Overview
- Ukraine reported a fatal overnight attack on Dnipro and wider strikes across Dnipropetrovsk Oblast that ignited fires and damaged homes and businesses, leaving one dead and one injured.
- Volgograd officials said drone strikes injured three people and damaged apartment buildings, with a residential fire extinguished and demining preparations underway; Belgorod authorities reported one civilian injury.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry said air defenses downed 36 Ukrainian drones during the evening across Rostov, Belgorod, Voronezh, Crimea and Saratov regions, and regional leaders later reported further interceptions in Rostov and Voronezh.
- Air-raid alerts and explosions were reported overnight in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy and other Ukrainian regions, following earlier strikes that injured six people in Kyiv Oblast.
- Russia publicized operations near Dimitrov and Kupyansk and Ukrainian security sources claimed S-400 systems were hit near Novorossiysk, though these assertions remain contested and not independently verified.