Missiles hit an enterprise in Russia's Oryol on October 23, injuring eight, Governor Andrei Klychkov said, and monitoring channels named the target as the Proton military plant.
Klychkov called it a missile attack on a civilian enterprise in the city's Sovetsky district during the rush hour and blamed Ukraine's armed forces. His office reported a "fairly serious" fire, since put out, and no chemical threat, the Russian service of The Moscow Times reported. The plant was named by the monitoring channels Supernova+, Exilenova+ and Astra, Meduza reported. The Kyiv Post says Proton makes components for Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Pantsir-S1 air defence systems.
A drone struck the Comoros-flagged cargo ship Khoryv about 13 nautical miles off Romania's port of Constanta on October 23 and it caught fire, capsized and sank, killing one sailor, with three missing, Romanian authorities said, The Moscow Times reported, citing AFP. President Nicusor Dan blamed Russia, calling the attack "clearly part of the escalation that Russia is carrying out in the context of the war in Ukraine".
SOURCING NOTE: Romania's interior ministry said 10 of the 13 crew were picked up by another commercial vessel, nine alive and one dead; the crew were 10 Ukrainians and three Azerbaijanis. Ukraine's foreign ministry says the dead sailor is Ukrainian (UNN). The ship sank just outside Romanian territorial waters. Reuters, named unlinked, puts the number of cargo ships hit off Romania and Bulgaria this month at at least seven, with about 30 sailors dead or missing (republished by TimesLive). The 13 nautical miles are given as 24 km (Kyiv Post) or 20 km (Romania Insider). The owner and cargo were not found. No Russian response was found.
Russia launched 126 strike drones at Ukraine from 18:00 on October 23 and air defences downed or suppressed 101, the air force said, LB.ua reported. Drones hit 14 locations and debris fell at five. The air force reported no missiles.
SOURCING NOTE: air force claim, preliminary as of 08:00 Kyiv time on October 24, with about eight drones still in the air; the report leaves 17 drones unaccounted for. Glavnoe gives 61 jet-powered drones launched and 50 of them downed. The hit locations were not named.
Inside Russia, the defence ministry claimed 616 fixed-wing drones downed over 22 regions, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea between 20:00 on October 23 and 08:00 on October 24 Moscow time, TASS reported. Earlier on October 23 drones flying at Moscow forced flight restrictions at all four of the capital's airports.
Refinery strikes
Nationwide: no new strike on a Russian oil refinery was reported for October 23 or the night of October 23-24 at the time of writing. The fire at Tolyattikauchuk in the Samara region is at a synthetic rubber plant, not a refinery, and is reported below.
Nationwide, capacity: plants reported halted or cut so far in October account for about 14.8mn tonnes a year, or 5% of Russia's 327mn tonnes nameplate capacity, by IntelliNews' refinery ledger, and up to 145.8mn tonnes, or 45%, if halts reported earlier still hold. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak put capacity under repair at about 10% in early September.
Metal plants hit
Nationwide: no new strike on a Ukrainian steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy or non-ferrous plant was reported for October 23 or the night of October 23-24 at the time of writing. The metals ledger is unchanged.
Oil depots, factories and military targets in Russia
Moscow: drones flew at the capital from about 13:00 on October 23 and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 21 were shot down during the day, Interfax reported. Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky, and Sheremetyevo moved passengers to shelters, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing TASS. St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport said it took 25 diverted flights, Vzglyad reported.
Oryol: see above. More than 10 drones flew at the Oryol region on the morning of October 24, NEWS.ru reported in a headline; no detail was read.
Perm Krai, update: Governor Dmitry Makhonin said 20 drones were shot down on the night of October 22-23 and an industrial facility in the region suffered minor damage, with no casualties, and windows were broken in two flats in Berezniki and Solikamsk, the Kyiv Post reported. Monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Astra said Uralchem's Azot plant in Berezniki was hit.
Nizhny Novgorod region, update: Governor Gleb Nikitin said a drone attack on the night of October 22-23 damaged "one piece of infrastructure" and that three people were injured by falling debris, the Kyiv Post reported. Gorodets moved schools to remote learning, cancelled public events and suspended traffic across the Gorky Reservoir dam, NN.ru reported.
Voronezh region: Governor Alexander Gusev said "several jet-powered aerial targets" were destroyed over Voronezh on the morning of October 23 and falling debris set dry grass alight and damaged outbuildings in a garden cooperative and several cars, with no casualties, the Kyiv Post reported. The regional government denied rumours of a strike on the Baltimor airfield or the VASO aircraft plant, AiF reported.
