Kyiv, Sept. 25 -- Day 1,308 of the Russia-Ukraine war opened with the familiar thrum of drones and the exhausting arithmetic of damage and response. Overnight and into the morning, Ukraine pressed its long-distance campaign against Russian energy and logistics, while Moscow claimed another bite of territory in the east. In New York, the rhetoric hardened. The politics of the war, once couched in talk of negotiated off-ramps, sounded closer to absolutes.

Ukrainian officials and regional governors in Russia reported a fresh wave of strikes deep inside Russian territory, including a fire at a major petrochemical complex in Bashkortostan. Kyiv's military also said it targeted distribution nodes in the Bryansk and Samara regions and a militar...