Ukraine launches over 1,000 drones at Russia, setting oil facilities ablaze — SkimNews
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- Ukraine's military launched 1,015 drones overnight across 15 Russian regions, the annexed Crimean peninsula, and the Black Sea, according to Russia's Ministry of Defence, in what the source calls one of Kyiv's largest aerial strikes of the war
- St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said fires broke out at the city's oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot, and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky district, killing at least one person and injuring five
- Russian e-commerce firm Ozon reported a fire at its St Petersburg logistics hub and internet company VK said drones struck its data centre in the broader Leningrad region, where Governor Drozdenko said 145 drones were shot down and ~20,000 people lost electricity
- Trump defended his Friday decision to hold new Russia sanctions, saying they would "foolishly" drive Moscow from the bargaining table, and accused President Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the war by striking Russian energy infrastructure
- Zelenskyy said on X that he was "done" with Trump's October 11 "energy ceasefire," noting Russia attacked Ukraine's energy, oil and gas sectors 76 times in the week since the announcement, and said US-Ukraine intelligence sharing had resumed after being "blocked for some period of time"
- Russian overnight strikes killed a woman in Kyiv and damaged a 25-storey residential building and subway station, while two attacks on Zaporizhzhia killed a woman and wounded a six-year-old girl
Why it matters: The 1,015-drone barrage from Ukraine and Zelenskyy's open rejection of Trump's October 11 "energy ceasefire" — backed by his count of 76 Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy since the deal — collapse the diplomatic framework Trump is trying to build with Moscow, while Witkoff and Kushner are still mid-negotiation with Kyiv's team.
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