Missile War Monitor: Ukraine burns a fuel terminal at Novorossiysk as Russia hits a noodle factory and a border crossing
Ukrainian drones set fire to a fuel oil terminal at Novorossiysk port overnight, killing four people in the city, while Russia burned a food plant at Bila Tserkva and closed Ukraine's road crossing into Moldova.
"Just hours after the US President's peace envoys left Kyiv, Russia launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine's capital and several other regions," Ukraine's foreign ministry said on the morning of September 9. "Critical infrastructure was hit in Kyiv region, while in Odesa region, Russia struck an ordinary market. Two people were injured in Kharkiv, where an apartment building was damaged. In Sumy region, a railway locomotive was attacked at a station this morning."
The two attacks were of a different shape. Russia fired 166 drones and 32 cruise missiles plus an uncounted package of ballistic and anti-ship missiles at a list of targets its own defence ministry described as defence industrial facilities, military transport and logistics hubs and port facilities in Odesa. Ukraine flew drones at one city, and Russia's defence ministry says it shot down 596 of them across 10 regions, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea, its highest single-night claim of the campaign. Both figures are claims by the ministries that made them.
What the night cost the two economies was a fuel terminal handling about 4mn tonnes a year, an instant noodle plant that exports to the EU, a customs post, two warehouses in Kyiv and three trains. The targeting of the civilian economy has run without interruption since the three-day pause over Kyiv ended on September 8.
Russian missiles and drones: what was fired
Ukraine's air force reported the following for the overnight attack of September 8 to 9, which it says was aimed mainly at Kyiv:
166 attack drones of various types, including jet-powered Shahed variants, Gerbera and decoys
32 Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles and Iskander-K cruise missiles, counted together
Iskander-M, KN-23 and S-400 ballistic missiles, number not stated
P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles, number not stated
The composite categories are the air force's own. It does not break out how many of the ballistic missiles were North Korean KN-23s, and it does not give a total launched. No official total for the night exists in any Ukrainian statement.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the package himself. "It was a complex attack that the Russians tried to plan to cause as much harm to life as possible, ballistic missiles, cruise and anti-ship missiles, and jet-powered shaheds," he said.
The partisan mapping account Hudson War Mapping put the missile package at 56, of which six Hwasong-11A, 16 Iskander-M, two Zircon, two Oniks, 10 Iskander-K and 20 Kh-101. Another aggregator put it at about 60 and a third at up to 200 drones and up to eight Zircons. None of these is an official count and none is used here. They are recorded because they are the only per-weapon breakdowns in circulation and they disagree with each other.
Interception: what got through
Ukraine's air force gave the following results as of the morning of September 9:
142 of 166 attack drones shot down or suppressed, an 86% rate
31 of 32 cruise missiles shot down, a 97% rate
Two ballistic or hypersonic missiles shot down, out of an unstated number launched
175 aerial targets neutralised in total, per Zelenskiy
Impacts recorded at 29 locations and debris falls at nine more
The ballistic line is the one that cannot be turned into a rate, because the denominator is not published. That is not an accident of reporting: the air force publishes the category "Iskander-M / KN-23 / S-400 / Oniks" as a single line and gives the number downed without the number fired.
Zelenskiy said the same thing in plainer terms. "Despite very good results against cruise missiles, ballistic missiles remain particularly difficult to intercept, and every day we make the case to our partners for our need for interceptors," he said, naming the Ukrainian anti-ballistic programme FREYJA and saying meetings with suppliers were continuing that day.
Compared with the night of September 7 to 8, when the air force reported the same 166 drones and the same 32 cruise missiles, the cruise missile intercept rate held at about 97% and the drone rate at about 86%. What changed was not the defence but where the leakage landed: this time it included a customs post on the Moldovan border and a food plant at Bila Tserkva, south of Kyiv.
