“We expect the war will continue,” Zelenskiy said in Kyiv on September 6, after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left without a deal.

The pause the two governments agreed for the visit was widely read as a step towards stopping. It covered aerial strikes on Kyiv city and Moscow city, for three days, and nothing else. Not the front, not the refineries, not the warehouses, not the ferry crossing to Romania. It has since expired.

The envoys spent more than three hours with Putin in Moscow on September 5. Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov called the discussion substantive, constructive and exceptionally candid, and repeated that Russia will achieve its goals and that the war's root causes must be removed. The two men reached Kyiv the next day by train, because Russia had made flying unsafe, Zelenskiy said - it had struck Kyiv and Boryspil airports the day before, deliberately and for the first time in a long while, on his account. The talks turned mostly on what Ukraine needs to get through the winter, energy and air defence. Trump was expected to telephone both leaders on September 7.

Russia shut airports from Cheboksary to Perm overnight as Ukrainian drones flew deeper inland, yet no regional governor confirmed a single industrial site damaged.

The Russian defence ministry said air defences destroyed 306 drones between 20:00 on September 6 and 08:00 on September 7, AiF Nizhny Novgorod reports with a list of 18 territories running from Belgorod and Bryansk to Tatarstan and Crimea, the ministry claimed: NEWSru.co.il gives the same 306 over "17 regions" while listing 18, adding Udmurtia, Chuvashia and Perm Krai, and TV Samara reports the ministry saying air defence worked across 19.

On the only account any Russian official gave, the night damaged one mobile phone mast. It also closed nine airports across the Volga and the Urals, delayed about 50 flights at Kazan and left passengers bound for Sochi waiting more than 13 hours. The campaign that began by targeting each other's civilian economy has reached the point where it no longer has to hit anything to cost money. Russian airspace is now the asset being denied, and it is denied whether the drones arrive or not.

The night almost nothing was hit

The only economic damage a Russian official acknowledged anywhere in the country was in Chuvashia, where republic head Oleg Nikolaev said at least two drones were destroyed and a cellular transmission tower was damaged, with no casualties, Meduza reports.

The deepest point reached was Perm, more than 1,500 km from Ukraine. Governor Dmitry Makhonin said 27 drones were shot down over Perm Krai. A drone hit an apartment block on Svetlogorskaya Street, killing one person and wounding four, and a private house was damaged by air-defence debris, according to The Insider. No industrial site in the krai has been confirmed struck by anyone in authority.

Elsewhere the governors reported nothing. Rostov governor Yury Slyusar said about 25 drones were destroyed over Novoshakhtinsk and seven districts and that no reports of casualties or damage on the ground had come in, per ptoday.ru. Nizhnekamsk mayor Radmir Belyaev told Interfax that air defence had "successfully repelled another massive attack on our district" with no casualties or destruction. Udmurtia's acting head Olga Abramova said preliminary data showed no injuries and no destruction. In Saratov region the reported damage was to the glazing of residential buildings.

The one piece of physical evidence that something burned came from outside Russia. Militarnyi says NASA's FIRMS satellite system detected a fire in the aircraft parking area of the 325th Aircraft Repair Plant at Taganrog at 02:44. The site shares ground with the Beriev complex, which repairs A-50U airborne early warning aircraft, Il-76 transports and Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft and builds Molniya drones. No Russian official has said anything about it.

A monitoring channel says Lukoil's Permnefteorgsintez refinery was among the targets at Perm, but Meduza reports that the strike remains unconfirmed. The Insider reports that open-source analysts identified smoke over the Zakamsk district of Perm, where the Perm Powder Plant and the Mashinostroitel works operate, again with no confirmation. Neither is used in the ledger below.

