Overview
- Authorities say 31 people, including six children, have been confirmed dead, 94 are injured, and 13 remain unaccounted for after two nine‑storey apartment blocks were hit.
- Search-and-rescue teams from nine regions are operating round the clock, clearing hundreds of tons of debris and working by hand in severely fragmented structures.
- Ukraine’s Air Force reports the Ternopil buildings were struck by Russian Kh‑101 cruise missiles launched from Tu‑95MS and Tu‑160MS aircraft, with launch areas in Russia’s Vologda and Astrakhan regions.
- The attack formed part of mass strikes that included an initial wave of about 476 drones and 48 missiles across Ukraine, followed by a separate night of 115 drones with 95 intercepted, as Odesa reported five injuries and a glide bomb in Zaporizhzhia killed five.
- Regional and allied responses included NATO air policing actions, with Poland and Romania scrambling jets and Poland briefly closing the Rzeszów and Lublin airports.