Samara region: Tatneft's Tolyattikauchuk synthetic rubber plant in Tolyatti was on fire after a drone attack on the night of October 23-24, an Astra OSINT analyst said, citing footage, Ukrinform reported.
Rostov region: Governor Yuri Slyusar said more than 80 drones were destroyed or suppressed overnight over Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and nine districts. Debris damaged a transformer substation in Kalinin in the Myasnikovsky district, cutting power to 172 private houses, and the roof and windows of a Rostovpassazhirtrans maintenance building and 21 buses in Rostov-on-Don, Interfax reported. No one was hurt.
Occupied Crimea: power went off across the peninsula overnight, and Sevastopol's Russian-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev confirmed outages in the city, blaming damage to energy infrastructure outside Sevastopol, Ukrinform reported.
Nationwide: Russia's defence ministry claimed 443 drones downed on the night of October 22-23, the Kyiv Post reported, and 87 between 08:00 and 20:00 Moscow time on October 23, over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol and Moscow regions, Crimea and Perm Krai, AiF reported.
Ukraine under fire
Chernihiv: a Russian daytime attack with drones and a Banderol munition on October 23 killed one man and injured at least 25, and the city council said two private businesses were targeted, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Donetsk region: three FAB-250 bombs with UMPK glide kits hit a residential neighbourhood of Kramatorsk at 15:44 on October 23, killing one and injuring six, including three children, and damaging 27 residential buildings, the regional prosecutor's office said, Ukrinform reported.
Dnipropetrovsk region: a Russian strike hit an enterprise in the Dnipro district, starting a fire and injuring two, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said, Ukrinform reported on October 23. A separate attack on Dnipro and its outskirts killed one person, whose body was recovered from rubble, and injured five, destroying a private house, the regional administration said, Glavnoe reported.
Odesa region: Russian strikes set a recreation base on fire and partly destroyed a three-storey administrative building and an enterprise's production and warehouse building at another address, injuring three, regional head Oleh Kiper said, Radio Svoboda reported. The State Emergency Service said a repeat strike hit the site where rescuers were working, and none of them was hurt.
Kyiv: a drone damaged a private house in the Obolonskyi district on the morning of October 24 and injured two, the city military administration said, Ukrinform reported.
Kharkiv region, update: the toll from the October 22 strike on Lozova rose to two killed and 38 injured, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on October 23, Mezha reported, citing Ukrinform.
Nationwide, energy: Ukrenergo reported new outages in the Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Volyn, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv and Rivne regions on October 23 after drone attacks on energy facilities "overnight and in the morning", and scheduled hourly outages for up to two queues, Ukrinform reported.
Nationwide, update: DTEK said equipment at the thermal power plant that stopped generating on October 22 was significantly damaged and that repairs would start only once the security services allowed it, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The plant has still not been named.
Russian claims: Russia's defence ministry said it hit 14 dry cargo ships and a container ship carrying weapons and dual-use goods for Ukraine's armed forces between October 17 and 23, RIA Novosti reported. It also claimed a hit on a rail depot in Poltava, Lenta.ru reported.
Kherson region: Russia and Ukraine agreed to stop all military action in occupied Oleshky from October 29 so that aid can enter and residents can leave through a safe corridor, the White House said, crediting First Lady Melania Trump.
Nationwide, week: Russia launched 2,597 drones at Ukraine over the past week and 2,282 were neutralised, the General Staff said, Ukrinform reported on October 24.
Data centres, telecoms, media and R&D
Nationwide: no new strike on a data centre, telecoms operator, broadcaster or research site in Ukraine was found for October 23 or the night of October 23-24 at the time of writing. The ledger stays at 41 rows.
Weapons and technology
Belarus: Belarus is still letting Russia use signal relays on its territory to guide drones launched at Ukraine, State Border Guard Service spokesman Andriy Demchenko said in a televised interview on October 23, Ukrinform reported. He said border guards had seen no Russian forces moving into Belarus and no Belarusian units moving to the border.
SOURCING NOTE: also reported by the Kyiv Post, which notes Zelenskiy said in June the relays had stopped working and Demchenko said in September they were active again. No figures were given.
Geran-5: Russia used a new modification of its Geran-5 jet drone, the "K5-K", in its October 22 attack, Serhiy Beskrestnov, an air-defence and electronic-warfare specialist, said, 112.ua reported. He said it was first detected about a month earlier.
