Overnight Russia launched ballistic strikes on Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad, killing four Interpipe employees in Dnipro and wounding seven, and destroying an oil and gas facility in Poltava region with at least five missiles. Kyiv region reported damage to 34 sites, train delays and blackouts after drones hit fuel tanks in Obolon.
Ukraine's General Staff claimed return strikes on refineries in Ufa and Samara and on drone warehouses.
In New York for the UN General Assembly, Zelensky met Macron, who pledged radars and interceptor missiles and said France and the US were working on a moratorium on energy strikes. The EU extended individual sanctions on Russia to 2029 but removed Usmanov and Fridman. Zelensky then met Trump, saying he hoped to end the war before winter and handing over a proposal for mutual restraint on energy infrastructure for Washington to pass to Moscow.