Russia ended its three-day strike pause hours after US peace envoys left Kyiv, hitting the capital with ballistic missiles, burning warehouses in four districts and killing two people.

Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's foreign minister, put it more bluntly. "The moment the US President's peace envoys left, Putin launched another massive, horrific attack against Kyiv, damaging residential areas and killing at least two people," he wrote on the morning of September 8. "His ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy. Strike after strike on residential buildings brings him no closer to winning this war, it is nothing but senseless terror."

He called for interceptors to be released now, including stocks nearing their expiry date, and for the rest of Europe to follow Germany in closing Russian cultural centres.

The pause was real but it was short; posts from Kyiv welcomed a weekend where people could get a full night of sleep while the supermarkets were swamped as shoppers took advantage of the lull to stock up on essentials in relative safety of the products left on the shelves.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin ordered no strikes on Kyiv for three days from midnight on September 5 in connection with the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and that Moscow had refused a broader mutual halt, TASS reported. Strikes on other oblasts never stopped.

Kyiv city was spared for three days and hit within hours of the envoys leaving, which makes this the clearest evidence yet in this series that Russia's strike tempo is a policy setting and not just a military campaign.

For the economy the night cost warehouses, a business centre, a metro station, a market and a train. The targeting of the civilian economy is now the steadiest feature of the war, and it ran on through a ceasefire that was only ever about one city.

Russian missiles and drones: what was fired

Ukraine's air force says the attack ran from 18:00 on September 7 and reports as of 08:30 on September 8:

166 Shahed-type attack drones, more than half of them jet-powered, plus Gerbera and Parodiya decoys

32 Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles

Iskander-M, KN-23 and S-400 ballistic missiles, number not stated

Oniks anti-ship missiles, number not stated

Launch points in Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Vologda and Oryol regions and Krasnodar Krai, plus occupied Crimea and occupied Donetsk

There is no official total. The air force listed the ballistic and anti-ship types without counting them, so any figure for how many weapons were fired that night is a derived one, the air force said.

The night before was a drone-only affair: 92 drones and S8000 Banderol loitering munitions from 18:00 on September 6, with hits at 12 locations, it said.

Interception: what got through

Ukraine's air force says it downed or suppressed 175 targets on the night of September 7 to 8:

142 of 166 attack drones, about 86%

31 of 32 Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles, about 97%

two ballistic and anti-ship missiles, from a launch total the air force did not publish

Hits recorded at 29 locations, falling debris at nine more

Subsonic cruise missiles are being stopped at a rate close to the best Ukraine has ever managed. Ballistic and anti-ship missiles are not, and the air force will not say how many were fired, which makes the ballistic interception rate unknowable from official data. The full breakdown published on September 1 remains the only one of its kind. The daily ballistic line has not come back.

Ukraine's foreign ministry made the same point in plainer language, saying defenders destroyed 175 targets but that "ballistic missiles remain particularly difficult to intercept", and that meetings were being held that day with countries and companies that could help with air defence and with Ukraine's own FREYJA anti-ballistic programme. The interceptor shortage is the constraint behind every one of these numbers. Britain pledged GBP100mn of air defence interceptors, large-calibre artillery rounds and drones through the Nato PURL mechanism on September 8.

Strikes on warehouses and logistics

Warehouses burned in four districts of Kyiv, per the State Emergency Service. In Podilskyi a warehouse caught fire along with cars and garage units; a garage fire elsewhere in the city spread to a neighbouring non-residential building and a business centre

A logistics complex and an industrial enterprise in Boryspil district, Kyiv region, were set alight and seven trucks destroyed. The logistics building was struck a second time while emergency crews were working on the first fire

A production facility and a warehouse were damaged in Bila Tserkva district, Kyiv region, with one person injured

A 26-storey non-residential building in Holosiivskyi district lost part of its structure to an impact on the 22nd floor

Sources: the State Emergency Service and Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, via UNN, and the Kyiv City Military Administration and interior ministry, via Ukrainska Pravda. No operator of the Boryspil logistics complex has been named by anyone. That is now normal: of the warehouse and distribution strikes in the ledger below since June, fewer than half carry a company name, which makes the corporate cost of this campaign almost impossible to total.

