Overview

• Ukrainian officials report Russia launched 53 missiles and roughly 500 strike drones overnight, and air defenses downed 478 of 549 airborne threats.
• Lviv region confirmed four deaths, including a 15-year-old, and eight injuries; Zaporizhzhia reported one dead and more than 10 injured; Sumy recorded two dead and 11 injured, including children.
• Energy and rail infrastructure suffered extensive damage, with more than 110,000 customers losing power as emergency crews extinguished most fires and the Energy Ministry rushed reserve equipment to Sumy.
• Ukraine reorganized rail services in the north, combining trains and buses to reduce risk after strikes on the Shostka station, while senior officials led on-site recovery coordination.
• Regional spillover prompted Lithuania to close Vilnius airport overnight after balloons from Belarus were detected and led Poland to scramble jets and recover debris from an unidentified aerial object, as the OSCE’s Finnish chairmanship condemned the attacks.