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World War

The shooting. The strait. The other fronts. Kinetic notes live here.

Flames burn on the towers of an industrial plant in Togliatti while black smoke covers the sky.

Ukraine

Drones hit a plant in Togliatti.

The mayor told Reuters that Saturday’s drone attack damaged industrial facilities and that preliminary reports showed no deaths. Friday’s missile strike in Oryol, three dead, is a separate count.

The Rocket News · Togliatti, Russia · October 24, 2026

A market front in Lozova is torn open: a collapsed roof, a blue metal gate, and a shop with a broken window under a clear sky.

Ukraine

A strike hit a market in Lozova.

Regional officials told Reuters that a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, near Kharkiv, killed two people and injured 36. This note is that strike. It is not Thursday morning’s missiles on Kyiv.

Two firefighters in helmets pour a hose onto a fire in a collapsed building at night. A third firefighter stands in the smoke.

Ukraine

Missiles struck Kyiv before dawn.

A Reuters witness reported the strikes in the early hours of Thursday. Wednesday evening’s ballistic attack injured six. In Lipetsk, drones wounded one man. The wire used here does not give a Thursday death toll.

A firefighter in a red helmet walks through crushed cars and torn metal. A second firefighter stands farther back, near an ambulance.

Ukraine

Four people were killed overnight, two of them in Kyiv.

A drone hit an apartment building in the capital. Near Kharkiv, an 83-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman were killed. The prime minister said power sites were hit in Kyiv, Volyn, Odesa, and Mykolaiv.

Firefighters hose a burning car on a highway outside Kyiv, smoke across the lanes and a fire truck at the right.

Ukraine

A drone killed three on the road out of Kyiv.

The Kyiv regional prosecutor's office told Reuters that a Russian drone hit near the highway to Odesa. Several cars burned. Four people were wounded. The dead included the driver of a shuttle bus.

A shop window is shot through. Behind the glass, a person stands among the shelves.

Ukraine

Russia hit Kyiv overnight. Zelensky said there was no warning.

A 21-year-old woman was killed. Zelensky said 16 ballistic missiles were fired at the capital and that more than half a million people lost power. He said partners sent no early warning.

Flame and black smoke rise from a St. Petersburg oil terminal on Sunday, seen past a bridge.

Ukraine

Ukraine set a St. Petersburg oil terminal on fire.

Local authorities said one person was killed and 15 were hurt. Russia said it downed 1,015 drones. Zelensky said Moscow has hit Ukraine’s energy sector 76 times since Trump announced an energy ceasefire.

President Zelensky walks into the Brussels summit as he asks partners to defend the Graham sanctions.

Ukraine

Zelensky said Russia hit more than 15 energy sites.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched four cruise missiles and 332 drones overnight. All of the missiles and 289 of the drones were stopped. Moscow said it hit steel plants and a substation. Reuters could not confirm that claim.

Ukraine

Russian drones killed three and cut power to 370,000.

Kharkiv’s governor said two people died and 12 were wounded. A strike on a food plant in Volyn killed one and wounded eight. Crews had restored power to about 100,000 by morning. Shopping centers in Sumy and Rivne were hit.

Ukraine

Ukraine hit a Russian refinery. Zelensky said, we’re done.

Kyiv struck a Rosneft plant in Ryazan after three days of holding its fire. The Ukrainian president told the Financial Times the block on refinery strikes is out. He said he would stop only for more Patriot interceptors.

Video · Bloomberg News

Men work in a burned-out Kyiv apartment after a Russian strike that killed three and cut power to hundreds of thousands.

Ukraine

Russia killed three in Kyiv and cut power to 600,000.

Missiles and drones hit energy sites in Kyiv and Kharkiv overnight. Zelensky called it ostentatious disrespect for the ceasefire Trump announced and neither capital confirmed. Ukraine said it stopped four of 39 missiles.

Video · Al Jazeera English

Emergency crews work at night in a smashed Kharkiv district after a Russian strike on energy sites.

Ukraine

Russia hit a Kharkiv power plant after Trump’s ceasefire claim.

Zelensky, in Warsaw, said he was horribly surprised. Hours after the president announced an energy truce, Moscow struck a power plant, a gas site, and a civilian station. Kyiv says it has held its own fire since Sunday.

Video · France 24

Ukraine

Russian strikes killed 78 people in Ukraine in two days.

A bomb hit a bus in Kramatorsk and killed at least 35 people. President Zelensky, at the Pryluky ruin, accused Washington of standing still after Secretary Rubio called the war a stalemate.

Video · Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

President Zelensky said a Russian barrage on his country’s cities killed civilians, including children.

Ukraine

Russian strikes killed at least 21 people in Ukraine.

Missiles and drones hit Kyiv and a dozen other regions on Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday. An apartment block in Pryluky was destroyed. President Zelensky had warned that a massive strike was coming.

Ukraine

Ukraine sent nearly 900 drones into Russia. Kyiv braced for a strike.

