# [24H] Russia Follows Up 300-Drone Barrage With Additional Night Strikes on Ukraine’s Power Grid

*Issued Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 4:17 AM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Issued**: 2026-09-22T04:17:40.607Z (2h ago)
**Expires**: 2026-09-23T04:17:40.607Z (22h from now)
**Category**: MILITARY | **Confidence**: 70% | **Impact**: HIGH
**Risk Direction**: escalatory
**Affected Regions**: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Black Sea region
**Affected Assets**: Ukrainian power generation and transmission assets, Air defense interceptor stockpiles, European power equipment supply chain
**Permalink**: https://hamerintel.com/data/forecasts/25832.md
**Source**: https://hamerintel.com/forecasts

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## Prediction

Within the next 24 hours, Russia is likely to conduct at least one additional, though smaller, mixed drone–missile wave against Ukrainian energy and industrial nodes, exploiting damage and air-defense depletion from the current 300-drone salvo. The focus will remain on substations and generation assets in Chernihiv, Dnipro, and Odesa corridors to deepen outages and disrupt logistics. This will further degrade Ukraine’s grid resilience heading into winter and force Kyiv to spend scarce interceptors on rear-area defense instead of frontline coverage. Confirmation would be new mass launch signatures (Geran, Kalibr, Iskander/KN-23) detected by OSINT or Ukrainian Air Force alerts tonight; denial would be a 24-hour lull in Russia’s long-range strike activity.

## Drivers

- Current large-scale multi-wave strike already underway across Ukrainian industrial and energy nodes
- Pattern of Russia using follow-on waves to exploit damaged infrastructure and saturated defenses
- EUCOM threat level marked HIGH with emphasis on sustained missile activity