Ukrainian drones damaged homes and the industrial zone of Novomoskovsk, home to the Azot chemical plant in Russia's Tula region, overnight on October 28, Governor Dmitry Milyaev said.

Milyaev described a "massive attack" and said falling debris damaged a block of flats, private houses and infrastructure in the adjacent industrial zone, with casualties and the extent of the damage still being clarified, TASS reported. Laboratory teams, including from the consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, were sent to the town and a temporary accommodation centre was opened for residents.

SOURCING NOTE: Milyaev did not name the plant. A fire at the NAK Azot plant, owned by EuroChem, was reported by the Exilenova+ and Supernova+ monitoring channels and by the Astra news channel (1news.az; Obozrevatel); Exilenova+ said the AM-70 ammonia unit had likely caught fire. Neither EuroChem nor Ukraine's military had commented at the time of writing. TASS is named unlinked; its report was seen as republished by Rambler News.

In Lipetsk, the Exilenova+ monitoring channel reported a fire on the premises of Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) late on October 27 after air defences were engaged, the Kyiv Post reported. Governor Igor Artamonov called reports of a major industrial fire "not true", saying drone debris set fire to a strip of woodland that was contained, and that 45 drones were downed over the region and one person sought medical help, Izvestia reported.

Russia's defence ministry said it destroyed 531 Ukrainian drones between 20:00 on October 27 and 08:00 on October 28 Moscow time over 12 regions and the Moscow region, Moskva 24 reported.

SOURCING NOTE: a defence ministry claim. The regions named were Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov and Tula, plus the Moscow region; no breakdown by region was given.

Russia sent one Iskander-M or S-400 ballistic missile, launched from Taganrog, and 88 drones, 38 of them jet-powered, at Ukraine from 18:00 on October 27, the air force said. It said 71 were downed or suppressed, with hits at eight locations and debris at two, Ukrinform reported.

SOURCING NOTE: preliminary air force figures as of 08:00 Kyiv time on October 28, with several drones still in the air. The eight locations were not named and the report seen did not say whether the missile was downed.

Refinery strikes

Nationwide: no new strike on a Russian oil refinery was reported for October 27 or the night of October 27-28 at the time of writing.

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

EDITION NOTE: no refinery row changed in this edition. The ledger date moved to October 28 and the table was regenerated; the totals are unchanged.

Metal plants hit

Nationwide: no new strike on a Ukrainian steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy or non-ferrous plant was reported for October 27 or the night of October 27-28 at the time of writing. The metals ledger is unchanged. The reported fire at Russia's Novolipetsk Steel is covered above.

Oil depots, factories and military targets in Russia

Tula region: see above, Novomoskovsk.

Lipetsk region: see above.

Belgorod region: one person was killed in the Graivoron district and four were wounded, two of them seriously, in the Korochan and Shebekino districts over the 24 hours to the morning of October 28, Governor Alexander Shuvaev said, adding that 212 drones were downed over the region, Vedomosti reported. A day earlier he reported one woman killed and seven wounded.

Bryansk region, update: a second man, aged 67, died after the drone attacks of October 27, Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said, The Moscow Times reported. The first victim stepped on tube-shaped explosives dropped from a drone, and three blocks of flats and 11 cars were damaged, TASS reported.

EDITION NOTE: the October 27 edition carried one killed and six injured.

Moscow: Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 16 drones flying at the capital were downed on October 27, as Vladimir Putin attended the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit in the city, Izvestia reported. Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Vnukovo and allowed Domodedovo and Zhukovsky to operate only by coordination with the authorities, and about 50 flights were delayed or cancelled by 18:23, MSK1 reported. Moscow will restrict mobile internet for three days during Putin's summits, citing security, the Kyiv Post reported.

Voronezh region, update: the toll from the drone attack of October 25-26 rose to three killed and 39 injured, three of them children, with 12 in hospital and three in intensive care, the regional government said, citing the health ministry, Interfax reported.

EDITION NOTE: the October 27 edition carried Governor Alexander Gusev's earlier count of two killed and 17 injured.

Samara region, update: Ukraine's General Staff said its strike on the Tolyattikauchuk synthetic rubber plant in Tolyatti damaged a process pipeline, two butyl rubber production units and a distillation unit, LB.ua reported on October 26.

SOURCING NOTE: Ukrainian military claim; no Russian confirmation of the damage was found. The plant was hit on the night of October 23-24.

Ukraine under fire

Nationwide: see the air force figures above. Ukrenergo scheduled hourly power cuts for households and limits for industry from 06:00 to 23:59 on October 28 in some regions "due to massive Russian attacks on energy facilities", LB.ua reported.

Kharkiv: a Russian drone hit a block of flats in the Osnovianskyi district late on October 27, trapping people, and fires broke out in a two-storey industrial building and a house, Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Terekhov reported two people injured, including a four-year-old boy, Ukrinform reported, and the Kyiv Post later put the number injured at four.

Kharkiv region: Russian attacks on the city and 20 settlements damaged a warehouse, a metro station entrance, an administrative building, a civilian enterprise, power lines in Myropillia and Izium, a petrol station and an educational institution in Bohaivka, and injured seven people, Syniehubov said, ATN reported.

Kharkiv region, update: a 12-year-old boy died in a Kyiv hospital on October 26 of wounds from the October 19 drone strike on the park in Nova Vodolaha; his eight-year-old sister was killed at the scene, community head Oleksandr Yesin said, LB.ua reported.

Kyiv, update: Zelenskiy said 16 ballistic missiles and more than 280 drones were launched on the night of October 26-27, UNN reported, calling it "a serious escalation in Russia's operation against our logistics", Ukrainska Pravda reported. On the evening of October 27 he said Russia had fired more than 100 ballistic missiles at the Kyiv region in two weeks, Ukrinform reported.

