Missile War Monitor: Ukraine names the Arctic gas plant and the Caspian oil harbour it hit, and a Ukrainian food company becomes the first to stop production
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on the oil harbour of Russia's only ice-free Caspian port and on three warships at Novorossiysk, as the Arctic gas plant hit two days ago was identified as a 19.5mn tonne a year condensate works.
On the Ukrainian side of the ledger the day produced something this series has been waiting for since the campaign against the civilian economy began: a named company saying a strike has stopped its production. Reeva, whose instant noodle plant at Bila Tserkva burned on September 8, told Ukrainska Pravda through its press service that the factory was significantly damaged and that production has been suspended. It did not say when it would restart, saying only that it would try to preserve jobs and resume as quickly as it could.
"Striking the oil component of this transport hub directly affects Russia's ability to use the Caspian Sea to transport and transship energy resources," Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said of the Makhachkala strike. The port is the only ice-free deep-water Russian port on the Caspian, works year round, and is a link in the North-South transport corridor that gives Russia a route to Iran, India and South Asia.
Between them the two sides spent the past 24 hours on the same category of target. Russia's defence ministry published a list of nine named logistics operators it says it hit around Mykolaiv, including the wholesaler Metro and the parcel carrier Nova Poshta. Ukraine hit an oil harbour, a gas condensate plant and a fuel oil terminal. The targeting of the civilian economy is now being described by both defence ministries in the language of logistics.
Russian missiles and drones: what was fired
Ukraine's air force reported the following for the overnight attack that began at 18:00 on September 9:
149 attack drones of various types, about half of them jet-powered
128 destroyed or neutralised
Impacts recorded at 13 locations and debris falls at nine more
No missiles were reported in the air force statement
The missile line needs care. The air force listed drones only. That is not the same as a statement that no missiles were fired, and no Ukrainian official has said none were. It is an absence in a bulletin, not a zero.
The daytime figures are separate and larger in effect than the overnight ones. Russia resumed drone attacks on Kyiv through the day on September 9, with the air raid alert running for more than six hours from the start of the day, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Interception: what got through
The overnight rate was 128 of 149, about 86%. That is the same rate as the nights of September 7 to 8 and 8 to 9, both of which ran at about 86% against drones, and it has now held for three consecutive nights at three different volumes of fire.
What the rate does not capture is where the 21 that got through landed. The 13 impact locations included a warehouse complex and a commercial enterprise on opposite sides of Zaporizhzhia, a warehouse building in Obukhiv district south of Kyiv, and, on partisan geolocation that no Ukrainian official has confirmed, a tobacco factory and a parcel terminal in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.
On the Russian side the defence ministry claims 448 Ukrainian drones were intercepted between 20:00 Moscow time on September 9 and 08:00 on September 10. Regional figures where governors gave them: about 90 over Rostov region, 19 over Voronezh, 10 over Kaluga. Those are governors' numbers and are not additive with the ministry's.
Strikes on food processing: the first company to stop
Three separate food industry events in three days, and for the first time a company has put its own name to the consequence.
Reeva says its Bila Tserkva plant, which makes instant noodles and condiments, was significantly damaged in the strike of September 8 and that production is suspended, with no restart date given
A food processing business in the city of Dnipro was struck twice on the morning of September 10, killing two people and injuring two more, per Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration
The first Dnipro strike caused no casualties; the second hit the same site, which was already damaged, and started a fire
"Two people have been killed and two more injured. The enemy struck Dnipro again," Hanzha said. "The same business that was already hit in the previous strike has been damaged once more. A fire has broken out." Ukraine's air force warned at 10:52 of a Banderol loitering munition over the city.
Neither the Dnipro company nor the regional administration has named the business or given a damage figure. Reeva's statement is the only one from a Ukrainian food manufacturer in this ledger that says production has stopped rather than that a building burned.
Strikes on retail: a shopping centre stops trading
The Manufactura shopping and entertainment centre in Sumy has suspended operations after sustaining significant damage in the drone attack of September 9, per Ukrainska Pravda.
The attack killed two people and injured 20, including three girls aged 15 and 16, according to Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration.
That makes two commercial closures confirmed in a single day, a noodle factory and a shopping centre, both from strikes 24 hours apart. Neither operator has given a figure for lost trade or a reopening date.
Strikes on warehouses and logistics
The logistics damage was spread across four oblasts:
A warehouse complex in the southern suburbs of Zaporizhzhia city and a commercial enterprise in the eastern suburbs, both struck by Geran-2 and Geran-4 jet drones, with large fires confirmed against NASA FIRMS thermal data, per the partisan mapping account Military Summary, which also reports a target struck at nearby Vilnyansk
A warehouse building in Obukhiv district of Kyiv region, where one person was killed and another injured, per the Kyiv regional military administration
Private houses damaged in Bucha district and a veterinary clinic and a private house damaged by fragments in Fastiv district, with a woman treated for a shrapnel wound at the scene
A truck parking area at the Atlant auto centre and the production building of the Imperial Tobacco Ukraine factory in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, with a Nova Poshta terminal already burning nearby in the footage, all per Military Summary with coordinates
The Kyiv items are the ones to treat carefully. Military Summary publishes geolocated coordinates and video, which is more than most partisan accounts offer, but no Ukrainian official has confirmed either the tobacco factory or the parcel terminal, and neither Imperial Tobacco nor Nova Poshta has commented. They are not in the ledger as confirmed events.
A day earlier the same category took the heaviest reported damage of the week. Russian attacks over 24 hours in Kyiv Oblast killed two people and injured seven including two children, per Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, and industrial facilities were damaged in the Bila Tserkva, Bucha and Obukhiv districts.
A new target set: filling stations in Kyiv
Military Summary reports that Russia has begun striking fuel stations across the Ukrainian capital on September 10, publishing coordinates and describing it as a new phase in the campaign against Ukrainian logistics.
