Overview
- Regional authorities in Krasnodar said a Ukrainian drone attack set an oil tanker and port infrastructure ablaze in Tuapse, with the crew evacuated and no injuries reported.
- A source in Ukraine’s SBU told AFP the strike also damaged the Rosneft-owned Tuapse oil terminal, a claim that adds to reports of fires across the port.
- Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said troops are holding Pokrovsk, while ISW mapping shows Russian infiltration in parts of the city but no confirmed encirclement.
- Overnight Russian missile and drone barrages cut power to tens of thousands, including nearly 60,000 in Zaporizhzhia, with at least six people killed nationwide, among them two boys aged 11 and 14, and two adults in Odesa.
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing 67 of 79 drones during the attacks; Russia’s defence ministry claimed intercepting many Ukrainian drones and said a Ukrainian special forces helicopter team was killed near Pokrovsk, a claim Kyiv denies, as Ukraine’s intelligence reported a strike on the Koltsevoy fuel pipeline near Moscow.