Strikes on retail and markets

The 7th Kilometer market outside Odesa, the largest open-air consumer goods market in Ukraine and the wholesale source for thousands of small traders, had stalls and pavilions damaged. Three people were injured, a figure Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, revised up from one during the morning

Ukraine's foreign ministry confirmed the same strike in its own account of the night, saying that in Odesa region Russia "struck an ordinary market"

No official has said trading stopped, and no damage valuation exists

Source: Kiper, via Intent and Ukrinform. The night before, a shopping centre in Zaporizhzhia city burned in six places over 700 square metres, per Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration.

Strikes on rail

The Kyiv to Sumy passenger train was hit after being stopped short of the danger area on a warning from Ukrzaliznytsia's own monitoring team. All 90 passengers and both crews were off the carriages. Nobody was hurt

A railway locomotive was attacked at a station in Sumy region on the morning of September 8, per Ukraine's foreign ministry. This is a separate event from the passenger train

A metro station in Kyiv was damaged in the overnight attack

Sources: Ukrzaliznytsia, via UNN, and Ukrinform. The railway published video of the damage and did not itemise it. The evacuation is the point: Ukrzaliznytsia now runs its own air threat monitoring and stops trains on it, which is why a direct hit on a passenger service produced no casualties.

Strikes on residential

Two people killed and 10 injured in Kyiv, with damage at more than 16 locations across at least five districts, per the Kyiv City Military Administration and the interior ministry

Ten people rescued from a five-storey block in Solomianskyi and two evacuated from a 16-storey block; 13 rescued in total

Fourteen apartment blocks damaged, and an educational facility burned in Holosiivskyi

Two injured in Kharkiv, where an apartment building was damaged

Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions also attacked, with no named economic facility reported

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko put the injured at 10, five of them hospitalised and two in a serious condition. The toll is unsettled: the Kyiv Independent's overnight headline said 16 injured while the official count stood at 10, AP reported.

Strikes on power, and one repair

No power station, substation, transmission line or water utility inside Ukraine was reported hit by a named official on either night. The campaign that has spent the summer on exactly those targets.

The energy news of the week ran the other way:

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was reconnected to external power after 19 days on diesel generators, per Energoatom. Ukrainian crews restored the Ferroalloyna-1 line under a locally agreed ceasefire. The plant had been off external supply since August 20

DTEK Grids reconnected 596 settlements and more than 900,000 homes in the week to September 6, including over 366,000 in Odesa region after the September 2 attack there

Alina Bondarenko, chief executive of DTEK Grids, said: "Russia keeps attacking our energy system. Despite everything, we keep working," Euromaidan Press reported. Ukraine lost about 9 GW of generating capacity to last winter's campaign and the heating season starts next month. The winter campaign against the grid has been the shape of the last two.

Ukrainian drones on Russian refineries and fuel

Saratov oil refinery, Rosneft, about 460 km east of the Ukrainian border. Residents filmed a fire and the independent Russian outlet Astra geolocated the footage. Roman Busargin, governor of Saratov region, confirmed damaged buildings and 10 injured including three children, six hospitalised, but did not name the refinery. No damage assessment, no statement on runs, and no Rosneft comment

A filling station at Starodub, Bryansk region, was hit on the morning of September 8. One man of 39 was killed at the scene and three residents wounded, three vehicles were damaged, the forecourt canopy was damaged and windows were broken in two administrative buildings, per acting governor Yegor Kovalchuk

The Rosneft fuel depot at Adler in Sochi was ablaze again on September 7, three days after the strikes that first set it alight. No air raid alert was issued, no Russian official has confirmed the fire and no cause has been given. This is recorded as a re-ignition, not a fresh strike

Explosions were reported near the Engels-2 bomber base in Saratov region. No Russian official statement

The Saratov plant is the pattern in miniature. The Moscow Times says this is the fifth drone attack on it since January and that it halted crude processing after each of the previous four, giving 2024 throughput of 5.8mn tonnes, about 2.2% of Russian refining, it reported. Whether it has halted this time is not established by anyone.

Russian refinery runs averaged 3.8mn barrels a day in August against the 5.3mn to 5.5mn the country normally needs in summer, on EA Analytics data; gasoline output fell about 20% y/y in the first three weeks of the month and diesel by more than 23%, Kyiv Post reported. The exchange price of AI-92 reached RUB75,477 a tonne on September 1, up 4.36% and the highest since last year, on St Petersburg exchange data reported by Kommersant. The fuel export ban runs to January 31 2027.

