Governor: Russia hits energy infrastructure in Vinnytsia Oblast

A series of explosions in the Russian city of Penza on Sept. 8 disabled a gas and an oil pipeline, a Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) source told the Kyiv Independent.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow's plans could cost "years and a million people," or even "two or three million corpses" if Russia accelerates its offensive.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki said that a country cannot join NATO while at war and that "today's discussion about Ukraine's membership in the European Union is premature."

The bombing strike took place as pensions were being distributed in the village, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The contract, set to be signed on Sept. 10 and worth "hundreds of millions of euros," will see the first units delivered to Ukraine by the end of the year.

The attack may have coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's working visit to the city. According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the BRICS summit online from Sochi on Sept. 8.

Alexey Sinitsyn, CEO of potash producer K-Potash Service, was found dead near Kaliningrad.

"That's the only conceivable way to move Putin from his current calculations... get him to compromise and to agree to a ceasefire," former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 84 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight, with air defenses downing 60.

"Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was fatally stabbed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22, The Charlotte Observer reported.

The number includes 950 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Romania, Czechia, and Hungary have jointly dismantled a Belarusian espionage network operating across Europe, the Czech Security and Information Service (BIS) announced on Sept. 8.

"A new conflict between systems has broken out between liberal democracies and an axis of autocracies," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

Thousands of students and other demonstrators marched in Belgrade on September 8, demanding accountability for police violence during recent anti-government protests, RFE/RL reported.