Overview
- Kyiv was hit for a third straight night by Russian drone strikes that damaged residential and industrial sites and caused at least one death, Ukrainian officials said.
- An AFP analysis using ACLED data found strikes on civilian warehouses around Kyiv tripled over the past nine months, with about two-thirds of those attacks occurring since early August.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian intelligence recovered documents showing Russia plans to spend about $12 billion next year on jet‑powered drones and loitering munitions, and Ukraine is increasing interceptor production in response.
- At the UN, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European states of blocking peace initiatives and vowed Moscow would press its military objectives.
- Ukrainian officials and retailers say the campaign has broken centralized supermarket logistics, prompted calls to decentralize supply chains, and could push food prices up by around 2.5%, worsening already high inflation.