Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry announces plans to launch \u2018massive strikes\u2019 against Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure before winter.<\/p>\n
Published On 30 Aug 202630 Aug 2026<\/p>\n
The death toll from a Russian strike on an arms depot near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has risen to 38, marking the war\u2019s deadliest attack so far this year, Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n
Emergency workers on Sunday continued to extinguish the resulting fires and explosions that began on Saturday in the village of Myla, Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram, adding that bomb disposal teams were also working to clear the site.<\/p>\n
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He said 20 people were injured, while four remained missing.<\/p>\n
The attack was the second to hit a munitions depot near Kyiv within two months, with officials voicing anger that arms were still being stored so close to residential areas.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian prosecutors have opened an investigation<\/a> into alleged criminal negligence.<\/p>\n Separately, Zelenskyy said in a video message that Kyiv is preparing for a new round of talks with representatives of US President Donald Trump, with further details expected on Monday.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine is \u201cdoing everything possible to ensure that war does not remain the only option for future developments\u201d, even as Moscow intensifies its strategy of exhaustion.<\/p>\n \u201cRussia\u2019s current tactic is to wear down Ukraine, and above all, to wear down Ukrainians,\u201d Zelenskyy said, pointing to relentless air strikes across the country.<\/p>\n According to the Ukrainian president, Russian forces launched nearly 1,500 drones over a four-day period, including roughly 800 jet-powered Shahed variants. He described intercepting the faster, jet-powered models as the military\u2019s \u201cmost difficult task\u201d.<\/p>\n To counter the threat, Kyiv is working to secure the necessary interceptor systems, he said. Four firms have already developed suitable interceptor drones, with technology from one company proving particularly effective, he added.<\/p>\n Russia warning<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said its forces were preparing to launch \u201cmassive strikes\u201d against Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, following a Ukrainian drone campaign against Wildberries<\/a>, dubbed \u201cRussia\u2019s Amazon\u201d, as well as the country\u2019s oil and gas sector, which Kyiv says both funds and directly fuels Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n During the war\u2019s previous winters, Russia systematically battered Ukraine\u2019s power grid, depriving thousands of heat and light in freezing temperatures<\/a>. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly warned that the coming winter may prove the most challenging since Russia launched its full-scale invasion<\/a> in February 2022.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian military said it launched overnight attacks on an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Leningrad region and a military base in the Krasnodar region.<\/p>\n One person was killed in a separate Ukrainian attack on a mine in the Russian-controlled part of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, Moscow-installed Governor Leonid Pasechnik said.<\/p>\n United States-led diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Europe\u2019s deadliest since World War II, have been at a standstill for months.<\/p>\n Russia has demanded sweeping territorial and political concessions from Ukraine, which Kyiv has ruled out as tantamount to capitulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry announces plans to launch \u2018massive strikes\u2019 against Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure before winter. Published On 30 Aug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32302,2000,299,6084,2597,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":["post-1177969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-drone-strikes","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-infrastructure","tag-military","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117186838136950192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}