damage. No casualties and all staff sheltered. Second strike on the same site after August 20
6 Sep	Orlivka to Isaccea ferry crossing on the Romanian border	Shahed-type drones	Odesa, Izmail district	Vehicle and pedestrian crossings temporarily suspended and resumed by the morning of September 6 after repairs, with no casualties, per the Izmail district administration and State Border Guard Service spokesman Andrii Demchenko. Second strike on the crossing in a week; the September 1 attack closed it until September 3
6 Sep	Warehouses of a logistics company, Dnipro	Not stated	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Fire at the warehouses and two civilians injured, per Oleksandr Hanzha, described by Kyiv Post as head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. The company was not named. May overlap the September 5-6 Synelnykove district row above
6-7 Sep	Shopping centre, named as City Mall by one outlet only	Drones, in a wave of 92 Shahed-type drones with jet-powered variants, Gerbera and Parodiya decoys and S8000 Banderol	Zaporizhzhia	Six fires over 700 sq m fought by 40 rescuers and 10 units of equipment; no casualties, per Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration. Tenants were not identified
6-7 Sep	Dry cargo ship Mavka at Chornomorsk and a loading complex at Izmail	Not stated	Odesa	Russian defence ministry claim only. No Ukrainian authority has confirmed either strike and no damage assessment exists
7-8 Sep	7th Kilometer market, Odesa suburb, the largest open-air consumer goods market in Ukraine	Not stated	Odesa	Stalls and pavilions damaged. Three people injured, per Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, who first reported one and revised the figure to three. Confirmed by Ukraine's foreign ministry as a strike on "an ordinary market". No official has said trading stopped and no damage valuation exists
7-8 Sep	Logistics complex and an industrial enterprise, Boryspil district	Drones, including jet-powered types	Kyiv region	Seven trucks destroyed by fire and the logistics complex struck a second time while emergency crews were working on the first fire, per the State Emergency Service. All fires extinguished. The operator was not named by any source
7-8 Sep	Production facility and warehouse, Bila Tserkva district	Not stated	Kyiv region	Damaged, with one person injured, per Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, who put the night's damage across 11 districts of the city and region. Extent not stated and the company was not named
7-8 Sep	Kyiv to Sumy passenger train, Ukrzaliznytsia	Not stated	Sumy	The train was stopped short of the danger area on a warning from the railway's own monitoring team and 90 passengers plus the train and locomotive crews were evacuated before it was hit. Damage shown on video and not itemised. No casualties
7-8 Sep	Warehouses in four districts of Kyiv, a business centre, a metro station and a 26-storey non-residential building in Holosiivskyi	Ballistic and cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles and Shahed-type drones	Kyiv city	Warehouses burned in four districts, per the State Emergency Service; a garage fire spread to a neighbouring non-residential building and a business centre; an impact on the 22nd floor destroyed part of the 26-storey block. Damage at more than 16 locations across at least five districts, two people killed and 10 injured, per the Kyiv City Military Administration and the interior ministry. No commercial operator identified. First strike on the capital after the three-day pause
8 Sep	Railway locomotive at a station, Sumy region	Not stated	Sumy	Attacked on the morning of September 8, per Ukraine's foreign ministry. A separate event from the Kyiv to Sumy passenger train struck overnight. Damage not itemised and no casualties reported
8 Sep	Warehouse, Solomianskyi district of Kyiv	Not stated	Kyiv city	Two people killed in a daytime strike, per mayor Vitali Klitschko, who said the capital's death toll for September 8 had reached five. Operator not named and no damage assessment published
8 Sep	Warehouse, Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, and non-residential buildings at three sites in Holosiivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi	Not stated	Kyiv city	Struck at 17:42, with the fire spreading to a neighbouring three-storey building, per Klitschko. The State Emergency Service reported new seats of fire in non-residential buildings at three locations across the two districts and said casualty information was still being gathered. No operator named
8 Sep	Newsroom of the We Are Ukraine television channel, Kyiv	Drone	Kyiv city	Five people injured, per Ukrainska Pravda's report of the day's strikes. Zelenskiy called the strike on the studio a new chapter in Russia's degradation. No damage assessment published and the channel has not said whether it stayed on air
8 Sep	Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia passenger train and a suburban train in Sumy region, Ukrzaliznytsia	Not stated	Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk	Both trains evacuated. Some passengers on the suburban train suffered shrapnel wounds while evacuating, per Ukrzaliznytsia, which said three of its trains were struck during the day counting the Kyiv to Sumy service. No rolling stock damage itemised and no service suspension announced
8-9 Sep	REEVA instant noodle and condiment plant, Bila Tserkva, operated by Euro Food Service	Drone	Kyiv region	Burned through the night and contained by morning, per the State Emergency Service, whose crews were slowed by repeated air raid warnings. No casualties. The plant supplies the domestic consumer market and exports to neighbouring European markets. Neither the company nor the regional administration has given a damage figure or said whether production has stopped
8-9 Sep	Starokozache international road border crossing with Moldova	Drones	Odesa	Crossing infrastructure and the surrounding area damaged and fires started; processing of people and vehicles suspended, per the State Customs Service of Ukraine. Two people killed and three injured with 16 evacuated, per Zelenskiy. No reopening date, no freight volume and no diversion estimate published. The Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border was affected in the same wave
8-9 Sep	Two lorries, a garage and a two-storey non-residential building, Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts of Kyiv	Drones and missiles	Kyiv city	All fires extinguished by the morning of September 9 with no casualties, per the State Emergency Service. Owners not named. Russian attacks were also recorded in the Bila Tserkva, Brovary, Boryspil, Fastiv, Obukhiv and Bucha districts of Kyiv region
8-9 Sep	Market, Odesa region	Not stated	Odesa	Named by Zelenskiy as an ordinary market struck overnight. Not identified, no damage itemised by any regional official and no trader association comment
8-9 Sep	Critical infrastructure, Kyiv region	Not stated	Kyiv region	Named by Zelenskiy without itemisation. Recovery work also under way in Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr regions. Ukrenergo has not commented and no outage figure has been published
9 Sep	Locomotive of the Kyiv to Sumy train at a station, Sumy region	Not stated	Sumy	Attacked on the morning of September 9 with no injuries and passengers evacuated, per Zelenskiy. A second locomotive strike at Vilnyansk in Zaporizhzhia region was reported by the partisan account AMK Mapping and has no official confirmation
9 Sep	Manufactura shopping mall, Sumy	Drone	Sumy	Fires engulfed vehicles in the mall car parks and debris was scattered across the site. Two people killed, both aged 21, and 20 injured including three girls aged 15 to 16, of whom 14 were hospitalised with two men and one woman in a serious condition and one woman in an extremely critical condition, per Sumy governor Oleh Hryhorov and the State Emergency Service. No source states structural damage to the mall building and the operator has not been named
9 Sep	Repair crew and vehicle of the Zaporizhzhia District Electric Network, Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo	Drone	Zaporizhzhia	The crew was attacked while restoring power to a community de-energised by shelling the previous day. The vehicle sustained extensive damage in the explosion and nobody was hurt, per Andrii Stasevskyi, head of Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo. Ukrinform says this was the second targeted drone attack on energy workers since the start of September
9 Sep	Power distribution across five regions	Drones and artillery	Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv	New outages as of the morning of September 9, per Ukrenergo, which named no facilities and gave no customer numbers. Consumption at 09:30 was 1.7% higher than the previous day and consumers were asked to shift heavy use to between 10:00 and 15:00 and to limit high-power appliances between 18:00 and 22:00
9 Sep	Warehouse near the Comfort Town complex, Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv, and five production and warehouse facilities in Kyiv region	Drones	Kyiv city and Kyiv region	Warehouse fire in the Dniprovskyi district with the operator not named. 31 sites damaged across Kyiv region including five production and warehouse facilities, one administrative building, one utility building, 11 houses, two apartment buildings and 12 vehicles, per Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration. Nine injured in the city and two killed and seven injured in the region including two children. Air raid alerts ran for more than six hours in daylight
9-10 Sep	Business and commercial facilities at five sites, Central City and Saksahanskyi districts of Kryvyi Rih	Drones	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Five impact sites with apartment blocks, private homes and educational, cultural and business facilities damaged and fires at two of them, per Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city defence council. Five injured and two hospitalised, a 42-year-old man in a serious condition and a 41-year-old man in a moderate condition, per governor Oleksandr Hanzha. No business has been named
9-10 Sep	Market, Khmelnytskyi city	Disputed	Khmelnytskyi	Fire at the market followed by a secondary detonation while State Emergency Service crews were working, injuring four of them. UA.NEWS and nv.ua describe a drone strike on the market; Ukrinform attributes the fire to falling debris from a downed drone. The market has not been named and no damage area or stall count has been given
8 Sep, confirmed 10 Sep	Reeva instant noodle and condiment plant, Bila Tserkva	Drone	Kyiv region	The company's press service says the factory was significantly damaged and that production has been suspended, with no restart date given and a stated intention to preserve jobs and resume as quickly as possible, per Ukrainska Pravda. The first confirmation by a named Ukrainian manufacturer in this ledger that a strike has stopped production rather than damaged a building. No output figure, no loss estimate and no insurance position published
9 Sep, confirmed 10 Sep	Manufactura shopping and entertainment centre, Sumy	Drone	Sumy	Significant damage and operations suspended, per Ukrainska Pravda. Two people killed and 20 injured including three girls aged 15 and 16, per Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration. No reopening date and no figure for lost trade
