Russia fired more than 850 drones at 15 Ukrainian regions overnight on 14-15 October, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said1. The Ukrainian Air Force said it stopped 536, with impacts at 31 locations. A drone attack lasting more than ten hours on Kirovohrad region killed three people in its capital, Kropyvnytskyi, and injured six2.
The barrage followed Donald Trump's statement on 11 October that both sides had agreed to halt attacks on energy infrastructure3. Russia's campaign against the lines that move power between Ukraine's regions had already begun before Trump spoke, and nothing in the Kremlin's later comments committed it to stopping.
Smaller attacks came first. From the evening of 12 October Russia used more than a hundred weapons4. In Kharkiv, a strike destroyed a residential building, killing four people and wounding 41. A drone wounded 14 people at an educational institution in Rivne.
On 13 October five Russian ballistic missiles hit civilian infrastructure in Kyiv5. Zelenskyy said partners gave Ukraine no early warning of that strike, without naming a partner. Trump says the United States has not stopped sharing intelligence6. Axios reported on 9 October that US envoys warned Ukraine's delegation in Miami that Washington could restrict its intelligence access over the refinery strikes.