Ukrainian drones and missiles: what Kyiv claims

Volodymyr Zelenskiy released video on September 7 saying Ukrainian forces had hit three refineries that night: Ryazan, Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez in Perm Krai and an unnamed plant in Tatarstan

He also claimed a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal at Vladyslavivka in occupied Crimea, a target in the Black Sea and several command posts

Ukraine's General Staff published a weekly target list on September 7 covering August 31 to September 6, naming the Ryazan refinery and the NOVATEK-Ust-Luga gas condensate complex

No General Staff statement for the night of September 7 to 8 had been issued by the middle of September 8. That is a positive finding, not a gap

The president and his general staff are not describing the same week. Zelenskiy named Perm, Tatarstan and the Crimean rail bridge; the General Staff weekly named neither the Perm plant nor Tatarstan, and added Ust-Luga, which Zelenskiy did not mention, Kyiv Post reported and ArmyInform published the weekly list. Russia's defence ministry claims 384 Ukrainian drones were intercepted between 20:00 on September 7 and 08:00 on September 8 over 12 regions, Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea. It published no per-region figures. Both ministries' numbers are claims, not counts.

Ukraine's deep-strike reach is the one number both sides implicitly accept. Ukraine's defence ministry said on September 2 that August operations reached up to 1,900 km and covered 12 major refineries, it said, while adding that it does not disclose the means used.

Russia's airports close again

Denial of use is now a routine cost of the drone campaign, and on the morning of September 8 it closed a swathe of the Volga:

Saratov and Penza restricted from 02:30 Moscow time, lifted at 07:01

Volgograd and Ulyanovsk restricted overnight and lifted at 07:01. Six flights delayed at Volgograd, three of them Moscow-bound by two hours

Sochi restricted on September 7 from 13:33 to 15:00. More than 40 flights affected, 18 departures and 23 arrivals, the longest delay 21 hours and 10 minutes

Rosaviatsiya announced and lifted the restrictions in formulaic notices attributed to no named official, carried by Interfax. No national total of delayed or cancelled flights was published. Accounts differ on which airports were still shut by mid-morning.

Glide bombs

The glide bomb is the weapon that does not appear in any interception table because nothing stops it. Ukraine's defence ministry, citing General Staff figures, said Russian forces launched more than 8,300 guided glide bombs in July, the highest monthly total of the war, beating 8,266 in June, the Kyiv Independent reported.

The open-source analyst Clement Molin, by his own count, puts the total dropped on Ukrainian-controlled Donbas over the last six months at more than 10,000

Vadym Skibitskyi of Ukraine's military intelligence says the powered version has completed trials at a range of up to 193 km and is entering mass production, in the UMPK-PD and UMPB-5R designations

First documented use of the jet-powered UMPK-PD was recorded by the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office at Lozova on October 18 2025, at an estimated launch distance near 130 km

Range is what turns a front-line weapon into an economic one. At 193 km a bomb released over Russian airspace reaches Poltava, Zaporizhzhia city and the industrial belt of the Dnipro, which is where the warehouses and the steel are.

Oreshnik in Belarus

Oleh Ivashchenko, head of Ukraine's military intelligence, said in an interview published on September 7 that units of Russia's 101st Missile Brigade, equipped with the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, are deployed in Belarus.

He also said Belarus may have allowed Russia to place radio signal repeaters on its territory to adjust Shahed strikes on Ukrainian civilian and critical infrastructure

"And if Belarus did not grant such permission, this indicates that Minsk no longer controls Russia's activities on its own territory," he said

Lukashenko has said Oreshnik has been on combat duty in Belarus since at least December 2025, and the systems remain under Russian control

Kyiv still assesses the military threat from Belarus itself as low

Source: Ivashchenko via Ukrinform, reported by the Kyiv Independent. This is an intelligence assertion and Russia has announced nothing. Oreshnik has been used three times since November 2024. The repeater claim matters more than the missile does: it fits the finding reported last week that Russia has pushed drone control range to 150 km to 175 km using mesh relay nodes on communications towers, and it would put part of that relay network outside Russia.

North Korea keeps supplying, the West is slowing

Ukraine's air force named KN-23 among the ballistic types fired at Kyiv on the night of September 7 to 8. KN-23, also designated Hwasong-11A, is North Korean. The air force did not say how many were fired, and no named official has broken out a North Korean count for that night.

