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HighVI Energy & Supply4 Nov
Russian strikes force Ukraine's nuclear plants to cut output
Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on 4 November that nuclear power plants had been forced to reduce output after the 3 November attack. Kyiv's water network was down for more than 24 hours because of power cuts.
4 November 2026 · KYIV
LowI Geo-Economics5 Nov
Azerbaijan and Ukraine discuss the Trans-Balkan gas route in Uzhhorod
MediumVI Energy & Supply5 NovRyazan becomes the fifth Russian refinery hit since 30 October
MediumI Geo-Economics4 NovRussia says it struck a ship carrying military cargo in Odesa
LowIV Macro & Debt3 NovArmenia's central bank raises rates for a second straight time
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05/11LowI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaAzerbaijan and Ukraine discuss the Trans-Balkan gas route in Uzhhorod05/11MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRyazan becomes the fifth Russian refinery hit since 30 October04/11HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussian strikes force Ukraine's nuclear plants to cut output04/11MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussia says it struck a ship carrying military cargo in Odesa03/11LowIV Macro & DebtEurasiaArmenia's central bank raises rates for a second straight time03/11MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaLukoil's foreign assets head to a US-led group via securities swap03/11HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia strikes Ukraine's grid in ten regions, outages reach Kyiv03/11HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkraine hits Yaroslavl, its fourth Russian refinery in four nights02/11HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian bombs kill at least 33 at an aid school in Komyshuvakha02/11MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaPutin makes private data centres reserve 10% of capacity for the state30/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaArmenia ratifies the Trump Route as Iran rejects foreign forces on its border30/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaNovokuibyshevsk fire ends Ukraine's two-week pause on refinery strikes29/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaKuCoin becomes third major exchange to drop Russian and Belarusian users29/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaYandex withdraws its 2026 guidance after strikes on its data centres28/10LowV Tech & AIEurasiaKyivstar buys domestic cloud provider GigaCloud in the middle of the war28/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussia lets grain ships leave the Sea of Azov for the first time since July28/10MediumV Tech & AIEurasiaUkraine names 49 entities behind Russia's Starlink rival Rassvet27/1004:00MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaOleshky ceasefire takes effect while the two timelines still conflict27/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaBinance account records land a Russian IT worker 13 years in prison27/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaAt a gas summit, Putin says Europe pays for shutting out Russia27/10MediumV Tech & AIEurasiaReport says Russian drone technology is feeding China's new weapons27/10LowV Tech & AIEurasiaExport permits stall Ukrainian drone makers as the Pentagon delays a round26/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaStrike on Chernivtsi grid stretches industrial curbs across the day26/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussian diesel output climbs but the export surplus misses the pledges26/10MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussian companies defer supplier payments as the cash squeeze deepens26/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaYandex moved its supercomputers as Moscow urges data centres underground24/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaStarshield returns to full speed in Ukraine after a ten-day curb24/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine strikes two synthetic rubber plants in a day, one in Siberia23/1013:30MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaBank of Russia holds rates and lifts its path for next year23/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaSanctioned Novatek secretly funded an Alaska gas project, NYT and FT report23/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia and Ukraine agree a local ceasefire for occupied Oleshky23/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaFirst tanker of Russian diesel heads for the US without price-cap papers22/1003:00HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia hits Kyiv with cluster missiles hours after Witkoff meeting22/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRosneft starts to find the refinery repair bill unsustainable21/10LowIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaKazakhstan tables conscription reform after 14 soldiers die in drill21/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaPutin tells Witkoff he backs mid-November three-way talks in principle21/10LowIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussian household inflation expectations ease to 13.2% before rate decision20/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaPrimorsk halt drives Russia's seaborne crude exports to lowest since March20/10MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaBank of Russia sells gold again as reserves sink to 2019 low20/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaUkrainian strikes on data centres disrupt Russian courts and payments20/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaWitkoff meets Zelensky in Oslo, with Putin next in St Petersburg19/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaThe diesel deal's tonnage runs into Russian refining capacity19/10LowIV Macro & DebtEurasiaPutin approves a reshuffle making Siluanov a deputy prime minister19/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian night strike cuts power to 550,000 households19/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussian oil exports via the Arctic route jump about 50%18/1002:50MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkrainian drones strike a St Petersburg oil terminal and a data