No Ukrainian official has confirmed a strike on a filling station in Kyiv, no operator has commented, and no forecourt has been named. The claim is recorded here because a shift from warehouses to retail fuel distribution would be a change in the target set rather than an increase in the tempo, and because it is checkable: filling stations are visible, numbered and owned by companies that publish results.
It is not in the ledger and should not be reported as established until a named official or a named operator confirms it.
Mykolaiv: the port city takes the heaviest toll of the day
Russian forces struck port and industrial infrastructure in Mykolaiv over 24 hours, killing four people and injuring 19, according to authorities in the Mykolaiv region reported on Thursday September 10 and carried by Belsat.
Russia's defence ministry published its own account of what it hit in and around the city, and it is the most explicitly commercial target list either ministry has issued in this series. Via TASS, the ministry says it struck:
The Nikolayev-2 logistics centre, said to store military cargo and equipment
The Elektrotechnika logistics centre, said to store and distribute drones and spare parts
A warehouse terminal of the Dimetra company
The Zhovtnevoye warehouse terminal, said to store fuel, lubricants and military equipment, with six fuel tanks and five storage facilities destroyed
The Nika Terra cargo terminal, said to store fuel and lubricants, with three fuel tanks and a storage warehouse on the terminal grounds struck
The Metro logistics centre
The ATP YUTK logistics centre
The Nova Poshta logistics centre, described as delivering, distributing and storing military cargo
Four fuel and lubricant tanks and a warehouse in the port of Mykolaiv itself
A dry cargo ship sailing to the port of Odesa, said to be delivering military cargo
Every one of those is a Russian claim and none has been confirmed by Ukraine. What makes the list worth printing in full is that it names two businesses whose operations are public and checkable: Metro, the German wholesaler, which has already had a hypermarket damaged in Mykolaiv this month, and Nova Poshta, Ukraine's largest parcel carrier. Russia is not describing these as collateral. It is describing them as the targets.
The Odesa corridor and the Moldovan crossing
Russia's defence ministry also confirmed, in its own words, what this monitor recorded a day earlier as an unexplained strike. It says it hit logistics facilities at the Starokazachye road checkpoint in the Odesa region, "used to transport military cargo into Ukrainian territory".
That is Starokozache, the international road crossing into Moldova that was struck on the night of September 8 to 9, killing two people and closing the crossing. Moldova's Border Police confirmed that operations at the Tudora to Starokozache crossing were suspended after explosions on the Ukrainian side, and said no debris or hazardous objects were found on Moldovan territory. Ukraine's State Border Guard Service confirmed the suspension.
The ministry's stated reason matters for what comes next. It says military cargo for Ukraine is delivered from Romania through international checkpoints in the Odesa region, transiting Moldova. On that reasoning every crossing on that route is a declared target, and Orlivka on the Romanian border has already been hit three times in ten days.
Strikes on power and energy
The energy damage this cycle was mostly on the Russian side of the line.
Two power lines and an electricity pylon damaged in Voronezh region, along with a residential building destroyed by fire, the windows of a technical college, the door of a cultural centre, a bus and a car
Four private houses left without electricity in the Millerovsky district of Rostov region after power line damage
A woman born in 1983 killed at Borisoglebsk in Voronezh region when drone debris fell on a private house and started a fire, with two others injured, per governor Alexander Gusev
Inside Ukraine, Russia's permanent representative to the international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost power ten times in the past three months and that its diesel fuel store, electrical network workshop and pumping station have come under attack. That is a Russian account of a plant under Russian control and Ukraine attributes the outages to Russian action. The plant was reconnected to external power on September 8 after 19 days on diesel generators.
Strikes on residential
Kyiv took two residential strikes in daylight on September 9, both on high-rise blocks.
A drone struck a nine-storey block in Dniprovskyi district at about 16:21, killing a woman and injuring three people including two children aged 15 and 16
A drone struck a 24-storey block in Darnytskyi district at about 08:00, starting a fire on the 12th floor and injuring nine people
A fire broke out in an open area in Darnytskyi district after a drone crash, and a warehouse fire followed in Dniprovskyi district in the early afternoon
One person was killed and at least 12 injured in the capital over the day, per Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko and the Kyiv City Military Administration. In Kyiv region on the morning of September 10 one person died and two were injured, per the regional administration.
Ukraine's deepest strike: the plant now has a name
The biggest open question in this monitor's previous edition was which facility in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug was hit on the afternoon of September 9. Three sources gave three different answers. The reporting has now converged on one.
The target is the Novy Urengoy condensate preparation plant, per the Kyiv Post
Its capacity is about 19.5mn tonnes of raw material a year and it handles gas condensate from major fields across the Yamal region, per figures attributed to Gazprom
Military Summary gives its full name as the Novy Urengoy Condensate Preparation and Transportation Plant
Governor Dmitry Artyukhov said a drone attack on an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy was repelled and that falling debris started a fire, with no casualties and damage still being assessed
Ukraine has not officially claimed the strike; the Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point posted: "Guess who covered more than 3,300 km and successfully hit the target"
The Kyiv Post puts the distance at nearly 3,200 km. Fire Point says more than 3,300 km. The monitoring account Special Kherson Cat says about 2,800 km. The range in circulation is now 2,800 to 3,300 km, and "more than 3,000 km" is the only figure true on all three.
What has not been established is damage. A fire is confirmed by the governor. No processing suspension, no throughput effect and no Gazprom statement exists. A plant rated at 19.5mn tonnes a year that keeps running is a headline about reach, not about supply.
The Caspian: an oil harbour and a corridor to Iran
Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said they struck facilities at the Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port in Dagestan, and Ukraine's General Staff confirmed the strike and a fire at the facility on September 10, with damage still being assessed.