Kyiv, Southern Bridge: green-line metro trains resumed on the left bank between Osokorky and Chervonyi Khutir, but trains across the bridge were still suspended at 19:38 on October 27, Kyiv Metro said, Kyiv24 reported.

SOURCING NOTE: the 16-missile total replaces the October 27 edition's "not given". A social media post claiming four of them hit the bridge is not printed. No status update for the bridge on October 28 was found.

Kherson region: the humanitarian ceasefire around occupied Oleshky is to last until late on November 1, Ukrainian lawmaker David Arakhamia said, the Kyiv Post reported. US First Lady Melania Trump said the localised ceasefire had been expanded beyond Oleshky to allow safe passage for humanitarian supplies, The Moscow Times reported. A diplomatic item, recorded in the register only.

SOURCING NOTE: no confirmation of the expansion from Kyiv or Moscow was found at the time of writing.

Data centres, telecoms, media and R&D

Kyiv, update: the State University of Trade and Economics moved to remote learning after the October 26 strike on its campus. Ten wounded were brought to hospital, four of them students, one of whom lost a leg, hospital head Ihor Malysh said, Suspilne reported; Zelenskiy put the number injured at the campus and nearby at 12, including five students and staff.

Nationwide: no new strike on a data centre, telecoms operator, broadcaster or research site was reported for October 27 or the night of October 27-28 at the time of writing.

Weapons and technology

Germany: Helsing unveiled its Contra AI-controlled air-defence system on October 26 with two interceptors, the AD-1 Inferno and the AD-2 Ambush, designed to chase Russia's fast-flying Geran drones. Company officials put the cost at under $100,000 a shot, and chief executive Gundbert Scherf said the system would be ready for market in the second half of 2027, Defense News reported.

Air defence: Ukrainian forces intercepted nearly 60% of Russia's Geran-4 jet-powered drones over the past three months, and up to about 80% in some attacks, with F-16, Mirage and MiG-29 fighters playing a significant role, the General Staff said on October 27, Ukrinform reported.

Ukraine: Ratel Robotics is developing interceptor drones launched from unmanned ground vehicles, starting with multi-rotor models before fixed-wing types, and has invested about $200,000 in its aerial division, founder Taras Ostapchuk told Forbes Ukraine.

Russia: the strategic submarine Generalissimus Suvorov fired a Bulava missile from a submerged position in the Sea of Okhotsk, and its warheads reached the Chizha range in the Arkhangelsk region, the defence ministry said on October 28, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.

UK: Russia's foreign ministry banned entry to seven executives of British defence companies, including Rotron Aerospace, MGI Engineering, Malloy Aeronautics, Tekever UK and BAE Systems, over arms supplied to Ukraine for strikes deep inside Russia, 360.ru reported on October 27.

SOURCING NOTE: the executives' names are back-transliterated from Russian in the report seen and are not printed.

Arson and sabotage in the EU and the UK

Romania, update: President Nicusor Dan condemned "any involvement by the Russian Federation in acts of sabotage" as "a grave violation of our country's sovereignty and security" on October 27, after prosecutors linked the September 14 fire near a ROMARM arms plant in Brasov to a network directed from Russia, the Associated Press reported. Romania is seeking the extradition of all three suspects, and Russia did not immediately comment.

SOURCING NOTE: attribution as stated by Romania's SRI and DIICOT and by the president; not tested in court. The Associated Press is named; its report was seen as republished by NY1.

Romania, update: the search for the three sailors missing from the Khoryv, sunk by a drone off Constanta on October 23, was suspended on October 24 because of poor visibility, USM reported. No later update was found.

Elsewhere: no new arson, sabotage or drone-incursion incident in the EU or the UK was found for October 27-28 at the time of writing.

Tit for tat

Ukraine's drones damaged homes and the industrial zone of Novomoskovsk and set off reports of fires at the Azot and Novolipetsk plants, which the governors did not confirm, as Moscow claimed 531 drones downed overnight and Belgorod and Bryansk counted their dead.

Russia sent one ballistic missile and 88 drones at Ukraine overnight, hitting eight locations and a block of flats in Kharkiv, and Zelenskiy said more than 100 ballistic missiles had been fired at the Kyiv region in two weeks.

Russian missile and drone production

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

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

The ledgers

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

RUSSIA STRIKES LEDGER: Russian strikes on Ukraine's economic infrastructure, 560 rows

UKRAINE STRIKES LEDGER: Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, 368 rows

ARSON & SABOTAGE LEDGER: Arson, sabotage and drone incursions in the EU and the UK, 98 rows

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

DATA CENTRE & TELECOM STRIKES LEDGER: Data centres, telecoms, media and research sites hit in Ukraine, 43 rows

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

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

Russian oil refineries hit by Ukrainian strikes, as of October 28, 2026. Non-exhaustive; strike counts are floors. Damage: 0 claimed, no damage confirmed; 1 fire or minor damage; 2 secondary unit damaged, output reduced; 3 primary distillation unit damaged; 4 refinery halted. Plants reported halted or cut in Oct 2026 account for about 14.8 mn t/yr, about 5% of the 327 mn t/yr nameplate total; up to 145.8 mn t/yr (45%) if earlier halts still hold. Russian officials put capacity under repair at about 10% (Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, early September). Status mostly from unnamed industry sources cited by Reuters. Full sourced ledger: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHjZvX9Hf-6jdKxcTE8Dw7f6O2_svY0kX54sqKPyU_s

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