Nine airports and a 13-hour delay

The measurable cost of the night was in the air. Interfax reported Rosaviatsiya restrictions at Saransk, Bugulma and Nizhnekamsk's Begishevo airport overnight, and listed six earlier suspensions at Samara, Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk and Cheboksary, with Nizhny Novgorod continuing under special coordination. Perm airport closed at 04:46 Moscow time and had reopened by 08:44, according to a separate Interfax report. Izhevsk closed and reopened at about 08:49, per AiF Udmurtia. Saratov's Gagarin airport shut while air defence was working.

At Samara's Kurumoch the "Kover" plan, which clears the airspace, was imposed at 03:05 and lifted at 06:23. Seven departures were delayed, to Dubai, Hurghada, Kaliningrad, Antalya, Moscow and Batumi, and passengers for Sochi waited more than 13 hours, TV Samara reported. At Kazan about 50 flights were delayed, according to AiF Kazan.

Sochi was on the list too, for the fifth time in a week. Rosaviatsiya has been closing the airport repeatedly since the fuel depots below it were set alight on the night of September 3 to 4, and Rosneft has stopped refuelling aircraft there.

Ryazan refinery hit

The refinery strike that did land came the night before. Ukraine's General Staff said, in a statement relayed by Ukrinform, that "a refinery in Ryazan, Ryazan region, was hit. A fire was recorded on the enterprise's territory." The same bulletin claims the Rostov-on-Don airfield was struck and a Podlet radar and two Pantsir-S1 systems destroyed.

Militarnyi geolocated the impact to the Izomalk-2 LIN-800 low-temperature isomerisation unit at 54.5715, 39.7484, the plant's route to high-octane blending component for Euro-5 gasoline, working from video published by a monitoring channel. That identification is the outlet's own geolocation and not an official finding.

Ryazan governor Pavel Malkov said more than 50 drones were downed over the region and that debris caused a fire at an industrial enterprise. He has still not named the refinery. Residential buildings were damaged in Ryazan and the Sapozhkovsky district, and Men Today reported oily residue falling on the city.

Rosneft has said nothing. Neither the company nor any Russian authority has said whether processing has stopped, and no figure has been published for capacity lost in this strike. The plant's size is itself unsettled: the Kyiv Post gives 13.1mn tonnes a year and nearly 5% of Russian refining capacity, while Militarnyi and Euromaidan Press give about 17mn tonnes.

At Sochi the Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt depot in the Adler district, hit on the night of September 3 to 4, caught fire again with no air-raid alert beforehand and no official explanation. The Kyiv Independent said it could not verify the reports or the extent of the damage. Satellite imagery read by Militarnyi puts the toll from the original strikes at nine tanks destroyed, six at the Rosneft depot and three RVS-400 tanks at Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt.

Twenty filling stations in Rostov

The retail end of Russia's fuel market is where the refinery campaign is now visible without a satellite. In Rostov-on-Don on September 7, AiF Rostov counted about 20 filling stations operating across the city, with queues of up to 50 vehicles at those that were open. AI-92 was RUB84.48 a litre, AI-95 RUB92.41 and diesel RUB85.7.

On the St Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange, the last published session is September 1, when AI-92 closed at RUB75,477 a tonne, up 4.36% and a record according to Kommersant. AI-95 fell 5.29% to RUB75,926 and summer diesel fell 3.2% to RUB71,221. The national average retail gasoline price was RUB77.05 a litre as of August 24, up about RUB10 or 14.09% across the summer, from RUB64.68 in Omsk to RUB169.22 in Crimea and Sevastopol.

President Vladimir Putin conceded the point on September 3. "[We] assumed that these were purely civilian facilities and could not be targets of any kind of attacks even amid an armed conflict. But in this regard, we were mistaken," he said, in remarks carried by The Moscow Times. The gasoline and diesel export ban runs to January 2027.

Ukraine's last road to Romania, shut again

Russia's own campaign did not pause. The Orlivka to Isaccea ferry crossing into Romania, one of the few export doors left open since the drone war shifted to crippling ports, was hit by Shahed-type drones for the second time in a week. Vehicle and pedestrian crossings were suspended and resumed by the morning of September 6 after repairs, with no casualties, according to the Izmail district administration and State Border Guard Service spokesman Andrii Demchenko, reported by the Kyiv Independent. The September 1 strike on the same crossing closed it for two days.

