Is the war entering a new phase? Russia has said it has shot down more than 140 drones in an ongoing attack on the country's Leningrad region northwest of Moscow. "A total of 146 drones have been downed over the Leningrad Region," Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said on Telegram on Tuesday, Russia's state TASS news agency reported, adding that "the counter-action is ongoing". Local authorities said a woman had been killed in the attack. A drone attack also caused a fire in the port area of Ust-Luga by the Baltic Sea in the province, Drozdenko said on Telegram on Wednesday.

Is the war entering a new phase? Overnight strikes between Russia and Ukraine have killed at least one person and damaged a Russian oil refinery. The Kirishi refinery in the Leningrad region was set on fire following a Ukrainian drone attack, Leningrad Regional Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said on Monday in a post on Telegram. Also on Monday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his country had agreed to establish a new mechanism to allow European Union funds to be deployed more quickly in response to Russian attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The Kirishi refinery is Russia's second-largest, and the Leningrad region is a major hub for the country's oil and grain exports via the Baltic Sea.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region Share Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region on social media Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, officials reported. Local Russian authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, announced the three deaths on Wednesday. In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions leaving emergency outages in many cities. Ukraine has repeatedly said Moscow is targeting its energy grid as temperatures drop before winter.

Is the war entering a new phase? Three black naval drones resembling oversized plastic toys struck a freighter sluggishly navigating the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria on October 28. Aerial drones joined the attack, and explosions rocked the Liberian-flagged Contship Jet Monrovia, loaded with more than 400 terracotta-coloured containers. The vessel, travelling from the Israeli port of Haifa to Romania, listed and sank, but all 18 crew members were rescued, Bulgarian authorities said. The drones were Russian, Kyiv claimed, adding that the attack was designed to make the Black Sea unsafe for civilian ships, paralyse Ukraine's exports of grain and further hobble its war-ravaged economy.

Is the war entering a new phase? Russia has bombed a hospital in Kharkiv, injuring at least 73 people, while also carrying out several attacks on energy infrastructure across multiple Ukrainian regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that "the Russians directly struck a city clinical hospital. Seventy-three people were injured, and the cardiology department, where people were receiving treatment, was damaged." Separately, Ukrainian energy sites were hit, including in Kharkiv, in what President Zelenskyy described as a "complex, massive attack".

Is the war entering a new phase? The longest multi-day truce between Russia and Ukraine, limited to Ukraine's eastern Kherson region, has come to an end with no violations reported by either side, but also no sign of an extension. The truce, which ended on Sunday night, allowed hundreds of besieged residents of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky to be evacuated in a rare joint operation between Kyiv and Moscow. In Russia, meanwhile, authorities reported major damage to an industrial site following Ukrainian drone attacks on the Nizhny Novgorod region. The six-day localised ceasefire in the front-line Oleshky and the surrounding area was reached after mediation efforts by United States First Lady Melania Trump and with the involvement of Pope Leo XIV.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukraine's military says Russian casualties reached 49,040 in October - a new monthly record. The General Staff's estimate of dead and incapacitated Russian troops, as of October 28, comes close to fulfilling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's goal set in January of at least 50,000 enemy casualties a month by the end of 2026. The previous monthly high of 46,230 was set in September, with both records marking a sharp increase in reported Russian dead and wounded since the summer. Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi called it a "massive industrial slaughter".

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Is the war entering a new phase? Defence ministers of key European countries are meeting in the French capital to discuss military support for Ukraine amid continuing Russia-Ukraine attacks. A Russian strike on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia injured four people on Monday morning, according to regional Governor Mykhailo Semikin, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Voronezh killed two people and wounded 17, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said. The Russian Ministry of Defence also claimed its forces hit a power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, as well as a nearby warehouse, and a power station in the Khmelnytskyi region. The ministry said Russian forces also targeted port infrastructure in Chornomorsk in southwestern Ukraine, and a cargo vessel en route to Odesa, which it claimed was being used for military purposes. Meanwhile, officials say that many of those wounded in the Ukrainian drone attack on Voronezh were passengers on a commuter train hit by falling debris.

Is the war entering a new phase? NATO is deploying additional patrol aircraft and intelligence personnel to the Black Sea, a spokesman for the alliance said, after a series of deadly drone attacks in the region widely blamed on Russia but denied by the Kremlin. "Allies have or will send additional maritime patrol aircraft, radar systems, explosive exploitation teams, intelligence personnel, drones and more to the Black Sea," said Colonel Martin O'Donnell on Tuesday. NATO, along with Bulgaria and Romania, has not directly attributed the recent spate of attacks to any country. Military analysts have said Russia almost certainly carried out the attacks but Moscow has not acknowledged any responsibility.