A daily brief on the war in Ukraine: deep strikes, the front line and diplomacy, with sources and confidence levels for each call.
8 editions · latest 10/19/2026
In the early hours of October 18, Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks this year on Russia's St Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, setting fire to the St Petersburg oil terminal, a large oil depot, an e-commerce warehouse and a social media platform's data centre, kill…
Read the article →🗺️ Ukraine-Russia Front Briefing · October 18 (Covering Combat Situation of October 17) I. Russian forces launch large-scale air strikes on 9 oblasts (8+ dead, 60 injured, over a million without power); Ukrainian air defense intercepts 293 targets; Russia claims it captured 1,80…
Read the article →I. Russia's 315 drones + 15 missiles launched a nighttime attack on Ukraine's energy facilities (over 370,000 without power in Volyn, 2 dead and 12 injured in Kharkiv); Ukraine's Neptune missile struck the Borisoglebsk airfield, and satellite imagery confirmed 4 Su-34s destroyed.…
Read the article →Russo-Ukrainian Front Briefing | October 16, 2026 (covering the October 15 combat situation, Beijing time) [Situation at a Glance] Ukrainian drones struck the Russian Ryazan refinery and sparked a fire. The plant is owned by Rosneft and accounts for about 5% of Russia's refining…
Read the article →Russia-Ukraine Frontline Briefing | October 15, 2026 (Covering the combat situation of October 14, Beijing time) [Situation at a Glance] From 18:00 on October 13, Russian forces launched a large-scale joint strike: drone swarms coordinated with 39 missiles on ballistic trajectori…
Read the article →Russo-Ukrainian Frontline Briefing | October 14, 2026 (covering the combat situation of October 13, Beijing time) [Situation at a Glance] On the evening of October 12, the Russian military struck Kyiv without warning with 5 Iskander-M / S-400 missiles, with the main target being…
Read the article →Russia-Ukraine Frontline Briefing | October 13, 2026 (covering the October 12 combat situation, Beijing time) [Situation Snapshot] Zelensky said Russian forces continued to strike energy facilities in Kyiv and Kharkiv that night, with the attack on Kharkiv CHP-5 causing 3 deaths…
Read the article →Russia-Ukraine battlefield briefing | October 12, 2026 (covering the October 11 combat situation, Beijing time) [Situation at a glance] On the evening of October 11 (Kyiv time), Kharkiv CHP-5 thermal power plant was hit at least twice and caught fire. The Ukrainian President's Of…
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