Strikes on food processing
The REEVA plant at Bila Tserkva in Kyiv region burned after a Russian drone strike on the night of September 8 to 9. The facility is operated by Euro Food Service and makes REEVA instant noodles and condiments for the consumer market, sold in Ukraine and exported to neighbouring European markets.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service confirmed the fire without naming the company. "State Emergency Service workers arrived at the scene promptly and spent the entire night dealing with the aftermath of the attack. The fire has now been contained," it said on the morning of September 9, adding that its crews were slowed by repeated air raid warnings and the threat of further strikes. There were no casualties and work at the site was still going on at the time of the statement, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Russia's defence ministry, in the target list it published for the preceding night, named a different set of sites at Bila Tserkva: a plant making TRX drones with a range of 450 km, the Khymtransagro logistics warehouse at Shkarivka and the R-Plast logistics warehouse. The ministry has not claimed the noodle plant.
The pro-Russian commentator Stanislav Krapivnik, writing from Moscow, also placed a "Warbirds" facility and a logistics centre for "Smart Munitions" at the R-Plast site in the same night's fires. That is an unverified claim by a partisan account and no Ukrainian official has confirmed it.
Strikes on warehouses and logistics
The warehouse damage was done in daylight on September 8, after the overnight missile attack, and it is what pushed the capital's death toll for the day to five.
A warehouse in Solomianskyi district of Kyiv was struck, killing two people, per mayor Vitali Klitschko
A second warehouse in Holosiivskyi district was struck at 17:42, with the fire spreading to a neighbouring three-storey building
Firefighters worked new seats of fire in non-residential buildings at three locations across Holosiivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts, per the State Emergency Service
Two lorries and a garage burned in Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts overnight, and a two-storey non-residential building burned at a separate location, all extinguished by the morning of September 9 with no casualties
"Two people have been killed in the Solomianskyi district as a result of a strike on a warehouse," Klitschko said. The Kyiv City Military Administration confirmed to Ukrainska Pravda that he was describing the daytime attack rather than the overnight one.
No operator has been named for any of the Kyiv warehouses hit on September 8 or 9. That has been true of most of the warehouse strikes in this ledger since the campaign against logistics began in August, and it is why the damage column in the tables so often records a burned building with no company attached to it.
Russia's defence ministry named the logistics targets it says it hit the previous night: a trading and warehouse complex in Kyiv used to assemble and store Shark drones, the Khymtransagro warehouse at Shkarivka and the R-Plast warehouse at Bila Tserkva. Those are Russian claims and none has been confirmed by Ukraine.
Strikes on border crossings
Russian drones hit the Starokozache international road border crossing between Ukraine's Odesa region and Moldova in the early hours of September 9. It is the first strike of the campaign on a road crossing into Moldova.
The crossing's infrastructure and the surrounding area were damaged and fires broke out
Processing of people and vehicles was suspended, per the State Customs Service of Ukraine
Two people were killed and three injured, with 16 people evacuated by rescuers, per Zelenskiy
The Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border was affected in the same wave of drone activity
Ukrinform reported the customs service statement. Meduza carried the deaths. Neither the customs service nor the regional administration has published a reopening date, a freight volume for the crossing or an estimate of what the closure diverts.
Orlivka has now been hit three times in nine days. It was struck on September 1 and again on September 6, when vehicle and pedestrian crossings were suspended and restored by morning after repairs. Both earlier events are in the ledger.
Strikes on rail
Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railway, said three trains were struck on September 8: "the Kyiv-Sumy and Dnipro-Zaporizhzhia passenger trains, and a suburban train in Sumy region. All three trains were evacuated. On the suburban train, some passengers suffered shrapnel wounds while evacuating."
On the morning of September 9 the locomotive of the Kyiv to Sumy train was attacked again at a station in Sumy region, Zelenskiy said. Nobody was injured and passengers were evacuated.
Christopher Miller of the Financial Times, who has covered the railway through the war, wrote that Russia is escalating strikes on the network including on passenger trains, and that trains "have been the most reliable form of public and mass transport, and crucial to evacuations, throughout Russia's war but are no longer so because of the intensifying drone attacks targeting them."