That route carries a large share of what Ukraine still sells abroad. Agrarian policy and food minister Taras Vysotskyi said on August 19 that Ukraine exported 794,000 tonnes of agricultural products in the first half of August, about 30% of the potential volume, with 40% to 45% moving by rail and land crossings, 40% to 45% through Danube ports and 7% by road, and alternative logistics costing at least $50 a tonne more. No September figure has been published, and neither side has stopped since the two of them shut each other's grain ports.

Overnight into September 7 a shopping centre in Zaporizhzhia was hit, with six fires over 700 sq m fought by 40 rescuers and 10 units of equipment and no casualties, per Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, quoted by the Kyiv Post. Ukrinform carried the same event without naming the centre.

During the day on September 6 a fire broke out at the warehouses of a logistics company in Dnipro and two civilians were injured. "The enemy attacked Dnipro. As a result of the strike, a fire broke out at the warehouses of a logistics company," said Oleksandr Hanzha, described by the Kyiv Post as head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. The company was not named.

FM Logistic, the French logistics group, lost part of a Class A warehouse at Dudarkiv in Kyiv region on September 5, the second strike on the same site since August 20. Operations were temporarily suspended and all staff had sheltered. "We cannot provide additional details on the extent of the damage," group press office representative Paulina Massa told NV Business.

Russia says it has been hitting ports too. The defence ministry claims it struck the dry cargo ship Mavka at Chornomorsk on the evening of September 6 and a loading complex at Izmail on the morning of September 7, in a statement relayed by APA. No Ukrainian authority has confirmed either.

Kametstal stops

The most expensive single loss of the week is now quantified as a shutdown rather than a fire. Metinvest said the ballistic missile strike on its Kametstal works at Kamianske on September 5 destroyed sintering and blast-furnace operations and damaged energy and transport infrastructure on the site, that the plant has completely halted, and that the restoration timeline "remains unknown". Five workers were killed and four injured. Four of the dead were on shift: a locksmith, an electrician, a hydraulics specialist and a machine operator.

"There were no military targets, military equipment or military production facilities on the premises," the company said in a statement relayed by Ukrinform. It is the second Metinvest steel plant to stop this year, after Zaporizhstal halted following the August 11 strike.

Weapons and technology

The size of the nightly raids on Ukraine fell through the week. Ukraine's air force claims 167 strike drones on the night of September 4 to 5, of which about half were jet-powered, with 128 downed and 23 locations hit; 108 drones on September 5 to 6, with 82 drones and six S8000 Banderol munitions downed and 11 locations hit; and 92 drones on September 6 to 7, with 71 of the targets downed and 12 locations hit. The figures come from Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrinform, and all of them are air force claims. No source describes any of the three nights as a record.

The ballistic missile disclosure that resumed on September 1 has not held. Iskander-M and KN-23 launches were named in the September 4 to 5 report but not counted, and ballistic missiles do not appear at all in the reports for the two nights after that. A launch-to-interception rate still cannot be calculated, five weeks after the air force stopped publishing the numbers on August 11, and Ukraine's interceptor missiles run dry whenever the ballistic salvos come.

What the defence ministry did publish, on September 5, is a monthly total. Ukrainian air defences intercepted more than 4,600 aerial targets in August, of which eight were Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, 25 Kh-101, eight Kalibr, four Iskander-K, 21 Kh-59 or Kh-69, five Oniks and 101 S8000 Banderol. The drone breakdown is the number to watch: 1,876 Shahed-131 and Shahed-136, 1,460 jet-powered Shahed-238, 1,031 reconnaissance drones and 820 Lancets, on top of more than 50,000 tactical-level drones. The figures are on the ministry's own site. Jet propulsion is no longer the exception in the Russian arsenal that vastly outpaces Ukraine; it is close to half of it.

