A car burns amid Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia city in southeast Ukraine, August 11, 2026

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UPDATE 1754 GMT:

Ukraine has liberated 745 square km (288 square miles) and 26 villages since January in the Oleksandrivka sector, where the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk regions converge, posts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky said at least 9,550 Russian soldiers were killed and more than 6,600 wounded, with others captured.

The President said that in addition to knocking out two grain terminals, Ukraine’s missile and drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk hit the Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov frigates, a large landing ship, a corvette, and other vessels as well as “other Russian facilities that were helping finance the war”.

UPDATE 1749 GMT:

Amid its fuel crisis, Russia received its first gasoline shipments from India last week.

Nayara Energy, backed by Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft, sent refined fuel on Russian-linked tankers through Egypt.

UPDATE 1740 GMT:

Eight civilians have been murdered and 57 injured by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day.

Air defenses intercepted 112 of 138 drones. The Russians also fired an Iskander-M ballistic missile, an anti-radiation Kh-31P missile, Kh-35 guided air-launched missiles. They struck 16 locations in the attacks.

In the Odesa region in the south, two people were killed and three injured when Russian forces struck a truck carrying oil and the flames spread to a nearby car.

In the Kherson region, two people were slain and 14 injured in attacks on 33 settlements.

In the Sumy region in the northeast, two men, aged 61 and 62, were killed and four other civilians injured.

In the Donetsk region in the east, one civilian was murdered and 14 injured.

In the Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast, one person was killed and nine wounded.

Casualties were also reported in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

UPDATE 1049 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has commented on Kyiv’s overnight strikes on Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk:

UPDATE 1041 GMT:

Vladimir Putin has blustered that the Kremlin will retaliate if Western countries seize Russian commercial vessels.

“If these plans are put into practice, we will have to respond in kind…wherever we deem it necessary and appropriate – anywhere, including in the Pacific Fleet’s area of responsibility,” he said in an address to Russian sailors.

UPDATE 0909 GMT:

The Sibur Zapsibneftekhim petrochemical complex in western ​Siberia, Russia’s biggest liquefied petroleum ​gas plant, has been shut indefinitely after a Ukrainian drone ‌attack on Monday.

Zapsibneftekhim, in Tobolsk in the Tyumen region, produces around 6 ​million metric tons of LPG annually. That is about 40% of Russia’s total LPG output.

UPDATE 0903 GMT:

Ukraine is considering shipment of grain by rail through Moldova amid Russian airstrikes trying to shut down Black Sea ports in the Odesa region.

Officials in both countries said Kyiv has asked authorities in Chisinau for a low freight tariff.

The former head of Moldovan Railways, Oleg Tofilat, said a transit rail corridor through Moldova could ​carry 4.5 million metric tons annually. Ukrainian officials estimate that a working corridor could provide for 10% of the country’s exports.

Moldova provided ⁠rail transport for Ukrainian grain in 2022-2023 before Kyiv was able to break Russia’s naval blockade of its ports.

UPDATE 0857 GMT:

DTEK Oil & Gas has suspended gas production at its facilities in the Poltava region in central Ukraine because of Russian attacks.

UPDATE 0842 GMT:

Ukraine suspended drone strikes on oil tankers using Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk after a call on July 31 from US Vice President J.D. Vance to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian officials have revealed.

Amid its failing War on Iran, the Trump camp worried that Ukraine was further destabilizing oil markets, targeting tankers carrying crude oil piped from Kazakhstan to a Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal in Novorossiysk.

Ukraine had not struck tankers near the CPC terminal since then, agreeing not to hit CPC infrastructure or non-Russian vessels. Kyiv said it would hold off as long as ships were not under Ukrainian sanctions and were not carrying Russian oil or other Russian cargo.

However, Ukraine carried out strikes on Novorossiyk overnight. Russia suspended operations at two of its largest grain terminals.

Novorossiysk faced one of its biggest recent attacks, involving missiles, drones and naval drones. Fires were reported at port infrastructure, including oil and grain facilities.

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“We very carefully listen to our American partners,” a “senior Ukrainian official” said. Kyiv established relevant “mechanisms” in response to the US request, with the CPC as “a regular part of the conversation with the US and the Kazakh governments”.

US energy companies Chevron and ExxonMobil both own stakes in CPC, Kazakhstan’s main oil export route, and in the western Kazakh oilfields.

A US official confirmed that the Administration had called on Ukraine to stop targeting CPC infrastructure and non-Russian vessels in the Black Sea: “The administration views the CPC as a vital conduit of Kazakhstan-origin energy for European markets that serves as an alternative to Russian energy supplies.

Ukraine’s attacks on the CPC terminal in July forced Kazakhstan to stop piping oil to Novorossiysk and more than doubled shipping rates and insurance. CPC loaded just 1.3mn barrels a day in July, down more than 300,000 b/d from June and 600,000 b/d from May.

