Overview

• Meeting Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe, Vladimir Putin acknowledged a malfunction in Russia’s air‑defense system that detonated two missiles near an Azerbaijan Airlines jet in December 2024, killing 38 people, and said compensation will be paid.
• Ukraine reported one of the largest overnight assaults of the war, with more than 450 drones and around 30 missiles striking energy facilities and cities, causing widespread outages in Kyiv and the death of a child in the Zaporizhzhia region.
• Ukraine’s air force said it neutralized or intercepted 420 of 497 inbound weapons, while Russia’s defense ministry said it targeted energy infrastructure supporting Ukraine’s military‑industrial complex in response to what it called terrorist attacks.
• The European Parliament adopted a non‑binding resolution condemning Russian airspace violations, urging a coordinated EU response that includes anti‑drone measures and potential shoot‑downs, and calling to extend sanctions to enablers such as Belarus, Iran, North Korea and certain Chinese entities.
• Power on Kyiv’s left bank was restored as repairs continued after the barrage, and a Ukrainian security source told Ukrinform a drone strike ignited a Bashneft refinery in Ufa about 1,400 km from the front, while new Russian drone raids left parts of Odesa without electricity and caused fatalities in Chernihiv.