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■ EASTERN FRONT · DRONE & GROUND WAR
Ukraine · Russia
Each capital burns what the other one runs on — Ukraine takes the refineries, Russia takes the cities. The ground line has stopped answering either.
AS OF MON AUG 31
Russia has turned a drone campaign into a food story: five days of strikes on Kyiv’s warehouses have thinned supermarket shelves and sent the school year toward screens.
800
Jet-powered drones since Thursday
Of roughly 1,500 in four days · NPR
2,000
Attack drones in one week
Plus 1,600 glide bombs · Kyiv Independent
5th
Straight day over Kyiv
Schools weighing an online start · NPR
8
Killed in 24 hours
41 hurt, one a 13-year-old in Donetsk Oblast
- The drone war reaches the shelves. Strikes on food warehouses and distribution hubs have left some Kyiv supermarket shelves bare. Zelensky adviser Serhii Beskrestnov says producers are rerouting supply and “Ukraine will not go hungry” (NPR).
- Five days without a quiet hour. Jet-powered drones have run over Kyiv and the surrounding cities since Thursday — about 800 of roughly 1,500 launched. Schools are weighing an online start instead of an in-person one (NPR).
- A week’s arithmetic. Nearly 2,000 attack drones, more than 1,600 glide bombs and 31 missiles, some of them North Korean ballistic, in seven days (Kyiv Independent).
- Kyiv shoots at the eyes. Unmanned Systems commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi says drones destroyed a Pantsir-S1 and a Sopka-2 radar at Yeysk and three radar sets at Millerovo, and set fires at the Kirishi refinery (Kyiv Independent · Ukrainska Pravda).
- Moscow prices the summit. Peskov says a Putin–Trump–Zelensky meeting is possible “only to formalize agreements” — a signing ceremony, not a negotiation (Kyiv Independent).
- Two cities on a planning map. Deputy presidential office head Pavlo Palisa says Russia has tasked its military with offensive scenarios toward Kyiv and Chernihiv; no new groupings have been detected (Kyiv Independent).
- The count Moscow does not publish. Mediazona and BBC Russian have now confirmed 242,747 Russian military dead by name, four and a half years in.
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