The cumulative picture is better documented. Ukraine's military intelligence directorate says:

North Korea supplies 25% to 40% of Russia's artillery ammunition needs

More than 100 KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles have been delivered since June 2023

More than 600 artillery systems and more than 7mn rounds have been delivered

North Korean annual shell production capacity runs at 1mn to 2mn rounds

Russia has also received KN-30, or Hwasong-11C, missiles, a type not previously reported as transferred. As of July 2026 Russia held roughly as many North Korean KN-23, KN-24 and KN-30 missiles combined as it did Kinzhals

Sources: Ukraine's military intelligence documentation supplied to Kyiv Post and to Militarnyi. These are one side's assessments and are not independently verified. The contrast is the point. Pyongyang is deepening a supply relationship that Kyiv calls systemic, while Ukraine spent this week asking the EU for permission to buy its first PAC-3 Patriots out of the EUR90bn support loan and Britain announced a GBP100mn package. Yevhenii Khmara, Ukraine's defence minister, cited a $27bn defence budget deficit, Defense News reported.

Two Swedish radar planes against Russia's four

Ukraine's two Swedish Saab ASC 890 airborne early warning aircraft have been flying combat sorties since March without a loss, a fact the defence ministry disclosed only this week, David Axe reported for Euromaidan Press. They were part of Sweden's $1.25bn package of May 2024.

Detection range about 450 km, falling to about 350 km against fighter-sized targets under heavy jamming

1,000 airborne and 500 surface tracks at once, feeding F-16s, Mirage 2000s and Gripens over Link 16

The threat is Russia's R-37M air-to-air missile, fired from Su-35s and MiG-31s, which flies about as far as the ASC 890 can see, so the aircraft have to work inside its envelope

This is the asymmetry that decides whether a long-range cruise missile arrives. Russia has far more territory to watch and cannot watch all of it, which is part of why Ukrainian Flamingo and other long-range weapons are getting through to targets on the Volga. Where Russia does see them, on an A-50U radar picture, it can vector fighters and shoot them down. Ukraine's problem is the mirror image: fewer aircraft, and fewer interceptor missiles to fire once something is detected, so an F-16 gets used for work an interceptor should be doing.

Russia's own fleet has been worn down. Two A-50Us were shot down over the Sea of Azov in 2024, one on January 14 attributed to a Ukrainian-operated Patriot and confirmed by Colonel Rosanna Clemente of the US Army's 10th Air and Missile Defense Command, and one on February 23 attributed by Ukrainian officials to a Soviet-era S-200. The SBU says its Operation Spiderweb drone raids of June 1 2025 damaged an irreplaceable A-50 at Ivanovo – Russia no longer makes these planes and does not have the industrial capacity to make more at the moment. Estimates of what Russia can still fly run from about four to seven aircraft, per Defense Express and The Aviationist. There is no official Russian figure.

Weapons and technology: the rest

Jet drones now outnumber propeller ones coming off the Russian line. Ukraine's military intelligence puts August output at about 3,000 Geran-4 and Geran-5 a month against about 2,800 Geran-2. Yurii Cherevashchenko, deputy air force commander, put jet engines on 15% to 20% of Shaheds as recently as April; Yurii Ihnat said July ran at five times June

L3Harris has licensed Shield AI's Tracker software for the Vampire counter-drone system already in Ukrainian service. It tracks jet drones on electro-optical and infrared imagery without emitting radar or radio, so the launcher does not give away its position. Michael Bohnert of the RAND Corporation, who is not a party to the contract, said it should improve detection and interception

BlueBird Tech has extended its Chuika 4.0 detector to 2,860 MHz to 4,500 MHz, covering the band Russian Molniya strike drones use, at ranges up to 3 km

Russian Post employees are to be issued anti-drone guns. The government has added equipment for countering unmanned aircraft and surface craft to the list of weapons and special equipment issued to postal staff, per a cabinet document seen by TASS

Three further claims this week come from the people selling the capability and are labelled as such. The maker of the Ukrainian Bars jet drone says range has gone from 700 km to 1,000 km and payload from 22.5 kg to 60 kg at over 700 km/h, and that a Bars factory has been built in Europe with first deliveries in October, Militarnyi reported. Wild Hornets says its Sting interceptors now launch from the MAGURA MV11 naval drone and that the first such interceptions happened in the spring, it told Militarnyi. Brave1 published footage of an unnamed system destroying an S8000 Banderol cruise missile, Militarnyi reported. One intercept is shown. None of the three has been independently verified. The drone arms race has been running Russia's way on volume since the spring, with the Alabuga plant in Tatarstan still the primary site.