The SOF account is specific about which part of the port it went for:
The oil harbour, designed to handle tankers of up to 10,000 tonnes with a draught of up to 10 metres
An oil depot located directly beside the port's territory
Makhachkala is Russia's only ice-free deep-water port on the Caspian and operates year round
It is a link in the North-South international transport corridor, Russia's alternative route to Iran, India and South Asia
Per data from the Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point, Makhachkala has been used as a delivery point for Iranian attack drones reaching Russia across the Caspian, which were then moved to launch areas
The Russian account is narrower. Fyodor Shchukin, acting head of Dagestan, said falling drone fragments caused fires at port infrastructure and at the Avar Music and Drama Theatre in Makhachkala, that both were promptly extinguished and that there were no casualties. He described the attack as repelled. Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed that Ukraine struck a seaport in Dagestan.
Ukrinform carried the General Staff confirmation. Nobody on either side has said whether loading was suspended, and no tanker movement data has been published. The Caspian appeared in Russia's own overnight interception list for the first time, alongside the Black Sea.
Novorossiysk: three warships and the fuel oil store
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on September 9 on three named vessels at Novorossiysk and on fuel oil storage facilities in the city:
The frigate Admiral Essen, a Project 11356 ship and a Kalibr cruise missile carrier
The minesweeper Zheleznyakov
The Project 11711 large landing ship Pyotr Morgunov
Fuel oil storage facilities in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai
Ukraine's military intelligence directorate HUR says its operators struck the naval base overnight on September 9 as part of a joint deep-strike operation, and reports a fire on Admiral Essen's superstructure. HUR says the same ship was struck in August alongside Admiral Makarov and the patrol ship Vasiliy Bykov.
Separately, NOELREPORTS says satellite imagery published by the monitoring channel Exilenova+ shows a Project 21631 Buyan-M small missile ship hit at Novorossiysk and likely left inoperable. That is a fourth vessel and it is not in the General Staff's list. Russia has acknowledged none of the four.
The warships are military targets and are not in the economic ledger. The fuel oil storage is, and it comes a day after the fuel oil terminal inside the commercial port burned. Between them, the two events put Novorossiysk's fuel handling and all three of its grain terminals out of normal service inside a month.
Sochi: the casualty figure has trebled
The naval drone attack on the Sochi seafront on the evening of September 9 injured 28 people including two children, according to the regional crisis centre carried by TASS and by The Moscow Times. Three adults and a child remain in hospital and Sochi mayor Andrey Proshunin said their lives were not in danger.
Beach infrastructure and part of the Primorskaya Embankment were damaged. Proshunin ordered district heads to restore the infrastructure and ensure sanitary safety.
This monitor's earlier edition carried eight injured, which was the figure available at the time. The revised figure is 28 and the ledger row should be amended rather than duplicated.
Ukrainian drones and missiles: what Kyiv claims
Russia's defence ministry claims 448 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov and Tula regions, Dagestan, Kalmykia and Krasnodar Krai, plus Crimea, the Black Sea and, for the first time in this series, the Caspian Sea.
Ukraine's defence ministry published its own August figures, which are about the war on the line rather than the deep strikes:
Ukrainian units downed nearly 24,000 Russian copter drones in August, the highest monthly total since the e-Points scheme began
That is roughly 800 a day, or about one for every kilometre and a half of a front the commander-in-chief put at about 1,200 km in February
Ukrainian forces also struck more than 35,000 fixed-wing drones over the month
30,246 Russian soldiers were confirmed killed or wounded under e-Points, each logged on video in the DELTA system
Costlier hardware hit in August included a Su-30 fighter, an L-39 Albatros and a Ka-52 attack helicopter
The ministry says the naval effort has moved: where earlier activity was mostly in the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian strikes are now reaching into the Black Sea towards Novorossiysk and Sochi. A record month partly tracks a wider reporting net, since e-Points now reaches almost every drone unit, and the figure is a gauge rather than a count.
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces separately say their drones hit 34 energy facilities in occupied territories during September, per Ukrainska Pravda. No facilities were named.
Arson and sabotage in the EU: the German substation case has a suspect
German police have detained the man they had been hunting across Europe over a run of attacks on electrical substations, and they caught him next to a power station.
Daniel V., 48, a resident of Gevelsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, was stopped by a traffic patrol checking documents near the Weisweiler power plant outside Aachen
He tried to flee but did not resist; officers found explosive devices on him and bombs in a nearby tent
Explosives were also found when police searched his flat at Gevelsberg
He is suspected of sabotage at substations at Janschwalde near Berlin, Bergheim near Cologne and Dormagen near Dusseldorf
Police were led to him by letters sent to German news outlets giving the sender's full address and claiming responsibility, with the line: "Generating electricity from fossil fuels is a crime"
Federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attacks were very likely an act of climate terrorism by a lone perpetrator. Saxony's interior minister Armin Schuster cautioned that the motive remained unclear and that the suspect could have acted on someone else's orders. Officials had previously considered the possibility that foreign powers were behind the Brandenburg incident, a suspicion that followed sabotage at Leipzig airport that Germany says Russian agents carried out. Meduza carried the account, citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
This matters for the other rows in the EU table. Fourteen of the sixteen entries in that ledger are German, and a substantial run of them, the Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony substation devices, now have a named suspect with an anti-fossil-fuel motive rather than a state sponsor. Attribution in this table is given as the authorities state it and no further, and what the authorities now state is that a lone German is the prime suspect for a cluster of them.
The politics behind the target sets
Sergei Lavrov said on Russian state television on September 8 that Ukraine itself should become the buffer zone Moscow says it needs. "Everyone argues that Russia needs a buffer zone. Let Ukraine become this buffer," he said, according to Russia's foreign ministry, per the Kyiv Post.
Asked how Moscow could guarantee the war would not resume in 25 years, he argued Ukraine could not be allowed to keep its present government. The remarks came after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner saw Vladimir Putin in Moscow and then went to Kyiv, and after the hour-long Putin to Trump call that followed.
Naftogaz's supervisory board has meanwhile opened a competition for the chief executive's post at the state oil and gas company, in the middle of the heaviest sustained attack on Ukrainian energy and logistics of the war.