Moscow said it intercepted the drones overnight, including over Crimea and the Sea of Azov. The mayor said about 650 were aimed at the Moscow region. President Zelensky said a massive Russian strike is being prepared.

President Volodymyr Zelensky and Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Merz was in Kyiv on Sunday when a strike damaged the Northern Bridge.

Ukraine

A Russian strike hit Kyiv’s Northern Bridge as Merz arrived.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people were hurt and the roadway was damaged. Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged about $1.1 billion in military aid and money to repair the power grid.

A bridge over the Dnipro in Kyiv. Russian drones closed two crossings Friday morning and killed one person in a residential building.

Ukraine

Russian strikes closed two bridges across the Dnipro in Kyiv.

One person was killed in a residential building. The Southern Bridge and the Paton Bridge were shut to traffic Friday morning. Pupils in a struck school were unhurt.

Kyiv

A strike killed a child outside Kyiv.

Early Wednesday, a missile and a drone. Mayor Klitschko said fires hit houses, a store, and a warehouse in the city. Five people were injured.

Video · Al Jazeera English

Kyiv

A drone killed a boy in Kyiv.

He was 14. The building in the Pechersk district has 16 floors. At least seven other people were hurt. One person was killed in Odesa.

Kharkiv

Russia killed eight overnight.

Six were agricultural workers in the Kharkiv region. A man and a woman died in Kyiv. Zelenskyy had just asked the U.N. to starve Moscow of money.

Video · UN News

Seven people were injured overnight. Zelenskyy asked Trump for a winter package.

World War

Russia injured seven overnight. Zelenskyy asked for a winter package.

AP: businesses and storage. He told the Journal he wants equipment before the cold, and a halt on the grid.

Zelenskyy sat in the hall. Overnight: four dead in Dnipro. They meet Trump at 1:15.

World War

Russia killed four in Dnipro. Two hundred twelve drones. Zelenskyy was in the hall.

Kryvyi Rih, Pavlohrad. Kyiv hit another Rosneft plant. He sat while Trump spoke.

Video · ТСН

Russian drones hit Zaporizhzhia. Ten regions overnight. After Kyiv’s 1,000 drones.

World War

Russia hit Zaporizhzhia. Ten regions. After Kyiv’s 1,000 drones.

Apartment blocks, a university, a mall. Zelenskyy: Russia is ready to expand the war. He meets Trump tomorrow.

A column of fire and red smoke over Moscow apartment blocks at dusk, in color. Wire photograph.

Ukraine

Moscow: the largest drone night. The refinery burned. Zelensky confirmed.

Mayor: 450 downed on the way in. Kapotnya on fire. In Kyiv region, a mother and three children.

Video · FRANCE 24 English

Ukrainian rescuers hose a burning house after a strike, rubble and smoke, in color. Wire photograph.

Ukraine

Ukraine overnight: 174 drones, two Zircons. Eleven dead. Day 1,669.

Air Force: 141 down. Balakliia four. Sumy a boy and a girl among the hurt. Odesa eleven wounded.

A Ukrainian apartment block at night, windows blown, rubble in the yard, in color. No figures in the frame.

Ukraine

Sumy: a glide bomb between the third and fourth floors. Two dead. A child under the rubble.

Zelenskyy: absolutely inhuman. Balakliia two more. Odesa ten hurt. The overnight 93 was the small night.

A damaged street at dawn, smoke and brick in color. No figures in the frame.

Ukraine

Ninety-three drones overnight. Seventy-two down. Hits at thirteen places.

Shaheds, half of them jets. Banderol and Dan-T. A smaller night than Thursday. The truce is still a post.

Video · ANNnewsCH

Ukraine

131 downed. Kyiv, Odesa. Sixteen hurt in the capital, two of them children.

157 Shaheds. Missiles from Kursk, the Caspian, Bryansk. Hits at 36 places. The truce is still a post.

Video · Channel 4 News

Ukraine

80 drones overnight. A bus in Nikopol. Five dead on the way to work.

63 downed. Nine killed across Ukraine, 36 hurt. The energy truce is still a post.

Video · WION

Ukraine

200 drones overnight. 187 downed. Kyiv gas stations hit. Four hurt.

Jet-powered Shaheds. Izyum again. Trump’s energy truce is not a deal.

Video · Kyiv Independent

Ukraine

108 drones overnight. One dead in Zaporizhzhia. An infant hurt in Izyum.

85 downed. Shaheds, including jet-powered. Seven locations hit. Trump told Kyiv to spare the refineries.

Video · Times of India

Ukraine

453 drones overnight. A Kyiv–Warsaw train hit two kilometers from Poland.

Six dead, forty-three wounded. Sybiha: Putin’s terror at NATO’s door.

Video · Times of India

A products tanker listing and on fire at a Persian Gulf anchorage at dusk. No figures in the frame.

Hormuz

A hull burns off Qeshm. One dead. Monday is still a table.