The Black Sea stayed shut by choice. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rejected a Ukrainian proposal, taken to Turkey, for a revival of the mutual Black Sea Grain Initiative moratorium on attacks on ships carrying civilian cargo, saying it would be impossible to monitor. That is the risk premium behind Ukrainian grain freight restated as policy as Russia is trying to bankrupt Kyiv by cutting it off from its grain export revenues. Russia’s farmers are facing similar difficulties and have been forced to dump part of their harvest in fields, according to reports.

Russia's war bill

The cost of all this to the Russian budget reached a record in the first half of 2026, on an analysis of finance ministry data by Janis Kluge of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, published by The Moscow Times:

RUB10.687 trillion spent on the war in the first half, up 30% y/y and up 65% on the same period of 2024

That is RUB1.78 trillion a month, RUB59bn a day, RUB2.5bn an hour

Military spending took 43.8% of all federal expenditure and 57.3% of all budget revenues, both records. Before the war the figures were about 20%

Two thirds of it is classified: RUB3.546 trillion on open defence lines against RUB7.141 trillion on closed ones, with the shadow element up 42% y/y

Cumulatively since the start of 2022, RUB57.144 trillion, which the analysis converts at the official rate to $660bn, against central bank gold and forex reserves of $720.3bn on August 1

The deficit reached RUB6.45 trillion by early August, double the level planned for the whole year

Set that against the drone campaign's effect on the revenue side and the squeeze is visible from both ends. Civilian spending has been cut by about a third since spring and state agencies ordered to shed 15% of headcount.

Arson and sabotage in the EU

One new incident this week, and it is the largest single find of the German series.

Investigators recovered 21 homemade explosive devices positioned near high-voltage power lines in Saxony, all of them south of the Graustein substation near Schleife in Gorlitz district. Nine were found during a three-day search from Friday to Sunday, taking the total to 21. The devices were intended to damage electricity infrastructure by causing short circuits. Power supplies were not interrupted

The Dresden Prosecutor General's Office and Saxony's State Criminal Police Office are running the case through the state's Central Office for Extremism. No suspect has been named and no authority has attributed it to any state

A claim of responsibility letter linked to the earlier Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia incidents contained indications of planned attacks in Saxony

Source: the Dresden prosecutors and the Saxony police via MDR, reported by Hromadske.

The attribution question in the German series is still open and the two senior officials on it still disagree in public. Alexander Dobrindt, the federal interior minister, says the evidence so far points to climate extremism and probably to a single perpetrator, while stressing that no final conclusion on motive can be drawn. Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, says investigators do not know whether the suspect acted alone and that the signatories of the confession letters may not be the responsible parties. The 48-year-old German national being sought was still at large in the most recent report. Foreign-state involvement is recorded as not excluded, and is asserted by nobody.

The diplomatic track is moving faster than the criminal one. Germany formally blamed Russia for the Leipzig airport drone attack on September 1 and has closed the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin; Russia has closed the German consulate in St Petersburg in reply. In Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the fire at WB Electronics at Skarzysko-Kamienna was "no doubt" deliberate arson and the case is classified as participation in the activity of a foreign intelligence service, which is a charging category and not a finding. There have been no arrests. On the fire at JFG Composites in Lublin, prosecutors are still weighing arson, a technical fault and spontaneous ignition and say no evidence points to any of them. In Munich the two Bulgarian nationals arrested over the September 3 incendiary attack remain in custody on suspicion of criminal damage and attempted arson. Their nationality is a fact about them and not an attribution.

Major strikes and targets

Both ledgers run from the start of the campaign. They are not 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

Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, June 15 to September 8 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

Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 8 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
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

Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU, August 4 to September 7 2026. Non-exhaustive. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further.

The pattern

Read across the two ledgers and the exchange has settled into a division of labour. Russia strikes the last mile of Ukraine's consumer economy: the market, the warehouse, the truck park, the business centre, the train. Ukraine strikes the first mile of Russia's export economy: the crude unit, the tank farm, the filling station, the port. Neither is reaching the other's front line and both are reaching the other's cash flow.

The three days of quiet over Kyiv were the most informative thing that happened all week. They showed that the volume can be turned down and turned back up on a decision, that the decision is taken in Moscow and not forced by supply, and that it applies to one city rather than to a war. Everywhere else the strikes continued throughout.

What this edition still cannot tell you is what the Saratov refinery actually lost. The fire is filmed, geolocated and reported. The damage is not. That gap is now the normal shape of the Russian side of this war: the fact of a strike arrives within hours and the cost of it arrives days later, if at all.