The partisan mapping account AMK Mapping reported a second locomotive struck at Vilnyansk in Zaporizhzhia region on the same morning, with anti-drone cages visible on the Sumy region locomotive in the footage it published. No Ukrainian official has confirmed the Vilnyansk strike and it is not in the ledger.
Strikes on retail and markets
Zelenskiy said Russia struck "an ordinary market" in Odesa region overnight. He did not name it, no regional official has itemised the damage and no trader association has commented.
Krapivnik reported damage to a Varus supermarket in Solomianskyi district of Kyiv alongside the warehouse strike there, and BLYSKAVKA, a Ukrainian monitoring channel, reported that the METRO hypermarket in Mykolaiv was damaged, with glass broken and fragments inside the premises. Neither Varus nor METRO has issued a statement and neither claim has official confirmation. Both are recorded here as leads.
Varus has been in this ledger before. A warehouse holding its goods at Boryspil was struck on August 31; the chain said a large amount of stock was damaged and destroyed but that all 119 of its stores stayed open.
Strikes on residential and on a newsroom
Two people were killed and at least 10 injured in Kyiv in the overnight attack, with five hospitalised and two in a serious condition. Rescuers pulled 13 people out. Damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded at more than 16 locations across five districts, including residential buildings, warehouses, garages and an educational facility, ABC News reported.
A Russian drone struck a residential high-rise in Kyiv on the morning of September 9, injuring four people, Zelenskiy said. Two people were injured in Kharkiv, where an apartment building was damaged.
During the day on September 8 a drone hit the newsroom of the "We Are Ukraine" television channel in Kyiv, injuring five, according to Ukrainska Pravda's report of the day's strikes. Zelenskiy called the strike on the studio a new chapter in Russia's degradation.
Strikes on power and energy
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was reconnected to external power, Energoatom said on September 8. Ukrainian energy workers restored the Ferroalloyna-1 line under an agreed local ceasefire. The plant had been without external electricity since August 20 and was running critical systems off diesel generators for 19 days.
Zelenskiy said critical infrastructure was struck in Kyiv region overnight without itemising it, and recovery work was under way in Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions.
Two substation claims are in circulation for the night and neither is confirmed. AMK Mapping says a 330 kV substation at Trykhatky in Mykolaiv region was among the targets of a large combined attack on Mykolaiv, and Russia's defence ministry says it hit the "Dnistrovsk" 110 kV substation at Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Odesa region, which it says supplies power to Ukrainian ports. Ukrenergo has not commented on either and neither is in the ledger.
Ukrainian drones on Russian ports and fuel
The fuel oil terminal at Novorossiysk is the largest economic target either side hit overnight. It handles fuel oil and light petroleum products with an annual capacity of about 4mn tonnes and is part of the commercial sea port's transport hub.
At least one storage tank was damaged and a fire started, per Militarnyi, whose geolocation analysis used photographs, video from monitoring channels and NASA fire hotspot data
Residents reported drones and air defence over the city from around midnight, with a missile threat declared for the region
Novorossiysk mayor Andrey Kravchenko confirmed an attack but attributed the damage to industrial sites to falling debris rather than direct hits
The independent Russian channel Astra reported the terminal ablaze and a residential building damaged
Militarnyi published the capacity figure and the tank damage. The Kyiv Independent carried the Astra report. No Russian company has commented, Transneft has said nothing, and there is no statement from the port on loadings, on the Sheskharis crude and products terminal alongside it or on shipping movements.
Novorossiysk is the third element of the port that Ukraine has now taken out or damaged. The Novorossiysk Grain Plant terminal was hit on August 12, with the company putting repairs at one to four months; the last working grain terminal was hit on August 14, putting all three of the port's grain terminals out of service; and five bulk carriers were struck at Novorossiysk and Tuapse on August 17 and 18.
The human cost in the city was the highest of any single Ukrainian strike inside Russia in this ledger. Four people were killed, including a child, and 29 were injured with three in a serious condition, per Krasnodar Krai governor Veniamin Kondratyev. Three private houses, five apartment blocks, a church and a kindergarten were damaged. Meduza carried the toll and TASS carried the governor's statement.
