A Russian strike on a market in Lozova in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed two women and injured 34 on October 22, the regional administration said, Zaxid.net reported.

The women were aged 50 and 60. Governor Oleh Syniehubov's first report, at 12:16, gave 11 injured, and the count rose through the afternoon. The market was hit by a Geran drone and a Banderol munition, Suspilne reported.

Russian strikes seriously damaged one of DTEK's thermal power plants and forced it to stop generating electricity, the company said, Ukrinform reported on October 23. DTEK did not name the plant or its region, and said its thermal plants had been attacked more than 230 times since the full-scale invasion.

TIMING NOTE: DTEK's post on X  puts the damage down to "several waves of russian strikes on Thursday" (October 22); Censor.net dates the attack to the night of October 23. Not reconciled. DTEK's own statement. Two older pages on a DTEK plant hit on October 22-23 2023 are not this event.

Russia launched 176 drones from 18:00 on October 22, 92 of them jet-powered Shahed-type, and air defences downed or suppressed 140, the air force said, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Drones hit 19 locations and debris fell at 13. The air force reported no missiles.

SOURCING NOTE: air force claim, preliminary as of 08:00 Kyiv time, with 10 drones still in the air. It named neither the hit locations nor the target regions. Decoys (Gerbera, "Parodiya") were not counted separately.

Russia has made about 60 targeted strikes on energy and oil and gas infrastructure since October 19, First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said, naming the Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia regions and Kyiv's thermal power plants, Obozrevatel reported on October 22. Ukrenergo scheduled hourly outages for one to two queues in some regions on October 23, blaming "massive Russian attacks", Ukrinform reported.

Inside Russia, the Tula, Kaluga and Rostov governors reported drones downed overnight and no casualties. The Russian defence ministry's tally for the night of October 22-23 is not yet reported at the time of writing.

Refinery strikes

Nationwide: no new strike on a Russian oil refinery was reported for October 22 or the night of October 22-23 at the time of writing.

Nationwide, capacity: plants reported halted or cut so far in October account for about 14.8mn tonnes a year, or 5% of Russia's 327mn tonnes nameplate capacity, by IntelliNews' refinery ledger, and up to 145.8mn tonnes, or 45%, if halts reported earlier still hold. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak put capacity under repair at about 10% in early September.

EDITION NOTE: unchanged from October 22; no refinery row changed in this edition. The ledger's date moved to October 23 and the table was regenerated.

Metal plants hit

Nationwide: no new strike on a Ukrainian steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy or non-ferrous plant was reported for October 22 or the night of October 22-23 at the time of writing. The metals ledger is unchanged.

Oil depots, factories and military targets in Russia

Krasnodar region, ports: Ukrainian drone attacks cut cargo handling at Azov-Black Sea terminals by 95-100% in September, an unnamed industry source told Kommersant, which reported on October 21 that the government is considering support for the southern ports. OTEKO, which runs terminals in Taman, put combined monthly losses to budgets and business at more than RUB200bn. Agricultural cargo through the region's ports fell to 3.8mn tonnes in July-August from 7.9mn tonnes a year earlier, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev, the paper reported. IntelliNews reported the support plan on October 22.

Occupied Luhansk: drones attacked at about 04:00 on October 23 and hit infrastructure near a communications tower, cutting communications in part of the city and disrupting power, the monitoring channel Exilenova+ said, RBC-Ukraine reported.

Tula region: Governor Dmitry Milyaev said 12 drones were destroyed overnight, with no casualties and, on preliminary information, no damage, News.mail.ru reported.

Kaluga region: Governor Vladislav Shapsha said air defences destroyed three drones over the Iznoskovsky and Yukhnovsky districts and the outskirts of Kaluga, with no one injured, AiF reported.

Rostov region: Governor Yuri Slyusar said drones were destroyed over the Sholokhovsky, Kamensky, Verkhnedonskoy and Millerovsky districts and that there were no reports of casualties or damage, AiF reported. He gave no number.

Belgorod region: three civilians were injured by drones in the Borisovsky district, in Belyanka in the Shebekino district and in Graivoron, the regional operational headquarters said, NEWS.ru reported on October 23.

Moscow region: interceptions were heard in the Naro-Fominsk district from 23:31 on October 22, in New Moscow's Troitsky district at about 23:36 and later in the Istra district, Ptoday reported. No official count, casualties or damage had been given.

SOURCING NOTE: eyewitness and monitoring-channel reports only, on a site that says it writes with AI help. A Telegram claim of "up to 250 Shahed-type drones" over central Russia is not printed. Ptoday also reports airport restrictions at Kaluga, Gelendzhik, Penza and Saratov; not checked against Rosaviatsia.

