Overview

• Ukraine reported shooting down 88 of 152 drones in the latest wave, while two ballistic missiles were not intercepted, with infrastructure hits confirmed in the Poltava region.
• Authorities confirmed at least five deaths and extensive damage from the weekend’s nationwide assault, including roughly 73,000 people without power in Zaporizhzhia and significant damage in Lviv.
• Kyiv said long-range drones targeted Russia’s Sverdlov munitions plant, a Crimean oil terminal and a military depot, as Moscow reported downing 251 Ukrainian drones and outages affecting nearly 40,000 in Belgorod.
• Rosenergoatom said a Ukrainian drone struck a cooling tower at the Novovoronezh nuclear plant, reporting no injuries, no operational disruption and no radiological impact.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged Russian weapons used in the mass strikes contained thousands of foreign-made components, while EU officials weighed a €140 billion repair loan backed by proceeds from frozen Russian assets.