Overview

• Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported at least nine dead, including a child, and said 362 people were rescued in Odesa.
• Rescuers pumped out buildings, pulled vehicles from water, found a missing little girl, and evacuated passengers from a flooded bus.
• Odesa’s mayor said no storm sewer system could withstand the rainfall load and described operations as continuous.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is in a critical state after seven days off the grid, with the IAEA pressing for swift reconnection as diesel generators keep it stable for now.
• Russian strikes injured six in Kharkiv and killed a man in Kherson, while a fire at a Yaroslavl oil refinery was described by the regional governor as technological rather than attack-related.