As the guns of a four-and-a-half-year war continue their familiar rhythm, Russia and Ukraine exchanged overnight strikes on each other's industrial and energy infrastructure, killing at least five people across both countries. The attacks — missiles and drones targeting Ukraine's southeastern heartland, Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russia's Samara region — unfolded on the eve of President Zelenskyy's departure for the United Nations General Assembly, where he is set to meet Donald Trump. It is a portrait of a conflict that has learned to coexist with diplomacy: negotiations staged in on
Russia, Ukraine escalate strikes on infrastructure as Zelenskyy heads to UN
At least five people killed and ten injured across strikes in Ukraine and Russia; thousands lost electricity supply in southeastern Ukraine.