The best place to destroy a Shahed is on the ground.” This truism, borrowed from a recent CSIS report, takes on fresh relevance following a series of precisely calculated Ukrainian attacks that have rattled Russian military facilities from the Pacific to the Voronezh region.

Part of the Sumy district has been left without power supply on the evening of 8 October due to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure facilities. Source: Sumyoblenergo, Sumy's distribution system operator Quote: "Part of the Sumy district has been left without power supply due to the military aggression of the Russian Federation.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it came days after joint maneuvers with Belarus. The latest sweeping drills, dubbed “Zapad 2025” — or “West 2025” — have worried NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania that border Belarus to the west.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the continued presence of Russia's major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush insurgents was winding down.

A wave of overnight Russian missile and drone strikes has caused massive power cuts across Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Nine people were injured when strikes hit the city’s eastern districts, plunging thousands of homes into darkness, mayor Vitali Klitschko said this morning.

Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swaths of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child also was killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country.

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