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Ukraine Resumes Refinery Strikes After a Three-Day Pause, Deepening Rift With Washington

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Ukraine Resumes Refinery Strikes After a Three-Day Pause, Deepening Rift With Washington

Ukraine resumes refinery strikes inside Russia after a three-day pause, with drones hitting the Ryazan oil refinery early on Thursday, 15 October 2026. The attack came hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky said a brief truce, which Moscow had not accepted, was over. A senior Ukrainian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the strike, as reported by NPR. The renewed attacks have also opened a visible gap between Kyiv and Washington, which had pressed Ukraine to stop hitting Russian energy sites. What Russia says happened at Ryazan Russia’s Defence Ministry described the incident as a large-scale attack on the refinery, which lies about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow. According to Al Jazeera’s report, the ministry said a fire broke out after drone debris fe...

Russian strikes on nine Ukrainian regions cut power to hundreds of thousands of households

At least 15 people were wounded as the attacks hit homes and the grid. A UN report shows civilian casualties rising sharply as winter nears. Ukraine power outages hit hundreds of thousands of households on Friday, 16 October 2026, after Russian attacks on nine regions. The strikes also damaged numerous homes and wounded at least 15 people, according to Ukrainian officials cited by the Associated Press. The reports reviewed by HCN did not name all nine regions or give a death toll. The wounded count is a minimum and may change. What is known about the outages Officials described the cuts as “emergency” outages. That usually means power is switched off at short notice because the grid cannot supply enough electricity, not on a published schedule. Households cannot plan around them. ...

Ukraine Power Outage: Russian Strikes Leave 600,000 Without Electricity Despite “Energy Ceasefire”

A Ukraine power outage affecting at least 600,000 electricity consumers followed overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv, the surrounding region and Kharkiv on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. He warned that the blackouts could widen. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed it carried out the strikes but said the sites it hit were used by Ukraine’s military. The attack came three days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Zelensky said 30 energy facilities were damaged, including 26 electricity sites and four oil and gas facilities. He described the strike as deliberate and demonstrative in scale, and said it was aimed squarely at the kind of infrastructure the ceasefire was supposed t...