What could not be established
Stated as gaps rather than filled in:
Whether the Novy Urengoy plant stopped or slowed processing. A fire is confirmed by the governor; nothing else is
Whether loading was suspended at Makhachkala. Neither the port, the General Staff nor any Russian official has said
Which company operates the Dnipro food processing site struck twice on September 10
Whether any Kyiv filling station was actually hit. The claim rests on one partisan account
Whether the Imperial Tobacco Ukraine plant and the Nova Poshta terminal in Holosiivskyi were hit. Geolocated partisan footage exists; no official or corporate confirmation does
What the Reeva plant's output was before the strike, and therefore what the suspension costs
Any glide bomb figure for September 8 to 10. None was reported. Empty, not unswept
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 |
| 9 Sep | Manufactura shopping mall, Sumy | Drone | Sumy | Fires engulfed vehicles in the mall car parks and debris was scattered across the site. Two people killed, both aged 21, and 20 injured including three girls aged 15 to 16, of whom 14 were hospitalised with two men and one woman in a serious condition and one woman in an extremely critical condition, per Sumy governor Oleh Hryhorov and the State Emergency Service. No source states structural damage to the mall building and the operator has not been named |
| 9 Sep | Repair crew and vehicle of the Zaporizhzhia District Electric Network, Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo | Drone | Zaporizhzhia | The crew was attacked while restoring power to a community de-energised by shelling the previous day. The vehicle sustained extensive damage in the explosion and nobody was hurt, per Andrii Stasevskyi, head of Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo. Ukrinform says this was the second targeted drone attack on energy workers since the start of September |
| 9 Sep | Power distribution across five regions | Drones and artillery | Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv | New outages as of the morning of September 9, per Ukrenergo, which named no facilities and gave no customer numbers. Consumption at 09:30 was 1.7% higher than the previous day and consumers were asked to shift heavy use to between 10:00 and 15:00 and to limit high-power appliances between 18:00 and 22:00 |
| 9 Sep | Warehouse near the Comfort Town complex, Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv, and five production and warehouse facilities in Kyiv region | Drones | Kyiv city and Kyiv region | Warehouse fire in the Dniprovskyi district with the operator not named. 31 sites damaged across Kyiv region including five production and warehouse facilities, one administrative building, one utility building, 11 houses, two apartment buildings and 12 vehicles, per Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration. Nine injured in the city and two killed and seven injured in the region including two children. Air raid alerts ran for more than six hours in daylight |
| 9-10 Sep | Business and commercial facilities at five sites, Central City and Saksahanskyi districts of Kryvyi Rih | Drones | Dnipropetrovska oblast | Five impact sites with apartment blocks, private homes and educational, cultural and business facilities damaged and fires at two of them, per Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city defence council. Five injured and two hospitalised, a 42-year-old man in a serious condition and a 41-year-old man in a moderate condition, per governor Oleksandr Hanzha. No business has been named |
| 9-10 Sep | Market, Khmelnytskyi city | Disputed | Khmelnytskyi | Fire at the market followed by a secondary detonation while State Emergency Service crews were working, injuring four of them. UA.NEWS and nv.ua describe a drone strike on the market; Ukrinform attributes the fire to falling debris from a downed drone. The market has not been named and no damage area or stall count has been given |
| 8 Sep, confirmed 10 Sep | Reeva instant noodle and condiment plant, Bila Tserkva | Drone | Kyiv region | The company's press service says the factory was significantly damaged and that production has been suspended, with no restart date given and a stated intention to preserve jobs and resume as quickly as possible, per Ukrainska Pravda. The first confirmation by a named Ukrainian manufacturer in this ledger that a strike has stopped production rather than damaged a building. No output figure, no loss estimate and no insurance position published |
| 9 Sep, confirmed 10 Sep | Manufactura shopping and entertainment centre, Sumy | Drone | Sumy | Significant damage and operations suspended, per Ukrainska Pravda. Two people killed and 20 injured including three girls aged 15 and 16, per Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration. No reopening date and no figure for lost trade |
| 9-10 Sep | Warehouse complex in the southern suburbs and a commercial enterprise in the eastern suburbs of Zaporizhzhia city, plus a target at Vilnyansk | Geran-2 and Geran-4 jet drones | Zaporizhzhia | Large fires at both sites, corroborated against NASA FIRMS thermal data, per the partisan mapping account Military Summary, which published coordinates. No Ukrainian official has itemised the sites, no operator has been named and no damage assessment exists |
| 9-10 Sep | Warehouse building, Obukhiv district | Not stated | Kyiv region | One person killed and another injured in the district, and a fire in a warehouse building, per the Kyiv regional military administration. Private houses damaged in Bucha district and a veterinary clinic and a private house damaged by fragments in Fastiv district, where a woman was treated for a shrapnel wound. Owner not named and no damage figure |
| 10 Sep | Food processing business, Dnipro, struck twice in one morning | Drones, with a Banderol loitering munition warned over the city at 10:52 | Dnipropetrovsk | Two people killed and two injured in the second strike, which hit the same site already damaged in the first and started a fire, per Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration. The first strike caused no casualties. The company has not been named by any official and no damage figure has been published |
| 10 Sep | Port and industrial infrastructure, Mykolaiv city | Not stated | Mykolaiv | Four people killed and 19 injured over 24 hours, per authorities in the Mykolaiv region carried by Belsat. Russia's defence ministry separately claims to have hit the Nikolayev-2, Elektrotechnika, Metro, ATP YUTK and Nova Poshta logistics centres, the Dimetra and Zhovtnevoye warehouse terminals, the Nika Terra cargo terminal, four fuel tanks and a warehouse in the port itself, and a dry cargo ship bound for Odesa. Every one of those is a Russian claim, none is confirmed by Ukraine, and neither Metro nor Nova Poshta has commented |
Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, June 15 to September 10 2026. Non-exhaustive. Every row is sourced; where only one side has spoken, the table says so.
