New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- A brief blackout at Chornobyl, drones over Copenhagen, and a French boarding at sea reshape Europe's war calculus, Russia Ukraine war Day 1,316.

Moscow - Russia Ukraine war Day 1316 unfolded with a familiar, and more perilous, rhythm: missiles and drones probing power nodes, fresh damage to rail links that knit the country together, and a nuclear safety scare that briefly cut external electricity to the decommissioned Chornobyl plant. Europe, alert to what its leaders now call a rolling "hybrid" campaign, convened in Copenhagen to press the case for tighter airspace policing and maritime enforcement while Kyiv worked phones for more air defenses, longer-range strike options, and the spares that keep a battered grid a...