Overview
- Russian drones struck the Odesa region overnight, damaging two apartment blocks as well as logistics and energy sites, with four people injured including a seven-month-old baby, two other children and a 42-year-old man, according to local officials.
- Ukrainian strikes reportedly ignited a fire at Rosneft’s Tuapse refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and hit oil facilities in occupied Luhansk, continuing Kyiv’s campaign against Russian energy infrastructure.
- A power outage affected more than 100,000 people in Moscow’s suburbs after a substation cable fire, as Russia’s military said it shot down over 100 Ukrainian drones within hours, including eight over the capital’s outskirts.
- Russia released a video showing drone fragments, mapped supposed flight paths, and claimed a ‘Tschaklun‑B’ drone with a six‑kilogram explosive targeted a Putin residence in the Novgorod/Waldai area, assertions that could not be independently verified.
- Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the residence-attack claim as false, the ISW and EU’s Kaja Kallas voiced skepticism, and the Kremlin indicated it would harden its negotiating stance.