9-10 Sep	Warehouse complex in the southern suburbs and a commercial enterprise in the eastern suburbs of Zaporizhzhia city, plus a target at Vilnyansk	Geran-2 and Geran-4 jet drones	Zaporizhzhia	Large fires at both sites, corroborated against NASA FIRMS thermal data, per the partisan mapping account Military Summary, which published coordinates. No Ukrainian official has itemised the sites, no operator has been named and no damage assessment exists
9-10 Sep	Warehouse building, Obukhiv district	Not stated	Kyiv region	One person killed and another injured in the district, and a fire in a warehouse building, per the Kyiv regional military administration. Private houses damaged in Bucha district and a veterinary clinic and a private house damaged by fragments in Fastiv district, where a woman was treated for a shrapnel wound. Owner not named and no damage figure
10 Sep	Food processing business, Dnipro, struck twice in one morning	Drones, with a Banderol loitering munition warned over the city at 10:52	Dnipropetrovsk	Two people killed and two injured in the second strike, which hit the same site already damaged in the first and started a fire, per Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration. The first strike caused no casualties. The company has not been named by any official and no damage figure has been published
10 Sep	Port and industrial infrastructure, Mykolaiv city	Not stated	Mykolaiv	Four people killed and 19 injured over 24 hours, per authorities in the Mykolaiv region carried by Belsat. Russia's defence ministry separately claims to have hit the Nikolayev-2, Elektrotechnika, Metro, ATP YUTK and Nova Poshta logistics centres, the Dimetra and Zhovtnevoye warehouse terminals, the Nika Terra cargo terminal, four fuel tanks and a warehouse in the port itself, and a dry cargo ship bound for Odesa. Every one of those is a Russian claim, none is confirmed by Ukraine, and neither Metro nor Nova Poshta has commented
10 Sep, company confirmed 10 Sep	Oleina sunflower oil processing plant, central Dnipro, owned by the US agribusiness Bunge	Banderol S8000 loitering munitions	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Struck twice on the morning of September 10, detonations at about 09:08. Bunge Ukraine confirms operations are suspended and says it will continue to monitor the situation and assess further developments. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov identified the plant as American-owned Bunge property and said it has been targeted repeatedly. Foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called it part of a systematic campaign against American business. Two killed is agreed; the injured count is given as two by Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrainska Pravda and as five by Ukrinform. A January 2026 strike on the same plant spilled 300 tonnes of oil onto Dnipro streets. No damage figure, no capacity figure and no insurance position published. THIS IDENTIFIES THE EXISTING 10 SEP ROW FOR AN UNNAMED DNIPRO FOOD PROCESSING BUSINESS
10 Sep	Shopping mall, central Pavlohrad	Not stated	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Struck at about 16:25 in daylight. Trading pavilions and vehicles damaged and no fire reported. Three killed and 34 injured, including one child and two State Emergency Service workers, per the Prosecutor General's Office, which is investigating it as a war crime. No chain, operator or owner named and no figure for damage or lost trade
8 Sep, confirmed 10 Sep	Imperial Brands tobacco factory, Kyiv, operating there since 2002	Drones	Kyiv city	Significantly damaged and production suspended, per the company's press service to NV Business, which said most importantly all employees are safe, that it cannot yet assess the full extent of the damage and gave no timeline for resuming. No casualties. The third named manufacturer in four days to confirm a production halt, after Reeva at Bila Tserkva and the Manufactura centre in Sumy
10-11 Sep	Nineteen unidentified impact locations across Ukraine	Shahed, Gerbera, S8000 Banderol and Parodiya-type drones	Not stated	Ukraine's Air Force says 161 attack drones and S8000 munitions were launched from Belgorod, Oryol, Kursk, Krasnodar Krai, occupied Crimea and Donetsk, and claims 138 downed or suppressed, with impacts at 19 locations and debris at three more. AIR FORCE CLAIM, NOT A COUNT. No location, facility or operator has been named by any authority at the time of writing and no damage assessment exists
10-11 Sep	Two Ukrnafta filling stations, in the Dniprovskyi and Obolonskyi districts of Kyiv, the Obolon site struck twice	Jet-powered Shahed-type drones	Kyiv city	CONFIRMED AND UPDATED 11 SEPTEMBER. Both stations belong to the state-owned chain Ukrnafta, per Kyiv Post. Two people killed. The injured count differs: Mayor Vitali Klitschko said eight, six of them hospitalised; Volodymyr Zelenskiy said nine. Both accounts include a State Emergency Service rescuer wounded in a repeat strike on one site after he had arrived following the first hit. A third Ukrnafta station, in the Holosiivskyi district, was struck by a jet-powered drone the previous morning, injuring four. Rybar, a Telegram channel close to Russia's defence ministry, says the campaign against filling stations was stepped up from the spring, and pro-war channels describe it as an attempt to create a fuel crisis in frontline cities
10-11 Sep	Omega logistics terminal, Dnipro, more than 30,000 square metres	Not stated	Dnipropetrovsk	Reported destroyed with coordinates published by the partisan mapping account Military Summary. No Ukrainian official has itemised the site, the operator has not been named and no damage assessment exists. Recorded as a partisan report
10-11 Sep	Warehouses in the Irpin district and a fire at Hostomel	Geran drones	Kyiv region	Multiple warehouses ablaze at Irpin following a Geran strike, per Military Summary. A separate major fire at Hostomel showed secondary detonations audible in the footage, suggesting a munitions or equipment store rather than a commercial one; the Hostomel event is not treated as an economic target. No official confirmation of either and no operator named
10-11 Sep	Business centre, Obolon district of Kyiv	Geran drones	Kyiv city	Burning after drone strikes, per Military Summary. The second business centre reported hit in the capital in two days. No official confirmation, no operator named and no damage assessment
10-11 Sep	Shopping centre, Zaporizhzhia	Geran drones	Zaporizhzhia	Struck overnight with coordinates published and a damage assessment pending, per Military Summary. The third shopping centre in this ledger inside a week. No operator named and the regional administration has not itemised it
10-11 Sep	Trucks on the territory of a private enterprise in Dnipro, private houses in the Nikopol district and infrastructure in the Pyatykhatska community of the Kamianske district	Not stated	Dnipropetrovsk	Three people injured across the region, two of them men wounded when the trucks caught fire at the Dnipro enterprise, per Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, who described the Pyatykhatska infrastructure as devastated. The enterprise has not been named and no damage figure has been published
11 Sep	Building belonging to Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications company	Jet-powered Shahed-type drones	Kyiv city	Struck during the same day-long wave that hit the Ukrnafta filling stations, per Zelenskiy, carried by Kyiv Post. He did not state the extent of the damage or whether services were affected, and the company had not commented. Kyivstar was the target of a crippling Russian cyberattack in late 2023, so this is the second time its infrastructure has been attacked by a different method. NO DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AVAILABLE
11 Sep	Varus distribution warehouse, Dnipro	Not stated	Dnipropetrovska oblast	Struck overnight and set on fire, per the company, which says no employee was injured, that the State Emergency Service saved part of the stock and that the goods are already being loaded and delivered to its shops. The same warehouse was damaged in the spring. The chain's Boryspil warehouse was struck on August 31. Relayed by EMPR from the Varus statement; no official has given a damage figure
11-12 Sep	Zaporizhstal steel plant, Zaporizhzhia city, owned by Metinvest	Four ballistic missiles	Zaporizhzhia oblast	Third ballistic strike on the works in a month, after 11 and 27 August. Damage to main and auxiliary equipment of the blast furnace and open-hearth shops, the power system, internal networks and logistics infrastructure. Four employees injured, three hospitalised with moderate injuries. Metinvest chief operating officer Oleksandr Myronenko calls the damage preliminarily critical and says the plant made pig iron and steel for civilian needs and no military products. Production had not resumed after the earlier strikes and the plant was inactive at impact. Russia's defence ministry separately claimed the strike and described the plant as a supplier of armour and body-armour plate, which the company denies
11-12 Sep	ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's largest steelmaker	One missile	Dnipropetrovsk oblast	Production and auxiliary facilities damaged. Two employees of a contractor company killed. INJURED COUNT UNRECONCILED: two per the Kyiv Independent, four per Ukrinform. Previously struck December 2022, one killed, and August 2026, three killed and 18 injured
11-12 Sep	Port infrastructure at Chornomorsk, two dry-cargo vessels and a marine tugboat	Oniks anti-ship missiles and S8000 Banderol inside the wider wave	Odesa oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM FOR THE TARGET. Moscow says it hit port infrastructure used for unloading and storing military supplies, two dry-cargo vessels that had delivered weapons and a marine tugboat. NO UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL HAS NAMED THE TERMINAL OR THE VESSELS. Ukrainian officials confirmed the civil damage: fire on floors 21 to 23 of a 25-storey block in Odesa with seven rescued, at least 35 injured across the region on Oleh Kiper's count including a five-month-old infant, rising to 37 on Zelenskiy's, two people unaccounted for, a hotel housing a rehabilitation centre damaged at Chornomorsk with six injured there, and two gas pipelines severed. The State Emergency Service gave two killed and 25 injured at the high-rise. The fullest shipping account originated with Bloomberg, not linked
12 Sep	Interpipe Steel electric-melting complex, Dnipro, and the Pivnichnyi and Novokryvorizhskyi ore mining and processing plants, Kryvyi Rih	Missiles and attack drones	Dnipropetrovsk oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM ONLY. Moscow's target list names the Interpipe electric-melting complex as Ukraine's largest producer of rolled metal for military-grade products and the two ore plants as suppliers of iron ore for military manufacturing. NO UKRAINIAN COMPANY OR ADMINISTRATION HAS CONFIRMED EITHER. Regional head Oleksandr Hanzha confirmed only that an industrial enterprise was struck at Kryvyi Rih, one killed, one missing and three injured, and an enterprise at Dnipro, one killed and 19 injured, naming no plant. The Interpipe and Pivnichnyi namings circulated through a Reuters wire, not linked
