Overview

• Ukraine reported “hundreds” of drones and missiles striking multiple cities overnight, with injuries and residential damage in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia.
• Poland said it scrambled fighters and raised ground-based air defenses to protect its airspace, with flight trackers noting temporary closures near Lublin and Rzeszow.
• At the UN, Sergei Lavrov said Russia has no plans to attack NATO or the EU but vowed a decisive response to aggression and warned against downing objects inside Russian airspace.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said an Israeli-delivered US-made Patriot system has been operating in Ukraine for a month, with two more Patriot systems expected this autumn.
• Both sides reported the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the main grid for four days, and Russia claimed the capture of three villages in eastern Ukraine.