| Date | Target | Weapon | Region | Damage |
| 3 Jun | St Petersburg oil terminal | Drones | Leningrad region | Hit on the opening day of Russia's SPIEF investment forum |
| 7 Jul | Omsk refinery | Drones | Omsk | Largest refinery hit to that point and the deepest strike into Russia |
| 16 Jul | Salavat refinery | Drones | Bashkortostan | Key units hit; about 3% of national refining capacity |
| 18 Jul | Wildberries warehouse | Drones | Tambov region | Seven killed; opens the campaign against retail and logistics |
| 4 Aug | Wildberries hubs near Moscow and St Petersburg; a refinery | Drones | Russia | Warehouses hit; refinery ablaze |
| 7 Aug | Wildberries warehouse, Yekaterinburg | Drones | Sverdlovsk region | 2,000 km from the border |
| 12 Aug | Novorossiysk Grain Plant terminal | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Loading equipment damaged; company puts repairs at one to four months |
| 14 Aug | Last working Novorossiysk grain terminal | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | All three of the port's grain terminals out of service |
| 17-18 Aug | Five bulk carriers | Sea and aerial drones | Novorossiysk and Tuapse | First large-scale strikes on ships carrying grain |
| 19-25 Aug | Refineries at Ufa, Nizhnekamsk, Perm, Novokuybyshevsk, Afipsky and Novoshakhtinsk | Drones | Russia | Perm and Novoshakhtinsk suspended processing |
| 22-24 Aug | Ozon warehouses at Chapayevsk (Samara), Orenburg, Makhachkala (Dagestan), Enem and Adygeysk (Adygea), Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol) | Drones | Samara, Orenburg, Dagestan, Adygea, Stavropol | Four warehouses hit and set ablaze, with injuries at Chapayevsk and Makhachkala; operations suspended. Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk evacuated on a drone threat but undamaged. Ozon shares fell 28% |
| 24 Aug | Astrakhan gas processing plant; Kamensky Combine | Drones | Astrakhan and Rostov regions | Two gas separation units hit |
| 25-26 Aug | Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, Kstovo | Drones | Nizhny Novgorod region | Crude processing suspended; every major Lukoil refinery in Russia now offline |
| 26 Aug | Wildberries logistics centre, Kotovsk | Drones | Tambov region | Three of 19 drones got through; more than 100,000 sq m burned, complex destroyed, two injured |
| 27 Aug | Ozon logistics centres at Ufa (Bashkortostan) and Orenburg | Drones | Bashkortostan and Orenburg region | Ufa warehouse suffered minor damage and closed for inspection; Orenburg facility evacuated on a drone threat and resumed work soon after |
| 27 Aug | Bashkir Soda Company, Sterlitamak | Drones | Bashkortostan | Smoke over the industrial zone; target identified by open-source analysts, not confirmed officially |
| 27-28 Aug | Shchastia thermal power station | Drones | Occupied Luhansk | Fire at the plant; blackout across occupied Luhansk and Donetsk, restoration time not given |
| 28 Aug | Slavneft-YANOS refinery, Yaroslavl | FP-1 drones | Yaroslavl region | Three quarters of capacity halted: the AVT-3 and AVT-4 primary units, 40% and 33% of the plant, stopped and only AT-4 still running. Eighth strike on the plant this year |
| 28 Aug | Magnit hypermarket, Pavlovsky Posad | Drone | Moscow region | Store hit; 46 windows shattered in the adjacent clinic; no casualties; first reported strike on one of the chain's hypermarkets |
| 28 Aug | Power transmission line | Drones | Voronezh region | Two villages and a farmstead cut off |
| 26-28 Aug | 21 substations and gas distribution stations in occupied territory | Drones | Occupied Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea | Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces claim; no damage detail and no Russian confirmation |
| 29 Aug | Ozon logistics facility | Drones | Rostov region | Small fire extinguished; operations suspended for inspection, per the company; site placed at Aksay by some accounts and Rostov-on-Don by others |
| 29 Aug | DNS warehouse, Aksay | Drones | Rostov region | Reported ablaze by open-source channels; the governor confirmed only drone debris on the site |
| 29 Aug | Chizhik supermarket warehouse, Leninskoye | Drones | Rostov region | Reported struck by a single Telegram channel; no official confirmation |
| 29-30 Aug | Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery, Kirishi | Drones | Leningrad region | Disputed. Ukraine's General Staff says the plant was struck and damage is being assessed; the governor says a downed drone fell near it and started a fire that was extinguished. No independent assessment; about 790 km from the border |
| 30 Aug | Belgorod combined heat and power plant | Not established | Belgorod region | Fires on eyewitness footage circulated by a local Telegram channel; TV broadcast disruption reported; no Russian official confirmation of damage and no outage figures |
| 30 Aug | Estate Logistics warehouse used by Ozon, Belgorod | Not established | Belgorod region | Warehouse hit and burning; Ozon confirmed the strike and halted deliveries in the city; acting governor reported two killed and 16 injured at commercial facilities |
| 30 Aug | PEK transport company facility and an industrial-zone site, Belgorod | Not established | Belgorod region | Fires reported from eyewitness footage circulated by one Telegram channel; no damage assessment and no official confirmation |
| 31 Aug | Logistics centre identified by monitoring channels as a Wildberries hub, Yekaterinburg | Drones | Sverdlovsk region | Operator says the facility was not damaged and staff were evacuated; debris damaged three apartment blocks and four were injured; over 1,600 km from the border |
| 1 Sep | Novatek-Ust-Luga complex, Ust-Luga port | Drones | Leningrad region | Ukraine's Defence Intelligence says key components of an oil-processing unit and other technological equipment were damaged and a large fire broke out; governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed damage at the port and a fire, since extinguished, with no casualties, and did not name Novatek. Drone counts over the region differ between accounts |
| 2-3 Sep | Factory, operator and sector not identified, Bolshoye Bunkovo | Drone | Moscow region | Governor Andrei Vorobyov says a drone strike started a fire at a factory and did not name it; TASS describes a drone crashing on factory grounds rather than a direct hit. No damage assessment |
| 3 Sep | Sochi sea port | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Fire in footage published by monitoring channels; damage, consequences and casualties still being clarified. Neither the Krasnodar governor nor the mayor of Sochi has commented. Rosaviatsiya restricted arrivals and departures at Sochi and Gelendzhik airports |