Nationwide: the Russian defence ministry said 49 drones were shot down between 08:00 and 20:00 Moscow time on October 22 over the Pskov, Oryol, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Moscow regions and Crimea, NEWS.ru reported. Earlier on October 22 the ministry claimed 1,226 drones downed "over the past day", Interfax reported.

Bryansk region and occupied territory: Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck an electronic warfare station near Gulevka in the Bryansk region, a command and observation post near Vyshneve and a drone control point near Lankove in occupied Zaporizhzhia, and a logistics depot near Zolotarivka in occupied Luhansk, the Kyiv Independent reported on October 22. The extent of the damage was not clear.

Moscow region, Serpukhov, update: there is still no confirmation of the reported explosion at the 75th Arsenal on the night of October 21-22. Exilenova+ said it was waiting for satellite images, and The Moscow Times' Russian service still relies on Astra and eyewitness video.

Ukraine under fire

Zaporizhzhia: traffic on the Vantovyi (cable-stayed) bridge was closed in both directions after "another Russian attack" on the evening of October 22, Mykhailo Semikin of the regional military administration said, DSnews reported. Two FPV drones hit a transport depot near Nikopolska Street between 17:30 and 18:00, damaging a truck and trailer, with no casualties, RIA-Pivden reported.

Dnipropetrovsk region: Russia struck Dnipro and the region with drones almost 20 times overnight, damaging infrastructure in Dnipro and an administrative building and a house in Pavlohrad, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said, Suspilne reported. A man, 44, was wounded in the Nikopol district and a woman, 26, in the Synelnykove district.

Rivne region: energy, housing and business were targeted on the evening of October 22 and overnight, and one settlement in the north was hit seven times in a row, leaving part of the region without power, regional head Oleksandr Koval said, Suspilne reported. No one was hurt.

Volyn and Lviv regions: explosions were heard in Lutsk at about 04:40 on October 23, and Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi warned at 04:44 that a drone was heading for the city, 24tv reported. No damage had been reported at the time.

SOURCING NOTE: monitoring channels say the Lviv drone turned back. AMK Mapping lists explosions at 25 places in the Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne and Volyn regions since the afternoon of October 22 - OSINT only; officials have confirmed damage only in Rivne.

Odesa region, update: drones hit the Tytan food plant in the Kiliya community for a second night running on October 21-22, burning out its administrative building, with no one hurt, regional head Oleh Kiper said, Jerelo reported. After the first attack the plant reported UAH143mn of losses and about 310 tonnes of food destroyed.

Kyiv, update: city authorities' toll for the night of October 21-22 stood at one killed and 24 injured, the Kyiv Independent reported. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia fired 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv in three waves, three of them with cluster warheads that burst in the air, one between the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Holy Presentation Monastery, Euronews reported.

Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, Russian claim: Russia's defence ministry said its daytime strikes on October 22 hit the PS-330 Novokyivska substation in Khotiv and the PS-330 Zhytomyrska substation, and two dry cargo ships carrying cargo for Ukraine's armed forces to Odesa and Chornomorsk, Life.ru reported. It also claimed a Mi-24 helicopter hit at a rear airfield on October 23, Lenta.ru reported.

Data centres, telecoms, media and R&D

Nationwide: no new strike on a data centre, telecoms operator, broadcaster or research site in Ukraine was found for October 22 or the night of October 22-23 at the time of writing. The ledger stays at 41 rows.

Weapons and technology

Filin: Russia began using a new ground-launched cruise missile, the Filin, against Ukraine in late summer, and it carries 35 electronic components linked to US manufacturers and 22 to Chinese ones, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) said, the Kyiv Post reported on October 22. Made by NPO Molniya of the Tactical Missiles Corporation, it uses a Russian R500 turbojet, HUR said.

SOURCING NOTE: HUR's statement on Telegram; the War&Sanctions page itself was not found. Speed of 800 km/h, range of up to 1,200 km and a 50 or 100 kg warhead are Russian-advertised figures cited by HUR and not independently verified. AMK Mapping's claim that Filin was the missile mistaken for Geran-5 drones on October 16 is not confirmed.

Alabuga: Russia has built 33 air-defence positions around the Alabuga drone plant in Tatarstan, against 31 towers and two S-300/S-400 positions at President Vladimir Putin's Valdai residence, Radio Liberty reported, using a satellite image of October 21.

SOURCING NOTE: the count is of identified positions and structures, not of operational systems (Kyiv Post). Also posted on X by commentator Iuliia Mendel.

