News brief

Ukraine targets Russian capital. On Sept. 10, Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack so far, killing at least one, wrecking dozens of homes in the Moscow region, and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region and 124 more over eight other regions. As Russia advances in eastern Ukraine, both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their production and assembly to attack targets including tanks and energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields.

More than 30 months into the war, Ukraine’s life-sustaining power grid is still a prime target of Russian missiles and drones. And Ukrainians, from individual families to the officials in charge of keeping the lights on, are finding new ways to cope.