Overview
- Reuters reported, and Ukraine’s General Staff later acknowledged, a drone strike that forced Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery to halt operations, with sources citing damage to a CDU-5 unit and a hydrocracking unit and fires near the site.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defense and frontline units reported multiple FPV and UAV hits, including destruction of a T‑72 tank near Konstantinovka, a MaxxPro vehicle, a D‑20 howitzer, a 2S22 Bogdana, vehicles and UAV control points.
- Kherson regional authorities and emergency services said a 76-year-old woman was killed in a drone attack in Hola Prystan and two civilians were wounded in Zhelezny Port, with dozens of additional strikes reported across left-bank settlements.
- Russian-linked reports described failed Ukrainian counteractions, including a thwarted push by the 71st brigade in Sumy with heavy losses and repelled attempts near Pishchane in Kharkiv, as Russian forces cited UAV-enabled advances around Krasnoarmiysk/Pokrovsk.
- Lebanon’s health authorities reported one civilian killed and three wounded in strikes near Tyre/Tura and later hits in Taybeh and Aita al-Jabal, while UNIFIL said Israeli air raids in its zone violate UNSC Resolution 1701 and urged an immediate halt.