Overview
- Ukraine’s emergency service reported eight dead and 27 wounded after a ballistic missile hit port infrastructure in Odesa, igniting a truck parking area and damaging a bus and cars.
- The Russian defence ministry said its forces struck transport and storage sites used by Ukraine’s military as well as energy facilities.
- Ukraine’s general staff said drones hit Lukoil’s Filanovsky oil rig in the Caspian Sea and the patrol ship Okhotnik, with the scale of damage under evaluation.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the situation in Odesa harsh and said he is considering replacing Southern Air Command chief Dmytro Karpenko following the strikes.
- Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev held meetings in Miami with US counterparts under a Washington-led peace effort, and EU leaders agreed to provide a large interest-free loan to Ukraine for the next two years.