| 3-4 Sep | Two fuel depots, one at Sirius and one in the Adler district of Sochi | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Fires at both, with thermal anomalies logged at 02:20 and 03:39 Moscow time. Sochi mayor Andrey Proshunin confirmed a fire and no casualties and set up a round-the-clock crisis centre; the Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters said drone debris was found at addresses across the city. The Insider identifies the two as Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt at Sirius and Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt at Adler; a Ukrainian monitoring account calls the Adler site an aviation fuel complex near the airport. No Russian official has named either operator and no capacity or throughput figure has been published. Queues formed at Sochi filling stations on September 4 and the city said reserves were sufficient. Satellite imagery read by Militarnyi on September 6 counts nine tanks destroyed across the two sites, six at the Rosneft depot and three RVS-400 at Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt |
| 3-4 Sep | Vessel Nefrit, Sochi sea port | Naval drone | Krasnodar Krai | Ukraine's Navy published video it says shows the aftermath of a strike on the vessel, which it describes as servicing offshore oil and gas facilities and carrying cargo and personnel. No Russian acknowledgement and no damage assessment. May be the same event as the 3 Sep Sochi sea port row |
| 3-4 Sep | Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant | Drones | Bashkortostan | Radiy Khabirov, head of Bashkortostan, confirmed a drone attack and said debris started a fire on the enterprise's premises, without naming the facility. Satellite imagery reported by Militarnyi shows damage to the Agidol fuel-additive facility, the isoprene plant overpass and isopentane dehydrogenation units in two buildings. The plant makes ionol, an additive for aviation fuel and for lubricants used in military equipment. About 1,300 km from Ukraine. No output-loss or downtime figure published |
| 4-5 Sep | Energy infrastructure facility, Korenevsky district | Drone | Kursk region | The facility was damaged and supply was restored through a backup scheme, per governor Alexander Khinshtein. The facility was not named, no consumer-outage figure was given and no damage assessment was published |
| 3-4 Sep | Sochi airport BATO fuel depot and the Lukoil facility at Veseloye | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Six fuel tanks, two helicopters and two aviation radars damaged at the airport depot with a fire reported, and three RVS-400 tanks and a fire-water reservoir damaged at the Lukoil facility, per the monitoring account NOELreports. An S-300 position showed strike and detonation marks. No Russian official has confirmed any of it and no operator has been named |
| 5-6 Sep | Ryazan oil refinery | Drones, described by the manufacturer Fire Point as long-range FP-1 | Ryazan region | Ukraine's General Staff says the refinery was hit and a fire was recorded on the enterprise's territory. Militarnyi geolocates the impact to the Izomalk-2 LIN-800 low-temperature isomerisation unit at 54.5715, 39.7484, which makes high-octane blending component for Euro-5 gasoline; that is the outlet's own geolocation of monitoring-channel video and not an official finding. Governor Pavel Malkov says more than 50 drones were downed over the region and that debris caused a fire at an industrial enterprise, and has not named the refinery. Oily residue reported falling on the city. Rosneft has said nothing and no source states whether processing has stopped. Capacity given as 13.1mn tonnes a year by Kyiv Post and about 17mn tonnes by Militarnyi and Euromaidan Press |
| 5-6 Sep | Reported Ozon warehouse, Ryazan | Drones | Ryazan region | Explosions reported in the vicinity by monitoring channels and by Kyiv Post. No confirmation from the company and no damage assessment |
| 5-6 Sep | Rostov-on-Don, Bataysk and surrounding districts | Drones | Rostov region | Drones circled Rostov-on-Don for more than four hours amid gunfire and helicopter activity, per the independent Russian outlet Astra and eyewitnesses. Governor Yuri Slyusar said three residential buildings were damaged, a child was hospitalised and three dozen drones were destroyed over the region. No economic facility has been named as damaged |
| 5-6 Sep | Locomotive, Chertkovsky district | Drone debris, not a stated direct hit | Rostov region | A locomotive damaged and seven passenger trains delayed by about three hours, per The Insider. No freight infrastructure damage reported |
| 6 Sep | Roll-on roll-off vessel Lady Maria, IMO 9220641, operated by MG-Flot and on the US OFAC sanctions list | Drones fitted with munition-dropping systems | Mediterranean Sea, near Crete | Bombed by drones, causing a small fire, per Militarnyi and the trade publication Splash247. Militarnyi states there is currently no confirmed information on whether the drones were Ukrainian; Splash247 says there is no independent confirmation from Kyiv or Moscow. Cargo unconfirmed. No Ukrainian, Russian or Syrian official has commented |
| 6-7 Sep | Airspace over 18 territories, with airports suspended at Samara, Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary, Saransk, Bugulma, Nizhnekamsk, Perm, Izhevsk and Sochi | Drones | Volga regions, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Perm Krai and Krasnodar Krai | Russian defence ministry claims 306 drones destroyed between 20:00 on September 6 and 08:00 on September 7. About 50 flights delayed at Kazan; seven departures delayed at Samara with Sochi passengers waiting more than 13 hours; Perm closed 04:46 to 08:44 Moscow time; Izhevsk reopened about 08:49. Region count differs between accounts, from 17 to 19 |
| 6-7 Sep | Cellular transmission tower | Drones | Chuvashia | Tower damaged and at least two drones destroyed, with no casualties, per republic head Oleg Nikolaev. The only economic damage any Russian official acknowledged during the raid |
| 6-7 Sep | 325th Aircraft Repair Plant, Taganrog | Drones | Rostov region | NASA FIRMS detected a fire in the aircraft parking area at 02:44, per Militarnyi. The site shares ground with the Beriev complex, which repairs A-50U, Il-76 and Il-38 aircraft and builds Molniya drones. No Russian official statement of any kind |
| 6-7 Sep | Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery, and the Perm Powder Plant and Mashinostroitel works at Zakamsk | Drones | Perm Krai | Claimed only. The refinery was named by a monitoring channel and Meduza says it remains officially unconfirmed; The Insider reports open-source analysts identifying smoke over Zakamsk. Governor Dmitry Makhonin says 27 drones were shot down over the krai, that a drone hit an apartment block killing one and wounding four, and has named no industrial site |