12 Sep	Railway facilities at Fastiv and at Lutsk station, Ukrzaliznytsia, and a passenger train	Shahed-type drones	Kyiv and Volyn oblasts	A drone struck a passenger train at Lutsk station and started a fire. No casualties: chief executive Oleksandr Pertsovskyi says passengers were evacuated in advance and staff from their workplaces. Volyn governor Roman Romaniuk describes the train as hit by debris in a daytime raid of more than four hours with more than 10 drones over the oblast and five people injured. Separately the Sumy service was truncated at Konotop, about 130 km northwest of Sumy, with buses running the last leg, because of the intensity of attacks on track and rolling stock
12 Sep	Food warehouse, Nizhyn	Two strike drones	Chernihiv oblast	Storage facility holding food products damaged, along with private houses, outbuildings and vehicles. No casualties. Chernihiv oblast police opened a case under the war crimes article
12 Sep	Three filling stations, one at Zvyahel and two at Korosten, and a shop at Zvyahel	Attack drones	Zhytomyr oblast	Two people killed at the shop. Regional administration head Vitaliy Bunechko is the source. NO RETAIL CHAIN AND NO FUEL BRAND NAMED
12 Sep	An enterprise with foreign investment, reported as the Cersanit ceramic tile and bathroom fixtures plant at Zviahel in the Novohrad-Volynskyi district	Attack drones	Zhytomyr oblast	Bunechko confirmed that an enterprise with foreign investment was struck overnight and did not name it. The Cersanit identification rests on Forbes Ukraine citing eyewitnesses; a fire was reported and no casualties. CERSANIT, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE POLISH GOVERNMENT HAVE ALL SAID NOTHING. THE LINK BETWEEN THE TWO IS AN INFERENCE AND IS NOT MADE HERE AMENDED 14 SEPTEMBER, AND THE IDENTIFICATION IS NOW CONFIRMED BY THE COMPANY ITSELF. Cersanit's press service said on 14 September that the strike caused serious damage to the facility including key elements of the ceramic tile production cycle, that production is HALTED and that restoration will require AT LEAST SIX MONTHS. All employees on site were evacuated safely and there were no fatalities. THIS CLOSES THE OPEN ITEM: THE PLANT'S IDENTITY PREVIOUSLY RESTED ON FORBES UKRAINE CITING EYEWITNESSES WHILE CERSANIT, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE POLISH GOVERNMENT HAD ALL SAID NOTHING
12 Sep	Nova Poshta logistics branch, given by Moscow as the Nerubayske centre	Jet-powered UAV	Odesa oblast	Building facade, glazing and one cargo vehicle damaged, operations disrupted, two injured, per Oleh Kiper. Russia's defence ministry names the Nerubayske Nova Poshta centre and describes it as used for storing and distributing military supplies, which is a Russian claim. A postal branch in the region was also hit by a drone on the night of 12-13 September
12 Sep	Warehouses, hangars and a power line across five districts of Kyiv oblast	Strike drones	Kyiv oblast	Fifteen sites damaged including seven homes, vehicles, warehouses, hangars and a power line, in the Brovary, Obukhiv, Bucha, Boryspil and Vyshhorod districts. One person killed and three injured, including a child
12-13 Sep	Usatovo electrical substation, Odesa	Attack drones and S8000 Banderol	Odesa oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM FOR THE TARGET. Moscow says it struck substations in Odesa and Mykolaiv supporting port and logistics infrastructure and names this one Usatovo. NO UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL HAS NAMED IT. No Ukrenergo statement and no national emergency outage schedule for 13 September
12-13 Sep	Nova electrical substation, Mykolaiv	S8000 Banderol and jet-powered drones	Mykolaiv oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM FOR THE TARGET, named by Moscow as Nova. The Ukrainian side confirmed the effect: Mykolaivoblenergo cut supply in the Zavodskyi, Tsentralnyi and Inhulskyi districts on rolling three-hour intervals because of damaged equipment and gave NO CUSTOMER COUNT. Acting regional administration head Heorhiy Reshetilov had said several districts of the city were partially de-energised
12-13 Sep	Filling station and parked cargo lorries near the Yahodyn to Dorohusk border crossing	Attack drones	Volyn oblast	Large fire, lorries alight, no information on casualties. NO NAMED OFFICIAL SOURCE: UNN, Ukrainian television and VolynInfo all state the account rests on social media and needs confirmation. NO BRAND NAMED. Effect on the border crossing not described by any authority
12-13 Sep	An infrastructure facility and an industrial building, Ternopil city	Attack drones	Ternopil oblast	Ternopil mayor Serhiy Nadal says the morning attack of 13 September hit an infrastructure facility, started a fire, injured one person and forced the temporary closure of traffic on the bridge locally known as the humpbacked bridge. Regional head Taras Pastukh confirmed a transport infrastructure facility and an industrial building hit in the same attack. NOBODY HAS NAMED EITHER FACILITY
13 Sep	Locomotive of a passenger train on the Kyiv to Warsaw service, two kilometres from the Polish border	Attack drone	Volyn oblast	Confirmed by Ukrzaliznytsia. The international through service to the European Union, struck in the same corridor and on the same night as the Yahodyn filling station fire. No casualty or damage figure published and no statement on whether the service was suspended AMENDED AND EXPANDED 13 SEPTEMBER AT 16:16 KYIV TIME, AFTER THE PREVIOUS EDITION WAS FILED. Ukrzaliznytsia published its full account: the weapon was a jet-powered drone; there were no passenger injuries because an operator of the company's Central Monitoring Group detected it and the evacuation signal was issued, in the company's words, literally 15 minutes before the locomotive was hit. UKRZALIZNYTSIA RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE INTENDED TARGET WAS A DIPLOMATIC TRAIN CARRYING EU SECURITY ADVISERS AND FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON, WHICH HAD LEFT THE STATION SHORTLY BEFORE. THAT IS THE OPERATOR'S OWN SUGGESTION AND NO INVESTIGATING BODY HAS ENDORSED IT
12 Sep	Railway infrastructure, Myrhorod district	Attack drone	Poltava oblast	Confirmed by the Poltava regional military administration. No injuries and no delays reported. A monitoring account names the town of Hadiach, which lies in the district; THE ADMINISTRATION NAMED THE DISTRICT AND NOT THE TOWN
13 Sep	Critical infrastructure, a residential block, two educational institutions and vehicles, Odesa	Attack drones and S8000 Banderol	Odesa oblast	Confirmed by the Odesa regional military administration on 13 September. NO RAILWAY OR PORT FACILITY WAS NAMED. A monitoring account's list of rail targets for this night, which includes the Yuzhny port, Volniansk, Voznesensk and Pyatykhatky, does not hold: the Volniansk train was struck on 8 September, the Voznesensk item traces to a 8 September strike in Mykolaiv district, Pyatykhatky is unconfirmed and NO UKRAINIAN AUTHORITY OR PORT OPERATOR HAS CONFIRMED A STRIKE ON YUZHNY OR ITS RAIL APPROACHES
12-13 Sep	Industrial facility in Khmelnytskyi district, and a rail depot and warehouses in Odesa oblast	Drone debris, and attack drones	Khmelnytskyi and Odesa oblasts	Drone debris caused a fire at an industrial facility per district official Sergey Tyurin; the facility is NOT NAMED BY ANYONE. A rail depot in Odesa oblast was damaged and warehouse fires were reported in Odesa, per Kyiv Post's running account of the consequences
13 Sep	The Palma, Raben-Ukraine and Odesa-22 logistics centres in Odesa city, a Nova Poshta centre at Illichivka, a logistics centre at Usatovo and the Bloom centre at Teplodar	Not stated	Odesa oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM ONLY, AND THE MOST SPECIFIC CORPORATE TARGET LIST MOSCOW HAS PUBLISHED IN THIS CAMPAIGN. Russia's defence ministry, via TASS, says it struck all six and describes them as holding or distributing cargoes for the Ukrainian army. Raben-Ukraine is the Ukrainian arm of the Polish-headquartered Raben Group and Nova Poshta, which TASS renders as New Post, is Ukraine's largest private parcel carrier. THE MINISTRY GIVES NO DAMAGE DESCRIPTION, NO FIRE AND NO CASUALTY FIGURE, ONLY THAT THE SITES WERE HIT. NEITHER RABEN NOR NOVA POSHTA HAS COMMENTED AND NO UKRAINIAN AUTHORITY HAS CONFIRMED ANY OF THE SIX. Consistent in outline but confirming no target, Euromaidan Press, publishing State Emergency Service imagery, reports 24 injured including two children and large fires at warehouses across the region the same night
13 Sep	A dry cargo vessel at the port of Odesa	Not stated	Odesa oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM. Russia's defence ministry says it struck a dry cargo vessel carrying cargoes for the Ukrainian army at the port of Odesa. THE VESSEL IS NOT NAMED, NO FLAG, OWNER OR TONNAGE IS GIVEN, NO DAMAGE IS DESCRIBED, AND NO UKRAINIAN AUTHORITY, PORT OPERATOR OR SHIPOWNER HAS CONFIRMED IT
13 Sep	Rail traffic on the Warsaw, Dnipro and Sumy corridors, and a railway infrastructure facility in Vinnytsia oblast, Ukrzaliznytsia	Attack drones	Nationwide, and Vinnytsia oblast	Ukrzaliznytsia says Warsaw-direction trains resumed after the locomotive strike at Yahodyn but run with substantial delays in both directions, that Dnipro-direction trains are running on detours with significant delays to all Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro services, and that Sumy-direction trains are proceeding with maximum caution from Konotop. A railway infrastructure facility was damaged in Vinnytsia oblast. The company described a system-wide railway attack continuing across the country with its monitoring centre and all personnel on high alert. NO DELAY DURATION, NO PASSENGER NUMBERS AND NO REPAIR TIMETABLE GIVEN
13 Sep	Utility buildings, Kherson	Shelling	Kherson oblast	Three people injured and utility buildings set on fire. Euromaidan Press, publishing State Emergency Service imagery, says Russian forces repeatedly tried to strike the firefighters responding to the attack and that the crews stayed to put the fire out. NO OPERATOR IS NAMED AND NO SERVICE INTERRUPTION IS DESCRIBED
14 Sep	Service vehicle of the Sumy regional electricity distribution company, Konotop district	Attack drone	Sumy oblast	ONE KILLED AND ONE INJURED. Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration, says a Russian drone struck the crew's service vehicle while they were repairing power grid infrastructure damaged in earlier attacks. The dead man was a 53-year-old driver and the injured man a 50-year-old electrical technician, hospitalised. NO EQUIPMENT DAMAGE FIGURE AND NO CUSTOMER COUNT GIVEN
14 Sep	Civilian energy infrastructure in four oblasts	Not stated	Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts	Ukrenergo said at 10:36 Kyiv time that Russian strikes that morning caused new power outages in the four oblasts and that emergency crews are restoring supply where the security situation allows. NO FACILITY IS NAMED AND NO CONSUMER OR SETTLEMENT COUNT IS GIVEN. Ukrenergo separately said there are no scheduled restrictions planned for 14 September and that consumers off supply in Mykolaiv oblast are off because of heavy rain and thunderstorms AND NOT SHELLING, WHICH ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS AND ARE NOT MERGED HERE. The operator also reported electricity consumption up 2% by 09:30 against the previous Friday, which it attributed to cloud cover cutting solar output

Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, June 15 to September 14 2026. Non-exhaustive. Every row is sourced; where only one side has spoken, the table says so.