Ukrainian drones and missiles: what Kyiv claims
Robert Brovdi, who commands Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces under the callsign Magyar, said a combined strike on the Novorossiysk naval base hit several Russian military vessels including missile carriers. He also said his units destroyed a Su-33 carrier-based fighter and an Mi-8 helicopter near Anapa, and a Kasta-2E2 radar and a 92N6 radar from an S-300 or S-400 system near Gelendzhik.
No footage has been released to support any of those claims and Russia has not acknowledged any of them. They are military rather than economic targets and are not in the ledger; they are recorded because the naval base and the commercial port share the same waterfront and the same night.
Russia's defence ministry says air defences intercepted and destroyed 596 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones between 20:00 Moscow time on September 8 and 08:00 on September 9, over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Orenburg, Rostov, Samara, Tula and Ulyanovsk regions, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea. The ministry gave no per-region figures. Its claim for the preceding night was 384. Both are claims and neither is a count.
Orenburg and Samara are the notable entries on that list. Both are more than 1,000 km from Ukrainian-held territory and both host refining and petrochemical capacity.
What Russia says it was aiming at
Russia's defence ministry published an itemised target list for the combined attack, relayed by AMK Mapping. It is a Russian claim throughout and none of it has been confirmed by Ukraine, but it is the fullest statement Moscow has made about which parts of the Ukrainian economy it considers military.
In Kyiv city:
A rocket component plant said to make parts for reconnaissance and strike drones including long-range types
A concrete plant said to produce combat modules for FP-2 mid-range drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles
An industrial enterprise said to make and store components for Hornet mid-range drones
A trading and warehouse complex said to assemble and store Shark drones
A workshop said to assemble medium and long-range drones
In Kyiv region:
A plant at Bila Tserkva said to make TRX drones with a range of 450 km
The Khymtransagro logistics warehouse at Shkarivka, said to distribute military cargo including drone components
The R-Plast logistics warehouse at Bila Tserkva, said to make and store warheads
A fuel and lubricants depot at Vasylkiv airbase
An SBU radio-technical reconnaissance centre at Markhalivka
In Odesa region:
A drone assembly and storage workshop in Odesa city
An oil tanker at Chornomorsk said to be delivering fuel and lubricants for the Ukrainian military
The Dnistrovsk 110 kV substation at Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, said to supply power to Ukrainian ports
The pattern in the list is that almost every civilian facility named is given a military function: a concrete plant makes missile modules, a logistics warehouse distributes military cargo, a substation powers ports. That is the framework Moscow uses to describe strikes on the civilian economy, and the ministry's own summary of the night said the target set was defence industrial facilities, military transport and logistics hubs and port facilities in Odesa.
Glide bombs
Clement Molin, the French analyst who tracks the Donbas air campaign, published a thread on September 7 saying Russia has dropped more than 10,000 FAB bombs on the Ukrainian-controlled Donbas in the past six months. That is his own count and no official figure covers the same period or the same geography.
The corroborating official numbers are monthly. Ukraine's defence ministry says more than 8,300 guided aerial bombs were dropped in July against 8,266 in June. Neither is a Donbas-only figure.
Molin's assessment of where they are falling: Russian manpower and strike assets are concentrated against Ukraine's 1st and 3rd Army Corps, the offensive is running on three axes east of Kramatorsk, south of Druzhkivka and north-west of Pokrovsk, and the area between Druzhkivka and Dobropillia has drawn the heaviest air effort and the deepest infiltrations. He says encirclement of the region remains unlikely after the Ukrainian counter-attack at Lyman.
AMK Mapping reported 12 KAB glide bombs among the weapons used against Mykolaiv on the night of September 8 to 9. That is a partisan count and no Ukrainian official has given a glide bomb figure for the city.