| 6-7 Sep | Unnamed oil refinery, Tatarstan | Drones | Tatarstan | Claimed by Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who released video on September 7 saying three refineries were hit that night. He did not name the plant, no Russian official has commented and damage is not stated. Ukraine's General Staff weekly target list of September 7 does not mention Tatarstan |
| 6-7 Sep | Railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal at Vladyslavivka | Drones | Crimea | Claimed by Zelenskiy and by Ukraine's General Staff on September 7. Damage not stated and no Russian confirmation of any kind |
| 7 Sep | Rosneft fuel depot, Adler district, Sochi | None. Apparent re-ignition rather than a fresh strike | Krasnodar Krai | Reported ablaze again three days after the September 3-4 strikes, with residents asked to close their windows. No air raid alert was issued beforehand, no Russian official has confirmed the fire and no cause has been given |
| 7-8 Sep | Saratov oil refinery, Rosneft, about 460 km from the Ukrainian border | Drones | Saratov region | Fire filmed by residents and the footage geolocated by the Russian outlet Astra. Governor Roman Busargin confirmed damaged buildings and 10 people injured including three children, six of them hospitalised, but did not name the refinery. No damage assessment, no statement on runs, no Rosneft comment and no Ukrainian General Staff confirmation. The Moscow Times says this is the fifth attack on the plant since January and that it halted processing after each of the previous four |
| 7-8 Sep | Engels-2 bomber base | Drones | Saratov region | Explosions reported near the airfield by Ukrainian monitoring channels and by residents. No Russian official statement and no damage assessment. Russia's defence ministry claims 384 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over 12 regions, Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea overnight, without per-region figures |
| 7-8 Sep | Airspace over the Volga and the Black Sea coast, with airports restricted at Saratov, Penza, Volgograd and Ulyanovsk, and at Sochi the previous afternoon | Drones | Saratov, Penza, Volgograd, Ulyanovsk and Krasnodar Krai | Saratov and Penza restricted from 02:30 Moscow time and lifted at 07:01, Volgograd and Ulyanovsk lifted at the same time, per Rosaviatsiya via Interfax. Six flights delayed at Volgograd. At Sochi on September 7, restrictions from 13:33 to 15:00 affected more than 40 flights, 18 departures and 23 arrivals, the longest delay 21 hours 10 minutes. No facility reported damaged at any airport and no national delay total published |
| 8 Sep | Filling station, Starodub | Drone | Bryansk region | A 39-year-old man killed at the scene and three residents wounded, three vehicles damaged, the forecourt canopy damaged and windows broken in two administrative buildings, per acting governor Yegor Kovalchuk, who also says 81 drones were destroyed over the region in 24 hours |
| 8-9 Sep | Fuel oil terminal, part of the Novorossiysk commercial sea port, annual capacity about 4mn tonnes of fuel oil and light petroleum products | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | At least one storage tank damaged and a fire started, per Militarnyi, using geolocated photographs and video plus NASA fire hotspot data. The independent Russian channel Astra reported the terminal ablaze. Novorossiysk mayor Andrey Kravchenko confirmed an attack but attributed damage at industrial sites to falling debris. No company statement, no Transneft comment, no statement on loadings or on the adjacent Sheskharis complex, and no Ukrainian General Staff confirmation |
| 8-9 Sep | Residential Novorossiysk: three private houses, five apartment blocks, a church and a kindergarten | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Four people killed including a child and 29 injured with three in a serious condition, per Krasnodar Krai governor Veniamin Kondratyev. The highest civilian toll from a single Ukrainian strike inside Russia in this ledger. Russia's defence ministry claims 596 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight over 10 regions, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea, without per-region figures |
| 9 Sep | Gas condensate plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, named as the Novy Urengoy gas condensate treatment plant by the governor and as Novatek's Purovsky gas condensate processing plant by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces | Drones, identified as AN-196 Liutyi by the Special Operations Forces and hinted at as FP-1 by the manufacturer Fire Point | Yamalo-Nenets | The deepest strike of the war. Governor Dmitry Artyukhov confirmed a drone attack on an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy and said falling debris caused a fire; Militarnyi and the Special Operations Forces name the Purovsky plant at Purpe, about 200 km away, and the two accounts have not been reconciled. Personnel evacuated in advance and gas flared off through the stacks. No casualties and no confirmed shutdown; Militarnyi says it is not known which units were damaged or by how much capacity was reduced. Purovsky processes 10.8mn tonnes a year of de-ethanised gas condensate; the Novy Urengoy plant's design capacity is about 19.5mn tonnes a year. Distance given as about 2,800 km by AFP, 3,200 km by the Kyiv Independent and more than 3,300 km by Fire Point, which is an interested party |
| 9 Sep | Primorskaya waterfront, Sochi | Naval drones | Krasnodar Krai | Fire on the waterfront with beach infrastructure and the adjoining embankment partially damaged, per the Krasnodar Krai operational headquarters. Eight injured, five hospitalised and three treated at the scene. The first Sochi event this month that Russian officials have attributed to unmanned surface vessels rather than to aircraft-type drones |
| 9-10 Sep | Makhachkala Sea Trade Port, Russia's only ice-free deep-water Caspian port | Drones | Dagestan | Fires at port infrastructure and at the Gamzat Tsadasa Avar Musical and Dramatic Theatre, which the head of Dagestan attributed to falling drone fragments. No casualties reported and no Russian official has said whether loading was suspended. The port handled more than 2.9mn tonnes of grain in the first eight months of 2026 and 1.83mn tonnes of liquid cargo, per nv.ua. Named as a target by Zelenskiy on the morning of September 10 |
