Russian attacks killed four people and left hundreds of thousands without power and many without water in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Tuesday, Moscow’s latest salvo in a campaign to break its neighbor’s energy system ahead of winter.

Russia’s strategic nuclear forces carried out a readiness test supervised by the country’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.

In Chernihiv and northern communities of the Chernihiv region, the power supply has been cut off due to an attack by Russian drones. — Ukrinform.

Power has been restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv, a day after Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing widespread blackouts.

Russia appears to have been deterred by NATO's firm response last month to incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace, but Moscow is expected to continue testing boundaries, the U.S. general serving as NATO's top commander said on Tuesday.

Russia was the first to deploy decoy drones to bolster its Shahed force. Now Ukraine is doing likewise, and Russian air defenses are struggling.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions Wednesday against Russia’s two biggest oil companies and blasted Moscow’s refusal to end its “senseless war” as U.S.-led efforts to end the war floundered and the Ukrainian president sought more foreign military help.

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