Iranian media: a commercial ship. UKMTO: a projectile and a fire. CENTCOM silent.

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

Black smoke and orange fire at a southern Saudi energy site after Houthi strikes. No figures in the frame.

The Red Sea

Houthis hold Bab al-Mandab. Mayyun Island is theirs.

Yemen’s whole Red Sea coast. Traffic halved to 15 crossings. Saudi’s pipeline is shut.

Video · Times Now World

Ukraine

Eleven dead in Ukraine. Putin tells Europe not to send troops.

Odesa hit hardest. Ninety-six wounded, an infant among them. Moscow says it hit steel and a ship.

Video · Euronews

Ukraine

161 drones overnight. Eight wounded in a Kyiv nine-story.

A woman is dead in Vyshhorod. The pause after the American envoys is over.

Video · Euronews

The Red Sea

U.N. warns Yemen is sliding back to war. Houthis hold Mokha.

11,400 households displaced since Sept. 3. Saudi supply at a three-decade low.

Video · Firstpost

A products tanker listing and on fire at a Persian Gulf anchorage at dusk, black smoke and orange flame, arid mountains on the far shore. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.

The Gulf

Iran says it hit 10 ships. A seafarer is dead. Brent closed $101.

Two U.S. hulls and eight tankers, Tehran claims. CENTCOM: the Navy shots missed. Hercules Star, off Dubai.

Video · ILTV Israel News

Black smoke and orange fire at a southern Saudi energy site after Houthi strikes. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

The Red Sea

Houthis hit three Saudi cities a second day. Yemen counts 55 raids.

Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan. The rebels say 1,367 families fled in 24 hours.

Video · Firstpost

Ukraine

A woman is dead in Kyiv. Sixteen wounded, two of them children.

A daytime drone into Dniprovskyi. The morning already burned a 24-story. The envoy pause is over.

Video · Euronews

The Gulf

U.S. destroys five Iranian tankers. Iran hits a Jordan base. Brent is $100.

CENTCOM: four hulls in the Gulf of Oman, one off Kharg. Rubio: they will lose tankers. The pump is $4.22.

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

The Red Sea

Saudi Arabia answers the Houthis. More than 40 strikes on Yemen.

A day after 73 wounded and Aramco on fire, the rebels report raids on Taiz, Marib, Jawf and Hodeida.

Video · Firstpost

Ukraine

Russia hits a Moldova border crossing. Two dead. Kyiv burns again.

Odesa: civilians at Starokozache. The capital: a jet drone into a high-rise. The envoy pause is over.

Video · Euronews

A gray unmanned underwater vehicle on a concrete dock at a Persian Gulf harbor. Turquoise water, two distant oil tankers, arid mountains. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

The Gulf

Strait of Hormuz Shockwave

Tehran claims a prize catch: the Revolutionary Guard says it trapped a U.S. unmanned submarine at the mouth of the strait. The Pentagon says the drone broke.

Video · BBC News

The Gulf

Houthis set Saudi oil ablaze. 73 wounded. Brent tests $100.

Missiles and drones on four southern cities. Aramco sites on fire. Trump says the pump will fall when America wins.

Video · Firstpost

An empty carrier flight deck at dusk: ranked jets, a wake, no faces.

Kyiv

Witkoff and Kushner went to Kyiv after Moscow. They brought no breakthrough.

Trump’s envoys made their first wartime visit. Ukraine wants talks and air defenses. NPR: nothing new came off the plane.

Video · CBS Evening News

An oil tanker in a narrow dusk strait between arid mountains, a distant column of smoke on the horizon.

The Gulf

Iran says it will draw an exclusion zone outside Hormuz. The details come later.

Mohsen Rezaei: ships that try the strait go on a sanctions list. Tehran claimed an unmanned U.S. hull. CENTCOM called that a lie.

Video · CBS Evening News

The Gulf

CENTCOM hits three Iranian tankers after missiles at two U.S. ships

Adm. Brad Cooper: if you shoot at two of ours, we take out three of yours. No Americans were harmed. Kharg Island still stands.

Video · CBS Evening News

Nuclear

Trump says Pickaxe Mountain is next. Tehran says a strike would be a new war.

The Oval Office threat is “very soon.” An Iranian tanker off Kharg Island was hit hours later, Tehran says. The mountain sits next to Natanz.

Video · NDTV

An empty diplomatic table after a signing: blotters, fountain pens, water glasses in a marble hall.

Arms

Washington approves a $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

Bombs, guidance kits, and other equipment for a kingdom that has been hit in the same war the president calls small.

Video · PBS NewsHour

Middle East

The United States and Iran are trading strikes again. The ceasefire was a pause, not a peace.

Trump says more is coming. Tehran says it is hitting back. The strait is once more the fuse.

Video · Firstpost

Middle East

Both sides accuse the other of breaking the Hormuz ceasefire

Iran says the United States hit a tanker. Washington blames Tehran. The strait does not care who started the press release.

Video · Kompas.com