| 9-10 Sep | Two electricity transmission lines and one pylon | Drones | Voronezh region | Lines and pylon damaged, a technical college's windows and the entrance to a Palace of Culture damaged, and private homes and vehicles hit across six districts. A 43-year-old woman killed at Borisoglebsk when a drone struck a private house that completely burned, and two treated at the scene, per RIA Voronezh citing the Russian defence ministry, which claims 19 drones destroyed over the region |
| 9-10 Sep | Airspace over 14 regions, with airports suspended at Penza, Saratov and Tambov | Drones | Penza, Saratov, Tambov and Moscow regions | Rosaviatsia suspended arrivals and departures at the three airports and Tambov's Donskoe halted after a drone danger alert at about 22:04. Vnukovo and Domodedovo operated by coordination with the authorities under airspace restrictions, per Fontanka. No flight delay total has been published. Russia's defence ministry claims 448 drones intercepted between 20:00 on September 9 and 08:00 on September 10 across 14 regions plus Caspian and Black Sea waters, without per-region figures |
| 9-10 Sep | Unnamed facilities in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions | Not stated | Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions | Named by Zelenskiy on the morning of September 10 within a claim that Ukraine struck eight infrastructure facilities inside Russia over the past day. Four of the eight were not identified, no damage was stated and no Russian official has confirmed any of them |
| 9 Sep | Fuel oil storage facilities, Novorossiysk | Drones | Krasnodar Krai | Confirmed by Ukraine's General Staff, which also confirmed strikes the same day on the frigate Admiral Essen, the minesweeper Zheleznyakov and the large landing ship Pyotr Morgunov. HUR reports a fire on Admiral Essen's superstructure. A fourth vessel, a Project 21631 Buyan-M missile ship, is claimed hit and likely inoperable on Exilenova+ satellite imagery via NOELREPORTS and is not in the General Staff list. Russia has acknowledged none of the four. Comes one day after the fuel oil terminal in the commercial port burned |
| 10 Sep | Oil harbour and port infrastructure, Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port, and the Avar Music and Drama Theatre | Drones | Dagestan | Ukraine's Special Operations Forces say they struck the port's oil harbour, which handles tankers of up to 10,000 tonnes with a draught of up to 10 metres, with an oil depot directly beside the port. The General Staff confirms a strike and a fire with damage still being assessed, and Zelenskiy confirmed a seaport in Dagestan was hit. Acting head of Dagestan Fyodor Shchukin says falling fragments caused fires at port infrastructure and at the theatre, that both were promptly extinguished and there were no casualties, and describes the attack as repelled. Russia's only ice-free deep-water Caspian port and a link in the North-South corridor to Iran, India and South Asia. Fire Point says the port has been used as a delivery point for Iranian attack drones. No statement from either side on whether loading was suspended |
Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 10 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 |
| 8 Sep | Airspace of Moldova and Romania, with a crash site near Mihaileni Vechi | Drone identified by Moldova's defence ministry as a suspected Russian Shahed-type | Moldova and Romania | The drone entered Moldovan airspace at 16:20 local time from the direction of Ukraine and left at 16:37. Spanish F/A-18s were scrambled, Romania issued emergency shelter warnings and suspended airport operations, and the drone came down about 25 km east of the Romania to Moldova border. No damage and no casualties reported. Moldova's defence ministry identified the type in an official statement and no authority has named a launching unit or command |
| 8 Sep | Arrest near the Weisweiler power plant outside Aachen, in the substation sabotage case | Suspect detained carrying explosive devices, with bombs in a nearby tent | Germany | Daniel V., 48, of Gevelsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, stopped by a traffic patrol checking documents; he tried to flee but did not resist. Explosives were also found in his flat. He is suspected of sabotage at substations at Janschwalde near Berlin, Bergheim near Cologne and Dormagen near Dusseldorf. Police were led to him by letters to German news outlets giving his full address and claiming responsibility, with the line that generating electricity from fossil fuels is a crime. Federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt says the attacks were very likely climate terrorism by a lone perpetrator; Saxony's interior minister Armin Schuster says the motive remains unclear and the suspect could have acted on someone else's orders. Per Meduza, citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU, August 4 to September 10 2026. Non-exhaustive. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further.
The pattern
Two things changed in the past 24 hours, and neither was the volume of fire. Russia's overnight drone total fell from 196 on September 8 to 9 to 149 on September 9 to 10, and the interception rate held at about 86% through both. What changed was the vocabulary. Russia's defence ministry stopped describing its targets as defence industry and began listing named logistics companies: Metro, Nova Poshta, Nika Terra, Dimetra, Elektrotechnika.
The second change is on the Ukrainian side of the ledger and it is the more consequential one. For three weeks this monitor has recorded burned buildings without being able to say what burning them cost, because no operator would say. Reeva has now said it: significantly damaged, production suspended, no restart date. The Manufactura centre in Sumy has said the same. Two closures in one day, from two strikes 24 hours apart, is the first evidence in this series that the campaign against warehouses, plants and shops is taking capacity out rather than damaging premises.
Ukraine's own targets moved the other way, from refineries towards the arteries. A gas condensate plant 3,000 km away, an oil harbour on the Caspian that serves the corridor to Iran, fuel oil storage at Novorossiysk, and three warships in the port the Black Sea Fleet retreated to. All three of Novorossiysk's grain terminals have been out since August and its fuel oil terminal burned on September 9.
The fixed points to watch are the ones nobody has answered. Whether Novy Urengoy is still processing. Whether Makhachkala is still loading. Whether Reeva restarts. And, before the heating season, whether the interception rate holds at 86% when the drone counts go back up.
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