Russia stopped striking Kyiv at midnight on September 5, hours before Donald Trump's envoys reached the Kremlin. Everywhere else the war carried on as before.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv. Putin told Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that the request had come "through official channels, both intelligence channels and Foreign Ministry channels", that he had issued the order and that no strikes had been carried out on the city since midnight, RIA Novosti and Tass reported.

Ukraine had asked for considerably more. Its forces were ordered to hold fire from 00:00 on 5 September until 23:59 on 8 September, and the proposal put to Putin covered long-range strikes and the fighting along the line of contact, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the President's Office, told Suspilne. Putin did not answer it, and said so to the envoys: "The Ukrainian authorities publicised their call for a broader three-day ceasefire, but we never agreed on that with them."

What came out of the meeting was therefore the smallest pause available: two capitals, three days, and nothing else on the table. The trip had been billed as reviving talks stalled since February, and it did produce a quiet night over Kyiv city. Over the same period Russian attacks killed eight people and injured 69 across the rest of Ukraine, and Ukrainian drones set fire to an oil refinery 180 km from Moscow.

Ukraine says the arrangement did not hold even on its own terms. The General Staff said fighting was continuing along the line of contact because Russian attacks had not stopped. Ukrainska Pravda, which first reported the four-day order to Ukrainian units, wrote that Russian forces thwarted the plan.

Witkoff and Kushner spent three and a half hours over lunch with Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev, then more than three hours with Putin. Both governments called the talks constructive and substantive. Witkoff thanked Putin for agreeing to the three-day pause and said talking to him was one of the greatest and most memorable moments of his life. Dmitriev called the two Americans peacemakers. They flew out of Vnukovo on a US Air Force aircraft, refuelled at Rzeszow in Poland and reached Kyiv on 6 September, the first time either has visited Ukraine.

A steel plant is destroyed and its workers with it

The single worst strike of the two days was on Kametstal, Metinvest's steel works at Kamianske in Dnipropetrovska oblast, in the early hours of September 5. Five workers were killed and four injured, the plant was severely damaged and operations have completely halted, the Kyiv Post reported.

Four of the dead were killed at their posts on shift: a locksmith, an electrician, a hydraulics specialist and a machine operator. "This is terror against people," said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration. "Against those who work and sustain the economy. Against our enterprises and our cities."

The weapon was a ballistic missile which is effective against a hardened industrial target. Ukraine's air force has published no ballistic launch or intercept figures since August 11, so there is no public measure of how many got through.

The September 5 edition of this monitor carried this strike as an unnamed industrial enterprise with four dead. Both the name and the toll have since been established, and the ledger below is corrected rather than supplemented.

The airports in focus

Overnight into September 5 Russia struck Kyiv International airport at Zhuliany and Boryspil, the two fields under discussion as arrival points for the envoys. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strikes were deliberate "for the first time in a long while" and tied them directly to the diplomacy: "Russian-Iranian Shaheds in response to American diplomacy." Two women were injured at Boryspil and both were hospitalised.

No damage assessment has been published for either airport. Zelenskiy said Ukraine would adjust its operations regarding Russian airspace next week, which is as close as Kyiv has come to confirming that its campaign against Russian civil aviation is deliberate policy rather than a by-product.

Ukraine did not stop either

Overnight into September 6 Ukrainian drones struck the Ryazan oil refinery and set it alight. Russian authorities confirmed a fire at an industrial facility in the region and did not name it; the Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova Plus identified the refinery.

The plant is controlled by Rosneft and is a principal motor-fuel supplier for the regions around Moscow. It had already stopped processing crude on July 29 after a strike confirmed by Ukraine's General Staff, following an earlier attack on May 15. Its capacity is reported two ways, which is set out in the notes below.

The same night drones circled Rostov-on-Don for more than four hours amid gunfire and helicopter activity, according to 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. Explosions were reported near an Ozon warehouse in Ryazan, which the company has not confirmed.

Damage from the September 3-4 Sochi strikes has also been assessed by monitoring accounts: six fuel tanks, two helicopters and two aviation radars at the airport's BATO depot, and three RVS-400 tanks and a fire-water reservoir at a Lukoil facility at Veseloye. No Russian official has confirmed any of it.

The pause covered two city limits and nothing else. Nothing in it stopped Ukraine hitting Ryazan or Russia hitting Kharkiv, and neither side refrained.

Air defence is losing the arithmetic

The most useful technical account of the two days came from an air-defence officer identified only as Marko, in a thread posted by Tymofiy Mylovanov, the former economy minister who runs the Kyiv School of Economics.

Interceptor drones cost $1,000 to $3,000 and used to bring down 40% to 50% of ordinary Shaheds, Marko said. Against jet-powered ones they now bring down about 15%, because a propeller interceptor chasing from behind cannot catch something twice as fast.

"Russia rolled out the Geran-4 and Geran-5, stockpiled mini cruise missiles called Banderol, and used it all at once," he said. "We'd spent a year building our system around target speeds and routes, and suddenly a third of the targets got 1.5 times faster."

The airframes changed as well as the engines. Early jet Shaheds were an ordinary Shahed with a jet bolted on and broke apart at around 400 km/h, Marko said; the Geran-4 and Geran-5 have a missile-like airframe and the Geran-4 can climb to 8 km, which puts it above the cheaper systems altogether. Against a target like that even a Patriot might be 99% rather than 100%, he said, which is why two missiles are launched in parallel.