The technical development of the week explains how the drones are getting to places like the Security Service headquarters in central Kyiv. Russia has extended drone control range to between 150 km and 175 km from the farthest ground station, roughly double the range documented in 2025, using MIMO mesh relay nodes mounted on communications towers near the front and along the Belarusian border. The assessment is from the Kyiv-based analytical centre KI Insights, reported by Militarnyi. High latency does not matter when the targets are rail junctions and fuel tanks that do not move.

The other half of the arsenal question is what feeds it. Documents obtained by the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, a Kyiv think tank, show the Chinese state-owned Jilin Chemical Fiber Group shipping 46 tonnes of polyacrylonitrile tow, the precursor for carbon fibre, in two 40-foot containers to Alabuga-Volokno in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. The consignment was declared under a customs code for civilian synthetic fibre. Politico reported the documents, which are dated this year.

Alabuga-Volokno is a subsidiary of Umatex, the composites division of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, and the zone is where the Geran drones are built. David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, put the shipment at enough precursor to make carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 kamikaze drones. The centre's head Serhii Kuzan says it has tracked at least eight such tenders since 2022 and calculates that 89% of Alabuga-Volokno's output is expected to go to defence industry enterprises by 2030. Rosatom says its enterprises operate in full compliance with applicable law and that any claim to the contrary is false. Jilin did not respond. Kiel Institute figures published in June put Chinese supply at more than 60% of the components Russia's military needs to keep functioning.

Kerri Bitsoff, a former US Treasury sanctions official, said the mislabelling points to a company hiding a more sensitive order. That is the part that matters commercially: the constraint on Geran output has never been Russian assembly capacity, it is the imported inputs, and a civilian customs code on a state-to-state shipment is what keeps them arriving.

On Ukraine's side, the ASC 890 airborne early warning aircraft entered combat deployment on September 6, and the German company Auterion and Ukraine's Airlogix began production of more than 5,000 long-range strike drones under a German government contract worth about EUR300mn. The types are the medium-range Seth-X and the Anubis, with a stated flight range of up to 1,500 km, built at two plants in Germany with completion expected in mid-2027. The order was first reported by Handelsblatt.

One strike in the period happened nowhere near either country. The Russian-flagged roll-on roll-off vessel Lady Maria, IMO 9220641, operated by MG-Flot and on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions list, was bombed by drones near Crete on September 6. The trade publication Splash247 reports the attack and says there is no independent confirmation from Kyiv or Moscow. Militarnyi states directly that "there is currently no confirmed information on whether the drones were Ukrainian". The cargo is unconfirmed and no Ukrainian official has commented.

Sabotage in Europe

Two more incidents at German electricity infrastructure were reported in the period, and nobody has been blamed for either. At about 22:00 on September 6 unknown persons cut a hole in the perimeter fence of RWE's Niederrhein substation at Wesel in North Rhine-Westphalia, prompting a large police operation with a helicopter. Police made no statement at the scene, and whether the technical installations were tampered with is the subject of the investigation. At about 02:40 on September 7 a fire on a building site at Bissingzeile in Berlin-Mitte spread to an adjoining transformer station, with explosions during firefighting and 25 firefighters deployed. Electricity supply was unaffected. Police have sealed the site and are investigating whether the fire was set deliberately. Both are reported by dpa.

The manhunt for the man sought over the rocket attacks on the Jaenschwalde, Bergheim, Dormagen and Weisweiler substations has not ended. The 48-year-old German national from Gevelsberg is still at large. Police searched his home and a converted truck on September 4 and found objects suspected of being explosive, and Brandenburg has put a 300-officer task force on the case, according to ZDFheute.

