Russian Strikes Kill 12 as Kyiv Is Hit for a Sixth Straight Day
At least twelve people were killed and dozens injured in overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine, including a strike on an apartment building in the Kyiv region — an Indian citizen among the dead. Thousands of families lost power in Odesa, and a border crossing with Romania was deliberately damaged. Kyiv has now been attacked six days running, including daytime raids with new jet-powered drones, as EU defence ministers gather in Ireland and Germany prepares to formally blame Russia for the Leipzig drone plot.
Six consecutive days of strikes on the capital — with jet-powered drones fast enough to complicate daylight interception — looks like the opening of the autumn campaign Ukraine has been warning about, aimed as ever at the grid before winter and now at border infrastructure linking Ukraine to the EU. The death of an Indian citizen carries its own charge, landing the morning after Mr Modi pressed Putin in Bishkek to end the war “for humanity’s sake”; Delhi’s oil purchases fund the arsenal that killed its national. The depot negligence scandal, the warned ground assault, and the CIA channel all hang over the same question of where this escalates next. Watch Germany’s Leipzig attribution — naming Russia formally obliges a response the EU has so far deferred.