UPDATE, AUG 12:

Ukrainian drones struck the port city of Novorossiysk in southwest Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea overnight.

Russian officials said drone debris struck six residential buildings, a commercial building, and a construction site in Novorossiysk, causing casualties. Monitoring channels reported strikes on a grain elevator and agricultural shipping complex used for transit to and from seaports.

The port is a key hub for the Russian Navy and for oil exports.

In Crimea, several explosions were heard near the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant outside Sevastopol. A large-scale drone attack was reported near the Crimean Bridge, which connects the occupied peninsula with Russia’s Krasnodar Krai.

UPDATE 1912 GMT:

Seven employees of the Zaporizhzhia Steel Works have been killed and 21 injured by a Russian ballistic missile strike.

The strike occurred as employees were making their way to shelters during an air raid warning. It damaged energy facilities, infrastructure, and the main and auxiliary facilities of the coke and blast-furnace operations.

The plant, one of the largest in Ukraine, has halted operations. Other production sites are operating at reduced capacity.

UPDATE 0946 GMT:

Russia’s only liberal, anti-war party, Yabloko, has been barred from standing in September’s Parliamentary elections.

A Moscow court issued the ruling in a case brought by Rodina, a pro-Kremlin nationalist party. Yabloko was accused of publicly supporting an extremist organisation, publishing material on its website in support of the “international LGBT movement”.

Russia’s financial monitoring service alleged that Yabloko received money through third parties from foreign countries, including Germany and the US.

Hundreds of people, most of them young, gathered outside the courthouse. They sang songs and waved flags in support of Yabloko. When news of the verdict spread among the crowd, many chanted, “Shame! Shame!”

The Kremlin-controlled Central Electoral Commission had approved Yabloko’s candidate list in late July. However, several party members were already barred from running. They included two deputy chairmen and deputy leader Maxim Kruglov, sentenced in June to seven years’ imprisonment for social media posts about civilian casualties in Ukraine.

Last week Yabloko suffered a cyberattack after launching a donations appeal for its election campaign fund.

UPDATE 0842 GMT:

The toll has been updated to six civilians murdered and 19 injured by Russia’s attacks on Zaporizhzhia in southeast Ukraine overnight.

In the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region, three people were killed and five wounded by Russian drone and artillery attacks on five districts.

UPDATE 0802 GMT:

A fire broke out on Tuesday morning at an oil refinery in far eastern Russia.

The Khabarovsk regional government said the blaze was set when a column was depressurized. No one was injured, and no excess concentrations of harmful substances were detected in the war.

“The refinery continued operations, and production is continuing at full capacity,” claimed Khabarovsk Energy Minister German Tyutyukov. Repairs are expected to be completed by the end of the day.

The Komsomolsk refinery has a capacity of around 8 million tons of oil per year, 15th in Russia by refining volume.

UPDATE 0712 GMT:

Ukraine’s drones have struck another logistics hub of “Russia’s Amazon”, Wildberries.

The facility is in the village of Novaya Usman in the Voronezh region. It was engulfed in flames following a series of explosions.

Voronezh Governor Aleksandr Gusev claimed a 49-year-old man was killed and two injured. He insisted that all 15 drones had been shot down, and that the casualties were from falling drone debris.

Since mid-July, Ukraine has inflicted billions of dollars of damage on Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer.

Reports are circulating that the Orsk oil refinery in the Orenburg region was also attacked and set afire.

The refinery, about 1,450 km (900 miles) from the frontline, has a processing capacity of around 6.6 million tons of crude oil per year.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least five civilians have been murdered and 20 injured by Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia city in southeast Ukraine overnight.

Explosions in Zaporizhzhia and the capital Kyiv were reported around 12:30 a.m. as Ukraine’s Air Force warned of Russian ballistic missiles targeting the two citieis and the Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.

“We heard around 10 explosions, I believe they were ballistics,” said a Kyiv Independent reporter in Zaporizhzhia. “And we just had one bad blast [likely from a guided aerial bomb] that shook the whole building like an earthquake.”

Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said Russian forces targeted the regional center with ballistic missiles and guided aerial bombs. Homes and other buildings were damaged and set afire, and power was cut in some areas.

One person was injured in July amid several loud explosions, some near the city center. Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned residents to seek shelter.

A warehouse was damaged in the Shevchenkivskyi district.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted:

Every step Russia takes – increasing ballistic missile production, bringing in North Korean equipment, preparing for mobilization – all of this shows that Moscow is preparing not for peace, but for escalation. And the world needs to respond now, not wait. More sanctions pressure specifically on enterprises that fuel Russia’s war, more air defense assistance for Ukraine – all of this is needed to give peace a chance.