Western intelligence has said that Russia intends to repeat its tactic from last year and target Ukrainian energy infrastructure over winter. Ukraine also reported Russian missile attacks on Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, which killed two people, and also on grain infrastructure in Odesa. Another crashed into an oil depot outside Oryol, 250 miles south. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Russian air defence systems shot down two drones. On Sunday Ukrainian authorities announced that Kyiv’s forces had retaken Klishchiivka, a tactically important town south of Bakhmut. “Ukrainian forces have likely made a significant tactical breach along a section of the current Russian defence layer in the Robotyne area over the past several weeks,” it said. The village of Robotyne is only eight miles away from where Ukraine started its counteroffensive in June, but the US-based Institute for the Study of War has said that its capture has provided momentum. In July, its popular commander was sacked for criticising the Russian High Command. Russia’s 58th Combined Arms Army is defending this sector of the front line. The Kremlin has sent its elite paratroopers to fight in Robotyne and the British Ministry of Defence said that Russian soldiers were now installing extra checkpoints and hedgehog anti-tank defences along the road to Tokmak as well as digging new trenches.
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