Russia and Ukraine have been trading long-range strikes over the past few days, with infrastructure and data centers of both sides being hit.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday that its forces carried out a massive attack and seven cluster strikes on Ukraine from Oct 3 to 9, targeting defense industrial enterprises, logistics and communication centers, military airports, drone production and storage sites, fuel and equipment warehouses, and temporary deployment points.
These operations have damaged several Ukrainian port facilities, forcing them to shut down, the ministry said in its daily report.
It also noted that over the past week, Russian forces also struck 14 cargo vessels and one oil tanker used to deliver weapons, equipment, fuel and supplies to Ukrainian troops.
Meanwhile, part of the infrastructure at Russia's Yandex data center in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, was damaged as a result of a drone attack, with several modules completely disabled, reported the TASS news agency on Friday morning, citing information provided by the company.
Emergency personnel and company specialists were working at the site. Yandex said no casualties had been reported.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that 211 battles took place along the frontlines in the past day, with its forces repelling Russian attacks in several directions.
Ukraine's air force, missile units, and artillery struck four Russian troop concentration areas, one equipment depot, two drone command posts, two artillery systems and one critical facility, it claimed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Friday that Ukraine had launched a new wave of long-range drone strikes against facilities inside Russia, targeting oil refineries in Omsk and Ukhta and a data center.
He emphasized the operation was a tit-for-tat response to Russia's attacks on Ukraine.
Russia's data center hit amid escalating long-range attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday added the International Criminal Court (ICC) to its sanctions list, extending U.S. sanctions against the Hague-based court from individual officials to the institution itself.
"Today, the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
"President (Donald) Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans," said Rubio. "America never joined the court. We don't need it. And we don't want it."
The court was added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, subjecting it to U.S. asset-blocking sanctions and restrictions on transactions involving U.S. persons, according to a notice published by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Alongside the new designation, the Treasury issued four general licenses authorizing certain transactions involving the ICC, including a 180-day authorization for activities necessary to maintain its operations, as well as exemptions covering information technology services, the court's pension plan and activities related to ICC detainees.
The U.S. State Department said in a fact sheet that the 180-day license was intended to give countries that are parties to the ICC time to demonstrate meaningful progress on diplomatic and legal resolutions addressing U.S. concerns regarding the court.
The designation follows earlier U.S. sanctions against ICC officials under an executive order signed by Trump in February 2025. To date, the United States has imposed sanctions on over a dozen persons pursuant to the order, including ICC President Tomoko Akane of Japan, according to the state department.
The Trump administration has accused the ICC of improperly asserting jurisdiction over the United States and Israel, neither of which is a party to the Rome Statute establishing the court.
Tensions surged after the tribunal issued arrest warrants in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the Gaza conflict. The ICC maintains it holds jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed within member territories, regardless of the suspect's citizenship.
The ICC strongly rejected the U.S. sanctions on Friday. "It is an assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order which strikes at the simple principle that no one stands above the law," the ICC said in a statement, vowing that the designation would not deter it from carrying out its mandate.
U.S. sanctions International Criminal Court