Oreshnik in Belarus
Units of Russia's 101st Missile Brigade, equipped with the Oreshnik intermediate-range system, are deployed on Belarusian territory, Ukraine's military intelligence chief Oleh Ivashchenko told Ukrinform.
Ivashchenko assesses the military threat from Belarus itself as low and sees no sign it is preparing to enter the war
Belarus is allowing Russia to use its territory to help guide drone strikes on Ukraine, including through radio-signal repeaters
The Oreshnik systems in Belarus remain under Russian rather than Belarusian command
Oreshnik has been in Belarus since at least December 2025, when Aliaksandr Lukashenka said a system had been placed on combat duty there
Russia first used an Oreshnik against Ukraine in November 2024, striking Dnipro. The system is nuclear-capable and has so far been used conventionally. Ukrainian intelligence has previously said the deployment is aimed in part at shortening flight times to European targets.
Russia has been stepping up strikes on Kyiv launched from the north, from Russian territory close to Belarus. That is the operational reason the deployment matters for the capital: not the warhead, but the launch geometry.
Air defence: what was promised this week
The interceptor shortage Zelenskiy described is being answered with money and contracts rather than deliveries, and the announcements came thick this week:
EU member states agreed the derogation letting Ukraine buy components for Patriot systems, with a next disbursement of EUR3.2bn, per Ukraine's defence ministry
Ukraine is to sign contracts for about 1,000 Patriot missiles funded by partners and the EU loan, per the defence minister, who cautioned that the missiles would take time to arrive
Germany will transfer PAC-2 interceptors from its own stocks, per defence minister Boris Pistorius
The UK is providing a GBP100mn winter air defence package through PURL, including Patriot missiles, interceptors, large-calibre artillery shells and drones
France is temporarily deploying two more SAMP/T systems, sending more Aster 30 rounds, has ordered four SAMP/T NG for Ukraine and is licensing Aster 30 production in Ukraine
Zelenskiy has asked allies for 300 Patriot missiles. Greece, Germany and the Czech Republic are expected to contribute to the European purchase of US-made interceptors through PURL, with the number undisclosed and delivery expected before winter.
Sybiha, Ukraine's foreign minister, made the same case in blunter form after the attack. "Every interceptor provided to Ukraine now is a saved life. Missiles in stocks, including those nearing their expiry date, should work to protect Ukrainian skies," he said. He also called on European states to follow Germany in closing Russian cultural centres.
Against that, the head of the Verkhovna Rada's national security committee, Yegor Chernev, says the air defence situation is the worst it has been in the whole war. Zelenskiy has acknowledged that Ukraine cannot intercept ballistic missiles in the quantities being fired, for lack of interceptors.
Weapons and technology
Two Ukrainian air defence programmes surfaced this week, both aimed at the cheap end of the threat where Patriot rounds are the wrong answer:
The Luch design bureau revealed its RK-2PZ guided anti-aircraft missile. Its parameters make it unsuited to shooting down cruise missiles but sufficient against slow-moving drones, per Euromaidan Press citing Oboronka
Ukraine showed the Koral, a home-built missile designed to hit ballistic targets, for the first time at the MSPO defence exhibition in Poland. Its guidance combines inertial navigation, radio correction and an active radar homing head
The Kyiv Post reports the RK-2PZ is intended to replace Soviet Osa-AKM stocks, which Ukraine has been running down since 2022 and cannot replenish.
On the Russian side, a claim is circulating that Iskander-M is being modernised to a range of 1,500 km under the name Uran-2, with production starting at about 20 a month and rising to 50, and that Iskander-1000 variants with a 1,000 km range are already in use with about 20 more in stock. The account carrying it names no source and says "reportedly" twice. It is not used.
Ukraine's two Swedish-built Saab ASC 890 radar early warning aircraft have been flying combat sorties since March, the defence ministry has now revealed after six months of silence. The aircraft detect and track aerial targets to 450 km, about 350 km against fighter-sized targets under heavy jamming, and hold 1,000 airborne and 500 surface tracks at once, passing target data to F-16s, Mirage 2000s and Gripens over Link 16. Sweden donated the pair as part of a $1.25bn package announced in May 2024. Both are still flying and neither has been shot down.