centre16/1008:00MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussian drones cut power to 370,000 customers in Volyn on the Polish border16/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaAzerbaijan's parliament blames hybrid attacks on forces in friendly and neighbouring countries16/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaTrump suspends Graham Act sanctions on Russia before they take effect16/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkrainian drones shut all four Moscow airports in a single night15/10MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaA 380km fibre link under the Caspian goes live15/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine ends the energy truce as Ryazan refinery comes under fire again14/10LowII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaKazakhstan-linked hackers target water and energy files across CIS governments13/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaTwelve US senators urge Trump to scrap the Russian diesel deal13/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaAt least seven of 12 big tanks lost at Rostov fuel terminal13/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian missiles hit Kyiv's CHP-4 plant without allied warning12/1012:29HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaZelenskiy ties a halt on refinery strikes to Russia sparing the grid12/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussian Railways turns away Kazakh grain bound for Estonian ports11/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUS threatens to cut Ukraine's arms pipeline over refinery strikes11/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaKharkiv power plant hit hours after Trump announces energy ceasefire11/10HighII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaUkrainian drones hit a third Yandex data centre in a week10/1004:48HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaFive glide bombs kill at least 17 civilians in Zaporizhzhia10/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaDrone attack sets Rostov fuel export terminal ablaze10/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussia partly lifts diesel export ban with a 500,000-tonne tranche10/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkraine strikes Samara Urals blending station twice in a week09/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine hits a Tver plant making cruise missile fuel09/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkrenergo blames outages on transmission damage, not a generation shortfall08/1010:00HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaGlide bomb strikes two buses in Kramatorsk, killing 3308/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaKazakhstan's big producers study a trans-Caspian export route08/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussian strike cuts Kyiv's power, halting the metro and water08/10HighVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkraine strikes Omsk, Russia's largest refinery, for a second time07/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian overnight strike collapses a block of flats in Pryluky, killing 1507/10HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaUkrainian sea drone sets a laden crude tanker ablaze off Sochi06/1015:00MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkraine reinstates scheduled power cuts in four regions after Russian strikes06/10HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasia650 drones fly at Moscow as an airport fuel depot burns06/10LowVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUzbekistan's gas imports climb to four times its exports05/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian guided bombs kill seven in Kharkiv and wound dozens05/10MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussia's Finance Ministry quintuples currency purchases on oil windfall05/10HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaTurkish-owned grain ship sinks off Romania after drone strike04/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaUkraine claims it has knocked out half of Russia's refining capacity03/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaISW finds Russia lost ground in September despite Putin's claimed gains02/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian drones target Kyiv's Dnipro bridges, closing three to traffic02/10MediumVI Energy & SupplyEurasiaRussia moves 86 sanctioned shadow fleet tankers onto its own flag02/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaUkraine strikes Volgograd refinery and Samara depots where Urals is blended01/10MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaUK sanctions Russia's newest Arc7 LNG tankers01/10MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia stops an Estonia-bound cargo ship in the Gulf of Finland30/0914:01MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussian Finance Ministry finds no buyers at acceptable prices for bond auction30/0903:00MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia hits Trypilska power plant in first mass energy strike before winter29/0908:00MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia attacks with 155 aerial weapons, cutting power in five Ukrainian regions29/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaKazakhstan renews 5.2 billion dollar fine claim against Kashagan's operator29/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaPutin signs decree classifying oil export and refinery data28/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaKremlin places Germany's Metro Russian business under temporary management28/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian drone hits Kyiv's Academy of Sciences in daytime attack28/09HighIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussia plans its highest defence spending of the war for 202728/09LowIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaTokayev sacks defence minister after 14 soldiers die in Caspian drill27/0920:37MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussian drones damage the Saudi ambassador's residence in Kyiv27/0915:35LowIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaZelensky claims significant gains near Lyman as casualty figures go unverified27/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussia