New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Zaporizhzhia on diesel, gas fields hit, airports jitter, winter turns power into a weapon

Russia - The Russia Ukraine war, now on Day 1317, continues to redraw the map of risk in Europe. The front is not only measured in trenches along the Dnipro, it is also measured in transmission towers, gas fields, airports and shipping lanes. Overnight strikes have carried the conflict's logic deep into energy systems and civilian routines, turning substations and compressor stations into targets and testing whether Ukrainian engineers and air defenses can outrun the attrition of another winter. Moscow's messaging, sometimes explicit, often implied, suggests that if battlefield momentum is stubborn, pressure on grids, refineries...