Date	Target	Weapon	Region	Damage
3 Jun	St Petersburg oil terminal	Drones	Leningrad region	Hit on the opening day of Russia's SPIEF investment forum
7 Jul	Omsk refinery	Drones	Omsk	Largest refinery hit to that point and the deepest strike into Russia
16 Jul	Salavat refinery	Drones	Bashkortostan	Key units hit; about 3% of national refining capacity
18 Jul	Wildberries warehouse	Drones	Tambov region	Seven killed; opens the campaign against retail and logistics
4 Aug	Wildberries hubs near Moscow and St Petersburg; a refinery	Drones	Russia	Warehouses hit; refinery ablaze
7 Aug	Wildberries warehouse, Yekaterinburg	Drones	Sverdlovsk region	2,000 km from the border
12 Aug	Novorossiysk Grain Plant terminal	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Loading equipment damaged; company puts repairs at one to four months
14 Aug	Last working Novorossiysk grain terminal	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	All three of the port's grain terminals out of service
17-18 Aug	Five bulk carriers	Sea and aerial drones	Novorossiysk and Tuapse	First large-scale strikes on ships carrying grain
19-25 Aug	Refineries at Ufa, Nizhnekamsk, Perm, Novokuybyshevsk, Afipsky and Novoshakhtinsk	Drones	Russia	Perm and Novoshakhtinsk suspended processing
22-24 Aug	Ozon warehouses at Chapayevsk (Samara), Orenburg, Makhachkala (Dagestan), Enem and Adygeysk (Adygea), Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol)	Drones	Samara, Orenburg, Dagestan, Adygea, Stavropol	Four warehouses hit and set ablaze, with injuries at Chapayevsk and Makhachkala; operations suspended. Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk evacuated on a drone threat but undamaged. Ozon shares fell 28%
24 Aug	Astrakhan gas processing plant; Kamensky Combine	Drones	Astrakhan and Rostov regions	Two gas separation units hit
25-26 Aug	Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, Kstovo	Drones	Nizhny Novgorod region	Crude processing suspended; every major Lukoil refinery in Russia now offline
26 Aug	Wildberries logistics centre, Kotovsk	Drones	Tambov region	Three of 19 drones got through; more than 100,000 sq m burned, complex destroyed, two injured
27 Aug	Ozon logistics centres at Ufa (Bashkortostan) and Orenburg	Drones	Bashkortostan and Orenburg region	Ufa warehouse suffered minor damage and closed for inspection; Orenburg facility evacuated on a drone threat and resumed work soon after
27 Aug	Bashkir Soda Company, Sterlitamak	Drones	Bashkortostan	Smoke over the industrial zone; target identified by open-source analysts, not confirmed officially
27-28 Aug	Shchastia thermal power station	Drones	Occupied Luhansk	Fire at the plant; blackout across occupied Luhansk and Donetsk, restoration time not given
28 Aug	Slavneft-YANOS refinery, Yaroslavl	FP-1 drones	Yaroslavl region	Three quarters of capacity halted: the AVT-3 and AVT-4 primary units, 40% and 33% of the plant, stopped and only AT-4 still running. Eighth strike on the plant this year
28 Aug	Magnit hypermarket, Pavlovsky Posad	Drone	Moscow region	Store hit; 46 windows shattered in the adjacent clinic; no casualties; first reported strike on one of the chain's hypermarkets
28 Aug	Power transmission line	Drones	Voronezh region	Two villages and a farmstead cut off
26-28 Aug	21 substations and gas distribution stations in occupied territory	Drones	Occupied Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea	Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces claim; no damage detail and no Russian confirmation
29 Aug	Ozon logistics facility	Drones	Rostov region	Small fire extinguished; operations suspended for inspection, per the company; site placed at Aksay by some accounts and Rostov-on-Don by others
29 Aug	DNS warehouse, Aksay	Drones	Rostov region	Reported ablaze by open-source channels; the governor confirmed only drone debris on the site
29 Aug	Chizhik supermarket warehouse, Leninskoye	Drones	Rostov region	Reported struck by a single Telegram channel; no official confirmation
29-30 Aug	Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery, Kirishi	Drones	Leningrad region	Disputed. Ukraine's General Staff says the plant was struck and damage is being assessed; the governor says a downed drone fell near it and started a fire that was extinguished. No independent assessment; about 790 km from the border
30 Aug	Belgorod combined heat and power plant	Not established	Belgorod region	Fires on eyewitness footage circulated by a local Telegram channel; TV broadcast disruption reported; no Russian official confirmation of damage and no outage figures
30 Aug	Estate Logistics warehouse used by Ozon, Belgorod	Not established	Belgorod region	Warehouse hit and burning; Ozon confirmed the strike and halted deliveries in the city; acting governor reported two killed and 16 injured at commercial facilities
30 Aug	PEK transport company facility and an industrial-zone site, Belgorod	Not established	Belgorod region	Fires reported from eyewitness footage circulated by one Telegram channel; no damage assessment and no official confirmation
31 Aug	Logistics centre identified by monitoring channels as a Wildberries hub, Yekaterinburg	Drones	Sverdlovsk region	Operator says the facility was not damaged and staff were evacuated; debris damaged three apartment blocks and four were injured; over 1,600 km from the border
1 Sep	Novatek-Ust-Luga complex, Ust-Luga port	Drones	Leningrad region	Ukraine's Defence Intelligence says key components of an oil-processing unit and other technological equipment were damaged and a large fire broke out; governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed damage at the port and a fire, since extinguished, with no casualties, and did not name Novatek. Drone counts over the region differ between accounts
2-3 Sep	Factory, operator and sector not identified, Bolshoye Bunkovo	Drone	Moscow region	Governor Andrei Vorobyov says a drone strike started a fire at a factory and did not name it; TASS describes a drone crashing on factory grounds rather than a direct hit. No damage assessment
3 Sep	Sochi sea port	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Fire in footage published by monitoring channels; damage, consequences and casualties still being clarified. Neither the Krasnodar governor nor the mayor of Sochi has commented. Rosaviatsiya restricted arrivals and departures at Sochi and Gelendzhik airports
3-4 Sep	Two fuel depots, one at Sirius and one in the Adler district of Sochi	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Fires at both, with thermal anomalies logged at 02:20 and 03:39 Moscow time. Sochi mayor Andrey Proshunin confirmed a fire and no casualties and set up a round-the-clock crisis centre; the Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters said drone debris was found at addresses across the city. The Insider identifies the two as Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt at Sirius and Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt at Adler; a Ukrainian monitoring account calls the Adler site an aviation fuel complex near the airport. No Russian official has named either operator and no capacity or throughput figure has been published. Queues formed at Sochi filling stations on September 4 and the city said reserves were sufficient. Satellite imagery read by Militarnyi on September 6 counts nine tanks destroyed across the two sites, six at the Rosneft depot and three RVS-400 at Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt
3-4 Sep	Vessel Nefrit, Sochi sea port	Naval drone	Krasnodar Krai	Ukraine's Navy published video it says shows the aftermath of a strike on the vessel, which it describes as servicing offshore oil and gas facilities and carrying cargo and personnel. No Russian acknowledgement and no damage assessment. May be the same event as the 3 Sep Sochi sea port row
3-4 Sep	Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant	Drones	Bashkortostan	Radiy Khabirov, head of Bashkortostan, confirmed a drone attack and said debris started a fire on the enterprise's premises, without naming the facility. Satellite imagery reported by Militarnyi shows damage to the Agidol fuel-additive facility, the isoprene plant overpass and isopentane dehydrogenation units in two buildings. The plant makes ionol, an additive for aviation fuel and for lubricants used in military equipment. About 1,300 km from Ukraine. No output-loss or downtime figure published
4-5 Sep	Energy infrastructure facility, Korenevsky district	Drone	Kursk region	The facility was damaged and supply was restored through a backup scheme, per governor Alexander Khinshtein. The facility was not named, no consumer-outage figure was given and no damage assessment was published
3-4 Sep	Sochi airport BATO fuel depot and the Lukoil facility at Veseloye	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Six fuel tanks, two helicopters and two aviation radars damaged at the airport depot with a fire reported, and three RVS-400 tanks and a fire-water reservoir damaged at the Lukoil facility, per the monitoring account NOELreports. An S-300 position showed strike and detonation marks. No Russian official has confirmed any of it and no operator has been named
5-6 Sep	Ryazan oil refinery	Drones, described by the manufacturer Fire Point as long-range FP-1	Ryazan region	Ukraine's General Staff says the refinery was hit and a fire was recorded on the enterprise's territory. Militarnyi geolocates the impact to the Izomalk-2 LIN-800 low-temperature isomerisation unit at 54.5715, 39.7484, which makes high-octane blending component for Euro-5 gasoline; that is the outlet's own geolocation of monitoring-channel video and not an official finding. Governor Pavel Malkov says more than 50 drones were downed over the region and that debris caused a fire at an industrial enterprise, and has not named the refinery. Oily residue reported falling on the city. Rosneft has said nothing and no source states whether processing has stopped. Capacity given as 13.1mn tonnes a year by Kyiv Post and about 17mn tonnes by Militarnyi and Euromaidan Press
5-6 Sep	Reported Ozon warehouse, Ryazan	Drones	Ryazan region	Explosions reported in the vicinity by monitoring channels and by Kyiv Post. No confirmation from the company and no damage assessment
5-6 Sep	Rostov-on-Don, Bataysk and surrounding districts	Drones	Rostov region	Drones circled Rostov-on-Don for more than four hours amid gunfire and helicopter activity, per the independent Russian outlet Astra and eyewitnesses. Governor Yuri Slyusar said three residential buildings were damaged, a child was hospitalised and three dozen drones were destroyed over the region. No economic facility has been named as damaged
