Ukraine is set to restart attacks on Russian oil refineries following a two-day pause, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, amid growing tensions with Washington over energy strikes and U.S. military support.
Ukrainian drones struck industrial and warehouse facilities in Russia's Rostov region, sparking a fire, according to regional Governor Yuri Slyusar.
Slyusar said one person was injured in the attack. No further details on the extent of the damage were immediately available.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries had caused no significant damage, Interfax news agency reported.
Putin added that Russia would respond to the attacks.
Britain is sending Ukraine additional long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to disrupt Russian military operations and counter attacks on civilian infrastructure, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in London on Wednesday, when Britain reaffirmed its support for Kyiv and announced further military assistance amid a recent deterioration in Ukraine’s ties with Washington.
The G7 has raised €260 million ($291.67 million) to repair Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said on Thursday in Bangkok.
Lescure said a donor conference would be held in Paris on 9 November to raise additional funds, as the plant’s full recovery is estimated to cost €500 million ($560.90 million).
He added that the G7 had also pledged $2.5 billion for fertilisers.
Romanian President Nicușor Dan said on Thursday that recent attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea were Russian attempts to destabilise NATO’s eastern flank and weaken support for Ukraine.
Speaking after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Dan said further details about ships struck in and near Romanian territorial waters would be released after ongoing investigations.
France said on Thursday that Russia’s latest strikes on Ukraine showed Moscow was not ready to move towards peace.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux told reporters that attacks in recent days had killed more than 150 civilians since the beginning of last week.
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries undermined U.S. efforts to revive peace talks, after a Ukrainian drone hit a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region overnight.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kyiv had never complied with the energy ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday. Ukraine said it had paused strikes on Russian refineries for three days but resumed them after Russia continued attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Moscow has also said the ceasefire’s scope was never defined. On Wednesday, Russia reported strikes on seven Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz rejected a reported U.S. proposal to transfer some frozen Russian sovereign assets to a Washington-supervised vehicle to help revive peace talks over Ukraine.
“These are assets that are frozen in Europe, and they should remain frozen in Europe. This is our affair, and we are the ones who decide on it,” Merz said on Thursday at an EU summit in Brussels.
The Financial Times reported that the proposal would involve unfreezing some Russian assets immobilised after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The report cited people briefed on the matter.
Russia could begin shipping diesel to the United States within two to three weeks, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday, according to TASS.
Speaking at Russian Energy Week in Moscow, Novak said contracts must first be finalised, vessels chartered and fuel loaded before deliveries can begin.
He said Russia was prepared to export 300,000 tonnes of diesel in October, rising to 500,000 tonnes in November and one million tonnes in December.
The timeline follows a temporary easing of U.S. sanctions on Russian fuel exports.
Ukraine hit a Russian refinery overnight in response to Moscow's ballistic missile and drone attacks this week that violated an energy truce announced by U.S. President Donald Trump at the weekend, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.
Ukraine suspended its strikes on Russian refineries for several days in the wake of Trump's surprise announcement on Sunday. However, the Kremlin said on Wednesday the scope of the energy ceasefire had not been determined, and work was ongoing to do so.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 850 Shahed drones against Ukraine between midnight and 9am, with strikes reported across multiple regions and at least six people killed.
Zelenskyy said emergency services and repair crews were continuing to respond to the attacks, which targeted regions including Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. He reported three deaths in Kropyvnytskyi and three more in the Dnipro region.
He accused Moscow of escalating its attacks following sanctions relief and attempts to pressure Kyiv, calling for stronger decisions to end the war and sustained international support for Ukraine’s air defence.
Romanian authorities are searching for seven missing sailors from a 12-member crew after a ship caught fire in the country's territorial waters, the Romanian Naval Authority said on Thursday.
The vessel is the second ship to catch fire near the Danube's Sulina canal following an overnight Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine.
The fate of the missing crew members remains unknown.
Russia is ready to resume diesel exports at any time, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday, following a supply agreement with the United States and temporary U.S. sanctions relief.
President Donald Trump said last week that Russia had agreed to supply diesel to global markets to help lower fuel prices. Moscow subsequently partially lifted its diesel export ban on 10 October.
Novak also said the government was considering restrictions on liquefied petroleum gas exports, although the scope of the proposed measures remains unclear.
Ukraine's Starshield satellite internet service has been restored for use while in motion, a source in the country's defence ministry said on Thursday.
The military-grade SpaceX service was disrupted on Wednesday when connectivity was restricted at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), affecting Ukrainian drone operations across the frontline.
The source said the defence ministry would continue seeking clarification over the cause of the disruption.
According to a statement published on the Ukrainian navy's Telegram on Thursday, 15 October, Ukraine's navy used its Neptune coastal missile system to target the Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia's Voronezh region during an overnight operation.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
Russia struck a gas extraction facility operated by Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz in the central Poltava region overnight, the company said on Thursday, 15 October.
In a statement on Telegram, Naftogaz said the attack forced operations at the facility to be suspended, damaged equipment and caused a fire.
Separately, Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had struck the port of Izmail in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, as well as two cargo vessels travelling towards Odesa. Moscow claimed the ships were being used for military purposes.
In another statement, the ministry said it had targeted a cargo vessel in the Black Sea’s Bug estuary and another at the port of Chornomorsk, claiming both were transporting supplies for the Ukrainian military.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Financial Times in an interview published on Thursday that Ukraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries.
“The block (on attacking refineries) is out. We’re done,” he said.
Ukraine had paused attacks on Russian energy infrastructure for two days following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of an energy ceasefire.
Zelenskyy criticised Washington’s pursuit of business deals with Moscow, including a recent diesel supply agreement, and accused the U.S. of restricting military support to pressure Kyiv into halting the strikes.
He claimed Ukraine had lost access to U.S. early-warning alerts for incoming ballistic missiles, while Starlink communications had slowed across the country. He rejected explanations that the disruptions were caused by technical problems.
“It was not a technical problem, it was the will,” Zelenskyy told the FT.
He said Ukraine would consider halting strikes on Russian energy infrastructure if Washington provided additional U.S.-made Patriot interceptors, calling this the minimum acceptable condition.
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