Production: HUR put Russia's drone output at about 10,000 a month including decoys, its operational reserve at about 6,200 Geran drones and this year's state order for Gerans and decoys at more than 100,000, NV reported. The charts below use the same October assessment.

FREYJA: Ukraine and Norway are accelerating work on the FREYJA anti-ballistic missile system and expect to test its first components by the end of 2026, Zelenskiy said after meeting Norwegian Defence Minister Tore Sandvik and the defence company Kongsberg, UNN reported. The system is meant to cut Ukraine's reliance on US Patriots.

SOURCING NOTE: also reported by United24. The exact date of the statement was not pinned down in this run; it falls around October 21-22. Arrived as a late clip during the run.

Japan: flames were seen near the wheels and an engine of an Antonov Airlines An-124 as it landed at Chubu Centrair airport near Nagoya on the evening of October 22, and the runway was closed for 15 minutes, Suspilne reported, citing NHK and the fire service. The aircraft taxied to its stand under its own power and no one was hurt.

Arson and sabotage in the EU and the UK

Germany: federal prosecutors arrested a Ukrainian national, named as Vadym Y., in Brandenburg on October 22 on suspicion of spying for Russia, alleging he had collected information on the production of armoured vehicles, ammunition and explosives and on Nato's eastern flank, Meduza reported. A judge was due to rule on his detention on October 23.

SOURCING NOTE: espionage only; no sabotage is alleged. Prosecutors say he had been in contact with Russian intelligence through an intermediary since at least July 2025. Der Spiegel, citing its own sources, says he is 53 and was interested in the Bundeswehr's 45th Tank Brigade.

Germany, update: a defence ministry spokesperson confirmed the Bundeswehr now faces "a significant sabotage threat overall" and that security at military sites will be tightened, Reuters reported.

SOURCING NOTE: Reuters named unlinked; German detail from dpa as carried by Tagesspiegel. No new arson, rail sabotage or drone incursion with a suspected Russian link was found for October 21-23 in this bounded pass.

Tit for tat

Russia's daytime strike on the Lozova market killed two and injured 34, and 176 drones overnight hit 19 locations. DTEK said one of its thermal power plants had stopped generating, and part of the Rivne region lost power.

Ukraine's drones flew at the Tula, Kaluga, Rostov and Moscow regions, where governors reported no damage, and monitoring channels said they cut communications in occupied Luhansk. The Russian side of the night is not yet fully reported at the time of writing.

Russian missile and drone production

Russian missile and drone output a month by class, on Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence assessment of October 2026, with stockpiles in brackets.

Annual missile and drone output, Russia's current rate against Ukraine's 2027 targets.

The ledgers

The running ledgers are kept as six public spreadsheets at permanent addresses. The first three are non-exhaustive, every row is sourced, and where only one side has spoken the row says so. Defence ministry figures are recorded as claims, and in the sabotage ledger attribution is given exactly as the authorities state it and no further. The fourth tracks what has happened to Ukraine's steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy and non-ferrous plants since 2021, grouped by owner. The fifth tracks strikes on data centres, telecoms, media and research sites; the sixth tracks refinery strikes.

RUSSIA STRIKES LEDGER: Russian strikes on Ukraine's economic infrastructure, 519 rows

UKRAINE STRIKES LEDGER: Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, 327 rows

ARSON & SABOTAGE LEDGER: Arson, sabotage and drone incursions in the EU and the UK, 94 rows

METAL STRIKES LEDGER: Ukraine's metals and mining assets: 2021 baseline against status in September 2026, 38 plants and mines

DATA CENTRE & TELECOM STRIKES LEDGER: Data centres, telecoms, media and research sites hit in Ukraine, 41 rows

ARSENAL GUIDE: Infographic guide to Russia and Ukraine's missile and drone arsenals

REFINERY STRIKES LEDGER: Russian oil refineries hit, and how badly, 27 refineries

Russian oil refineries hit by Ukrainian strikes, as of October 23, 2026. Non-exhaustive; strike counts are floors. Damage: 0 claimed, no damage confirmed; 1 fire or minor damage; 2 secondary unit damaged, output reduced; 3 primary distillation unit damaged; 4 refinery halted. Plants reported halted or cut in Oct 2026 account for about 14.8 mn t/yr, about 5% of the 327 mn t/yr nameplate total; up to 145.8 mn t/yr (45%) if earlier halts still hold. Russian officials put capacity under repair at about 10% (Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, early September). Status mostly from unnamed industry sources cited by Reuters. Full sourced ledger: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHjZvX9Hf-6jdKxcTE8Dw7f6O2_svY0kX54sqKPyU_s

This article was produced with the help of IntelliNews Lambda analytical tool