5-6 Sep	Locomotive, Chertkovsky district	Drone debris, not a stated direct hit	Rostov region	A locomotive damaged and seven passenger trains delayed by about three hours, per The Insider. No freight infrastructure damage reported
6 Sep	Roll-on roll-off vessel Lady Maria, IMO 9220641, operated by MG-Flot and on the US OFAC sanctions list	Drones fitted with munition-dropping systems	Mediterranean Sea, near Crete	Bombed by drones, causing a small fire, per Militarnyi and the trade publication Splash247. Militarnyi states there is currently no confirmed information on whether the drones were Ukrainian; Splash247 says there is no independent confirmation from Kyiv or Moscow. Cargo unconfirmed. No Ukrainian, Russian or Syrian official has commented
6-7 Sep	Airspace over 18 territories, with airports suspended at Samara, Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary, Saransk, Bugulma, Nizhnekamsk, Perm, Izhevsk and Sochi	Drones	Volga regions, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Perm Krai and Krasnodar Krai	Russian defence ministry claims 306 drones destroyed between 20:00 on September 6 and 08:00 on September 7. About 50 flights delayed at Kazan; seven departures delayed at Samara with Sochi passengers waiting more than 13 hours; Perm closed 04:46 to 08:44 Moscow time; Izhevsk reopened about 08:49. Region count differs between accounts, from 17 to 19
6-7 Sep	Cellular transmission tower	Drones	Chuvashia	Tower damaged and at least two drones destroyed, with no casualties, per republic head Oleg Nikolaev. The only economic damage any Russian official acknowledged during the raid
6-7 Sep	325th Aircraft Repair Plant, Taganrog	Drones	Rostov region	NASA FIRMS detected a fire in the aircraft parking area at 02:44, per Militarnyi. The site shares ground with the Beriev complex, which repairs A-50U, Il-76 and Il-38 aircraft and builds Molniya drones. No Russian official statement of any kind
6-7 Sep	Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery, and the Perm Powder Plant and Mashinostroitel works at Zakamsk	Drones	Perm Krai	Claimed only. The refinery was named by a monitoring channel and Meduza says it remains officially unconfirmed; The Insider reports open-source analysts identifying smoke over Zakamsk. Governor Dmitry Makhonin says 27 drones were shot down over the krai, that a drone hit an apartment block killing one and wounding four, and has named no industrial site
6-7 Sep	Unnamed oil refinery, Tatarstan	Drones	Tatarstan	Claimed by Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who released video on September 7 saying three refineries were hit that night. He did not name the plant, no Russian official has commented and damage is not stated. Ukraine's General Staff weekly target list of September 7 does not mention Tatarstan
6-7 Sep	Railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal at Vladyslavivka	Drones	Crimea	Claimed by Zelenskiy and by Ukraine's General Staff on September 7. Damage not stated and no Russian confirmation of any kind
7 Sep	Rosneft fuel depot, Adler district, Sochi	None. Apparent re-ignition rather than a fresh strike	Krasnodar Krai	Reported ablaze again three days after the September 3-4 strikes, with residents asked to close their windows. No air raid alert was issued beforehand, no Russian official has confirmed the fire and no cause has been given
7-8 Sep	Saratov oil refinery, Rosneft, about 460 km from the Ukrainian border	Drones	Saratov region	Fire filmed by residents and the footage geolocated by the Russian outlet Astra. Governor Roman Busargin confirmed damaged buildings and 10 people injured including three children, six of them hospitalised, but did not name the refinery. No damage assessment, no statement on runs, no Rosneft comment and no Ukrainian General Staff confirmation. The Moscow Times says this is the fifth attack on the plant since January and that it halted processing after each of the previous four
7-8 Sep	Engels-2 bomber base	Drones	Saratov region	Explosions reported near the airfield by Ukrainian monitoring channels and by residents. No Russian official statement and no damage assessment. Russia's defence ministry claims 384 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over 12 regions, Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea overnight, without per-region figures
7-8 Sep	Airspace over the Volga and the Black Sea coast, with airports restricted at Saratov, Penza, Volgograd and Ulyanovsk, and at Sochi the previous afternoon	Drones	Saratov, Penza, Volgograd, Ulyanovsk and Krasnodar Krai	Saratov and Penza restricted from 02:30 Moscow time and lifted at 07:01, Volgograd and Ulyanovsk lifted at the same time, per Rosaviatsiya via Interfax. Six flights delayed at Volgograd. At Sochi on September 7, restrictions from 13:33 to 15:00 affected more than 40 flights, 18 departures and 23 arrivals, the longest delay 21 hours 10 minutes. No facility reported damaged at any airport and no national delay total published
8 Sep	Filling station, Starodub	Drone	Bryansk region	A 39-year-old man killed at the scene and three residents wounded, three vehicles damaged, the forecourt canopy damaged and windows broken in two administrative buildings, per acting governor Yegor Kovalchuk, who also says 81 drones were destroyed over the region in 24 hours
8-9 Sep	Fuel oil terminal, part of the Novorossiysk commercial sea port, annual capacity about 4mn tonnes of fuel oil and light petroleum products	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	At least one storage tank damaged and a fire started, per Militarnyi, using geolocated photographs and video plus NASA fire hotspot data. The independent Russian channel Astra reported the terminal ablaze. Novorossiysk mayor Andrey Kravchenko confirmed an attack but attributed damage at industrial sites to falling debris. No company statement, no Transneft comment, no statement on loadings or on the adjacent Sheskharis complex, and no Ukrainian General Staff confirmation
8-9 Sep	Residential Novorossiysk: three private houses, five apartment blocks, a church and a kindergarten	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Four people killed including a child and 29 injured with three in a serious condition, per Krasnodar Krai governor Veniamin Kondratyev. The highest civilian toll from a single Ukrainian strike inside Russia in this ledger. Russia's defence ministry claims 596 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight over 10 regions, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea, without per-region figures
9 Sep	Gas condensate plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, named as the Novy Urengoy gas condensate treatment plant by the governor and as Novatek's Purovsky gas condensate processing plant by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces	Drones, identified as AN-196 Liutyi by the Special Operations Forces and hinted at as FP-1 by the manufacturer Fire Point	Yamalo-Nenets	The deepest strike of the war. Governor Dmitry Artyukhov confirmed a drone attack on an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy and said falling debris caused a fire; Militarnyi and the Special Operations Forces name the Purovsky plant at Purpe, about 200 km away, and the two accounts have not been reconciled. Personnel evacuated in advance and gas flared off through the stacks. No casualties and no confirmed shutdown; Militarnyi says it is not known which units were damaged or by how much capacity was reduced. Purovsky processes 10.8mn tonnes a year of de-ethanised gas condensate; the Novy Urengoy plant's design capacity is about 19.5mn tonnes a year. Distance given as about 2,800 km by AFP, 3,200 km by the Kyiv Independent and more than 3,300 km by Fire Point, which is an interested party
9 Sep	Primorskaya waterfront, Sochi	Naval drones	Krasnodar Krai	Fire on the waterfront with beach infrastructure and the adjoining embankment partially damaged, per the Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters. Eight injured, five hospitalised and three treated at the scene. The first Sochi event this month that Russian officials have attributed to unmanned surface vessels rather than to aircraft-type drones
9-10 Sep	Makhachkala Sea Trade Port, Russia's only ice-free deep-water Caspian port	Drones	Dagestan	Fires at port infrastructure and at the Gamzat Tsadasa Avar Musical and Dramatic Theatre, which the head of Dagestan attributed to falling drone fragments. No casualties reported and no Russian official has said whether loading was suspended. The port handled more than 2.9mn tonnes of grain in the first eight months of 2026 and 1.83mn tonnes of liquid cargo, per nv.ua. Named as a target by Zelenskiy on the morning of September 10
9-10 Sep	Two electricity transmission lines and one pylon	Drones	Voronezh region	Lines and pylon damaged, a technical college's windows and the entrance to a Palace of Culture damaged, and private homes and vehicles hit across six districts. A 43-year-old woman killed at Borisoglebsk when a drone struck a private house that completely burned, and two treated at the scene, per RIA Voronezh citing the Russian defence ministry, which claims 19 drones destroyed over the region
9-10 Sep	Airspace over 14 regions, with airports suspended at Penza, Saratov and Tambov	Drones	Penza, Saratov, Tambov and Moscow regions	Rosaviatsia suspended arrivals and departures at the three airports and Tambov's Donskoe halted after a drone danger alert at about 22:04. Vnukovo and Domodedovo operated by coordination with the authorities under airspace restrictions, per Fontanka. No flight delay total has been published. Russia's defence ministry claims 448 drones intercepted between 20:00 on September 9 and 08:00 on September 10 across 14 regions plus Caspian and Black Sea waters, without per-region figures
9-10 Sep	Unnamed facilities in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions	Not stated	Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions	Named by Zelenskiy on the morning of September 10 within a claim that Ukraine struck eight infrastructure facilities inside Russia over the past day. Four of the eight were not identified, no damage was stated and no Russian official has confirmed any of them