Patriots: European countries can hand over Patriot interceptors only with US approval, Zelenskiy said on October 22, adding that the US had sent most interceptors to the Middle East, Euromaidan Press reported. A US official called claims that the Pentagon was holding up the missiles "not true".
Underground plants: Ukraine's government changed the rules to let private investors build protected underground production sites and sell or lease them to defence manufacturers, with duty- and VAT-free imports of components for weapons paid for by partners, Euromaidan Press reported on October 23.
Arson and sabotage in the EU and the UK
Romania: President Dan said the Khoryv was "struck by a drone and sank near Romanian territorial waters" (see above), and Prime Minister Luca Niculescu called the attack "a flagrant violation of international law", The Moscow Times reported. After a meeting of the Supreme Council for National Defence, the presidency said threats to freedom of navigation had "increased significantly".
SOURCING NOTE: attribution is Romania's president's; no Romanian investigation result was reported. It follows the drone attack on the tanker Wine Trader off Sulina on October 15 (in the ledger) and earlier sinkings off Bulgaria (IntelliNews). Nato said on October 20, before the sinking, that it would send more patrol aircraft, radars and drones to the Black Sea. An EU statement was seen only as a headline and is not printed. The foreign minister's name is spelt Neculaescu (Moscow Times) or Neculescu (Ukrinform); not reconciled, not printed.
Germany, update: a Federal Court of Justice judge put into effect the arrest warrant for Vadym Y., the Ukrainian national held in Brandenburg on suspicion of spying for Russia, and he is in pre-trial detention, dpa reported, carried by Tagesspiegel.
SOURCING NOTE: espionage only; no sabotage is alleged. dpa says federal police arrested him in Eisenhuettenstadt; Al Jazeera says 85 km west of Berlin - not reconciled. The date of the detention ruling was not stated. No new arson, rail sabotage or drone incursion in the EU or the UK was found for October 22-24.
Tit for tat
Missiles hit an enterprise in Oryol that monitoring channels name as the Proton military plant, injuring eight. Drones were reported to have set a synthetic rubber plant in Tolyatti on fire, Crimea lost power and 172 houses in the Rostov region were cut off. Russia's defence ministry claimed 616 drones downed overnight.
Russia sent 126 drones at Ukraine overnight, hitting 14 locations, after daytime strikes killed one each in Chernihiv, Kramatorsk and Dnipro. Off Romania, a drone sank the Khoryv, and Romania's president blamed Russia.
Russian missile and drone production
Russian missile and drone output a month by class, on Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence assessment of October 2026, with stockpiles in brackets.
Annual missile and drone output, Russia's current rate against Ukraine's 2027 targets.
The ledgers
The running ledgers are kept as six public spreadsheets at permanent addresses. The first three are non-exhaustive, every row is sourced, and where only one side has spoken the row says so. Defence ministry figures are recorded as claims, and in the sabotage ledger attribution is given exactly as the authorities state it and no further. The fourth tracks what has happened to Ukraine's steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy and non-ferrous plants since 2021, grouped by owner. The fifth tracks strikes on data centres, telecoms, media and research sites; the sixth tracks refinery strikes.
