Evening edition · Monday, 26 October 2026
Seventy drones over Voronezh, talks pencilled in for November
Russia launched 140 drones and four missiles at Ukraine overnight; Ukraine's drones hit Voronezh. Both sides have agreed to meet again, with the US, next month.
Russia launched 140 drones and four missiles at Ukraine overnight; Ukraine’s air force said 112 drones and three Kh-59/69 missiles were shot down1. Strikes injured people in Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Izium, and damage to an energy facility forced emergency power cuts in the Khmelnytskyi region1.
The other direction. In Russia, the Voronezh governor said more than 70 drones were shot down over the city; two people were killed and 17 injured, many on a commuter train hit by debris1.
The paper track. Russia agreed last Wednesday to return to three-way talks with Ukraine and the US in November, in Abu Dhabi according to Moscow1. President Zelenskyy said on Sunday: “We are ready to talk,” adding that territory must be settled at leaders’ level1. On Friday, the two sides agreed a localised ceasefire around Oleshky in Kherson1.
A ceasefire around one town is small. Small agreements are the ones that get kept, and kept agreements are the ones that get copied.
What to watch
Talks while the drones fly are not hypocrisy. They are how every war has ended: on paper, after the shooting got expensive.
Sources
- Ukrainian drone strike on Voronezh kills two as Kyiv and Moscow prepare to restart talks — Euronews, 26 Oct 2026, 10:22 CET.
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