9 Sep	Fuel oil storage facilities, Novorossiysk	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	Confirmed by Ukraine's General Staff, which also confirmed strikes the same day on the frigate Admiral Essen, the minesweeper Zheleznyakov and the large landing ship Pyotr Morgunov. HUR reports a fire on Admiral Essen's superstructure. A fourth vessel, a Project 21631 Buyan-M missile ship, is claimed hit and likely inoperable on Exilenova+ satellite imagery via NOELREPORTS and is not in the General Staff list. Russia has acknowledged none of the four. Comes one day after the fuel oil terminal in the commercial port burned
10 Sep	Oil harbour and port infrastructure, Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port, and the Avar Music and Drama Theatre	Drones	Dagestan	Ukraine's Special Operations Forces say they struck the port's oil harbour, which handles tankers of up to 10,000 tonnes with a draught of up to 10 metres, with an oil depot directly beside the port. The General Staff confirms a strike and a fire with damage still being assessed, and Zelenskiy confirmed a seaport in Dagestan was hit. Acting head of Dagestan Fyodor Shchukin says falling fragments caused fires at port infrastructure and at the theatre, that both were promptly extinguished and there were no casualties, and describes the attack as repelled. Russia's only ice-free deep-water Caspian port and a link in the North-South corridor to Iran, India and South Asia. Fire Point says the port has been used as a delivery point for Iranian attack drones. No statement from either side on whether loading was suspended
9-10 Sep	Purovsky gas condensate processing plant, Novatek, near Tarko-Sale, described by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces as the central link in the company's condensate processing system	Drones	Yamalo-Nenets	The liquefied hydrocarbon gas drying unit, which removes residual water and methanol from product, was struck, per Ukraine's Special Operations Forces, with coordinates published as 65.086866, 77.816655 and damage confirmed by satellite analysis from the CyberBoroshno project. Stated as more than 3,000 km from Ukraine's state border. NO fire, shutdown or throughput loss stated by any source and no capacity figure published. No Russian acknowledgement and no Novatek comment. A separate facility from the Novy Urengoy plant. DATE UNSETTLED: the Militarnyi article body says 10 September, its index 9 September and EA WorldView 9 September
6 Sep, shutdown reported 10 Sep	Ryazan oil refinery, Rosneft, which supplies Moscow with fuel	Drones	Ryazan region	Full facility operations suspended. Unit AVT-6, also labelled CDU-6, of 8mn tonnes a year or about 160,000 b/d and described as almost half the plant's capacity, caught fire and was shut down; unit AVT-4, also labelled CDU-4, of 4mn tonnes a year, was also shut down; unit AVT-3 has been under maintenance since mid-May. Repairs could take up to several weeks. The refinery processed 13.1mn tonnes in 2024, 4.9% of Russia's refining volume. Also struck on 15 May and 29 July 2026 and down about two or three weeks after the July strike. Two unnamed industry sources; Rosneft did not respond to a request for comment and no Russian official body has acknowledged the shutdown
30 Aug, assessed 9-11 Sep	Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery, KINEF, Surgutneftegas, Kirishi	Drones	Leningrad region	A satellite damage assessment by the Absolutely Reliable Source project finds unit ELOU-AT-1 of 1.7mn tonnes a year hit and shut down, unit ELOU-AT-6 of 7.6mn tonnes a year hit and shut down, unit ELOU-AVT-2 of 2.8mn tonnes a year already under repair from an earlier strike, and secondary units LCh/24/9, LCh/24/10 and LG-35/8-300B affected. The assessment states that more than 12 million tons are currently out of service, accounting for about 60% of its capacity, against a design capacity of 20.1mn tonnes a year. Surgutneftegas has made no statement and no Russian official body has acknowledged the damage. A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT WITHIN THE PERIOD, NOT A STRIKE WITHIN IT
11 Sep	Ozon fulfilment centre, Saratov, more than 100,000 square metres	Drones	Saratov region	THE FIRST CONFIRMED STOPPAGE BY A RUSSIAN OPERATOR IN THIS LEDGER. Ozon confirmed the centre was hit and temporarily stopped accepting deliveries and fulfilling new customer orders in Saratov and the surrounding region, per Militarnyi. The site opened in 2024, is designed to hold more than 30mn items and process up to 900,000 orders a day. Video from residents shows employees leaving after explosions. Governor Roman Busargin said there were no casualties. Ozon shares fell 5% on the Moscow Exchange on the news and more than two dozen Ozon and Wildberries warehouses have been hit since midsummer, per The Moscow Times. TASS carried Ozon's own statement on the strike and evacuation; the suspension of orders is reported by The Moscow Times and Militarnyi and does not appear in that statement. No duration for the suspension, no damage figure and no statement on stock destroyed. Ozon is listed AMENDED 13 SEPTEMBER. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed that this strike damaged an ELOU-AVT-6 primary oil processing unit and a section of main pipeline. DAMAGE TO A CRUDE DISTILLATION UNIT IS MATERIALLY MORE THAN THE FIRE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED, BUT IT REMAINS A UKRAINIAN MILITARY CLAIM. ROSNEFT HAS NOT COMMENTED, NO RUSSIAN OFFICIAL BODY HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THE DAMAGE, AND NO SHUTDOWN, RUN CUT OR THROUGHPUT FIGURE HAS BEEN STATED BY ANYONE
11 Sep	Saratov oil refinery, Rosneft, about 460 km east of the Ukrainian border	Drones	Saratov region	Struck in the same wave as the Ozon centre and also struck on September 8. Fire identified by the Russian outlet ASTRA through OSINT analysis, with imagery from Exilenova+. Capacity is reported three ways: about 4.8mn tonnes a year per the Kyiv Independent, about 5.8mn tonnes processed in 2024 or 2.2% of Russian refining volume per Militarnyi, and up to 7mn tonnes a year per NOELREPORTS. The 2024 throughput figure is used. Rosneft has not commented and Ukraine's military has not claimed the strike
11 Sep	Azot plant, Uralchem, Berezniki, about 1,500 km from the Ukrainian border. Around 90 production facilities; Russia's largest producer of nitrogen fertilisers and its sole supplier of higher aliphatic amines, sodium nitrate and crystalline sodium nitrite; makes ammonia, urea and ammonium nitrate used in explosives; about 2,500 employees	Drones, reported as FP-1 long-range types	Perm Krai	UPDATED 11 SEPTEMBER. Plant workers told Astra explosions had halted the production process. The Ukrainian OSINT project CyberBoroshno says triangulation puts the strike on the chemical water treatment unit that supplies demineralised water to the steam reformers and boilers of the ammonia synthesis units, and that damage there is critical to the production cycle and would cascade into a shutdown of the whole plant. Residents reported a chemical smell; schools cancelled classes and clinics suspended appointments. Governor Dmitry Makhonin confirmed a mass drone attack on the krai including two industrial facilities but named neither. Uralchem has not commented. The plant was also struck in autumn 2025. THE CASCADING SHUTDOWN IS AN OSINT ASSESSMENT, NOT A CONFIRMED OUTCOME
10-11 Sep	Industrial enterprise in southern Volgograd, with residential buildings damaged	Drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles	Volgograd region	Governor Andrey Bocharov confirmed an industrial enterprise in the south of the city was affected and that debris fell in the area. Two people hospitalised after a missile strike on a residential building. Ukrainian sources say the Volgograd oil refinery was the target; neither side has confirmed that and it is not entered here as a refinery strike. AMK Mapping counts about 12 Flamingos launched at Samara and Volgograd oblasts overnight, of which about two to four flew at Volgograd, with at least one impact and a fire; the eight to ten aimed at Samara were all intercepted. UPDATED 11 SEPTEMBER: the monitoring account AMK Mapping reports the target of the Flamingo strike as a workshop of the US-sanctioned Volgogradpromproekt plant, which makes ferroene-based combustion catalysts and related chemical production technology. NOT CONFIRMED BY ANY OFFICIAL OR BY THE COMPANY
11 Sep	Metafrax Chemicals, Gubakha, about 1,700 km from the Ukrainian border. Monitoring channels describe it as supplying dozens of Russian military production facilities	Drones	Perm Krai	Named as the second of the two industrial facilities Governor Dmitry Makhonin confirmed were attacked in the krai on the morning of September 11. The identification is from the monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ via Ukrainska Pravda and from Defense Express. Makhonin named neither site. No damage assessment, no company comment and no output figure. Restrictions were imposed at Perm airport
11 Sep	Snizhne Machine-Building Plant, occupied Donetsk region, which makes gas turbine engine components including compressor and turbine blades for Russian military aviation	Not stated	Occupied Donetsk region	Named by Ukraine's General Staff as the most significant target of a set of strikes that also covered two Pantsir-S1 systems at Taganrog in Rostov region, a radar station at Berezki in Bryansk region, a drone storage and launch facility in Donetsk, an FPV operator training centre and an Akhmat unit at Petropavlivka in occupied Luhansk region. The General Staff gave no damage detail and said assessments were continuing. UKRAINIAN MILITARY CLAIM, NO RUSSIAN CONFIRMATION
11-12 Sep	Tolyattikauchuk, Tolyatti, which makes synthetic rubbers, monomers, fractions and high-octane petrol additives	Long-range drones of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Forces Centre, an estimated 880 km	Samara region	CONFIRMED BY UKRAINE'S GENERAL STAFF AND UNMANNED SYSTEMS FORCES, which say the synthetic rubbers go into solid rocket fuel for short-range and ballistic missiles and that the extent of damage is being established. A fire broke out on the plant grounds. NAMING CONFLICT NOW RESOLVED: Kyiv Post and Militarnyi named the burning plant as KuibyshevAzot, about half of Russia's caprolactam and 75% of its tyre cord, on monitoring-channel and heat-signature evidence only; these are two separate companies in the same city. Samara governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev confirmed industrial sites attacked and named none. Tolyatti mayor Ilya Sukhikh reported several residential buildings damaged and one person injured. NEITHER COMPANY HAS COMMENTED