claims strikes on two Odesa-bound cargo ships, unconfirmed by Kyiv26/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia launched 173 drones, 50 jet-powered, on the night of 25–26 September and 134 were downed; 6 killed and 45 injured in Ukraine, Kyiv hit a third night26/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine strikes Azov missile-component plant with Neptune missiles26/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine hits the 6.6 million-tonne Ilsky refinery: 3 main processing units and tank farm damaged, plant halted; Moscow claims 645 drones downed overnight25/0914:43MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia launched 295 drones on the night of 24–25 September, and by day a jet-powered drone hit an office building in Kyiv: 5 to 7 dead depending on the source25/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkrainian drones halt Perm, Russia's 7th largest refinery, and Novoshakhtinsk; Moscow claims it downed 592 drones, 2 people killed24/09LowI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaEU Council approves a 2-year customs exemption for around 80% of Armenia's exports to the EU in response to Russia's import bans24/09MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaRussian Finance Ministry presents 2027 draft budget: up to 22% tax on passive income, 22% VAT on cross-border e-commerce; 2026 deficit rises to 3% of GDP24/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia strikes overnight on 23–24 September with 282 drones, 4 Zircons and ballistic missiles: 2 dead in Kyiv, 6 farm workers killed at Kharkiv vegetable store23/0906:00HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaRussia attacks Kyiv with 161 Shahed-type drones: 2 dead, between 23 and 43 injured; Moscow says it hit military-industrial and energy targets23/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaAntigua-flagged cargo ship hit in the Black Sea, Ukrainian captain killed; Erdoğan calls ship attacks unacceptable at the UN as the tally reaches 22623/09HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussia's Krasnodar region declares a state of emergency over attacks on Black Sea ports: 90% of grain export capacity was knocked out in August23/09MediumII Cyber & InfrastructureEurasiaRussian strike hits data centres in Kyiv: outages at no fewer than 4 internet providers, connectivity problems for around 100,000 households23/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaNew drone attack on Ufa overnight on 23 September: Khabirov says 20 drones downed and no damage to industry; monitors saw fire in the refinery zone22/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaEU renews individual Russia sanctions for 36 months instead of 6; Usmanov and Fridman removed from the list22/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaIndia's Russian crude purchases fell to 1.9 million barrels a day in September; cuts to November loadings on the table after sanctions law22/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaTrump announces a huge deal to buy Belarusian potash; Lukashenko replies that this year's entire output is already contracted22/09HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaUkraine strikes the Kuibyshev and Ufa refineries: more than 45% of Russian refining capacity is out of service22/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaZelensky discusses an energy truce with Trump; the same night Russia strikes a Naftogaz facility in Poltava with at least 5 ballistic missiles21/09MediumIV Macro & DebtEurasiaUnited Russia takes as many as 355 seats in the 450-seat Duma on 59.32% turnout: a constitutional majority secured for tax and budget decisions20/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaBoth crude distillation units at the Moscow Refinery burn and the plant halts: Russia says it downed 1,110 drones overnight17/09HighIV Macro & DebtEurasiaPutin: the 2027 budget deficit will be about 2% of GDP on an assumption of 50 dollars a barrel, with 2026 growth at most 1%17/09HighIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaThe AVT-3 unit processing 17,140 tonnes a day at the YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl was hit and crude processing stopped16/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaBelarus frees 25 political prisoners in return for the US lifting sanctions on two state companies16/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussian gas to Armenia cut from 15 to 25 September: 82% of imports came from Russia in 2025, at 2.7 billion cubic metres16/09HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaRussia extended its diesel export ban to 31 October: 3 of 6 major refineries disrupted, exports below 1 million tonnes16/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaIn the fifth year of the war and with an economy close to stagnation, Russia elects its 450-seat State Duma on 18–20 September16/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaFirst Korea–Central Asia summit in Seoul: Kazakhstan stands out with a 19 billion dollar package, Uzbekistan with about 12 billion dollars of projects15/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaGeorgian Dream adds Gakharia's party and seeks a Constitutional Court ban on all opposition parties that cleared the threshold in 202415/09HighI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaDrone strikes knock out three of Russia's six largest diesel refineries; Moscow prepares to extend its diesel export ban to the end of October11/09HighIV Macro & DebtEurasiaBank of Russia holds its rate at 14% on fuel-driven price pressure, pausing the easing cycle under way since June 202509/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaAzerbaijan and Armenia agree to delimit their border from north to south, but construction of the TRIPP corridor slips to 202708/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaDrone incident at the CPC terminal in Novorossiysk halts loadings, highlighting Kazakhstan's dependence on Russia for oil exports02/09MediumI Geo-EconomicsEurasiaWith the price dispute unresolved, Putin renames the planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline to China 'Power of Baikal'01/09MediumIII Conflict & DefenceEurasiaUkraine strikes NOVATEK's Ust-Luga complex on the Baltic coast with unmanned aerial vehicles