Overview

• Ukraine reported damage to energy and rail assets in Poltava and Sumy, with a locomotive depot, traction substations and administrative facilities hit, leaving more than 1,000 households without power and causing train delays that were later cleared.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched two Iskander-M/KN-23 missiles and 152 drones, with 88 UAVs shot down or suppressed by morning and impacts recorded in 10 locations during fresh air-raid alerts across multiple regions.
• Russian regions including Belgorod, Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod reported mass UAV incursions, with Belgorod citing two deaths, two injuries and damage across dozens of homes and vehicles, a direct drone-threat alert in Voronezh, and debris damage in Dzerzhinsk after dozens of drones were downed.
• Local authorities in Ukraine said Russian strikes also hit Kharkiv’s Nemishlyanskyi district without reported casualties and left two dead and 18 injured in the Kherson region over the past day, including children among the wounded.
• Russia’s FSB announced the arrest of a Moscow-region man for online calls to bomb civilian and defense facilities, and nearly 30 people were detained in a separate case over alleged fraud targeting servicemembers at Sheremetyevo Airport, while Russian sources issued unverified claims of Ukrainian losses and foreign mercenaries killed in Kharkiv.