12 Sep	Fuel and lubricant storage tank, an FPV drone production facility, two drone warehouses, a Pantsir-S2 and a P-18 Terek radar, Taganrog, about 40 km from the border	Long-range strike drones of the SBU Alpha Special Operations Centre	Rostov region	The Security Service of Ukraine says fires were recorded at all five installations and Zelenskiy listed the same targets. NO CAPACITY FIGURE FOR THE FUEL TANK, which is the only unambiguously economic item on the list. Taganrog mayor Svetlana Kambulova said four commercial properties were set ablaze and NO RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMED ANY OF THE FIVE TARGETS. Militarnyi separately names the Beriev Aircraft Company plant, the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield and a Taganrog automobile plant, at monitoring level
12 Sep	An unnamed target in the Black Sea, and a Russian unmanned surface vessel	Not stated, and a Sargan 3000 unmanned surface vessel with a 12.7mm remote weapon station	Black Sea	Zelenskiy said a target was hit in the Black Sea over the previous 24 hours and gave no further detail: NO VESSEL, PLATFORM, PORT OR TERMINAL NAMED AND NO DAMAGE DESCRIPTION EXISTS. Separately Ukraine's Navy says that, with the Main Intelligence Directorate detecting the target, it destroyed a Russian unmanned surface vessel and calls this the first naval battle between unmanned surface vessels. THAT SUPERLATIVE IS THE NAVY'S OWN AND THE RUSSIAN VESSEL WAS NOT NAMED
12-13 Sep	Slavyansk-EKO oil refinery, Slavyansk-on-Kuban	Attack drones	Krasnodar Krai	Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate says the strike hit the key oil-processing unit and the tank farm and caused a large fire visible from dozens of kilometres. It gives capacity as 5.2mn tonnes of feedstock a year, oil and gas condensate, making petrol, diesel, fuel oil, aviation kerosene and vacuum gas oil, and says the plant supplies Russian forces. NO SHUTDOWN OR RUN CUT STATED BY ANY SOURCE AND NO RUSSIAN OFFICIAL OR OPERATOR COMMENT. Visual evidence rests on Supernova+, Exilenova+ and Astra. A barrels-per-day equivalent and a Southern Federal District capacity share in circulation are a monitoring account's own arithmetic and are not used AMENDED 13 SEPTEMBER. Ukraine's Defence Intelligence has claimed the operation, saying it was carried out by operators of its Active Operations Department and Unmanned Systems Department in coordination with other Ukrainian forces as part of a joint long-range strike operation, and that the strike hit a key oil-processing installation and the tank farm. The Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters says falling debris damaged a gas pipeline in the residential Slavyansk district. STILL NO SHUTDOWN, RUN CUT OR OUTPUT FIGURE FROM ANY SOURCE AND NO OPERATOR COMMENT. CAPACITY REMAINS UNRECONCILED: ABOUT 5.2MN TONNES A YEAR PER THE KYIV INDEPENDENT AGAINST MORE THAN 4MN TONNES A YEAR PER UNITED24
12-13 Sep	An unnamed enterprise in the Nizhnekamsk petrochemical and refining zone, more than 1,200 km from the Ukrainian border	Attack drones	Tatarstan	The press service of the head of Tatarstan reported a fire at an enterprise and DID NOT NAME IT, and says production has not been halted. Two killed and 12 injured on the regional count, which the Kyiv Independent could not verify; on the Tatarstan account one drone hit a tree and damaged a parked car with four young people inside, two of whom were killed, WHICH MEANS THE DEATHS WERE NOT AT A PLANT. Four more injured in residential buildings. Flight restrictions at Nizhnekamsk, Kazan and Bugulma airports. District head Radmir Belyayev visited the sites and Rustam Minnikhanov ordered a damage assessment. The zone holds TANECO of Tatneft, more than 16mn tonnes a year, TAIF-NK at about 7.3mn tonnes, and Nizhnekamskneftekhim of Sibur. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BURNING SITE AS TANECO RESTS ON ASTRA AND TELEGRAM CHANNELS ONLY AND NO UKRAINIAN BODY HAS CLAIMED THE STRIKE. The zone was also attacked on 10 August AMENDED 13 SEPTEMBER, AND THIS CORRECTS OUR OWN RECORD. UKRAINE'S GENERAL STAFF HAS NOW NAMED THE BURNING SITE AS THE TANECO REFINERY OF TATNEFT, more than 16mn tonnes a year, and says a tank caught fire in a strike timed at 03:22 local. The previous edition could record only an unnamed enterprise in the zone because the TANECO identification then rested on ASTRA and Telegram channels alone and no Ukrainian body had claimed it. Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Nizhnekamsk, Kazan and Bugulma. NO SHUTDOWN OR RUN CUT HAS BEEN STATED AND TATNEFT HAS NOT COMMENTED
11 Sep, stated 13 Sep	Diesel fuel trucks delivering fuel to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, close to the perimeter of the station site	Described by Rosatom as a series of combined strikes; type not stated	Occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast	RUSSIAN CLAIM. Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev said on 13 September that Ukrainian forces struck the diesel fuel trucks that supply the plant on Friday 11 September, that the strikes hit very close to the site perimeter, and that two Russian servicemen were killed and a large number injured, some seriously. He has called on the IAEA to condemn the attacks. NO IAEA STATEMENT ON THIS INCIDENT, NO INDICATION ITS RESIDENT TEAM REPORTED IT, AND NO UKRAINIAN RESPONSE OR DENIAL. No count of trucks hit and no damage figure. Context: all six reactors are shut down and the plant generates no electricity, so the diesel generators are what cool the fuel when the external links are down; both links were down for nearly three weeks in August and September and the 330 kV Ferosplavna-1 line was restored in the week of 9 September after an IAEA-brokered local ceasefire. The status of the 750 kV Dniprovska line is not stated in any source seen. The IAEA director general had warned on 1 September that generator diesel could run down within about ten days. Originated with Reuters, not linked
by 12 Sep	An oil facility in Perm Krai, plus a Su-33 and two Mi-8 helicopters in Krasnodar Krai and Rostov region	Not stated	Perm Krai, Krasnodar Krai and Rostov region	Zelenskiy said the results of earlier strikes this week had been confirmed, listing an oil facility hit in Perm alongside the destruction of the aircraft. NO PLANT NAMED, NO DATE GIVEN FOR THE OIL FACILITY AND NO DAMAGE DESCRIPTION. The aircraft are military and are recorded here only because they came in the same statement
13 Sep	Russian strike-drone storage, preparation and launch site, Millerovo	Not stated	Rostov region	Named by Ukraine's General Staff as hit in the same overnight set of strikes as the Slavyansk-EKO and TANECO refineries. NO DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, NO NUMBER OF DRONES OR LAUNCHERS AFFECTED AND NO RUSSIAN CONFIRMATION. Recorded here because it is a launch site for the drones used against Ukraine's economic infrastructure and not because it is itself an economic asset
13-14 Sep	Sochi and Krasnodar airports, and residential property at Sochi	Drones	Krasnodar Krai	NO ECONOMIC FACILITY HAS BEEN NAMED BY ANY RUSSIAN OFFICIAL FOR THIS ATTACK. NO OIL REFINERY, DEPOT, FUEL STORAGE, PORT OR SUBSTATION APPEARS IN ANY OFFICIAL ACCOUNT AND UKRAINE'S MILITARY HAS NOT CLAIMED IT. The Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters reports five injured at Sochi including a child, one of them hospitalised, and three private houses damaged. Sochi mayor Andrey Proskunin announced the drone threat at 02:13 and the all-clear at 06:02. Rosaviatsia closed Sochi airport from 22:37 to 08:28, about ten hours, delaying 79 flights, 35 departures and 44 arrivals, and Krasnodar airport from 23:37 to 07:01 with 16 flights delayed. Russia's defence ministry claims 399 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over eleven regions and the Black Sea between 20:00 Moscow time on 13 September and 08:00 on 14 September, WHICH IS A CLAIM OF INTERCEPTIONS OVER A TWELVE-HOUR WINDOW AND NOT A COUNT OF LAUNCHES. Monitoring channels reported large fires around the city and initial claims of damage to the Bocharov Ruchey residence; the Kyiv Independent states it could not verify those reports or the extent of any damage and NO RUSSIAN OFFICIAL HAS CONFIRMED THEM. THE SOCHI FUEL DEPOT ATTACK OF 3 AND 4 SEPTEMBER IS A SEPARATE EVENT AND IS NOT CONFLATED HERE
13-14 Sep	Power line in the Myasnikovsky district, Rostov region	Drones	Rostov region	THE ONLY ECONOMIC ASSET ANY RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SOURCE HAS NAMED FOR THIS NIGHT. TASS, relaying the regional account, says a power line was damaged in the Myasnikovsky district leaving 30 private houses without power. About 50 drones were claimed destroyed over the region. The 18th floor of a building under construction in the Aksay district was damaged, along with vehicles and residential windows. NO OPERATOR IS NAMED, NO RESTORATION TIME IS GIVEN AND NO GENERATION OR TRANSMISSION ASSET IS INVOLVED

Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 14 2026. Non-exhaustive. Every row is sourced; where only one side has spoken, the table says so.

Date	Target	Method	Country	Damage and attribution
4-5 Aug	Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft, Leipzig/Halle airport	Drone carrying explosives	Germany	Detonator failed; device defused by a robot; airport briefly closed. Two further drones found near the airport on August 14 and 25. Germany's interior minister Alexander Dobrindt formally attributed the attack to Russia on September 1: "The Federal Government therefore concludes that Russia is responsible for the hybrid attack in Leipzig on August 4." Putin calls the findings a grave mistake and says Germany falsified evidence UPDATED SEPTEMBER 13: Welt am Sonntag, citing investigation files, reports two suspects, a Russian said to be a military intelligence employee who organised the logistical preparation and a Belarusian alleged to have carried it out, whose DNA was reportedly on the control antenna; the Russian is reported to have entered Germany via Turkey, left for Serbia and to be back in Russia. THAT IS A NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF FILES, NOT A PROSECUTOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT: the federal prosecutor, which took the case on August 6, names no suspect and no arrest warrant, and no charge has been reported by any authority.