RUSSIA STRIKES LEDGER: Russian strikes on Ukraine's economic infrastructure, 529 rows
UKRAINE STRIKES LEDGER: Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, 338 rows
ARSON & SABOTAGE LEDGER: Arson, sabotage and drone incursions in the EU and the UK, 96 rows
METAL STRIKES LEDGER: Ukraine's metals and mining assets: 2021 baseline against status in September 2026, 38 plants and mines
DATA CENTRE & TELECOM STRIKES LEDGER: Data centres, telecoms, media and research sites hit in Ukraine, 41 rows
ARSENAL GUIDE: Infographic guide to Russia and Ukraine's missile and drone arsenals
REFINERY STRIKES LEDGER: Russian oil refineries hit, and how badly, 27 refineries
| Refinery | Region | Capacity (mn t/yr) | Strikes | Latest hit | Worst damage (0-4) | Status now |
| Ryazan | Ryazan region | 17.1 | 16 | October 15, 2026 | 4 | Partly operating: AT-6 primary unit halted after 15 Oct strike; AVT-1, AVT-3, AVT-4 running (October 16, 2026) |
| Moscow (Kapotnya) | Moscow | 12 | 5 | September 20, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 22, 2026) |
| Kirishi (KINEF) | Leningrad region | 20.1 | 8 | August 30, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 15, 2026) |
| Yaroslavl (Slavneft-YANOS) | Yaroslavl region | 15 | 15 | September 17, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 17, 2026) |
| Nizhny Novgorod (Lukoil NORSI, Kstovo) | Nizhny Novgorod region | 17 | 10 | August 26, 2026 | 4 | Partly operating (~25%) (September 15, 2026) |
| Volgograd | Volgograd region | 14.8 | 12 | October 2, 2026 | 4 | Halted (October 6, 2026) |
| Saratov | Saratov region | 7 | 10 | September 11, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 16, 2026) |
| Syzran | Samara region | 8.5 | 10 | September 15, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 16, 2026) |
| Novokuibyshevsk | Samara region | 8.3 | 7 | August 22, 2026 | 4 | Unknown after 22 Aug 2026 fire (August 22, 2026) |
| Kuibyshev (Samara) | Samara region | 7 | 6 | September 23, 2026 | 4 | Unknown after 22 Sep 2026 strike (September 23, 2026) |
| Tuapse | Krasnodar region | 12 | 11 | May 27, 2026 | 4 | Halted (no restart reported) (April 21, 2026) |
| Afipsky | Krasnodar region | 6.2 | 15 | August 25, 2026 | 1 | No halt reported (August 27, 2026) |
| Ilsky | Krasnodar region | 6.6 | 14 | September 26, 2026 | 3 | Halt claimed by Ukraine's Fire Point, not confirmed (September 26, 2026) |
| Slavyansk ECO | Krasnodar region | 5.2 | 9 | September 13, 2026 | 4 | No halt reported after 13 Sep 2026 (September 17, 2026) |
| Krasnodar | Krasnodar region | 3 | 2 | August 30, 2025 | 1 | No halt reported (August 30, 2025) |
| Novoshakhtinsk | Rostov region | 5 | 7 | September 25, 2026 | 4 | Halted (temporarily suspended) (September 25, 2026) |
| Ufa group (Bashneft: Ufaneftekhim, Novoil, UNPZ) | Bashkortostan | 23.4 | 15 | September 23, 2026 | 2 | Operating, units under repair (September 22, 2026) |
| Salavat | Bashkortostan | 10 | 6 | October 8, 2026 | 4 | Halted (no restart reported) (August 14, 2026) |
| Nizhnekamsk (TANECO) | Tatarstan | 16 | 7 | September 13, 2026 | 4 | Unclear / partly operating (September 18, 2026) |
| Nizhnekamsk (TAIF-NK) | Tatarstan | 7.3 | 1 | July 8, 2026 | 0 | Operating (July 27, 2026) |
| Perm (Lukoil) | Perm region | 13.1 | 6 | September 25, 2026 | 4 | Halted (September 25, 2026) |
| Orsk | Orenburg region | 6.6 | 4 | August 11, 2026 | 4 | Halted (repairs up to six months) (August 13, 2026) |
| Omsk | Omsk region | 21 | 2 | October 8, 2026 | 4 | Unclear (restarted late July; later reported stopped) (September 15, 2026) |
| Tyumen (Antipinsky) | Tyumen region | 9 | 3 | July 25, 2026 | 4 | Halted (no restart reported) (July 28, 2026) |
| Ukhta (Lukoil) | Komi Republic | 4.2 | 3 | October 9, 2026 | 1 | Unknown (February 12, 2026) |
| Pervyi Zavod (Kaluga mini-refinery) | Kaluga region | 1.2 | 2 | May 10, 2024 | 1 | Operating (November 19, 2025) |
| Nevsky Mazut (St Petersburg) | St Petersburg | 1 | January 31, 2024 | 1 | Unknown (January 31, 2024) |
Russian oil refineries hit by Ukrainian strikes, as of October 24, 2026. Non-exhaustive; strike counts are floors. Damage: 0 claimed, no damage confirmed; 1 fire or minor damage; 2 secondary unit damaged, output reduced; 3 primary distillation unit damaged; 4 refinery halted. Plants reported halted or cut in Oct 2026 account for about 14.8 mn t/yr, about 5% of the 327 mn t/yr nameplate total; up to 145.8 mn t/yr (45%) if earlier halts still hold. Russian officials put capacity under repair at about 10% (Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, early September). Status mostly from unnamed industry sources cited by Reuters. Full sourced ledger: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHjZvX9Hf-6jdKxcTE8Dw7f6O2_svY0kX54sqKPyU_s
This article was produced with the help of IntelliNews Lambda analytical tool