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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...

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. ...

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

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