The attribution has not moved as far as the coverage suggests. Federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said on September 4 that he currently sees indications of climate extremism by a suspected lone actor, and later said of the handwritten claims of responsibility sent to the Berlin daily taz that "the knowledge revealed in these letters is definitely perpetrator knowledge". North Rhine-Westphalia interior minister Herbert Reul, on the same day, was still working with two hypotheses, foreign-state-directed sabotage and left-wing extremism. Peter R. Neumann of King's College London called the letters among the most unusual he has seen and said it may well be that something quite different lies behind the case, then closed the door himself: "I am not saying Russia is behind this."

In Munich, the two Bulgarian nationals arrested after the September 3 fire at a construction site near the Rohde and Schwarz headquarters were remanded in custody on September 4. The charges are criminal damage and attempted arson, not terrorism and not a foreign-agent offence, though 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.

The scale of what German investigators are handling emerged on September 4, when an internal assessment by the Federal Criminal Police Office was obtained by Sueddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR. It counts 165 suspected sabotage cases since the start of 2026, 1,068 suspicious drones across 747 incidents between January and August, and 112 espionage offences. German security agencies suspect Russia is behind many of them. That is a suspicion recorded in an internal document, not a formal attribution.

The state response arrived on September 6. Federal interior minister Alexander Dobrindt set out a package he calls a protective shield, expanding the Federal Police's mobile anti-drone unit with helicopters and special vehicles and stationing it in nine cities - Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Leipzig, Hanover and Cologne - to cover transport hubs, airports, railway stations and the government district in Berlin.

The provision with commercial consequences sits further down. Operators of critical infrastructure, including water utilities, energy companies and defence industry plants, would be given legal powers not merely to detect drones but to bring them down themselves, without waiting for state forces. The package also extends artificial intelligence, biometric facial recognition and video surveillance at railway stations, and builds a national sensor network Dobrindt calls a Cyberdome.

“Russia's hybrid attacks using explosive-laden drones targeting airports, agents in our cities, cyberattacks on our networks and sabotage of our infrastructure are a daily reality,” Dobrindt said. “These attacks will intensify, but we can fight back and protect ourselves.” Bild reported the plan.

Moscow's answer came through its ambassador in Berlin. Sergei Nechayev told a German podcast that Russia does not want war with Nato or with Germany and that if it had really wanted to do something in Leipzig, it could have looked completely different. He called the sabotage a deliberate provocation and rejected any Russian involvement. Germany said on September 1 it would close Russia's consulate general in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin and tighten entry controls for Russian citizens. German investigators have identified two suspects over the Leipzig drone, a Russian-born man with a Latvian passport and a Belarusian man with a Russian passport, and neither has been detained, Meduza reports.

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

Russian strikes on economic infrastructure in Ukraine, June 15 to September 7 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

Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, June 3 to September 7 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

Arson, sabotage and unexplained fires at defence, aviation and energy sites in the EU, August 4 to September 7 2026. Non-exhaustive. Attribution is given as the authorities state it and no further.

The pattern

Two campaigns are running against each other and only one of them still needs to make contact. Russia's is physical and cumulative: a steel plant halted, a ferry crossing to Romania closed twice in a week, a French logistics group's warehouse hit for the second time in a fortnight, a shopping centre burning in Zaporizhzhia. Every one of those is a facility that will need money and time to come back, and the effort to freeze Ukraine into submission has weeks to run before the heating season starts.

Ukraine's is becoming something else. The night of September 6 to 7 produced one damaged phone mast that any Russian official would confirm, and a dozen closed airports, queues of 50 cars at the 20 filling stations still trading in Rostov-on-Don, and a president who has publicly conceded he was wrong about which facilities would be left alone. The refineries are the mechanism, but the effect being bought now is friction across a whole economy, applied nightly, at a cost per drone that Russia cannot match with the cost per interception.

What neither side is doing is stopping. The three-day halt on strikes on Kyiv city during the American envoys' visit covered two city limits and nothing else, and it has since expired. The ledgers below run to 87 Russian strikes on Ukrainian economic targets and 46 Ukrainian strikes on Russian ones since the count opened in June.