The macro bill on either side
Russian federal spending on the war reached a new record in the first half of 2026, according to Janis Kluge of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, working from published finance ministry data:
RUB10.687 trillion spent in January to June, up 30% or RUB2.46 trillion year on year
Up 65% on the first half of 2024, up 145% on 2023 and up 285% on the first half of 2022
More than five times the pre-war level of 2021
An average of RUB1.78 trillion a month, RUB59bn a day and RUB2.5bn an hour
43.8% of all federal spending, the highest share of the war, and 57.3% of all budget revenue
Two thirds of it classified: RUB3.546 trillion on open defence lines against RUB7.141 trillion on closed ones, with the shadow total up 42% year on year
A cumulative RUB57.144 trillion since the start of 2022, which Kluge converts at the official rate to $660bn, against central bank gold and foreign exchange reserves of $720.3bn on August 1
The comparison a year earlier was 39.2% of spending and 46.8% of revenue. Before the war it was 20% and 19.8%.
On the Ukrainian side, Kevin Rothrock of Meduza flagged secret government audits obtained by the New York Times showing Kyiv lost about $1.2bn to fraud and mismanagement in defence procurement in 2024 alone, through overpayments, costly middlemen and repeat contracts to companies that had already failed to deliver. That is a US newspaper's reporting on Ukrainian government documents, which this office has not seen.
Arson and sabotage in the EU
Romania's SRI intelligence service says it prevented a Russian-coordinated sabotage operation on Romanian territory and detained a 40-year-old Russian citizen.
Between February and July he made photographs and video of targets of strategic military interest, per the SRI
Those included Romanian and allied military bases, communications centres and movements of military equipment and personnel
They also included Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft while the aircraft were on Romanian territory
He acted on instructions from a person he communicated with through encrypted messaging apps, per investigators
The SRI says the pattern matches operations run by sabotage networks coordinated from Russia, and that Russia continues to recruit from vulnerable groups
Antonov aircraft on allied soil have been a target before. A drone carrying explosives was placed against a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft at Leipzig/Halle airport in Germany on August 4 and 5; the detonator failed and a robot defused it. Two further drones were found near that airport on August 14 and 25.
A separate claim circulating on partisan accounts says German police found launch ramps for rockets aimed at power lines serving the Weisweiler power station in western Germany. No police force, prosecutor or date is named in it. The Weisweiler searches are already in this ledger on named sourcing from the September 3 to 4 substation investigation, and the ramp claim is not used.
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 |
| 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 |
Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, June 15 to September 9 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 |
Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 9 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 |
| 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 |
Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU, August 4 to September 9 2026. Non-exhaustive. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further.
The pattern
The three-day pause over Kyiv ended on September 8 and the two nights since have run at the tempo that preceded it. Compared with the first week of September, the change is not in the weight of fire but in the target mix on both sides: Russia has moved from hypermarkets and retail warehouses towards food processing, rail rolling stock and border crossings, and Ukraine has moved from grain terminals at Novorossiysk to the fuel infrastructure in the same port.
Three of Novorossiysk's grain terminals were put out of service in August. The fuel oil terminal hit on September 9 handles about 4mn tonnes a year. What has not been touched, and what no source has commented on, is the Sheskharis crude and products complex alongside them, which is the reason the port matters to Russian export revenue.
On the Ukrainian side the count of what was lost this week is a noodle factory that exports to the EU, two Kyiv warehouses with no named operator, a customs post on the Moldovan border, three trains and a locomotive. None of those is a defence plant. Russia's own target list for the night names five Kyiv sites, five in Kyiv region and three in Odesa region, and assigns a military function to each of them, including to a concrete plant, two logistics warehouses and a substation that powers ports.
The next fixed points are the winter interceptor deliveries, which every European announcement this week dates to before winter without giving a month, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant's external power line, restored on September 8 after 19 days on diesel under a local ceasefire that nobody has said will hold.
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