That is the economics of the war in one paragraph. Russia has moved a third of its incoming volume out of reach of a $2,000 interceptor and into the bracket where Ukraine must spend a Patriot round, or two, to be sure.

The raw counts on both nights were unremarkable. Overnight into September 5 Russia launched ballistic missiles and 167 drones; 128 drones were shot down or suppressed and there were hits at 23 locations. Overnight into 6 September it launched 108 drones and six S8000 Banderol missiles; 82 drones and all six Banderol were downed or suppressed, with hits at 11 locations and debris at seven.

Kherson is being switched off

Kherson now consumes roughly as much electricity as a single supermarket in Kyiv, according to Iuliia Mendel, a journalist from the city and a former press secretary to Zelenskiy.

About 170 glide bombs have been dropped on the region since July, on her count. After the bombs wrecked the heating plant in late August, officials say heat and power may be gone for months and are advising residents to leave for the winter, while drones hunt people walking to the shops.

Kherson oblast took two dead and 20 wounded on September 6, with a cell tower and a gas pipe among the damage across more than 30 settlements. A passenger train bound for Kherson was attacked around midday with Shahed-type drones; two diesel locomotives were damaged and a 55-year-old railway worker was hospitalised.

Arson and sabotage in the EU

Nothing new was reported on September 5 or 6. The ledger stands at 11 entries and the open cases are where they were: the 48-year-old German sought over the substation attacks is still at large, nobody has been charged over the WB Electronics or JFG Composites fires in Poland, and the two Bulgarian nationals remanded over the Munich construction-site fire have not been linked to any state.

One correction to the last edition: the Munich fire of September 3 was at a construction site at Berg am Laim near the Rohde and Schwarz headquarters rather than at the headquarters itself, and German reporting points to the drone maker Helsing as the likely intended target.

The nearest thing to an EU incident in this period is a spillover. When Ukrainian drones hit the Baltic export port of Ust-Luga on September 1, Estonia scrambled Nato fighters after drones reportedly crossed into its airspace.

The ground war behind it

The line of contact produced no settlement-level claims worth printing over the two days. Ukraine's General Staff put cumulative Russian losses at 1,495,050 on 5 September and 1,496,440 on September 6, an implied 1,390 in a day, and said Ukraine has now shot down more than half a million aerial drones since February 2022. Both are Ukrainian claims and neither is independently verified.

The Guardian reported that Russia is losing 6,000 more troops a month than it can recruit. Budanov has predicted that Russian drone attacks will continue at intensity until Russia's State Duma elections this month, on the argument that the Kremlin wants a picture of victory to show voters.

Major strikes and targets

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 18 and 24 August
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 11 August 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 3 September, 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 3 September 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 30 August, 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	Industrial enterprise, Kamianske	Not stated	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. Kyiv Post identifies the plant as Metinvest's Kametstal works, severely damaged and with operations completely halted. Toll revised up from four killed on 5 September
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

Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, August 4 to September 6 2026. 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 4 September and the city said reserves were sufficient
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	Ryazan region	Fire at the plant, per the Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova Plus and reported by Kyiv Post and the Kyiv Independent. Russian authorities confirmed a fire at an industrial facility in the region and did not name it. The refinery is Rosneft-controlled and had already halted crude processing on 29 July after a strike confirmed by Ukraine's General Staff, following an earlier attack on 15 May. Capacity is given as 13.1mn tonnes a year by Kyiv Post and about 17mn tonnes by monitoring accounts. Residential buildings were damaged in Ryazan and the Sapozhkovsky district
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. Two apartment blocks were damaged in the Sovetsky district, an apartment and windows in the Leninsky district and four private homes in the Azov district. No economic facility has been named as damaged

Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 6 2026. 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 14 and 25 August. Germany's interior minister Alexander Dobrindt formally attributed the attack to Russia on 1 September: "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. Nobody blamed; the interior minister rules out neither foreign powers nor left-wing militants. Brandenburg police have opened a terrorism investigation. On 4 September 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
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 4 September attribution to climate extremism covers it
3 Sep	Construction site at Berg am Laim, near the Rohde and Schwarz headquarters, Munich	Suspected arson at a construction site	Germany	Fire caused no significant damage before it was extinguished and nobody was injured; the company confirmed only a police and fire brigade operation near its premises. A 28-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, both Bulgarian nationals, were arrested at a nearby filling station. Police are investigating suspected arson. No attribution to any state, and German authorities rule out neither foreign involvement nor left-wing extremists. The company makes radar systems for detecting and jamming drones. On 4 September the two, named in German reporting as Dimitar T., 38, and Gabriela M., 28, were placed in pre-trial detention. A third man detained is not treated as a suspect. No authority has named a state German reporting since indicates the fire was at a construction site in Berg am Laim rather than at the headquarters itself, and that 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, and names the other substation sites. NRW interior minister Herbert Reul says the letters are authentic while cautioning that a signature does not prove responsibility. A 48-year-old German national from Gevelsberg is being sought and remains at large; potassium nitrate and potassium perchlorate were found at his home

Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU, August 4 to September 6 2026. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further.

Tit for tat

Three days of quiet over two capitals is the whole of what the diplomacy has bought so far, and it was bought at the cost of Ukraine's larger proposal being ignored. The pattern of the past week continues underneath it: Russia striking warehouses, plants, trains and grids across nine oblasts, Ukraine striking refineries and fuel depots deep inside Russia, and neither pausing for the meeting except over the two cities where the meeting was held.

Witkoff and Kushner reached Kyiv on 6 September. The Kyiv pause, if it runs its stated three days, expires on 8 September.