Overview
- Overnight Russian strikes targeted power and gas infrastructure in Kyiv, Zaporiyia and Dnipropetrovsk, cutting service to tens of thousands and killing a child in the Zaporiyia region, according to Ukrainian authorities.
- Moscow warns that supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would be a serious escalation causing ‘irreparable’ damage to U.S.–Russia relations and argues the weapons would require direct U.S. involvement to be operable.
- The White House is considering Kyiv’s request for Tomahawks, with U.S. officials saying President Donald Trump would make the final decision; no transfer has been announced.
- Russia says the diplomatic impulse from the August Alaska summit has largely ‘exhausted,’ blames European actors for undermining talks, and notes it has not received a formal U.S. reply to Putin’s one‑year New START limits proposal that Trump called a ‘good idea.’
- European debates over support to Kyiv have sharpened, as the EU prioritizes air and drone defenses and Czech winner Andrej Babis vows no new budget money for Ukrainian weapons.