10 Aug	EMCO ammunition plant, Belitsa	Fire and explosions, cause not established	Bulgaria	Ammunition storage building hit; workers evacuated, no casualties; partial state of disaster declared within 500 m. Nobody blamed; all possible causes under investigation and the company rules out human error
13 Aug	KNDS Ammo Italy plant, Colleferro	Fire in the powder-pressing area followed by an explosion	Italy	All 24 workers accounted for. Defence minister Guido Crosetto says the government has seen nothing to suggest Russian involvement
16-17 Aug	Building used by Milrem Robotics, Tallinn	Arson	Estonia	Deliberate and premeditated, per the state prosecutor; three Latvian citizens detained in Latvia. The company says deliveries to Ukraine were not disrupted
21 Aug	Concealed weapons cache, Brandenburg forest near Berlin	Prepared arms depot	Germany	Two live firearms found. The domestic intelligence service assesses it a Russian dead letterbox left for agents tasked with kinetic operations. No arrests
30 Aug	JFG Composites, Lublin	Fire, cause not established	Poland	A 2,000 sq m facility destroyed; more than 40 firefighters over seven hours; no injuries; damage put at about PLN21mn. The subcontractor makes composite aviation parts for PZL-Swidnik. Prosecutors are examining arson, technical fault and spontaneous ignition. Nobody blamed and no suspects identified
31 Aug	WB Electronics drone-components plant, Skarzysko-Kamienna	Suspected arson	Poland	Storage rooms holding drone components burned; CCTV recorded a masked person climbing the perimeter fence, and a backpack and sweatshirt were recovered; damage put at at least PLN15mn; no injuries and no arrests. The National Prosecutor's Office opened proceedings on foreign-intelligence activity and a terrorist offence. Prime minister Donald Tusk says there is no doubt it was deliberate arson and an act of sabotage; deputy interior ministry head Czeslaw Mroczek says a Russian trail is the obvious inference. No charges and no formal attribution
1 Sep	Turnow-Preilack substation linking the Jaenschwalde power plant to the 50Hertz grid	Purpose-built rockets carrying conductive material	Germany	Two short circuits; a double-digit number of devices found, several unfired; one 500 MW block at Jaenschwalde shut down automatically and was due back the same evening; general supply never affected. Brandenburg police have opened a terrorism investigation. On September 4 federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt described the substation attacks as climate extremism and very probably the work of a lone actor, after a claim of responsibility naming its sender reached the Berlin daily taz. North Rhine-Westphalia interior minister Herbert Reul was on the same day still working with two hypotheses, foreign-state-directed sabotage and left-wing extremism
1 Sep	Bergheim substation on the Amprion grid, near Cologne	Not established	Germany	Short circuit took several lines out; RWE says five blocks totalling 4,200 MW came off the grid, of which about 3,000 MW was being fed in at the time; no power cuts. Police say they are not assuming a technical failure. North Rhine-Westphalia police are investigating whether the attack was directed by a foreign state or by left-wing extremists. Nobody blamed. The taz claim of responsibility also names Bergheim, and Dobrindt's September 4 attribution to climate extremism covers it
3 Sep	Construction site at Berg am Laim, near the Rohde and Schwarz headquarters, Munich	Suspected arson	Germany	Fire caused no significant damage before it was extinguished and nobody was injured. A 28-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, both Bulgarian nationals, were arrested at a nearby filling station and remanded in custody on September 4 on suspicion of criminal damage and attempted arson, not terrorism and not a foreign-agent offence. The case has gone to the Munich prosecutors' extremism unit and investigators and Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Herrmann assume a political background. No prosecutor or minister has named a state. German reporting indicates the drone maker Helsing was the likely intended target
3-4 Sep	Dormagen substation, and searches at substations near Weisweiler	Suspected launching device found in a field	Germany	Cologne police say someone apparently tried deliberately to cause a short circuit. No damage and no outage at Dormagen. A handwritten claim of responsibility sent to the Berlin daily taz, postmarked in North Rhine-Westphalia, names its sender, says he acted alone and gives an anti-fossil-fuel motive. A 48-year-old German national from Gevelsberg is being sought and remains at large as of September 7; his home and a converted truck were searched on September 4 and objects suspected of being explosive were found, and Brandenburg has put a 300-officer task force on the case
6 Sep	RWE Niederrhein substation, Wesel	Perimeter fence cut	Germany	Unknown persons cut a hole in the fence, prompting a large police operation with a helicopter. Police made no statement at the scene and say whether the technical installations were tampered with is the subject of the ongoing investigation. Nobody blamed and no motive stated
7 Sep	Building site at Bissingzeile, Berlin-Mitte, and an adjoining transformer station	Fire, cause not established	Germany	Fire spread from the building site to the transformer station, with explosions during firefighting and 25 firefighters deployed; electricity supply unaffected. Police sealed the site and are investigating whether the fire was set deliberately. Nobody blamed, no suspect and no state actor named by any authority
4-6 Sep	High-voltage power lines south of the Graustein substation near Schleife, Gorlitz district, Saxony	Twenty-one homemade explosive devices placed to cause short circuits	Germany	All 21 devices found and defused, nine of them during a three-day search from Friday to Sunday. Power supplies were not interrupted. The Dresden Prosecutor General's Office and Saxony's State Criminal Police Office are investigating through the state's Central Office for Extremism. A claim of responsibility letter linked to the earlier Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia incidents contained indications of planned attacks in Saxony. No suspect named and no authority has attributed it to any state
Feb to Jul, detained by 9 Sep	Romanian and allied military bases, communications centres, movements of military equipment and personnel, and Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft on Romanian territory	Covert photography and video for a sabotage network	Romania	A 40-year-old Russian citizen detained by the SRI intelligence service, which says he acted on instructions received through encrypted messaging apps and that the scheme matches operations coordinated by structures in Russia. The SRI says Russia continues to recruit from vulnerable groups. No damage caused, no charge sheet published and no Russian state body named as the principal
8 Sep	Airspace of Moldova and Romania, with a crash site near Mihaileni Vechi	Drone identified by Moldova's defence ministry as a suspected Russian Shahed-type	Moldova and Romania	The drone entered Moldovan airspace at 16:20 local time from the direction of Ukraine and left at 16:37. Spanish F/A-18s were scrambled, Romania issued emergency shelter warnings and suspended airport operations, and the drone came down about 25 km east of the Romania to Moldova border. No damage and no casualties reported. Moldova's defence ministry identified the type in an official statement and no authority has named a launching unit or command
8 Sep	Arrest near the Weisweiler power plant outside Aachen, in the substation sabotage case	Suspect detained carrying explosive devices, with bombs in a nearby tent	Germany	Daniel V., 48, of Gevelsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, stopped by a traffic patrol checking documents; he tried to flee but did not resist. Explosives were also found in his flat. He is suspected of sabotage at substations at Janschwalde near Berlin, Bergheim near Cologne and Dormagen near Dusseldorf. Police were led to him by letters to German news outlets giving his full address and claiming responsibility, with the line that generating electricity from fossil fuels is a crime. Federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt says the attacks were very likely climate terrorism by a lone perpetrator; Saxony's interior minister Armin Schuster says the motive remains unclear and the suspect could have acted on someone else's orders. Per Meduza, citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine
by 10 Sep	Undersea cables around Svalbard	Three Russian submarines rehearsing the cutting of cables without leaving a trace	Norway	No cable damaged and the operation was deterred by a joint Nato allied operation. Norwegian defence minister Tore Sandvik said that through the joint operation the allies sent a clear message to Russia that they cannot operate covertly. Attributed to Russia on the record by a named minister, which makes it the only clean state attribution in the period. Russia's defence ministry did not comment. Originally reported by Reuters, which is not linked here
10 Sep	Five manufacturing sites in Swindon, including a drone factory. Reconnaissance alleged, no attack	Alleged covert scouting, passing of intelligence and research into signal jamming	United Kingdom, outside the EU	Joshua Cammidge, 31, of Swindon, a British national, charged with two counts under the National Security Act, assisting a foreign intelligence service and preparing sabotage. Prosecutors allege contact linked to the GRU Volunteer Corps, which they describe as controlled by Russian military intelligence. Remanded, no plea entered, next before the Old Bailey on 25 September. No physical damage. AN ALLEGATION BEFORE A COURT AND NOT A PROVEN STATE ATTRIBUTION; THE SUSPECT'S NATIONALITY IS NOT AN ATTRIBUTION
11 Sep	EMCO ammunition storage site near Gorni Varpishta, Dryanovo municipality, Gabrovo region	Fire and explosions, cause not established	Bulgaria	Fire began about 23:00 on Friday 11 September and burned into the following day, spreading between warehouses with a series of explosions. No injuries, two guards evacuated, the area cordoned and inspected by drone because of the risk of further explosions, and the national alert system activated. The Gabrovo district prosecution opened pre-trial proceedings over a criminal offence related to a fire. Interior minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said there was no danger beyond the site, ordered checks of every Bulgarian ammunition depot and pointed to neglect of storage conditions and poor security. President Iliana Iotova said such explosions have become more frequent. NO BULGARIAN OFFICIAL HAS ATTRIBUTED THE FIRE TO ANYONE: the sabotage framing comes from EMCO the company, which calls it part of a series of sabotage against the Bulgarian defence industry. Second incident at an EMCO facility in a month after Belitsa on about 10 August, over which the company itself ruled out sabotage. EMCO supplies equipment to Ukraine. First reported by Reuters, not linked AMENDED 13 SEPTEMBER. THE DATE IS NOW SETTLED AS THE NIGHT OF FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER on Gabrovo provincial governor Kristina Sidorova's account that the fire began around 23:00 and moved between stores. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev says the authorities are not ruling out outside interference and has ordered an inspection of every ammunition depot in the country. THAT IS A REFUSAL TO EXCLUDE AN EXPLANATION AND IT IS NOT AN ATTRIBUTION. EMCO, which owns the destroyed stock and is an interested party, says the fire was sabotage and that human error is completely ruled out, AND IT NAMES NOBODY. NO PROSECUTOR'S CASE, ARREST OR CHARGE IS REPORTED. THE MINISTER'S POSITION HAS MOVED SINCE THE 10 AUGUST FIRE AT THE SAME COMPANY, AFTER WHICH HE SUGGESTED EXTERNAL FACTORS WERE UNLIKELY. Originated with Reuters, named unlinked
11 Sep	TER passenger train on the Rouen to Caen line at Cleon, Normandy, near the Renault plant	A section of rail found across the track	France	Derailed about 19:45 on Friday 11 September with 186 passengers aboard; one carriage overturned and four more left the rails; 44 injured, one an 18-year-old woman in critical condition. Rouen prosecutor Sebastien Gallois first said the reasons for the rail's presence were unknown and would be determined by the investigation, and by 13 September said nothing allows a malicious act to be evoked. NO ARREST, NO NAMED SUSPECT, NO COUNTRY NAMED AND NO CONFIRMED SABOTAGE INVESTIGATION. The driver tested negative for drugs and alcohol. SNCF said the priority was caring for passengers and restoring safe operating conditions. CORRECTS THIS MONITOR'S 12 SEPTEMBER DATING AND FRAMING
13 Sep	Airspace over the Wlodawa, Leczna, Swidnik, Chelm and Krasnystaw counties and the city of Chelm	Preventive air-threat alert during a Russian drone raid on Ukraine	Poland	The government security centre issued a text alert at 04:35 and sirens sounded; the alert was cancelled at 05:00. The Operational Command said Polish military aviation began operating and air defence and radar systems were activated because of the activity of Russian drones striking Ukrainian territory, and described the measures as preventive. NO AIRSPACE VIOLATION WAS CONFIRMED. Reported bangs and shaking windows were attributed to sonic booms. The monitoring account AMK Mapping says the nearest Geran-2 was about 65 km from the border and went on to attack Stryi in Lviv oblast, which is a monitoring claim

Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU and the UK, August 4 to September 14 2026. Non-exhaustive. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further. No new incident occurred in the period covered by this edition.

Two economies, one stalled front

Russian forces make further gains in Donetsk region, with fighting continuing around key towns on the front line. Sources: ISW, AEI's Critical Threats Project, BBC (21:00 GMT, 8 September).

The ground war has barely moved. Russian forces are still grinding at the Donbas fortress cities, and the map above, drawn to September 8, shows a front line measured in kilometres rather than regions. It is against that stalemate that both sides have spent the past week taking apart what the other sells, ships and switches on.

The pattern this week was unusually legible. Ukraine hit refining, Russia hit logistics and the grid, and for the first time the United States put a number on the side effect and asked one of them to stop. What Trump did not say is what Kyiv is supposed to hit instead, and the record of the past 72 hours suggests Ukraine has not gone looking for an answer: two refineries on the night of the request, and Sochi on the next.

Cersanit is the more instructive item. A tile plant is not a strategic target by any reading, and it is out of production until spring. Ukraine's economy minister has put this year's physical damage at close to $10bn and the cost of the port blockade at about 1.5 percentage points of GDP. On the Russian side the equivalent number is a refining system running at its lowest in more than 20 years and a diesel market the US president says is hurting the world. Neither side has yet shown a sign of concluding that the exchange is not worth making.